Prokhorenko Y. Gogol's Creativity in Ukrainian Literary-Critical and Artistic Consciousness of the 20-30's of the XXth century.

The object - Ukrainian literary-critical studies, devoted to Gogol and his creative work, published on the pages of periodicals and separate editions of the 20-30's of the XXth century; Ukrainian translations of writer's works; fiction of the "Executed Renaissance" (works of M. Khvyliovyi, Yu. Yanovskyi, Ostap Vyshnia, V. Pidmohylnyi, M. Kulish et al.); Gogol's artistic heritage. The purpose - system analysis of the reception of Gogol in Ukrainian literary-critical and artistic consciousness of the 20-30's of the XXth century, determination of nature, features and dynamics of changes in scientific and artistic interpretation of writer's heritage and creative personality. The methods - historical-functional and comparative analysis, typological and genetic contacts methods, intertextuality, imagology approach, receptive aesthetics and postcolonial criticism. The main ways, forms, directions and changes of vector of the reception of Gogol by literary thought of that time are defined in the thesis with accent on a key problem of Ukrainian Gogol studies - national identity of the author. The research also investigates the main stylistic features of artistic interpretation of "Gogol gene" in the creative works of writers of the "Executed Renaissance" at the level of genetic and typological contacts, transformation of plots, images and also at the level of poetics, that determines some continuity of romanticism, baroque and traditions of realistic satire in the works of Gogol and Ukrainian writers of the 20-30's of the XX century. Set of Gogol elements formed a distinctive profile of Ukrainian literature, especially in its modernistic experiments. The scope - the learning process.