THE BOUNDARY OF UKRAINIAN RENAISSANCE LITERATURE

Olha Lisovska

doi:10.23856/4906

Abstract

The aim of this paper is to investigate the influence of European culture on the formation of Ukrainian literature of the 14th-16th centuries. It is emphasized that the paradigm of Ukrainian Renaissance literature is a synthesis of original native ideas and Western European culture. The specific of Ukrainian boundary is represented in the absence of Ukrainian state, confessional pluralism, multilingualism, syncretic character, the popularity of humanism, and anthropocentrism. The identification boundary identity as a key feature of the Ukrainian Renaissance literature is also based on geopolitical location of the country. Methods used in the study: general scientific method (synthesis and generalization), systematic functional, textual method, and systematic descriptive. The comparative-typological and philological methods are used for the analysis of works where the border identity is represented. It is also applied the principles of socio-cultural and historical-typological analysis. The determining factor in the work is the historical and literary approach, which is based on the synthesis of cultural theories and literary analysis.

Highlights

The Renaissance era in the history of European civilization, in particular literature, became transitional from Middle Ages to the Baroque
The Renaissance had its origin in Italy, from where innovative cultural-literary and spiritual-confessional traditions spread to Western and Central Europe, Czech Republic, Poland, Hungary, Transylvania, Dalmatia, and Northern Croatia
In the latest studies of Ukrainian historical and literary science, it is concluded that the Ukrainian Renaissance literature dates mainly to the 16th century, and it is developed in the context of European artistic trends, synthesizing the national heritage

Summary

Introduction

The Renaissance era in the history of European civilization, in particular literature, became transitional from Middle Ages to the Baroque. The first manifestations of proto-Renaissance ideas appeared in the second half of the 13th century in Italy. They spread to other states, staying dominated till the last quarter of the 16th – the beginning of the 17th centuries. At that time Ukraine was the part of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, scientists did not consider Ukrainian Renaissance as an original phenomenon for a long time. For this reason, the detailed analysis of the problem of independence and self-sufficiency of the Ukrainian literature is relevant. In the latest studies of Ukrainian historical and literary science, it is concluded that the Ukrainian Renaissance literature dates mainly to the 16th century, and it is developed in the context of European artistic trends, synthesizing the national heritage

Political influence on Ukrainian culture

Interference of literatures

Conclusions