Naumenko N. System of Symbols іn the Imagery Structure of Ukrainian Short Story of the end of the 19th-the beginning of the 20th century.

The object of research is defined as functioning of a traditional Ukrainian symbolic image in the literary framework of Ukrainian short story dated by the end of the 19th-the beginning of the 20th century. Studying the transformations of an image to a symbol allowed the investigator to build a picture of the world shown in the short stories with various stylistic dominants. The main conclusion is that the authors' interest to human internal world resulted in the wider usage of "story-within-a-story", the complicated literary method. In this context, the role of symbols is to facilitate the changes of narrative parts and to create the strong and lapidary Wendepunkt (the climax point). Symbol is confirmed as the main factor which allows the researcher to comprehend the peculiarities of literary process in Ukraine of the end of the 19th-beginning of the 20th century, including the writers' interpretation of new aesthetical ideas and their transformation in Ukrainian cultural context.