Genre Affiliation Research Articles

Meta-genre formations in the poetry of Valery Bryusov

The subject of the article is the peculiarities in the formation of genre trends in the work of Valery Bryusov. Author pays attention to Bryusov's appeal to supercycles-catalogs, which occur when the evolution or transformation of the genre is carried out in several collections. Among such genre supercycles-catalogs, the genre of the poem-"monument", or historical and mythological medallion, stands out. This genre can take different forms from Bryusov (lyrical ecphrasis, the poem -"glory", which combined various types of genres). In this context is also considered the issue of continuity and transformation of the lyrical genres of World and Russian literature in the Bryusov's work. In the proposed article, the author aims to identify the features and nature of the interaction of traditional and non-traditional genre formations in Bryusov's poetry. The author uses systematic-typological and structural-semiotic, as well as comparative-historical and cultural-historical methods and focuses on the works of M. L. Gasparov and L. G. Kikhney as a methodological base. The novelty of the research lies in the study of the genre in Bryusov's lyrics as a changeable category that undergoes changes and transformations in the poet's work. The article draws following conclusions: 1) the formation of sections of Bryusov's lyrics was carried out not only on the content side, but also on genre affiliation; 2) large-volume supercycles-catalogs created by Bryusov was almost a new phenomenon for the Russian literary tradition; 3) the poem-"monument" as a genre of the supercycle -catalog often takes different forms in Bryusov's work; 4) mythological and historical portraits reflected in the poems-"monuments" originate in sculptural images of great people; 5) poems-"glory", in turn, includes various genre types (for example, requiem and testament).

Late-Ming Book Culture and the Fujian Christian Community: a Case Study of Lixiu yijian 勵修一鑑 (A Mirror to Encourage Self-cultivation)

Abstract This study demonstrates the importance of book culture in the building of a religious community and in the preservation and interpretation of local experiences, through the making of a book titled Lixiu yijian 勵修一鑑 (A mirror to encourage self-cultivation) around 1645. The main author, Li Jiugong 李久功, mobilized members of the Fujian Christian community to collaborate on this communal book project outside the Christian church. Both xylographic print culture and manuscript culture were involved in the process and in the final product of this project. Through genre affiliation, content categorization, and the addition of commentaries, Li and his associates transformed the diverse source materials into a cohesive guidebook for their fellow Christian readers. The book provided Chinese references or contexts to stories of Western origin. Meanwhile, it also portrayed a group image of devoted and resourceful local Chinese Christians among their Western peers, thus promoting Chinese Christians’ experience as an invaluable part of a universal religious system.

Artistic Features of Chinese Network Literature on the Example of the Web Novel by Moxiang Tongxiu “The Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation” (2016)

This paper examines the artistic originality of Chinese online literature and its linguistic features on the example of the novelized cycle of the modern online novelist Moxiang Tongxiu “The Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation” (墨香铜臭《魔道祖师》, 2016). The research is interdisciplinary in nature, the focus is primarily on the structural features of poetics, the principles of artistic world modeling and interacting elements of various levels (genre, stylistic, ideological, thematic, figurative, compositional, etc.), as well as some linguistic features associated with the writer’s idiosyncrasy. The text of the work is analyzed not only in its external, formal, but also internal, substantive aspects, a systematic description of the different structural elements is given. The genre affiliation and genre varieties of the work are considered separately, the question is raised about its multi-genre specifics and the simultaneous inclusion of various genre features of such forms as a novel, a web novella, a fantastic narrative, a fairy tale, a xianxia, etc. It is argued and put forward the hypothesis that these signs and their elements rather act not as a genre, but as a local textual effect, which can be point-episodic in nature and/or become the dominant feature of a web work. The analysis of intermediate and intertextual means and features is given. The author’s constant appeal to the ecphrastic technique in writing practice in the synthetic transmission of musical imagery, as well as to the integration of resources and materials of classical Chinese literature as an intertextual means of expressiveness of artistic literature, is proved.

On the coordinate change in the Turkish literary process

Abstract: In this study, the author examines the literary landscape in Turkey given the new dimension opened by the vertical gradation of fiction. The division of literature into high literature (classic), middle-tier (Belles-lettres), and low-tier literature (for mass consumption) is becoming increasingly prominent. Belles-lettres seems to be the most mobile of those, with its representatives being able to, over time, find themselves both at the top and the bottom rung of this paradigm. Zülfü Livaneli's works straddle the line between the high literature and belles-lettres, while books by Barış Müstecaplıoğlu are a perfect example of mass literature becoming regarded as belles-lettres. Another productive approach is horizontal gradation – dividing modern Turkish literature into genres. This is especially true for mass literature, where a clear classification into genres and subgenres is pretty much a precondition for existence. The study singles out such genres of mass literature as detective novels, women's romance novels, and historical adventure novels. Speculative fiction occupies a special place in this, with its genre affiliation being a topic of major discussions. The Turkish literature of the 2000s features several principal genres of speculative fiction: sci-fi (K. Kutlu, G. Berkkan, H. Balçı) with alternative history being a part of such (G. Dayıoğlu, H. Kakınç); fantasy with its subgenres of urban fantasy (S. Yemni, S. Atasoy, G. Elikbank, F. O. Şeran, C. Yücel), "sword and sorcery" fantasy (B. Müstecaplıoğlu, A. Aras, G. Canbaba) and dark fantasy (S. Ersin, G. Öğüt), as well as the genre of dystopia (A. Şaşa). In conclusion, the author argues that analyzing literary pieces necessitates operating with both the vertical and horizontal paradigms simultaneously.

A professional blog as a special structural hypertext unit in the space of Internet communications

The purpose of the study is to identify the hypertext features of a professional blog in the space of the Internet environment. The professional type of blog is a separate unit of the Internet environment and is characterized by a hypertext structure within the framework of Internet communication. The article analyzes the main structural and content characteristics of a professional blog from the point of view of the hypertext organization of the Internet environment. The study is based on the material of the English language. The theoretical significance is determined by the fact that the data obtained make it possible to deepen knowledge about such important aspects of modern linguistics as the linguistic nature of electronic hypertext, its structural and substantive aspects. In addition, the study of hypertext features of professional English-language blogs contributes to the development of the theory of speech genres in the context of Internet communication. The practical significance of the research is reflected in the fact that its results can be used in the process of teaching general language theory, the basics of computational linguistics, sociolinguistics, pragmalinguistics, as well as in the development of elective courses on Internet communication. Using the methods of continuous sampling and description, the study analyzed the text units of 3 professional blogs of large foreign companies conducted in English. As a result, it was revealed that the professional type of blog is a hypertext unit of the Internet environment, representing a frame model with periodically updated author's posts, hypertext links, and comments. Despite the large number of works devoted to the study of hypertext, its organization and genre affiliation, there is currently no single and generally recognized typology of hypertext in the context of the professional variety of blogs, its creation is one of the priorities of modern researchers due to the rapid development of blog technologies. The scientific novelty lies in the approach that was taken to study the structural and content features of hypertext in the context of other types of blogs. In this regard, the basic principles of this approach are analyzed, the defining features of a blog are identified, taking into account its professional variety. Special attention was paid to the structure of electronic hypertext: the functional differentiation of hypertext links and ways of organizing links between hypertexts were considered.

Continuidade espiritual das ideias de Abai e Blaise Pascal (Abai “Palavras de edificação”, B. Pascal “Pensamentos”)

Abstract: The purpose of the article is to identify the similarity of Abai’s and B. Pascal’s views regarding the categorical apparatus, key ideas, and specifics of the presentation. In the course of the study of this question, the historical-philosophical approach was chosen because of the need to study the core works in the context of the world’s history of thought. Hermeneutics was chosen to be the main method, which allows the free analysis and interpretation of texts, revealing their content from the perspective of non-classical forms of rationality. The eclectic method, together with general scientific analysis, synthesis, comparison and generalization in a complex, allows drawing parallels easily between directly unrelated sources and concepts. In the article, the belonging of Abai and B. Pascal’s philosophy to cordocentrism is determined, the categories of “heart”, “reason”, “will”, “faith”, “science” and their interconnection are revealed, the scope of genre affiliation of thinkers is expanded.

Features of the parable in the structure of A.P. Chekhov’s “A Story Without a Title”

The study deals with the composition of “A Story Without a Title” by A. Chekhov in the aspect of its genre affiliation. The methodological apparatus of narratology is involved in the analysis of the text structure, which makes it possible to describe the implementation of the parable plot model in Chekhov's story. Of all Chekhov's stories, “A Story Without a Title” most consistently reproduces the genre features of the parable. The characters are referred to with common nouns, the plot is schematic, not overloaded with events and details. It is based on the antithesis of two worlds: a monastery and a city. However, behind the outwardly simple text of the story there is a system of narrative entities, where each narrator differs in point of view in terms of space, time and ideology, the events they cover. At the same time, the point of view of the author-narrator remains spatially static. The world of the city, external to the characters, is described by two diegetic narrators, so that the burden of value judgments is removed from the author. Thus, the composition structure of the text causes direct edification avoidance. At the same time, the rejection of the authoritarian narration type makes it possible to introduce into the story the theme of art, also built on the opposition of descriptions of the same world by two different characters.

Two worlds of choral dramaturgy of G. Meyerbeer’s “Robert le Diable”

Statement of the problem. Recognized as a masterpiece of romantic art, G. Meyerbeer’s five-act ”grand” opera, due to its genre specificity, demonstrates brilliant examples of the use of choral scenes, which carry an important mean and emotional load in the opera. We can talk about the presence of choral dramaturgy in the work, which vividly embodies the idea of romantic “two-worldliness” expressed in the confrontation between Good and evil, real, human, and unreal, otherworldly ones. Objectives, methods and novelty of the research. The purpose of this study is to reveal the essence of the conflict between the real and the unreal in the choral drama of G. Meyerbeer’s opera “Robert le Diable”. The systematic approach to the study of the choral layer of the opera conditioned the application of genre, intonation-dramaturgical, structural-functional, and contextual types of analysis. The genre affiliation of G. Meyerber’s opera, its connections with lyrical tragedy and romantic drama attracted the attention of researchers (Everist, 1994; Sakalo, 2017; De Van, 1996, and other), as well as the symbolic richness of the opera (Pendle, 1979; Zolotariova, 2018, etc.) associated with its legendary a medieval plot adapted to the opera stage by the best librettists of the 19th century, however, the choral component of the opera in chosen aspect has not been studied in detail. For the first time in domestic musicology, the choral scenes of G. Meyerbeer’s opera were examined with the determination of the dramatic functions of the choir and focusing attention on the embodiment of two opposite “worlds” through the peculiarities of the choral dramaturgy. Research results and conclusion. According to the results of the analysis, it was found that the “two worlds” of the choral dramaturgy of G. Meyerbeer’s opera “Robert the Devil” visualize the main conflict of the work – the opposition of the Divine and demonic principles, and the use of “nvisible” (located behind the scenes) choirs emphasizes the two dimensionality of the artistic space of the opera and allows not stop stage action in choral scenes. Choirs bear a significant dramaturgical load at each stage of the development of the opera action and convincingly embody the most important feature of the plot of the opera – multiple intersections of the real and the unreal relying on the combination of the principles of contrast, suiteness, symphonism in the unfolding of opera and choral drama. The choral component in G. Meyerbeer’s opera “Robert the Devil” is represented in almost all its functional diversity and richness of gradations, from effectiveness to contemplation, and is an active carrier of the ideological and plot content of the opera.

In their language it was called “night operation”: the reflection on language in the memories of N. Mandelshtam

The memoirs of N. Mandelstam are well known to a wide range of readers, but the attention of researchers to these texts is often due to the interest directed at the personality and work of O. Mandelstam. Literary critics actively use “Memoirs”, “The Second Book”, and “About Akhmatova”, but linguistic studies practically do not touch on her extensive memoirs. The article considers aspects of the author’s reflection on the language in the memoirs of N. Mandelstam. Particular attention is paid to the explication and analysis of the key oppositions “we – they”, “ours – theirs”, implemented by various linguistic means, as well as the reflexive activity of the memoirist, which is addressed, among other things, to the characteristic features of the language of different social groups. The genre affiliation of the analyzed material allows us to touch upon the problem of self-identification and self-presentation, which are ambiguously manifested in the text due to the addressing specifics of N. Mandelstam’s ego-document. The article also analyzes a number of characteristic features inherent in the so-called “female” writing.

FEATURES OF MARYNA HRYMYCH’S NOVEL “KLAVKA”

The paper examines literary features of Maryna Hrymych’s novel “Klavka” (2019). The variety of methods used in the work is interesting for literary analysis. These are the use of the historical background with a detailed description of the realities of the time; introduction of the writers’ personalities as characters; continuation of the urbanistic “Kyiv” theme using contemporary toponyms; urban folklore; a hero multi-narrator; quoting the poetry of that time in order to create a flavor of the writer’s life, etc.
 Hrymych uses the literary form of the novel to show the acts of harassment of writers in the era of Stalinism. The plenum of the Union of Writers of Ukraine, organized in 1947, aimed to criticize prominent Ukrainian writers of that time: Maksym Rylskyi, Yurii Yanovskyi, Ivan Senchenko, and others. This action had a tactical goal but strategically, Ukrainian literature was doomed to complete assimilation and “denationalization” along with the physical destruction of the writers. The documents confirming this process have not been made public yet, so Hrymych presents them in the form of quotes or transcripts made by the main character, the secretary of the Union of Writers.
 The novel has the passages of scholarly content, which play an important role. The writer presents an analysis of literary works of the cult of Stalin era. Being unable to accept these works, modern readers tend to completely reject them. Maryna Hrymych provides a way to perceive these writings by acknowledging that the authors wrote them on state orders, but they tried to do it masterfully by using various literary techniques and presenting their individual style.
 The genre affiliation of the novel is ambiguous. “Klavka” can be perceived both as a historical novel, as a “novel about a profession” (a parody of similar works of that time), as an urban novel, and a documentary prose. A variety of techniques and methods used in the novel allows talking about “Klavka” as a postmodern work.

Tale of Verlioka in Speech Culture of Belozerye and in Repertoire of Language Personality

The article is devoted to the study of the speech culture of the European North of Russia. Records of the tale of Verlioka, made in Belozerye, from the words of one informant twenty years apart, are being investigated. The conditions of existence of fairy tales, genre affiliation, plot organization, compositional structure, language specifics are considered. The conditions of fairy tales existence, genre affiliation, plot organization, compositional structure, language specifics are considered. It is shown that this character, who is marginal and has very blurred characteristics in the East Slavic territory (O. A. Cherepanova), is the antagonist of the main character, differs in the abnormality / monostructure of the body structure (the presence of only one eye) and cannibalism. It is noted that with all the textual discrepancies, the plot is built around the destruction and its elimination with the help of the main character’s magic helpers (rope / belt, acorn, wand), which in a collision with the antagonist show their miraculous properties. The author concludes that the linguistic features of the fairy tale records are determined by the territorial specificity of the storyteller’s speech and his desire to entertain the interlocutors (in the first version of the record) or to reflect the memories of his family and his native village as fully as possible (in the second version).

INDIVIDUAL STYLE IN TRANSLATION (BASED ON T. CHIANG’S SHORT NOVEL STORY OF YOUR LIFE)

The article examines the main features of the individual style of the American science fiction writer Ted Chiang and the peculiarities of their translation into Russian language.
 The relevance is related to the fact that the individual style of the writer has not yet become a subject of study, despite popularity of his works. The problem of author’s style in translation is critical as there is no unanimity on criteria to define style-forming elements of author’s style.
 The purpose of the study is to identify the main features of the author’s individual style and their forming factors, as well as the ways to translate them into Russian. For this we analyze the genre affiliation of the work, writer’s sphere of interest, ideological and thematic components, characters’ images and stylistic means, the type of narration, as well as the translation in terms of preserving or transforming these features.
 The material: T. Chiang’s sort novel Story of Your Life (2002).
 Results of the study: by textual comparison we define T. Chiang’s style elements and show that some of them are extralinguistic, also we describe their translation strategies.

Lexical innovations of Moses Gumilyevsky in his Areopagitica translation of the 18<sup>th</sup> century

The article analyzes some lexical units (nouns) from the first Russian translation of Areopagitica, made in the 18th century by hieromonk Moses Gumilyovsky, which is of great interest from the point of view of the Russian literary language history of that period. These units are not recorded in lexicographic sources, but most of them are formed according to regular word-formation models of the Russian language. Some of them are structural calques or semi-calques of Greek equivalents. It is noteworthy that even when making a calque, Gumilyevsky tended to create a semantic translation. The purpose of the work is the lexical and word-formation analysis of such word usage. To achieve it, we classified the studied units in accordance with their representations in historical lexicographic sources. As a result of the fulfilled research, we have found that Gumilyevsky's new words are primarily nomina abstracta with the meaning of quality, less often of action (or its result) in accordance with the textual and genre affiliation of the treatise translated by him and its content features. Even within the framework of a small volume of the analyzed vocabulary, we have traced the main trends of Gumilyevsk’s translation as a whole: the translation of substantiates by suffix formations, the preference for names with the meaning of abstract quality and the semantically oriented transmission of the original text.

Редкие лексические единицы со значением лица в памятниках Казанского края XVI-XVII вв.

The aim of the study is to define the rare names with the meaning of a person from business documents of the Kazan region of the 16th-17th centuries based on word-formation and contextual analysis. The scientific novelty of the study lies in the selection of lexical units that are not recorded in the historical lexicography of the Russian language. An analysis of the words chosen on the basis of this principle shows that a significant part of them are word-forming synonyms for lexical units fixed by historical dictionaries of the Russian language, some examples represent the phenomenon of word-forming homonymy. A number of names have a later fixation in historical lexicography, some names are dialectal in nature, and there was also one borrowing. In defining the semantics of these lexical units, in rare cases, the narrow context of their use in records matters. As a result, the significance of the genre affiliation of records for the lexical and derivational characteristics of the studied lexical units, as well as the importance of the regularity of word-formation models that were productive in that period, for defining their meaning was proved. The article introduces a number of new designations of a person into lexicographic circulation.

Polish Radio Art: The Case of Eugeninsz Rudnik and the Polish Radio Experimental Studio, 1959–2002

The article presents selected works by Eugeniusz Rudnik in comparison to other creators of the Polish Radio Experimental Studio (PRES). The research material consists of selected broadcasts by Rudnik and other PRES creators from the years 1959-2002, as well as cultural and publicistic pieces preserved in the Archives of the Polish Radio in Warsaw, obtained or listened to during the conducted archival queries. In a chronological arrangement, I present verbal-sound works in the context of socio-historical events, genre affiliation and applied forms of expression. It is an introduction to a broader project contextualizing Polish radio art internationally. Part of the broadcasts I have cited has never been the subject of radio research before. The aim of the articles is to characterize the works created in PRES, as well as to outline the genre affiliation of the 55 works cited.

ГАЗЕТА «НОВИЙ ЧАС» (1923–1939 рр.) ПРО ТЕАТРАЛЬНЕ ЖИТТЯ ГАЛИЧИНИ

The article examines the peculiarity of the coverage of theatrical life in Galicia in the «Novyi Chas» newspaper (Lviv, 1923–1939). The subject of the materials offered to readers is analyzed, and determines their genre affiliation, among which, in particular, with articles and reviews prevailing among them. Newspaper publications dedicated to the activities of theaters and organizations involved in the development of theatrical art in Galicia during the 1920s and 1930s are considered. These included: the «Ukrainskyi Teatr» cooperative (Lviv) and the «Prosvitianskyi Teatr» society (Sokal). The articles are mentioned, particularly those that raised topical issues of the theater sphere at the time, such as the lack of a repertoire that would contribute to the national development of society and limited funding. The circle of authors of «Novyi Chas» are outlined, wich consisted of publicists, theater critics, and cultural figures who have made a significant contribution to the development of Ukrainian theater and actively popularized it among the public, particularly A. Budzynovskyi, P. Lysiak, S. Chernetskyi. Keywords: Theater subjects, performance, the audience, «Novyi Chas» newspaper, «Ruska Besida» society, article, review.

Features of Dystopia in P. Christen and S. Verdier’s Graphic Novel Orwell

This article analyses the graphic novel Orwell (2019) by French authors Pierre Christin and Sebastian Verdier from the point of view of its genre affiliation, i.e. a dystopia. The author aims to reveal the dystopian characteristics of the texts of this genre in the twentieth century and their transformation in the texts of the early twenty-first century. The author of the article presents an analysis of the graphic novel which examines the history, life, and conditionality of the life position of the writer George Orwell in relation to the reality of his most famous novel, 1984 (1948). In accordance with the aim, the author uses the analysis and synthesis of theoretical information regarding dystopia as a genre, as well as structural-typological and comparative methods as research methods. As a result of the analysis, the author reveals the following characteristics of dystopia in the biographical graphic novel about the life of the English writer: the image of the anti-humanistic society which Orwell lived in, his loneliness and detachment as a confrontation with the imperfect surrounding world filled with fear and despair, the writer’s fight with a totalitarian world order, and the opposition of violence and love. A distinctive characteristic of the graphic novel was the combination of Orwell’s image with the images of rebels from his dystopias which allowed the authors, P. Christen and S. Verdier, to present the English writer as a person struggling with an unacceptable world order with the help of literature. The authors of the early twenty-first century consider Orwell a prophetic figure and bring the writer to the foreground of their graphic novel, thus emphasising the continuity of his views in modern literature which also often shows dystopian features that characterise the instability of the present which we exist in.

Исследование якутского кинодискурса через анализ кинорецензий

The current research is focused on investigation of the Yakut cinematic discourse through the analysis of film reviews as secondary texts. The aim of the present study is to specify the main themes of the Yakut cinematic discourse and emotions that are transmitted by the films and reflected in reviews. The material of analysis includes 72 reviews for five Yakut films released between 2016 and 2020. The choice of the films is determined by such factors as time of release, genre affiliation, popularity, number of available reviews. The reviews are written by both critics and common viewers. The research is based on the content and sentiment analysis of the material carried out by means of computer programs. The results of the research show that the main themes of the Yakut cinematic discourse are everyday life of the Yakut people, nature of the republic, non-urban community, social issues, family relations, fate. The Yakut cinematic discourse depicts gloomy life full of hardships and unfairness in harsh climatic conditions. The sentiment of the film reviews as well as the cinematic discourse is predominantly negative. The findings of the current study suggest the possibility of exploration of specific cinematic discourse through secondary texts and discourse in order to discover its particular features. Film review is able to interpret and comprehensively represent cinematic discourse.

The Folktale Narrator at the Turn of the 20th – 21st Century: the Case of Antanina Čaplikienė from Subartonys

In the course of the fieldwork in 2000, researchers from the Institute of Lithuanian Literature and Folklore encountered a villager from Subartonys (Varėna district) Antanina Glaniauskaitė-Čaplikienė (1922–2016). In the course of five subsequent years, they recorded from her 140 folk narratives altogether (including 69 folktales, 9 folk-belief legends, 3 place legends, 6 dream narratives, 40 biographical narratives, and several anecdotes). The major part of the Čaplikienė’s repertoire consisted of folktales that were rather well known in the Lithuanian culture, including a number of narratives typical for the Dzūkija region. The author is curious about the ways that Čaplikienė managed to preserve such a vivid folkloric memory. In order to elucidate this, she uses the branch of the contextual research on storytelling developed by the Hungarian folklorist Linda Dégh – namely, the folktale biology (Märchenbiology). The study focuses on these aspects: 1) in view of the Dzūkija folklore tradition in general and the Čaplikienė’s life in particular that shaped her as a storyteller, the woman’s narrative repertoire is discussed, including the number and genre affiliation of her stories, and their place in the Lithuanian folk narrative tradition; 2) Čaplikienė’s memories regarding the folktale narration in the past are analyzed, including the sources that she had learnt her pieces from, and her mode of communication with the folklorists that recorded her tales. The aim of the article is to highlight the uniqueness of this storyteller at the turn of the 20th – 21st centuries and in the context of the folk narrative tradition of Dzūkija.

Українська кулінарна книга Галичини міжвоєнного двадцятиріччя: видання і постаті

Not only scientific, but also public interest is caused by the cookbook of the interwar twenty years with the statement of its experience of food practices and gastronomic culture of that time which till now remained on the margins of bibliographic studies. Meanwhile, it continued the best traditions of Ukrainian culinary book publishing in the early twentieth century (published by Emilia Levytska and Leontyna Luchakivska). The emergence of numerous Western Ukrainian culinary publications during the 1920s and 1930s demonstrated a tendency to strengthen and popularize Ukrainian culinary discourse with its national traditions in their organic combination with the best examples of European cuisine, highlighting food culture with an emphasis on healthy and balanced nutrition. All this became possible due to the intensification of the process of forming the national identity of Ukrainians, increasing interest in the native language, culture, as well as modernizing the structure of all public and private life. The analyzed array of book editions is 25 titles, of which — 18 units of cookbooks and 7 editions of the auxiliary segment (technological food direction). Books on purely culinary topics are classified into encyclopedias, textbooks, cookbooks and manuals in terms of their genre affiliation. Geographically, only Lviv (9 editions) and Kolomyia (8 editions) are represented as the main publishing centers of Galicia. The authors of a number of books were extraordinary figures of their time: writers, politicians, publishers, journalists, teachers, representatives of famous Galician families (O. Kysilevska, O. Zaklynska, O. Franko, O. Lishchynska), who left a noticeable mark in the history of Ukrainian culture. Other personalities were less fortunate, they left their descendants only their culinary world, and their names and destinies due to lack of documentary evidence are unknown not only to the general public but also to researchers of the subject (M. Horbacheva, M. Velychkovska, P. Slyuzarivna, H. Onyshkevych). The Ukrainian cookbook of Galicia of the interwar twenty years is interesting not only for its selection of recipes and translation of culinary experience in our time; as one of the nation-building elements, it shows an interesting perspective for the conceptual understanding of the historical past. Everyday things, such as food, reveal not only the past (Ukrainian culinary traditions), but also the fact that in our culture it is worth respecting, returning or renewing. Keywords: cookbook, Galicia, interwar twenty years, gastronomic culture, Ukrainian.