Methodological and terminological problems of studying the mythopoetics of Buryat literature

In the article using cultural and linguistic material, we present an argument for preserving the archaic layers of Buryat mythology, reveal the significance of mythology in the development of collective spiritual experience. The further clarification of the literary aspects of myth analysis is problematized. We have traced terminological searches in the Buryat literary criticism of the last decades. The material of the Buryat literature makes it possible to raise the question of the role of writers’ native language in the expression and creation of the mythopoetic model of the world, the specificity of mythology manifestation in the work of authors, writing in the native Buryat language, and the work of bilingual authors writing in Russian. We have outlined the scope of use of the concepts "mythic consciousness", "mythic thinking", "mythologizing" in Buryat literary criticism. The article defines the prospects for studying the mythological poetics of Buryat literature with consideration of the specificity of the national language semiotic system.