Comparative literary criticism. East and West. Zhirmunsky V.M.

Edition of the book by V.M. Zhirmunsky, comparative literary criticism, contains a set of studies on the issues of general folklore and comparative historical study of folklore, including fundamental articles on the issue of wandering plots and literary relations of the East and West. Having criticized Western European comparativists, reducing the problem to a narrow circle of issues related to mainly contact ties, V.M. Zhirmunsky put forward a concept about the unity of the historical and literary process due to the unity of the socio-historical development of mankind.

Viktor Maksimovich Zhirmunsky (1891-1971)-the Russian Soviet linguist and literary critic. Doctor of Philology, Professor, Academician of the USSR Academy of Sciences (1966), Honorary Member of the Bavarian, British (corresponding member, 1962), Saxon and other academies, Honorary Doctor of many universities, including Oxford (1966).

The book is addressed to literary scholars, folklorists, historians, as well as a wide audience interested in how ties were formed and mutual influence took place in the global folklore and literary process.