MYTHOPOETICS OF THE URALS AND SIBERIA IN D. N. MAMIN-SIBIRYAK’S NOVEL “WITHOUT A TITLE”

The article considers the poetics of D. N. Mamin-Sibiryak’s novel “Without a Title” in folklore-mythological, philosophical, historical-literary, and socio-cultural contexts. main research subject is mythopoetic structure Ural-Siberian locus comparison with well-established myths Siberia Russian writers publicists’ works 19th century. determines dialogical nature narrative novel: devoted to problems historical path national self-determination. images Ural are used as symbolic expression concept new man who formed on border his own others’ world, by crossing traditional culture civilizational processes late century (the development science, technology, capitalization social life). Mamin creates version genre which plot structures utopia, fantastic, travel, socio-psychological rethought. motifs Christian pagan mythology represented artistic description characters Siberian nature, key themes “expansion” east, spontaneous popular colonization Siberia, its industrial ontological development, confl ict American geopoetics; family, life death character’s existential experience. In represents process mythologization (myth), demythologization (destruction myth) remythologization (making “thinkable” “thinking” region territory, author’s myth Russia future.