The article is devoted to the study of Afanasiy Fedorov's stories, which have a central place in the writer's heritage. His genre system includes various forms of short prose: from everyday stories to plot short stories, from small sketches, sketches of a character to psychological stories. The author's skill manifested itself primarily in the creation of a diverse artistic anthropology, consisting more of human rather than social types. Therefore, in his stories there is no tendentiousness and ideological bias characteristic of socialist realism. The characters' actions are psychologically motivated. The innovation of the Yakut writer was the creation of foreign heroes. In the poetics of his stories, the tradition of Russian literature was felt: like Anton Chekhov, he strove to show the complexity and significance of life phenomena through the simplest and most insignificant events of everyday life. On the whole, the logic of Afanasiy Fedorov's work was of an inductive nature: starting with small genres of prose, he gradually moved on to large epic forms.

The study of the semiotic space of literature still remains interesting and in demand, and the semiotic analysis has proved to be a rather successful method in the collection of methods of a literature teacher at school. In the article, the author proceeds from the necessity of using a complex analysis of a fiction text based to a greater extent on semiotic consideration, which includes, in addition to semiotic analysis, analysis of biographical context and partly philological analysis, in senior high schools. The author substantiates the necessity of introducing such a method in the study of modern literature, showing it on the example of complex analysis of the Evgeny Vodolazhkin’s novel "The Aviator". Thus, the aim of the study is to describe the application of the method of semiotic analysis (in combination with others) of works of fiction in the course of literature in senior high school. The relevance of the chosen topic in the novelty of the researched material: the text of the novel. Modern literature still needs a comprehensive study. The novelty of the article consists in the chosen approach to the analysis of the novel with the use of semiotic arsenal of means, as well as in the description of the application of the novel's material in the curriculum at the lessons of literature in senior high school. Using the methods of semiotic, philological and contextual analyses, the author developed a literature lesson plan for the 11th grade of a comprehensive school. This plan can be used in practice, which will allow a teacher supplement and expand the school study of modern literature by a popular new author. As a result of the analysis, it was concluded that this kind of complex analysis of modern fiction can reveal lines of interconnection and continuity with classical literature. Finding such intertextual links with both Russian classical and world literature will allow students to build a logical and coherent picture of the development of the literary process up to the modern stage. As a result of the analysis, the conclusion is made about didactic applicability of the text of the novel in the practice of teaching literature, and the novel itself is presented within the framework of the analysis as a rather complex and rich artistic work in terms of meaning, involving numerous interpretations.

Platon Alekseevich Oyunsky (1893 – 1939) was the founder of Yakut Soviet literature, a revolutionary, and a major statesman. Considering the Russian writer of revolutionary-romantic style Maksim Gorky as his teacher, Oyunsky founded the poetry of struggle and storm. Oyunsky was a bearer of the Yakut folklore and an olonkhohut storyteller. That is why his works at the levels of language, images and plots are closely connected with the oral folk art. As a scholar, he was the first to conduct a research on the Yakut heroic epic "Yakut tale (olonkho), its plot and content" (1927). He was also the first to compose a classic sample of the Yakut olonkho "Nurgun Botur the Swift" of 40 thousand lines (1932), thanks to which the whole world learnt this work, and the olonkho was recognised by UNESCO as a universal masterpiece (2005). The article aims to investigate the origins of Oyunsky's artistic method – romanticism. The question of topical importance is the definition of his creative method and style. The article aims to investigate the origins and principles of Oyunsky's artistic method on the basis of historical and specific method and genesis of the writer's creative quest. The study substantiates the conclusion that Oyunsky's romanticism determined his original and unique style in Yakut literature.

The article provides a complete stylistic analysis of the text of the novel by the Yakut classic writer Nikolai Mordinova - Amma Achchygyia "Springtime" ("Saasky kem") and the artistic and stylistic features of the work were revealed. The epic novel "Springtime" is called the encyclopedia of the Yakut pre-revolutionary life. In it, the author authentically reflected the way of life, customs and culture of his people, convincingly showed the awakening during the formation of Soviet power in remote Yakutia. The work went through about 10 editions in Yakut, Russian, and is translated into Ukrainian, Hungarian and Czech. It is known that in the history of Yakut literature there are two editions of the novel: the first edition, published in 1944 without amendment, and the second, corrected and supplemented, which received wide recognition from readers and declared itself as a classic canon of the epic novel of the Soviet period. The language and style of the novel "Springtime" has its own unique, artistic and aesthetic features. It is noticeable that in the second edition the author worked diligently on the text of the work: the reader admires the artistic depiction and the richness of his native language. Especially in the first and third parts of the novel, stylistic figures of speech (actualization, anaphora, anaepiphora, antipophora, antithesis, homeology, gradation, concatenation, epiphora, etc.) are often found, generating verbal harmony and a special style of the writer. The speech of the characters, monologues and dialogues. are also conveyed in the literary-processed colloquial language of that time. It must be admitted that the language and style of Nikolai Mordinov - Amma Achchygyia is the canon of the Yakut literary language and serves as a vivid example for many writers of modern literature.

The article considers the representation of mythological and folklore poetics in the Guzel Yakhina's novel "Zuleikha opens her eyes". The article attempts to show the productivity of the fairy tale archetype in the plot structure of this work. The analysis of the spatial structure of the novel shows that the components of the archetypal model of the initiatory myth are isolated in the composition. The narrative structure of the work recreates folklore poetics, which reveals a transformational model of a fairy tale with the interpenetration of the more archaic mythological semantics behind it. The methodological basis of the study is the individual provisions of the works of V. Y. Propp, Y. M. Lotman, E. M. Meletinsky, S. Yu. Neklyudov, and V. I. Tyupa.

The article is devoted to the study of Yakut fairy tales. The works of I. A. Khudyakov, E. K. Pekarsky, G. U. Ergis, N. V. Emelyanov, modern researchers V. V. Illarionov, Yu. N. Dyakonova, N. A. Orosina and others are presented in the context of theoretical positions in the writings of Russian folklorists. The semantics of the study text is actualized as a process and result of live communication of carriers of cultural memory of ancestors, accompanied by targeted actions to rethink individual parts or episodes of its content. The preservation of interest in an ethnic literature in the modern world is facilitated by the availability of variants of fairy tales and images, but the early recordings of fairy tales are particularly significant. The aim of the work is to seek to substantiate various directions of analysis of folklore texts collected and systematized at the beginning of the 20th century; to identify static and dynamic episodes in stories, descriptions of portraits and functions of main characters. The methodological basis of the research are the works of V. Y. Propp, V. P. Anikin, S. Y. Neklyudov, Yakut ethnographers and folklorists A. E. Kulakovsky and G. V. Ksenophontov. In the process of work, source and textual methods of philology are used. The results consist in the analysis of the “Bibliography of the Yakut Fairy Tale” by Pekarsky (1912) and Ergis (1964 - 1967); in the characterization of the archival sources of features of the early folklore texts of Granny Taаl-Taаl and Chaarchakhaan. In this regard, one of the significant conclusions is the clarification of common places in their stories, and in the functions of the characters - analogies with mythological images and ancient rites.