The journal covers the literature in terms of poetics, semiotics, its functioning in the modern context of culture. Literary process is discussed in connection with the philosophical, social and other discourses, issues of gender and religious identity in the field of Internet communication and mass culture. The study of modern literary process from the standpoint of the history of literature is intended to include the facts of the modern literature of genres, styles, and other levels of historical poetics. Articles reflect the patterns of development of the world literary process.