Literary Heroes Research Articles

The Path to Playwright: Discovering my literary hero in an unlikely place

The Path to Playwright: Discovering my literary hero in an unlikely place

BADIIY ASARDA QISSANAVIS OBRAZI

The article reflects the work of such writers as H. Dostmuhammad, N. Eshonkul, S. Siyoyev, who left a significant mark on the realistic Uzbek short story. It is also clarified that the image of the novelist lives in the spiritual world. every literary hero. When solving these problems, the names of a number of researchers are mentioned. In solving these problems, the scientific opinions of a number of researchers were addressed. In terms of literary studies, important recommendations and generalizations about the topic are presented.

Уроки литературного чтения по сказу П.П. Бажова «Серебряное копытце» (Часть 1)

The article presents possible options for conducting literature lessons with third-graders. Younger schoolchildren are introduced to a new literary genre for them – a tale, represented by the work of P.P. Bazhov “Silver Hoof”. The teacher uses such technological teaching methods as creating a literary model, structural analysis of the text, working with an explanatory dictionary, compiling characteristics of literary heroes, role-playing reading, paired work of third-graders with proverbs.

THE USE OF EMOTIONAL AND PSYCHOLOGICAL MEANS IN THE PATRIOTIC EDUCATION OF YOUTH

The changes that have occurred in all spheres of life of Ukrainian society, and the new substantive and value reorientation of citizens, urgently require special attention to the patriotic education of the younger generation. The aim of the study is to analyze the features and methods of using emotional and psychological means in the patriotic education of modern youth. The research methodology is based on the dialectical relationship of the following methods: the method of analysis of the existing definitions of “patriotism” and “belief”, system-structural approach – to understand the beliefs as a determining factor in the patriotic education of modern youth, synergetic approach – in the process of analyzing the role of emotional and psychological influence in the system of patriotic education through the use of verbal influence, empirical method – a written survey of students.Scientific novelty lies in the analysis of the influence of emotional and psychological means as a major factor in the formation of patriotism. From the standpoint of the activity approach, the use of the emotional function of language in the education of patriotic feelings has been rethought.The study proved that emotionally-psychological means of influencing human consciousness play a leading role in forming moral and ethical beliefs, particularly patriotism. According to the author, the best way to fulfill this mission is through artistic literature and means of art. An idea embodied in artistic images has a tremendous educational impact, convinces, instills certain feelings, and motivates action. The study established that artistic literature plays an extremely important role in socio-political life and emphasized that not only positive images of literary heroes have educational value but also negative phenomena that require moral condemnation and encourage one to take a certain life position.The idea embodied in artistic images has a huge educational impact, convinces, inspires certain feelings and motivates to action. The problem of patriotic education is currently quite relevant and requires special attention of researchers in the field of philosophy, psychology, pedagogy, emotional linguistics and, in particular, specialists in the field of philosophy of education.

ANTHROPONYMIC SPACE IN THE DRAMATIC BOOK "MOTHERS" BY MARIA MATIOS

The article is devoted to the study of the anthroponymic space in the book "Mothers" by Maria Matios. The study of the proper names of the literary heroes, which have an impact on the formation of images and determine the "face" of the literary work, significantly complements general knowledge about names. Our goal is to analyze the anthroponymic space of the book "Mothers"; our task is to characterize proper names of the literary heroes, combining etymology and author’s characteristics; to determine the role of appellatives in revealing images, to pay attention to the title of the book. The object of the research is the proper names of the literary heroes in the book "Mothers" by Maria Matios. The subject of the study is the information content of the proper names of the literary heroes and of the title of the book "Mothers" by Maria Matios. Research methods: descriptive method and its main techniques: observation, interpretation and generalization, which allows to identify, systematize and analyze proper names; the contextual-interpretive method is used to determine the connotative load of proper names of the literary heroes; distributional analysis helps to reveal hidden evaluative information in the semantic structure of onyms; the method of etymological analysis helps to clarify the pre-anthroponymic semantics of proper names. It was found that biblionym Mothers is the semantic core of the text. The title of the book "Mothers" accumulates the unfolding of the plot together with all literary heroes, becomes a symbol. It is proved that proper names of the literary heroes play an important role in the literary text. The names of the main characters contain a huge information load. It can be read in the pre-onym semantics of the anthroponym, in the author’s characteristics, it is expressed by a whole series of different connotations. The author takes the names of her characters from real anthroponymy, that’s why we recorded traditional names and surnames that are characteristic of Hutsul Bukovyna. Attention was drawn to the motives for the formation of the call signs of Ukrainian soldiers, to the role of appellatives, to the use of theonyms. Proper names of the literary heroes in the book "Mothers" not only name the characters, but also characterize them. The prospect of further investigations is the study and comparative characterization of the proper names of the literary heroes from the novels "The Shoes of the Mother of God" by Maria Matios and "Between Love and Death" by the Ukrainian writer of Romania Mykhailo Hafia Traista.

Miejska przestrzeń pamięci (na podstawie wybranych utworów Herkusa Kunčiusa, Ričardasa Gavelisa, Grigorija Kanowicza)

This article analyses literary representations of Vilnius as a Central and Eastern European city, whose space becomes the field where the memory of many national traditions can be observed. The analysis was conducted on the basis of two novels by Lithuanian writers, i.e. A Lithuanian in Vilnius by Herkus Kunčius and A Vilnius poker by Ričardas Gavelis, as well as the works of Grigory Kanovich, a Lithuanian-Jewish author writing in Russian, i.e. the novel The park of forgotten Jews and the autobiographical-memoir prose Dream about vanished Jerusalem. The conflict-generating aspect of memory is revealed in the works of Lithuanian writers. The city centre becomes a battlefield for the commemoration of one’s own tradition and a sphere of action against the tradition of the Other, consisting of concealing, marginalising, and removing. Kanovich’s works focus on the issue of Jewish memory in Vilnius after the Holocaust, when the ghetto ceased to exist. Memory becomes present when literary heroes look back at their past. They meet in the park to revive it together. The narration allows us to see how one of the oldest parks in Vilnius is transformed intoa Jewish memorial site.

The image of a literary hero

"Adabiy qahramon" deganda, birinchi navbatda, badiiy asarlardagi inson obrazi nazarda tutiladi. "Adabiy qahramon" esa hamisha adabiyotshunoslikda muhim muammolardan biri sanaladi. Badiiy asarlarda kishilar obrazi hayot voqealari jarayonida, xayol-tasawurdagi olam ichida ko'rsatiladi. Ular fe’l-atvori, xatti-harakatiga ko'ra bir-biridan ajralib turadi. She’riy, nasriy va drama turiga mansub asarlardagi kishilar obrazi o'ziga xos xususiyatlari bilan e’tiborni tortadi. Adabiy qahramon obrazi badiiy asarning tarkibiy qismini tashkil etuvchi, uning syujeti va kompozitsiyasini belgilovchi juda ko'p omillar bilan bevosita bog'lanib ketadi. Xususan, syujet tizimida voqealarni tahlil qilganda, hodisalar ro'y beradigan zamon va makon to'g'risida so'z yuritilganda, muaiiif maqsadi va asar g'oyasi xususida mulohaza bildirilganida, albatta, hikoya, qissa, roman, drama, komediya, tragediya, doston, afsonadagi adabiy qahramon obraziga e’tibor qaratiladi. Urg'ulanayotgan hayot hodisalari qanday yoritilgani adabiy qahramon obrazi qanaqa gavdalantirilganidan kelib chiqqan holda aniqlanadi. Adib, shoir, dramaturgning ijodkor sifatidagi mahorati ham, asarning badiiylik darajasiga ham unda adabiy qahramon obrazi qanday aks ettirilganiga qarab baho beriladi. Har bir asarning o'ziga xosligi, o'z-o'zidan ayonki, undagi adabiy qahramon obrazida ko'rinadi. Badiiy asar "sahna"sida bir emas, bir necha adabiy qahramon harakatlanadi. Ular voqealar jarayonidagi ishtiroki darajasi, syujet tizimidagi hodisalarda tutgan o'rniga ko'ra, shartli tarzda, "bosh qahramon", "asosiy qahramon" "ikkinchi darajali qahramon” tarzida ajratiladi. Asarda diqqat markaziga qo'yilgan muammo ularni bir-biri bilan o'zaro bog'lab turadi. Adabiy qahramonlarning har biri o'zining faoliyati bilan diqqat qaratilgan muammoning muayyan jihati, qaysidir qirrasini yoritadi. Ular asosiy adabiy qahramonning xarakteri xususiyatlari namoyon bo'lishiga o'z hissasini qo'shadi. Mazkur maqolada badiiy asarlarda inson obrazi qanday aks ettirilishi to'g'risida mulohaza yuritiladi.

Autoría y reescritura del poema épico Telémaco en la isla de Calipso de Pedro José Bermúdez de la Torre y Solier

This article analyzes the authorship and rewriting of the epic poem Telémaco en la isla de Calipso by Pedro José Bermúdez de la Torre y Solier. Its main objective is to explain the conception and design of this poem while considering its debt to other heroic sagas of the same period. It focuses mainly on the coincidences with the zarzuela También se vengan los dioses by Peruvian writer Lorenzo de las Llamosas and the epic poem Demofonte y Filis, allegedly written by the Franciscan friar António das Chagas. Subsequent objectives propose a comparison between Bermudez’s poem and the novel Les aventures de Telémaque by François Fénelon as a pivotal source. Furthermore, it is possible to contrast a series of diverse dramatic works produced and represented in eighteenth-century Spain, such as those written by José de Cañizares, Eusebio Vela, Domingo Rossi, and other anonymous playwrights. The conclusions rely on the problematic rewriting process and the legacy that the literary hero Telemachus carried both in epic poems and dramas of the seventeenth and eighteenth century.

The image of a rebel writer (based on the novels "The Revolt of Denis Bushuev" by S. S. Maksimov and "The Revolt of the Sunflower" by L.D. Rzhevsky)

The article examines the image of the writer in the novels "The Sunflower Rebellion" by Leonid Rzhevsky and "The Rebellion of Denis Bushuev" by Sergei Maksimov. The subject of the study is the poetics of the image of the writer in the works of major writers of the second wave of Russian emigration. Russian literature is based on the general problems of the novels, the similarity of the destinies of the main characters and the authors belonging to one direction of Russian literature of the XX century – the second wave of Russian emigration. Using the example of the fate of an emigrant writer and a writer of the metropolis, the uprising against the ideological restrictions dictated by the political regime is considered. Special attention is paid to the literary tradition of depicting the hero-creator at the beginning of the 20th century, as well as autobiographical and historical facts that influenced the transformation of the image in question in the work of second-wave emigrants. The methodological basis of the study is an integrated approach that includes biographical, historical, typological and comparative methods. The author's attention is focused on the conflict "artist-power", which is at the center of the novels "The Revolt of Denis Bushuev" and "The Revolt of the Sunflower". The novelty of the study is due to the introduction of previously little-studied material, and for the first time a comparative analysis of novels authored by representatives of the second wave of emigration is presented. As a result of the analysis, the following typological similarities were revealed in the depiction of hero-artists by S.S. Maksimov and L.D. Rzhevsky: the personal experience of the authors lies at the heart of the images of rebellious hero-creators; the main conflict of both works is the aggravation of contradictions between the writer and the authorities; this conflict underlies the creativity of the majority of emigrants of the second wave. Russian literature also proved that the depiction of the literary hero in the works of the second wave of Russian emigration continues the tradition of classical Russian literature in depicting the conflict between the artist and power, but emigrant creativity interprets it in a tragic way.

“The Pelevin Phenomenon” in the context of advertising pragmatics (using the example of an e-mail campaign for the release of the novel “Journey to Eleusis”)

INTODUCTION. Victor Pelevin, a popular Russian writer, is of scientific interest not only as a literary phenomenon, but also as a marketing phenomenon that has not yet been studied by the scientific community. V. Pelevin’s marketing strategy, despite the minimalism, is effective, his image attracts attention, which determines relevance of our research. The purpose of the work is to analyze the inclusion of the writer’s image in advertising communications, as well as to identify the specifics of using modern mailing, including the introduction of game elements.MATERIALS AND METHODS. The study was conducted based on the September e-mail campaign of one of the bookstore chains. A qualitative content analysis and a descriptive method were used. The subject of the study is the image of a modern writer in the refraction of advertising discourse.RESULT AND DISCUSSION. The analysis showed that the image of V. Pelevin, like the release of a new book, becomes an informational occasion, and not an end in itself of the campaign. Despite the fact that the new novel belongs to the “Transhumanism” series, the e-mail newsletter contains images of characters from other novels, which is determined by their popularity. The newsletter uses a recognizable image of the author and references to his work as a whole – to supertext – coupled with the corporate style of the book chain. The image of the author is mythologized and intertwined with literary heroes, which is reflected in this advertising campaign.CONCLUSION. The Pelevin’s new book has not become a key topic of advertising communication; the emphasis is on V. Pelevin’s work as a supertext, and not directly on the “Transhumanism” cycle.

"Little Man" in the context of the narrative structure of the work: "Overcoat" by N. V. Gogol and "Irrepressible Tambourine" by A.M. Remizov

The subject of the study is the evolution of the "little man" as a literary phenomenon based on the novels "Overcoat" by Gogol and "Irrepressible Tambourine" by Remizov. It is noted that the content of the term under study is not limited to the semantics of the image, which contains a meaningful characteristic of a certain type of literary hero, but depends on the narrative structure of the work. This position of the "little man" in Gogol and Remizov is at the intersection of interrelated factors: details as a carrier of the grotesque in fictional reality and at the level of narrative instance, as well as modifications of a specific genre form, expressed in the original construction of the composition — Gogol overcoming the genre of physiological essay and Remizov household anecdote, respectively. The study shows that detail plays a key role in the poetics of the works of these authors and determines not only the dynamics of the image in a particular work, but also forms an appropriate aspect of influence. Remizov inherits the indirect characterization of a literary character through the details of the external world, adopted by Gogol, but in another way secures with their help the status of the main character of the "Irrepressible Tambourine" as a small person at the narrative level due to a more open organization of the horizon of readers' expectations. The task required the synthesis of a historical and genetic approach with a genrological (genological) one, which made it possible to consider the category of "little man" as an element of poetics, reinterpreted by Remizov in "Irrepressible Tambourine" under the influence of Gogol's work, and its significance in connection with the transformation of the genre model with an individual author's approach to narration. The study showed that Remizov overcomes the epistemological uncertainty of the narrator in the "Overcoat" and, thanks to the details referring to the mythopoeic context (Ancient Russia, Eros), builds the image of a small man (Stratilatov), whose insignificance and mediocrity are less related to the plot of the "Irrepressible Tambourine" than with archetypal references that are carriers of narrative semantics stories and setting the meaningful direction of the author's thought. Thus, the unknowability of the foundations of being by the character is emphasized at the narrative level of the work, enhanced by the grotesque characterization. The corresponding conclusion, according to the author of the article, is relevant in analyzing the system of images of literary heroes in Remizov and his anticipation of the work of European expressionist prose writers with their emphasis on the existential, rather than social source of human suffering.

ФОРМИРОВАНИЕ КОММУНИКАТИВНОЙ КОМПЕТЕНЦИИ УЧАЩИХСЯ НАЧАЛЬНЫХ КЛАССОВ В ПРОЦЕССЕ ОБУЧЕНИЯ БУРЯТСКОМУ ЯЗЫКУ КАК ВТОРОМУ

This article is devoted to the problem and solution of the communicative competence formation of younger schoolchildren in the process of teaching Buryat as a second language. Communicative competence doesn’t appear out of nowhere, it is formed. The basis of its formation is the experience of human communication. In order to confirm the scientific validity of the theoretical propositions put forward by us, the article theoretically substantiates and develops a system of exercises based on the principle of a communicative approach. A set of exercises for teaching dialogic or monologue speech, used in Buryat language lessons, are aimed to ensure that the child passes through the actions committed by a literary hero, learns to believe, make friends, love, analyze various life situations. This approach ensures the development of the student's speech, teaches to engage in dialogical disputes about the transformation of literary heroes, gives an excellent opportunity for the development of monologue speech. The actions that a student takes while performing an exercise can be conditionally divided into three groups: truly communicative or verbal, conditionally communicative or conditionally verbal, and constructive or linguistic. The purpose of these exercises is the consistent assimilation of lexical material in the process of forming skills, abilities, ultimately, communicative competence. The developed system of exercises is focused not only on improving and further developing the level of communicative competence, but also on developing the creative potential of students, their creative abilities.

ЛИТЕРАТУРНЫЕ МАГИСТРАЛИ – НОВЫЙ КУЛЬТУРНО-ГЕОГРАФИЧЕСКИЙ ФЕНОМЕН14

The purpose of the article is to present to the geographical community a new cultural and geographicalphenomenon – a literary highway, identified by the author through empirical observations. Hence the tasks of the articleare to describe and define this phenomenon, to establish its typical characteristics, and to trace its functioning on theregional material.The author introduces and substantiates new concepts of literary geography – a literary polyhighway and transportgeographical discourse.A literary highway is understood as a historical road ‘covered’ with texts of literary journeys of different times. Inthose cases where literature develops polyhighways, i.e., historical roads running parallel within the transport corridor,literary polyhighways are distinguished.The interaction of travelogue texts with certain historical roads includes a range of transport issues in a broadcomparative geographical context, or transport-geographical discourse; among them are vehicles used, road features, trialsexperienced on the road by authors or literary heroes, perception of roadside landscapes, and transport vocabulary.In the article, geographical, historical, and literary properties of literary highways and polyhighways are shownthrough the example of the metropolitan polyhighway ‘Moscow – Petersburg’, Siberian, Dvina, and Chui literary highways.In applied t

Neo-romantic hero: Vital characters in Holger Drachmann’s short stories

The article focuses on the specific type of literary hero that is common in the short stories of Holger Drachmann, who was considered the most prominent Danish writer in the early 20th century. His first books, “Poems” and a collection of short stories, “With Charcoal and Chalk”, were published in 1872. At the time, Drachmann belonged to the modernist movement and was one of Georg Brandes’ students, but later he changed his political and aesthetic preferences and moved away from the group of Brandes’ followers. Drachman’s artistic style is very special because it has features of Naturalism, Romanticism, Impressionism and Symbolism. But it is possible to conclude that his artistic manner can be called “neo-romantic” according to the contemporary terminology. The characters in his early collections of short stories are vivid, honest, and strong, and they represent the common type of neo-romantic hero that is inherent in other texts related to Neo-Romanticism. Very often Neo-Romanticism is seen as a “reaction” to Naturalism and a return to the principles of Romanticism, but it seems that Neo-Romanticism is much more like Naturalism than Romanticism. The type of neo-romantic hero is closer to naturalistic characters than to romantic characters, because it is a courageous and extraordinary person, an outsider and a rebel, his life is full of desire, risk and adventure, and it looks like a romantic hero, but a neo-romantic hero is a physically and mentally healthy person, and this character is determined by nature and genesis, which is the main feature of Naturalism. Drachman creates a new type of hero in Danish literature: the vital, strong character who struggles with nature and circumstances. His characters have the healthy genetics of ordinary people. Neo-Romanticism in Danish literature was strongly influenced by Naturalism and was the original phenomenon of national literature.

Patriotic principles in the work of M.A. Sholokhov

The article is devoted to the understanding of patriotism according to M.A. Sholokhov. The theme of love for the Motherland is consistently considered in the works of various periods of the famous Soviet writer's work. Being a direct participant in the fateful events for the USSR, Sholokhov managed to reflect patriotism as a multilevel and, at times, contradictory concept. The analysis of the patriotic model of behavior on the example of the main characters and supporting characters of the writer's works is considered in the context of such plot and compositional elements as binary oppositions (good - evil, truth – lies, honor – inhumanity, mercy – cruelty, personal – collective). The description of this concept is accompanied by an appeal to the categories of space and time, an understanding of the ideological, moral and spiritual dominants that guide the literary heroes of the works. Patriotism, presented in the historical context of M.A. Sholokhov's literary heritage, should be considered as a constant that contributes to the reflection of the character and registers the internal logical connections of this constant, its meaningful content throughout the plot. The patriotic paradigm of the worldview of the writer's artistic works is characterized not only by the ability to motivate sacrificial acts, but also by the prerequisite to form the basis for a conflict of personalized positions and views. Using the example of the heroes of his works, M.A. Sholokhov shows us, the readers, what a true patriot should be. It is stated that the artistic heritage of the Master in modern socio-political realities can successfully contribute to the patriotic education of Russian youth, since fiction has a serious impact on the upbringing of a personality, on its inner potential and the choice of moral and ethical guidelines, and contribute to the formation of high moral qualities of a person.

Gender Themes in Czech Books for Children of Younger School Age

Children’s literature can become one of the means of shaping personal identity, including gender socialization. The main characters portrayed in a book can become a kind of gender role model. The study examines gender themes in Czech books for children of younger school age that have been awarded the Golden Ribbon and Magnesia Litera prizes. The selected books (n=15) were analysed through quantitative content analysis and qualitative thematic analysis. The main findings include the fact that 596 different characters (as well as 29 main characters among them) are represented from a position of gender imbalance (boys and men are represented twice as often as girls and women). In other similarly focused research, the gender imbalance in the number of literary heroes did not have an effect on readers' popularity or the impact of reading on readers, regardless of their gender self-identification. From the results obtained, therefore, we do not conclude on social discrimination, since from a gender perspective we do not encounter any erosion of respect for any individual.

«Кризис поступка» героя в повести А. Д. Галахова «Старое зеркало»

The purpose of the article is to characterize the literary hero of the story “The Old Mirror”, written by the author, who appeared under the pseudonym Sto-odin on the pages of the magazine “Otechestvennye Zapiski” in 1845. The study of the Russian novels of the forties of the XIX century, in particular the novels of A.D. Galakhov, are relevant in the context of the search for a model of the hero in the Russian literature. Results. The article deals with the problem of tradition and innovation in the depiction of the Russian literary hero. The issue of the appearance of the “incomprehensible hero” in the world of Russian novels of the second third of the XIX century is being discussed. The situation on the “crisis of the deed” is interpreted as a result of the ontological uncertainty of the hero in the world.

Informal education for boys only? The theme of gender in the work of Jaroslav Foglar

Abstract The paper deals with the work of the Czech children’s author Jaroslav Foglar from a gender perspective, reflecting on two themes in particular: the absence of heroines; and his understanding of boys’ reciprocity and friendship with the adoration of physicality. The impetus for this analysis was data from a questionnaire survey, the aim of which was to determine which aspects of Jaroslav Foglar’s work are most appreciated by readers and which they think apply to real life. The quantitative analysis of the data (n=1174) did not reveal any statistically significant differences in the men’s and women’s responses; however, the qualitative analysis of the open-ended statements is illustrative of the underrepresentation of girls among literary heroes. The diverse ways in which Foglar’s work captures friendships between boys allow even today’s readers to expand their perceptions of masculinity beyond traditionally defined boundaries.

Symbolic policy in small towns of Zamojszczyzna region, Poland, in the post-socialist period

Abstract Small cities have attracted less attention from researchers of transformation processes, although in some countries they are an important part of the social landscape, as they are in Poland. I present the results of research on the public space and symbolic politics in three small towns in Zamojszczyzna, a region in southeastern Poland. All are characterized by interrupted or disturbed historical continuity due to the extermination of their Jewish communities, which made up the majority of the population until World War II. After 1945, the Jewish past was silenced, while the symbolic space was dominated by the memory of the resistance movement. I show in my text that since the 1990s there have been significant transformations in the aforementioned towns. In some of them, firstly, interest in Jewish heritage and efforts to preserve it are becoming more apparent. Second, there is a noticeable shift from commemorating anti-fascism to promoting the so-called struggle against communism, a reflection of the current politics of remembrance at the central level. I argue that the use of cultural heritage in small towns serves largely to gain recognition. Local authorities often use not only elements of the past that fit into national narratives, but also local traditions or even fictional literary heroes, for this purpose.

PROPER NAMES OF THE LITERARY HEROES IN THE PROSE ABOUT WAR - THE "FACE" OF THE LITERARY WORK

The article is devoted to the study of the proper names of the literary heroes, which are elements of creating images. Names in the literary text are attractive with their content, because behind a well-chosen name there is a person. It is known that the names of the characters largely determine the “face” of the literary work, so the authors put a certain value in the proper name of the literary hero. The purpose of the study is the analysis of the proper names of the literary heroes that function in the novel “Saving March” by A. Kokotyukha, in the collection of short stories “After the 24th” by V. Ivchenko, and in the novel “Saving Eve” by N. Romanovska. Our task is to describe characteristic proper names of the literary heroes, to evaluate them; to prove that the character’s image and name are closely intertwined; to determine the motives for issuing call signs. The objects of the study are anthroponyms used in the works of A. Kokotyukha, V. Ivchenko, and N. Romanovska. The subject of the research are the proper names of the literary heroes and their stylistic role. Research methods are determined by the specificity of onymic material, which requires a systematic approach and the use of the traditional descriptive method and its main techniques: observation, interpretation and generalization. The functional load of the proper names of the literary heroes is determined by the method of contextual analysis. It has been proven that proper names of the literary heroes play an important role in the literary text, they carry information. It can be hidden in the pre-onym semantics of the basis of the anthroponym, in the author’s characteristic, it can be expressed in a whole series of different connotations. In A. Kokotyukha’s novel, traditional surnames, names and their unofficial variants with significant characteristic potential are recorded. Ivchenko’s stories are filled with nicknames (callsigns) of Ukrainian soldiers. Motives for the formation of nicknames have been clarified: from truncated surnames, names, professions, occupations, appearance, favorite heroes, funny situations, etc. Attention is drawn to the special manner of V. Ivchenko - the ability to give titles to his stories. In the headings there is a coding of the author’s idea. From the novel by N. Romanovska, only the names of the main characters have come into view, who, in addition to a number of different functions, perform the most important one - symbolic. The peculiarities of the creation of names indicate the position of the authors themselves and the individual characteristics of their thinking. The prospect of further investigations is the study of the proper names of the literary heroes and the titles that function in the works of modern authors.