V monografii rassmatrivaetsya rol" A.S.Pushkina v sozdanii novogo zhanra - otechestvennoy literaturnoy skazki. Osnovnoe vnimanie udeleno avtorskim khudozhestvennym priemam, kotorye ispol"zuet russkiy poet v sozdanii literaturnoy skazki, kotoraya ne tol"ko organichno vlilas" v sokrovishchnitsu mirovogo fol"klora, no i sushchestvenno rasshirila khudozhestvennoe vozmozhnosti drevnego traditsionnogo zhanra. V monografii analiziruetsya vliyanie slozhivsheysya v russkoy literature XIX veka skazochno-pushkinskoy traditsii. Kniga prednaznachaetsya studentam filologicheskikh fakul"tetov universitetov i pedinstitutov, aspirantam, uchitelyam obshcheobrazovatel"nykh shkol i vsem spetsialistam v oblasti russkoy literatury.