Magazine «Red Way» as a source for studying the literary discussion about the form and content of the work

Abstract

The goal of the research. Investigate the characteristics, methods, genres of polemical literature in the field of literary criticism in the 20s of the 20th century – the period of national upsurge and cultural revival in Ukraine; to find out the state of studying literature as a socio-cultural reality within the framework of a separate periodical body – the magazine «Chervonyi shliakh». Methodology. In the process of scientific research of literary publications a set of research methods was used: comparative-historical, generalization, descriptive-analytical, culturological, which allowed the author to perform the tasks as much as possible. Scientific novelty. Due to a thorough analysis of publications on the role of content and form in fiction, the main vectors and priorities of the editorial policy of the magazine «Chervonyi shliakh» are revealed; indirectly shows the general atmosphere of creative looseness, pluralism, the struggle for freedom of speech, inherent in the period of the so-called Shot Revival. Conclusions. The years of rapid flourishing of literature in Ukraine were accompanied by no less active development of literary studies. A real downpour of discussion materials captured the columns of periodicals. The tendencies of the all-Ukrainian literary discussion about the role of content and form in the literary text have found their development and have been revealed in a completely new way on the pages of the «Chervonyi shliakh». Due to the active civic position and high qualification of the editorial staff, the journal received materials that vividly represent a variety of discussion branches.