This book will stimulate scholarly interest in the Ukrainian language and literature that have faced numerous challenges in the modern period. 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 sociolinguistics.

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From the Bible to Shakespeare Pantelejmon Kulis (1819-1897) and the Formation of Literary Ukrainian

From the Bible to Shakespeare: Pantelejmon Kuliš and the Formation of Literary Ukrainian

Andrìj Ìvanovič Danilenko

Danylenko, Andrii

Biblioteka ukraïnoznavstva, Brighton, MA, 2016

Academic Studies Press, Brighton, MA, 2016

United States, United States of America

Ukrainian Studies, 2016

Brighton, 2019

4, 2016-09-13

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<p>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.<br></p><p>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).<br></p>

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).

Provides the first comprehensive study of the language program of the prominent Ukrainian writer and ideologue Pantelejmon Kuliï¿1⁄2 (1819-1897) whose translations of the Bible and Shakespeare proved most innovative in the formation of literary and the national self-identification of Ukrainians.

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

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