Еволюція української прози для дітей та юнацтва під впливом зарубіжної літератури.

Abstract

Translated literature has played an important role in the formation and functioning of Ukrainian literature for children and youth at various stages of its development. In the article the author outlines and analyzes the main aspects, mechanisms and specific examples of the influence of foreign literature on the development of contemporary Ukrainian prose for children and youth. The researcher proves that translated literature shapes trends, sets “fashion” on works of a particular thematic direction, promotes genre literature, plays an important role in updating the poetics of texts and outlines other trends in the development of national literature. Аctive gender marking of contemporary Ukrainian prose for young people, emergence of the phenomenon of literature for girls and for boys, frank diary texts are a consequence of popularity of works by Polish, German, English, Scandinavian writers (Barbara Kosmowska, Joanna Jagiełło, Małgorzata Gutowska-Adamczyk, Ulf Stark, Vigdis Hjorth, Angela Nanetti) among Ukrainian readers, extrapolation of foreign experience. Thus, Ukrainian writers produce an up to-date literary proposal, respond to readers’queries, which formed by contemporary realities and translated literature for children and youth.