Ukrainian Romanticism in the Context of European Culture of the 19th – early 20th Centuries: Interdisciplinary Historiographical Analysis

Abstract

The article presents the interdisciplinary approach to analyse Ukrainian Romanticism as a national version of the European romantic style of the 19th – early 20th centuries. This approach is based on the comparison of the aesthetic and artistic foundations of the romantic style with its fundamental principles in West and East European countries in different cultural fields such as philosophy, literature, and music. Generalisations in the article are derived from the analysis of the creative heritage of Ukrainian and European Romantics, as well as a consideration of Ukrainian Romanticism in the in the humanities studies. Basing on the historical, historical-cultural, historical-comparative scholarly methods, and the method of modelling, the dynamics of Ukrainian Romanticism under the influence of the aesthetical principle and creativity of the European romantics of the 19th-early 20 centuries is traced. It is demonstrated that Ukrainian Romanticism evolution has 3 stages (early, folklore, and neoromantic) that embody typological traits of the European Romanticism and national peculiarities of Ukrainian Romanticism. The author concludes that the style authenticity of Ukrainian Romanticism is preconditioned by the character of the European and national tendencies’ connection. The research results widen the interdisciplinary discourse of the Romanticism. Moreover, the analytical generalizations of Ukrainian Romanticism enrich the context of the Romanticism examination as a multicultural artistic-aesthetic system.