MALE IMAGES IN SHORT STORIES BY B. ERSKINE

The author of the article offers an analysis of male images in the works of the famous British writerB. Erskine’s short stories published in the collection of story “Encounters». The analysed fiction textshave not been translated into Ukrainian yet. The study presents the attempt to use the gender researchtechniques to study literary problems. Using the classification of the male social patterns of behaviorworked out by N. Zhadanova, we analyse the collection of stories “Encounters” and single six typesof male images: “Knight-aristocrat”, “Gentleman”, “Mate”, “Romantic”, “Son”, “Father”. These typesof masculine images are neither positive nor negative, they always combine both traits this adds somemore realism. The male image of the type “Gentleman” prevails in the above-mentioned collection,the fact can be explained by the national and cultural traditions of the society, described in the stories.The vector of this study is promising in the multistudy researches, that recently become popularin humanitarian scientific practice.