Harvard Summer School
UKRN S-102 2000
Fictional Ukraine
(Class meets Tuesdays and Thursdays 1:00 PM -- 3:30 PM in Sever Hall rm 208)
Reading Assignments
You must read the text assigned for each class and prepare a brief presentation
based on a selection from your reading. Your presentation should last no more than ten minutes and should
focus on the themes, ideas, or style of a specific passage. The object of your presentation is to show how a
particular passage affected you as a reader and how it relates to the text as a whole.
Some texts are available from the bookstore. Others are in xeroxes at the Ukrainian Research Institute.
The following texts are available at the Harvard COOP:
- Volodymyr Dibrova. Peltse and Pentameron. Tr. Halyna Hryn. Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 1996.
- From Three Worlds: New Writing From Ukraine. Ed. Ed Hogan. Boston: Zephyr Press, 1996.
- Two Lands, New Visions: Stories from Canada and Ukraine. Eds. Janice Kulyk Keefer and Solomea Pavlychko. Tr. Marko Carynnyk and Marta Horban. Regina, Sask.: Coteau Books, 1998.
- Yuri Andrukhovych. Recreations. Tr. Marko Pavlyshyn. Toronto: CIUS Press, 1998
The following texts (whihc are out of print) will be xeroxed and made available for purchase at the Ukrainian Research Institute:
- Valerian Pidmohylny. A Little Touch of Drama. Tr. George S. N. and Moira Luckyj. Littleton, CO: Ukrainian Academic Press, 1972.
- Andriy Holovko. The Weeds. Tr. Anatole Bilenko. Kyiv: Dnipro, 1976.
- Oles' Honchar. The Cathedral. Tr. Yuri Tkach and Leonid Rudnytzky. Philadelphia: St. Sophia Religious Association of Ukrainian Catholics, 1989.
- Valery Shevchuk. The Meek Shall Inherit…. Tr. Victoria Kholomogorova. Kyiv: Dnipro, 1989.
- Vladimir Yavorivsky [Volodymyr Iavorivsky]. Maria and Wormwood at the End of the Century. Tr. Tamara Zalite and Ivan Chulaki. Soviet Literature 2 (479), 1988.
The xerox of Valerian Pidmohylny's novel is available immediately. Students are expected to have read the first 60 pages in time for the first class meeting on Tuesday,
June 27, 2000. The remaining xeroxed texts will be ready later in the first week of class.
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| June | 27 | | Valerian Pidmohylny. A Little Touch of Drama. | pp. 1-60 |
| 29 | | Valerian Pidmohylny. A Little Touch of Drama. | pp. 61-191 |
| 4 | | Holiday. No class | |
| 6 | | Andriy Holovko. The Weeds. | pp. 7-207 |
| 11 | | Oles Honchar. The Cathedral. | pp. 15-154 |
| 13 | | Oles Honchar. The Cathedral. | pp. 154-301 |
| 18 | | Valery Shevchuk. The Meek Shall Inherit. | pp. 7-148 |
| 21 | | Valery Shevchuk. The Meek Shall Inherit. | pp. 149-303 |
| 25 | | Volodymyr Iavorivsky. Maria and Wormwood. | pp. 3-75 |
| 27 | | Volodymyr Iavorivsky. Maria and Wormwood. | pp. 75-137 |
| Aug | 1 | | Yuri Andrukhovych. Recreations. | pp. 13-132 |
| 3 | | From Three Worlds. | pp. 37-75; 89-136; 227-272 |
| 8 | | Volodymyr Dibrova. Peltse | pp. 1-44 |
| 11 | | Two Lands, New Visions. | pp. 3-161 |
