A history of Ukrainian literature, from the 11th to the end of the 19th century with An overview of the twentieth century

TABLE OF CONTENTS

FOREWORD TO THE FIRST EDITION
by George S. N. Luckyj . . . . ...................................xi

TRANSLITERATION T A B LE ......................................xiv

PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION
by George S. N. L u c k y j............................................... xv

INTRODUCTION by D. Čyževs k y j ................................1

I. PREHISTORIC PERIOD ........................................................................... 17
A. Origins 17
B. The Oral Tradition 18
C. Scandinavian Elements 25
D. Indo-European Elements 34

II. TRANSLATED AND BORROWED LITERATURE ........................... 38
A. General Characteristics 38
B. Liturgical Books 39
C. Religious Literature 41
a. Canonical Christian Literature 41
b. Apocrypha 45
D. Secular Literature 49
a. Scholarly Works 49
b. The Narrative 54
E. Poetry 60
F. The Sources of Translated and
Borrowed Literature 61

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III. THE PERIOD OF MONUMENTAL STYLE
(The Eleventh Century) ........................................................................... 65
A. General Characteristics 65
B. Sermons 69
C. The Tale 79
D. Hagiographie Literature 89
E. The Collection of 1076 97
F. The Works of Volodymyr Monomax 104
G. “The Pilgrimage of Abbot Daniel” 110
H. Chronicles 114
I. The Epos 123
J. Literature of a Practical Character 132

IV. THE PERIOD OF ORNAMENTAL STYLE ........................................ 136
A. General Characteristics 136
B. Sermons 140
C. The Tale 162
D. The Patericon o f the Kievan Caves
Monastery 165
E. Chronicles 171
F. The Epos 187
G. The Tale o f Ihor’s Campaign 191
H. The Tatar Invasion 209
I. Two Works of Questionable Origin 211
J. Literature of a Practical Character 218
K. The Significance of the Literature of
the Kievan Period 222

V. THE LITERATURE OF THE FOURTEENTH AND
FIFTEENTH CENTURIES ..................................................................... 226

VI. RENAISSANCE AND REFORMATION ............................................. 236
A. Renaissance and Reformation in
Literature 236
B. The Tale 241
C. Holy Scripture 243
D. Polemical Literature 246
E. Satire 251


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VI. RENAISSANCE AND REFORMATION (cont’d)
F. Poetry 254
G. The Historical Significance of the
Literature of the Sixteenth Century 258

VII. BAROQUE .............................................................................................. 260
A. The Nature of Literary Baroque 260
B. Ivan Vysens’kyj 263
C. Literary Baroque in Ukraine 274
D. Verse Poetry 278
E. The Epos 307
F. The Tale 313
G. The Theatre 319
H. Sermons 334
I. Historical Literature 343
J. The Treatise 349
K. Ukrainian Baroque Literature
Against the Backdrop of
World Literature 355

VIII. LITERATURE WRITTEN IN LATIN 363

IX. THE LITERATURE OF “NATIONAL REVIVAL” 366

X. CLASSICISM .............................................................................................. 370
A. Literary Classicism 370
B. The Beginnings 376
C. The Mock-Heroic Poem 381
D. Verse Poetry 404
E. Dramatic Literature 415
F. Prose 420
G. The Nature and Significance of
Ukrainian Literary Classicism 431

XI. UKRAINIAN SENTIMENTALISM 435

XII. ROMANTICISM ...................................................................................... 437
A. Literary Romanticism 437


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XII. ROMANTICISM (cont’d)
B. Ukrainian Romanticism 444
C. “ Ukrainian Schools” in Foreign
Romantic Literature 449
D. The Xarkiv Romantic School 455
E. Western Ukraine 478
F. Kievan Romanticism 495
G. Late Romanticism 535
H. Other Poets of Ukrainian
Romanticism 568
I. The Significance of Ukrainian
Romanticism 578

XIII. “BIEDERMEIER” AND THE “NATURALIST SCHOOL” IN
UKRAINE.......................................................................................... 585

XIV. REALISM IN UKRAINIAN LITERATURE.................................... 588

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY ..................... 619

ABBREVIATIONS OF NAMES OF
PERIODICALS, COLLECTIONS, AND
SERIES.............................................................. 638

INDEX OF NAMES AND TITLES,
prepared by
Alexandra Chernenko-Rudnytsky................ 641


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AN OVERVIEW OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY
By George S. N. Luckyj

1. EMERGENCE OF M O D ER N ISM ......................................................685
Modernism ............................................... 685
Traditionalism ............................................702
2. THE FAILED REVOLUTION, 1917-32 ............................................ 706
3. THE TRAUMA OF SOCIALIST REALISM, 1934-53 ................... 731
4. THE THAW AND AFTER, 1953-72 ................................................... 740
5. FROM STAGNATION TO RECONSTRUCTION, 1972-88 . . . 749
6. WESTERN UKRAINE AND EMIGRATION, 1919-39 ................ 758
7. THE SECOND EMIGRATION AND DIASPORA, 1945-90 . . . 764
8. THE ERA OF GLASNOST, 1987-90 ................................................... 771
9. AFTER INDEPENDENCE .................................................................. 776
Footnotes .................................................. 782

B IB L IO G R A PH Y ............................................................793

INDEX 801