The Singular Literary Event as a Tool for Analyzing the Individual Poetics of a Literary Work (Based on Vasyl Symonenko’s Short Story “The Wedding of Opanas Krokva”)

Background. The category of the “event” is becoming an increasingly important concept for analyzing the global transformations the world is undergoing today, and literary studies require an analysis tools update necessary for understanding the phenomenon of the “event” in a literary text. The concept of the “literary event” in contemporary literary theory has several interpretations: plural in narratological and semiotic traditions, and singular (both deflationary and radical) in hermeneutic and phenomenological approaches. This study offers a comprehensive examination of the radical singular literary event as an instrument of poetological analysis, including a definition of its main characteristics, the ways it functions within the text, and approaches to its identification. Methods. The methodological foundation of the study is based on a combination of phenomenological and hermeneutic approaches with a semantic model of the fictional world within the framework of possible worlds theory. Results. The article presents, for the first time, a study of the radical singular literary event as a tool for analyzing the poetics of a literary work. The literary event is defined as a non-verbal coordinating center that shapes and determines the elements of a work’s poetics. The system of relationships between the singular event and various aspects of poetics – receptive, technical, structural, and semantic – is also analyzed. The practical application of the identified characteristics of the event and the methods of their use in poetological analysis is demonstrated through an analysis of Vasyl Symonenko’s short story "The Wedding of Opanas Krokva." The choice of this text is justified by the pronounced “eventfulness” of its plot, as well as by its relevance to the contemporary wartime context. Сonclusions. The study demonstrates that a completed literary work can be conceived as a form of manifestation of the literary event, while the poetics of the work can be understood as teleologically subordinated to the event. It is shown that the literary event can serve as an analytical tool for examining the poetics of a work, and the functioning of the main methods of identifying the literary event at different levels of the text is demonstrated. The study proposes new approaches to the analysis of the literary event (reversal of the horizon of understanding; immanent series and factors of transcendence; fabular-narrative reference; ontic-ontological dictionary). The practical significance of the research lies in the development of new approaches to the analysis of poetics based on the singular eventfulness of the work. The study lays the groundwork for the development of a broader theoretical, practical, and critical field of evential studies. Prospects for further research include the typologization of strategies for the formation of the literary event, the study of the ontological space of the event, and the analysis of the processes of reader identity transformation in the encounter with the event of the text

Psycholinguistics and Behavioral Studies · Regional Socio-Economic Development Trends · Spatial and Cultural Studies

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