Suprun V. Axiological sphere of concepts of women's prose of the Ukrainian Diaspora of the middle of the 20th century.

The dissertation is the first systematic analytical and synthetic study of women's prose in the Ukrainian Diaspora of the mid-twentieth century, carried out taking into consideration axiological, gender identical, mentally spiritual, socio-historical and migratory-dispersed determinants. Based on the scientific interpretation of the corpus of works of feminine epics, the female picture of the world with mental values typical to it is reconstructed. The work substantiates the evolution of the women's issue, the result of which is the gradual solution of women's access to cultural and artistic practices, including literary ones. It is the art of words that becomes a way to actualize the internal reserves of the female microcosm with a specifically «different» view of established stereotypes. In the theoretical aspect of the research, the understanding of the notion of «artistic concept» is offered and its implementation in the hierarchical system of value dominants of women's prose in the middle of the last century, where the division occurs on a gradation scale into universal, social and personal concepts. The specifics of the figurative implementation of value concepts, their beneficial meaning, poetic, idiosyncratic, ethical and aesthetic functionality are clarified. An attempt is made to understand the literary texts of the authors through the prism of axiological concepts, which made it possible to show both national and socio-cultural, as well as gender features of female authorship, because the feminine prose of the domestic Diaspora has incorporated both the traditions of Ukrainian classical literature and specifically female aspects of psychological writing. Therefore, each concept is a kind of encoded matrix for a detailed reading of the implicit world of female nature, where the categories of love, family, motherhood, faith and fatherland occupy priority positions.