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The book attempts to analyze the evolution of artistic thinking in correlation with tradition as a key concept in the systematic study of national literatures. The methodological demand for the completeness of the description of the literary process requires the rediscovery of evolutionarity as aesthetically irreversible transitivity, renewable meaning-making, temporally unfolding dialectics of constant and changeable, conceptosphere, the meaningfulness of which is determined by the constancy of creative reinterpretation and by the variety of genre and style transformations. While focusing on the indicators of mentality (archetypal cultural models, ethnic autostereotypes and mythopoetic intentions), the author paid attention to the predisposition to a holistic perception of national-cultural worlds. The project of “modernity” speculatively bids farewell to tradition, reinforcing its relativity. But true renewability does not need to abandon tradition: any modernization that consciously underestimates national-cultural foundations risks losing its ground and remaining at best “catching up”. The book is addressed to philologists, cultural historians, historians, and all interested readers, including students.

Keywords: evolution as creative prolongation, prolongation of tradition, binary oppositions, holistic worldview, local/universal, axiological approach.