Podolianchuk O. Hnat Khotkevych Individual Style

The thesis is devoted to the study of Hnat Khotkevych individual style, i.e., ideological and artistic peculiarities, linguistic-stylistic means and the author’s place and role as an innovator of the folk-conversational style in the Ukrainian prose of the 20th century. The scientific novelty of the thesis is predetermined by the fact that it is the first research in Ukrainian linguistics which studies Hnat Khotkevych’s original individual style and attempts to study systematically ideological and artistic peculiarities and language-stylistic means of his works. The theoretical significance of the research lies in the fact that the results of the study can serve as a basis for theoretical conclusions and generalisations when studying the writer’s individual style and will further encourage the investigation and deeper understanding of the peculiarities within ideological and artistic features and language-stylistic means of Hnat Khotkevych creativity; the paper will expand scholarly knowledge about the artist’s individual style features as one of the main categories of the fiction stylistics.