Innovation in Language Learning

The paper is devoted to the typology of mythopoetical images and problems of their translation into the russian language. The analysis is done on the material of novels about the Leatherstocking Tales by J,F.Cooper. Subject of the paper is a typology of mythopoetical images in the American Literature in the period of an early Romantizm, art structure of novels about the Leatherstocking Tales of the American writer J.F.Cooper in the frame of creative and aesthetic functions of mythopoetical images, legends, plots, totemic and folklore images, archetypes, figures, mythologemes. Object of the paper is mythopoetics of the Indians in the American Literature. The works of James Fenimore Cooper have long enjoyed widesp'read popularity. Samuel Clemens light-heartedly parodied the whole Leatherstocking series in his essay "Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offenses".  R. W. B. Lewis calls the Leatherstocking series a beautiful "dream-legend" ; 1 and Lawrence instructs his reader to read the Tales "as a lovely myth". Fiedler delves deeper into the substance of the series and decides that the novels contain "a seciet theme".  Each observation is relevant in a different way, but the only one which sheds any substantial light is Lawrence's injunction to read the Leatherstocking Tales as myth. This is the basis of Cooperrs achievement in the Tales, and by analyzing the extent and the basis of the myth which he created, it is possible to see the Tales in the context of Cooper's thought as a whole. As a writer who is primarily a myth-maker, Cooper stands outside of the area usually of interest to the critic. He is of less interest artistically than mythically. The subject of the myth which Cooper gave to America was the fate of the European consciousness when transferred to America, and the ways in which this consciousness had to be modified to adapt to the American situation.