V knigu rossiyskogo medievista A.O. Shelemovoy vklyucheny stat'i, soderzhatel'no avtonomnye drug ot druga, no kompozitsionno ob"edinyennye kontseptsiey intertekstual'nogo analiza Slova o polku Igoreve i proizvedeniy razlichnykh kul'turnykh epokh - ot antichnosti i srednevekov'ya do pervogo desyatiletiya KhKh veka. Aktual'nymi i v znachitel'noy mere diskussionnymi yavlyayutsya materialy pervykh dvukh statey - o vliyanii poem Gomera i o konfessional'nykh prioritetakh sozdatelya Slova. Vyskazyvaya sobstvennye nablyudeniya, mysli i suzhdeniya, avtor vklyuchaetsya v diskussiyu vokrug etikh problem i priglashaet k polemike chitatelya. Stat'i o tvorchestve Pushkina, Griboedova, Shmelyeva i Voloshina illyustriruyut obraztsy intertekstual'nogo analiza i raskryvayut perspektivy predlagaemoy metodologii pri dal'neyshem issledovanii literaturnykh tekstov v sootnesenii s khudozhestvennym fenomenom Slova o polku Igoreve. Kniga adresovana spetsialistam po drevnerusskoy literature, prepodavatelyam i studentam filologicheskikh i kul'turologicheskikh spetsial'nostey, uchitelyam gumanitarnykh litseev i gimnaziy.