Nesterenko A. The poetics of satire in the works by A. Averchenko.

The objects are satirical stories, parodies, feuilletons, pamphlets by A. Averchenko. The aim is to reveal a peculiarity of the satirical poetics in the creative works by A. Averchenko. The methods are structural-semantic analysis of the texts, comparative-historical, biographical, contextual methods, and methods of conventional literature analysis with elements of descriptions, historical-cultural and socio-cultural comments. The thesis presents the analysis of satirical poetics in the creative works by A. Averchenko in the aspects which highlight mostly the individual artistic manner of the writer. The thematic constants of satire are distinguished, these constants remain stable and fixed in all his creative works. The attempts are made to study genre paradigm of satire as combination of genre arranged on the basis of integral and differential features. In the process of analysis of short stories, parodies, feuilletons, pamphlets we define the subject of satirical research of each small form, level of the author's critical attitude, dominating methods of satirical depiction. Stylistic and lexical-stylistic peculiarities of A. Averchenko's satire, specificity of narrative organization of satire and chronotop are under study. Application sphere is training courses.