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. Encompassing literary studies, history, linguistics, and art history, the essays in this volume illuminate the interethnic, interlingual, intercultural, and international relationships that Ukraine has participated in. The volume is divided chronologically into three parts: the early modern era, the 19th and 20th century, and the Soviet/post-Soviet period. Ukraine in Europe offers new and innovative interpretations of historical and cultural moments while establishing a historical perspective for the pro-European sentiments that have arisen in Ukraine following the Euromaidan protests.
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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.
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Introduction Prologue Part 1: Ukraine in the Common Cultural Space of the European Baroque Part II: Recovering Europe: Ukraine’s Romanticisms and Modernisms Part III: Ukrainian Visions of Europe From Imperial to Post-Soviet Times Epilogue
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"There is an intensity and richness to this superb collection of articles on Ukrainian engagement with Europe that make it one of the most important volumes on the cultural history of Ukraine to appear in a long time. The relevance of the subject and the high quality of the contributions make this book a must read for anyone interested in the Ukrainian past, present, and future."
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ISBN
9781487500900
Publisert
2017-12-12
Utgiver
Vendor
University of Toronto Press
Vekt
890 gr
Høyde
236 mm
Bredde
160 mm
Dybde
36 mm
Aldersnivå
U, P, 05, 06
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Engelsk
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Product format
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Biographical note

Giovanna Brogi Bercoff is the President of the Italian Association of Ukrainian Studies. Marko Pavlyshyn is a professor of Ukrainian Studies in the School of Languages, Literatures, Cultures, and Linguistics at Monash University. Serhii Plokhy is the Mykhailo Hrushevsky Professor of Ukrainian History at Harvard University.