Pletena O. Conspiracy Novel in Ukrainian and American Literature of the early XXI century: a Genre Typology.

The thesis research is devoted to the study of the genre typology of the conspiracy novel and its modifications in the literary works of modern writers (D. Brown, V. Yeshkiliev, J. Rollins, etc.). The scientific novelty of the thesis is due to both the problem statement and the results obtained. For the first time, a comparative-typological study of the Ukrainian and American conspiracy novel as a paradigm with common, different, an variable features is carried out in the thesis. Auto metа descriptions and literary texts by J. Rollins, which have not been the subject of a special professional study yet, are first analysed in the the Ukrainian American studies; for the first time V. Yeshkiliev’s works are compared with conspiracy novels by American writers. First, the genre invariant of the conspiracy novel is substantiated; the model of the genre typology of the conspiracy formula is outlined. The genre specifics of the conspiracy novel are specified among other forms of adventure literature. It is proved that the conspiracy novel as a formula balances between mass literature and the poly-genre structure of the postmodernist novel and has specific features in multinational literature. The following paradigmatic types of conspiracy prose are conceptualized in the research: conspiracy religious-cultural novel (D. Brown); conspiracy adventure novel (J. Rollins); conspiracy mysticomythological novel, conspiracy historico-mythological novel with elements of mysticism (V. Yeshkiliev). The represented classification exists on the principle of “an open catalogue”, but the “hard core” (genre invariant) limits such works that do not have a certain number of prototype features to enter into the familyresemblance of “mixed genres”.