Kysla O. Works of Taras Shevchenko in literary-critical interpretation of the middle and the second half of XIX century.

The dissertation is devoted to research literary and critical interpretation of Taras Shevchenko's works by criticism of the middle of XIX c. It considers theoretical and methodological foundations of literary and critical interpretation of the Kobzar works by M. Kostomarov, presents the author's vision of paradigm of historical and literary foundations of literary scholar. The focus of the research is to study the degree of approximation of analytical works by reviewer to the inherent nature of Shevchenko's poetry. The work describes interpretation of "Kobzar" written in 1840 and 1860 by Kostomarov as a movement to merge the horizons of expectations. The dissertation represents works of T. Shevchenko in Ukrainian, Russian and Polish criticism in times of M. Kostomarov. It analysis the folk of T. Shevchenko's creative experience in a posthumous criticism in times of literary scholar and the phenomenon of Kobzar criticized in 1860-1900.