Kovaliv S. Luka Lutsiv’s Concepts of Literary Studies.

The dissertation is the first comprehensive study of the creative legacy of Luka Lutsiv, a Ukrainian public literary scholar and critic, a member of the Shevchenko Scientific Society, a long-standing author of the journal. In the dissertation, the author applied the elements of postcolonial approach and cultural anthropology. In particular, the concept of “cultural landscape” provided an opportunity to define the multi-faceted phenomenon of Luka Lutsiv, his worldview and methodological evolution in the cultural and historical context of Cossack Riflemen, the interwar twenty-year period, and the emigration literature. The paper highlighted the distinctive features of his studies at the first stage of his creativity, namely the interwar period, as well as at the second stage, namely the post-war period. It provided insight into the methodological principles of studying the Ukrainian literature in the context of “double track”. The author identified the concepts of literary studies discussed by Luka Lutsiv. Furthermore, it gave prominence to the problem and thematic, conceptual, aesthetic, and genre parameters of Lutsiv’s literary and critical writings in the journal “Academic Literary Herald” and the newspaper “Svoboda”. It was proven that Luka Lutsiv’s concepts of literary studies, his interpretation and assessments had stood against the totalitarian ideology under the circumstances of a double-track literary process in the middle of the twentieth century and preserved the educative value for modern science.