Polemics without Polemics - Myxajlo Andrella in Ruthenian (Ukrainian) Literary Space
Polemics without Polemics - Myxajlo Andrella in Ruthenian (Ukrainian) Literary Space
Author(s): Andrii DanylenkoSubject(s): Customs / Folklore, Geography, Regional studies, Studies of Literature, Cultural Anthropology / Ethnology, 17th Century, 18th Century
Published by: Akadémiai Kiadó
Keywords: Transcarpathian Rus’; the post-Tridentine Catholic Church; the Užhorod Union of 1646; Church Slavonic of the Meletian recension; prostyj jazyk"; macaronic script; multi-culturalism; multilingualism;
Summary/Abstract: A prominent Orthodox polemist of the 17th - early 18th cc., Myxajlo Andrella’s style and language were not representative of the heterogeneous culture in Transcarpathian Rus’ only. The author maintains that Andrella’s script- and language-switching, chaotic as it may appear, is basically identical with that in the works of Berynda, Vysens’kyj, and other Ruthenian authors who as multilingual speakers were likely to spontaneously mix words or phrases. The author argues that, both in form and language, Andrella’s writings were rooted not so much in the Galician cultural and literary tradition as in the Ruthenian cultural model of the 17th c.
Journal: Studia Slavica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae
- Issue Year: 53/2008
- Issue No: 1
- Page Range: 123-146
- Page Count: 24
- Language: English
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