Bezpal'ko O. Poetics of everyday life in Douglas Coupland's novels.

Object - Douglas Coupland's novels of the beginning of XXI century. Purpose - investigation of specificity of author's strategies of fundamental philosophic and aesthetic category of everyday life reconstruction in creative writing of Douglas Coupland. Methods - historico-literary method, elements of historico-comparative, sociocultural, contextual and interpretational analysis, method of "close reading". The thesis is devoted to the research of peculiarities of depiction of fundamental philosophic and aesthetic category of everyday life in Douglas Coupland's novels which are notable for artistic novelty, reflect the changes in world outlook of postmodern crisis epoch. The problem of everyday life definition in socio-humanistic discourse is researched. In the literary terminological area "poetics of everyday life" is defined as a specific narrative modality that has particular markers on different levels of text organization. Everyday life is examined in a diachronic aspect as the artistic phenomenon; special attention is paid to its postmodern interpretation. The most widespread polemic questions of Coupland's creative writing are distinguished: correlation in his novels of fiction and non-fiction, popular and elite, innovation and repetition, documentary and artistic, national and universal. The study of everyday life conception through the categories of time and space, features of embodiment of family novel genre, conception of "averaged" personality, specifics of artistic implementation of everyday life in Coupland's novels allowed to define his place in Canadian and world literature and come to the conclusion that writer's works are bright examples of manifestation of everyday life poetics on genre, personage and stylistic levels of text organization. A sphere is an educational process.