Powieści Pantelejmona Kulisza i Waltera Scotta z początkowego okresu ich twórczości: typologia psychologizmu
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The article revealed the level of correlation between the poetics of the novel Mykhailo
Charnyshenko, or Little Russia Eighty Years Ago by Panteleimon Kulish and historical novels
Waverley; or, ‘Tis Sixty Years Since, Rob Roy by Sir Walter Scott. Typological and intertextual
similarities in the texts, peculiarities of the authors’ historisophy, and psychoanalytic
foundation of works are analyzed in the article. The article argues that novels by P.Kulish and
W.Scott are fundamentally of a psychological nature. The strong characteristic traits displayed
in the images of parents in the works is interpreted as an artistic copy of writers' memories of
their parents. The disobedience motive in the novels is archetypal and also reflects the authors’
feelings of irreconcilable conflict with parents. Mykhailo Charnyshenko, or Little Russia Eighty
Years Ago by P. Kulish is a conditional historical novel with the individual author’s interpretation
of the history of Ukraine in the 2nd half of the 18th century. As W. Scott, P. Kulish creates
his own historical myth, presenting the admiration of antiquity and frank sympathy to old
customs. W. Scott synthesizes the history of the country witnessing their faith in the need
for union of the Kingdom of Great Britain, whose power in the cultural and political union
of Scotland and England. P. Kulish also stresses the inevitability of Cossack liberties’ loss
and loyalty which need to adapt to new conditions and conventions in the Russian empire.