Motyw choroby w literaturze i kulturze Ukrainy oraz państw obszaru poradzieckiego
The Motif of Disease in the Literature and Culture of Ukraine and Other States of the Post-Soviet Area
Contributor(s): Marta Zambrzycka (Editor)
Subject(s): Studies of Literature, Ukrainian Literature, Philology
Published by: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
Keywords: Ukrainian literature; Ukrainian culture; Russian literature; motif of disease
Summary/Abstract: This book constitutes an invitation to examine the question of disease in the literature and culture of Ukraine and other states of the post-Soviet space. The position occupied by the motifs of malady in works created in the region has to do, first and foremost, with its oppressive past. The authors of the texts collected in the volume treat disease as a metaphor that allows them to connect images of dysfunctional carnality with reflection on the condition of societies struggling to cope with traumatic experiences.
- E-ISBN-13: 978-83-235-5323-6
- Print-ISBN-13: 978-83-235-5315-1
- Page Count: 162
- Publication Year: 2021
- Language: Polish, Ukrainian
Choroba – defekt – literatura: perspektywy badania narracji chorobowych
Choroba – defekt – literatura: perspektywy badania narracji chorobowych
(Illness – Defect – Literature: Perspectives on the Study of Illness Narratives)
- Author(s):Iwona Boruszkowska
- Language:Polish, Ukrainian
- Subject(s):Studies of Literature, Ukrainian Literature, Philology
- Page Range:11-28
- No. of Pages:18
- Keywords:illness and literature; narrative medicine; illness narratives; pathographies
- Summary/Abstract:The aim of this paper is to provide an overview of the relations between medical practice and literary studies against the background of the latest theories and research trends. It will be particularly interesting to outline the possibility of using tools from the field of the developing studies of illness as a cultural phenomenon in reviewing the genres of the literature of suffering and illness. The canon of pathographic literature discussions includes publications by Arthur Kleinman, Anne Hawkins, Arthur W. Frank and Thomas Couser. A common element of the discussed genres is the poetics of illness and the use of narrative strategies that present the medical experience. Due to the growing popularity and diversity of the so-called illness writing, it seems necessary to distinguish between autopathography and pathography, where autopathography is a narrative created by an ill person / patient, a specific autobiography (in the form of various ego-documents discussing the illness – letters, diaries, memoirs, etc.), a subjective autobiographical narrative about the illness. The article will then focus on the theory of defect, maladic narratives and the turn towards narrative medicine in literary studies.
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Choroba miejscem autobiograficznym
Choroba miejscem autobiograficznym
(Disease as an Autobiographical Place)
- Author(s):Marta Kaczmarczyk
- Language:Polish, Ukrainian
- Subject(s):Studies of Literature, Ukrainian Literature, Philology
- Page Range:29-48
- No. of Pages:20
- Keywords:disease; body; autobiographical place; Lesia Ukrainka; personal document; autopathography
- Summary/Abstract:The purpose of this article is to reflect on the different representations of the experience of illness that come from the personal document literature of Lesia Ukrainka. The disease creates autobiographical places in the poet’s biography. We observe a gradual expropriation from biography and carnality. The disease creates a patient’s identity, forcing the poet to fight the enslavement of the body.
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Chora dusza – chore ciało
Chora dusza – chore ciało
(Sick Soul – Sick Body)
- Author(s):Paulina Olechowska
- Language:Polish, Ukrainian
- Subject(s):Studies of Literature, Ukrainian Literature, Philology
- Page Range:49-57
- No. of Pages:9
- Keywords:trauma; emotional instability; pain; adult; child
- Summary/Abstract:In this article, I analyse the heroine’s (narrator’s) toxic relationship with her grandmother in Tania Maliarchuk’s short story "The Devil of Hunger". The story presents two women who have experienced trauma and are trying to express it. I consider the post-traumatic state of both the grandmother and the granddaughter as a medical condition that results in body ailments and dysfunctions of the psyche. In the case of the grandmother it is expressed in sadistic behaviour towards her granddaughter and in the case of the granddaughter it manifests as depressive states and emotional instability. Both women display “unhealthy” states of the body and spirit.
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Opowiadać i działać
Opowiadać i działać
(To Tell and to Act)
- Author(s):Marta Zambrzycka
- Language:Polish, Ukrainian
- Subject(s):Studies of Literature, Ukrainian Literature, Philology
- Page Range:58-72
- No. of Pages:15
- Keywords:experience of disease; social activism; literature; social influence
- Summary/Abstract:This article concerns three Ukrainian texts about the experience of disease, as well as the social activism undertaken by the authors of these texts. It shows how literature can become an activity that helps people suffering from various diseases and how, with the help of a literary text, one can change social awareness and effect changes in attitudes, beliefs and behaviour.
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Християнський контекст мотиву сліпоти-прозріння в "Повісті минулих літ" Нестора Літописця і "Kronice polskiej" Ґалла Аноніма
Християнський контекст мотиву сліпоти-прозріння в "Повісті минулих літ" Нестора Літописця і "Kronice polskiej" Ґалла Аноніма
(Christian Context of the Motif of Blindness and Enlightenment in "Tale of Bygone Years" by Nestor the Chronicler and "Polish Chronicle" by Gallus Anonymus)
- Author(s):Oksana Wiszniewska
- Language:Polish, Ukrainian
- Subject(s):Studies of Literature, Ukrainian Literature, Philology
- Page Range:73-87
- No. of Pages:15
- Keywords:motif; symbol; paganism; Christianity; blindness; enlightenment
- Summary/Abstract:The article analyses the motif of blindness and enlightenment in Old East Slavic literature (on the basis of the "Tale of Bygone Years" by Nestor the Chronicler) and Old Polish literature (on the basis of "The Polish Chronicle" by Gallus Anonymus). The main focus is on the blindness of two rulers – Prince Vladimir the Great of Kiev ("Tale of Bygone Years") and Prince Mieszko of Poland ("The Polish Chronicle" by Gallus Anonymus) and their wonderful enlightenment, revealing both commonalities and differences in the rendering of the motif of blindness and enlightenment. The sources of the stories about the blindness of Vladimir the Great and Mieszko are analysed, and it is found that the author of "Tale of Bygone Years" draws upon folk legends, while researchers of "The Polish Chronicle" put forward different hypotheses about its sources. It is determined that in both cases blindness should be understood not only as a physical affliction. The sudden loss of sight by Vladimir the Great ("Tale of Bygone Years") is a manifestation of spiritual blindness. The disease is interpreted as a symbol of the culmination of Vladimir’s life, when he had to choose between paganism and Christianity. Therefore, the recovery of sight has an obvious allegorical meaning: baptism is associated with light, enlightenment. Analysing "The Polish Chronicle" by Gallus Anonymus elucidates a symbolic meaning of the blindness of Mieszko, having to do with a country and a people who have long been in darkness. The enlightenment and recovery of sight by Mieszko become a premonition of the future of Poland, a kind of boundary between the past and the future, between paganism and Christianity. It is outlined that the moment of Christianisation (enlightenment) in both cases had not only personal but also state significance, as it contributed to the accession of Rus’ and Poland to the family of European states.
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Мистецтво витинання як творчість і як арт-терапія (на матеріалах України середини XX – початку XXI століть)
Мистецтво витинання як творчість і як арт-терапія (на матеріалах України середини XX – початку XXI століть)
(The Art of Paper Cutting as Creative Production and as Art Therapy (Based on Ukrainian Data, Mid-19th to Early 21st Centuries))
- Author(s):Zinaida Kosycka
- Language:Polish, Ukrainian
- Subject(s):Studies of Literature, Ukrainian Literature, Philology
- Page Range:88-102
- No. of Pages:15
- Keywords:master; artist; creation; art therapy; illness; paper cutting; paper cutting art
- Summary/Abstract:The article provides an overview of works of individual artists who despite struggling with illness were able to continue their creative activities applying the technique of paper cutting. Works of Henri Matisse are first considered, for whom scissors replaced a paintbrush when he lacked the strength to work at the easel. Among the Ukrainian artists the article considers Mykhailo Kuzemskyi, a folk master of the latter half of the 20th century from the village of Remeniv in Kamianka-Buzka District (Lviv Region), who suffered from a congenital lack of hearing and found the opportunity for self-realization in the creative process. The paper also features an analysis of works by Olha Shynkarenko, a modern artist who after a long illness commenced to create original torn paper collages. The paper cutting art’s therapeutic effect is exemplified by creations of Tetiana Rudyk, a fine arts teacher from the town of Bar (Vinnytsia Region), as well as a work by Taia Pervak, a schoolgirl from the city of Chasiv Yar (Donetsk Region), who attends the art studio headed by Viktoriia Nesterova. The examples analysed in the article demonstrate a wide range of possibilities of the paper cutting technique as both an accessible form of creation and a means of conscious and unconscious art therapy.
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Хворобливий сон Іванди у повісті Олеся Ульяненка "Сєдой"
Хворобливий сон Іванди у повісті Олеся Ульяненка "Сєдой"
(Ivanda’s Sickly Dream in the Short Story "Siedoi" by Oles Ulianenko)
- Author(s):Feliks Shteinbuk
- Language:Polish, Ukrainian
- Subject(s):Studies of Literature, Ukrainian Literature, Philology
- Page Range:103-115
- No. of Pages:13
- Keywords:Oles Ulianenko; sleep; illness; consciousness; recovery; death; life
- Summary/Abstract:Taking as an example a short though highly expressive story Siedoi by Oles Ulianenko, the article suggests a novel, corporal-mimetic variant of theoretical literary analysis. In it, literary works are researched first and foremost considering their corporal dimension; this method can be defined as a method to analyse the corporal-existential background of the fiction discourse. Using this approach, the conclusion is drawn that the content of Oles Ulianenko’s literary work is determined, in the first place, by the author’s attempt to favour the formation of a controversial discourse on the basis of the sickly dream strategy, whereby gloomy content of the story under analysis is balanced, in a paradox way, with the stream of a sickly dream, which defies pessimism or at least attaches an ambivalent dimension to it, a dimension directed toward both death and recovery, that is to say, life.
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Семантичне поле мотиву відьомства в сучасній українській літературі (на матеріалі "Казки про калинову сопілку" Оксани Забужко)
Семантичне поле мотиву відьомства в сучасній українській літературі (на матеріалі "Казки про калинову сопілку" Оксани Забужко)
(Semantic Field of the Motif of Witchcraft in Modern Ukrainian Literature (Based on the Material of "The Reedpipe Tale" by Oksana Zabuzhko))
- Author(s):Halyna Żukowska
- Language:Polish, Ukrainian
- Subject(s):Studies of Literature, Ukrainian Literature, Philology
- Page Range:116-134
- No. of Pages:19
- Keywords:motif of witchcraft; image of a witch; folk and ethnographic myth; Biblical myth; literary interpretation; images and symbols
- Summary/Abstract:The article analyses the motif of witchcraft and its semantic field in modern Ukrainian literature based on the material of Oksana Zabuzhko’s "The Reedpipe Tale". It reveals the symbolic modulations of the witch’s image in the context of ideology, philosophy, and Zabuzhko’s writing style. An analysis of the interpretive model of the witch’s image in Oksana Zabuzhko’s story shows that in contemporary feminist postmodernism witchcraft represents the inner state of a woman in the patriarchal society, her peculiar way of defence and protest. The interpretation of the demonic possession of a woman in Oksana Zabuzhko’s story is carried out in several interpretative vectors, but they all remain closely connected with folk and mythological ideas: the image of a witch has a dual nature, reflecting a struggle between good and evil, light and darkness, the human and the demonic. In Oksana Zabuzhko’s literary interpretation, a woman in the traditional society is its mirror reflection, so the innate demonic nature of a woman is not associated with evil, and the transformation of this force into destructive one is due to the detrimental influence of the social environment. The use of Biblical myths, folklore, and ethnographic images and symbols in Oksana Zabuzhko’s story is shown to be a way of creating a timeless background for philosophical reflections on the eternal questions of human existence.
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Motyw choroby w ukraińskiej sztuce kobiecej
Motyw choroby w ukraińskiej sztuce kobiecej
(The Theme of Illness in Ukrainian Women’s Art)
- Author(s):Michał Szymko
- Language:Polish, Ukrainian
- Subject(s):Studies of Literature, Ukrainian Literature, Philology
- Page Range:135-145
- No. of Pages:11
- Keywords:Ukrainian female art; feminism; disease; contemporary art
- Summary/Abstract:From the beginning, the theme of illness and suffering has been very important in Ukrainian women’s art. Over the past several decades, Ukrainians have experienced significant changes in the organization of the state and social life. Therefore, the female narrative in art speaks about suffering as the main inspiration in creating. The artists have treated their works as a diary and as therapy. The article presents three main features that influence the general theme of illness in Ukrainian women’s art, among them the physical and spiritual illness and social illness caused by the yoke of war.
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Motyw choroby w powieści Jeleny Czyżowej "Czas kobiet"
Motyw choroby w powieści Jeleny Czyżowej "Czas kobiet"
(The Motif of Disease in the Novel "The Time of Women" by Elena Chizhova)
- Author(s):Monika Zielińska-Dziubińska
- Language:Polish, Ukrainian
- Subject(s):Studies of Literature, Ukrainian Literature, Philology
- Page Range:146-157
- No. of Pages:12
- Keywords:feminine prose; Leningrad; foster grandmothers; Soviet Union; virus; communism; cancer
- Summary/Abstract:In this article, an analysis is conducted of the concept of disease as one of the motifs addressed by Elena Chizhova in her novel "The Time of Women". This motif was presented by the author in two dimensions: metaphorical and physical. The protagonist Antonina Bespalova, working in health-detrimental conditions and a single mother of a girl suffering from inborn mutism, is “infected” with the virus of communism. However, the virus of propaganda, destroying an individual’s autonomy, does not affect her love towards her daughter. Driven by the imperative of love, the woman aims to protect her daughter from the destructive influence of the communist system at any price. Exploitation, difficult living conditions in the Soviet Union of the 1960s as well as the factory authorities’ interference in the protagonist’s private life lead to her physical and psychological exhaustion, resulting in cancer-induced premature death.
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