American Literary Studies in Ukraine

American Literary Studies in Ukraine is a tribune and source of information for those who study the USA literature. This annual edition was founded in 2004 by the Center for American Literary Studies in Ukraine at Shevchenko Institute of Literature of the NAS of Ukraine.

The edition is meant for specialists in American literature, researchers, teachers and students of world – particularly American – literature, for those who are interested in literature and culture of the USA.

Editorial board: Doctor of Philology, Prof. Tamara Denysova, (the Head), Prof. Emory Elliott (USA), Academician of NASU, Prof. Mykola Zhulynsky, Counselor of the USA Embassy in Ukraine Janet Demiray, Corresponding Member of NASU Tamara Gundorova, Corresponding Member of NASU, Prof. Dmytro Nalyvayko, Doctor of Philology, Prof. Natalya Vysotska, Doctor of Philology, Prof. Tetyana Potnitseva, Prof. Natalya Zhluktenko, Doctor of Philology, Prof. Aleksandr Kozlov, Candidate of Philology, Assistant Prof. Aleksandr Gon (the Deputy Head), Candidate of Philology Olena Dubinina (secretary) Candidate of Philology Ganna Stembkovska (secretary).

Contacts

The address: Shevchenko Institute of the Literature of the NAS of Ukraine, 4, Grushevsky st., of. 313, Kyiv, 01001, Ukraine.
Tel.: (38) (044) 279 19 97
E-mail: ol_du@mail.ru, atkol@i.com.ua

Published issues:

American Literary Studies in Ukraine. – Vol. 1. “Puritan Tradition in American Literature”. – Kyiv, 2004.

The first issue of the annual American Literary Studies in Ukraine is dedicated to a fundamental issue for American mentality – the tradition of Puritanism in the literature of the USA. The collection presents the interpretation of Puritan categories from the point of view of modernity, historical and theoretical analysis of this phenomenon, reception of the tradition of Puritanism in the American literature of the 19th century, and its functioning in the current literary process. Among the contributors of the volume there are famous scholars from the USA and Ukraine as well as young promising researches.

INTRODUCTION 9

PART 1

Emory Ellіott (USA)
Those Іrrepressіble Purіtans: Canon War Survіvors. 17

Т. Denysova (Kyiv)
Puritan Tradition as Productive Tendency in American Literature 36

A. Frykholm (USA)
The Puritan Apocalyptic Then and Now. 44

I. Limborsky (Cherkasy)
American Puritanism of the Colonial Period and European Enlightenment. 54

Т. Lazarenko (Kyiv)
Interaction of Puritan and Indian Cultures in American Literature of the 18th Century Presented Trough the Texts by Samson Okkom. 60

М. Koval (Lviv)
Philosophy, Morals, and Customs of Colonial America: From E. Cook to J. Barth. 67

PART 2

Т. Potnitseva (Dnipropetrovsk)
Puritan Code of a “New Man” and Its Opponents in the Literature of American Romanticism. 75

І. Arendarenko (Kyiv)
Puritanism: Points of View of W. Scott (Old Morality) and N. Hawthorne (The Scarlet Letter). 85

S. Shcherbina (Poltava)
Puritan Heritage in N. Hawthorne’s Works. 91

Y. Pavlenko (Kyiv)
Dream as Revelation: Puritan Vector in American Romanticism (Presented through the short stories of N. Hawthorne). 102

Т. Mykhed (Kyiv)
Biblical Word in W. Whitman’s Poetics. 109

PART 3

О. Gon (Kyiv)
Puritan Aspects of E. Pound’s Poems. 119

N. Vysotska (Kyiv)
Puritan “TEXT” in F. Prows’ Blue Angel. 132

О. Dubinina (Kyiv)
Puritan Tradition in W. Styron’s Novels. 148

Т. Stovbun (Kyiv)
Manifestation of Puritan Ideology in J. Gardner’s Prose. 159

N. Pustovoytova (Kyiv)
Puritan Aspect of the Interpretation of Death in Don DeLillo’s White Noise. 167

N. Shpylyova (Cherkasy)
Puritan Tradition in R. Brautigan’s In the Melon Sugar (The Concept of Man). 73

Y. Tkachuk (Kyiv)
Puritan Idiot in the Literary Space of Nowadays: The Images of Forrest Gump in the Novel by W. Groom’s and the Film by R. Zemeckis. 181

G. Kolomiyets (Kyiv)
Jim Morrison’s Dialog with Puritan Tradition. 194

G. Kolesnyk (Mykolayiv)
The Story of Paradise Lost: Milton, Hawthorne, Ackroyd. 201

REVIEWS 221

CHRONICLE AND INFORMATION 225

American Literary Studies in Ukraine. – Vol. 2. “Tradition of Enlightenment in American Literature”. – Kyiv, 2005.

The second volume of the annual American Literary Studies in Ukraine is dedicated to an important theme - the tradition of Enlightenment in American literature. Enlightenment that lasted in America for the whole 18th century became an important stage in development of social and political, spiritual, and cultural life of the country. Besides, the tradition of Enlightenment is interesting for researchers not only as a definite historical period but as a powerful creative factor for national mentality that still influences ideas and forms of American literature.

INTRODUCTION (Mykola Sulyma). 9

PART 1. Eighteenth Century Enlightenment Context

Т. Denysova (Kyiv)
Enlightenment within the Framework of American Literary History. 13

L. Bashmakova (Krasnodar)
Benjamin Franklin and “Americanism”. 29

K. Stetsenko (Moscow)
Thomas Jefferson. 51

N. Vysotska (Kyiv)
“Our Black Brethren”: Race Rhetoric in Thomas Jefferson’s Enlightenment Discourse. 78

О. Bаbych (Kyiv)
North American and Spanish Colonialisms. Two Versions of Modernization in the 18th Century. 93

І. Limborsky (Cherkasy)
European and American Enlightenment: Reception of Ideas and Dialogue of Cultures. 99

Т. Potnitseva (Dnipropetrovsk)
J. Trumbull’s Poetry: Genre and Style. 111

N. Zhluktenko (Kyiv)
Category of Imagination in Ph. Freneau’s Long Poems. 125

Т. Mykhed (Kyiv)
Gender Discourse in J. S. Murray’s Enlightenment Fiction. 133

І. Arendarenko, Candidate of Philology (Kyiv)
S. Richardson’s Epistolary Novels and H. W. Foster’s The Coquette or the History of Eliza Wharton. 151

G. Gaydash (Kyiv)
M. O. Warren’s The Group within the Writer’s Dramatic Oeuvre. 159

PART 2. Traditions of the Enlightenment in Contemporary American Literature

О. Gon (Kyiv)
Founding Father’s Presentation in E. Pound’s Cantos. 171

О. Guseynova (Kyiv)
Superstition, Error, Ignorance: Good Bye Enlightenment? (A. Hemon’s Blind Joseph Pronek). 187

Т. Lazarenko (Kyiv)
Echoes of Enlightenment in L. M. Silko’s Writings. 196

О. Starshova (Mykolayiv)
Transformation of Epistolary Genre in J. Barth Letters. 203

G. Pokydko (Kyiv)
Reconceptualizing Enlightenment Epistolary Genre in A. Tyler’s Novels. 211

Т. Stovbun (Kyiv)
Human Nature, Freedom, Law. The Sunlight Dialogues by J. Gardner: American Enlightenment Tradition. 211

О. Dubinina (Kyiv)
Getting Back to the Roots: Enlightenment Ideologem as a Polyphony Element in W. Styron’s Writings. 231

N. Shpylyova (Cherkasy)
Library Topos in R. Brautigan’s The Abortion: An Historical Romance 1966. 243

Y. Tkachuk (Kyiv)
World Reception Model in A. Melnyczuk’s What Is Told: From Enlightenment to Postmodernism. 254

G. Kolomiyets (Kyiv)
Enlightenment Deism Elements in American Rock Poetry. ###

N. Pustovoytova (Kyiv)
Dialog Between Enlightenment and Present Day Culture (John de Cruvecoeur’s Letters of an American Farmer and network novel The Unknown). 278

Bibliography of American Puritanism. 286

OUR VISITORS

Noel Polk (USA)
Outside History, Too. 302

REVIEWS 319

CHRONICLE AND INFORMATION 333

American Literary Studies in Ukraine. – Vol. 3. “Literature of the USA: Essays, Reflections, Researches”. – Kyiv, 2006.

This volume of the annual American Literary Studies in Ukraine is dedicated to Tamara N. Denysova, an outstanding Ukrainian scholar-americanist, Doctor of Philology, Professor. According to the scholar’s research interests this issue presents the wide spectrum of problems and phenomena significant for the continuum of the modern US literature. The collection includes the essays of researchers – Prof. Denysova’s friends, followers, and disciples – from the USA, Europe, Russia, Belarus, and Ukraine.

Ann C. Colley (USA)
EXPLORATIONS IN AMERICAN POETICS: BEYOND THE BOUNDARIES OF THE PRINTED PAGE. 45

Zoltán Abádi-Nagy (Hungary)
Raymond Federman Is Discussing French Theory and Smiles On Washington Square. 89

Natalya Vysotska (Kyiv)
American “Text” As a Product Of Cultural Creolization. 102

Tetyana Potnitseva (Dnipropetrovsk)
The Right to Have a Choice: Academic and the “Author’s” Point Of View On American Literature. 115

Tetyana Mykhed (Nizhyn)
The Antique Mythologem as a Means to Constitute the Fictional Space iIn H. Melville’s Moby Dick. 131

Serhiy Shcherbyna (Poltava)
“The Last Puritan” in N. West’s Miss Lonelyhearts. 158

Olga Nesmelova (Kazan)
Evolution Of “Russian” Reception of E. Hemingway’s Works.171

Olena Dubinina (Kyiv)
The Structure of Narrative Voice in W. Styron’s Sophie’s Choice. 184

Natalya Shpylyova (Kyiv)
Richard Brautigan – The Guru of American Youth Culture of the 1960–1970s. 196

Marta Koval (Lviv)
Ethical Dilemmas and the Problem of Memory in N. Baker’s Checkpoint. 204

Yuri Stulov (Minsk)
Strategies of Empowerment: Ntozake Shange’s Three Sisters and Mother. 215

Ganna Stembkovska (Kolomiyets) (Kyiv)
City as the Urban Construct: J. Morrison’s Los-Angeles in the Context of Evolution of Urban Pessimism in the 20th Century. 310

BIBLIOGRAPHY OF TAMARA DENYSOVA
(Compiled by Tetyana Ushakova and Tetyana Stalna). 345

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