CREATIVITY OF TARAS SHEVCHENKO’S THROUGH THE PRISM OF CRITICAL AND AESTHETIC INTERPRETATION OF OMELYAN OHONOVSKYI

Abstract

The article highlights the peculiarities of the interpretation of T. Shevchenko’s works in the work “Critical-aesthetic view of some poems of Taras Shevchenko” by one of the first Galician Shevchenko experts – O. Ogonovskyi. It has been found that the significance of this studio lies in the analytical understanding of T. Shevchenko’s poems, in particular “To Osnovyanenko”, “And the Dead and the Living and the Unborn...”, “Neophytes”, “Poplar”, as well as in the popularization of the poet’s work and conveying his work to the contemporary reader. The reasoning of O. Ogonovskyi regarding genre nature, figurative system, pictorial and expressive means, motifs of works, stylistic manner of T. Shevchenko was traced and analyzed; the specificity of the author’s critical-aesthetic approach to the analyzed texts is revealed. Emphasis is placed on O. Ogonovskyi’s familiarity with T. Shevchenko’s correspondence, his biography, the context of the appearance of the works, and the works of other researchers, in particular E. Zgarskyi. It has been established that the critical-aesthetic approach of O. Ogonovskyi is distinguisned by some schematism and scholasticism; striving for a detailed coverage of the content of the analyzed works, O. Ogonovskyi resorted to too detailed retelling of the content, and also did not avoid subjectivism, which led to the lack of motivation of some of his statements. Despite this, the studio “Critical-aesthetic view of some poems of Taras Shevchenko”, along with the works of E. Zgarskyi, O. Partytskyi, V. Barvinskyi, D. Tanyachkevich and others became an important component of the process of formation of Shevchenko studies in Western Ukrainian territories.

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