Ukrainian literary modernism of the 1910s-mid-1930s: a critical reader. Vol.1.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Babak, Halyna, editor.

Ilchuk, Yuliya, editor.

Ustinov, Andrei, editor.

Series:

Cultural Syllabus.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Modernism (Literature)--Ukraine--20th century.

Modernism (Literature).

Ukrainian literature--20th century.

Ukrainian literature.

Literature and society--Ukraine--20th century.

Literature and society.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

[Place of publication not identified]: Academic Studies Press, 2026.

Summary:

The Reader introduces Anglophone audiences to the original theoretical writings and poetry produced in Ukraine from the 1910s through the emergence of the totalitarian state under Stalin in the mid-1930s. It captures the vibrancy of a cultural moment when modernism and the avant-garde became the leading forms of artistic, literary, and intellectual expression. Far from being a peripheral phenomenon, Ukrainian modernism evolved in a dynamic dialogue with both European and Russian counterparts while maintaining its own national and ideological distinctiveness. The Reader demonstrates how Formalist theory and avant-garde literary practice shaped poetic creation and, in turn, how these aesthetic innovations engaged with broader projects of Soviet modernization and nation-building. By bringing together key critical and poetic works that reveal the tension between national aspirations and avant-garde currents in Ukrainian culture, the book redefines Ukrainian modernism as a movement uniting theoretical innovation, artistic experimentation, and political engagement. It invites readers to recognize how, forged in the crucible of the early Soviet decades, literature emerged not only as a reflection but also as a maker of modernity.

Contents:

Front matter

Table of contents

Note on translation and transliteration

Glossary

Acknowledgements

Foreword: how this book was made

Introduction: Ukrainian formalism and beyond: literary theory and criticism in Soviet Ukraine from the revolution to Stalinism

How to write poems: practical advice for beginners

Toward the essence of Ukrainian poetry

Form and content

The study of the new Ukrainian literature (notes)

On the way to a new theory

On the “formal method” and the problem of content and form

Foreword to Dmytro Zahul's Poetyka

The new Ukrainian literature: introduction to the 1st edition

Towards the problem of understanding a work of art

Formalism or subjective aestheticism: regarding Boris Tomashevsky's Theory of Literature (Leningrad: Gosizdat, 1925) as an attempt to summarize the achievements of literary “formalism”

The “formal” method in literature

The poet and everyday life: (some considerations on the origin of poetic styles)

In search of an objective theory of art: (the contemporary development of experimental aesthetics in the West and the destruction of objective aesthetics)

Formalism?

Ten years of “OPOIAZ”

A propos the composition of the novella

Reader, writer, literature

Through the formal method

The fantastic in Gogol's “A terrible vengeance”

The social profile of the Ukrainian reader in the 1830s and 1840s: study I

How a short story is made

A study on the works of prominent scholars and artists, on art as scholarship, on universal aesthetics. The estrangement of things

Index to volume 1.

Notes:

Includes index.

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ISBN:

9798897831203