V knige interpretiruetsya poetika proizvedeniy khudozhestvennoy kul"tury, preimushchestvenno noveyshego vremeni, s pozitsii organizatsii kommunikativnogo prostranstva teksta. Vyyavleny funktsii reministsentsiy kak markerov vnutrikul"turnogo i mezhkul"turnogo dialogov. Fenomen genial"nosti khudozhnika rassmatrivaetsya kak perekrestok traditsiy i novatorstva, kak tochka peresecheniya vnutrikul"turnykh i mezhkul"turnykh vliyaniy, v kotoroy proiskhodit ikh tvorcheskaya pererabotka. Postuliruetsya vozmozhnost" analiza khudozhestvennogo teksta kak reprezentanta bazovykh kharakteristik natsional"noy kul"tury. Tendentsii obshchenatsional"nogo i mirovogo esteticheskogo razvitiya rassmatrivayutsya na materiale vpervye predstavlennoy interpretatsii fenomenov regional"noy khudozhestvennoy kul"tury Sibiri. Avtor knigi aktualiziruet sozidatel"nyy potentsial khudozhestvennoy kul"tury kak sfery, naibolee yarko otrazhayushchey tvorcheskiy kharakter kul"tury chelovechestva.