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LA LETTERATURA RUTENA DELLA RZECZPOSPOLITA OBOJGA NARODÓW NELLA RICEZIONE CRITICA POLACCA

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Brogi G.
pl.it / rassegna italiana di argomenti polacchi
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2019
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issue 10
109-124
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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.
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DIFFICULT 'MALE MATERNITY' IN UKRAINIAN LITERATURE OF 19TH AND 20TH CENTURIES: TARAS SHEVCHENKO - YEVHEN MALANIUK - MYKOLA KHVYLOVYI

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Matusiak A.
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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MEDZIKULTÚRNE VZŤAHY: RUSÍNI A ŽIDIA V UKRAJINSKEJ LITERATÚRE SLOVENSKA

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Amir A.
Slavica Slovaca
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2024
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vol. 59
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issue 3
444 - 453
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The article examines intercultural relations between Ruthenians and Jews in the work of the Greek Catholic priest Anatolyi Kralytskyi (1835, Vyshny Chabyny – 1894, Mukachevo). Literary activity of this author was connected with the place of his birth in Slovakia, and later for a long time with Ukraine, at the time when both these territories were part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. The subject of our research is the relationship between the Jewish and Catholic communities, presented by Kralytskyi in the story „Piyavitsa“ (1869). This text, like many other contemporary works on a similar topic, was probably meant to serve as educationally motivated reading, as a result of which it absorbed a whole complex of stereotypes about Jews. Our goal is, with the help of the literary and historical method, to find out the reason for such a depiction of the representatives of the Jewish minority and to reflect on the extent to which this literary model was based on the real life events.
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THE LYRICAL DRAMAS OF LESYA UKRAINKA (A DISTINCTIVE WRITING STYLE)

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Karpinchuk H.
Slovenská literatúra (Slovak Literature)
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2025
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vol. 72
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issue 4
314 - 326
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This article explores the lyrical aspects of Larysa Kosach’s (Lesya Ukrainka, 1871–1913) dramas, which delve into themes such as the establishment and development of Christianity, ancient mythology, basic plots, national history, and folklore. Known for her openness to various languages and cultures, Lesya Ukrainka significantly enriched the genre system of Ukrainian literature. She established genres such as the dramatic poem, feerie drama, and drama etude, which are all integral to lyrical drama. The lyricism in Ukrainka’s dramas is primarily seen in the construction of conflict, which unfolds not through actions, as in classical theatre, but rather through the consciousness and experiences of the characters, their discussions, and reflections. This lyricism is also evident in the structure of her works, including the character’s language, rhythm, tone, pace of speech, and melody. Her dramas predominantly feature monologues, meditative digressions and subtle hints in the character’s thoughts, sketchy descriptions, and telegraphic syntax. Along with the content of her works, the lyricism is further enriched by detailed descriptions of nature and the incorporation of folklore.
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NATIONAL IDENTITY AND RESISTANCE IN MYKOLA AKHBASH’S ORIGINAL AND TRANSLATED RUMEIKA-LANGUAGE POETRY

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Labetska Y., Nikolchenko M.
World Literature Studies
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2025
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vol. 17
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issue 3
88 – 99
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The work of the Ukrainian poet Mykola Akhbash, who writes in Rumeika, exemplifies resistance literature of a national minority in response to Russia’s full-scale invasion. His poems reflect author’s deep concern for the fate of Mariupol, initial confusion followed by resilience, and an appeal to the transcendent. These form the thematic core of his wartime verse. The author employs a range of perspectives, yet his values remain rooted in both the Ukrainian nation and the Azov Greek community. Writing in Rumeika and using ethno-cultural symbols, translating Ukrainian classics, and employing Ukrainian transcription, Akhbash articulates the identity and historical legacy of the North Azovian Greeks within a broader Ukrainian context.
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'BALFOURIAN SPEECH' AND ANTI-COLONIAL DISCOURSE IN THE UKRAINIAN LITERATURE OT THE 'FIN-DE-SIECLE' PERIOD ('Mowa balfourowska' i dyskurs antykolonialny w ukrainskiej literaturze przelomu XIX/XX wieku)

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Kupidura R.
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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JASNEJŠÍ OBRAZ SI UTVORÍTE Z VÄČŠEJ VZDIALENOSTI: DVE ZÁPLETKY Z DIŠTANČNÉHO ČÍTANIA UKRAJINSKEJ LITERATÚRY

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Yesypenko D.
Slovenská literatúra (Slovak Literature)
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2020
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vol. 67
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issue 6
552 – 567
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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.
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DE-COLONIAL ANALYTICS IN TRANSLATION HISTORY: UKRAINIAN LITERATURE IN THE CONTESTED SPACE OF ENGLISH TRANSLATION

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Odrekhivska I.
World Literature Studies
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2024
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vol. 16
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issue 3
4 – 14
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The article offers a de-colonial reading and critically examines the ways in which Ukrainian literature and culture have been represented in Anglophone translation since the 19th century to the present day, revealing the colonial aesthetic and social imaginary influenced by both the Russian imperial and subsequent Soviet lenses. For this, I develop a de-colonial analytics in the historical studies of translation through a four-step framework: 1) archaeology of knowledge through (non-)translation, investigating the foundations of knowledge embedded in translation practices, 2) deconstructive reading of translations to analyse the power structures and built-in distortions, 3) para-textual positioning of translation, exploring the underlying ideologies, and 4) re-existence, concluding with a re-evaluation of translational contribution to de-colonial resistance. Grounded in a corpus analysis, the article posits three common colonial strategies in the history of translating Ukrainian works via the Russian imperial/Soviet lens into English: 1) cultural appropriation, 2) indirect translation into English through Russian, and 3) centring on Russian imperial and Soviet recognition of the piece in its English-language publication. These strategies have resulted in a parallel, Russified narrative of Ukrainian literature in Anglophone academia.
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THE TOPOS OF MARIUPOL IN UKRAINIAN AND ITALIAN MILITARY LITERATURE: COMPARATIVE ASPECTS

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Veklych O.
World Literature Studies
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2025
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vol. 17
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issue 3
100 – 108
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This article examines the depiction of military events in Mariupol at the onset of the full-scale Russian invasion, comparing Italian and Ukrainian literary narratives. The analysis focuses on two texts: L’ assedio: Il romanzo di Mariupol (The siege: A novel about Mariupol, 2022) by Andrea Nicastro and #Mariupol’#Nadiia (#Mariupol#Hope, 2023) by Nadiia Sukhorukova. Both authors are journalists and eyewitnesses to the events they describe. The research explores how these narratives diverge in their stylistic features, character typologies, and linguistic choices, reflecting broader cultural and societal contexts in Italy and Ukraine.
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POETIC REFLECTIONS OF WAR IN CONTEMPORARY UKRAINIAN LITERATURE AS POETRY OF METAPHYSICAL PERSPECTIVES

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Riazantseva T., Kanchura Y.
World Literature Studies
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2025
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vol. 17
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issue 3
60 – 72
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Metaphysical poetry emerges in transitional historical periods marked by radical change, as exemplified by wars. Defined by unique ideological and stylistic traits, it explores human existence as a drama, focusing on complex experiences. This poetry expresses a catastrophic worldview, merging thought and feeling to capture life’s paradoxical nature. This article examines how contemporary Ukrainian poetry reinterprets metaphysical themes, emphasizing sacred time, a new view of death, and mystical elements, demonstrating thematic kinship despite limited use of traditional metaphysical techniques.
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COMBATANT PROSE AS AN IMPORTANT COMPONENT OF THE CONTEMPORARY UKRAINIAN LITERARY PROCESS

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Riabchenko M.
World Literature Studies
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2025
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vol. 17
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issue 3
4 – 11
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Under the influence of the Russian-Ukrainian war, many texts on military themes have appeared in contemporary Ukrainian literature. An important part of these works is combatant prose, books written exclusively by battle participants. This article focuses on the structural features of this prose (genre diffusion and genre variations). Some stylistic characteristics are outlined (for example, the active use of comic forms). These texts are important ego-documents of the time. Modern combatant prose is rooted in the entire tradition of military literature and at the same time expands it with new problems and methods of text creation. In particular, this is a change of “colonized thinking” to “national thinking”, therefore decolonial discourse may be suggested.
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NARRATIVE AND WAR: THE EXPERIENCE OF CONTEMPORARY UKRAINIAN LITERATURE

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Romanenko O.
World Literature Studies
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2025
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vol. 17
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issue 3
12 – 23
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This article aims to determine the transformations of verbal and non-verbal codes in works about the Russian-Ukrainian War. It claims that contemporary Ukrainian literature forms: 1) a new kind of story about the war – that of the strength of resilience of Ukrainians; 2) a new type of narrative that combines verbal and visual (or multimedia) components, which emphasize documentary authenticity and deep figurative meaning in the interpretation of the Russian-Ukrainian War. Such a narrative is focused on documentation and metaphorical understanding. It is a unique combination of individual and collective traumatic experiences in a coherent text about war written in times of disaster.
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TYPOLOGICKÉ PARALELY A ROZDIELY MEDZI POÉZIOU TARASA ŠEVČENKA A SLOVENSKÝMI ROMANTIKMI (SAMO CHALUPKA, ANDREJ SLÁDKOVIČ, JANKO KRÁĽ, JÁN BOTTO)

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Boroň O.
Slovenská literatúra (Slovak Literature)
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2020
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vol. 67
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issue 2
93 – 104
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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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THE QUESTION OF FLESH IN MODERN UKRAINIAN WOMEN'S PROSE (OKSANA ZABUZHKO: 'POL'OVI DOSLIDZHENNYA Z UKRAINSKOHO SEKSU' AND NATALKA SNIADANKO: 'KOLEKTSIYA PRISTRASTEI, ABO PRIHODI MOLODOI UKRAINKI' (Problem cielesnosci we wspolczesnej ukrainskiej prozi

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Skowron J.
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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АПОСТОЛЬСКАЯ МИССИЯ СВЯТЫХ КИРИЛЛА И МЕФОДИЯ В КОНТЕКСТЕ РАЗВИТИЯ ФЕНОМЕНА СЛОВА В УКРАИНСКОЙ КУЛЬТУРЕ

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Kovalchuk N., Jakubovská V.
Konštantínove listy
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2018
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vol. 11
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issue 2
87 - 97
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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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UNIVERZITNÝ ROMÁN V LITERATÚRACH STREDNEJ A VÝCHODNEJ EURÓPY PO ROKU 1989

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Blashkiv O.
Slovenská literatúra (Slovak Literature)
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2024
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vol. 71
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issue 5
463 – 480
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The campus novel, traditionally seen as a genre of English and American literature, has recently also gained attention in non-Anglophone literary traditions. The article focuses on campus fiction written in Slovak, Czech, Polish, and Ukrainian after 1989. It provides a brief introduction to the terminology and classification of the campus novel within the Anglo-American literary tradition, offering a perspective on Central European campus fiction through this lens. It traces its genre hybridity and the dominant genres with which it is associated, such as satire, social detective fiction, historical detective fiction, metafiction, biography, and the Bildungsroman. It also indicates the historical periods in which the genre is set and the traits of the professor as protagonist. While campus satire is a shared feature of Slovak, Czech, Polish, and Ukrainian literature in response to political change, each national literature emphasizes themes unique to its own literary and cultural traditions. These include the founding of Polish universities, identity and the reassessment of Ukrainian professors’ lives, the ironic treatment of the communist era in Czech and Slovak literature, and metafiction in Slovak literature.
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