Buravchenko O. The Peculiarities of William Faulkner's Mythopoetics in the Context of the Southern Renaissance in American Literature of 20-40-s of XX century)

The thesis is devoted to the analysis of the dominant features of William Faulkner's mythopoetics, their functional and aesthetic peculiarities are revealed. The artistic originality of the concept of the individuality and the world in the aspect of mythological constants in Faulkner's novels is displayed. The content, genre and style dominants of William Faulkner's mythopoetics, their specific character in context with the typologically related phenomena in the Southern Renaissance in the American literature are exposed (within the novel genre). Faulkner's prose is analyzed in the aspect of mythological plots, symbols and mythologemes, the peculiarities of myth reception in this writer's prose. The conceptual and functional basis of the mythological images in William Faulkner's novels "Sartoris", "Absalom, Absalom!", "The Sound and the Fury", "As I Lay Dying", "The Light in August", "Go Down, Moses" is analyzed. Mythopoetics in Faulkner's novels contributes to the creation of the united chronotopical continuum that unites separate fragmental plots, motifs and images into a single entity, joining together the past and the future, mythical characters with the real historical personalities. The implicit manner of narration and the author's inclination for philosophical perception of the reality create the specific artistic image of the world in William Faulkner's novels of 20-40s of the XXth century in the context of the Southern Renaissance compared with the works of the other Southern Renaissance writers (E. Glasgow, A. Tate, E. Welty, R. P. Warren). As for William Faulkner's creation of myth, both types of mythologization are present in his novels: the realization of the transformed and updated mythological material and the usage of universal motifs of the others mythological traditions.