Zachodnia i wschodnia tradycja wykonawcza śpiewu sakralnego: aspekt estetyczny

Author(s): Ievgeniia Lazarevych / Language(s): Polish Issue: 04 (31)/2016

Fundamental differences between Kyiv-Pechersk choral style and Western model of performance of religious chants can be considered in various contexts and at several levels. One should take into account diversity of church rules (canon), mentality, even geographical location and physiological capabilities of voices of the singers coming from a particular area. The performance practice is also connected with such factors as cultural traditions, language, way of life and social issues related to faith. It is therefore understandable that, after a short period of a fragile cultural unity of the Church, different traditions emerged. The author argues that the way of singing is directly dependent on the fundamental philosophical and theological ideas, originating from the Church canon. Then, the differences between chant performance in two main branches of the Christian Church seem to be a consequence of the distinct ways in which the theological doctrine, dogma of the Church, the temporal and spatial principles of worship and art developed in Roman Catholic and Byzantine Orthodox traditions. The two different perceptions of communication with God and its influence on church singing are considered by the author as an exemplary case.

Комиссия эмигрантологии славян Международного комитета славистов

Author(s): Lucjan Suchanek / Language(s): Russian Issue: 1/2015

Образы домашних и диких животных в польских, русских и украинских паремиях

Author(s): Nadiia Melnyk / Language(s): Russian Issue: 2/2016

Animalisms as the animalistic components of paremiaes play an important role in the semantic codes in Paremiology. The comparative and contrastive analysis of animalisms in the structure of Polish, Russian and Ukrainian paremiaes with the use of a biocentric approach allows us to describe the general and specific features of behaviour and characters that exist in the most widespread paremic images of wild and domestic animals. The animalistic images are typical of: the Polish, Russian and Ukrainian culture. The process of describing each category of animal which takes place in the paremiologic units supports the reconstruction of fragments of a linguistic world‑image and allows us to observe a correlation between such concepts as Animal and Human Being.

Эминрантология. Научно-исследовательский вклад польской русистики

Author(s): Izabela Kowalska-Paszt / Language(s): Russian Issue: 150/2015

Based on the literary and cultural material, the article discusses two functions played by the term of emigrantology as a legacy of three waves of Russian emigration in the 20th century. The term was introduced by Lucjan Suchanek to the research space of Slavic emigration. It has systematized the area of intellectual and scientific self-reflection (including literary studies, historiography, philosophy and theology, and cultural studies), which developed in the community of Russian emigration. Additionally, the term provides modelling of the need for interdisciplinary and in the nearest future trans-disciplinary studies on the complex cultural phenomenon of Slavic emigrations. In this particular context, the article presents major research directions and achievements of Russian studies in Poland.

„Мултикултурализъм и многоезичие”

Author(s): Aleksandra Aleksandrova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 02/2017

Motyw choroby w literaturze i kulturze Ukrainy oraz państw obszaru poradzieckiego

Author(s): / Language(s): Polish,Ukrainian

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.

Literackie topografie Lwowa. Szkice komparatystyczne

Author(s): Zoriana Czajkowska / Language(s): Polish

The monograph is devoted to the literary image of Lviv. It combines a new look at the borderline cultures, where the problems of cultural and historical memory and postmemory, in the melting pot of memories, reading and preserving memory, deideologization and dehierarchization of thinking, and the rehabilitation of what was concealed or forbidden are crucial. The monograph focuses on the selected Polish, Ukrainian and Russian twentieth and twenty-first century literary texts. Taken considerations are an attempt to capture general discourses of Lviv, creation of its myth/myths and to analyze how Polish, Ukrainian and Russian authors discover and perceive this unusual space. The publication also discusses how the problem of "strangeness" and/or "otherness" is reflected in literary texts and how the authors create an image of other nationalities.

Slavic elements in the calendar rites of the Romanians of Bukovina

Author(s): Antoniy Moysey,Antonina Anistratenko,Tetyana Nykyforuk / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2022

This study is aimed at identifying the most noticeable Slavic elements in the calendar rites of Bukovyna. It analyzes material collected by Romanian researchers in the second half of the 19th – early 20th century (E. Niculiță-Voronca, T. Pamfile, L. Bodnărescu, А. Fochi, A. Zașciuc), documents from the Central Scientific Archive of the Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Moldova, the New Linguistic Atlas of Romania, Moldova and Bukovyna (1987), as well as personal observations recorded by the authors of the study in Ukraine and Romania during ethnographic expeditions. In the calendar rites of the Romanians of Bukovyna, some clear Slavic elements can be identified, such as some names of calendar holidays, Ukrainian elements in such rites as koliada, the Christmas star, shchedruvannya. Ukrainian motifs of musical folklore in winter rites, as well as the use of the names of Ukrainian opryshky and haidamaky, the adaptation of the “walking with vertep”, the use of the term vidma of Ukrainian origin, the penetration of the name and main text of the Ukrainian Malanka, etc.

Втора международна славистична коференция, посветена на паметта на светите братя Кирил и Методий

Author(s): Svetlana Kornienko / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 44/2022

Biblical and Anthropocentric Phraseologisms in Dmytro Dontsov’s Works: A Cognitive Aspect

Author(s): Oksana Mykytyuk / Language(s): English Issue: 34/2022

The paper deals with Dontsov’s “phraseological speech” in the framework of cognitive linguistics. The ways of creating partially-authorial (biblical) and authorial (anthropocentric) phraseologisms are discussed and their assignment to different phraseological-semantic microfields is suggested. A number of Dontsov’s phraseologisms are viewed as linguomental pictures of the world that are potentially acceptable for a wider use. Methodologically, the research presents a cluster of general scholarly methods and those used in cognitive linguistics as well as special approaches developed in modern anthropocentric research. Methods of cognitive linguistics are of the utmost importance and include categorizing the phenomena of the objective reality and the interdisciplinary method of interpretation related to the correlation of language data with cultural studies, political science, ethnopsychology and other disciplines. Semantic and contextual analyses are also used as supplementary methods. The potential value of the research is ensured by its contribution to the modern anthropocentric linguistics that aims at studying language through its speaker. Structural-and-logical scheme illustrating the cognitive stages of generating a phraseologism is suggested and the importance of categorization of lingual phenomena is emphasized. Dontsov’s phraseologisms are claimed to be means of exposure of the national Ukrainian lingual picture, symbols of the national worldview, and the prism of the world perception and understanding.

Ономастичні засоби творення художнього образу міста у ліриці Ольги Пресіч

Author(s): Irina Nakashidze / Language(s): English,Ukrainian Issue: 1/2018

In the article onomastic means of creating an artistic image of the city are investigated in the work of Olga Pressitch, an Ukrainian-Canadian poet. There is determined, that central city in her creativity is the capital of Ukraine – Kyiv. This is typical for emigration poetry as a manifestation of self-identity. The image of the city is portrayed primarily through toponymic names of streets, buildings and so on. It is revealed that in Olga Pressitch’s lyrics world and place names are also presented, that helps to demolish the image of the motherland into the global context.

Między apokalipsą a melancholią. Oleś Ulianenko – twórczość, konteksty, wspomnienia

Author(s): Anna Horniatko-Szumiłowicz,Marzanna Kuczyńska,Przemysław Lis-Markiewicz,Oksana Puchonska,Jarosław Poliszczuk / Language(s): Polish

The monograph Between Apocalypse and Melancholy. Oles Ulianenko – Writings, Contexts, Memories offers an analysis of selected aspects of the life and prose works of Oles Ulianenko (1962-2010), an outstanding contemporary Ukrainian writer, in the Ukrainian and Bulgarian historical and literary contexts and in the light of the latest literary theories. The monograph was written by scholars from both Poland and Ukraine, including Yaroslav Polishchuk, Marzanna Kuczynska, Oksana Puchonska, Anna Horniatko-Szumilowicz, and Przemyslaw Lis-Markiewicz. The core of the monograph consists of scholarly texts dealing with key aspects of Oles Ulianenko's creative legacy. The monograph also has an appendix containing three memoirs written by Mykhailo Slaboshpytskyi, Pavel Wolwacz and Ihor Ostrowski, translated into Polish. It is worth noting that the latter is being published for the first time. The memoirs paint a portrait of Ulianenko as an unconventional artist, completely devoted to the creative process, and at the same time, as an alienated man entangled in the extremely difficult Ukrainian reality of the late 1980s and early 1990s - a man who till the very end was tormented by deep existential issues and moral dilemmas. Courtesy of Myroslav Slaboshpytskyi, the monograph contains selected photographs of Oles Ulianenko, from his childhood, youth, and adult life, right until his premature death.

Simbolismul și revirimentul literaturilor slave (recenzie la volumul „Simbolismul în literaturile slave”)

Author(s): Ana-Maria Sandu / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 1/2022

Review of: Camelia Dinu (ed.), Simbolismul în literaturile slave, București, Pro Universitaria, 2020, 263p., ISBN 978-606-26-1233-7

Фолклорът и фантастиката в славянски контекст

Author(s): Ana Savić / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 2/2022

Book Review: Савремена српска фолклористика VIII ‒ словенски фолклор и књижевна фантастика. Ур. Дејан Ајдачић и Бошко Сувајџић. Београд: Удружење фолклориста Србије, Универзитетска библи- отека „Светозар Марковић”; Кијев: Комисија за фолклористику Међународног комитета слависта; Лозница: Центар за културу „Вук Караџић”, 2020. 518 стр. ISBN 978-86-7301-149-3

Зануляване, или как руско-украинският въпрос битува в България преди век

Author(s): Roman Hadzhikosev / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 3/2023

This article examines the discussion, which took place in Bulgaria shortly after the beginning of the First World War, between the Austrian deputy of Ukrainian origin Longin Tsechelski and Nikola Bobchev and Yaroslav Romanchuk. At the end of 1914, Tsechelsky arrived in Sofia to campaign for the support of the Ukrainian people in the struggle for independence publishing a pamphlet "How Russia "liberates" Ukraine?". It accuses Russia of having provoked the war by deceiving Serbia; of using pan-Slavic propaganda promulgating the idea of a single Slavic race; of denying Ukrainian nation the right to self-determination because it is conceived as being part and parcel of the Russian people; of not accepting Ukrainian language and Ukrainian literature as different from the Russian language and Russian literature but were instead considered to be their adjuncts, and some other similar arguments.Russophile circles in the country were immediately prompted to take action, which resulted in a response to Tsechelski with an article by Nikola Bobchev and a brochure by Romanchuk, a Ukrainian living and working in Bulgaria. Naturally, they try to refute the claims by using well-known arguments, talking about the liberating role that Russia played in fighting against Ottoman „slavery“, the Slav solidarity and the commercial interests of the West and more specifically of Austria during that historical moment. In the following year, a new answer followed in a book of more than a hundred pages by Tsechelski and another one by Romanchuk.

100 години от рождението на Рикардо Пикио

Author(s): Krassimir Stanchev / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 47/2023

"Ricerche slavistiche" e gli inizi di una moderna ucrainistica in Italia: tra tradizione filologica e collaborazioni internazionali

Author(s): Alessandro Achilli / Language(s): Italian Issue: 65/2022

In this article I offer an overview of the articles published in “Ricerche slavistiche” pertaining to Ukrainian Studies. Although quantitatively not abundant, articles devoted to Ukraine and its culture and language published in “Ricerche slavistiche” have played since the 1980s an important role in normalizing the presence of Ukrain-ian Studies in the broader scholarly context of Italian Slavic Studies. In accordance with the traditional attention that “Ricerche slavistiche” has paid to early modern and medieval Slavic languages and literatures, most Ukraine-related articles in the journal touch on issues regarding the 17th and the 18th centuries and their connections with earlier periods. A particularly important milestone for both “Ricerche slavistiche” and Italian and international Ukrainian Studies was the publication in the 1990 issue of the proceedings of the conference on the perception of the Middle Ages in Slavic cultures of the Baroque period held in Urbino in 1989. The Ukraine-related articles published in these proceedings by scholars from various countries and with different foci, as well as the overall architecture of the issue, in which Ukraine figured alongside with Russia and Poland as a fully-fledged object of research, can be said to have opened a new phase in the study of Ukraine in Italy and beyond. Giovanna Brogi’s role in promoting Ukrainian studies and their presence in “Ricerche slavistiche”, inspired by the open-mindedness of such leading Italian scholars as Sante Graciotti and Riccardo Picchio, can hardly be overestimated. In more recent years, “Ricerche slavistiche” has also hosted a number of contributions on modern Ukrainian literature and Ukrainian linguistics.

Stories of our Grandmothers: How Modern Ukrainian Women's Literature Deconstructs the Soviet Myth about the Great Patriotic War

Author(s): Snizhana Zhygun / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2024

The article analyses how contemporary women’s literature deconstructs the Soviet myth of the Great Patriotic War under the influence of contemporary Russian aggression. This myth defined the narrative of World War II as a heroic sacrifice of the Soviet people. As a result, the diversity of experiences was suppressed and the memory of them was not formed. Since independence, Ukrainian culture has been restoring the gaps in history and memory, which has become especially important in the context of the ongoing war. Women’s literature participates in this process by focusing on women’s experiences, which are usually marginalized in the national-focused narrative. This study aims to identify the contribution of women’s literature to the process of decolonization. The object of the study is such women’s novels as The Museum of Abandoned Secrets by Oksana Zabuzhko (as a precursor to the modern treatment of the topic), Amadoka by Sofia Andruhovych, Because it Hurts by Yevgenia Senik, Eva’s Apples by Khrystyna Kotsira and Faride by Iren Rozdobudko. The study found that women’s literature most often addresses the topics of women combatants, deportations, and the Holocaust. In this way, the authors contribute to the process of returning to national history. At the same time, the study demonstrates the complex interaction of nationality and gender in contemporary women’s literature. As women’s literature also contradicts the traditional nationally oriented discourse, emphasizing female agency and appealing to multinational experience (except Ukrainian, Jewish, and Crimean Tatar). This understanding of the theme of the Second World War by contemporary Ukrainian women’s literature creates a context for the perception of the specifically female experience of the current war and resists attempts at ideological manipulation around women’s roles.

Galizische Wege zur ukrainischen Standardsprache: Omeljan Ohonovs’kyjs Граматика руского языка aus dem Jahr 1889

Author(s): Michael Moser / Language(s): German Issue: 2/2024

When Omeljan Ohonovs’kyj’s Grammar of the Ruthenian Language was published in 1889 it was the most comprehensive grammar of the “Ruthenian”, i.e., Ukrainian language. Ohonovs’kyj, as the second professor of the “Ruthenian” language and “Ruthenian” literature, was undoubtedly one of the leading experts on the Ukrainian language of his times. The most significant shortcomings of his grammar, which was used at schools and to ultimately serve as a standardizing tool, were soon criticized by Roman Smal’-Stoc’kyj and Theodor Gartner, who were about to set new standards in 1893, in their highly influential Ruthenian Grammar.

Jubileusz Profesor Giovanny Brogi

Author(s): Teresa Chynczewska-Hennel / Language(s): Polish Issue: 11/2024

On the occasion of the Jubilee of Professor Giovanna Brogi from the University of Milan, her profile and scientific achievements were presented, and warm wishes were extended during the 5th International Conference titled “Philosophy of Being and Survival in Ego Documents of Ukrainian Writers, Painters, and Filmmakers (from the times of Orlik to the present). Being as Survival”. The jubilee celebrant is an outstanding linguist, philologist, historian, Polish and Ukrainian scholar. She has collaborated with numerous universities and research institutes worldwide and is a member of many scientific organizations and associations. Her research focuses on the historiography of Slavic lands and Western Europe from the Renaissance to the Baroque period. Another area of her research is the literary heritage of Kyivan Rus, with additional topics including the history of Slavic studies and the work of Taras Shevchenko in the context of European literature. She is also involved in popularization activities, teaching the history of Ukraine, particularly in response to the significant interest in Ukraine in Italy following the aggression by the Russian invader.