About the book: 2022 / In the posthumous collection of articles by an outstanding specialist in Russian literature and culture, Doctor of Philology, professor of St. Petersburg State University Elena Vladimirovna Dushechkina (1941–2020) includes her selected works, representing the scientific path of the researcher. The range of interests of E. V. Dushechkina was extremely wide: from the peculiarities of narrative construction in ancient Russian chronicles to the language and images of pioneer songs, from Lomonosov’s odic topic to the problems of modern mass culture. E. V. Dushechkina was the pioneer of a number of topics in philological science and cultural studies: she was the first to draw attention to the genres of calendar literature, described the holiday cycles and rituals of the townspeople, and addressed the problems of onomastics in a new way, showing the connection between naming and the literary process. The collection is of interest to teachers, researchers, students of the faculties of humanities and social sciences, as well as to a wide range of readers interested in the problems of Russian literature and culture.