Diarist as a creator of documentary mediation

Abstract

The paper is devoted to the study of mediation and mediators in ego-documentary prose. The are nine possibilities of mediation formation in the diary (Taras Shevchenko’s “Diary” is taken as a sample): 1) by means of memories, 2) as dictated by heart, 3) by means of emotional temporitum, 4) through the actualization of personalities, 5) as an imitation of the previous genre form, 6) as revision of the past, 7) in dreams, 8) by means of language expression, 9) by using the Bible. Shevchenko’s journal is characterized by the movement of everyday life to the realm of the transcendent. If in the literature of Romanticism the mediators are usually located in the transcendent, then in Shevchenko to this classical landmark of the Romantics is added everyday life as dreamed and transcendent.