Kobuta S. The "free person" conception in the literary works of Ivan Bahrjanyj and George Orwell

3. The aim of the thesis is to determine the dimensions of the "free person" conception in the works of Ivan Bahrjanyj and George Orwell, and to show artistic peculiarities of its literary realization in order to reveal typological similarities and differences. The object under study is made up from the publicistic and artistic works of Ivan Bahrjanyj and George Orwell. The subject of the study is comparative and typological research of the "free person" conception, which is implemented in the publicistic and artistic works of Ivan Bahrjanyj and George Orwell. The following methods of research were used: biographical, descriptive, hermeneutic, comparative and typological, historically-literary, historically-cultural, contextual, psychological, as well as the methods of synthesis and analysis. The scientific novelty of the study is in the fact that it analyses and compares the literary works of Ivan Bahrjanyj and George Orwell from the point of view of typology for the first time, the main aim of it is to reveal the existence of the "free person" conception in it. The study also proves that the artistic perception of the "free person" concept by Ivan Bahrjanyj and George Orwell, who saw it as an anthropological problem, played the decisive role in their literary works. Moreover, the study shows the peculiarities of the "free person" concept perception by Ivan Bahrjanyj and George Orwell, the way it is interpreted in certain historical circumstances and the specifics of its literary realization in the anti-totalitarian discourse of the writers. Theoretical and practical meaning of the study lies in the extension of the Ukrainian comparative studies field, and in the determining of its place and role in the literary processes of the XX century. The materials of the study might be used while working on the study course on the history of both world and Ukrainian literature, postcolonial studies and studies of the totalitarian period, as well as in the studies closely connected with the works of Ivan Bahrjanyj and George Orwell.