Lazirko N. Yurij Klen (Oswald Burghardt) - a literary critic

The thesis deals with the literary studies of Yuriy Klen (Oswald Burghardt). Consideration of his studies on the intersection of two strategies of research (on the one hand, it is the representation of main ideas and literary studies debates, methodological instrumentation that were successfully distinguished from his literary-critical and literary studies publications; on the other hand, it is the analysis and interpretation of separate literary studies publications of the Ukrainian literary scholar, dedicated to literary activity of Ukrainian and foreign authors) gave the possibility to create sufficiently complete compendium of literary studies points of view, main methodological approaches and individual literary studies debate practice in his literary studies researches.