GENRE MODIFICATIONS OF “THE NEW DRAMA” IN EUROPEAN LITERATURE OF THE LATE 19TH – BEGINNING OF THE 20TH CENTURIES

Abstract

The article examines the problem of genre modifications of “the new drama” in European literature of the late 19th – beginning of the 20th centuries. The methodology of analysis has underpinnings in works on comparative literature studies by V. Budnyi, D. Dyuryshyn, M. Ilnytskyi; the study of the theory of literary genres by N. Kopystyanska, Ya. Polishchuk; the visions of the theory of drama by Aristotle, M. Rozdolskyi, V. Khalizev; the achievements of Ukrainian literary-critical thought, including “From modern to avant-garde: genre and style paradigm of Ukrainian drama in the first third of the 20th century” by T. Sverbilova, N. Malyutina, V. Skoryna, as well as studios of N. Kornienko, L. Moroz, S. Khorob and L. Tanyuk. Attempts in the direction of poly aspect study and resourceful edition of the inheritance of the new dramatists, activated the problem of its reinterpretation. However, until now the problem of reason-result connections and evolution of drama at the end of the 19th – the first decades of the 20th century, and consequently its transformation to more radical forms in the context of avant-garde motions has not been resolved. The purpose of the article is to define the genre model of drama at end of the 19th – first decades of the 20th century in its development and modifications.