Powieści Pantelejmona Kulisza i Waltera Scotta z początkowego okresu ich twórczości: typologia psychologizmu

Abstract

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.