Toward a history of Ukrainian literature / George G. Grabowicz.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Grabowicz, George G.

Series:

Monograph series (Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute)

Monograph series / Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ukrainian literature--History and criticism.

Ukrainian literature.

Physical Description:

101 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : Distributed by Harvard University Press for the Ukrainian Research Institute, [1981]

Summary:

Ukrainian literature, reflecting a turbulent and often discontinuous political and social history, presents special problems to the historian of literature. In this book George Grabowicz approaches these problems through a critique of the major non-Soviet position in the field, the "History of Ukrainian Literature" of the eminent Slavist Dmytro Č yž evs'kyj. Grabowicz examines critically the method and theory as well as the actual literaryhistorical argument of Č yž evs'kyj's "History" and challenges some of its basic premises, particularly regarding the periodization of Ukrainian literature, the thesis of its "incompleteness," and the postulate of a purely stylistic history of literature. Ultimately, he proposes an alternative historiographic model, one which would be attuned above all to the specifics of the given culture.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

0674896769

OCLC:

7721615