Friedenberg was a Russian classical linguist and folklorist, who became the first female doctoral student in literature and art in the Soviet Union in 1935. Her monograph "Poetics of Plot and Genre" adopts the method of genesis to study the sources and relationships between plot and genre in folk creation, which has had an impact on later scholars. Despite the ups and downs of his academic career, Freudenberg insisted on academic independence, and his research was re evaluated in the 1970s. She has significant value in contemporary academic research by tracing the origins of plot and genre in ancient Greek and Roman literature, interpreting folk creations, and exploring the laws of literary development.

The Misfortune: From Semantics to Poetics

Fredenberg was ostracized by the academic community due to her relationship with Mal, despite having obtained the correct academic views. Mal's downfall led to Friedenberg's withdrawal from public life, but she still persisted in academic research and her achievements were preserved in a tin box. In the 1970s, Brazinskaya discovered these works, which brought Fredenberg's academic achievements back to light. Her research propelled the development of Soviet literary studies and had an impact on Western mythological poetics. Fredenberg's book "Images and Concepts" was translated into English and published in 1997, and her research on literary genetics is considered innovative. Her research methodology emphasizes diachronicity, in contrast to the synchronic approach of structuralism. The publication of the book "Poetics of Plot and Genre" went through twists and turns. The initial version was criticized and banned from distribution after its publication in 1936, until her second monograph "Mythology and Ancient Literature" was finally published in 1978. The transition of Freudenberg's academic career from "semantics" to "poetics" reflects the fate and characteristics of her works in different periods.

Breakthrough in the Developmental Studies of Poetic Dilemma

Freidenberg changed the title of his monograph from "semantics" to "poetics" in the content adjustment, reflecting the transformation of the Soviet literary research paradigm from the late 1920s to the early 1940s. She believes that semantics is an alias for poetics, and the research object involves the category of poetics. Freudenberg regards poetics as a dynamic literary process closely related to the development of social history, emphasizing the importance of genetic analysis in the study of literary phenomena. She was influenced by Vyacheslav, Mal, and Frank Kamenecki, breaking through the limitations of traditional poetic research, linking poetics with social consciousness, and studying the origins of plot and genre using a genetic approach. Freudenberg's genetic research focuses on primitive worldviews and their formation, excavating the initial semantic forms of literary plots and genres.

Poetic Characteristics: The Cycle of Life, Death, and Resurrection

Freudenberg's "Poetics of Plot and Genre" explores the origin and development of literary plot and genre, with a particular emphasis on the influence of the cycle of "life, death, and resurrection" in the primitive worldview on literature. She uses the method of genetics to focus her research on the "pre literary period" and "literary period", believing that plot and genre originated from primitive thinking and collective action. Metaphors of concepts such as food, year, and discourse played important roles in primitive societies, closely related to the concept of life cycle, and became the embryonic form of literary plot and genre. Fredenberg reveals the origin of satirical and humorous plots and genres by analyzing the role of food metaphors in sacrificial ceremonies. The metaphor of the annual cycle also constitutes the core of all plots and genres, related to the life cycle and farming cycle of primitive humans. She focuses on the 'pre literary stage', emphasizing the combination of oral language and action, as well as the symbolic significance of 'discourse' overcoming death and achieving resurrection in primitive society.