ПУБЛІЦИСТИЧНІ ВИСТУПИ ЮРІЯ КОСАЧА ПРО ЄВРОПЕЙСЬКИЙ ТЕАТР НА СТОРІНКАХ ЕМІГРАЦІЙНОЇ ПЕРІОДИКИ

Abstract

The purpose of the scientific study is a comprehensive analysis of theatrical concept of Yuriy Kosach through the prism of his culturological journalism, which was published in the pages of emigration journals. The study emphasizes that Yuriy Kosach's theatrical publications are a logical continuation of the theatrical critique of the Drahomanov-Kosach family, which formed the spiritual tastes of Ukrainians and generated their socio-political guidelines in light of development of the latest social sentiments in Europe and the world. The article highlights one of the facets of Yuri Kosach's journalistic activity: an attentive literary critic of world drama. Yuri Kosach's journalistic speeches on the peculiarities of the development of European theater, the specifics of the development of a new modern drama, published in the pages of emigration periodicals, are studied. The research focuses on the individual manner of Kosach-critic: the organic combination of scientific analysis and journalistic pathos in the study of significant dramatic phenomena of foreign literature, encyclopedic erudition, the accuracy of theoretical definitions. It is emphasized that the organic combination of journalistic talent and original creative practice in the field of drama made it possible to immerse deeply into the creative laboratory of foreign playwrights, to highlight the best that could contribute to the renewal of the Ukrainian theater. Some components of the theatrical concept of the publicist are clarified; elements of Yuriy Kosach's innovative approaches in covering an important worldview problem are highlighted. The article focuses on the publicist's theoretical reflections on the leading style in European drama of the postwar period and the secrets of the creative laboratory of the leading creators of modern drama in Western Europe in the second half of the twentieth century. The author of the article notes that the literary journalism of Yuri Kosach on the development of world drama is a reflection of his worldview, explains the heterogeneity of its ideological accents. Emphasis is placed on the relevance of the ideological sound of Kosach's journalism for the development of modern literary journalism.