2014 year, issue 3

In the synthetic article have been generalized and in new way considered various aspects of realism in T. Shevchenko’s poetry and prose. A statement is being proven that Shevchenko’s lyrical autopsychography had strived not to realism only, but to historicity as well — and moreover — even in greater measure than Romantic historical poems — in the sense of true, concrete historical reflection of poets life and psychological history, an exemplification of creative personality from the mid-XIX c.
Keywords: mimetism, social and psychological analysis, socio-historical concreteness, socio-psychological determinism, criticism of social reality, satire, grotesque realism, enlightenment realism, literature typification.

In the article have been forwarded reasons for a notion that Shevchenko’s visionary and myth-creating type of gift quite naturally determined grounding archetypality featuring the poet’ creative work. Family archetype, defined by Kobzar has been exposed on the levels of personality, nationality and spitituality.
Keywords: Taras Shevchenko, archetype, myth-creativity, visionarism, Christology, national mentality.

The article has presented a kind of spiritual connection, an echo of ideal concept expressed by Shevchenko’s verse To Poles in the present-day Polish song performed under strong impression of Kyivan Euromaidan, — Podaj rękę Ukrainie (Give hand to Ukraine)
Keywords: concept, heart, reflection, metaphorical contents

In the article have been considered poetical images of Ukraine, Glory, Freedom and Tomb widely used in artistic system of Riflemen’s folklore (people’s and folklorized songs, tales etc. particularly); these notions have been compared to the-same-named Shevchenko-coined ideal categories with great correlation in meanings of both data groups. Statement has been forwarded, that Shevchenko’s natiosophical conception made direct influence upon the contents, semantic structure and pragmatics of mentioned imagery and its constants.
Keywords: T. Shevchenko, Riflemen’s folklore, Ukraine, glory, freedom, open tomb, poetics, concept, image.

In article has been presented the research profile of H. Nudha in his efforts to conceive quite deepened essence of T. Shevchenko’ poetry as well as that of Ukrainian Romantic ballads in their historical development. Analytical study of T. Shevchenko’s ballad «Why do you go to the grave?..» has been performed accordingly to prescriptive directions traced by H. Nudha.
Keywords: Hryhorii Nudha, Shevchenko studies, ballads, content, poetics.

The article has identified main sources and components of H.A. Nudha’s ethics as a citizen, a scholar and a writer.
Keywords: life, purpose, meaning, value, world-view, position.

In the article have been considered certain specific characteristics by H.A. Nudha’s stylistic manner as for his scientific works (linguistic aspect). An attempt has been made to distinguish main stylistic dominants of scholar’s scientific discourse.
Keywords: scientific style, language of scientific works, scientific discourse.

Some aspects of folklore imagery as for the World War I and its reception by Galician peasants’ historical consciousness have been put under study in the article. The author has presented analytical research-work in the songs of the so-called «Thalerhof cycle» in comparison with people’s other texts on war events.
Keywords: Galicia, history, Thalerhof, folklore, World War I, peasants, mental notions.

The role and the place of insurrectional epic tradition under conditions of present-day realities of Ukrainian State have been considered in article. Indication has been made that narrative folklore of heroic OUN and UPA period still delivers important ideas and postulates to newer generations: as idealism, nationalism, civilization choice, statehood, sovereignty, unity, consolidation, self-reliance, language issue, democracy in its true sense as well as similar qualities necessary for successful establishment of statehood.
Keywords: state building, rebel epic tradition, OUN, UPA, mass consciousness, heroism, national spirit.

On the basis of materials got in the course of expeditions through Ukrainian villages of Northern Moldova (2005—2009) we have traced several functional shifts appeared at XX—XXI cc. in Malanka New Year songs and reinterpretation of poetic motives. We have found quite distinct pre-marital semantic features in recorded songs, and thus the latter phenomena of regional creativeness might be considered in the general system of Ukrainian folk love poetry
Keywords: Malanka festival, Malanka songs, Moldova, record, text, motive, semantics.

On the basis of materials gathered in the course of field folkloristic studies as well as by means of broader comparative analyses the uniqueness of genre morphology of Ukrainian folklore on Ukrainian-Moldavian borderland has been discovered. Quite concrete examples of such originality and comparison of those with similar phenomena in other borderland territories has enabled formulation of general conclusions as for the typology of genre in borderland models. Keywords: folk genre, system of genres, the Ukrainian-Moldavian borderland.

The article has presented some main directions in the research-works as for ethnogenesis of Croats with historical development of problem field and pointed out some major works of Croatian and foreign scholars. The Ukrainian context has been highlighted as a need of complex interdisciplinary study of Croatian and Ukrainian scientists. The article has also exposed a series of items defined in the course of past research-works and pointed out the spheres for further efforts.
Keywords: ethnogenesis of Croats, Croatian-Ukrainian relations, Dubrovnik, Ragusa, a myth.

Handwritten description of Podilian wedding, a document found in archive of known lawyer and criminology doctor O. Kystyakivsky is being presented here to broader audience. Textual analysis of the manuscript has been performed with quite convincing conclusion as for the authorship of description, made by Podilian folklorist A. Dyminsky. In the article have been distinguished some general methodological principles of recording kept by the folklorist and exemplified in the text of manuscript.
Keywords: manuscript, archive, wedding, Andriy Dyminskiy, fixation, version.

The article deals with folk prayers of the famous Russian work «The life and times of the peasant Lubensk» by V. Myloradovych. Thematic and functional belonging to Ukrainian occasional-ritual folklore has been found. The author specifies that V. Miloradovych used for first time in the research of national folklore the term «folk prayer» for the variant of magical-sacred text, known among the people as «Тhe Dream of the Blessed Virgin Mary».
Keywords: folk prayer, folklore, magical sacred text, thematic group, character, functional variety.

In the article has been considered a lexical semantic group (LSG) of pottery lexicon including in its volume widely-spread people’s nomination of tools, constructions and instruments used in pottery industry of Poltava region. Variants of real things have been presented as well as definitions of context, structure and semantic volume of mentioned LST in particular.
Keywords: pottery, pottery lexicon, tools, instruments, nominations.

The article has presented and examined some characteristics of spiritual choral music developed in the town of Rivne on the edge of ХХ and ХХІ cc. Analytic studies as for activity of spiritually-orientated choirs have been have been made.
Keywords: choral art, spiritual music, the choir.

In the article has been considered quite a wide field of problems as for compilation of full-valued Ukrainian folkloristic encyclopedia. A historyography of main tasks is to be exposed in short review. Aims of the proposed work consist in generalization of experience and in its summing up with dominant idea to be used for development of Ukraainian folklore studies. The encyclopedia is to enclose notes on personal data, folklore collections, publications of people’s poetical materials as well as archive sources, profiled instructions, institutions, establishments etc. Proper places are to be spared for folklore personages and for themes of genres, theories, folklore poetics. Small part of texts belonging to the greater themamatic integrity, administered by the author is now being presented to the audience.
Keywords: folkloristic encyclopedia, personalia, personage, collective publication, genre, theory of folklore, folkloric poetics.

The article has presented memorial notes dedicated to five extraordinary persons gone to Eternity during 2013. Their deceases have appeared to be great loss for Ukrainian folklore studies. Profiles have been compiled of Hryhorii Demyan , representative of historical school, unsurpassed collector, researcher in insurgent thematics; Natalia Shumada, classicist in Ukrainian and Bulgarian studies, representative of Kyivan school; Stepan Myshanych, spokesman of aesthetical direction in ethnology, source scholar, encyclopedic expert, Yosyp Fedas, connoisseur of Ukrainian vertep, puppet show of the Nativity; Oleh Pavlov, adherent of psychological flow in Ukrainian folklore studies.
Keywords: Ukrainian folklore studies, researcher, collector, scholar of Bulgarian issues, aesthetical direction, psychological flow.