ARTISTIC AND AESTHETIC CHARACTERISTICS OF THE NOVEL “DAVID COPPERFIELD” BY CH. DICKENS AND THE STORY “THE ARTIST” BY T. SHEVCHENKO THROUGH THE PRISM OF AUTOBIOGRAPHY: TYPOLOGY AND COMPARATIVE ASPECT

Abstract

The research is trying to find out the usage of autobiographical or partially autobiographical aspects in the story “Khudozhnyk” by Taras Shevchenko and the novel “David Copperfield” by Charles Dickens. The methodological basis of the research is typological-comparative and historical methods. Furthermore, the establishment of inter literary connections and the study of typological features in the context of world literature belongs to the field of comparative studies. It should be noted that this field of literary studies, in fact, makes it possible to bring national Ukrainian literature closer to world aesthetic standards, demonstrating every time that its development did not take place in isolated conditions, but in accordance with the trends of world literary progress, absorbing ethical and artistic values, along with the heritage of progressive philosophical thought. The English novelist and the Ukrainian prose writer and poet were the spokesmen of their era and society and created an artistically transformed, but generally typified reality. The aim of this article is to establish typological similarities and differences in Taras Shevchenko’s short story “Khudozhnyk” and Charles Dicken’s novel “David Copperfield”. After carrying out the analysis, it was found that both works typologically demonstrate the presence of the concept of personality and the linear biographical principle of the composition, but the chronological frames of the Ukrainian and English works are different, their choice depends on the main idea. It was investigated that in both prose works, through the prism of the personal painful experience of the autobiographical hero, the most relevant political problems of modern Ukraine and England are revealed. It is understandable that T. Shevchenko did not copy the works or images of Ch. Dickens, but we can draw parallels and analogies in the choice of plots in the literary works of both writers, so it became an appropriate material for a typological comparison. Shevchenko’s literary heritage was indirectly influenced by the work of Ch. Dickens, but there is no doubt that there are certain typological similarities in the literary works that are compared, due to common socio-historical, artistic and aesthetic factors of the world artistic perspective.