Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures

Slavic 218Y, Ukrainian Literature and Culture, 2013–2014

Class meets Tuesdays 2:00–4:00 PM in Alunmni Hall Rm 206

Reading List. Fall Semester

Required Reading

Only a few of the required readings in this course need to be acquired, either from the bookstore or from the library. The rest, the bulk of the readings, is available on the internet.

• At the University of Toronto Bookroom:
  • The Complete Tales of Nikolai Gogol. Ed. Leonard J. Kent. 2 vols. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1985. Vol. 1 (we read only two stories: "The Fair at Sorochintsi" and "A Terrible Vengeance.". Any edition or translation of these two stories is sufficient).
• Packet of readings for SLA218. Part One. Readings available on the internet:
  • "Literature" Ukraine: A Concise Encyclopedia. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1963; rpt 1970. pp. 960–1097.
    (This is the essential textbook for the course, a concise history of Ukrainian literature.)
  • excerpts from the PVL
  • Ilarion. "Sermon on Law and Grace."
  • excerpts from the Pateryk of the Kyivan Caves Monastery
  • "The Tale of Ihor"
  • Lev Krevza. A Defense of Church Unity. Excerpts.
  • Zaxariia Kopystenskyi. Palinodia. Excerpts.
  • Hryhorii Skovoroda. "A Conversation Among Five Travellers."
  • Baroque Poetry and Drama.
  • Ivan Kotliarevsky. Eneida. Excerpts.
  • Hryhorii Kvitka-Osnovianenko. Marusia
  • Mykola Kostomarov Books of Genesis
  • Marko Vovchok. The Cossack Girl
  • Nechui-Levytskyi. Mykola Dzheria
  • Taras Shevchenko. Selections.
  • Panteleimon Kulish. The Black Council
  • I. Ševčenko. "The Christianization of Kyivan Rus'."
  • I. Ševčenko. "The Many Worlds of Peter Mohyla."
  • Ivan Franko. Boa Constrictor

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  Recommended Additional Reading:

  • The Ukrainian Poets, 1189-1962. Tr. C. H. Andrusyshen and Watson Kirkconnell. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1963.
  • A History of Ukrainian Literature. Dmytro Chyzhevs'kyj. Second edition. Littleton, CO: Ukrainian Academic Press, 1997.
  • Toward a History of Ukrainian Literature. George Grabowicz. Cambridge, MA: Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute, 1981.
  • Medieval Russia's Epics, Chronicles, and Tales. Ed. Serge Zenkovsky. New York: Dutton, 1977.
  • Ukraine between East and West. Ihor Ševčenko. Toronto-Edmonton: CIUS Press, 1996.
  • Taras Shevchenko. Song Out of Darkness. Tr. Vera Rich. London: Mitre Press, 1961.
  • The Poetical Works of Taras Shevchenko: The Kobzar. Tr. C. H. Andrusyshen and Watson Kirkconnell. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1964; rpt. 1977.
  • Pavlo Zaitsev. Taras Shevchenko. Trans. George S. N. Luckyj. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1988.
  • Shevchenko and the Critics, 1861-1980. Ed. George S. N. Luckyj. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1980.
  • George G. Grabowicz. The Poet as Mythmaker: A Study of Symbolic Meaning in Taras Shevchenko. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute, 1982.
  • George S. N. Luckyj. Between Gogol' and Shevchenko. Munich: Wilhelm Fink Verlag, 1971.
  • George S. N. Luckyj. Literary Politics in the Soviet Ukraine 1917-1934. New York: Columbia University, 1956; rpt. Freeport, New York: Books for Libraries, 1971.
  • George S. N. Luckyj. Panteleimon Kulish: A Sketch of His Life and Times. Boulder, Colorado: East European Monographs, 1983.
  • Orest Subtelny. Ukraine: A History. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1988.
  • Paul R. Magocsi. A History of Ukraine. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1996.
  • George Luckyj. Shevchenko's Unforgotten Journey. Toronto: Canadian Scholars' Press, 1996.
  • Towards an Intellectual History of Ukraine: An Anthology of Ukrainian Thought from 1710 to 1993. Edited by Ralph Lindheim and George S. N. Luckyj. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1996.
  • The Spirit of the Times: Selected Prose Fiction by Olena Pchilka and Nataliya Kobrynska. Trans. Roma Franko. Saskatoon: Language Lanterns Publications, 1998.
  • In the Dark of the Night: Selected Prose Fiction by Dniprova Chayka and Lyubov Yanovska. Trans. Roma Franko. Saskatoon, Saskatchewan: Language Lanterns Publications, 1998