The book was published posthumously, on the base of the author’s manuscript, and it was a reason of its structure. The author’s views at the myth were characterized with a specific type of reasoning, which he called himself ‘an imaginative epistemology’. Such type of reasoning, based on the imagination, differs from the common Aristotelian logic, because it combines logical and creative cognition. Respectively, the both spheres of thinking are melted together in the myth. The epistemological model of the myth is analyzed through its structure in three aspects: its plot, its image, and its meaning, correspondingly interpreted as historical, dynamical, and dialectical ones.
The concept of G. goes far out the circle of the declared sources (i.e. Ancient Greek mythology), he regularly turns to the broader repertoire of plots from the history of the European culture of the Modern Times. In general, the book is close to the approaches to research in the field of mythology and literature represented in the works by A.F. Losev, and O.M. Freidenberg, and to the world theoretical and methodological climate of 1920-s — 1930-s.