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Record Nr.

UNISA996472053003316

Autore

Danylenko Andrii

Titolo

From the Bible to Shakespeare : Pantelejmon Kuliš (1819-1897) and the Formation of Literary Ukrainian / / Andrii Danylenko

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Boston, MA : , : Academic Studies Press, , [2016]

©2016

ISBN

1-64469-135-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (471 pages) : illustrations, tables

Collana

Ukrainian Studies

Classificazione

KL 6312

Disciplina

822.33

Soggetti

Translating and interpreting - Ukraine - History - 19th century

Ukrainian language - History - 19th century

Übersetzung

Ukrainisch

LITERARY CRITICISM / Russian & Former Soviet Union

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- PART I. THE BIBLE -- PART II. SHAKESPEARE -- Conclusion: Detours Offered But Never Taken -- Bibliography -- Indices

Sommario/riassunto

This is the first comprehensive study of the language program of the prominent Ukrainian writer and ideologue Pantelejmon Kuliš (1819-1897) whose translations of the Bible and Shakespeare proved most innovative in the formation of literary and the national self-identification of Ukrainians. The author looks at Kuliš's translations from the perspective of cultural and ethnic studies, presenting literary Ukrainian as a process of negotiation among literary traditions, religions (rites), political movements, and personalities. This book may be used in university courses on the history of Slavic languages and literatures, contemporary theories of nation-building and national identity as well as language contact and (historical) sociolinguistics. The discussion of language policy in the Russian Empire and Austria-Hungary can be included in regular university courses on Slavic



civilizations, history of Central and Eastern Europe (Russia, Poland, and Ukraine).