Moshnoriz M. Mythopoetics of Spyrydon Cherkasenko’s works

The dissertation covers the literary problems of S. Cherkasenko’s mythopoetics: the sources of formation and the peculiarities of the writer’s worldview, evolution of the writer in artistic assimilation: mythologism, the poetic mythomodel of the world, the system of binary oppositions and the peculiarities of actualization of mythologems, archetypes, traditional motives and mythoplots. The writer’s work combines the traditions of the Romantics with modernist tendencies in the development of Ukrainian literature at the turn of the centuries. S. Cherkasenko’s work in the aspect of mythopoetics is characterized by immersion in the philosophical and aesthetic contexts of fiction, the mythopoetic nature of the world model, built on a cyclical concept and a combination of traditions of biblical, ancient, Slavic (mostly folklore) mythology. Using mostly the mythologems of ancient, biblical, Slavic mythologies, transforming and modifying them, S. Cherkasenko created a multifaceted mythopoetic artistic system. As a result of a comprehensive analysis of an array of poetic, prose and dramatic works, it was found that S. Cherkasenko had his own concept of “literalization” of the myth. His interpretation of the myth is diverse. The writer subordinated it to the most pressing problems of the Ukrainian people such as struggling for freedom, thus contributing to the integration of Ukrainian literature into the European processes of remythologization of the existence of the late XIX – early XX centuries. In various genres S. Cherkasenko imitated and reproduced national mythology, borrowing motifs, images and entire mythological plots, unconventionally redefining and transforming the national mythological element and the one of another nation, creating a national myth.