A History of Ukrainian Literature (From the 11th to the End of the 19th Century) with An Overview of the Twentieth Century

834 Pages·1997·11.333 MB·English

by  Dmytro Čyževs’kyj, George S. N. Luckyj

A HISTORY OF
UKRAINIAN LITERATURE
(From the 11th to the
End of the 19th Century)
Second Edition
with
AN OVERVIEW OF THE
TWENTIETH CENTURY

The Annals of the Ukrainian Academy of Arts and Sciences
in the U.S., Inc.
Vols. 17-19 Nos. 43-46
A HISTORY OF
UKRAINIAN LITERATURE
(From the 11th to the End of the 19th Century)
Second Edition
V v
Dmytro Cyzevs’kyj
Translated by Dolly Ferguson,
Doreen Gorsline, and Ulana Petyk
with
AN OVERVIEW OF THE
TWENTIETH CENTURY
George S. N. Luckyj
Edited and with a Foreword by George S. N. Luckyj
1997
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and
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Čyževs'kyj, Dmytro, 1894-
[Tschižewskij, Dmitrij, 1894- ]
[Istoriia ukraïns'koï literatury vid pochatkiv do doby realizmu.
English]
A history of Ukrainian literature, from the 11th to the end of the
19th century / Dmytro Čyževs'kyj ; translated by Dolly Ferguson,
Doreen Gorsline, and Ulana Petyk ; with An overview of the twentieth
century / George S.N. Luckyj. — 2nd ed. / edited and with a
foreword by George S.N. Luckyj.
X, 681; 683, 815 p. 17x25 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
ISBN 1-56308-522-4
1. Ukrainian literature—History and criticism. I. Luckyj,
George Stephen Nestor, 1919- Overview of the twentieth century.
PG3905.C513 1996
891.7/909~dc20 96-25814
CIP
TABLE OF CONTENTS
FOREWORD TO THE FIRST EDITION
by George S. N. Luckyj . . . . ...................................xi
TRANSLITERATION TABLE......................................xiv
PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION
by George S. N. Luckyj...............................................xv
INTRODUCTION by D. Čyževs kyj................................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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vi History of Ukrainian Literature
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 of the Kievan Caves
Monastery 165
E. Chronicles 171
F. The Epos 187
G. The Tale of 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
Table of Contents vii
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