Andrii Danylenko is a well-known Slavists who edited and authored several books on Slavic linguistics and philology as well as dozens of studies on a wide array of topics ranging from Indo-European to literary Ukrainian. He is an editorial Board member of several publications and a reviewer for numerous publications and programs in North America, Europe, and Japan.

"There is no figure more important for the development and standardization of literary Ukrainian in the nineteenth century than Pantelejmon Kuliš. As an author, as a scholar, and as an activist, he worked tirelessly for the rejuvenation of Ukrainian culture and particularly its language. Among his most important contributions were his translations of the Bible and of Shakespeare’s plays. With painstaking diligence, exhaustive research, and uncompromising analysis, Andrii Danylenko examines the language of these translations at great depth and compares them to the efforts of other translators in similar genres. The result is a masterful study of Kuliš’s language and a major contribution to the history of the Ukrainian language."

• Acknowledgements AbbreviationsIntroduction: Writing a Linguistic Biography of a Ukrainian MaverickPart I: The BibleChapter 1: Exploring PsalmodyThe Book of PsalmsAlexandrine Verse or Trochaic Foot?Invoking Gavrila DeržavinChurch Slavonicisms“Kulišisms”Xarkiv Chimes InThe 1897 Poetic CrowningChapter 2: The Makings of the Rusian BibleA Pentateuch ProlusionGearing Up for New Challenges“Poison and Ruin for the Rusian People”“The Labor Pangs of a Unified Ukrainian Literary Language”Reception of the TranslationThe Sloboda BulwarkThe Archangel HavryloWho Else Bears a Grudge?The Creation of the New Biblical StyleMeans of ArchaizationMeans of VernacularizationChapter 3: Galicia “Writes Back”The West or the East?Fostering “Rusian Church Vernacular”Any Palliative Solution?Lost in DiacriticsTo “Secularize” or “Synthesize”?Chapter 4: Here Comes the Bible!The Holy Writ Doesn’t BurnTobit and JobAt the Crossroads of Poetry and ProseIvan Nečuj-Levyc´kyj Takes It PersonallyThe Pranks of Ivan FrankoIvan Puljuj Makes His RiposteHow Should It Sound?How to String Words?How to Choose Words?How to Spell Words?Ivan Nečuj-Levyc´kyj Is Shuffled BackstageInterpreting Hebrew PoetryThe Book of JobLamentationsThe Song of SongsThe Versified BibleSummaryPart II: ShakespeareChapter 5: “Oh, Shakespeare, Our Father, Native to All Peoples”Ethics Avant la Lettre!Bringing Forth the “Ukrainian Shakespeare”The First (Over)ReactionThe Language of the “Ukrainian Shakespeare”On the Threshold of a New Secular High StyleChapter 6: Expanding the Literary Canon of the “Ukrainian Shakespeare”The First Step Is the Hardest?“Huculia Did Not Appear; Rather Shakespeare Was Merely Hidden”Hamlet or Hamljet? That Is the QuestionHamlet in Peasant Leather ShoesThe Younger Generation Steps to the Fore“We Are All Peasants Today”One or Multiple Homesteads?Conclusion: Detours Offered But Never TakenBibliographyIndicesGeographical and Personal NamesSubjects and Titles of Literary Works and TranslationsWord-forms

Andrii Danylenko is a well-known Slavists who edited and authored several books on Slavic linguistics and philology as well as dozens of studies on a wide array of topics ranging from Indo-European to literary Ukrainian. He is an editorial Board member of several publications and a reviewer for numerous publications and programs in North America, Europe, and Japan.

"There is no figure more important for the development and standardization of literary Ukrainian in the nineteenth century than Pantelejmon Kuliš. As an author, as a scholar, and as an activist, he worked tirelessly for the rejuvenation of Ukrainian culture and particularly its language. Among his most important contributions were his translations of the Bible and of Shakespeare’s plays. With painstaking diligence, exhaustive research, and uncompromising analysis, Andrii Danylenko examines the language of these translations at great depth and compares them to the efforts of other translators in similar genres. The result is a masterful study of Kuliš’s language and a major contribution to the history of the Ukrainian language."

• Acknowledgements AbbreviationsIntroduction: Writing a Linguistic Biography of a Ukrainian MaverickPart I: The BibleChapter 1: Exploring PsalmodyThe Book of PsalmsAlexandrine Verse or Trochaic Foot?Invoking Gavrila DeržavinChurch Slavonicisms“Kulišisms”Xarkiv Chimes InThe 1897 Poetic CrowningChapter 2: The Makings of the Rusian BibleA Pentateuch ProlusionGearing Up for New Challenges“Poison and Ruin for the Rusian People”“The Labor Pangs of a Unified Ukrainian Literary Language”Reception of the TranslationThe Sloboda BulwarkThe Archangel HavryloWho Else Bears a Grudge?The Creation of the New Biblical StyleMeans of ArchaizationMeans of VernacularizationChapter 3: Galicia “Writes Back”The West or the East?Fostering “Rusian Church Vernacular”Any Palliative Solution?Lost in DiacriticsTo “Secularize” or “Synthesize”?Chapter 4: Here Comes the Bible!The Holy Writ Doesn’t BurnTobit and JobAt the Crossroads of Poetry and ProseIvan Nečuj-Levyc´kyj Takes It PersonallyThe Pranks of Ivan FrankoIvan Puljuj Makes His RiposteHow Should It Sound?How to String Words?How to Choose Words?How to Spell Words?Ivan Nečuj-Levyc´kyj Is Shuffled BackstageInterpreting Hebrew PoetryThe Book of JobLamentationsThe Song of SongsThe Versified BibleSummaryPart II: ShakespeareChapter 5: “Oh, Shakespeare, Our Father, Native to All Peoples”Ethics Avant la Lettre!Bringing Forth the “Ukrainian Shakespeare”The First (Over)ReactionThe Language of the “Ukrainian Shakespeare”On the Threshold of a New Secular High StyleChapter 6: Expanding the Literary Canon of the “Ukrainian Shakespeare”The First Step Is the Hardest?“Huculia Did Not Appear; Rather Shakespeare Was Merely Hidden”Hamlet or Hamljet? That Is the QuestionHamlet in Peasant Leather ShoesThe Younger Generation Steps to the Fore“We Are All Peasants Today”One or Multiple Homesteads?Conclusion: Detours Offered But Never TakenBibliographyIndicesGeographical and Personal NamesSubjects and Titles of Literary Works and TranslationsWord-forms