Malynska N. The Heroic in Folklore and Literature. Discourse of canon.

The dissertation deals wich the problem of the ontology of the canon in lyric-epic poetry in Ukrainian literature traced from antient times. The research emphasizes the that in reflecting worldview, moral and esthetic criteria of life, the national art has always been an objective reflection of history, the guintessence of spiritual awakenning and national awareness of the people. A semantic reconstruction of types of mental structures and principles of artistic thinking in folklore made it possible to ascertain the functions of histirikal transformations of polysemantic realies, otifemes, and mythologemes of folklore texts in literary works of the 17-20 centuries, to identify the regularities and specifics of relations between arts, and to show the dynamics of poetic thinking in popular and professional cultires.