"As a Father among Little Children": the Emerging Cult of Taras Shevchenko as a Factor of the Ukrainian Nation-building in Austrian Eastern Galicia in the 1860s
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2014
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Sereda, Ostap
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Abstract
This article explores the dynamic and main institutional forms of the emergence of the
cult of Taras Shevchenko in Austrian Eastern Galicia, and its influence on the shaping
of Ukrainian national identity in the province. If prior to the 1860s, Shevchenko’s works
were circulated in limited number of printed editions and manuscript copies among the
narrow circle of Galician Ruthenian activists, the decade after 1861 was marked by the
growth of public attention to Shevchenko’s poetry and personality. The wide exposure to
his texts (through both reading and listening) formed the public of Ukrainian national
activists. Since the late 1860s, Shevchenko’s cult began to be institutionalized through
the regular commemorative practices and school education.
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literary cults, Taras Shevchenko, national identity, reading, Eastern Galicia
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Sereda Ostap. "As a Father among Little Children" [electronic resource] : the Emerging Cult of Taras Shevchenko as a Factor of the Ukrainian Nation-building in Austrian Eastern Galicia in the 1860s Ostap Sereda // Kyiv-Mohyla Humanities Journal. - 2014. - No. 1. - P. 159–188.