Chyk D. The Genre Systems of Ukrainian and English Prose of the Late XVIII – the Middle of the XIX Century: Problems of Typology and Poetics

In the thesis, the typological patterns of and differences between Ukrainian and English prose genre systems of the end of the XVIII – the middle of the XIX century are studied. The integral and comprehensive analysis of the typology and poetics problems of genre systems in the Ukrainian and English prose of the late XVIII – the middle of the XIX century has been carried out using a systemic-synergistic approach. It is traced that the works of M. Gogol, G. Kvitka-Osnovianenko, Antony Pogorelskiy, and O. Somov are typologically close to the English pre-romantic (М. G. Lewis) and romantic prose (W. H. Ireland, W. Scott). On the basis of the comparative-typological comparison of the satires of G. Kvitka-Osnovianenko and W. M. Thackeray, the proximity of authors’ positions to the popular aesthetically non-valuable works among the mass reader is observed. Another basis for typological proximity in small prose genres is the attention of writers to factual images of everyday life, especially the inhabitants of the urbanized topoi (“physiological essays” by G. Kvitka-Osnovianenko, Ye. Grebinka, and Ch. Dickens).