Veshchykova O. The Narrative Strategies of the Mystical in Fiction (on the Prose by V. Shevchuk, H. Pahutiak, V. Danylenko)

This thesis aims to analyze the system of narrative strategies of creating the mystical in fiction and find out their specifics taking into consideration the reader's perception. We have developed our own definition of narrative strategy as a process of selection and combination of methods and techniques of narrative organization aimed at achieving a certain artistic effect (the author's intention) and based on the author's notion of his/her reader and of the peculiarities of the perception. The evolution of the concept of literary mysticism in the ХІХ-ХХI centuries was presented. The thesis analyzes the terminological apparatus of the concepts, definitions of the mystical. We have proposed our own definition of the mystical in fiction. The mystical is a human's supersensitive experience of passive knowledge of mysterious, supernatural and the opportunity to communicate with it. The mystical is embodied in the work by the system of expressive means. Changing of the events in time (temporality) is one of the most distinctive narrative peculiarities. The narrative strategy of prolepsis usage is realized in temporal organization of literary works and is associated with specific subjective sense of time by the person who gained the mystical experience. On the ground of the described theories of prolepsis as a narrative device a new prolepsis typology is proposed: depending on the object - objective and subjective prolepsis; depending on the type of the narrator that provides information - homodiegetic and heterodiegetic prolepsis; depending on the feasibility of foreknowledge - hypothetical prolepsis, complete prolepsis; depending on the completeness - advance notice's prolepsis, summarized prolepsis; depending on the dominating sensory channel of the perception - audio, visual, verbal prolepsis.