THE DETECTIVE IN THE ARCHITECTURE OF THE UKRAINIAN LITERARY PROCESS (BASED ON THE MATERIAL OF THE WORK OF Y. SHOVKOPLYAS "SHOT ON THE STAIRS")

Abstract

Purpose. The article is devoted to a detailed analysis of the work of Yurii Shovkoplyas through the prism of detective poetics. The author singles out and systematizes a complex of elements of the detective paradigm in world and national literary processes; partially carries out a comparative analysis of the detective and gothic genres; examines the definition of a detective and its features; traces the stages of detective formation; classifies the peculiarities of Ukrainian detective prose based on the material of the relevant texts; explains the reasons for the "massiveness" of the detective genre; traces the transformation of individual artistic details of the world invariant of detective poetics on Ukrainian soil based on the material of Y. Shovkoplyas's work "Shot on the Stairs".

The purpose of the article is to highlight the features of the detective genre and their transformation in the works of Ukrainian writers of the 20s of the 20th century, in particular on the material of the text "Shot on the Stairs" by Y. Shovkoplyas.

Research methodology. The article uses a number of methods that make it possible to highlight the problems raised, in particular, the use of the typological method made it possible to systematize the relevant features of detective poetics in the analyzed work; archetypal - to investigate the functional load of archetypal images; psychoanalytical – to explain the thanatological elements of the image-plot level in the Ukrainian detective story; structuralist - to consider the detective genre system as a complete structure, where each element determines the specifics of this structure; intertextual - trace the use of numerous allusions to relevant biblical motifs.

Results. The article examines the functioning of the features of detective poetics based on the material of Y. Shovkoplyas's work "Shot on the Stairs", and also reveals a number of non-verbal "detective coordinates" that express the causal relationship of the composition of the crime and visually represent its visual and conceptual expressiveness; it was established that the detective genre latently contaminates the image of the criminal with the Shadow and the Persona as dominant archetypes, and the image of the House appears as a native, sacred, mastered space, which harmonizes the individual-author modifications of the specified archetype and stereotypical representations at the level of plot-compositional organization of the text.

Scientific novelty. In the article, for the first time, a comprehensive analysis of the work of Yuriy Shovkoplyas "Shot on the Stairs" is performed through the prism of detective poetics, and a theoretical generalization of the attributes of the detective genre in Ukrainian literature is also schematically carried out.

Practical significance. The article can be used in the process of studying the detective story as a genre, researching the evolution of its poetics in different periods, as well as for a comprehensive analysis of the detective story as an artistic phenomenon. Scientific research results can be used by students in writing course and qualification papers.