Rarytskyi O. Non-Fiction Prose by the Ukrainian Writers of the 1960s: Genre Specificity and Poetics.

The dissertation deals with the system-analytical study of the meta-genre of non-fictional prose by the Ukrainian writers of the 1960s as a segment of the entire literary process in the second half of the XX –the beginning of the XXI century. The attention is focused of the genesis, geneological typology and modification tendencies, original poetics of the non-fictional literature. The following genre varieties are analyzed: epistolary, memoirs, diaries, notes, autobiographies, obituaries –which are characterized by the common features, namely: emphatic personal origin, historism, conceptuality, retrospection, factography, chronotropism. The artistic and aesthetic criteria of creating the non-fictional prose by the Ukrainian writers of the 1960s, foundation so fperceptionandinter pretationare systematized and generalized, as a well as its stylistic and genre modifications are accentuated.