{"title":"About Stamped Paper of Shevchenko’s Release","authors":"O. Boron","doi":"10.33608/0236-1477.2019.05.54-57","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33608/0236-1477.2019.05.54-57","url":null,"abstract":"The author focused on examining various references concerning the amount paid to P. Engelgardt for the liberation of T. Shevchenko from serfdom. The article explains why the release was issued on the stamped paper for the transactions worth up to 1000 rubles, although the freedom of the poet cost 2500 rubles in banknotes.","PeriodicalId":413949,"journal":{"name":"Академічний журнал \"Слово і Час\"","volume":"63 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-05-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133895977","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"On History of Romantic Overturn in Modernist Mythology","authors":"Borys Shalaghinov","doi":"10.33608/0236-1477.2019.05.29-40","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33608/0236-1477.2019.05.29-40","url":null,"abstract":"The paper deals with a Greek myth adopted by modern scholars, which is hypothetically treated not as an authentic picture of antiquity, but philosophical construct, developed by early German romantics on the basis of Kantian discourse. The myth-narration was understood as a way of mental transformation of the hostile environment (embodied by the rite of human sacrifice) in terms of its humanization, aesthetization, heroization, intellectualization; the purpose of individual existence was interpreted as a unity of nature, society and the person, immersion in the ‘myth-environment’ being a condition for such unity. A further evolution of the myth took place due to civilizational shifts in Europe, which ‘fragmented’ human unity and destroyed the original unity of mythology. The modernist myth (Joyce, Messiaen, Bachelard) gave place to deintellectualization, particularization and desocialization of public life that urged to turn towards the blind nature ‘before civilization’ and stimulated indifference about the last preceding stages of culture. The life force was understood as returning to pure instinct that indicates the presence of nature in man. The distinction between sophisticated connoisseurs of culture and the bourgeois ‘mass’ became especially sharp; the ‘myth’ got really destructed by transferring it from actual life to the setting of everyday comfort, bypassing the spiritual state of the individual. The ‘myth of intertextuality’ (book myth, new-Alexandrian myth) is characteristic of the period of decline, as it is oriented not towards a living person and ‘life force’, but towards narration. This tendency was most vividly reflected in N. Frye’s mythological theory (about literature as myth-making).","PeriodicalId":413949,"journal":{"name":"Академічний журнал \"Слово і Час\"","volume":"9 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-05-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127781540","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Vasyl Stus’s Poem “Let Me about Sixth Today…”: Attempt of Orphean Spatial Analysis of One Dream","authors":"A. Puchkov","doi":"10.33608/0236-1477.2019.05.58-73","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33608/0236-1477.2019.05.58-73","url":null,"abstract":"The paper presents an attempt to slowly read the poem by Vasyl Stus “Let me about sixth today…” (1975–1979) in order to identify connotative motifs of historical, cultural and subject-spatial nature. It is shown that the fixation of these motifs with the help of nouns (image), adjectives and verbs (motive) generates in the reader’s mind not so much an artistic space aimed at forming an “artistic image” as an architectonic space (plot) aimed at depicting the actions that cause (or subject to them) the semantic construction of the poem. The research methodology is based on the classical method of analyzing a poem, a comparative statistical one, which was proposed and developed by Boris Yarkho and Mikhail Gasparov. Counting nouns is carried out within such groups of them: objects; abstract concepts of the external world; abstract concepts of the inner world; appearance. The use of nouns made it possible to see that all concepts meaning things are subject to the compilation of a certain landscape or — more broadly — a space saturated with par excellence negative visual stimuli that one doesn’t want to notice. The figurative means of the poem that form spatial constructions and show temporal characteristics are indicated. The researcher explains the presence of the mythical motive of Orpheus and Eurydice, being characteristic for the creative consciousness of the poet. However, it looks like Stus changes the roles of Eurydice and Orpheus. In using the reverse perspective technique one should see Kyiv as a place of mythological events, akin to Hellenic, but, despite all the toponymic specifics, it lacks positive features: the anxiety of the myth about Eurydice is reflected here as well. The imprisonment of a hero is directly associated with the kingdom of Persephone and Hades. But the model is somewhat complicated: the reason of Orpheus’ anxiety in the ancient myth is somewhat obscure, while in the poem by Stus the hero really worries not so much about his beloved as due to eventual anxiety for his beloved, and therefore about her and her son.","PeriodicalId":413949,"journal":{"name":"Академічний журнал \"Слово і Час\"","volume":"40 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-05-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115818395","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Novel “Do Oxen Low When Their Manger Is Full?” History of Creation","authors":"L. Ushkalov","doi":"10.33608/0236-1477.2019.05.3-14","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33608/0236-1477.2019.05.3-14","url":null,"abstract":"The essay traces the collaboration of brothers Panas and Ivan Rudchenkos (in history of the Ukrainian literature they are known under the pseudonyms Panas Myrnyi and Ivan Bilyk) in writing the novel “Do Oxen Low When Their Manger Is Full?” The researcher showed how Ivan Bilyk’s views on literature and his social deterministic outlook influenced the conception and structure of the work. The essay also analyzes the instructions and suggestions of the elder brother, Panas Myrnyi, on the stylistics and composition of the work, his contribution to creating and editing the text. An additional attention is paid to the later critical comments on the novel.","PeriodicalId":413949,"journal":{"name":"Академічний журнал \"Слово і Час\"","volume":"52 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-05-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123651195","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"History in the Light of Spirituality","authors":"M. Ilnytskyi","doi":"10.33608/0236-1477.2019.05.14-20","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33608/0236-1477.2019.05.14-20","url":null,"abstract":"The paper deals with the historic novels written by Ukrainian writer Roman Ivanychuk in 1960s – 1980s. The emphasis is given to the peculiarities that distinguish his works among the similar novels on the Ukrainian history written at the same period. The researcher sees the main difference in the fact that R.Ivanychuk focused not so much on the heroic acts of his characters as on their characteristics of representatives of the epoch. He paid the most attention to the spiritual awakening of the nation being under pressure of the forced assimilation and in danger of extinction. These features of the historic novels by this writer were already noticeable in his first novel “Malvy” (“Mallows”, 1968). The work focused on the problem of “janissaries”, especially relevant at that time. It was interpreted as the loss of historical memory and national identity on the one hand, and the inevitable end of the empire that exploits enslaved neighbors on the other. The aesthetic symbolism is realized in the image of a luxuriant plane tree which is drained by mistletoe, with the fatal end of a tree. The symbolism of this image is related to the idea of the Arabic philosopher of the 16th cent. Ibn Khaldun who stated that decline of an empire is caused by the loss of its vital sources. \u0000 The novels “Cherlene vyno” (“Red Wine”, 1977) and “The Manuscript from Ruska Street” (1979) contain the aesthetic models that sound in tune with the scholarly ideas of contemporary historians (O. Apanovych, Y. Isaievych, M. Braichesvkyi). In particular it was the interest to the development of the education system and research studies, emergence of Brotherhood schools and book printing. Historic novels by R.Ivanychuk emphasize the conflict between the Artist and the system of ruling power (“Shramy na Skali”/“Scars on Rock”, 1982), where one can see allusions to the movement of the Sixtiers. The writer raised the problem of the moral choice between strict loyalty to the principles and the compromise. Then he explored the limits of justifying the compromise.","PeriodicalId":413949,"journal":{"name":"Академічний журнал \"Слово і Час\"","volume":"74 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-05-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133721843","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Shevchenko Studies School of S. Smal-Stotskyi: Figures and Concepts (Kitsman-Kolomyia Center)","authors":"O. Melenchuk","doi":"10.33608/0236-1477.2019.05.41-54","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33608/0236-1477.2019.05.41-54","url":null,"abstract":"The paper offers an overview of the achievements of S. Smal-Stotskyi’s students in Shevchenko studies, which continued, to a greater or lesser extent, to explore and popularize the works of T. Shevchenko in the cultural space of Bukovyna and Pokuttia. The main accent is made on the Kitsman-Kolomyia center, where the early 20th century graduates of the Chernivtsi University lived and worked, O. Tsisyk, D. Nykolyshyn, M. Ravliuk, M. Kharzhevskyi, O. Kovbuz, B. Levytskyi being among them. They continued to develop the traditions originating from the seminar on Shevchenko studies conducted by S. Smal-Stotskyi. \u0000Modern scholars recognize that in the second half of the 19th and early 20th centuries the Chernivtsi University was the leading educational institution in terms of contribution to Shevchenko studies. Students picked up the instructions of the professor S. Smal-Stotskyi and not only showed interest in the works by T. Shevchenko but also expressed their views in public, actively engaging in activities of the national movement that took place outside the university. The work within the circles continued profound reading of the Kobzar’s works, initiated at the university. The Circle of Kobzar Studies was one of them; it united university graduates who became teachers of Kitsman high school – Mykola Ravliuk, Omelian Tsisyk, Pavlo Diakiv, Oleksa Kovbuz, etc. The members of the circle continued collecting and analyzing the scholarly and critical material that might help in making comprehensive analysis of Shevchenko’s works. Such activity formed a good basis for teaching and inspiring students to explore Shevchenko’s legacy that was fundamental for shaping the national outlook and national consciousness of contemporary Ukrainians. However, the regular research of the works by T. Shevchenko also played an important role in the Kitsman-Kolomyia center. This direction was represented mainly by the works of D. Nykolyshyn and O. Tsisyk.","PeriodicalId":413949,"journal":{"name":"Академічний журнал \"Слово і Час\"","volume":"724 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-05-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125104667","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Mixed Identity. Some Theoretical Aspects of Research on Eastern Carpathian Border Area","authors":"Radoslav Passia, Luybica Babotova","doi":"10.33608/0236-1477.2019.04.81-87","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33608/0236-1477.2019.04.81-87","url":null,"abstract":"The paper deals with relationship between Slovak and Ukrainian literatures and cultures of the 19th and 20th centuries in the Eastern Carpathian border area. The author considers this particularly multiethnic region as one of the relatively independent cultural areas of the Central Europe. The Slovak literature since the mid-19th century shows this space as a heterotopia. Narrative perspectives of a stranger, outcast, migrant in combination with the themes of border and conflict between local and strangers are characteristic for the literary image of the Eastern Carpathian border area in the 20th century. \u0000The paper explores the issue of parallel processes of ‘national revival’ (such as Slovak, Ruthenian, Ukrainian, Hungarian) in the ethnically heterogeneous area of eastern Slovakia where the process of cultural and ethnic self-identification followed a much more complex trajectory compared to the ‘core’ areas inhabited by the respective ethnic groups. The Slavonic ethnic groups failed to conclude this process in the course of the 19th century or, indeed, even in the first half of the 20th century. Following the breakup of the Austro-Hungarian Empire and the establishment of Czechoslovakia, the new state’s liberal national policies encouraged greater competition between certain cultural and linguistic orientations among the inhabitants of eastern Slovakia (pro-Ukrainian, pro-Russian and pro-Ruthenian orientation). This situation was also reflected in works of Slovak and especially Czech literature. Slovak-Ukrainian cultural contacts are currently receiving many new ideas and their research can be based on theoretical background of postcolonialism, selfcolonization theory and geopoetics.","PeriodicalId":413949,"journal":{"name":"Академічний журнал \"Слово і Час\"","volume":"14 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-04-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121695848","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Formation and Modification of Notions ‘Revolution’ and ‘War’: Bulgarian Case","authors":"N. Aretov, N. Boiko","doi":"10.33608/0236-1477.2019.04.15-21","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33608/0236-1477.2019.04.15-21","url":null,"abstract":"Related notions of war and revolution are not something primordial and constant. They are constructed and constantly changing. The paper traces some aspects of these processes in the mentality of the 19th and early 20th century Bulgarians, with attention to their Balkan context. \u0000The lack of the own state for a long period of time (1396–1878) determined the initial negative image of the war. For the Bulgarians of the late 18th and early 19th centuries a war was something definitely negative, as it brings death, troubles, and disasters; it was also something alien or external as only few of them were recruited in the Ottoman army. The wars between Russia and Ottoman Empire generated some hopes for independence among certain elite groups of society (although not so much among common people). The Greek War for Independence (started in 1821) and other uprisings in European dominions of Turkey had their impact on Bulgarians. The idea of revolution grew in the 1860s and 1870s within the group of radicals, mainly the alumni of Russian Universities and high schools. Literature played a serious role in this process, and April uprising (1876), not without some debates, was represented as ‘revolution’ in the last decades of the 19th century. The two notions were mixed after the Russian-Turkish Liberation War (1877–78), especially in later interpretations. \u0000The newly established Principality of Bulgaria lived in constant threat (real or imagined) of Ottoman invasion and soon got drawn into the war with Serbia (1885) which contributed to creating the fully positive image of a patriotic war. This image persisted during the First (1912–1913) and Second (1913) Balkan wars, called in Bulgaria ‘inter-allied’. The defeat motivated to shift the image of war from something patriotic to something making the ordinary people suffer. This was a gradual change catalyzed by the World War I (1914–18) that made the previous image problematic. The notion of revolution that was previously associated only with the past (1876, 1878) also shifted and became associated in some leftist minds with the future as well. First and still shy anti-war humanitarian ideas appeared; the last poems of Dimcho Debelianov (1887–1916), who died in the war, were the most representative examples of this trend.","PeriodicalId":413949,"journal":{"name":"Академічний журнал \"Слово і Час\"","volume":"488 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-04-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"120897597","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Ukrainian Topics in Slovak Periodicals at Turn of the 20th Century","authors":"A. Draganová, Luybica Babotova","doi":"10.33608/0236-1477.2019.04.74-80","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33608/0236-1477.2019.04.74-80","url":null,"abstract":"The article focuses on the representation of Ukrainian topics in Slovak journals, mainly in “Hlas” (‘Voice’). This periodical had a subtitle “Mesačník pre literatúru, politika a sociálne otázky” (Monthly on literature, politics and social issues) and appeared in 1898–1904. “Hlas” is considered to be the publishing platform of liberally oriented Slovak youth, who opposed the conservative policy of the Center of National Life in Martin, led by S. H. Vajanský. Just as with other key ideological issues (Czechoslovakism, Russophilism, political activity), Vajanský’s reception and understanding of Ukrainian issues significantly differed from those of the younger generation. ‘Ukrainian theme’ usually got into the journal “Hlas” indirectly, through the links to ‘Slovanský přehled’ (‘Slavic Review’) journal. “Hlas” paid considerable attention to social problems. Such issues as migration, the influence of magyarization on the educational system and level of literacy among ‘rusyns’ were often addressed with a help of statistical data. The periodical provided information on the current challenges of Ukrainian students and some translations of works by Ukrainian authors. For instance, in 1903 “Hlas” published “Nastia” by B. Lepkyi. The translator of the text F. Votruba was among the most active promotors of Ukrainian literature. The references to outstanding Ukrainian cultural figures, such as Taras Shevchenko, Ivan Franko, Volodymyr Hnatiuk, etc., are also worth to mention. A detailed analysis of the content of “Hlas” revealed that the journal gave a low priority to ‘Ukrainian issues’. Most of the relevant information was taken from the other journals. The appearance of original material or translations to a large extent was driven by the personal interests of individual authors.","PeriodicalId":413949,"journal":{"name":"Академічний журнал \"Слово і Час\"","volume":"76 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-04-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121183075","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Philosophy of War and Peace: Anthropocentric Dichotomy of Love/Humanity as Motivation of Heroism (Based on “Letters to a German Friend” by Albert Camus)","authors":"Lyudmyla Tarnashyns’ka","doi":"10.33608/0236-1477.2019.04.3-14","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33608/0236-1477.2019.04.3-14","url":null,"abstract":"The article considers the humanistic anthropocentric position of the French writer and philosopher A. Camus in his “Letters to a German Friend” (1943–1944). During the World War II the writer experienced a real existential drama of conscience caused by situation in the occupied France. The country experienced horror and humiliation of temporary occupation and managed to turn its defeat into victory. Fascism in the eyes of the prominent humanist writer and philosopher of France is revealed in the context of the philosophy of war/peace. This context is specified by a number of statements, such as love/hate, violence/nonviolence, etc. ‘Disturbed Conscience’ of A. Camus, in spite of patriotic reasons, sought intercourse between different pairs of opposition: strength/weakness, heroism/cowardice, etc. The oppositions we/you, our/your appeal to such concepts as the price of sacrifice, the price of loss, the price of victory. \u0000The monological epistolary genre allows showing the psychological and moral reality of the war, with possible shifts in time and appeal to the Other. A. Camus strengthens the existential problem, the core of which is the opposition “Me – Other” (according to M. Buber and E. Levinas) and “Me like the Other» (P. Ricker). In fact, he initiates a new ontological and linguistic reality embedded in the paradigm of a new/other discourse of war. The binary oppositions similar/unrelated, friend/foe, one’s own/alien, hero/traitor, winner/ defeated are being demounted in the field of psychology of violence reflected by the author within the psychology of nonviolence. At the same time, the basic oppositional pair patriot/collaborator is integrated into a complex system of psychological controversies being the ground of Camus’ psychology of nonviolence. The writer expands a number of oppositional concepts adding the dichotomy of ‘two Europes’. He anthropologizes the considered problems to the highest extent, placing a man with the whole complex of human values in the center of his ‘arguments of conscience’.","PeriodicalId":413949,"journal":{"name":"Академічний журнал \"Слово і Час\"","volume":"32 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-04-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121214055","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}