МІЛІТАРИЗМ ЯК СПЕЦИФІЧНА ХУДОЖНЯ КООРДИНАТА П’ЄСИ «РОЗГРОМ» І. БАГРЯНОГО
MILITARISM AS A SPECIFIC ARTISTIC COORDINATE OF THE PLAY «ROZGHROM» BY I. BAHRIANYI

Summary/Abstract: The research is devoted to the play “Rozghrom” by I. Bahrianyi, which is describing the period of Ukrainian-German conflicts during the Second World War. The purpose of the study is to consider militarism not only as a postulate state ideology, but also to describe this term as a specific metaphorical projection of the Second World War as well as to trace the interpretation of collective militaristic consciousness in the author’s representation in the nativity-scene “Rozghrom”. An insufficient study of both this author’s play and his drama works in general due to the forced inaccessibility of the writer’s artistic texts for a Ukrainian reader during long time is determined. The research uses such methods as biographical (the influence of I. Bahrianyi’s biographical factors on his creative manner as well as on the representation of Ukrainian authentic culture among world community); historical-cultural and sociological methods (allowed to enter the analyzed play in the scope of the contradictory socio-political process of the Second World War); mythopoetic method (conceptual effects of myth-creation on the formation of Soviet ideological practice); structural-semantic and structural-semiotic methods (understanding of the text as a special sign system in the cultural context of its time). Scientific novelty. For the first time the article analyzes militarism as a specific artistic concept which is considered in the author’s play in three versions: anti-colonial, adventurous and intellectual. The anti-colonial direction of the play consists of de-ideologization of the so-called liberating militaristic myth, built on the pathetic heroization of the victories of Soviet Red Army. The adventurous version of the militarism in the proposed writer’s play is marked by tragedy due to ambiguous feat of brigade commander Maxim. The intellectual discourse of the war in the drama metaphorically appears on the chess field, which corresponds to the reality in a symbolic way. Conclusions. The conclusion is made that the fascist attempt to militarize Ukrainian culture, to lower its spiritual potential is collapsed in the author’s dramaturgical version.

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