This dissertation proposes the fullest to date analysis of neomythological motifs in the Ukrainian poetry of the last decade of the XX century. The work observes the artistic heritage of I. Andrusyak, Y. Bedryk, M. Bratsylo, V. Vynogradov, O. Galeta, S. Zhadan, M. Kiyanovska, O. Kutsenko, G. Kruk, V. Makhno, R. Melnykiv, S. Protsyuk, M. Savka, E. Sventsytska, R. Skyba, I. Starovoit.
In the beginnig, are elected three main directions of studying of mythopoetical motifs in the Ukrainian lyric of the 1990s. Those three directions were interpreted by V. Yeshkilev («demiurgy» as a construction of the own Universe due to «an internal encyclopedia»), M. Kiyanovska (myth as an open literary model), Y. Logvynenko (myth as «global metatext»). Above mentioned scientific vectors help to build strategies for systematization and complex analysis of mythopoetical motifs.
Also, some peculiarities of poets’ and poetesses’ reinterpretations of the pagan (within phytomorphic, zoomorphic and cosmogonic motifs), biblical (within the motifs of adventuring and wandering) and ancient mythoworlds are shown. The mechanism of creation of the renewed literary reality is connected with developing the interpretive paradigm and based on different techniques. Among dominant ones, there are stressed the following techniques: mythoscripts of «word’s birth», «sound’s birth», «poetry’s birth» (according to Y. Vyshnytska); «absurding» the poetry reality (according to A. Camus); «composing a plot» (it means a kind of combination of Christian, ancient Greek, some pagan storylines, etc), «mirror inverting an initial motif», «addition to an initial motif its duplicate» (according to E. Meletynskyi); accumulation and interchangeability of the conceptually important functional characteristics of images; building «an ordinary myth» (according to M. Kiyanovska); cyclical nature; polyvariability. Although, the phenomena of teratomorphosis and antromorphosis are definitely emphasized.
It is noticed, that the artistic reconstruction has influenced the discovery of forms of a myth’s existence, the appearance in texts transformed images of divinities, beasts, towns, countries (kingdom of lavender fairies, garden of irrepressible raccoons, garden of divine mice, fairy of life, little purple fluffy animal, snakes brothered with «a powerful magic tangle», a hundred-eyed precipice, six-winged bat, human-eyed snake (Y. Bedryk); country of Dandelionia, Ho, Mare Head (R. Melnykiv); Moon Cat, father Lun, Owl Shadow, three-eyed snake, Dog town (R. Skyba); Lady-Summer, a hundred-eyed and a hundred-eared hare, silent palmist of roads (M. Kiyanovska); What-Lady-Desires boy (G. Kruk); Miracle (M. Savka); country of moderate rains (S. Protsuk); country of cold stars, knights of Miracle, fish-woman (M. Bratsylo); a hundred-eyed and a hundred-eared Miracle, unicorn (B. Makhno); a hundred-eyed night (E. Svenytska); moon-eyed scream September, gods of travelers, queen with green bones (I. Andrusyak); a hundred-voiced and a hundred-headed animal (O. Kutsenko), Star Eternal Creator (V. Vynogradov)).
Apart from that, our attention attract literary functions of neomythological motifs. Throughout the research, the following functions are studied: out-of-time and out-of-space, cycling, multidimension, «technically meaningful “unity”» (according to A. Nyamtsu), «negative parallelism» (according to E. Meletynskyi), out-of-language reality, etc.
The scientific novelty of the obtained results is determined by these: in the research for the first time the literary world of poets of the Nineties is fully analyzed in the context of neomorthologism; are viewed poetical works of the last decade of the XXth century, which still have not been enough considered in the contemporary Literature Study (Y. Bedryk, M. Bratsylo, V. Vynogradov, O. Kutsenko, E. Sventsytska, etc); are thoroughly characterized the peculiarities of the poly and mono natures of motifs in the Ukrainian poetry of the 1990s, described their literary functions; the dominant techniques of an author’s mythologizing are «drawn»; is described an individual author’s interpretation of traditional images and storylines (at the same time, strategies of their implementations are studied too) within the phytomorphic, zoomorphic, cosmogonic, ancient and biblical mythoworlds of poets of the Nineties.
In the end, it should be said, that the results of the studio are got due to the motif method of analysis, as well as the mythological, structural and textual one. They can be found useful, while either preparing the course on the History of Ukrainian Literature of the end of the XXth century in higher educational institutions, or philology students’ writing term papers, master’s thesis, or further, studying the poetry of the 1990s.
