TYPES OF SUBJECTIVE MANIFESTATION OF A ROLE-PLAYING HERO’S CONSCIOUSNESS: PUBLIC AND POLITICAL PERSPECTIVE

Abstract

The article deals with the artistic phenomenon of role-playing lyrics, outlines the problems of literary critics’ theoretical searches in their studies of the lyrics subject organization specifics. It also analyzes the points related to the formal methods of compositional and speech design in a poetic role-playing text. The article tries to characterize conceptual and meaningful foreshortenings which manifest themselves at the level of expression related to a composition’s ideological concepts as well as to thematic ones. The author investigates the peculiarities of role-playing lyrics artistic development in Ukrainian poetry of the 19th-20th centuries. The article gives a profound analysis to the types of subjective expression of a role hero consciousness concerning his social and political perspective.
It is stated that episodic appeals to the image of a role hero in Ukrainian poetic literature already occur in the ancient poetry of the 17th-18th centuries. The gallery of role-playing characters represented by this poetry is also quite diverse. These are commoners and representatives of higher social strata as well as historical figures.
The typical role-playing hero of the early Romanticism poetry is in general an artistic image the personal intentions of whom are limited to the role of a warrior-protector, a fellow, a representative of the other world established for this artistic direction.
Activation of the socio-political sphere in the role lyrics in the second half of the 19th – early 20th centuries is thematically linked to the identification of three main types of role-playing heroes: 1) the type of socially and politically disadvantaged person symbolically delineated in the image of a prisoner; 2) a fighter who does not want to put up with the ugly oppression of his people and calls on the socio-political community to fight decisively against the enemy; 3) a wide and diverse gallery of satirical images of pseudopatriots.
The thematic spectrum of the socio-political role sphere in Ukrainian poetry of the 20th century can be clearly and comprehensively identified by the ideological polarization of public forces related to the revolutionary upheavals, the events of the First and Second World Wars, the liberation struggle of the Ukrainians, and the repressive policies of the Soviet state.