Danilenko I. The Genre Modifications of the Canon of the Prayer in Lyrics XVII - XX centuries.

The thesis is dedicated to the study of bright, but little studied literary phenomenon of the poetical prayer - a metagenre (syncretic genre), which is analysed mainly on the material of the Ukrainian poetry. In the work for the first time the genealogic specifics of the cross-cultural metagenre is marked, its origin and the classification of the basic genre models is offered, which reflects main principles and adaptation ways of the ritual prayer genre canon in secular poetry. In correlation with stylistic searches and outlook dominants dynamics of the poets of particular period in synchronics and diachronics was studied and systematically showed semantic-structural and functional particularities of poetical prayer genre modifications. Typologic and relatively-historical research methodology allowed finding poetical prayer of Ukrainian models evolution and their national specification on the background of Russian and Western European similar material. As a result of a complex analysis of the prayer modification structure combined with axiological author intentionality research was proposed some corrections and interpretations of particular text idea-aesthetic contexts, especially those that inspired the most continuous debates in literature study.