Marynkevich S. "Style dominants of Todos' Os'machka's poetry"

In the dissertation for the first time in Ukrainian study of literature a complex analysis of style dominants in T.Os'machka's poetry in the context of European modernism was made with an application of systematical and analytical approach, historical and functional, comparative and typological, biografical methods of research. It provides a possibility to understand that the main components of T.Os'machka's ideostyle are dominants of different types of creative trends (expressionism, surrealism) organically combined with the features of Ukrainian folklore with their potential ability to develop. The author of the dissertation studies the character and evolution of expressionistic and surrealistic tendencies in the poet's lyrics, reveals the originality of his expression of apocaliptic visions, regards his interpretation of the City as an ontological phenomenon. For the first time the mechanisms of modelling of surrealistic images in T.Os'machka's poetry were demonstrated as well as the originality ofauthor's approach to the reception of traditional material (Ukrainian folklore) on the level of genre and style as well as on the level of motives, images and rhythm.