Національна своєрідність потрактування образу землі в українських народних думах та творчості Василя Стефаника: психологічний аспект

Abstract

The article studies the original psychologism in the interpretation of the land image in Ukrainian folk dumas and short stories by Vasyl Stefanyk, who was a representatives of the “Pokutia triad” (Vasyl Stefanyk, Les Martovych, Marko Cheremshyna). Using the comparative method, the semantic-cognitive and the concept-analysis, the authors determine the national peculiarities of worldview of the heroes, the role of the author's principle, the transformation of linguistic signs of nationally marked lexes, expressing the worldview of ethnocultural groups of Galicia, Pokuttya and Steppe Ukraine in their dialectical unity. The article emphasizes that the symbolism of the land in Ukrainian folk dumas and short stories by Stefanyk is expressed in the paradigm of the concepts “land - breadwinner”, “land - family”, “land - will”, “land - glory”, “land - life”. It is noted that for the Galician peasants the land was of the greatest value and holiness, which is most often expressed in the image of “land - breadwinner”, while for the heroes of Ukrainian folk dumas, the land is a symbol of freedom. The focus on the originality of the poetic means, which reveal the national characteristics of the heroes. Such a comparative research has been conducted for the first time to be further expanded in future in the folklore and literary studies.