Kulinich T. Metaphor in I. Kalinets: Inter-textual aspect.

The dissertation focuses on the inter-textual elements in poetry of I. Kalinets, treating them as metaphorical expressions. The poet's work is discussed as a unified structure in which his poetic world develops. In his first collections of works, the author conveys a world immersed in the past. The effect is achieved through various kinds of inter-textual links reaching into folklore, Slavic mythology, and biographies of key individuals in Ukrainian history. Gradually, the author ushers in the existential alienation from the objective reality which is transformed into the textual world of his poetry. His major technique is quiazi-inter-textuality along with the use of literary treatise and documents as prologues to his works. In the next phase of his literary activity, which took place in a prison, the author develops the inter-textual space using geographical, historical, audiovisual, and symbolic elements. To this purpose, he utilizes a variety of inter-textual links, including the intermediate ones.He opens his works with legends, folk tales, works from Ukrainian literature, sculpture and architecture, Ukrainian and European paintings, signs of Zodiac, letters, numbers and so on. The present work confirms the view that poetry of I. Kalinets is centered on a single metaphysical idea: that of the creation of a space for the ideal country, the spiritual Ukraine, "the land of kolyadka." The inter-textual elements function as the method of destruction of the reality and the building material for the textual reality.