Prokopchuk Y. Dmytro Zagul as literary critic and translator

The dissertation represents the complex and systematic research of the literary studies of D. Zagul and his translation work in the context of the history of the development of Ukrainian literature in the twentieth century. The paper is viewed as an attempt to describe and analyze his literary research and understand the dynamics and the reasons for their changes – from the early aesthetic period of the „Literaturno-krytychnyi almanakh” to the Soviet period with the whole arsenal of the sociological method. It studies the literary and critical material, describes and systematizes well-known literary publications of the general literary heritage of D. Zagul; outlines the historical and cultural preconditions for the formation and development of aesthetic, theoretical views of D. Zagul and their connections to the Ukrainian literary process of the first three decades of the twentieth century. The work clarifies the change of his ideological views and literary approaches, determines the place and the role of D. Zagul in the literary discussion of 1925 – 1928 and demonstrates the influence of socio-political and historical factors on his literary activity. The thesis analyzes the poetics of D. Zagul, attempts to include it into the literary theory of the 1920s and the modern literary context. The study also determines the place of D. Zagul as a translator in the critique of the 1920s – early 1930s, his role for the spreading of literary work of the classics of German literature in Ukrainian literature; defines the role and place of literary studies and translation work of D. Zagul in the history of Ukrainian literary activity and the possibilities of using his fundamental heritage in modern literary critique.