Literature
Literature is one of layers of culture with common culturological symbols and at the same time special form of cultural reserve. The universalies in world literary are possible to reduce to two significant groups: similiarities at a literaturesophical level - general problems of philosophy of the literature: internal laws of actual literary creativity, and reflection of similiarities of a historical level on culture and art: a generality of problems, with which there are different peoples at similar stages of the development, and on the other hand, literary universalies, appeared as a result of straight lines and unstraight contacts. With development of cultural, scientific, state, individual contacts the range of attraction of a material of culture of one people in culture of other country extends.
In the various historical periods the figurative-verbal expression of the literature carried various character depending on a development level of men’s consciousness, civilization, since the primitive forms down to its modern level. It has passed a way from the initial forms and samples of oral national creativity, myths, legends, from its brief forms up to complex structure of eposes, then up to various genres both directions of the written literature and difficult forms of the figurative-verbal description - naturalistic, eventual, psychological etc.
Institute of Literature
of the Azerbaidjan Academy of Sciences