The presentinvestigationproposes to reconsider the phenomenon of literaryfolklorismstarting from its appearance and its theoretical status in the currentevolution of the studies of theory literary,folkloristic and ethnology, based exclusively on the resizing of the influences between the immaterial cultural heritage and the written literature.In an extendedsense, the phenomenon of folklorism is one of the axes of the problem of historical destiny of folklore, included in a new scientific paradigm in the new historical and aesthetic context. The relationship between the two concepts: folklore and literature is at present a problem „of founding”, „of genetic determination”, „of catalysis” and „of permanent revitalizing” of contemporaryliteraryphenomenon. Developing the methods for the study of folklorismwasheldonce with deepening of analytical approach, that encompasses all steps of ideatic aesthetic structure of the work, its form and content, intertextual and intratextual relations. Introduction of folk elements into a new aesthetic system more complicatedresulted with their substantial transformation, which does not allow direct reporting to the mechanicalinteraction of artistic work with different folkloric species.