TY - JOUR AU - Gurduz, Andriy PY - 2020/06/30 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - WATER CONCEPT IN THE NOVEL BY OLENA PECHORNA THE WITCH JF - Philological Treatises JA - PT VL - 12 IS - 1 SE - Articles DO - UR - https://tractatus.sumdu.edu.ua/index.php/journal/article/view/890 SP - 42-48 AB - <p><em>In Ukrainian prose of the first decades of </em><em>the </em><em>ХХІ </em><em>century</em> <em>nearly greatest attention to the artistic word cleanness </em><em>is spared by Olena Pech</em><em>o</em><em>rna</em><em>, her scantily explored novels deserve a system study. The novel </em>The Witch <em>occupies an important place in </em><em>her artistic </em><em>work and </em><em>it is </em><em>organic </em><em>for her idiostyle </em><em>paradigm, but while did not get a professional estimation. </em><em>In our article we </em><em>carry out an attempt to define the specific of dominant water </em><em>c</em><em>oncept in the novel </em>The Witch <em>for</em><em> the first time. The key in </em><em>the article </em><em>become </em><em>the</em> <em>study </em><em>of </em><em>the </em><em>realization</em><em> type </em><em>of </em><em>the </em><em>water </em><em>c</em><em>oncept of in </em><em>the </em><em>book</em><em>,</em><em> and </em><em>also the research</em><em> of changes of </em><em>its</em><em> expression by comparison to the previous novels of authoress, finding out of method of subordination of </em>The Witch <em>poetics </em><em>to the</em> <em>named c</em><em>oncept. In the </em><em>article </em><em>are used psychoanalytic, system and comparable methods of research, elements of </em><em>c</em><em>orporeal-mimetic</em> <em>method.</em> The Witch <em>continue</em><em>s</em> <em>a </em><em>row of pseudom</em><em>y</em><em>stic novels, where the expressed corporalness and system personification of the natural phenomena, objects, abstractions, </em><em>etc. assists </em><em>to the irrational atmosphere. </em></p><p><em>Personification here is more electoral, its </em><em>receptions are carried in descriptions of the emotional state, landscape, interior. «Circular elements» go out on the first plan </em><em>and they assists to c</em><em>onceptualiz</em><em>ation</em><em> of </em><em>the different </em><em>phenomena row. </em><em>That are</em><em> leit-motif</em> <em>imitations: updat</em><em>ing</em><em>; elements of application of meal and / whether taste feelings; </em><em>the anatomy-type description of the </em><em>phenomena, objects, abstractions</em><em>, etc.</em><em>; expressed corporalness</em><em>.</em></p><p><em>In </em>The Witch <em>system of </em><em>images </em><em>and mi</em><em>c</em><em>ro</em><em>images </em><em>a separate place belongs to </em><em>the </em><em>water</em><em> c</em><em>oncept</em><em>.</em><em> As well as in «The Circles on the Water» or «</em><em>A </em><em>Fortress for </em><em>the H</em><em>eart», </em><em>a </em><em>water </em><em>is </em><em>living</em><em> here</em><em>, but already not </em><em>anatomic</em><em> and </em><em>it is </em><em>more frequent represented in description of processes and states. </em><em>The accordingly executed descriptions of personages experiencing and properties complement a water dictate in the novel. The d</em><em>ominating woma</em><em>n</em><em> beginning, incident to the pantheistic picture of the authoress</em><em>’</em> <em>art </em><em>world, </em><em>is </em><em>underline</em><em>d</em><em> by the dominant </em><em>role </em><em>of water element and </em><em>by </em><em>proper key </em><em>c</em><em>oncept.</em></p><p><em>This concept</em> <em>is </em><em>realized through variant poetics and subordinates the work structure, co-operates with the analogical clusters of personification, leit-motif</em> <em>imitations, with </em><em>the c</em><em>oncept</em><em>s</em><em> of </em><em>memory</em><em>, returning, paradise, hell</em><em>, etc.</em> <em>The named water concept also assists </em><em>in forming in the novel of </em><em>the mosaic </em><em>m</em><em>ytho</em><em>poetic paradigm. </em><em>The c</em><em>oncept</em><em>s</em><em> of memory, «winged» woman </em><em>are actualized in the novel. </em></p> ER -