Kulakevych L. Genre strategies of ukrainian adventure prose of the first third of the 20th century.

This dissertation demonstrates one of the first attempts for systematic and analytical analysis of Ukrainian adventure prose of the first third of the XX century as the unique part of the literary process of the given time period. Some of the works included into the analysis were never previously studied, the others were excluded from the literary circulation for a long time due to the ideological reasons and now were «re-read» and this way the gap in the understanding of the genre diversity of Ukrainian adventure prose of the first third of the twentieth century was filled. The national features of Ukrainian adventure prose were distinguished in the research. Special attention was allocated to defining and clarifying the specifics of such adventure genres as a frontier novel, eastern, robinsonade, travelogue, printed series, detective series, spy novel, novel-quest, noir, and gothic novel, horror, chronicle fiction. It is established that in the first third of the 20th century while operating in a pan-European context, Ukrainian adventure literature adopted a few new genres (frontier novel, eastern, robinsonade, travelogue, action, thriller, printed series, detective series, spy novel, novel-quest, Gothic novel, horror, chronicle novel), plots and images, themes and motifs that could not be developed in previous centuries due to being under the imperial colonial pressure.