The All-Encompassing Eye of Ukraine : : Ivan Nechui-Levyts'kyi's Realist Prose / / Maxim Tarnawsky.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter ACUP Complete eBook-Package 2015
• VerfasserIn: Tarnawsky, Maxim ,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2015]; ©2015
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (384 p.)

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.

Table of Contents

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