The All-Encompassing Eye of Ukraine : : Ivan Nechui-Levyts'kyi's Realist Prose / / Maxim Tarnawsky.
One of the most important realist novelists of nineteenth-century Ukraine, Ivan Nechui-Levyts'kyi was caricatured and then forgotten by a generation of literary modernists who rejected his aesthetic and ideological views. In The All-Encompassing Eye of Ukraine, Maxim Tarnawsky presents a thorou...
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Place / Publishing House: | Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2015] ©2015 |
Year of Publication: | 2015 |
Language: | English |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (384 p.) |
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Other title: | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1. The Unknown Nechui -- 2. Describing Ukraine -- 3. Defending Ukraine -- 4. Realism, Rhetoric, and Repetition -- 5. Nechui’s Characters: Women and Joy -- 6. Nechui’s Historical Writing -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index |
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Summary: | One of the most important realist novelists of nineteenth-century Ukraine, Ivan Nechui-Levyts'kyi was caricatured and then forgotten by a generation of literary modernists who rejected his aesthetic and ideological views. In The All-Encompassing Eye of Ukraine, Maxim Tarnawsky presents a thorough and much-needed reexamination of Nechui-Levyts'kyi and his work.A solitary, modest man whose chief interest was in promoting and defending a Ukrainian identity threatened by the cultural policies of the Russian Empire, Levyts'kyi’s writing described Ukraine, its people, its culture, and the forces threatening it. A satirist who attacked modernism and cosmopolitanism, he wrote in a style marked by what Tarnawsky calls non-purposeful narration – slow-paced humour built on rhetorical finesse rather than on plot or character development.A vital reconsideration of a significant Ukrainian novelist written by the foremost expert on his work, The All-Encompassing Eye of Ukraine deepens and expands our understanding of Ukraine’s nineteenth-century literature. |
Format: | Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. |
ISBN: | 9781442622180 9783111274027 9783110439687 9783110438673 9783110606812 |
DOI: | 10.3138/9781442622180 |
Access: | restricted access |
Hierarchical level: | Monograph |
Statement of Responsibility: | Maxim Tarnawsky. |