The article deals with various aspects of the image of a holy fool in the works of the poet Oleg Chukhontsev. The origins, artistic semantics and typology of the image are revealed.

The satirical fables of literary masks of Kuzma and IvanPrutkov are compared in the article. In the process of selection of genre forming features of the works by these authors it is found out that the poetics of Ivan Prutkov is influenced by the traditions of satirical and burlesque poetry of KozmaPrutkov and the genre canon in the works by both authors is transformed.

The article describes some aspects of variety of a fictional text displayed at the level of the contents and the compositions of a book of poetry, based on various editions of the collection of poems by O. Mandelstam “The Stone”.

In the aspect of the anthropological model there are described the spaces of age, theme and motive of childhood in the lyrical poetry by Vera Pavlova and the ways of their artistic implementation.

There is analyzed the image of a raven in the Chinese and Russian poetry, considered its genesis, evolution of sense, ways of artistic actualization.

Within the anthropological model of age space by the example of the creative work by A. Tarkovsky and I. Lisnyanskaya there is considered the dynamics of visual apperception of the world picture of the second half of the XX century.

There is considered the model of anthropomorphous space peculiar for the proletarian poetry, and the forms of artistic representation of the suggested model.

There are considered different sides of the semantics of dacha topos in the Russian poetry of the second half of the XX - beginning of the XXI century.

There is considered the issue of research of the space category based on the Russian poetry of the second half of the XX - beginning of XXI century. There is characterized the work of the scientific laboratory East - West: space of Russian literature and folklore at the literature department of Volgograd State Social and Pedagogical University.

There are considered the methodological approaches to the issues of folklorism in the works by D.N.Medrish, interpreted the significance of the scientists theoretical ideas for the modern philology.