A History of Ukrainian Literature (From the 11th to the End of the 19th Century) with An Overview of the Twentieth Century

FOREWORD TO THE FIRST EDITION by George S. N. Luckyj, xi

TRANSLITERATION TABLE, xiv

PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION by George S. N. Luckyj, xv

INTRODUCTION by D. Čyževs’kyj, 1
I. PREHISTORIC PERIOD, 17
A. Origins, 17
B. The Oral Tradition, 18
C. Scandinavian Elements, 25
D. Indo-European Elements, 34

II. TRANSLATED AND BORROWED LITERATURE, 38
A. General Characteristics, 38
B. Liturgical Books, 39
C. Religious Literature, 41
a. Canonical Christian Literature, 41
b. Apocrypha, 45
D. Secular Literature, 49
a. Scholarly Works, 49
b. The Narrative, 54
E. Poetry, 60
F. The Sources of Translated and Borrowed Literature, 61

III. THE PERIOD OF MONUMENTAL STYLE (The Eleventh Century), 65
A. General Characteristics, 65
B. Sermons, 69
C. The Tale, 79
D. Hagiographie Literature, 89
E. The Collection of 1076, 97
F. The Works of Volodymyr Monomax, 104
G. “The Pilgrimage of Abbot Daniel”, 110
H. Chronicles, 114
I. The Epos, 123
J. Literature of a Practical Character, 132

IV. THE PERIOD OF ORNAMENTAL STYLE, 136
A. General Characteristics, 136
B. Sermons, 140
C. The Tale, 162
D. The Patericon of the Kievan Caves Monastery, 165
E. Chronicles, 171
F. The Epos, 187
G. The Tale o f Ihor’s Campaign, 191
H. The Tatar Invasion, 209
I. Two Works of Questionable Origin, 211
J. Literature of a Practical Character, 218
K. The Significance of the Literature of the Kievan Period, 222

V. THE LITERATURE OF THE FOURTEENTH AND FIFTEENTH CENTURIES, 226

VI. RENAISSANCE AND REFORMATION, 236
A. Renaissance and Reformation in Literature, 236
B. The Tale, 241
C. Holy Scripture, 243
D. Polemical Literature, 246
E. Satire, 251

VI. RENAISSANCE AND REFORMATION (cont’d)
F. Poetry, 254
G. The Historical Significance of the Literature of the Sixteenth Century, 258

VII. BAROQUE, 260
A. The Nature of Literary Baroque, 260
B. Ivan Vysens’kyj, 263
C. Literary Baroque in Ukraine, 274
D. Verse Poetry, 278
E. The Epos, 307
F. The Tale, 313
G. The Theatre, 319
H. Sermons, 334
I. Historical Literature, 343
J. The Treatise, 349
K. Ukrainian Baroque Literature Against the Backdrop of World Literature, 355

VIII. LITERATURE WRITTEN IN LATIN, 363

IX. THE LITERATURE OF “NATIONAL REVIVAL”, 366

X. CLASSICISM, 370
A. Literary Classicism ,370
B. The Beginnings, 376
C. The Mock-Heroic Poem, 381
D. Verse Poetry, 404
E. Dramatic Literature, 415
F. Prose, 420
G. The Nature and Significance of Ukrainian Literary Classicism, 431

XI. UKRAINIAN SENTIMENTALISM, 435

XII. ROMANTICISM, 437
A. Literary Romanticism, 437

XII. ROMANTICISM (cont’d)
B. Ukrainian Romanticism, 444
C. “Ukrainian Schools” in Foreign Romantic Literature, 449
D. The Xarkiv Romantic School, 455
E. Western Ukraine, 478
F. Kievan Romanticism, 495
G. Late Romanticism, 535
H. Other Poets of Ukrainian Romanticism, 568
I. The Significance of Ukrainian Romanticism, 578

XIII. “BIEDERMEIER” AND THE “NATURALIST SCHOOL” IN UKRAINE, 585

XIV. REALISM IN UKRAINIAN LITERATURE, 588

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY, 619

ABBREVIATIONS OF NAMES OF PERIODICALS, COLLECTIONS, AND SERIES, 638

INDEX OF NAMES AND TITLES, prepared by Alexandra Chernenko-Rudnytsky, 641


AN OVERVIEW OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY By George S. N. Luckyj

1. EMERGENCE OF MODERNISM, 685
Modernism, 685
Traditionalism, 702
2. THE FAILED REVOLUTION, 1917-32, 706
3. THE TRAUMA OF SOCIALIST REALISM, 1934-53, 731
4. THE THAW AND AFTER, 1953-72, 740
5. FROM STAGNATION TO RECONSTRUCTION, 1972-88, 749
6. WESTERN UKRAINE AND EMIGRATION, 1919-39, 758
7. THE SECOND EMIGRATION AND DIASPORA, 1945-90, 764
8. THE ERA OF GLASNOST, 1987-90, 771
9. AFTER INDEPENDENCE, 776
Footnotes, 782
BIBLIOGRAPHY, 793
INDEX, 801