Maksymchuk O. The Song of Songs in Ukrainian Baroque literature

This dissertation investigates the models of representation of the biblical book, the Song of Songs, in Ukrainian literature of the 17th and 18th centuries. The appeal to the Song of Songs occurs in the texts of numerous Ukrainian authors, such as Lazar Baranovich, Ioan Maksymovych, Antonii Radyvylovskyi, Hryhorii Skovoroda, Kyrylo Trankvilion Stavrovetskyi, Dymytrii Tuptalo, Stefan Yavorskyi, and some other anonymous writers. There is a considerable number of thematic groups (e. g., topoi, images, and motifs) connected with the Song of Songs and elaborated in the texts of Early Modern Ukraine; so, for this reason, in the dissertation their number is narrowed to the following complexes: 1) arrival of spring, 2) seeking of the missing beloved, 3) image of the enclosed garden, 4) wasf, or praise of the beauty of the beloved and 5) floristic symbolic representations of the field lily.