SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH BY PROFESSOR ALEXANDER ASTAFIEV ABOUT THE CREATIVE PHENOMENON OF THE NEW YORK GROUP

Abstract

Scientific research by Professor Alexander Astafiev about the creative phenomenon of the New York group occupy an important place in the Ukrainian literary criticism. The scientist for a long time was interested in the creativity of Ukrainian emigration, created a unique scientific and historical image of the phenomenon of the New York group. Exercise literature that arose in New York in the second half of the twentieth century was investigated by scientists in the multi-planetary aspect. The most important achievement of Alexander Astafiev was the publication in an accessible scientific form of the anthology “Poets of the New York Group” (Kharkiv, 2003, second edition: 2009). This anthology is important for Ukrainian literature, it was an unconditional contribution of the scientist to the popularization of Ukrainian emigration poetry. The anthology opened the creative communication of the New York group with Ukraine, and led to a number of scientific publications by other Ukrainian scholars on this unexplored topic. It was the first in Ukraine anthology of the possession of exile literature.