V knige raskryvaetsya ponyatie zhanrovoy modifikatsii v tvorchestve V.N. Krupina, rassmatrivayutsya teoreticheskie aspekty epicheskikh i publitsistiche-skikh zhanrov. Zhanrovye modifikatsii – eto izmeneniya v ramkakh samogo zhanra, bud" to povest", rasskaz, novella, ocherk. Protsess zhanrovykh modifikatsiy sposobstvuet izmeneniyu traditsionnogo zhanra, aktivizatsii variativnykh zhanrovykh form. Eto privodit k rasshireniyu potentsiala zhanra.V monografii predstavleno kompleksnoe issledovanie khudozhestvennykh printsipov poetiki V.N. Krupina v period s 80-kh godov KhKh veka do nachala KhKh1 veka v kontekste zhanrovykh protsessov razvitiya russkoy literatury vtoroy poloviny KhKh veka, obosnovany podkhody k vyyavleniyu traditsiy dukhovnykh zhanrov russkoy literatury v proizvedeniyakh khudozhnika , raskryta evolyutsiya tvorchestva pisatelya, oboznacheno pravoslavnoe nachalo v proze rubezha KhKh – KhKh1 vekov. Kniga adresovana literaturovedam, pedagogam, prepodavatelyam, studentam gumanitarnykh fakul"tetov.