Поезія Богдана-Ігоря Антонича. Жанрово-Стильові домінанти

One of the non-subjective methods of realization of authorial consciousness is genre. The early creative works of Bogdan-Igor Antonych (the collection “A Greeting to Life”) feature canonical genre forms (sonnet, classical threnody) that often presume a re-thinking of stereotypes of traditional consciousness. Increased attention to poetic form and explicit attempts to direct the reader’s perception by the determinants of genre and structuring of poetic collections sometimes resulted in disharmony between formal aspects of a work and its methods of expression. In his later creative works Bogdan-Igor Antonych renounces format experiments for the sake of deepening the semantic load of the text. In the collections “Three Rings” and “The Grand Harmony” the author favors conventional genre types – hymns, prayers and threnodies, although most of the poems in “The Book of the Lion”, “The Green Gospel” and “Rotations” are composed in non-canonical genres.

On the stylistic level the creation by Bogdan-Igor Antonych is marked by a variety elements and by an aspiration to connect the uncombinable. The stylistically formative dominants of the poet’s work are described through antonymous pairs: folklore vs. literary characters, centrifugal vs. polycentric, describing vs. dynamics.

There are basic dominants of author’s consciousness that are represented on all levels of textual organization: autonomy of literary thought, a reliance on synthesis of contents, the necessity of permanent searching, introversion and reflection, the combination of perceptible recreation of the world with philosophical generalizations, and the conversion of personal experience into valid, valuable co-ordinates.

Key-words: author’s consciousness, biographic author, text author, lyric “I”, persona, genre, versification features, stylistic formative dominants.