Sikorska V. Artistic time-and-space phenomenon in Pavlo Zagrebelny's historical novels

The thesis is dedicated to the problem of artistic time and artistic space phenomenon in P.Zagrebelny's historical novels. Classification of artistic forms of time and space has been proposed in the thesis on the basis of systematic analysis. Types of historical novel have been distinguished as regards correlation of historical document and imagination in P.Zagrebelny's creative work. The main tendencies for interpretation of the analyzed categories in the writer's creative work and their influence on the genre of a historical novel have been discovered. Artistic time and space is quite vivid due to the variety of forms and specific of their display. It helped to understand interdependence between historical and novelistic time and space. Historical novels have been analyzed according to the principle of materialization of artistic time in space on the level of plot organizing. The basic ways of functioning of the elements of time-and-space continuum on the level of compositional structure of works ofart have been specified. Full interdependence of time and space interpretation, psychological sense of time and space by some characters have been discovered. Chronotop in the historical novel as the mode of expression of the author's individual style has been investigated. Peculiarities of space end time expression are depicted as the manifestation of conceptual model of man's existence in the world. It is realized by means of space binary oppositions and time forms. Time and space characters functioning at form, plot, meaningful and creative levels have been shown. It has been accented that written approach to depicting history with the help of fixing time and space is philosophical and deeply psychological.