Keywords
functions of literary contest
disfunctions of literary contest
institutional stability
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Abstract
Introduction. The basic functions and problems of the modern Ukrainian literary contests were drafted in this article. In Ukraine, the literary contests emerged in 1990th out of necessity to fill the national book market with books, written in the Ukrainian language. In the Ukrainian scientific discourse, they are still considered an advertising tool.
Relevance and goal. Since one function of the literary contests gets too much attention, while the others are ignored, that negatively affects its institutional stability. This explains the importance of paying attention to the other different functions, the complex of which supplies institutional stability in crisis periods. This study’s purpose is to outline the functions of modern Ukrainian literary contests and the main problems affecting their institutional stability.
Methodology. The results of the survey of the Ukrainian authors served as source data. Their answers were analyzed and systemized by statistical and content analysis methods.
The results. The results show that the literary contests as an institution, except for the informational and advertising functions, perform expressive and motivational functions. The literary contests can also form reading preferences, provide communications, and monitor the book market trends. There are unique functions that belong only to the literary contests whose subject of evaluation is unpublished works. As was found, they work as a mediator between authors and publishers, as literary agencies do. They also support the Ukrainian language by establishing strict language requirements for submitted works. Determined three groups of problems of literary contests that stop the development of their functions: 1) the problems related to organizing processes; 2) the problems related to judges; 3) the problems, which are not under the control of the institution.
Conclusions. Literary contests as an institution must maintain many different functions that are still not studied enough on the theoretical level. Their functions are also implemented not sufficiently on the practical level, which caused the institutional instability of the literary contests.
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