The poetics of Mykola Chyrskyi’s feuilleton “Poděbrady cicerone”
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https://doi.org/10.28925/2311-259x.2020.4.3Keywords:
feuilleton, guide, editing, cicerone, women’s emancipation, Mykola ChyrskyiAbstract
The subject of the Study is the poetics of the feuilleton “Poděbrady cicerone” (1924) by Mykola Chyrskyi. The feuilleton “Poděbrady cicerone” was an effective response of the writer to the desire of the Ukrainian Academy of Economics (UAE) students to criticize his views on the ideas of women’s emancipation, as well as editors’ of student issues satirical attitude to the volume of prepared materials. The objective of the article is to study the achievements of M. Chyrskyi in the use of common techniques of artistic visuality creation in a message and the implementation of the ideological and thematic idea. The hermeneutic method of analysis of a journalistic text was used to achieve the objective. The results of the study clarify the features of the central image of Cicerone, the composition of the text and its subject matter. Cicerone is an experienced mediator between travelers and the phenomena of reality exposed in the feuilleton. The recipient looks at the memorable places of Poděbrady through the author’s eyes, his remarks become dominant in shaping the idea of the town, the UAE and the people who studied and lived there. The colorful details of student life, the activities of some parties, artistic, public organizations and associations were reproduced in the feuilleton in a humorous tone, including the women’s union, provocatively named the “Organizations of a problematic nature” in the feuilleton. The composition of the feuilleton was created with the help of assembly technology. The assembling elements emphasized the emotional, semantic, and associative connections between the individual characters and the episodes. The clash of incompatible episodes helped to create comic artistic effects, to reflect the dynamic situation of observing the life of the Ukrainian student community. In addition to the main topic, the feuilleton implicitly raised the issue of editing and reducing journalistic materials in student periodicals in exile. The feuilleton allowed the writer to involve readers in the discussion of important issues, which turned the works of this genre into an active factor of public life. The appearance of materials about women's emancipation in Ukrainian foreign periodicals and the participation of women in the multifaceted life of migrants verified the considerable attention to these issues in the Ukrainian emigrant environment. However, the feuilleton achievement of the writer is not limited to the works of the outlined subject. This promising layer of M. Chyrskyi journalistic heritage can reveal new features of the writer’s poetics in further research.
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