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Modern Intentions in Lesia Ukrainka’s Drama Cassandra Kyiv-Mohyla Humanities Journal (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2021-12-29 Taras Pastukh
In her drama Cassandra (1903–1907) Lesia Ukrainka pays considerable attention to language and demonstrates its two defi ning forms and functional paradigms. One of them is language that appeals to the essential components of being. It is language that refl ects human existence in all its acuity and fullness of appearance. This language is complex and diffi cult to understand, but is the only real language
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A Word of Welcome From the Editor-in-Chief Kyiv-Mohyla Humanities Journal (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2021-12-24 Maryna Tkachuk
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Ecofeminism in Film Adaptations of Lesia Ukrainka’s Forest Song Kyiv-Mohyla Humanities Journal (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2021-12-24 Anastassiya Andrianova
This article off ers a pioneering ecofeminist study of Viktor Ivchenko’s Lisova pisnia (1961) and Yurii Illienko’s Lisova pisnia. Mavka (1980), two Soviet Ukrainian film adaptations of Lesia Ukrainka’s eponymous fairy-drama (1911; Forest Song). It focuses on the interrelated depiction of gender and nature along with the drama’s ideological and material aspects: androcentrism and deforestation. The
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Anti-Colonial Discourse in Lesia Ukrainka’s Dramas Kyiv-Mohyla Humanities Journal (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2021-12-24 Vira Ageyeva
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Buntarky: Novi zhinky i moderna natsiia [Women-Rebels: The New Women and the Modern Nation], ed. Vira Aheieva Kyiv-Mohyla Humanities Journal (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2021-12-24 Tetiana Kalytenko
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"The Female Artist as an Icon of National Modernization: The Phenomenon of Lesia Ukrainka in a Comparative Perspective" (International Conference) Kyiv-Mohyla Humanities Journal (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2021-12-24 Olha Polishchuk
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Psychoanalytic and Existentialist Versions of Don Juanism: Lesia Ukrainka’s The Stone Host Kyiv-Mohyla Humanities Journal (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2021-12-24 Mariia Moklytsia
The article substantiates the necessity of psychoanalytical and existential methodology in interpreting Lesia Ukrainka’s drama Kaminnyi hospodar (1912; The Stone Host), including the works of José Ortega y Gasset and Miguel de Unamuno on Don Quixote, Albert Camus on absurd characters (The Myth of Sisyphus. Essay on the Absurd), and Jacques Lacan’s The Mirror Stage. Biographical data testify to the
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Lesia Ukrainka’s Crimean Cycles: A Poetic Dialogue with Adam Mickiewicz Kyiv-Mohyla Humanities Journal (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2021-12-24 Yelena Severina
This paper examines Lesia Ukrainka’s two lyrical cycles about Crimea, Krymski spohady and Krymski vidhuky, as examples of a poetic dialogue with Adam Mickiewicz’s Sonety krymskie. I begin my analysis by highlighting the diff erent sensibilities of Mickiewicz’s Sonety krymskie and Lesia Ukrainka’s Krymski spohady, and underscore their formal and thematic peculiarities. The paper continues with an examination
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Playing Upon Biographical Myths: William Shakespeare and Lesia Ukrainka as Characters in Contemporary Drama Kyiv-Mohyla Humanities Journal (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2021-12-24 Natalia Vysotska
The article sets out to explore two plays by contemporary playwrights, one American (Don Nigro, Loves Labours Wonne), the other Ukrainian (Neda Nezhdana, And Still I will Betray You), focusing on William Shakespeare and Lesia Ukrainka, respectively, within the framework of “the author as character” subgenre of fictional (imaginative) biography. Accordingly, the article considers the correlation between
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“Oh, My Thoughts, My Thoughts…”: Olena Pchilka’s and Lesia Ukrainka’s Contributions to Epigraphic Embroidery Kyiv-Mohyla Humanities Journal (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2021-12-24 Tetiana Brovarets
The article focuses on the role of Olena Pchilka1 and Lesia Ukrainka in epigraphic embroidery development. Undoubtedly, Olena Pchilka was an ardent proponent of folk art purity. Following from this, there is a tendency to think that she was against all novelty in Ukrainian embroidery. Many researchers and antiquity enthusiasts refer to her authority when arguing against inscriptions on textile as a
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Povne akademichne zibrannia tvoriv u 14 tomakh [Complete Academic Collection of Works in 14 Volumes] by Lesia Ukrainka, eds. Vira Aheieva, Yurii Hromyk et al. Kyiv-Mohyla Humanities Journal (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2021-12-24 Iryna Borysiuk
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In Memory of Volodymyr Morenets Kyiv-Mohyla Humanities Journal (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2021-12-24 Nataliia Peleshenko
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The Stone Host, Lesia Ukrainka’s “Spanish” Play Kyiv-Mohyla Humanities Journal (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2021-12-24 Oleksandr Pronkevich
The article provides an analysis of the “Spanish code” inscribed in the text of Lesia Ukrainka’s drama Kaminnyi hospodar (The Stone Host). The constituents of the code include: 1) conventions of 17th century Spanish baroque drama, in particular, use of the dialectics of the concepts of dignity and reputation as a driving mechanism for confl ict throughout Lesia Ukrainka’s play and transformation within
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The Reception of Lesia Ukrainka’s Works in German: The Significance of the Concept of “Struggle” Kyiv-Mohyla Humanities Journal (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2021-12-24 Nataliia Lysetska
The article examines individual German translations of works by Lesia Ukrainka in various genres, which activate the concept of “struggle.” To establish the linguistic and stylistic analogues, coincidences, and diff erences of the translated works, their typological comparison with the original Ukrainian sources was carried out. It was found that key motifs in the works of Lesia Ukrainka, such as aff
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Feminists Despite Themselves: A Look Back Kyiv-Mohyla Humanities Journal (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2021-12-24 Martha Bohachevsky-Chomiak
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Wild Music Sound and Sovereignty in Ukraine by Maria Sonevytsky Kyiv-Mohyla Humanities Journal (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2020-12-18 Olga Zaitseva-Herz
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Revolutionary Ukraine, 1917–2017: History’s Flashpoints and Today’s Memory Wars by Myroslav Shkandrij Kyiv-Mohyla Humanities Journal (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2020-12-18 Mariia Kravchenko
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Identities In-Between in East-Central Europe, eds. Jan Fellerer, Robert Pyrah, and Marius Turda Kyiv-Mohyla Humanities Journal (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2020-12-18 Dmytro Yesypenko
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Insha optyka: Genderni vyklyky suchasnosti [Other Optics: Gender Challenges of Today], eds. Vira Ageyeva and Tamara Martsenyuk Kyiv-Mohyla Humanities Journal (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2020-12-18 Olena Peleshenko
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Fear and Technology in the Theatre: Staging McLuhan Kyiv-Mohyla Humanities Journal (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2020-12-18 Roman Veretelnyk
Although Marshall McLuhan had comparatively little to say about the theatre as a medium in his books, Robin C. Whittaker’s observation that “performance was integral to the delivery of McLuhan’s messages” serves as a reminder to address the question considering an added dimension.1 For example, at the “Theatre and the Visual Arts” panel at the Fourth Annual Seminar in Irish Studies held in 1971 at
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The 1917 Break and Its Aftermath: Ukrainian Academia’s Perception and Representation of the Revolutionary Events (2007–2017) Kyiv-Mohyla Humanities Journal (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2020-12-18 Natalia Shlikhta
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Is a Ukrainian Standard of the Russian Language on the Agenda? Kyiv-Mohyla Humanities Journal (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2020-12-18 Michael A. Moser
This article discusses the pros and cons of the creation of a separate Ukrainian standard of the Russian language. Owing to the centralist and elitist history of the Russian standard language, the high variant of Russian that is used in Ukraine does not significantly differ from that of Russia, if at all. Low varieties, by contrast, are quite heterogeneous. The standardization of “Ukrainian Russian”
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The 160th Anniversary of the Academic Trudy Kyivskoi dukhovnoi akademii (1860–2020): History and the Present Collection Kyiv-Mohyla Humanities Journal (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2020-12-18 Vitalii Klos
The article is dedicated to the 160th anniversary of the first publication of the Trudy Kyivskoi dukhovnoi akademii (1860–2020) scholarly collection in 1860. Information on the history of the formation and functioning of the Kyiv Theological Academy (KTA) academic collection is provided. Attention is centered on the latest research of Kyiv Orthodox Theological Academy academic staff, published in the
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Unravelling the Ukrainian Revolution: “Dignity,” “Fairness,” “Heterarchy,” and the Challenge to Modernity Kyiv-Mohyla Humanities Journal (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2020-12-18 Mychailo Wynnyckyj
Ukraine’s “Revolution of Dignity,” spanning both the 2013-2014 protests in Kyiv’s city center and the mass mobilization of grass-roots resistance against Russian aggression in 2014-2015 and thereafter, manifest new interpretations of ideas and philosophical concepts. In the first part of the article we unravel the meaning of the Ukrainian word hidnist (roughly translated as “dignity”)— a moniker of
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Transformation of the Collective Identity of Ukrainian Citizens After the Revolution of Dignity (2014–2019) Kyiv-Mohyla Humanities Journal (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2020-12-18 Nina Averianova,Tetiana Voropaieva
In the modern world, there is a growing interest in the problem of forming a person’s identity. The category of “identity,” despite the diversity of theoretical and empirical research, remains complex. The article is devoted to the study of transformations of the collective identity of Ukrainian citizens after the Revolution of Dignity, in the context of the Russian-Ukrainian war in Eastern Ukraine
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War and Autocephaly in Ukraine Kyiv-Mohyla Humanities Journal (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2020-12-18 Cyril Hovorun
A series of conflicts that followed the collapse of the Soviet Union culminated in the war in Ukraine waged by Russia in 2014. The international community was taken by surprise, and its reactions to the Russian aggression were often confused and inadequate. Even more confused and inadequate were the responses from global Christianity. Russian propaganda often renders the aggression against Ukraine
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Henotsyd: Vstup do hlobalnoi istorii [Genocide: A Comprehensive Introduction, Ukrainian translation by Kateryna Dysa] by Adam Jones] Kyiv-Mohyla Humanities Journal (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2020-12-18 Tetiana Borodina
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Literaturnyi landshaft Ukrainy. XX stolittia [The Literary Landscape of Ukraine. The 20th Century] by Volodymyr Panchenko Kyiv-Mohyla Humanities Journal (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2020-12-18 Oleksandra Sauliak
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Baroque Opera on the Contemporary Ukrainian Theatre Stage: Ideas and Solutions Kyiv-Mohyla Humanities Journal (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2020-12-18 Olha Shumilina,Maryna Varakuta
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Higher Education in Ukraine in the Time of Independence: Between Brownian Motion and Revolutionary Reform Kyiv-Mohyla Humanities Journal (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2020-12-18 Serhiy Kvit
The article explores major milestones in reforming higher education in Ukraine, applying the methodology of case studies. It analyzes political and social conditions that influenced the process of reform. The author pays particular attention to the concept of university autonomy, its development and implementation in Ukraine, considering legal and institutional efforts. The impact and experience of
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This Is Not Propaganda: Adventures in the War Against Reality by Peter Pomerantsev Kyiv-Mohyla Humanities Journal (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2020-12-18 Mariia Shuvalova
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Avant-Garde Art in Ukraine, 1910–1930: Contested Memory by Myroslav Shkandrij Kyiv-Mohyla Humanities Journal (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2020-12-18 Olena Martynyuk
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Ukrainian Investigative Journalists After the Euromaidan: Their Role Conceptions and Worldviews Kyiv-Mohyla Humanities Journal (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2020-12-18 Oleksandr Yaroshchuk
In recent years, an increased interest in journalistic roles has inspired multiple empirical studies aimed at establishing the journalistic role conception and performance of journalists worldwide. Ukraine is not an exception. Studies published in recent years show that the professional culture of journalists in Ukraine is changing, resulting in the “blurring of boundaries” between journalism and activism
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Interconfessional Polemics in a Model of Ukrainian Literary History Kyiv-Mohyla Humanities Journal (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2020-12-18 Ihor Isichenko
Polemic texts on issues of Orthodox-Catholic relations occupy, for various reasons, a prominent place among publications in Ukrainian literature of the late 16th – early 17th centuries. Because of this, researchers of the history of Ukrainian literature continue to be interested in them. The history of the study of interconfessional polemics depends to a large extent on political contexts, primarily
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A Word of Welcome From the Editor-in-Chief Kyiv-Mohyla Humanities Journal (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2020-12-18 Volodymyr Morenets
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Political Orthodoxies: The Unorthodoxies of the Church Coerced by Cyril Hovorun Kyiv-Mohyla Humanities Journal (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2019-12-23 Olena Chemodanova
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Chernobyl: The History of the Nuclear Catastrophe by Plokhy Serhii Kyiv-Mohyla Humanities Journal (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2019-12-23 Mariia Shuvalova
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Along Ukraine’s River: A Social and Environmental History of the Dnipro by Roman Adrian Cybriwsky Kyiv-Mohyla Humanities Journal (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2019-12-23 Roman Lozynskyi
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Horace in the Kyiv Mohylanian Poetics (17th – First Half of the 18th Centuries). Poetic Theory, Metrics, Lyric Poetry by Giovanna Siedina Kyiv-Mohyla Humanities Journal (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2019-12-23 Giovanna Brogi
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Historically Informed Performance in Today’s Ukrainian Culture Kyiv-Mohyla Humanities Journal (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2019-12-23 Olena Zhukova
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Memory Set in Stone: Another Look at the Berezan Runic Inscription Kyiv-Mohyla Humanities Journal (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2019-12-23 Alla Kurzenkova
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Ukraine’s Quest for Identity: Embracing Cultural Hybridity in Literary Imagination, 1991–2011 by Maria G. Rewakowicz Kyiv-Mohyla Humanities Journal (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2019-12-23 Olha Maksymchuk
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A Word of Welcome From the Editor-in-Chief Kyiv-Mohyla Humanities Journal (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2019-12-23 Volodymyr Morenets
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The Poetry of Bohdan-Ihor Antonych and Zuzanna Ginczanka in the Context of European Modernism Kyiv-Mohyla Humanities Journal (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2019-12-23 Khrystyna Semeryn
This article compares the poetry of two prominent modern writers: Polish-Jewish poetess Zuzanna Ginczanka (Sara Ginzburg, 1917–1945), and Ukrainian Lemko poet Bohdan-Ihor Antonych (1909–1937). They are believed (by Yaroslav Polishchuk et al.) to have certain poetic, stylistic, thematic, and literary similarities. The main discourses of their poetic imaginum mundi are studied with the use of a simple
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Ideological Zealots Fighting a Non-Existent Ukrainian Nationalist Enemy: A Reply to Tarik Amar’s Review of Red Famine Kyiv-Mohyla Humanities Journal (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2019-12-23 Taras Kuzio
Tarik Cyril Amar’s review “Politics, Starvation, and Memory” of Anne Applebaum’s Red Famine. Stalin’s War on Ukraine, a book about the Holodomor, was published in Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History (vol. 20, no. 1, 2019). Applebaum’s Red Famine was published in Ukrainian by the Institute of History, National Academy of Sciences as Chervonyi holod. Viina Stalina proty Ukrainy. In
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The Logic of Imperial Rule Kyiv-Mohyla Humanities Journal (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2019-12-23 Vitalii Shcherbak
The process of the liquidation of the Hetmanate lasted for decades because of its scale and the constant need of Russia in the Cossack Army. Empress Elizabeth’s regime continued the centralizing policies introduced by Tsar Peter I. In anticipation of the possible consequences of this centralization, in the early 1860s Hetman Kyrylo Rozumovskyi tried to strengthen local governance by reforming his administrative
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Handwritten Candidate Works of Kyiv Theological Academy Students as Sources for Studying the Academy’s Philosophical Heritage Kyiv-Mohyla Humanities Journal (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2019-12-23 Maryna Tkachuk
This article is devoted to determining the source potential of the so-called dissertations collection of the Kyiv Theological Academy (Fund no. 304 of the Manuscript Institute of the V. I. Vernadskyi National Library of Ukraine) in the study of its philosophical heritage. The author draws attention to the distinction of the hierarchy of educational and academic degrees in the Russian Empire (candidate’s
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100 Years of Ukraine’s Cultural Diplomacy: The European Mission of the Ukrainian Republican Capella (1919–1921) Kyiv-Mohyla Humanities Journal (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2019-12-23 Tina Peresunko
The article deals with the reputational, cultural, and informational resonance of the Ukrainian Republican Capella’s tours conducted by Oleksandr Koshyts in Western Europe from 1919 to 1921. The Ukrainian Republican Capella was created on the initiative of Symon Petliura, Head of the Directorate, Chief Otaman of the Army and Navy of the Ukrainian National Republic (UNR), to promote international recognition
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Oleksandr Lototskyi and Ukrainian Autocephaly Kyiv-Mohyla Humanities Journal (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2019-12-23 Petro Zakharchenko, Ivanna Matseliukh
This article analyses the ideas and works of Oleksandr Lototskyi in connection with the autocephaly of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church. Lototskyi was a prominent scholar and politician during the Ukrainian revolution of 1917–1919. The chronology of Lototskyi’s beliefs as they developed, ranging from the support of the autonomy of the Church to the idea of autocephaly is reviewed in detail against the
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Pro-Ukrainian Students at the Kyiv Theological Academy From the 1890s to 1907 Kyiv-Mohyla Humanities Journal (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2019-12-23 Leonid Mohylnyi
The article analyzes the main preconditions for the formation of pro-Ukrainian views among students of the Kyiv Theological Academy and determines their percentages among the graduates from the 1890s to 1907. When in the late 1850s and the early 1860s the Ukrainian intelligentsia carried out semi-legal cultural and educational work within Ukrainophile communities (the hromadas), few students of the
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The Reconstruction of Christian Theodicy in Taras Shevchenko’s Poetry Kyiv-Mohyla Humanities Journal (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2019-12-23 Olha Bihun
This article focuses on the role of Christian theodicy in Taras Shevchenko’s works. With a biography marked by trauma and suffering, it is no wonder that Shevchenko orients his poetic worldview in search of understanding the nature of evil and human suffering. Operating through a Christological model, Shevchenko arrives at a poetics based on theodicy, as a means of understanding suffering in the world
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From Old World Syndrome to History: Understanding the Past in Askold Melnyczuk’s Ambassador of the Dead Kyiv-Mohyla Humanities Journal (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2019-12-23 Olha Poliukhovych, Heather Fielding
Askold Melnyczuk’s novel Ambassador of the Dead (2001) narrates the process through which a second-generation, assimilated American learns to comprehend the Ukrainian historical experience of his family and their generation. This article argues that the novel is centrally concerned with Nick’s learning process: as he begins to better understand his parents’ generation, he transforms his own identity
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Art Nouveau Ukrainian Architecture in a Global Context Kyiv-Mohyla Humanities Journal (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2019-12-23 Nelia Romaniuk
The article is dedicated to Ukrainian Art Nouveau architecture, which became a unique phenomenon in the development of late nineteenth and early twentieth-century architecture. Along with the reality that architecture in Ukraine evolved as a component of the European artistic movement, a distinctive architectural style was formed, based on the development of the traditions of folk architecture and
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The Ukrainian “Galicia” Division: From Familiar to Unexplored Avenues of Research Kyiv-Mohyla Humanities Journal (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2019-12-23 Myroslav Shkandrij
This article examines the main narratives that have dominated scholarly and political writings on the “Galicia” Division, the Waffen-SS 14th Grenadier Division that at the end of the Second World War was renamed the 1st Ukrainian Division of the Ukrainian National Army. Dominant narratives have focused on accusations of criminality, the hope that the formation would serve as the core of a national
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Hryhorii Poletyka’s Introduction of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy Educational Methods in the Russian Empire Kyiv-Mohyla Humanities Journal (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2019-12-23 Anastasia Melnik, Tatiana Tairova-Yakovleva
This article is based on archival sources and examines the role of Hryhorii Poletyka in the creation of the Naval Corps in St. Petersburg, the highest marine educational institution in Russia. The authors consider his role in the development of the teaching system of the Naval Cadet Corps and the way in which he introduced methods of the Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, including the study of languages, the establishment
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Ukrainian Otherlands: Diaspora, Homeland and Folk Imagination in the Twentieth Century by Natalia Khanenko-Friesen Natalia Kyiv-Mohyla Humanities Journal (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2018-12-10 Mariia Shuvalova
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A Word of Welcome From the Editor-in-Chief Kyiv-Mohyla Humanities Journal (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2018-12-10 Volodymyr Morenets