The present dissertation is devoted to complex study of the Ukrainian drama of the 1920–1930s in the aspect of folklorism, the author clarifies the specifics of the functioning of the elements of poetics borrowed from the arsenal of folk genres (tales, legends, dumas, historical songs, folk drama) in the author's dramatic texts. A holistic and comprehensive analysis of the problem of folklorism was carried out on the basis of theoretical and methodological principles of textual analysis based on the investigations of I. Denisyuk, N. Kuzyakina, M. Laslo-Kutsyuk, K. Levy-Strauss, Y. Lotman, S. Rosovetsky, M. Yatsenko and others.
The presence (appearing or latent) of the folklore-mythological component as an archetypal common cultural factor in author's texts at various levels (structural, narrative, motivic, figurative) is substantiated in the dissertation. The author highlighted the specifics of the interaction of the mythological, folk and spiritual traditions in diachronic and synchronic perspective, since the introduction of folklore plot-shaped material into the literary context (the process of folklorism) depends on the internal laws of literature and the features of the historical and cultural process.
It was found out that folklorism of author's texts, whose folklore-mythological sources do not lie on the surface, is realized on the associative or typological level (poetological forms, means, situations (regardless of the concrete work of verbal literature), works of artists comparable to folk sources in comparative and typological point of view). The method of morphological analysis of the magic fairy tale created by V. Propp was involved to interpret the archetypal fairy-tale items found in the plot and composition structure of the author's works. The features of the influence of folklore on the development of aesthetics and poetics of Ukrainian drama of the 1920–1930s were comprehended by the author. It was proved that the morphological model of a fairy tale performs a structural (sometimes plot-creation) role in the system of poetics of works by I. Dnieprovsky, E. Karpenko, I. Kocherga, O. Korniychuk, M. Kulish, Yu. Lypy, Ya. Mamontov, I. Mykytenko, Y. Pluzhnik. The plays of these authors (talents of various scales, worldview, philosophical and artistic orientations) have similar motives, images and structural components.
