GENRE-STYLE PARADIGM OF THE MODERN UKRAINIAN MYSTICAL STORY OF THE 21ST CENTURY

Abstract

The article presents an overview of the peculiarities of the modern Ukrainian mystical story as a literary genre. It also analyzes the problem of a clear definition of the term "mystical story", since there is no differentiation of this genre in modern literature, which would allow us to talk about its differences from other types of stories. The specifics of the interpretation of the mysticism in philosophical, religious and literary contexts are studied on the basis of the works of Ukrainian and foreign scientists. The genre attribution of the mystical story is outlined in comparison with the above mentioned genre categories (magical realism and whimsical prose). The article emphasizes the fact that the varieties of the short story as a genre of short prose have practically not been studied in the field of literature: for the most part, short stories have been considered only in comparison with other prose genres, while there are almost no attempts to classify the varieties of short stories. The paradigm of traditional images, characteristic of the Ukrainian mystical tradition and folklore (Blud, chort, domovyk) is considered. Stories from the collection "Ukrainian mysticism" are compared in order to analyze the categories of "mystical" and supernatural images embedded in them, attention is drawn to the peculiarities of the interpretation of elements characteristic of Ukrainian oral folk art. Subtypes of other genres present in mystical stories, such as detective and horror, are also distinguished, and the leading motives of such stories are determined (the motive of transformation, the motive of entering the other world, the religious motive, the motive of contrasting the ordinary and the other worlds). In addition, the paper presents the author's classification of mystical stories by genre and thematic characteristics.