Monografiya posvyashchena issledovaniyu genezisa i soderzhaniya kategorii sofiynosti i ee stilevym proyavleniyam v russkoy literature KhIKh-nachala KhKh vekov. Aktual'nost' issledovaniya zaklyuchaetsya v razrabotke literaturovedcheskoy strategii, pozvolyayushchey analizirovat' ontologizm russkoy literatury, filosofsko-religioznye osnovaniya russkoy slovesnosti, kotoraya rassmatrivaetsya skvoz' prizmu kategorii sofiynosti i neotdelimoy ot ne poetiki vseedinstva, otrazhayushchey poiski tselogo, svyaz' khudozhestvenno-esteticheskikh i metafizicheskikh smyslov. V sostave klassicheskoy poetiki raskryvaetsya drama sofiynykh tem i smyslov, obuslovlennaya antisofiynym sostoyaniem mira. Obretenie sofiynogo vremeni i toposa protivopostavleno katastroficheskomu chuvstvu zhizni, bogoostavlennosti. Kosmogoniya i eskhatologiya tselogo predstavleny sushchnostnymi aspektami sofiynoy poetiki vseedinstva poezii Serebryanogo veka, v kotoroy vyyavlyayutsya dve linii "arkhaistov" i "apokaliptikov".