Bridging East and West : : Ol’ha Kobylians’ka, Ukraine’s Pioneering Modernist / / Yuliya Ladygina.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter ACUP Complete eBook-Package 2019
• VerfasserIn: Ladygina, Yuliya ,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2019]; ©2019
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (296 p.) :; 10 b&w illustrations

Bridging East and West explores the literary evolution of Ol’ha Kobylians'ka, one of Ukraine’s foremost modernist writers. Investigating themes of feminism, populism, Nietzscheanism, nationalism, and fascism in her works, this study presents an alternative intellectual genealogy in turn-of-the-century European arts and letters whose implications reach far beyond the field of Ukrainian studies. For feminist scholars, Bridging East and West makes accessible a thorough account of a central, yet overlooked, woman writer who served as a model and a contributor within a major cultural tradition. For those working in Victorian studies or comparative fascism and for those interested in Nietzsche and his influence on European intellectuals, Kobylians’ka emerges in this study as an unlikely, but no less active, trailblazer in the social and aesthetic theories that would define European debates about culture, science, and politics in the first half of the twentieth century. For those interested in questions of transnationalism and intersectionality, this study’s discussion of Kobylians’ka’s hybrid cultural identity and philosophical program exemplifies cultural interchange and irreducible complexities of cultural identity.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations for Standard Editions -- Introduction -- 1. The Art of Feminist Compromise -- 2. New Woman, New Myth -- 3. The Populist Trial -- 4. Hidden Modernism -- 5. War and Fiction -- 6. Between the Right and the Left -- Afterword -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index