From the contrary. Searching in the field of artistic culture

The book of Professor I.P. Smirnov contains mainly new works dedicated to the artistic culture of the twentieth century. The circle of his research interests in this publication included the theory and metatheory of literature, the development of the avant -garde until 1940-1950, the semantic structure of large intertextual novels - "Dara" V. Nabokov and "Dr. Zhivago", the transformations that undergoes that heses In the lyrics of I. Brodsky Topik, poetic madness, the philosophy of cinema and the self -understanding of the film regarding moviego reality. Despite the heterogeneity of the problems discussed in the book, which composed its articles can be read as a single, internally related text