The second volume of the textbook is devoted to historical poetics, which complements theoretical poetics. Created a hundred years ago by the Russian scientist A.N. Veselovsky, it is still in its infancy, although it has already entered the circle of disciplines studied in higher education. The proposed work is the first textbook on historical poetics. The main problems of this area of theoretical literary criticism are the origin and development of both literature itself and its most important categories: author and hero, word and image, plot, gender and genres, etc. They are presented systematically, covering all stages of the development of literature and on a broad comparative basis. material (folklore, ancient and European, Russian, Arabic and Persian, Indian, Chinese and Japanese literature).

For students of philological faculties of universities. Can be recommended to philologists, historians, cultural experts, teachers and a wide range of readers.