Taras Shevchenko’s Ballade “Why do you come to the grave?” and it’s Ideological and Aesthetic Reception by Jurij Fed’kovych

Authors

  • Lidija Kovalets Yuriy Fedkovych Chernivtsi National University, Ukraine

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.31861/pytlit2014.90.007

Keywords:

Shevchenko, Fed’kovych, “Why do you come to the grave?”, reception, text, stylization, folk poetic tradition, correlation, romantic

Abstract

In the article T. Shevchenko’s ballade “Why do you come to the grave?” (from cycle “In casemate”) has been studied in the aspects of its ideological, thematic, imagery and artistic originality, and as an object of Fed’kovych’s purely individual productive reception, that took place in the mid 1860`s. Set of subjective and objective factors that contributed to it was found; creative and psychological conditions of that event, the previous writer’s achievements in the field of poetry, based on close relations with folklore and mainly German-speaking romantic literature were outlined. Specific Fed’kovych works, romantic too, were considered at the level of detection in it Shevchenko’s work stylization, motive studying, reminiscences ,figurative analogies etc. After all, each of that art dimensions remained sufficiently original, uniquely individual, that demonstrated their author’s high creative ability.

Author Biography

Lidija Kovalets, Yuriy Fedkovych Chernivtsi National University

The chair of Ukrainian literature

Yuriy Fedkovych Chernivtsi National University

M. Kotsiubyns’kyj Str., 2, 58002, Chernivtsi, Ukraine

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Published

2014-12-22

How to Cite

Kovalets, L. “Taras Shevchenko’s Ballade ‘Why Do You Come to the grave?’ and it’s Ideological and Aesthetic Reception by Jurij Fed’kovych”. Pitannâ lìteraturoznavstva, no. 90, Dec. 2014, pp. 7-22, doi:10.31861/pytlit2014.90.007.

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