NATION-FORMING TENDENCIES IN THE MODERN UKRAINIAN PROSE FOR CHILDREN AND YOUTH ON THE HISTORICAL SUBJECT

Abstract

The article deals with analyzes of the genre modifications of stories for children and young people on the historical subject (adventure and fantastic story, detective, fantasy), its artistic specificity, means of activation of the reader`s attention, options of historical knowledge representations, which are projected on the formation of the reader`s national identity. The important place in the historical work with enhanced adventure component is taken by chronotope of frequently-spotted extreme features.  The method of time shift, two-dimensional image, mythologization and mystification of space emphasize the immanent nature of the heroic actions of characters, they allow to design long past events in the present. The main character, being as close as possible to the recipient, completes modelling historical facts by his/her own ideas about them. The mythological images and subjects, intertextual components give rise to a chain of historical, aesthetic, moral reminiscences. The communicative code of the work promotes awareness of the corresponding the author`s emphases, understanding of spiritual and cultural origins, actualization of important cognitive material, promoting an acquisition of the reader`s life experience, formation of the national world view, national identity among the young generation of the Ukrainians.