Shostak O. I. Franko’s «emigrational» text.

Thesis presents a complex research of artistic interpretation of emigration in I. Franko’s literary works for the first time in Ukrainian literary studies. The phenomenon of I. Franko’s «emigrational» text is interpreted as a personal multi-structural supertext unity consisted of common according to semantics and shape literary works that reveal emigration subject matter and are joined by the central space topoi of motherland and outland interpreted in a sacral register of characters’ antithesis of paradise and hell. The author outlines writer’s literary works corpus devoted to the issue of emigration from Halychyna at the end of the XIX – beginning the XX centuries. The central plot motives, characters-topoi forming its structural base are identified. The part of literary works is supplemented by the writer’s publicistic writings in 1891–1897, epistolary and memoiristics (about I. Franko’s intensions to emigrate and his participation in emigrational movement). I. Franko’s literary works about the emigration are analyzed basing on three theoretical and methodological suggestions – poetic manner, rhetoric, and interpretation. The central position belongs to the rhetorical analysis based on determination of communicative strategies of artistic language on the level of its correlation to writer’s intension and reader’s perception. I. Franko’s literary works corpus about the emigration is considered as a constituent of «emigrational» text of Ukrainian literature at the end of the XIX – beginning the XX centuries.