Intensivnye, khotja i kratkovremennye zanjatija Pasternaka muzykoj i zatem filosofiej, predshestvovavshie ego vkhozhdeniju v literaturu, rassmatrivajutsja v knige kak opredeljajuschie koordinaty dukhovnogo mira poeta, na peresechenii kotorykh vozniklo ego tvorchestvo. Ego tretim, stol zhe universaln[...]

The book introduces the concept of intertextual memory into the domain of linguistic theory. All new facts of speech are grounded in the speakers' memory of previous experiences of using language. The new meaning is shown to be always superscribed on the familiar and recognizable, as its more or les[...]