COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS METHODS IN MODERN POLISH AND UKRAINIAN DRAMAS

Abstract

The article states that comparison of a certain range of Ukrainian and Polish dramas, for example, about the power of land in the second half of the 19th — beginning of the 20th centuries, requires a systematic presentation of methods of comparative analysis. The subject is studied differently in Slavic and Western European literary studies, and involves the problem of defining genre, genre canon, text poetics. This creates the need to present the principles of receptive aesthetics, post-structuralism, genealogy, interdisciplinary studies, and semiotics. Modern principles of comparativism mentioned above are described in the framework of contact-genealogical and typological methods, which emphasizes the commonality of drama topics not only from the perspective of artistic connections in the borderlands, but also due to typological coincidences in the world literary process. Thus, thanks to modern horizons of comparative studies, for example, the subject of earth is analyzed not only within the poetics of the text, but is interpreted as a multilevel figurative-mental (cognitive) structure with layers of literary, national, meta-artistic meanings.Having looked at a number of theoretical-methodological and historical-literary works of comparative or descriptive character, some theoretical and methodological foundations, which are used in comparative study of the mutual influence of the thematic complex and genre nature in modern Polish and Ukrainian drama, are characterized and generalized. The conclusion emphasizes the importance of using techniques and principles of formal analysis method, structural-semiotic, hermeneutic, phenomenological, genological, cultural-anthropological, intertextual, interdisciplinary methods, method of receptive aesthetics when comparing thematic aspects of literary aspects. These approaches are predominantly involved in the historical and typological direction, but some aspects, such as thematology, influence, archetype theory have been considered from the perspective of contact-genetic artistic relations.