Olena Pchilka's Creativity: Shevchenko’s discourse

Abstract

The
peculiarities of genre and ideological thematic embodiment of Shevchenko’s
discourse in creativity of Olena Pchilka were analyzed in the article. In particular,
poetic shevchenkiana, the Ukrainian Сhildren’s theater and editorial articles were
researched. It was highlighted the role of Narodniki’s tradition, the specificity of
intertextuality in fiction, the celebratory dimension of the eventfulness in dramatic
works, the relevance of editorial articles.
If the poetic shevchenkiana and the Children’s theater of Olena Pchilka
demonstrated a popularizing dimension of the author’s perception, then the articles
with the whole arsenal of journalistic style emphasized the problems of essence of
imperial policy, Russian criticism and national consciousness of Ukrainian society,
delimitation of the Ukrainian community. Shevchenko’s discourse of creativity of
Olena Pchilka proves that the forming of nation was dominated by T. Shevchenko, overcoming the way from ethnography, popularization to awareness of the need of
education and development of literature for people as a target audience, and
subsequently – to national journalism.