Koval'ova T. The development of travel essay genre in Ukrainian journalistic periodicals in the 20-30s of the XXth centry.

The object of the research is travel essay in the 20-30s of the XXth century in the focus of genre specificity of publicistic works. The thesis is the first systematic research of Ukrainian journalistic travel essay in the 20-30s of the XXth century in the context of genre specificity of these works on the content of journals "Червоний шлях" and "Всесвіт". The theoretical dominant of scientific researches of this genre was found out on the basis of journalistic and literature studies. The analysis of genre forms of travel essay was made in Ukrainian journalistic periodicals of the 1920-1930s. In order to research the scientific issues as well as implement the tasks of the research paper the following methods were used: bibliographic and descriptive, comparative and historical, classification, analysis of documents, comparative and typological, logical as well as content-analysis. The tendencies of the development and peculiarities of this inner genre type were determined in the thesis. The stages of development and typological groups of Ukrainian journalistic travel essays of denoted period were distinguished on the basis of texts analysis. The main approaches to studying of the author's personality role were described, and the main forms of an author's interference in the text were determined. The ways of its expression in the travel essays of the 1920-1930s were examined. The conceptual approaches to the figure of character were determined; the types of characters in the journalistic travel essays were distinguished. The author emphasized the dominant role of the figure, which was renewed in the interpretation of the society of that time and the reality in general. As a result of the research, the specificity of the elements of Ukrainian journalistic travel essays in the 20-30s of the XXth century, which formed the genre, was determined. The peculiarities of using separate expressive elements were found out. The factual material of the research, its main theoretical points and outcomes can be implemented in composing text-books, guide books etc, in complementing lectures and conducting classes on professional trainings for students of speciality"Journalism".