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Slavia Orientalis
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2008
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vol. 57
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issue 2
229-245
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The text provides a synthetic view of the key subject matters of the contemporary Ukrainian literature i.e. Mother/Ukraine. The authoress analyses the subject matter in the context of the symbolism of Ukraine as a lonely mother devoid of the right to walk her own way, a mother in flood of tears, infinitely unhappy, raped and defamed by ruthless oppressors/drifters. With the use of the colonial discourse technique the authoress analyses this feminine image of the motherland on this basis of the works of Taras Shevchenko, Yevhen Malaniuk and Mykola Khvylovyi - artists, who created the most distinctive and representative literary patterns and models of interpreting the Ukraine motif in the 19th and 20th century Ukrainian literature.
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The interest of Polish scholars in literary works written in Ruthenian or in Polish language in the borderlands of the Commonwealth varied in different periods. By the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 1930s, Poland was rather focused on the construction of her new national state and the accentuation of her civilizational mission towards Eastern Slavic literature. After World War II, the new borders of the Polish state under Communist rule directed the attention of Polish scholars and cultural dealers toward a new national conception, whose goal was to eradicate the memory of the Commonwealth and to canalize the intellectual efforts towards “truly” Polish heritage, anti-German antagonism and politically correct ideologies. However, some groundbreaking works were written in the 1960s. Radical changes appeared after 1989. Publications multiplied exponentially in the 1990s and 2000s. Post-colonial studies emerged. In Polish scholarship and culture, two main trends may be indicated: on the one hand, the need to analyze the cultural, linguistic and literary specificities of the borderlands of Ukraine and Belarus in the Lithuanian Grand principality and in the Crown territories; on the other, the need to consider in a systemic approach all the components (Ruthenian, Polish, Lithuanian, Jewish, German) of society and culture of the Rzeczpospolita. The article focuses on the most interesting trends and publications of the periods indicated above.
Porównania
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2008
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vol. 5
157-165
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The author embarks on a post-colonial analysis of short stories by two 'fin-de-siecle' Ukrainian writers Mykhailo Kotsiubynsky and Mykhailo Hrushevskyi. He scrutinizes the content of utterances by the characters of 'For the Benefit of All' by Kotsiubynsky, and 'Bekh-al'-Dzhuhur' by Hrushevskyi. These utterances are compared to a speech delivered by the former British Prime Minister James Balfour, who openly supported the colonial policy. In the above mentioned short stories the so-called 'Balfourian speech' stands in a stark contrast to the narrated world, which makes them thoroughly anti-colonial.
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The paper focuses on two examples introducing a distant reading approach for research Ukrainian literary works. The studies considered are rather different in terms of breadth of their aims and intentions, the number of performers, the pace and nature of implementation, and consequently, results. The first one concerns famous Ukrainian writer, Taras Shevchenko, and the network of contacts, as reflected in his diary. Distant reading helps to both question and elaborates on established theses and hypotheses of predecessors, as well as to reveal important details of Shevchenko’s portrait as an author, artist, and person. By contrast, the article also informs about the research by a team of scholars who analysed the titles of European novels of the 1840s–1910s. As the one responsible for the Ukrainian and Polish parts, I outline (un)confirmed expectations and surprising findings, and demonstrate how one can build a bridge between the results of distant reading and subsequent studies of a narrower scope.
Slavia Orientalis
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2009
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vol. 58
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issue 3
313-324
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The article considers two novels of Ukrainian authors who are women. Modern Ukrainian authors touch upon a question of flesh. They find new ways of presentation of the women's internal and sexual experience: a story is reported from inside of a women's body. This perspective allows Oksana Zabuzhko in her novel 'Pol'ovi doslidzhenniya z ukrainskoho seksu' (Field Work In Ukrainian Sex) to tell not only about sexual experience of a Ukrainian woman, but also to show some mental consequences of political situation in Ukraine in 20th century. Ukraine was one of the republics in Soviet Union; it was governed from Moscow and in fact was one of Russian colonies. Russian language, literature and culture dominated in the whole Soviet empire. For independent views people were imprisoned or deported far from Ukraine. It caused colonial complex in Ukraine. Oksana Zabuzhko shows that in the ill situation Ukrainian people were disabled to build healthy relationships of any kind, also sexual relationships. The second authoress is Natalka Sniadanko. She is 13 years younger than Oksana Zabuzhko. When in 1991 Ukraine became an independent country, she was only 18 years old. The main character of her novel 'Kolektsiya pristrastei, abo prihodi molodoi Ukrainki' (Collection of Passions or the Adventures of an Ukrainian Girl), is a free woman from a free country. She doesn't want to stay in unhealthy relationships. These differences between the two stories reflect social changes in Ukraine in the last 20 years.
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The paper aims at identifying possible typological overlaps between the works of Slovak romantic poets (Samo Chalupka, Andrej Sládkovič, Janko Kráľ, Ján Botto) and the most prominent Ukrainian writer Taras Shevchenko. The paper uses a comparative typological approach. The research is carried out within the framework of such a kind of comparative typology as comparative thématologie. Typological comparison of Slovak poets’ works to the ones of Taras Shevchenko revealed no single ideological-thematic overlaps between them. On the other hand, it clarified a modern idea of the creative individuality of each of the poets under consideration. All the poets are united by a universal motif of love for motherland, longing for it, especially in the conditions of being in a foreign country or even exile, as in Shevchenko’s case. The poets employ similar artistic means, celebrating beauty of their native land. At the same time in the works of Slovak poets and Shevchenko there is no lack in examples of different interpretations of similar subjects, as in the verses with the same name „Mower“ of Chalupka and of Shevchenko, poems „Maryna“ of Sládkovič and of Shevchenko, ballads „Yellow Lily“ of Botto and „Lily“ of the Ukrainian. A comparative typological approach to the material, well known at first sight, provides a detection of previously unnoticed analogies and similarities between the works of Slovak poets and Shevchenko, enabling a new understanding of the common literary and socio-political context.
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In their contribution, the authors examine the issue of the origin of Slavonic literature, the Old Slavonic language, connected with the important activity of the great Slavic missionaries, Sts. Cyril and Methodius. The formation of the first state of East Slavs coincides with the adoption of Christianity and the confirmation of the word as the divine Logos. In Christian interpretation, the word gains an ontological status of God›s wisdom. The authors examine the development of the word (in terms of the language) by analysing the activities of St. Cyril as the founder of the Kiev letters. Their attention is focused on the analysis of the work of Gregory Skovoroda, Taras Hryhorovich Shevchenko, Lesya Ukrainka and others. Works of these writers show that the word has an archetypal character in Ukrainian culture and its symbolic structure penetrates all stages of its development. The word takes the form of an «apostolic mission», reveals and exposes the soul of the Ukrainian nation. It has Christian origin, and its cultural and historical manifestations strengthen national identity and the nation state.
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