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Comparative Literature (Literaturna Komparatyvistyka)  – is an annual edition dedicated to the problems of Comparative Literature. It was founded in 2004 by the Comparative Literature Department of Shevchenko Institute of Literature of the NAS of Ukraine.

Main goals of the edition

  • Studying Ukrainian literature in the context of international relations.
  • Working out methodological and methodical problems of the modern Comparative Literature.
  • Examining current tendencies and concepts of the world Comparative Literature.
  • Researching the history of Ukrainian Comparative Literature.
  • Concerning the problems of teaching Comparative Literature.
  • Reviewing Ukrainian and foreign editions on Comparative Literature.

The edition is meant for literary researchers, teaches, students, and those who are interested in Comparative Literature.

Editorial board: Corresponding Member of NASU, Prof. D. Nalyvayko (the chief editor), Doctor of Philology A. Volkov, Doctor of Philology, Prof. L. Grytsyk, Doctor of Philology, Prof. R. Gromyak, Doctor of Philology Prof. T. Denysova, Doctor of Philology, Prof. V. Naribska, Doctor of Philology G. Syvachenko, Doctor of Philology E. Solovey, Candidate of Philology T. Ryazantseva, Candidate of Philology I. Arendarenko (secretary).

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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

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Published issues:

 

Comparative Literature. – Volume 1. – Kyiv, 2005.

The first volume of the annual Comparative Literature (Literaturna Komparatyvistyka) includes 26 essays of Ukrainian researchers on the problems of current tendencies and conceptions of Comparative Literature, interaction between Theory of Literature and Comparative Literature, Comparative Typology, intertext, the place of Ukrainian literature in the European and world literary contexts.

Contents

Introduction.   6

Current Tendencies and Conceptions of Comparative Literature

T. Denysova (Kyiv).
Science “Comparative Literature” in the Modern Interpretation. 10

D. Nalyvaiko (Kyiv).
Literary Imagology: Subject and Strategies. 27

P. Mykhed (Kyiv).
Problems of the Russian Studies in Ukraine. 45

R. Gromiak (Ternopil).
The Receptive Approach Principles in Studying International Literary Contacts. 64

 

Theory of Literature and Comparative Literature

T. Sverbilova (Kyiv).
Dramaturgic Genres: the Conception of Cultural Explosion at Time of Turning Epoch. 74

T. Mykhed (Nizhyn).
The Fable as an Organizing Principle of the Romantic Narrative. 86

V. Orehov (Izmail).
“Return” Literary Reception as a Subject of Imagology. 98

Y. Tsymbal (Kyiv).
Signboard as an Element of Surrealistic Landscape: М. Yogansen and French Surrealism. 111

 

Comparative Typology

Y. Kavushevska (Kyiv).
Bulgarian Symbolism in Slavonic Context. 122

I. Arendarenko (Kyiv)
Orientalism in English and Ukrainian Poetry of the Romantic Epoch. 140

O. Vyshnevska (Lutsk).
Dionysus Worship in the Writings of Ukrainian Neo-Classics, Polish Skamandrits, and Russian Acmeists. 154

B. Sologub (Rivne).
Verterian Character in Ukrainian Poetry. 165

T. Ryazantseva (Kyiv).
Combination of Religious and Erotic Elements in Lyrics by O. Stefanivych and F. Garcia Lorka. 177

I. Danylenko (Mykolaiv).
The Image of Hamlet in Poetry by A. Blok and B. Pasternak (from Poetics to Mentality). 182

L. Zelynska (Ostrog).
Feministic “Tracks” in Deconstruction (Comparative Analysis of Medea by J. Anouih and Not-Medea by Y. Tarnavsky).191

 

Intertextuality

K. Isayenko (Nizhyn).
Хkhutor Phylosophy by P. Kulish and Chosen Places by M. Gogol: Problems of Intertextuality. 206

D. Morozova (Mykolaiv).
V. Petrov-Domontovych and O. Mandelshtam about Francois Villon: Specificity of Biographic Consciousness. 225

O. Alekseeva, M. Petrovsky (Kyiv).
Plot and Image Parallels in Serapion Brothers by E. T. A. Hoffmann and Malachite Casket by P. Bazhov. 240

T. Ostapchuk (Mykolaiv).
About “Spanish” Search of Y. Tarnavsky. 246


Ukrainian Literature in the Europe and World Contexts

I. Limborsky (Kyiv).
Ukrainian Literature of the 18th Century and the European Context (The Typology of Changes in the System of Artistic Thinking: Comparative Approach). 264

O. Galeta (Lviv).
Current Ukrainian Literature in the Original and Translated Anthologies. 285

G. Syvachenko (Kyiv).
V. Vynnychenko and A. Kestler: an Attempt at Typological Analysis. 298

I. Melnychenko (Kyiv)
Y. Daragan and K.G.  Makha: Physical and Spiritual Exile in the Context of One Forgotten Translation. 318

E. Solovey (Kyiv)
M. Voloshyn and V. Svidzinsky: an Attempt at Comparative Studying. 327

V. Sokolova (Lutsk)
Comparative Analysis of Poetry by T. Osmachka and M. Tsvetaeva. 338

L. Skoryna (Cherkasy)
Common and Different in the Fiction Conception of Shadows in Paradise by E. M. Remark and On the Firm Soil by U. Samchuk. 350

Information about the Contributors. 360

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Comparative Literature. – Volume 2. – Kyiv, 2005.

The second volume of the annual Comparative Literature (Literaturna Komparatyvistyka) includes 25 essays of Ukrainian researchers on the problems of current theories and conceptions of Comparative Literature, Comparative Typology, Literature in the system of arts and the humanities, the place of Ukrainian literature in the European and world literary contexts, fiction translation in the comparative aspect, and as well there are reviews, bibliography, and the list of dissertations in Comparative Literature that were defended in Ukraine.

Contents

 

Current Tendencies and Conceptions of Comparative Literature.

D. Nalyvayko.
Cultural and Historical Communities and International Literary Process (on the Material of Medieval Literatures). 7

T. Denysova.
Essay on the US Comparative Literature. 24

Y. Kochubey.
Incorporation of Strange Worlds in the National Literature as an Element of Dialog between Cultures: European-Arabian Connections. 38

V. Musiy.
About the Place of Comparative Literature in Studying Connections between Literature and Mythology. 46

 

Comparative Typology

A. Volkov, E. Solovey.
Two Slavonic Tragedies about Atlantis. 59

O. Bezlepkina.
Y. Zamyatin and A. Huxley: Comparative Typological Aspect. 72

Y. Pavlenko.
Eternity is not Enough by F. Cheng in the Context of French-phony: Dialog of Cultures Formed by Love Tao. 82

 

Ukrainian Literature in the European and World Contexts

T. Sverbilova.
Motives of Messianizm, Renewal of the Man, and Triumph over Time in Ukrainian and Russian Expressionistic Drama (Comparative Aspect). 91

G. Syvachenko.
V. Vynnychenko and A. Gide: an Attempt at Typological Analysis.

Y. Tsymbal.
Paris and Berlin in the Ukrainian Poetry of the First Third of the 20th Century. 122

A. Gurduz.
To the Problem of Mythic-Poetic Paradigm of The Earth by O. Kobylyanska and Tess of the D'urbervilles  by T. Hardy: the opposition “nature – city”. 134

Y. Matasova.
Archetype of Self and Mythologem of Heroic Search: Aspects of Realization (works by F.S.  Fitzgerald and V. Domontovych). 145

G. Kolomyets.
Elements of Political Discourse in Ukrainian and American Rock-Poetry. 159


Literature in System of Arts and the Humanities

T. Mykhed.
“Build Your Own World”, or to the Problem of Transformation of Utopian Idea in the Literature of American Romanticism. 169

Y. Kravets.
French reading of Aleksandr Arkhypenko. 205

P. Mykhed.
Figures of “Society of God’s Resurrection” Order and M. Gogol’s Apostolical Project (Putting the Problem). 216

T. Ryazantseva.
The Origin of Rus by O. Prytsak as a Source of Tolkien Studies. 221

O. Dubinina.
Synesthesian Intertext in Set This House on Fire by W. Styron. 229

O. Romanova.
Stylistic Peculiarities of Cinemanovel Last Year at Marienbad by Alain Robbe-Grillet 239

O. Babych.
The Influence of Visual Culture on the Models of Social Behavior: Stories from the Kronen by J. A. Manas. 263


Fiction Translation in of Comparative Literature Aspect

N. Torkut.
Hamlet’s Aspect in the Context of Translation Comparative Literature. 271

O. Pronkevych.
Lorka is a Ukrainian or Lorka in Ukrainian? 284

I. Melnychenko.
Eugene Malanuk’s Translation of On Golgotha by Jhosef Svatopluk Mahar: in the Context of Czech-Ukrainian Literary Relations. 297

L. Kravchenko.
Andrukhovych – an Interpreter of R. M. Rilke’s Poetry. 305

T. Ostapchuk.
Ukrainian Interpretations of S. Bekket’s Krapp's Last Tape. 321


Surveys

I. Arendarenko.
Brіtіsh Comparatіve Lіterature Assocіatіon. 328


Reviews

Y. Bulakhovska.
Traditional Plots and Images. – Chernovtsy, 2004. 335

T. Ostapchuk.
Comparative Literature – Ternopil 2002; Literary Reception and Comparative Discourse – Ternopil, 2004. 339


Scientific Conferences on Comparative Literature.

International Conference “Intertexts of Culture” (October 14–15,  2005, Vilnius, Lithuania) (reported by I. Arendarenko and Y. Tsymbal). 343


Bibliography of Works on Comparative Literature in 1998 (compiled by O. Kozak). 348


List of Dissertations in Comparative Literature (Specialty 10.01.05)  (compiled by I. Arendarenko)

1) Doctor Degree Dissertations, defended in Ukraine from 2000 till 2004. 357

2) Candidate Degree Dissertations, defended in Ukraine from 2000 till 2004. 357

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