The Intellectual As Hero In 1990s Ukrainian Fiction

Author : Mark Andryczyk
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1442695897
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Intellectual as Hero in 1990s Ukrainian Fiction written by Mark Andryczyk and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2012-03-13 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 1990s were a period of tremendous artistic vigour, experimentation, and liberation for Ukrainian culture. The artists who emerged at this time unleashed a tidal wave of creativity that deliberately and aggressively reshaped inherited models. In this first English monograph on contemporary Ukrainian literature, Mark Andryczyk provides an in-depth analysis of the cultural explosion that engulfed Ukraine in its first decade of independence. The Intellectual as Hero in 1990s Ukrainian Fiction weaves a fascinating narrative full of colourful characters by examining the prose of today's leading writers. Andryczyk delves into the role of the intellectual in forging a post-Soviet Ukrainian identity, and follows these protagonists as they soar and stumble in pursuit of redefining their creative realm. In addition to introducing readers to vibrant literary gems, this book explores the artistic tendencies that determined the course of the Ukrainian cultural scene in the 1990s, and continue to shape it today.

Author : Maria G. Rewakowicz
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 1498538827
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ukraine's Quest for Identity written by Maria G. Rewakowicz and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2017-10-18 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study examines the connections between literature and national identity in post-Soviet Ukraine. The author conceives of literary production as a social institution and analyzes such topics as gender, regionalism, language politics, and popular culture. This work also situates Ukraine’s post-Soviet development within a broader regional context.

Author : Mark Andryczyk
Publisher : Ukrainian Studies
ISBN 13 : 9781618118622
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The White Chalk of Days written by Mark Andryczyk and published by Ukrainian Studies. This book was released on 2018-10 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This anthology presents translations of literary works by Ukraine's leading writers that imaginatively engage pivotal issues in today's Ukraine and express its tribulations and jubilations. It offers English-language readers a wide array of the most beguiling literature written in Ukraine in the past fifty years.

Author : Mark Andryczyk
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1802061657
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Writing from Ukraine written by Mark Andryczyk and published by Random House. This book was released on 2022-08-04 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A selection of fifteen of Ukraine's most important, dynamic and entertaining contemporary writers Under USSR rule, the subject matter and style of literary expression in Ukraine was strictly controlled and censored. But once Ukraine gained independence in 1991 its literary scene flourished, as the moving and delightful poems, essays and extracts collected here show. There are fifteen authors included in this book, both established and emerging, and in this anthology we see them grappling with history and the future, with big questions and small moments. From essays about Chernobyl to poetry about Robbie Williams, from fiction discussing Jimmy Hendrix live in Lviv to underground Ukrainian poetry of the Soviet era, WRITING FROM UKRAINE offers a unique window into a rich culture, a chance to experience a particularly Ukrainian sensibility and to celebrate Ukraine's nationhood, as told by its writers.

Author : Fran Mason
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1442276207
Total Pages : 587 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Historical Dictionary of Postmodernist Literature and Theater written by Fran Mason and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2016-12-12 with total page 587 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The main aim of the book has been to include writers, movements, forms of writing and textual strategies, critical ideas, and texts that are significant in relation to postmodernist literature. In addition, important scholars, journals, and cultural processes have been included where these are felt to be relevant to an understanding of postmodernist writing. This second edition of Historical Dictionary of Postmodernist Literature and Theater contains a chronology, an introduction, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 400 cross-referenced entries on postmodernist writers, the important postmodernist aesthetic practices, significant texts produced throughout the history of postmodernist writing, and important movements and ideas that have created a variety of literary approaches within the form. This book is an excellent access point for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about the postmodernist literature and theater.

Author : Mark Andryczyk
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1802062920
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ukraine 22 written by Mark Andryczyk and published by Random House. This book was released on 2023-08-24 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'The extraordinary writers in this volume articulate the taste, the terror, and the dialect of war; they command their powers of description to face a shameless empire intent on annihilating them' Ellena Savage A selection of Ukraine's leading writers convey the reality of life within Ukraine during the first year of the invasion On 24 February 2022, the lives of Ukrainians were devastatingly altered. Since that day, many of Ukraine's writers have attempted to fathom what is happening to them and to their country. This anthology brings together writing from inside Ukraine, by Ukrainians, available in English for the first time. Here they document everyday life, ponder the role of culture amid conflict, denounce Russian imperialism and revisit their relations with the world, especially Europe and its ideals, as they try to comprehend the horrors of war. From tearing-downs of Russia's use of culture as justification of the war to moving descriptions of nights spent sheltering in corridors, poignant snatched moments with a husband on his single night away from the army, to descriptions of the eerie weather in the months leading up to the invasion, as if nature was trying to warn Ukraine, these essays reveal the texture, rawness and reality of life in Ukraine under war as never before.

Author : Ivan Katchanovski
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
ISBN 13 : 081087847X
Total Pages : 970 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Historical Dictionary of Ukraine written by Ivan Katchanovski and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2013-07-11 with total page 970 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although present-day Ukraine has only been in existence for something over two decades, its recorded history reaches much further back for more than a thousand years to Kyivan Rus’. Over that time, it has usually been under control of invaders like the Turks and Tatars, or neighbors like Russia and Poland, and indeed it was part of the Soviet Union until it gained its independence in 1991. Today it is drawn between its huge neighbor to the east and the European Union, and is still struggling to choose its own path… although it remains uncertain of which way to turn. Nonetheless, as one of the largest European states, with considerable economic potential, it is not a place that can be readily overlooked. The problem is, or at least was, where to find information on this huge modern Ukraine, and since 2005 the answer has been the Historical Dictionary of Ukraine in its first edition, and now even more so with this second edition. It now boasts a dictionary section of about 725 entries, these covering the thousand years of history but particularly the recent past, and focusing on significant persons, places and events, political parties and institutions as well as more broadly international relations, the economy, society and culture. The chronology permits readers to follow this history and the introduction is there to make sense of it. It also features the most extensive and up-to-date bibliography of English-language writing on Ukraine.

Author : Volodymyr Rafeyenko
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674271742
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mondegreen written by Volodymyr Rafeyenko and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2022-04-19 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A mondegreen is something that is heard improperly by someone who then clings to that misinterpretation as fact. Fittingly, Volodymyr Rafeyenko’s novel Mondegreen: Songs about Death and Love explores the ways that memory and language construct our identity, and how we hold on to it no matter what. The novel tells the story of Haba Habinsky, a refugee from Ukraine’s Donbas region, who has escaped to the capital city of Kyiv at the onset of the Ukrainian-Russian war. His physical dislocation—and his subsequent willful adoption of the Ukrainian language—place the protagonist in a state of disorientation during which he is forced to challenge his convictions. Written in beautiful, experimental style, the novel shows how people—and cities—are capable of radical transformation and how this, in turn, affects their interpersonal relations and cultural identification. Taking on crucial topics stirred by Russian aggression that began in 2014, the novel stands out for the innovative and probing manner in which it dissects them, while providing a fresh Donbas perspective on Ukrainian identity.

Author : Tanya Zaharchenko
Publisher : Central European University Press
ISBN 13 : 9633861195
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Where Currents Meet written by Tanya Zaharchenko and published by Central European University Press. This book was released on 2016-03-01 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study of cultural memory in post-Soviet society shows how the inhabitants in Ukraine?s east negotiate the historical legacy they have inherited. Zaharchenko approaches contemporary Ukrainian literature at the intersection of memory studies and border studies, and her analysis adds a new voice to an ongoing exploration of cultural and historical discourses in Ukraine. The scholarly journey through storylines explores the ways in which younger writers in Kharkiv (Kharkov in Russian), a diverse, dynamic, but under-studied border city in east Ukraine today, come to grips with a traumatized post-Soviet cultural landscape. Zaharchenko?s book examines the works of Serhiy Zhadan, Andre? Krasniashchikh, Yuri Tsaplin, Oleh Kotsarev and others, introducing them as a ?doubletake? generation who came of age during the Soviet Union?s collapse and as adults, revisit this experience in their novels. Filling the space between society and the state, local literary texts have turned into forms of historical memory and agents of political life. ÿ

Author : Oleksandra Wallo
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1487506007
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ukrainian Women Writers and the National Imaginary written by Oleksandra Wallo and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2019 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By writing of Ukrainian national identity from a woman-centered perspective, female authors from the last Soviet generation established themselves as authoritative critics of their culture and paved the way to visibility and success for their younger female literary peers.