Tsepkalo T. Mythologeme of the Moon in Ukrainian Poetry of the Twentieth Century.

This thesis provides a systematic analysis of the mythologeme of the Moon in the Ukrainian poetry of the twentieth century. The astral image in the said poetic writings is interpreted in accordance with both the popular worldview and archaic genomes of mankind. The theoretical and applied study of the myth have been considered and analyzed, and its role in the process of myth creation has been established. The attention is also paid to the peculiarities of the myth-poetics of the artistic work, which combines figurative and emotional thinking, subconscious common cultural genomes, author's world views, mythological schemes, structures, symbols, means of poetic speech, etc. The thesis investigates the mythical and folklore peculiarity of the Moon's archetypal image in the poetry of Ukrainian Symbolists, analyzes the folklore elements and individual author views of the world dispensation in the objectification of the lunar image in the lyrics of Ukrainian Symbolists. Special consideration is given to the mythopoetic sources of creativity of representatives of the Kyiv school of poetry; the essence of author's world creation on the basis of myth analysis is revealed and an attempt is made to compare the specifics of artists' myth-thinking. This work provides a detailed analysis of the lunar image's myth semantics in the poetry of the 1980's. It considers features of the creative approach of Yu. Andrukhovych, V. Gerasymiuk, Oksana Zabuzhko, O. Irvanets, V. Neborak, I. Rymaruk, T. Fedyuk. Attention is drawn to the rethinking of ancient beliefs, concepts, rites and rituals in the poetry of the 'Eighties'.