The All-Encompassing Eye of Ukraine: Ivan Nechui-Levyts'kyi's Realist Prose - Couverture rigide

Tarnawsky, Maxim

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ISBN 10 : 1442650087 ISBN 13 : 9781442650084

Editeur : University of Toronto Press, 2015

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

One of the most important realist novelists of nineteenth-century Ukraine, Ivan Nechui-Levyts'kyi was caricatured and then forgotten by a generation of literary modernists who rejected his aesthetic and ideological views. In The All-Encompassing Eye of Ukraine, Maxim Tarnawsky presents a thorough and much-needed reexamination of Nechui-Levyts'kyi and his work. A solitary, modest man whose chief interest was in promoting and defending a Ukrainian identity threatened by the cultural policies of the Russian Empire, Levyts'kyi's writing described Ukraine, its people, its culture, and the forces threatening it. A satirist who attacked modernism and cosmopolitanism, he wrote in a style marked by what Tarnawsky calls non-purposeful narration - slow-paced humour built on rhetorical finesse rather than on plot or character development. A vital reconsideration of a significant Ukrainian novelist written by the foremost expert on his work, The All-Encompassing Eye of Ukraine deepens and expands our understanding of Ukraine's nineteenth-century literature.

Biographie de l'auteur :

Maxim Tarnawsky is an associate professor in the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures at the University of Toronto.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: University of Toronto Press
• Date d'édition: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1442650087
• ISBN 13: 9781442650084
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 384