ХУДОЖНЯ ІНТЕРПРЕТАЦІЯ КОЗАЦТВА ПИСЬМЕННИКАМИ «КАТОЛИЦЬКОЇ РУСІ» ДОБИ УКРАЇНСЬКОГО РЕНЕСАНСУ ТА РАННЬОГО БАРОКО

Abstract

The article focuses on the problem of the artistic interpretation of the Cossacks in the writings of the writers of "Catholic Rus" during the Ukrainian Renaissance and early Baroque. Theoretical generalizations are made on the material of the poetic works of Joseph Vereshchinsky, Symon Simonid, Martyn Pashkovsky, Ivan Dombrovsky, Bartolomey Zymorovich, Homa Yevlevich, which contains the first artistic interpretations of the Cossacks, including their genesis, way of life, defensive mission against external encroachments and glorification of Cossack virtues. The negative image of the Cossacks as a destructive force prone to fomenting civil conflict was created in Simon Pecalid's poem "On the Ostroh War under the Pjatka against the Nyzovi". In their works, the writers of "Catholic Rus" initiated an important vector of early-modern literary creativity - the Cossack Baroque, which became an expression of the ideology of the Cossack-Hetman state.