Cover -- Half Title Page -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations for Standard Editions -- Introduction -- 1 The Art of Feminist Compromise -- Early Life and Intellectual Influences -- Nataliia Kobryns'ka: Mentor or Rival? -- The Alternative Feminism of A Human Being -- Conclusion -- 2 New Woman, New Myth -- Ol'ha Kobylians'ka's Nietzsche -- The Princess: Philosophical Reflections in Artistic Form -- Conclusion -- 3 The Populist Trial -- Peasant Themes in Ol'ha Kobylians'ka's Early Fiction -- The Earth -- Conclusion -- 4 Hidden Modernism -- 1903 Autobiography: A Life Record or a Strategic Projection? -- The Thoughts of an Old Man -- Niobe -- Over the Bridge -- After Situations -- Conclusion -- 5 War and Fiction -- First Literary Responses, 1914-15 -- Fictionalized Accounts of Combat, 1915-1917 -- Post-war Revisions -- Conclusion -- 6 Between the Right and the Left -- Nietzsche, Christ, and Caesar: Traces of Pro-Fascist Philosophies and Aesthetics in Kobylians'ka's 1936 Zeitroman Apostle of the Rabble -- Conclusion -- Afterword -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index.

Bridging East and West explores the literary evolution of one of Ukraine's foremost modernist writers, Ol'ha Kobylians'ka, who was a major contributor in the intellectual debates of her time.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2022. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.