YAR SLAVUTYCH AS A LITERATURE SCHOLAR

The article is dedicated to the special features of Yar Slavutych’s explorer reception the main figures and tendencies of the Ukrainian literature XVII-th – XX-th centuries, the art coordinates of images of Ukraine and its leaders. The unique contribution of H. Scovoroda, T. Shevchenko, I.Franko, Y. Malanyuk. V. Stus and others in the development of the Ukrainian pro-State nation, its political ideas and people’s dignity is characterized according to the scholar’s pointe of view. Scientific review of literary works of Ukrainian immigration has began in early 90th – it was connected with the return of texts and publications of it’s prominent representatives, collecting of great number of materials and first tries of its’ scientific treating. But domestic science still has a lack of special works which will fully describe the role of literary revelations of diaspore scientists. The heir of Cossack elites, steppe warriors from Kherson region, who became a professor of Alberta University, struggler for the independence of Ukraine Yar Slavutych (Hryrohii Zhuchenko, born in 1918) is famous as a poet of neoclassic genre, literary critic and linguist. His philological works are fully represented in the third and the fourth volume of his „Selected works in 5 volumes” published in Dnipro in the late 90th. Professor’s and poet’s scientific heritage was synthetically analytical, constructive and full of objective truth – it properly represents the values of nation, expresses the relevance and contextual rightfulness of ideas. The world of literary critical works of Yar Slavutych is a universe of humanism, democracy and patriotism, insistence on words and it’s aesthetic beauty. Such kind of scientific works are able to stand the test of time.