«The imaginary literature» by Yu. S. Stepanov and a strategy of convergence
of scientific and artistic discourse

The subject of analysis is a structure of Yuri Stepanov’s book
«Thinking reed. The book about “Imaginary literature”». It is shown that in the
text of the book the author goes beyond the strictly scientific discourse and
develops strategies of artistic discourse, such as separation of the author
and the hero and construction of plot as a system of comparisons and oppostions
of its key meanings.