Greek Content in the Work of Hryhorii Skovoroda: Intertextual Dimensions or Artistic Bilingualism of the Author?
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2022
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Snigovska, Oksana
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Abstract
The purpose of the article is to raise a question on reasons for the availability of Greek content
in the work of the great Ukrainian thinker Hryhorii Skovoroda and on the functions of bi-/
multilingualism of his texts. The relevance of the study is based on the contradiction between
the objective need to reveal the phenomenon of artistic bilingualism and the features of his
polycode text caused by verbal and cogitative activity of his creative bilingual personality. The
author of the article concludes that the emergence of texts of bi-/polylingual personalities is
preceded by a change in their worldview and the formation of a new culture and language
space. Thus, the implementation of the linguistic and worldview approaches of Hryhorii
Skovoroda is based on the old Ukrainian literary and written tradition of the late 16th–18th
centuries, guarded within the walls of the Kyiv-Mohyla Academy. Exploring the artistic models
of the writer’s world, the researcher focuses on the defi nition of intertextual connections, in
particular on the fact of intertextuality. In the article the phenomenon of bilingualism is
discussed contextually and correlates with the problem of intercultural contacts and infl uences.
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Greek language, Hellenization of Christianity, intertextuality, polylingualism, polycodeness, article
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Snigovska O. Greek Content in the Work of Hryhorii Skovoroda: Intertextual Dimensions or Artistic Bilingualism of the Author? / Oksana Snigovska // Kyiv-Mohyla Humanities Journal. - 2022. - № 9. - P. 83-104. - https://doi.org/10.18523/kmhj270837.2022-9.83-104