Chapter Rethinking Tradition, Rejecting the Past: Ukrainian Poetry of the 1910s and 1920s in the Search for Europe

In my contribution, I analyze texts by Mykola Zerov, Mychajl’ Semenko, and Mykola Chvyl’ovyj, three leading Ukrainian writers of the 1910s and 1920s, that thematize Ukrainian literature of the first years of the twentieth century, criticizing its alleged backwardness and lack of artistic quality. Wi...

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מחבר ראשי: Achilli, Alessandro
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description In my contribution, I analyze texts by Mykola Zerov, Mychajl’ Semenko, and Mykola Chvyl’ovyj, three leading Ukrainian writers of the 1910s and 1920s, that thematize Ukrainian literature of the first years of the twentieth century, criticizing its alleged backwardness and lack of artistic quality. With their rejection of recent tradition, Zerov, Semenko, and Chvyl’ovyj were pursuing an ambitious program of cultural renewal aimed at elevating Ukrainian poetry and prose to the same level as classical and contemporary European literature. A recurrent name in their poems and pieces of criticism is that of Mykola Voronyj, a key figure of early-twentieth-century Ukrainian culture, whose controversial reception sheds light on the extent to which Zerov and Semenko were eager to radically renew Ukrainian literature after its first modernization attempts, which they deemed unsatisfying.
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spelling doab-20.500.12854ir-1361362025-07-18T09:46:46Z Chapter Rethinking Tradition, Rejecting the Past: Ukrainian Poetry of the 1910s and 1920s in the Search for Europe Achilli, Alessandro Mykola Zerov Mykhail Semenko Mykola Khvylovyi Mykola Voronyi Ukrainian poetry’s reception thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DS Literature: history and criticism thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DS Literature: history and criticism In my contribution, I analyze texts by Mykola Zerov, Mychajl’ Semenko, and Mykola Chvyl’ovyj, three leading Ukrainian writers of the 1910s and 1920s, that thematize Ukrainian literature of the first years of the twentieth century, criticizing its alleged backwardness and lack of artistic quality. With their rejection of recent tradition, Zerov, Semenko, and Chvyl’ovyj were pursuing an ambitious program of cultural renewal aimed at elevating Ukrainian poetry and prose to the same level as classical and contemporary European literature. A recurrent name in their poems and pieces of criticism is that of Mykola Voronyj, a key figure of early-twentieth-century Ukrainian culture, whose controversial reception sheds light on the extent to which Zerov and Semenko were eager to radically renew Ukrainian literature after its first modernization attempts, which they deemed unsatisfying. 2024-04-05T07:32:57Z 2024-04-05T07:32:57Z 2024-04-02T15:50:43Z 2023 chapter ONIX_20240402_9791221502381_213 2612-7679 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/89244 9791221502381 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/136136 eng Biblioteca di Studi Slavistici open access image/jpeg n/a https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/89244/1/9791221502381_10.pdf Firenze University Press 10.36253/979-12-215-0238-1.10 10.36253/979-12-215-0238-1.10 2ec4474d-93b1-4cfa-b313-9c6019b51b1a 9791221502381 14 Florence open access
spellingShingle Mykola Zerov
Mykhail Semenko
Mykola Khvylovyi
Mykola Voronyi
Ukrainian poetry’s reception
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Chapter Rethinking Tradition, Rejecting the Past: Ukrainian Poetry of the 1910s and 1920s in the Search for Europe
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Mykhail Semenko
Mykola Khvylovyi
Mykola Voronyi
Ukrainian poetry’s reception
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Mykhail Semenko
Mykola Khvylovyi
Mykola Voronyi
Ukrainian poetry’s reception
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