Vinnikova N. Ukrainian Literary Parody: Origin, Mainstreaming, Poetics.

For the first time in the Ukrainian Literary Studies, the dissertation offers a complex approach to the process of originating, development, structural and semantic transformations of parody genre based on a broad range of the Ukrainian literary texts of the 16 – early 21 centuries. A study of genre evolution and literary reception of parody in the Ukrainian literature revealed continuous nature of its formation and development. Though its history extends back over 400 years, the genre was formed in its classic form only at the beginning of the 20 century. Before that, the method of parodying, important throughout the history of literature, had been popular. Classification of the Ukrainian literary parody, based on two criteria – directionality to the object of parody and key functions of parody, – was offered.