ALL FOLK CLOUDY MISSILES, OTHER FOLKLORE WASTES OF THE BYGONE TIME AND THE PRESENT LITERARY PROCESS

The article introduces new materials into the artistic and scholarly circulation, but also analyzes the unique literary and folklore experience of Valery Artemenko, who has created an original artwork on a folklore basis. His work “Where Mother is, there is also the Motherland” is an interesting literary experience, which has an independent artistic value, but it provides also a subject for research interest in various aspects of folkloristic discourse. It has represented the folklore strata of a certain historical time on an artistic level. Deepening and re-thinking of such a concept as a “folklore field” offer a historical and philological interpretation of a living tradition, which has determined development of Russian civilization and the meanings in the national mentality, but remained previously ignored the broad scientific community of Russian folklore culture. Each folklore stratum has a specific historical content and harmoniously finds its place in the already existing folklore system. Understanding and knowledge of these permanent processes occurring in the Russian “folklore field” will undoubtedly enrich both Russian folklore thought and domestic literary criticism.