The Return of Burlesque: Comic Forms in Contemporary Ukrainian Literature, 1985–2010

dc.contributor.authorSemkiv, Rostyslav
dc.date.accessioned2017-02-27T12:58:12Z
dc.date.available2017-02-27T12:58:12Z
dc.date.issued2015
dc.description.abstractBurlesque as a literary device can serve for satirical purpose, but its main function is revealed in the provocation of carnivalesque ambivalence. Unlike satire, where an author remains serious, carnival laughter captures everyone, including its provocateur. This is exuberant laughter that affirms the joyful fact of very human existence. The use of burlesque in Ukrainian literature does not refer to a certain epoch, but forms a continuous and powerful tradition. In the middle of the 1980s, with the liberalization of Ukrainian society, literature steadily turned away from a purely utilitarian role, and burlesque returned, as a device of free and unrepressed laughter. The "Bu- Ba-Bu" literary group, Yuri Vynnychuk, Les Poderviansky, Mukhailo Brynykh most actively elaborate burlesque in their writings, either in a carnival context, or as a device of satire. Thus, the burlesque tradition is quite visible and influential in contemporary Ukrainian literature.en_US
dc.identifier.citationSemkiv Rostyslav. The Return of Burlesque : Comic Forms in Contemporary Ukrainian Literature, 1985-2010 [electronic resource] / Rostyslav Semkiv // Kyiv-Mohyla Humanities Journal. - 2015. - No. 2. - P. 109-120.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://ekmair.ukma.edu.ua/handle/123456789/11037
dc.language.isoenuk_UA
dc.relation.sourceKyiv-Mohyla Humanities Journal. - 2015. - No. 2.en_US
dc.statuspublished earlieruk_UA
dc.subjectburlesqueen_US
dc.subjectcarnival laughteren_US
dc.subjectsatireen_US
dc.subjectcontemporary Ukrainian literatureen_US
dc.subjectarticleen_US
dc.titleThe Return of Burlesque: Comic Forms in Contemporary Ukrainian Literature, 1985–2010en_US
dc.typeArticleuk_UA
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