Prawda jako „sacrum” w twórczości Tarasa Szewczenki

Author(s): Stefan Kozak / Language(s): Polish Issue: 1/2014

The author analyzes the poetry of Taras Shevchenko in the context of the romantic concept of truth. He researches these poems where the poet shows its essence in the most precise way. Taras Shevchenko is presented as a whistle-blower of native pharisees and false patriots as well as the creator of the Ukrainian historiosophical thoughts. In the scientist’s opinion, the poet became the most ardent enemy of despotic monarchs and political tyrants who violated both human and God’s rights. The article presents the role Taras Shevchenko played among the Ukrainian patriotic and democratic youth, especially in the context of creating the collective imagination. In conclusion, the author states that Shevchenko’s concept of truth is consistent with God’s concept of truth, which the whole writer’s poetry is based on.

«Жива душа поетова святая...» Шевченко: духовне здійснення слова

Author(s): Mykola Zhulynskiy / Language(s): Ukrainian Issue: 1/2014

The aim of the article by Mykola Zhulinskyy is to analyze the prognostic potential of Taras Shevchenko, who expressed the national spirit in the form of his native language. The author using Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit as well as the works of Hans-Georg Gadamer shows the purpose of Shevchenko’s revival of the Ukrainian word and its special spiritual power he gave to it. The article investigates how the poet created the foundation of the special spiritual unity of the Ukrainians all over the world as well as awakened and created their national identity. It is undeniable that today’s sentiments of the Ukrainian people are rightly expressed by Taras Shevchenko’s poetry.

Витоки дискурсу поляків про Шевченка

Author(s): Stefan Kozak / Language(s): Ukrainian Issue: 1/2014

The article by Stefan Kozak entitled The Origins of Polish Discourse on Shevchenko deals with the problem of the struggle for Taras Shevchenko’s legacy in the Polish literary criticism of the first half of the 1860s. L. Sowinski, B. Zaleski, S. Chodakowski, A. Gozalczynski, W Syrokola and G. Battaglia took part in the discourse on the Ukrainian poet’s output. Shevchenko’s works have been translated into Polish and published by Polish critics, among which the most important role was played by Gwidon Battaglia’s monograph entitled Taras Shevchenko, His Live and Works as well as journalistic activity of P. Swiecicki and works on Shevchenko by L. Sowinski.

Тарас Шевченко в польських перекладах

Author(s): Walentyna Sobol / Language(s): Ukrainian Issue: 1/2014

The article by Valentyna Sobol is devoted to the analysis of Taras Shevchenko’s poetry translations into Polish. The author identifies the major stages of Shevchenko study in Poland, compares the translations by Bohdan Łepki, Czesław Jastrzębiec-Kozłowski, Jerzy Jędrzejewicz, and Piotr Kuprys, and proves that the Polish publication of Kobzar translated by P. Kuprys in 2008 and the bilingual Kobzar of 2012 provide a new level of the comparative studies of Shevchenko’s Polish translations.

Тарас Шевченко і світова україністика: історичні інтерпретації та сучасні рецепції (до 200-ліття від дня народження Т.Г. Шевченка)

Author(s): Lesia Mushketyk,Larysa Vakhnina / Language(s): Ukrainian Issue: 1/2014

This article is devoted to problems of Ukrainian studies in Europe and the world, which were discussed at the 8th International Congress of Ukrainian Studies, which was held on 21–24 October 2013 in Kyiv. The Congress was held under the title of: “Taras Shevchenko and the World Ukrainian Studies: Historical Interpretation and Modern Reception” on the occasion of the 200th anniversary of birth of the great poet. Special attention was paid to Ukrainian studies in Poland, successfully represented by professors Stefan Kozak, Agnieszka Matusiak, Valentyna Sobol, Halina Korbych and a number of other researchers. Different researchers from many countries took part in the discussions and the round tables during the Congress. It was an attempt to present the current state of Ukrainian studies and prospects of scientific and educational institutions as well as the development of foreign centers promoting a positive image of Ukraine in the world

Ювілей 140-ліття Наукового товариства ім. Шевченка

Author(s): Leonid Rudnytskiy / Language(s): Ukrainian Issue: 1/2014

Leonid Rudnytskyy summarizes the role and importance of the Shevchenko Scientific Society, which was established in 1873 and was the first, albeit unofficia l, Ukrainian Academy of Sciences. The Shevchenko Scientific Society was founded by scientific and cultural activists of Eastern Ukraine who after the Valuev Circular 1863 launched their work in Lvov. The article presents the outlook of the Shevchenko Scientific Society with the author expressing some reservations about its development.

Гуманітарні науки в дослідженнях Наукового товариства Шевченка

Author(s): Stepan Heley / Language(s): Ukrainian Issue: 1/2014

Stepan Heley analyzes the role and importance of research in the humanities conducted by the Shevchenko Scientific Society during 140 years of its activity. The article emphasizes the fact that the Shevchenko Scientific Society has had all-Ukrainian conciliatory nature from the very beginning and at the same time it has represented the European scientific traditions. The article is devoted to the three most prominent figures of the Shevchenko Scientific Society: Mykhaylo Grushevsky, Ivan Franko and Volodymyr Hnatiuk as well as such activist of the 20th and 21st centuries as S. Tomaszewski, M. Korduba, I. Krypyakevych, V. Kubiyovych, S. Smal-Stocky, O. Horbach, O. Romaniv, O. Kupchynsky, A. Karas etc.

Олекса Мишанич - керманич української медієвістики

Author(s): Mykola Sulyma / Language(s): Ukrainian Issue: 1/2014

In his article Mykola Sullyma analyzes the scientific and organizational activity of the outstanding scientist Oleksa Myshanych. Together with such researchers as S. Maslov, V. Krekoten, V. Kolosov, Y. Dzyra, Myshanych has changed the face of the Ukrainian medieval studies and educated several generations of true researchers.

Олекса Мишанич - промотор розвитку дисциплін неолатиністики в Україні

Author(s): Oleksandra Trofymuk,Myroslav Trofymuk / Language(s): Ukrainian Issue: 1/2014

The article provides the bibliographic and historical information about the role played by Oleksa Myshanych in the creation of Neo-Latin studies in Ukraine as well as the realization of his idea at the end of the 20th and at the beginning of the 21st century to carry out the research at the Institute of Neo-Latin studies in Lvov.

Валерій Шевчук - митець слова і вчений (до 75-ліття від дня народження)

Author(s): Raisa Movchan / Language(s): Ukrainian Issue: 1/2014

The article is devoted to the anniversary of one of the most prominent prose writers of the 20th century, Valery Shevchuk. The article provides a comprehensive review of the writer’s prose set within the general framework of the literary process. Special attention is paid to the unique creative individuality of the writer, his existential choice of freedom of self-development and self-realization.

Nowości wydawnicze

Author(s): Danuta Sosnowska / Language(s): Polish Issue: 1/2014

Chrześcijańskie korzenie kultury ukraińskiej

Author(s): Stefan Kozak / Language(s): Polish Issue: 2/2015

The article by Stefan Kozak is devoted to the beginnings of the rooting of Christianity within culture of Kievan Rus. This early stage was very important for the subject of the article and makes the starting point for tracing its continuity in the next historical and cultural epochs. In a concise way the author presents the most important old-Russian Christian roots of Ukrainian culture, including the sources essential to the shaping of tradition of Christianitas in Ukraine, while a component of its success was the very development of culture itself. The author emphasizes the fact that through the centuries the Ecclesia semper reformanda set directions for the development of literature, culture and arts.

Візуальна домінанта у бароковій неолатиністиці українсько-польського порубіжжя

Author(s): Lyudmyla Shevchenko-Savchynska / Language(s): Ukrainian Issue: 2/2015

The author proves that visual type of world perception dominated among the writers of Baroque era based on many examples of neo-Latin works of the Ukrainian-Polish frontier. The predominance of abstract vocabulary is the consequence of selective imitation of what seemed the most ancient, but in facts was closer to the personal world view and the way of thinking of Baroque era authors. Specific understanding of literary craftsmanship, beauty of speech, increased attention to form, perfect form as aim of work – all of this caused successors criticism and underestimation of the value of Latin works of the 16th–18th centuries. However, the objective scientific research that has intensified over the last half-century in Ukraine will help to evaluate the significance of baroque neo-Latin literature more accurately.

Rzeczypospolita wobec idei odnowienia Unii Hadziackiej w latach 1660-1682

Author(s): Mariusz Robert Drozdowski / Language(s): Polish Issue: 2/2015

Still, the idea of the Union of Hadiach and a commonwealth of three nations lived on in the minds of the Cossack elite. The Author demonstrates that instructions presented by Cossack envoys to the Commonwealth Diets of 1664 and 1666 were informed by the provisions of the Union of Hadiach. Direct references to the Union were included in a Polish-Ukrainian agreement signed in October 1667 by the future king of Poland, Jan Sobieski, and by one of the best-known Cossack hetmans of the second half of the 17th century, Petro Doroshenko. The Hadiach Articles also formed the basis of the Cossack negotiating position at their deliberations with Polish representatives in the town of Ostrih in 167O. The Cossacks did not get very far in either case. What they were offered instead of the Grand Duchy and other provisions of the Union was a return to the king’s rule with guarantees of religious freedom and estate rights. The idea of a commonwealth of three nations dreamed up by the Ruthenian nobility was buried forever. This was confirmed in the negotiations conducted with the Cossacks by Jan Sobieski after his election to the throne in 1674. The Cossacks were not the formidable adversaries they once had been, and the Polish state would not grant the concessions they asked for.

Образ і статус жінки у літературних творах епохи бароко

Author(s): Oleksandra Trofymuk,Myroslav Trofymuk / Language(s): Ukrainian Issue: 2/2015

In the epic tradition of 16th–18th centuries description of women’s participation in public life has both positive and negative dimensions. On the one hand, women are the reflection of men’s positive topos activity – home, and even conversional – when they convert to a man’s religion – and, on the other – negative: the role of women in the process of ‘moral corruption’, ‘rampant disbelief’ and so on. The article deals with the literary heritage of Pylyp Orlyk discussing the positive role of women in the works of the Baroque epoch. The authors expand the scope of classical knightly ethos, depicting a woman as equal to ‘a noble man’ creature, personality.

Idea wolności w ego-dokumentach Filipa Orlika oraz Karola Chojeckiego

Author(s): Dawid Bzorek / Language(s): Polish Issue: 2/2015

The artice shows the idea of freedom based on selected examples of diary of Pylyp Orlyk and memories of Karl Chojecki. In these two ego-documents, it is possible to found similarities in views of freedom. Both authors want to come back to their homelands. The author also mentions that Pylyp Orlyk and Karl Chojecki wanted to escape from oppresing Russian Empiry.

Євген Сверстюк і Тарас Шевченко: на полі честі. Християнський дискурс персональної Шевченкіани

Author(s): Lyudmyla Tarnashynska / Language(s): Ukrainian Issue: 2/2015

The article traces the evolution of the interpretation of the concept of Yevhen Sverstyuk in the field of Shevchenko studies. Back in the 1960s, Sverstyuk consistently opposed vulgar criticism of the paradigmatic figure of the poet. He defended the view that Shevchenko produced more on the Bible than on philosophy. Proving inherent religiosity of Shevchenko, Sverstyuk presented his observations in Christian discourse of the Ukrainian people. Taras Shevchenko’s gospel motifs and images the researcher extrapolated to the whole of Shevchenko’s creativity, expanding perspectives of the topic language. In recent years, the literature on Shevchenko with Gogol broadens the perspectiveincluding the Ukrainian intelligentsia.

Шекспірівський «метатекст» Тодося Осьмачки: художні стратегії візіонеризму, апокаліпсису й палінґенезії

Author(s): Dmytro Drozdovskiy / Language(s): Ukrainian Issue: 2/2015

In 2015, Todos’ Os’machka celebrated his 120th anniversary. In the paper, the author outlines Shakespearean motifs in T. Os’machka’s poetry and novellas. The concepts of visionaries, apocalypse, and palingenesis (παλιγγενεσία) have been discussed taking into account Os’machka’s texts. His novella Starshyi boyaryn represents the mythological orientations explicated through the narrative peculiarities and the key idea of apocalypse and its spiritual afterglow. The text seems to be a Ukrainian version of Shakespeare’s Macbeth, which was translated by Os’machka and published in 1953 together with Henri IV. The author’s texts represent specific historical visionaries and demonstrate an outstanding model of Ukraine as a metaphysical place. The reception of Os’machka’s works as ‘alchemical’ (Yu. Sherekh) has been also spotlighted in the paper.

Іван Огієнко (Митрополит Іларіон) - літературознавець і літературний критик

Author(s): Yevheniya Sokhatska / Language(s): Ukrainian Issue: 2/2015

The article presents an overview of literary and critical works of Bishop Ilarion (Ivan Ohienko) published in his Canadian periodical Faith and Culture (1953–1967) as well as his reviews of new books in literature studies and fiction published in continental Ukraine. Bishop Ilarion’s literary reviews and assessments can be divided into two groups: 1) assessments and commentaries of works on new Ukrainian literature studies (‘pre-October’) and 2) new (‘Soviet’). The first group includes critical reviews of scientific research works of M.D. Bernstein, M.N. Komyshachenko whose methodological foundations (Marxist-Leninist) he couldn’t accept. Many materials on the pages of Faith and Culture are dedicated to individual figures of Ukrainian literary process of the new period. Among them is his linguistic and literary research work Marko Vovchok’s language, commentaries to I. Franko’s articles which appeared in continental Ukraine to mark his centennial (1956), articles about А. Chaikovskiy, materials about Nataleta Koroleva, B-I. Antonych etc. Bishop Ilarion paid less attention to works of Ukrainian literature scholars dedicated to works by Soviet writers. He didn’t like their Communist ideological bias. This was reflected in his assessment of works byM. Syrotiuk Ukrainian historical prose (1958), collection of papers Soviet literature studies. N1 (1959) etc. Ivan Ohienko also paid attention to works of fiction in Ukraine. He considers such works as Атестат зрілості by V. Kozachenko, Світанок над морем by J. Smolych, Данило Галицький by A. Hyzhniak to be the model of communist ideology. Different tonality and style characterize Bishop Ilarion’s literal and critical reviews of works by Ukrainian diaspora representatives. The reviews do not contain any ironical implicatures, direct criticism, ideological non-acceptance. Among highly praised works are those by P. ZajtzevЖиття Тараса Шевченка (1955), J. Slavutych Іван Франко і Росія (1959) etc. Ohienko as a critic also pays attention to works by famous diaspora writers D. Humenna, I. Bahriannuj, U. Samchuk, H. Zhurba etc. Bishop Ilarion (Ivan Ohienko), who was limited within his scientific research and was denied a professor’s position, succeeded in combining his religious ministration and science. As a student and representative of historical and philological school of V. Peretz and the author of numerous philological studies, I. Ohienko symbolized the objective, free of political bias, ethical and profound criticism.

Скарбниця ідей та думок: сучасна українська версія „Євангелія учительного” Кирила Транквіліона Ставровецького

Author(s): Mariya Kashuba / Language(s): Ukrainian Issue: 2/2015