Universität Wien
Warning! The directory is not yet complete and will be amended until the beginning of the term.

480097 KO Colloquium on Literature and Cultural Studies (2022W)

The "national modernism"of the 1920s in Soviet Ukraine: literature and reflections about literature

5.00 ECTS (2.00 SWS), SPL 48 - Slawistik
Continuous assessment of course work
ON-SITE

Registration/Deregistration

Note: The time of your registration within the registration period has no effect on the allocation of places (no first come, first served).

Details

max. 25 participants
Language: German

Lecturers

Classes (iCal) - next class is marked with N

  • Tuesday 04.10. 13:15 - 14:45 Seminarraum 2 Slawistik UniCampus Hof 3 2R-EG-26
  • Tuesday 11.10. 13:15 - 14:45 Seminarraum 2 Slawistik UniCampus Hof 3 2R-EG-26
  • Tuesday 18.10. 13:15 - 14:45 Seminarraum 2 Slawistik UniCampus Hof 3 2R-EG-26
  • Tuesday 25.10. 13:15 - 14:45 Seminarraum 2 Slawistik UniCampus Hof 3 2R-EG-26
  • Tuesday 08.11. 13:15 - 14:45 Seminarraum 2 Slawistik UniCampus Hof 3 2R-EG-26
  • Tuesday 15.11. 13:15 - 14:45 Seminarraum 2 Slawistik UniCampus Hof 3 2R-EG-26
  • Tuesday 22.11. 13:15 - 14:45 Besprechungsraum Slawistik Unicampus Hof 3 2R-EG-40
  • Tuesday 29.11. 13:15 - 14:45 Besprechungsraum Slawistik Unicampus Hof 3 2R-EG-40
  • Tuesday 06.12. 13:15 - 14:45 Besprechungsraum Slawistik Unicampus Hof 3 2R-EG-40
  • Tuesday 13.12. 13:15 - 14:45 Besprechungsraum Slawistik Unicampus Hof 3 2R-EG-40

Information

Aims, contents and method of the course

From the beginning of the 1920s Ukrainian literature and art developed within the totally new state formation of a new type – Soviet Ukraine. The 1920s is characterised by a strong interweaving and overlapping of artistic practices and modern socio-political changes in the name of “catch-up development” of the new socialist republics.
The building of national culture and identity in the 1920s in Soviet Ukraine had an entirely different ideological foundation than in previous historical periods. This new foundation consisted of the “national” and “communist” components. Almost every literary text possessed a certain political intention—and furthermore, was read from different ideological perspectives as delivering (or hiding) a political message. The “technique of the craft of writing” took a crucial place in this development.
One of the most interesting aspects of this period is that the “modernization” of Ukrainian culture, both artistic and literary, was taking place under the strong influence of Russian avant-garde and modernism in their Soviet phase (including literary theory).
The course is dedicated to the analyses of both artistic texts of prominent Ukrainian writers (Pavlo Tychyna, Maik Yohansen, Mykola Zerov, Mykhail’ Semenko, Mykola Bazhan, etc.) and theoretical articles that form the core of the phenomenon known as the “Ukrainian formalism.”

The course consists of the Introduction which is supposed to provide the students with historical context of the formation of early Soviet literature and art, and a series of colloquiums where cultural cases (texts and theoretical works) will be discussed. In the end of the course a wrap-up discussion is supposed to sum up some of the conclusions.

Lectures, discussions, workshops, group screening of the movies etc.

Assessment and permitted materials

Attendance, active participation, reading, discussion contributions.

Minimum requirements and assessment criteria

Attendance and discussion contributions.
Final essay to be submitted (3-5 pages).

Examination topics

The examination topics will be discussed individually depending on the student's interest.

Reading list

1. Babak G., Dmitriev A. Atlantida sovetskogo nacmodernizma
Formal'nyj metod v Ukraine (1920-e — nachalo 1930-h). Moskva: Novoe literaturnoe obozrenie, 2021. [Atlantis of Soviet National Modernism: Formal Method in Ukraine in the 1920s–beginning of the 1930s].
2. Ilnytzkyj O. Ukrainian Futurism, 1914–1930: An Historical and Critical Study. Harvard University Press, 1998.
3. Palko O. Making Ukraine Soviet: Literature and Cultural Politics under Lenin and Stalin. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2020.
4. Shkandrij M. Modernists, Marxists and the Nation. Edmonton: Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies Press, 1992.
5. “Quiet Spiders of the Hidden Soul”: Mykola (Nik) Bazhan’s Early Experimental Poetry. Ed. by O. Rosenblum, L. Friedman, A. Khyzhnya. Boston: Academic Studies Press, 2020.

Association in the course directory

M.4.3., M.5.2.

Last modified: Tu 04.07.2023 08:27