Poetics of Marko Cheremshyna

Abstract

The article is dedicated to the 150th anniversary of Marko Cheremshyna, a celebrated writer of the classic Ukrainian literature. Its relevance stems from the need for a new interpretation of the writer's works relying on new methodological approaches, in particular by means of determining peculiarities of his works’ poetics. Singling out peculiar features of his artistic thinking one can study the writer’s poetics of image and character creation in the framework of his short stories and novellas; this knowledge also contributes to the study of the author’s interpretation of the genre-style features inherent in the Ukrainian national literary process of the late XIXth and early XXth centuries. The fact that the author of the paper relies on modern theoretical and historical literary sources along with the recently found archival materials to substantiate his research, and therefore, shows poetics of Marko Cheremshyna as a system of literary means and and stylistic devices that have been present in both the writer’s internal and external structures of his prose works is leading us to the notion of this paper’s novelty.  It is important to emphasize that the researcher focuses on the original author's ideological and aesthetic perception of the word, his original style of storytelling. Research methodology includes the use of the cultural-historical and hermeneutical methods as well as comparative-typological principles in the analysis of the style of short stories, novellas and prose poetry of Marko Cheremshyna. The results of the scientific study prove the existing connection between the artistic thinking and poetics of Marko Cheremshyna as an organic aesthetic phenomenon in Ukrainian literature of the late XIXth and early XXth centuries. The practical value of the article comes from the fact that its results provide ground for the further research and study of the literary works of one of the brightest representatives of the "Pokutta Trinity", they also contribute to the analysis of the development of the literary process on the verge of centuries, and reveal peculiarities of the artistic thinking and poetics of Marko Cheremshya.