The genre of elegy in the Ukrainian and Russian lyric poetry of the XVII - XIX centuries: a comparative aspect.

Abstract

The qualifying work explores the ways and stages of development of elegy, clarifies the thematic and structural features, traces the transformation and modification of the genre in the works of Ukrainian and Russian poets; features of elegy as a genre are considered; the peculiarities of the evolution of the elegy genre are determined; a range of genre varieties of elegy of the XVII - XIX centuries, previously recorded in literary criticism, has been established; the role and place of elegy in modern literature are characterized.