Early XXIst Research Articles

ТРАНСФОРМАЦІЯ ОСНОВНИХ КОНЦЕПЦІЙПАМФЛЕТИСТИКИ МИКОЛИ ХВИЛЬОВОГО В УКРАЇНСЬКОМУ ПУБЛІЦИСТИЧНОМУ ДИСКУРСІ

The purposeof the article is to interpret the main determinants of the literary discussion of 1925–1928 years in the development of Ukrainian journalism during the XXth –early XXIst centuries.Research methodsthat enablethe implementation of the purpose and objectives: cultural-historical, comparative and hermeneutic, as well as the method of receptive aesthetics.Results and discussion. The article examines the ways of transformation of key provisions from the pamphletsof Mykola Khvylovyi in the journalistic activity of the scientist Yurii Sherekh, the writer Oksana Zabuzhko and the theater director Vlad Troiitskyi. Ideas such as “psychological Europe”, “Asian renaissance” and “romance of vitalism” are taken into account.It is proved that the concept of “psychological Europe” is significantly transformed in the works of Yurii Sherekh and Oksana Zabuzhko. Unlike Mykola Khvylovyi, the diaspora scholar notes the impossibility of such a value orientation, because provincialism as a central set of Ukrainians (according to Yurii Sherekh), in fact denies this possibility.It is noted that Oksana Zabuzhko, on the other hand, continues to develop this determinant in her essays, agreeing with the pamphleteer, but in modern coordinates it is necessary to focus on psychological America, not Europe. Thus, two interpretive views on this concept are traced and substantiated that is complete denial and rewriting of the idea.The comprehension of “Asian Renaissance” and the “romance of vitalism” determinants is interpreted through skepticism and the impossibility of these processes (Yurii Sherekh), through the addition of the concept –“Afro-Asian Renaissance” –to the unconscious support and relevance of the idea in modern Ukrainian processes.Conclusions.The study confirms the development and longevity of the concepts that are implemented in journalism, because chronologically the article covered materials written in different periods –from the first decades of the twentieth century tothe first decades of the twenty-first century.

Faut-il rééditer la prétendue Collectio ex dictis XII Patrum de Florus de Lyon ?

The twelve compilations on the Apostle that Florus of Lyon (floruit ca. 825-855) drew from twelve corpora one after the other (Cyprian, Hilarius, Ambrose, Pacian, Theophilus of Alexandria, Gregory of Nazianzus, Ephrem, Leo the Great, the canonical collections, Fulgentius, Paulinus of Nola, and Avitus of Vienna) provide an early indirect witness to around two hundred Late Antique and Early Medieval texts. These compilations were noticed as such by the middle of the xviith century, but edited only in the early xxist, in Corpus Christianorum, Continuatio Mediaevalis, 193, 193A, 193B. This study shows that that edition is not reliable for either its text or its commentary; and tries to highlight the elements of context and analysis which may help future editors of Florus’ sources to exploit his testimony.

ДІЯЛЬНОСТЬ БРИТАНСЬКОЇ РАДИ У КРАЇНАХ СХІДНОЇ ТА ЦЕНТРАЛЬНОЇ ЄВРОПИ НА ПОЧАТКУ ХХІ СТ.

The article analyses the activity of the British Council (BC) in East Europe, in particular that of education, science, fine arts and social sphere. The activity of the BC in Poland, Romania, Czech Republic, Slovakia and Hungary in the early XXIst has been outlined. These countries have been chosen for special analysis given their complicated process of transforming and adopting their respective institutions and social sphere towards the democratic standards within the framework of their joining NATO and the EU. A series of the BC’s successful projects in the spheres of culture and education have been investigated. Some serious issues blocking the further operational activity of the organization have been outlined. The activity of the BC has been presented as that exemplifying successful cultural diplomacy aimed to ameliorate the international image of the UK, as well as to spread its influence in the key regions of the globe and thus strengthen its international position. On the other hand, the activities taken by the BC to popularize the British standards of culture and education motivates the youth worldwide to enter British universities and to attend language courses both in the UK and abroad. A problematic issue of the BC’s activities is a certain mistrust of public thereto. Thus, the latter together with the British House of Commons have been criticizing the prices for services provided by the BC and therefore accusing it of giving special touch to the British Council. Due to the operational activities of the BC, the UK successfully partakes in resolving both regional European issues (i.e. migration issues, worldviews conflicts etc.) and those of global nature.