Lehkyi M. Ivan Franko's prose: poetics, aesthetics, reception in criticism.

The monograph comprehends the trajectory of the development of Ivan Franko’s prose – from the first, student attempts and romantic-Gothic novel to the latest, mostly modernist works of the early twentieth century. The proposed work from modern research positions comprehends the phenomenon of Franko’s prose as a holistic occurence in the history of literature, using new research methods and the latest developments in the fields of methodology and literary criticism (including studies of Ivan Franko’s activity). In the work for the first time from the standpoint of axonometry the prose achievement of the writer is investigated. The axonometric approach to the analysis of prose heritage makes it possible to identify the prospects and potential opportunities that a particular work opens for the writing of subsequent works. Franko’s prose is studied mostly in a linear; attention is paid to the valence possibilities of one work in relation to another in terms of poetics, aesthetics and reception. Axonometry makes it possible to clarify the poetic features of individual works and prose collections, to reveal their ideological-aesthetic and semantic-formal potential, to identify thematic, genre, narrative, structural, semiotic, stylistic specifics. From the point of poetics, the work is considered as an open substantive eidological system, which is combined with other typologically similar phenomena by theme, problem and genre indicators. From the point of view of aesthetics, changes in the author's guidelines for modeling the art world at different stages of creation are studied. The book analyzes the reception of Franko’s prose in life criticism (until 1916 inclusive) – in reviews, literary portraits, historical and literary works, comparative studies, prefaces, bibliographic notes, letters, memoirs, announcements, diaries, censorship materials, obituaries, occasional mentions.