ПОЛЬСЬКА УКРАЇНІКА ВІД ДАВНИНИ ДО СУЧАСНОСТІ В ЛІТЕРАТУРНО-КРИТИЧНИХ ОГЛЯДАХ АНТІНА СЕРЕДНИЦЬКОГО

Abstract

The proposed article states that along with numerous Ukrainian and Polish researchers of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the contribu- tion made by the well-known Polish literary critic and Ukrainianist Antoni Serednicki to the study of cultural, historical and literary relations and mutual influences of the two neighboring nations was perhaps the most significant in a number of scientific works of philologists. The purpose of the study is to provide a generalized overview of the scientific and, in particular, literary heritage of Antoni Serednicki, considered from the perspective of emphasizing the imagological aspects in the study of literary Ukrainian studies. The tasks that detail the stated goal are: 1) to define the role and place of A. Serednicki in the context of Polish-Ukrainian literary relations; 2) to analyze the stages of formation and development of Polish-Ukrainian literary relations and mutual influences during the period of the fifteenth – twentieth centuries emphasized in the scholar’s literary studies; 3) to outline the main thematic vectors of imagological receptions in Polish Ukrainist and Ukrainian Polonist literature reflected in A. Serednicki’s scientific works. As a result of the study, it has been established that A. Serednicki traces the history of Polish-Ukrainian literary relations in a wide chronological range of the fifteenth to twentieth centuries. The subject of Polish-Ukrainian literary relations in the scholar’s scientific heritage is the subject of many biographical, encyclopedic, generalized and review articles, as well as articles that examine and analyze the personal contribution of certain Polish or Ukrainian writers and scholars to the development of cultural relations between the two neighboring nations. Among A. Serednicki’s research priorities are the Cossack-Haidamak theme reflected in his articles, the works of representatives of the «Ukrainian school» of Polish literature, and literary and critical receptions of the best achievements of Ukrainian literature by Polish writers and scholars of philology.