Вип. 68. Культурологія
Permanent URI for this collection
Browse
Browsing Вип. 68. Культурологія by Subject "classicism"
Now showing 1 - 1 of 1
Results Per Page
Sort Options
Item Ukrainian Patriotic Narrative in the XVIII Century: Transition from Ukrainian Baroque to Russian Classicism(2017) Danchenko, MariyaThis article explores the issue of perception of Ukraine and Russia in Ukrainian polemical discourse in the 18th century. The problem itself concerns interpretation of Russia as a new sovereign by Ukrainian educated military elite. The author of the poem analyzed here is Semen Divovych (circa 1730 – after 1764), a chief translator of Cossack Hetman Chancellery, and he was an eye-witness of the political perturbations he depicted in his poem. His poem “A Discourse Between Great And Small Russia” is remarkable in view of the chronological period it belongs to. In the 1760s, Baroque style in literature was majorly replaced with classicism even in Central and Eastern European literatures; yet Divovych’s poem represents one of the latest examples of Ukrainian literary Baroque due to the author’s Kyiv-Mohyla educational background. Thus, this poem makes a transitional bridge between Baroque and Classicist tendencies of representation of state-suzerain. Our piece of research proceeds further with highlighting the next stylistic and ideological phase of construction of Ukraine-Russia relations represented by the poem of Vasyl Kapnist (1758–1803). Vasyl Kapnist belongs to Divovych’s junior contemporaries, and his poem “Ode on Slavery” is already written in pure Classicist style and implies harsh criticism of Russian imperial strategy on enslaving Ukrainian Cossack land.