THE PHILOSOPHY OF THE WORD BY OLEKSANDR POTEBNІА AND THE AESTHETICS OF UKRAINIAN NEOCLASSICISM

Alyona PALASH,
PhD, Junior Researcher Department of Stylistics, Language Culture and Sociolinguistics,
Institute of the Ukrainian Language of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine;
4 Mykhaila Hrushevskoho St., Kyiv 01001, Ukraine;
е-mail: palash706@gmail.com
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5283-9906

Heading: THEORETICAL LINGUISTYLISTICS
Language: Ukrainian

Abstract
The article examines the influence of Alexander Potebnіa’s linguistic-philosophical concept on the formation of the aesthetic programme of Ukrainian neoclassicism in the 1920s and 1930s. The theoretical works and poetic creativity of M. Zerov, M.Rylskyі, P. Fуlуpovуch, M. Drаі-Khmara, and Yuriі Klen are analysed through the prism of Potebnіa’s philosophy of the internal form of the word. It is argued that the cult of perfect form in neoclassical poetry is not just a formalistic phenomenon, but a conscious intellectual strategy for the artistic realisation of Potebnіa’s ideas about the inseparable connection between language, thought and national identity. The study proves that the aestheticisation of the national language corpus through skilful mastery of genre forms (sonnet, tercet, rondo), the principle of cyclisation of the collection and the synthesis of national and European traditions are a practical embodiment of Potebnіa’s concept of poetry as a means of ‘completing thoughts’ and ‘forming dreams’. Specific mechanisms of artistic realisation of the concept of the internal form of the word in neoclassical poetic texts are identified. The study demonstrates that neoclassicism organically continued Potebnіa’s tradition of understanding language as an instrument of national and cultural self-identification.
Key words: philosophy of words, internal form of words, language creation, word-image, Potebnіa, neoclassicists.

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