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Book Stories of Khmelnytsky

    Book Details:
  • Author : Amelia M. Glaser
  • Publisher : Stanford University Press
  • Release : 2015-08-19
  • ISBN : 0804794960
  • Pages : 319 pages

Download or read book Stories of Khmelnytsky written by Amelia M. Glaser and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2015-08-19 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the middle of the seventeenth century, Bohdan Khmelnytsky was the legendary Cossack general who organized a rebellion that liberated the Eastern Ukraine from Polish rule. Consequently, he has been memorialized in the Ukraine as a God-given nation builder, cut in the model of George Washington. But in this campaign, the massacre of thousands of Jews perceived as Polish intermediaries was the collateral damage, and in order to secure the tentative independence, Khmelnytsky signed a treaty with Moscow, ultimately ceding the territory to the Russian tsar. So, was he a liberator or a villain? This volume examines drastically different narratives, from Ukrainian, Jewish, Russian, and Polish literature, that have sought to animate, deify, and vilify the seventeenth-century Cossack. Khmelnytsky's legacy, either as nation builder or as antagonist, has inhibited inter-ethnic and political rapprochement at key moments throughout history and, as we see in recent conflicts, continues to affect Ukrainian, Jewish, Polish, and Russian national identity.

Book The Don Juan Theme

Download or read book The Don Juan Theme written by Armand Edwards Singer and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Bibliographical Repertory of Italian Private Collections  Labia Ovidi

Download or read book A Bibliographical Repertory of Italian Private Collections Labia Ovidi written by Elizabeth E. Gardner and published by Cierre Edizioni. This book was released on 2005 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Ukrainians in Manitoba

Download or read book The Ukrainians in Manitoba written by Paul Yuzyk and published by . This book was released on 1953 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Social history of the Ukrainians in Manitoba.

Book Lesya Ukrainka

Download or read book Lesya Ukrainka written by Constantine Bida and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 1968-12-15 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Ukrainian national poetess Lesya Ukrainka (1871–1913) has contributed greatly to the development of Ukrainian Modernism and its transition from Ukrainian ethnographic themes to subjects that were universal, historical and psychological. Breaking the thematic conventions of populist literature, she sought difficult and complex motifs and gave them original treatment: themes such as the revolutionary ideological conflicts of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, which appear in some of her later poetry, are strengthened, given greater impact by her method of applying the individual and the personal to the more general concepts. From the beginning of her career her poetry was characterized by the theme of the poet’s vocation and by the motifs connected with it—loneliness and alienation from society. Associated motifs deal with her love of freedom (national freedom in particular) and her hatred of anything weak and undecided. This book, sponsored by the Women’s Council of the Ukrainian Canadian Committee, is a discussion of her life and works and includes selected translations: Robert Bruce (1903), Cassandra (1907), The Orgy (1913), The Stone Host (1912), and “Contra spem spero.” Readers interested in development of poetic style can study the gradual evolution from the lyrical to the precise and analytical manner of the prose-poems of Lesya Ukrainka, and discover the thematic wealth, depth of thought, and emotional power of her poetry.

Book Anthology of Modern Slavonic Literature in Prose and Verse

Download or read book Anthology of Modern Slavonic Literature in Prose and Verse written by and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Adam Mickiewicz In World Literature

Download or read book Adam Mickiewicz In World Literature written by Waclaw Lednicki and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2022-09-23 with total page 670 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1956.

Book Roxolana in European Literature  History and Culture

Download or read book Roxolana in European Literature History and Culture written by Galina I. Yermolenko and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-08 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection is the first book-length scholarly study of the pervasiveness and significance of Roxolana in the European imagination. Roxolana, or "Hurrem Sultan," was a sixteenth-century Ukrainian woman who made an unprecedented career from harem slave and concubine to legal wife and advisor of the Ottoman Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent (1520-1566). Her influence on Ottoman affairs generated legends in many a European country. The essays gathered here represent an interdisciplinary survey of her legacy; the contributors view Roxolana as a transnational figure that reflected the shifting European attitudes towards "the Other," and they investigate her image in a wide variety of sources, ranging from early modern historical chronicles, dramas and travel writings, to twentieth-century historical novels and plays. Also included are six European source texts featuring Roxolana, here translated into modern English for the first time. Importantly, this collection examines Roxolana from both Western and Eastern European perspectives; source material is taken from England, Italy, France, Spain, Germany, Turkey, Poland, and Ukraine. The volume is an important contribution to the study of early modern transnationalism, cross-cultural exchange, and notions of identity, the Self, and the Other.

Book Comparative Musicology and Anthropology of Music

Download or read book Comparative Musicology and Anthropology of Music written by Bruno Nettl and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1991-03-26 with total page 397 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Non-Aboriginal; based on papers presented at Ideas, Concepts and Personalities in the History of Ethnomusicology conference, Urbana, Illinois, April 1988.

Book Slavonic Literature

Download or read book Slavonic Literature written by William Richard Morfill and published by London, Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge. This book was released on 1883 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book JIMMIE HIGGINS

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  • Author : UPTON SINCLAIR
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1919
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : pages

Download or read book JIMMIE HIGGINS written by UPTON SINCLAIR and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Slavonic Nations of Yesterday and Today

Download or read book Slavonic Nations of Yesterday and Today written by Milivoy Stoyan Stanoyevich and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Peasant Poets of Russia

Download or read book The Peasant Poets of Russia written by William Richard Morfill and published by . This book was released on 1880 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Wyeths

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  • Author : Newell Convers Wyeth
  • Publisher : Gambit Incorporated Publishers
  • Release : 1971
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 912 pages

Download or read book The Wyeths written by Newell Convers Wyeth and published by Gambit Incorporated Publishers. This book was released on 1971 with total page 912 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: N. C. Wyeth was one of America's greatest illustrators and the founder of a dynasty of artists that continues to enrich the American scene. This collection of letters, written from his eighteenth year to his tragic death at sixty-one, constitutes in effect his intimate autobiography, and traces and development and flowering of the "Wyeth tradition" over the course of several generations. -- Amazon.com.

Book The Poet as Mythmaker

Download or read book The Poet as Mythmaker written by George G. Grabowicz and published by Harvard Ukrainian. This book was released on 1982 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of Symbolic Meaning in Taras Sevcenko. By virtue of its method of symbolic analysis this book will be of value not only to Slavists, but to all who are interested in rigorous study of literary myth in its broader cultural context.

Book A History of Ukrainian Literature

Download or read book A History of Ukrainian Literature written by Dmitrij Tschižewskij and published by Libraries Unlimited. This book was released on 1997 with total page 864 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive study of Ukranian literature in English has been expanded to cover literature up to the present time. Cyzevs'kyj's original work, covering periods from prehistoric through to realism, has been slightly revised with additional material, beginning with the emergence of modernism.