The theoretical and methodological base of Ukrainian and foreign researchers on the formation of the fairy tale genre is used and systematized, the tendencies of reflection of folklore traditions in literary works are revealed, the specifics of influence of actual problems of time on creation of poetics of chronotope are outlined. The existing classifications of the chronotope of literary fairy tales are determined and the current list of chronotopes of the modern Ukrainian literary fairy tale is offered.
The theoretical and methodological base of Ukrainian and foreign researchers on the formation of the fairy tale genre is used and systematized, the tendencies of reflection of folklore traditions in literary works are revealed, the specifics of influence of actual problems of time on creation of poetics of chronotope are outlined. The existing classifications of the chronotope of literary fairy tales are determined and the current list of chronotopes of the modern Ukrainian literary fairy tale is offered. The specifics of space-time poetics of a literary fairy tale are determined and the current varieties are systematized, which we have divided into external (chronotope of road and landscape) and internal (house, fear and oneiric chronotope), characterized by construction in the direction of closed and open space, personal time and world respectively. The external chronotope is more voluminous in spatial visualization, so it has additional structuring: the chronotope of the landscape is divided into the chronotope of nature (mountains, forests, water formations, fields and other modifications of natural places) and urban (city and places created by scientific and technological progress or human influence).
A comprehensive analysis of the fairy tales of I. Andrusyak (“Stepha and her Jackal”, “Third Snow”), S. Dermansky (“Aunt Malva’s Shop”, a collection of fairy tales “Ghost’s Birthday”), O. Drachkovska (“The Hare Bunny and His brave mother”), D. Korniy (“Petrus the Chimney Sweeper”), Z. Menzatyuk (collection “A Thousand Umbrellas”, “Arnica”), G. Pagutyak (“Escape of Beasts or the New Bestiary”), R. Romanyshyn and A. Lesiva (“The War That Changed Rondo”), V. Rutkivsky (fairy-tale trilogy: “Bay from a quiet backwater”, “Guests on a broom”, “Shchyryk from the snake mountain”), V. Shevchuk (collection “Virgin of Flowers”), reflecting tendencies of the cultural paradigm of the end of the XX – the beginning of the XXI century and the specifics of its presentation in the fairy-tale genre.
