Kulikova I. "Man in spatial-temporal dimensions of English language anti-utopia of the second half of the 20th century".

Objects ? the novels of R. Bradbury "Fahrenheit 451", M. Atwood "The Handmaid's Tale", J. Barnes "England, England". Aim - investigation of artistic specific of the image of man, peculiarities of its functioning in space and time of American, Canadian and English anti-utopia of the second half of the 20th century. Methods - historical and literary analysis; cultural and historical; philological analysis; comparative and typological approach; motive analysis; mythopoetical method. In the thesis the study of the image of man in the context of spatial-temporal dimensions of English language anti-utopia of the second half of the 20th century is pioneered in Ukrainian literary criticism by the examples of the novels of R. Bradbury, M. Atwood, and J. Barnes. On the basis of a complex approach, the concept of anti-utopian genre in the second half of the 20th century, a diversity of images of man (man addicted to TV, a woman as a man's friend, male/female dichotomy), dominant chronotops (a city, a republic, an island) and its constituents (a house, a road, a dream, a garden, a church, a room) were discovered. It is proved that the behavior of characters shows up depending on topos and locus spaces. The character's psychological perception of space plays a large role; it appears antagonistic, there is one of us/a stranger, home/antihome, a continent/an island, history/the present opposition which is accompanied by retrospections and introspections. Area of activity - process of studying.