Kapliuk K. Fiction Time and Space of R. Ivanychuk's Historical Prose (on the material of the novels The Mallows, A Crane's Cry, The Horde).

The dissertation systematizes the approaches of the XX-XXI century linguists to the investigation of fiction time and space. Consequently, the study of fiction time and space characteristics of R. Ivanychuk's writings is fulfilled on poetic, content, plot, and textual levels. The analysis of external reality within outtextual time and space (the one of the author and the reader) is accomplished in the aspect of concretization of the innertextual time and space of the author's novels.The research work defines constant time and space of R. Ivanychuk's novels, dominant time and space of his novels The Mallows (time and space of a strange land), The Crane's Cry (national time and space), The Horde (unreal time and space). It also terms the motives, images, and ideas that are concretized within this time and space.Some time methods (the amplification of the time boundaries of the story, the suspension of the outer time action, the time differentiation of the main part of the novel and its frame, the estrangement of the story from the concrete historical time etc.) and key words of time and space cycle are denominated as the means of an active influence on the reader.