Наукові записки Харківського національного педагогічного університету ім. Г. С. Сковороди "Літературознавство", 2019
Since mid-twentieth century the academic novel has been treated in English literary criticism as ... more Since mid-twentieth century the academic novel has been treated in English literary criticism as a separate literary genre centered on the life of professors. Often the action takes place on and outside of campus, revealing the professors’ private concerns. Satire is a characteristic feature of academic novels, which usually drives the action. In these novels university appears as a “microcosm of society at large.” Even though the academic novel is an emerging genre in Ukrainian literature, there are texts which fall into this category. In the article the author analyzes “The Revenge of the Printer” by Stanislav Rosovetskyj as academic fiction. The novel has two plot lines, one of which is set in late 1580s in the times of Ivan Fedorov, another is set in the summer of 1991. The plot lines are joined by the setting, which is St. Onuphrius Monastery in Lviv, which in the twentieth century was turned into the museum of book-printing. The novel has the following features of the academic...
The article focuses on the campus novels Głowa. Powieść nocy zimowej (2016) by Tadeusz Cegielski ... more The article focuses on the campus novels Głowa. Powieść nocy zimowej (2016) by Tadeusz Cegielski and Rektorski czek (2018) by Joanna Jodełka, written to commemorate the foundation of the University of Warsaw and Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań respectively. This article first considers the generic peculiarities of the selected novels and then goes on to present the image of the university and academic community in these novels, in order to tap into the nostalgia surrounding the Golden Age of the Polish university. While promoting the idea of “the Polish university” as the source of clear values, a moral compass, and even a condition of the political re-establishment of the Polish state for the reader of mysteries, the novels prompt a re-evaluation of the present-day condition and reflections on the future of the academe for its members.
The article focuses on the campus novels Głowa. Powieść nocy zimowej (2016) by Tadeusz Ce... more The article focuses on the campus novels Głowa. Powieść nocy zimowej (2016) by Tadeusz Cegielski and Rektorski czek (2018) by Joanna Jodełka, written to commemorate the foundation of the University of Warsaw and Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań respectively. This article first considers the generic peculiarities of the selected novels and then goes on to present the image of the university and academic community in these novels, in order to tap into the nostalgia surrounding the Golden Age of the Polish university. While promoting the idea of “the Polish university” as the source of clear values, a moral compass, and even a condition of the political re-establishment of the Polish state for the reader of mysteries, the novels prompt a re-evaluation of the present-day condition and reflections on the future of the academe for its members.
The articles attempts at the reconstruction of the image of America in letters and memoirs of Dmy... more The articles attempts at the reconstruction of the image of America in letters and memoirs of Dmytro Chyzhevs’kyy, Yuriy Shevel’ov, and Wiktor Weintraub, East‑European scholars who after WWII greatly contributed to the formation of the image of Slavic civilization in the West. They immigrated to the US in late 1940s – early 1950s expecting Harvard to be the site for their further academic endeavours since the after – WW II Europe could not satisfy their academic needs. Interaction with the American academic community developed differently for each scholar, which had its impact on their further careers. Impressions from America and Harvard in particular in their correspondence generally testifies to the their hopes and expectations, while memoirs contain a balanced or even distanced re‑evaluation of those. Historical context within which these writings are viewed suggests that for each scholar the image of America was dynamic and different due to their age, personality, character, previous immigrant life experience, and their cultural background and academic worldview. Unlike Chyzhevs’kyy, these factors suited well Shevel’ov and Weintraub in terms of adjustment to the reality and expectations of the New World. Further study of these scholars’ biographies from this perspective seems particularly topical under the circumstances of recent reformatting of the Slavic Studies as a discipline.
Although Marina Lewycka’s novel „A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian” is traditionally menti... more Although Marina Lewycka’s novel „A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian” is traditionally mentioned in the context of immigrant literature, it might prove to be more interesting if viewed from the perspective of the academic novel. A satirical image of a desperate thirty-six years old Ukrainian woman Valentina ready to marry a widower in his eighties for the sake of naturalization in the UK often overshadows the image of the British university teacher and this man’s younger daughter Nadezhda, who goes through a tough process of identity (re-)construction while trying to protect her father from the second marriage. Being born, raised, and educated in the UK, being a UK citizen with an active social position, Nadezhda not only holds British values dear, perceives herself as British (in fact born into the family of Ukrainian immigrants), but also as a university professor passes them on to the following generations successfully until the actual “invasion” of the Other into her life t...
В статье представлен краткий анализ работ Д. Чижевского по словацкой культуре, опубликованых в сл... more В статье представлен краткий анализ работ Д. Чижевского по словацкой культуре, опубликованых в славистических периодических изданиях межвоенного периода. Определены основные направления иссле- дований и интерпретаций Д. Чижевского словацкой культуры. В при- ложении подана библиография Д. Чижевского о словацкой культуре.The article presents a concise analysis of the articles on Slovak Culture authored by Dmytro Čyževs’kyj and published in different journals of Slavic Studies in the interwar period. The main directions of Čyževs’kyj’s research and interpretations in this line have been defined. The appendix provides a bibliography of Čyževs’kyj’s works on Slovak culture
The article provides a reconstruction of Chyzhevs’kyj’s professional biography connected with the... more The article provides a reconstruction of Chyzhevs’kyj’s professional biography connected with the interwar Czechoslovakia. The analyzed archival data allowed establish a Czech circle of Chyzhevs’kyj’s colleagues (the Prague Linguistic Circle, the Institute of Slavonic Studies in Prague, the Matica slovenská) and define the areas of their research interests (Comenius Studies, Czech literary Baroque, Slovak Romanticism). The author concludes that apart from the emigrant scholarly community, the Czech academic community made a significant influence on shaping Chyzhevs’kyj as “a universal Slavist”
This monograph deals with important aspects of the intellectual heritage of Dmytro Chyzhevs’kyj (... more This monograph deals with important aspects of the intellectual heritage of Dmytro Chyzhevs’kyj (1894–1977), a prominent Ukrainian Slavist, philosopher and a literary critic. The aspects under consideration represent his interest in Czech and Slovak culture, which was directly connected with his stay in Prague in the 1920s among Ukrainian and Russian emigrants and his continuing coope¬ration with Czech colleagues in the following years. The contemporary study of Chyzhevs’kyj’s legacy has been conducted by the representatives of different countries in three main directions: 1) the stu¬dy of Chyzhevs’kyj’s biography (Werner Korthaase, Wladimir Janzen, Iryna Valyavko); 2) the study of Chyzhevs’kyj’s works in the context of the history of Ukrainian and Russian emigration to the Czechoslovak Republic between the wars (Sergej Magid, Maria Magidova); 3) the study of Chyzhevs’kyj’s works on philosophy and literature. Although Oleksa Myshanych and Ivan Fizer undertook the study of some impor...
The article presents an interpretation of the short story The Queen of Jungle by James Hynes. The... more The article presents an interpretation of the short story The Queen of Jungle by James Hynes. The attention is paid to the image of Charlotte, a black-and-white cat of two university professors, and its literary “ancestors”. The author interprets the short story within the tradition of the American academic novel, in particular the period of the 1990s marked by the problem of tenure and the “publish or perish” principle
The book focuses on the academic biographies of two outstanding scholars of the 20th century Dmit... more The book focuses on the academic biographies of two outstanding scholars of the 20th century Dmitrij Tschizewskij and Roman Jakobson, presenting their academic and personal lives through contrast and comparison. Chapter I discusses the topicality of their ideas for the contemporary intellectual discourse, while Chapter II presents the reconstruction of their personal and academic relationships. Chapter III is a sketch on the history of Slavic Studies in the United States, which provides the historical background for further presentation of Dmitrij Tschizewskij’s life of an immigrant to the USA after WW II (Chapter IV). Chapter V deals with Tschizewskij’s and Jakobson’s concepts of comparative history of Slavic Literatures. Chapter VI analyses Tschizewskij’s literary theories concerning the Biedermeier period in Ukrainian literature, the problem of reading and that of the reader as well as the interpretation of Russian classic literature
Instytut Filologii Polskiej Uniwersytetu Przyrodniczo-Humanistycznego, Dec 1, 2010
This monograph focuses on the intellectual heritage of Dmytro Chyzhevs’kyj (1894–1977), a promine... more This monograph focuses on the intellectual heritage of Dmytro Chyzhevs’kyj (1894–1977), a prominent Ukrainian Slavist, philosopher and a literary critic. The aspects under consideration are Chyzhevs’kyj's interest in Czech and Slovak culture, which was directly connected with his stay in Prague in the 1920s among Ukrainian and Russian emigrants and his continuing cooperation with Czech colleagues in the following years. The aim of this research is to provide an introductory review of the works of Chyzhevs’kyj on Czech and Slovak culture, as well as to delineate their place in the context of European, Slavic and Comparative Studies in the first half of the twentieth century.
Although Marina Lewycka’s novel „A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian” is traditionally menti... more Although Marina Lewycka’s novel „A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian” is traditionally mentioned in the context of immigrant literature, it might prove to be more interesting if viewed from the perspective of the academic novel. A satirical image of a desperate thirty-six years old Ukrainian woman Valentina ready to marry a widower in his eighties for the sake of naturalization in the UK often overshadows the image of the British university teacher and this man’s younger daughter Nadezhda, who goes through a tough process of identity (re-)construction while trying to protect her father from the second marriage. Being born, raised, and educated in the UK, being a UK citizen with an active social position, Nadezhda not only holds British values dear, perceives herself as British (in fact born into the family of Ukrainian immigrants), but also as a university professor passes them on to the following generations successfully until the actual “invasion” of the Other into her life t...
Наукові записки Харківського національного педагогічного університету ім. Г. С. Сковороди "Літературознавство", 2019
Since mid-twentieth century the academic novel has been treated in English literary criticism as ... more Since mid-twentieth century the academic novel has been treated in English literary criticism as a separate literary genre centered on the life of professors. Often the action takes place on and outside of campus, revealing the professors’ private concerns. Satire is a characteristic feature of academic novels, which usually drives the action. In these novels university appears as a “microcosm of society at large.” Even though the academic novel is an emerging genre in Ukrainian literature, there are texts which fall into this category. In the article the author analyzes “The Revenge of the Printer” by Stanislav Rosovetskyj as academic fiction. The novel has two plot lines, one of which is set in late 1580s in the times of Ivan Fedorov, another is set in the summer of 1991. The plot lines are joined by the setting, which is St. Onuphrius Monastery in Lviv, which in the twentieth century was turned into the museum of book-printing. The novel has the following features of the academic...
The article focuses on the campus novels Głowa. Powieść nocy zimowej (2016) by Tadeusz Cegielski ... more The article focuses on the campus novels Głowa. Powieść nocy zimowej (2016) by Tadeusz Cegielski and Rektorski czek (2018) by Joanna Jodełka, written to commemorate the foundation of the University of Warsaw and Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań respectively. This article first considers the generic peculiarities of the selected novels and then goes on to present the image of the university and academic community in these novels, in order to tap into the nostalgia surrounding the Golden Age of the Polish university. While promoting the idea of “the Polish university” as the source of clear values, a moral compass, and even a condition of the political re-establishment of the Polish state for the reader of mysteries, the novels prompt a re-evaluation of the present-day condition and reflections on the future of the academe for its members.
The article focuses on the campus novels Głowa. Powieść nocy zimowej (2016) by Tadeusz Ce... more The article focuses on the campus novels Głowa. Powieść nocy zimowej (2016) by Tadeusz Cegielski and Rektorski czek (2018) by Joanna Jodełka, written to commemorate the foundation of the University of Warsaw and Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań respectively. This article first considers the generic peculiarities of the selected novels and then goes on to present the image of the university and academic community in these novels, in order to tap into the nostalgia surrounding the Golden Age of the Polish university. While promoting the idea of “the Polish university” as the source of clear values, a moral compass, and even a condition of the political re-establishment of the Polish state for the reader of mysteries, the novels prompt a re-evaluation of the present-day condition and reflections on the future of the academe for its members.
The articles attempts at the reconstruction of the image of America in letters and memoirs of Dmy... more The articles attempts at the reconstruction of the image of America in letters and memoirs of Dmytro Chyzhevs’kyy, Yuriy Shevel’ov, and Wiktor Weintraub, East‑European scholars who after WWII greatly contributed to the formation of the image of Slavic civilization in the West. They immigrated to the US in late 1940s – early 1950s expecting Harvard to be the site for their further academic endeavours since the after – WW II Europe could not satisfy their academic needs. Interaction with the American academic community developed differently for each scholar, which had its impact on their further careers. Impressions from America and Harvard in particular in their correspondence generally testifies to the their hopes and expectations, while memoirs contain a balanced or even distanced re‑evaluation of those. Historical context within which these writings are viewed suggests that for each scholar the image of America was dynamic and different due to their age, personality, character, previous immigrant life experience, and their cultural background and academic worldview. Unlike Chyzhevs’kyy, these factors suited well Shevel’ov and Weintraub in terms of adjustment to the reality and expectations of the New World. Further study of these scholars’ biographies from this perspective seems particularly topical under the circumstances of recent reformatting of the Slavic Studies as a discipline.
Although Marina Lewycka’s novel „A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian” is traditionally menti... more Although Marina Lewycka’s novel „A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian” is traditionally mentioned in the context of immigrant literature, it might prove to be more interesting if viewed from the perspective of the academic novel. A satirical image of a desperate thirty-six years old Ukrainian woman Valentina ready to marry a widower in his eighties for the sake of naturalization in the UK often overshadows the image of the British university teacher and this man’s younger daughter Nadezhda, who goes through a tough process of identity (re-)construction while trying to protect her father from the second marriage. Being born, raised, and educated in the UK, being a UK citizen with an active social position, Nadezhda not only holds British values dear, perceives herself as British (in fact born into the family of Ukrainian immigrants), but also as a university professor passes them on to the following generations successfully until the actual “invasion” of the Other into her life t...
В статье представлен краткий анализ работ Д. Чижевского по словацкой культуре, опубликованых в сл... more В статье представлен краткий анализ работ Д. Чижевского по словацкой культуре, опубликованых в славистических периодических изданиях межвоенного периода. Определены основные направления иссле- дований и интерпретаций Д. Чижевского словацкой культуры. В при- ложении подана библиография Д. Чижевского о словацкой культуре.The article presents a concise analysis of the articles on Slovak Culture authored by Dmytro Čyževs’kyj and published in different journals of Slavic Studies in the interwar period. The main directions of Čyževs’kyj’s research and interpretations in this line have been defined. The appendix provides a bibliography of Čyževs’kyj’s works on Slovak culture
The article provides a reconstruction of Chyzhevs’kyj’s professional biography connected with the... more The article provides a reconstruction of Chyzhevs’kyj’s professional biography connected with the interwar Czechoslovakia. The analyzed archival data allowed establish a Czech circle of Chyzhevs’kyj’s colleagues (the Prague Linguistic Circle, the Institute of Slavonic Studies in Prague, the Matica slovenská) and define the areas of their research interests (Comenius Studies, Czech literary Baroque, Slovak Romanticism). The author concludes that apart from the emigrant scholarly community, the Czech academic community made a significant influence on shaping Chyzhevs’kyj as “a universal Slavist”
This monograph deals with important aspects of the intellectual heritage of Dmytro Chyzhevs’kyj (... more This monograph deals with important aspects of the intellectual heritage of Dmytro Chyzhevs’kyj (1894–1977), a prominent Ukrainian Slavist, philosopher and a literary critic. The aspects under consideration represent his interest in Czech and Slovak culture, which was directly connected with his stay in Prague in the 1920s among Ukrainian and Russian emigrants and his continuing coope¬ration with Czech colleagues in the following years. The contemporary study of Chyzhevs’kyj’s legacy has been conducted by the representatives of different countries in three main directions: 1) the stu¬dy of Chyzhevs’kyj’s biography (Werner Korthaase, Wladimir Janzen, Iryna Valyavko); 2) the study of Chyzhevs’kyj’s works in the context of the history of Ukrainian and Russian emigration to the Czechoslovak Republic between the wars (Sergej Magid, Maria Magidova); 3) the study of Chyzhevs’kyj’s works on philosophy and literature. Although Oleksa Myshanych and Ivan Fizer undertook the study of some impor...
The article presents an interpretation of the short story The Queen of Jungle by James Hynes. The... more The article presents an interpretation of the short story The Queen of Jungle by James Hynes. The attention is paid to the image of Charlotte, a black-and-white cat of two university professors, and its literary “ancestors”. The author interprets the short story within the tradition of the American academic novel, in particular the period of the 1990s marked by the problem of tenure and the “publish or perish” principle
The book focuses on the academic biographies of two outstanding scholars of the 20th century Dmit... more The book focuses on the academic biographies of two outstanding scholars of the 20th century Dmitrij Tschizewskij and Roman Jakobson, presenting their academic and personal lives through contrast and comparison. Chapter I discusses the topicality of their ideas for the contemporary intellectual discourse, while Chapter II presents the reconstruction of their personal and academic relationships. Chapter III is a sketch on the history of Slavic Studies in the United States, which provides the historical background for further presentation of Dmitrij Tschizewskij’s life of an immigrant to the USA after WW II (Chapter IV). Chapter V deals with Tschizewskij’s and Jakobson’s concepts of comparative history of Slavic Literatures. Chapter VI analyses Tschizewskij’s literary theories concerning the Biedermeier period in Ukrainian literature, the problem of reading and that of the reader as well as the interpretation of Russian classic literature
Instytut Filologii Polskiej Uniwersytetu Przyrodniczo-Humanistycznego, Dec 1, 2010
This monograph focuses on the intellectual heritage of Dmytro Chyzhevs’kyj (1894–1977), a promine... more This monograph focuses on the intellectual heritage of Dmytro Chyzhevs’kyj (1894–1977), a prominent Ukrainian Slavist, philosopher and a literary critic. The aspects under consideration are Chyzhevs’kyj's interest in Czech and Slovak culture, which was directly connected with his stay in Prague in the 1920s among Ukrainian and Russian emigrants and his continuing cooperation with Czech colleagues in the following years. The aim of this research is to provide an introductory review of the works of Chyzhevs’kyj on Czech and Slovak culture, as well as to delineate their place in the context of European, Slavic and Comparative Studies in the first half of the twentieth century.
Although Marina Lewycka’s novel „A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian” is traditionally menti... more Although Marina Lewycka’s novel „A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian” is traditionally mentioned in the context of immigrant literature, it might prove to be more interesting if viewed from the perspective of the academic novel. A satirical image of a desperate thirty-six years old Ukrainian woman Valentina ready to marry a widower in his eighties for the sake of naturalization in the UK often overshadows the image of the British university teacher and this man’s younger daughter Nadezhda, who goes through a tough process of identity (re-)construction while trying to protect her father from the second marriage. Being born, raised, and educated in the UK, being a UK citizen with an active social position, Nadezhda not only holds British values dear, perceives herself as British (in fact born into the family of Ukrainian immigrants), but also as a university professor passes them on to the following generations successfully until the actual “invasion” of the Other into her life t...
Alúzie 2024: Metodologické presahy literárnovedného výskumu – zborník rozšírených abstraktov z medzinárodnej konferencie (Košice 15. – 16. 4. 2024), Jun 28, 2024
Zborník rozšírených abstraktov z medzinárodnej konferencie Alúzie 2024: Metodologické presahy lit... more Zborník rozšírených abstraktov z medzinárodnej konferencie Alúzie 2024: Metodologické presahy literárnovedného výskumu (15. – 16. apríla 2024 v Košiciach) vychádza vo finálnej fáze a poslednom roku riešenia projektu APVV-19-0244 Metodologické postupy v literárnovednom výskume s presahom do mediálneho prostredia a zachytáva vzájomnú komunikáciu viacerých príbuzných disciplín. Autori abstraktov predstavujú literárnovedné, translatologické, mediologické, kulturologické aj iné metodologické východiská svojho výskumu v rozmanitých témach, ktoré však spája motív presahovania a prepájania disciplín, metód, smerov či samotných diel, ako to už v názve konferencie avizuje hravý termín „alúzie“.
Proceedings of Extended Abstracts from the International Conference Allusions 2024: Methodological Overlaps in Literary Research (15th – 16th April 2024 in Košice) are being published in the final phase and last year of the APVV-19-0244 project, Methodological Procedures in Literary-Scholarship Research with an Impact on the Media Environment. The collection captures the mutual communication of several related disciplines. The authors of the abstracts present literary, translation, media, cultural, and other methodological approaches in their research on various topics, which are united by the theme of overlapping and connecting disciplines, methods, directions, or even the art works themselves, as hinted at by the playful term "allusions" in the conference title.
This monograph focuses on the intellectual heritage of Dmytro Chyzhevs’kyj (1894–1977), a promine... more This monograph focuses on the intellectual heritage of Dmytro Chyzhevs’kyj (1894–1977), a prominent Ukrainian Slavist, philosopher and a literary critic. The aspects under consideration are Chyzhevs’kyj's interest in Czech and Slovak culture, which was directly connected with his stay in Prague in the 1920s among Ukrainian and Russian emigrants and his continuing cooperation with Czech colleagues in the following years. The aim of this research is to provide an introductory review of the works of Chyzhevs’kyj on Czech and Slovak culture, as well as to delineate their place in the context of European, Slavic and Comparative Studies in the first half of the twentieth century.
Dmitrij Tschizewskij vs. Roman Jakobson
The book focuses on the academic biographies of two outs... more Dmitrij Tschizewskij vs. Roman Jakobson
The book focuses on the academic biographies of two outstanding scholars of the 20th century Dmitrij Tschizewskij and Roman Jakobson, presenting their academic and personal lives through contrast and comparison. Chapter I discusses the topicality of their ideas for the contemporary intellectual discourse, while Chapter II presents the reconstruction of their personal and academic relationships. Chapter III is a sketch on the history of Slavic Studies in the United States, which provides the historical background for further presentation of Dmitrij Tschizewskij’s life of an immigrant to the USA after WW II (Chapter IV). Chapter V deals with Tschizewskij’s and Jakobson’s concepts of comparative history of Slavic Literatures. Chapter VI analyses Tschizewskij’s literary theories concerning the Biedermeier period in Ukrainian literature, the problem of reading and that of the reader as well as the interpretation of Russian classic literature.
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Proceedings of Extended Abstracts from the International Conference Allusions 2024: Methodological Overlaps in Literary Research (15th – 16th April 2024 in Košice) are being published in the final phase and last year of the APVV-19-0244 project, Methodological Procedures in Literary-Scholarship Research with an Impact on the Media Environment. The collection captures the mutual communication of several related disciplines. The authors of the abstracts present literary, translation, media, cultural, and other methodological approaches in their research on various topics, which are united by the theme of overlapping and connecting disciplines, methods, directions, or even the art works themselves, as hinted at by the playful term "allusions" in the conference title.
The book focuses on the academic biographies of two outstanding
scholars of the 20th century Dmitrij Tschizewskij and Roman
Jakobson, presenting their academic and personal lives through
contrast and comparison. Chapter I discusses the topicality of their
ideas for the contemporary intellectual discourse, while Chapter II
presents the reconstruction of their personal and academic relationships. Chapter III is a sketch on the history of Slavic Studies in the United States, which provides the historical background for further
presentation of Dmitrij Tschizewskij’s life of an immigrant to the
USA after WW II (Chapter IV). Chapter V deals with Tschizewskij’s
and Jakobson’s concepts of comparative history of Slavic Literatures.
Chapter VI analyses Tschizewskij’s literary theories concerning the
Biedermeier period in Ukrainian literature, the problem of reading
and that of the reader as well as the interpretation of Russian classic
literature.