The book contains articles by the outstanding philologist Yuri Konstantinovich Shcheglov (1937–2009), written over more than 40 years of his scientific activity. The collection includes works from different years and different conceptual formats, covering diverse areas of interest of the scientist - from the poetics of expressiveness to the theory of the short story, from Ovid to Voinovich. The articles included in the collection are devoted to both general theoretical issues and analyzes of specific works by A. S. Pushkin, A. P. Chekhov, A. Conan Doyle, I. E. Babel, M. M. Zoshchenko, A. A. Akhmatova , I. Ilf and E. Petrova, L. I. Dobychina, M. A. Bulgakova. The book also contains a chronological list of published works by Yu. K. Shcheglov.