Universität Wien

480097 KO Colloquium on Literature and Cultural Studies (2023W)

Ukrainian Literary Theory in a cultural and political context of the interwar USSR, Poland and Czechoslovakia

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

max. 25 participants
Language: German

Lecturers

Classes (iCal) - next class is marked with N

  • Friday 06.10. 09:45 - 11:15 Seminarraum 4 Slawistik UniCampus Hof 3 2R-EG-45
  • Friday 13.10. 09:45 - 11:15 Seminarraum 4 Slawistik UniCampus Hof 3 2R-EG-45
  • Friday 20.10. 09:45 - 11:15 Seminarraum 4 Slawistik UniCampus Hof 3 2R-EG-45
  • Friday 27.10. 09:45 - 11:15 Seminarraum 4 Slawistik UniCampus Hof 3 2R-EG-45
  • Friday 03.11. 09:45 - 11:15 Seminarraum 4 Slawistik UniCampus Hof 3 2R-EG-45
  • Friday 10.11. 09:45 - 11:15 Seminarraum 4 Slawistik UniCampus Hof 3 2R-EG-45
  • Friday 17.11. 09:45 - 11:15 Seminarraum 4 Slawistik UniCampus Hof 3 2R-EG-45
  • Friday 24.11. 09:45 - 11:15 Seminarraum 4 Slawistik UniCampus Hof 3 2R-EG-45
  • Friday 01.12. 09:45 - 11:15 Seminarraum 4 Slawistik UniCampus Hof 3 2R-EG-45
  • Friday 15.12. 09:45 - 11:15 Seminarraum 4 Slawistik UniCampus Hof 3 2R-EG-45
  • Friday 12.01. 09:45 - 11:15 Seminarraum 4 Slawistik UniCampus Hof 3 2R-EG-45
  • Friday 19.01. 09:45 - 11:15 Seminarraum 4 Slawistik UniCampus Hof 3 2R-EG-45
  • Friday 26.01. 09:45 - 11:15 Seminarraum 4 Slawistik UniCampus Hof 3 2R-EG-45

Information

Aims, contents and method of the course

The proposed course aims to reconstruct the development of Ukrainian literary theory and criticism in a cultural and political context of the interwar Ukrainian SSR, Poland and Czechoslovakia. That was the historical period when Ukrainian lands were divided between four states – USSR, Poland, Czechoslovakia, and Romania. The history of Ukrainian literary criticism goes back to the second half of the 19th century, when Ukrainian culture was undergoing a process of the so-called “national revival”. The fact that until World War I Ukrainian scientific community was developing within the framework of Russian and Austria-Hungarian empires, shaped its epistemological boundaries and ontological status. From its cradle, Ukrainian “literary science” has been influenced by various national schools as well as international trends. It became a field in which humanities has evolved simultaneously as both national and international. World War I, the revolutions of the 1917 and the Civil War split the Ukrainian scientific community across three counties at that time. One branch developed within Soviet Ukraine with centres mainly in Kharkiv and Kyiv. Poland (Lviv) and Czechoslovakia (Prague, Poděbrady) became the other two centres for the Ukrainophone scientific community. Despite all the political and ideological counterstrategies, Ukrainian “literary science” of the interwar period both in the USSR and the newly proclaimed European states developed primarily as a national phenomenon driven by the absolute necessity of the Ukrainian communities to preserve and maintain their identity.

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

Types of the lessons:
Lectures
Seminars/workshops/discussions

The lecturer will use (and provide the students) a wide range of various learning materials: texts, images, and videos.

Assessment and permitted materials

The final essay on a chosen topic is required at the end of the course.

Minimum requirements and assessment criteria

The final examination will consider an active participation of a student during the course. The course require reading practices and individual work with suggested material (texts, works of art).

Examination topics

A student will consider a topic by his/her own choice which would be prior discussed with the lecturer. The final essay of 3 to 5 pages should be submitted at the end of the course.

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. HAUSER, J. (ed. a kol.), Zkušenost exilu: Osudy exulantů z území bývalého Ruského impéria v meziválečném Československu. Praha: Památník národního písemnictví 2017.
3. Ilnytzkyj O. Ukrainian Futurism, 1914–1930: An Historical and Critical Study. Harvard University Press, 1998.
4. Palko O. Making Ukraine Soviet: Literature and Cultural Politics under Lenin and Stalin. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2020.
5. Shkandrij M. Modernists, Marxists and the Nation. Edmonton: Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies Press, 1992.
6. Tihanov, G. The Birth and the Death of Literary Theory: Regimes of Relevance in Russia and Beyond. Stanford University Press, 2019.
7. “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.
8. Wiszka E., Emigracja ukraińska w Polsce 1920–1939. Toruń, 2004.

Association in the course directory

M.4.3.P, M.5.2.P, M.4.3.Q, M.5.2.Q, M.4.3.T, M.5.2.T, M.4.3.R, M.5.2.R, M.4.3.U, M.5.2.U

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