Mikolaychuk A. The Poetics of Motif in W. Faulkner's Novels Written at the end of 1920s and the beginning of 1930s.

The thesis examines the poetics of motif in W. Faulkner's novels written at the end of 1920s and the beginning of 1930s. The critical concept of motif analysis made it possible for us to define the semantics, the structure, and the functioning peculiarities of the motif layer in Faulkner's literary texts. Poetics paradigm of motif has been investigated on the different levels of the author's artistic system, such as verbally-stylistic level, in detail-graphic level, plot level, chronotope level, and narrative level. As a result the idiosyncrasies of the archetype-mythological motif complexes have been identified; the functions of created by biblical and literary intertext motifs have been characterized; the significance of the existential motif paradigm has been found out; and the role of motif as a motive force and a plot component as well as a constituent part of architectonics and writer's narrative strategy has been ascertained. The dominating in W. Faulkner's novels motif function of form and content has been valued as a mode of "non classic" continuum of the literary work formation by its through implicit structuring in the way of repetition, inter-reflection of some text units and imagery associative relations between them.