Executing a Renaissance

Erscheinungsjahr 2024
ISBN: 978-3-8382-1741-3
Verlag: ibidem-Verlag

Buch, Englisch, 184 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 148 mm x 210 mm, Gewicht: 246 g

Reihe: Ukrainian Voices

Whoever may have expected that Ukraine’s “Executed Renaissance”—i.e. the annihilation of the most creative, innovative and productive poets, thinkers, and artists in the 1920ies and 1930ies—may gloomily, but finally have receded to a distant past and remains a highly stimulating and controversial topic only for specialists in the fields of Ukrainian poetry, literature, and philosophy, will have experienced a distinct reminder that history is not finished. The “Executed Renaissance” is not even past in an independent Ukraine fighting for its liberty and cultural survival against genocidal imperialist aggression.

as the title of this collection responds both to the poets, thinkers, and scholars who are again persecuted and executed by the Russian soldateska. It is also an attempt at existential optimism against all odds, made possible by the courage and determination of the Ukrainian people. It insists on the monumental fact of the matter that Ukrainian intellectuals and artists are in the process of executing cultural and linguistic Renaissances in the grimmest of circumstances.

With contributions by Olga Bertelsen, Polly Corrigan, Victoria Malko, Josef Wallmannsberger, and Mykola Zerov.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Wallmannsberger, Josef

Bertelsen, Olga

Corrigan, Polly

Malko, Victoria A.

Zerov, Mykola Kostjantynovyc

Weitere Mitwirkende

Umland, Andreas

Bertelsen, Olga

Corrigan, Polly

Malko, Victoria

Zerov, Mykola

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Slawische Literaturen Ostslawische Literatur

Über Autor(innen)

Wallmannsberger, Josef
Dr. Josef Wallmannsberger is Professor of Computational Linguistics at the University of Kassel. A native Austrian, he was educated in Classics, Linguistics, and Philosophy at the universities of Innsbruck, Salzburg, Konstanz, and Stanford, and taught at the universities of Leicester, Innsbruck, and Siegen. He was inducted to the highly arcane order of aficionados of Ukrainian neoclassicist literature during conversations with Polish and Ukrainian scholars in the basement cafeteria at Humboldt Univesity, East Berlin. Both the city and the scholar have fittingly opted to continue their existence in parallel imaginaries ever open for semiotic walkabouts. Relevant publications in this context include Kritische Apparate (Semiotica 2002), and Heteroglossaries: Philological Inventions of Ukraine (Innsbruck UP 2023).

Umland, Andreas
Andreas Umland, M.Phil. (Oxford), Dr.Phil. (FU Berlin), Ph.D. (Cambridge), Research Fellow at the Swedish Institute of International Affairs in Stockholm, Senior Expert at the Ukrainian Institute for the Future in Kyiv, and Associate Professor at the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy.

Dr. Josef Wallmannsberger is Professor of Computational Linguistics at the University of Kassel. A native Austrian, he was educated in Classics, Linguistics, and Philosophy at the universities of Innsbruck, Salzburg, Konstanz, and Stanford, and taught at the universities of Leicester, Innsbruck, and Siegen. He was inducted to the highly arcane order of aficionados of Ukrainian neoclassicist literature during conversations with Polish and Ukrainian scholars in the basement cafeteria at Humboldt Univesity, East Berlin. Both the city and the scholar have fittingly opted to continue their existence in parallel imaginaries ever open for semiotic walkabouts. Relevant publications in this context include (Semiotica 2002), and (Innsbruck UP 2023).