Ukraine and Europe : Cultural Encounters and Negotiations.
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Cover -- Contents -- Note on Transliteration -- Introduction: Cultural Encounters and Negotiations -- Prologue. Ukrainian Literature and Europe: Aporias, Asymmetries, and Discourses -- Part One: Ukraine in the Common Cultural Space of the European Baroque -- Plurilinguism and Identity: Rethinking Ukrainian Literature of the Seventeenth Century -- The Image of the Intercession of the Mother of God in Ukraine: East versus West -- "Europe" in Seventeenth- and Early Eighteenth-Century Ukrainian Texts: Between Geography and Ambivalent Judgments -- Too Close to "the West"? The Ruthenian Language of the Instruction of 1609 -- Ukraine and the General Crisis of the Seventeenth Century: The Khmel'nyts'kyi Uprising among the Early Modern "Revolutions" -- Catherine of Alexandria's Crown of Golden Liberty -- The Wisdom of Virtue: Iosyp Turobois'kyi's Praise of Ioasaf Krokovs'kyi -- Part Two: Recovering Europe: Ukraine's Romanticisms and Modernisms -- Ukrainian Prose from the 1800s to the 1860s: In Quest of a European Modernity -- A Ticket to Europe: Collections of Ukrainian Folk Songs and Their Russian Reviewers, 1820s-1830s -- Discovering "Little Russia": Victor Tissot and Ukraine's Image in the West in the 1880s -- Traditional or Modern, Nativist or Foreign, Ukrainian or European: The Roots of Ivan Nechui-Levyts'kyi's Antimodernism -- Rewriting Johann Wolfgang Goethe in the Poetry of Western Ukrainian Modernism -- Ivan Franko in Vienna: Towards Conflicting Concepts of Modernity -- Part Three: Ukrainian Visions of Europe from Imperial to Post-Soviet Times -- Institutionalizing "Europe": Imperial High Culture and the Ukrainian Intelligentsia from Gogol' to Khvyl'ovyi -- The Train to Europe: Berlin as a Topos of Modernity in Ukrainian Literature of the 1920s -- Between Cultural Memory and Trauma: An Interpretation of Mykola Khvyl'ovyi's "My Being". Literaturnyi iarmarok: Mediation between Nativist Tradition and Western Culture -- The Poetry of the Sixtiers and Europe: Between Culture and Politics -- Waiting for Europe: Public Intellectuals' Visions and Political Reality on the Eve of the Euromaidan -- Epilogue. The EuroRevolution: Ukraine and the New Map of Europe -- Index -- Colour plates.
Ukraine and Europe challenges the popular perception of Ukraine as a country torn between Europe and the east. Twenty-two scholars from Europe, North America, and Australia explore the complexities of Ukraine's relationship with Europe and its role the continent's historical and cultural development.