Abstract
The need to talk about the generation related self-identity of those writers who lived at the change of the century became more acute, because “fin de siècle” is the period of modernization of literature. The objective of the research is both historic-literary and purely theoretical. If in the first area we have to find out the individual identity of Lesia Ukrainka with a certain literary generation, and in the second area one should answer the question of whether the self-identification of the writeress with a certain literary generation can become the cornerstone for writing the history of literature. The process of working with the contents of letters was carried out with the help of systematic interpretation and hermeneutic reading. The main result of the research is the possibility to state that Lesia Ukrainka respected the experience of the representatives of the previous generation, but she desired to be appreciated by critics as part of the present generation gives reason to think that the writeress still identified herself as the representative of modernism.
Highlights
David Perkins asserted that “we write literary history because we want to explain, understand, and enjoy literary works” (1992, p. 178)
If in the first area we have to find out the individual identity of Lesia Ukrainka with certain literary generation, and in the second area one should give an answer to the question of whether the self-identification of the writer with certain literary generation can become the cornerstone for writing the history of literature
Lesia Ukrainka critically assessed the works of writers who worked at that time: “The trouble of our Ukrainian writers is that they write more than they read, and if they read, only their works, I do not want to follow their example” (2016, p. 325)
Summary
David Perkins asserted that “we write literary history because we want to explain, understand, and enjoy literary works” (1992, p. 178). David Perkins asserted that “we write literary history because we want to explain, understand, and enjoy literary works” Those histories of Ukrainian literature that have. Потреба говорити про поколіннєву самоідентичність письменників, які жили на межі століть загострюється, оскільки “fin de siècle” – це період модернізації літератури. Мета дослідження є водночас істориколітературною і суто теоретичною. У першій сфері ми повинні з'ясувати особисте ідентифікування Лесі Українки з певним літературним поколінням, у другій – відповісти на питання, чи може самоідентифікація письменниці з певним літературним поколінням стати наріжним каменем для написання історії літератури. Основним результатом дослідження є можливість стверджувати, що Леся Українка поважала досвід представників попереднього покоління, однак прагнула бути оціненою критиками як частиною нинішнього покоління, що дає підстави вважати: письменниця все ж ідентифікувала себе як представниця модернізму
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