Cognitive anthropology as an actual literary methodology

Abstract

The article is devoted to the concept, essence and main theses of cognitive anthropology as a literary methodology, which is a comprehensive approach to the analysis of the fictional world, which synthesizes the cognitive and anthropological tools with the aim of exploring the textual and discursive worlds as constituent parts of the fiction. Theories of possible, textual, fictional worlds are analyzed, their common and distinctive features are defined the outlines of the combination are outlined. On the basis of the analysis, we present our own concept of the structure of the world of the text. The author proposed to divide the fictional (artistic) world into a discursive (represented by the worlds of the author and the reader) and text, which for its part consists of the real art world where the events unfold, and the character's private world (includes the subconscious of knowledge, duties, desires, intentions, fantasies, assumptions). The concept of the structure of the fictional world is demonstrated on the example of G. Pagutyak's creativity.