UKRAINIAN LITERATURE OF THE SECOND HALF OF 18 CENTURY IN THE LIGHT OF ENLIGHTTNMENT (TO THE FORMULATION OF THE PROBLEM)

Abstract

This article is a polemic with the authors of the chapter “Literature of the late Baroque” (the second half of the 18th century) in the second volume of the “History of Ukrainian Literature” (2014). It is affirmed that the literature of this period should be seen not only in line with the Baroque, but the Enlightenment, too.
The author of the article draws attention to the legality of referring to the Ukrainian culture of the Polish and Latin authors of the Renaissance and Baroque of the Ukrainian origin, natives of Ukrainian lands or their inhabitants, as well as appropriate creators of the Enlightenment who wrote in Russian. The author believes that the study of the original literature of the second half of the 18th century can occur in the following main areas: study of sources, of the manuscripts of the domestic poets which have written the odes; research of Classicism issues in the Old Ukrainian literature; modern rethinking of the V. Kapnist’s works, incl. the letters from the XVIII century; scientific description of the I. Falkovsky’s literary heritage.