Окреслено співвідношення понять "традиції" та "новаторство", простежено їхню роль і значення в контексті вивчення літературних явищ різних історичних періодів. Об"єктом аналізу є творчість І. Карпенка-Карого та М. Куліша. Досліджено літературознавчу рецепцію традицій корифея українського театру у п"єсах драматурга-модерніста. Проаналізовано способи реалізації та трансформації цих художніх традицій у творчості М. Куліша, що простежуються на різних рівнях: стильовому, жанровому, сюжетному тощо. Увагу приділено висвітленню тих параметрів художнього новаторства, які були частково втілені у творах І. Карпенка-Карого та набули подальшого художнього оформлення і розвитку в п"єсах М. Куліша.
One of the brightest playwrights of the twentieth century, M. Kulish has synthesized significant artistic achievem ents of his outstanding predecessors. The Ukrainian playwright has organically combin ed the achievements of manyartistic trends (realism, symbolism, expressionism , "theatre of the absurd"), creating an original, aesthetically and artis tically perfect, stylistic sy stem. In dramatic works by M. Kulish, the intersection of diverse sem antic and artistic planes, as well as the intera&ction of different discourses with the involvement of the achievements of world art and philosophy, is combined with a strong reliance on the traditions of national drama. The traditions of I. Karpenko-Karyi in the drama by M. Kulish can be trac&ed in various aspects. First of all, as the top achievements that became the basis for further development, deepening and the tr ansformation of ideo logical and artistic achievements of Ukrainian drama of the earl&y twentieth century. The vector of development, which was formed by I. Karpenko-Karyi, determined the initial positions for the realization of the first dr amatic attempts of M. Kulish and some aesthetic p&arameters of the dramatic t echniques, artistic achievements of his outstanding predecessor in accordance with the conceptual tasks that faced him as a creator of modern drama under the new hist oric conditions. At the s&ame time, the traditions of the Ukrainian Coryphees thea tre, modified to the circumstances and challenges of the twentieth century can be tr aced in the literary works by M. Kulish on different levels: stylistic (that is manifest ed& in the use of realism aesthetics, with its topmost embodiment in plays by I. Karpenko-Karyi; expre ssionism aesthetics, with its basics of developmen t in the literary works of the XIX century playwrights); genre (which is realized& in the appeal to the genres of classical drama – comedy, tragicomedy, melodrama – with its further rethinking of the these main genres attributes in accordance with the modernist worldview); plot (which is displayed in &the use of similar in some par ameters plot frameworks), etc.
