Parubiy U. Ukrainian spell and incantation poetry: structural semantic peculiarities and the poetics of genre.

The thesis substantiates the problem of genre differentiation of texts from spell and incantation poetry. It is for the first time that the paper employs theoretical conclusions of the representatives of the French school of semiotics (Algirdas Julius Greimas) to describe the structure of narrative models of Ukrainian incantations. The methodological analysis of structural elements has been expanded. The meaning of the incantation formula [uroky na soroky] was studied. The research explores the issue of articulate sub-genres of magic poetry within the framework of genre theory. It was analyzed the academic legacy of scholars on structural description of incantations. The core part to describe the structure of incantation texts in this dissertation is based on the assumptions of the theory of narration and structural semantics introduced by Greimas and methodological approaches to the analysis of incantations and spells suggested by a Lithuanian researcher D.Vaitkiavichene. Peculiarities of functioning and preservation of spell and incantation tradition facilitated the enhancement of spell texts as magical formulas, and also extract the formula elements in the incantation texts themselves. The formula basis of the texts also helps identify the semantic clichéd formula containing the mechanism of transformation of folklore imagery. A bright illustration to the semantic formula is the one of [uroky na soroky].