Abstract
The article analyzes the genre features of the memorial essays as a separate type of essay. Emphasis is placed on the specifics of this work in comparison with the obituary and portrait essays while high lighting its place and role in modern writing. Some in memoria essays in the works of V. Danylenko, dedicated to N. Zborovska and Y. Gudz, have been specially studied. The role and specificity of a number of motives in these works, originality of titles, figurative characteristics, functions of details, polydiscursivity, etc. are emphasized. Conclusions are made about the inmemoria essayas a separate discursive practice, which arose as a result of a combination of several genres and discourses, endowed with special opportunities to create the image of the deceased and the image of the author at the same time.
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