Reznichenko N. N.A.Reznichenko -Ukrainian Prose for Minors of 60s-80s of the 20th century (Genre and Style Modifications).

The thesis is dedicated to discovery of genre-style modifications in Ukrainian literature for children of 1960s-1980s as a componential part of the whole literature developing in accordance with the same laws as one for adults. The given thesis applies esthetic, worldview, composition-plot, image and chronotropic levels to define the genre-style peculiarities of insufficiently explored prose works for minors. It opens an individual creative specificity and versatile style of fiction prose by V.Nestayko, Y.Stelmakh, O.Honchar, V.Blyznets, H.Tyutyunyk, Y.Hutsal, and namely the upbringing of children's characters. Three dominant genre-style modifications have been defined (adventure, lyric and impressionistic, as well as intellectual and psychological prose) in the literature array for children of the mentioned period. The decisive sensual characteristics of adventure, lyric-impressionist and intellectual-psychological styles have been determined thereof.