Skvira N. Problems of Poetics of the Second Volume of "The Dead Souls" by Mykola Gogol.

The object is the Second Volume of "The Dead Souls" by Mykola Gogol. The aims are to define the principled features of Poetics of the Second Volume of "The Dead Souls" by Mykola Gogol, the artistic nature of characters' forming and to analyze the Biblical intertextuality. The methods are historical-literary, system-integrated, comparative-typological, comparative, intertextual and semiotic. The thesis is devoted to the investigation of such problems of poetics of the second volume of "The Dead Souls" as Biblical intertextuality of motives, metalogic constructions and components of the plot; artistic nature of characters' forming; specifics of such compositional elements as interior and landscape. A peculiar attention in the research is paid to the analysis of "orthodox elements" of poetics of the second volume of the "The Dead Souls", the problem of completeness of the second part, Gogol's creative evolution and crucial differences in the artistic systems of the first and the second parts of the poem.Analysis of poetics of the second volume of the "The Dead Souls" through the prism of Biblical intertextuality allowed to reveal the features of "new aesthetics" of Gogol's word, to find the dominant characteristic of poetics of the second part of "The Dead souls" - it is the presence of symbols and allegories that are Biblical by origin what helped to mark the ways of usage of Biblical borrowings. Application sphere is the training courses.