Drohomyretska M. Genetico-functional aspects of poetics («Narratives and Sketches from Ukrainian Life» by Ahatanhel Krymskyi).

The thesis is devoted to the study of the interaction of genetic and functional aspects of poetics of a literary work as exemplified by the prose collection “Narratives and Sketches from Ukrainian Life” by Ahatanhel Krymskyi (1895). The study is the first in Ukrainian literary criticism to cover the intertextual relation of the internal organization of a work of art and its genesis and functioning. On this conceptual basis, a theoretical model of the poetics of a literary work as a dynamic structure is developed, in which creatively transformed genetic pretexts have a prospective potential of being capable of generating heterogeneous post-texts and functioning in harmony with a thematic, genre and stylistic architext. According to this model, the artistic structure not only retains traces of the origin of the constructed material but also transforms this material into a whole, creating a network of codes for its reading and thus influencing its future reception. It was found that creative innovation and aesthetic influence of the figurative structure are ensured by the transformation of pretexts made in the artistic forms of parody, irony, paradox, experimental placement of the pretext in a new context, stylization of the work according to a certain traditional pretext and so on. The study of A. Krymskyi’s debut collection, which appeared at the turn of two literary eras, made it possible to trace how the heterogeneous genetic components of tradition interact in the intertextual structure of a literary work, actualizing its ability to function aesthetically in the literary process.