Mazoha G. Genre and style modifications of the Ukrainian writers' correspondence of the second half of the 20th century.

The author of the dissertation researches the correspondence of the Ukrainian writers of the second half of the 20th century in the light of genres, style organizations, and the correlation of these genres with the discourse of the literature of the period, with artistic literary systems, trends, and schools. The researcher has analyzed and systematized the scientific approaches of literary critics to the epistolary genre, revealed the tendencies and regularities of its evolution, substantiated the genre typology of the correspondence of P.Tychyna, M.Rylsky, M.Bazhan, B.Antonenko-Davydovych, I.Bahriany. O.Honchar, V Barka, U.Samchuk, D.Nylchenko, V.Vovk, V.Bezpaly. V.Drozd. I.Svitlychnv. V,Simonenko, V.Stus, Hr. Tiutiunnyk and other Ukrainian writers of the second half of the 20th century. The author of the dissertation researches correspondence as an integrated text, its poetic manner in the aspect of its dialogic contact with various cultural codes and systems, and making use of the newest tools of literary criticism she characterizes the features of the content, structural and compositional, genre models of writers" letters, reveals the peculiarities and various aspects of synthesizing as the basis of the modification of the epistolary genre, substantiates the problems and poetic style of the Ukrainian writers' epistolary genre.