Alessandro Achilli is Lecturer in Ukrainian Studies at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia. His main research interests are in the field of modern and contemporary Ukrainian literature, with particular attention to poetry. He is the author of a monograph on Vasyl' Stus (Florence 2018). Dmytro Yesypenko is a researcher at the Taras Shevchenko Institute of Literature of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. The area of his specialization and interests includes issues of textual scholarship and scholarly editing (digital editing as well), book history, and the Ukrainian literary process of the nineteenth – early twentieth centuries. Serhy Yekelchyk is Professor of Slavic Studies and History at the University of Victoria and current president of the Canadian Association for Ukrainian Studies. He is the author of seven books on Ukrainian history and culture with a special focus on identity construction during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

“Thanks to the efforts of the volume’s three editors … we all are fortunate enough to have this superb collection covering a truly wide range of topics and interests in the fields of Ukraine-related literary studies, history, and, generally speaking, the humanities. In addition to being a special gift for the honoree, these essays demonstrate rather compellingly what happens in the field of Ukrainian studies now. … Owing to the determined efforts of the editors, this volume will be specifically beneficial for any academic institutions, research institutions, or universities that have interests in Eastern Europe and, specifically, in Ukraine.”—Ostap Kin, Kyiv-Mohyla Humanities Journal

• AcknowledgementsSponsorsTabula GratulatoriaPrefaceI. Іван ДзюбаII. Alessandro Achilli1. Language Consciousness in Sixteenth to Seventeenth-Century Ukraine and Poland—Some Considerations —Giovanna Brogi2. Дискурс описів одержимості в українській міракулістиці сімнадцятого–вісімнадцятого століть (між традицією, освіченістю і новою політикою Церкви —Наталя Яковенко3. The Garden of Skovoroda: Manifesto of a Christian Epicurean —Natalia Pylypiuk4. Kleist's On the Marionette Theatre and the Poetics of the Unrepresentable in Penthesilea —Slobodanka Vladiv-Glover 5. Revisiting Kotliarevs'kyi: Familiar Aporias, Strategic Misdirection, and a Soupçon of Cathexis —George G. Grabowicz6. Недрукована рецензія Пантелеймона Куліша 1843 року —Олесь Федорук7. Від «української мирянської казки» до української російськомовної класики: «Сорок літ» і «Сорок лет» Миколи Костомарова —Дмитро Єсипенко8. P. I. Iurkevich's Gaidamak Garkusha, Wherein the Little Russian Bandit Takes His Final Bow (But Is It Good for the Jews?) —Roman Koropeckyj9. Шевченкове перебування на Пріорці у Києві 1859 року: факт наукової біографії чи легенда? —Олександр Боронь10. Проблематика волі: Три «реакційні» віршові твори Тараса Шевченка —Микола Бондар11. The Communicative Role of Metaphors of Silence in Taras Shevchenko's Poetry —Mariya Zubrytska12. Шевченко з перспективи Михайла Драгоманова —Роксана Харчук13. The "Little Russian Triad" and the Formation of Literary Ukrainian in the Nineteenth Century —Andrii Danylenko14. The Standardization of Modern Ukrainian—Some General Considerations —Michael Moser15. Parallel Forms in the Ukrainian Verb: Prosodic Variance (Twentieth to Twenty-First-Century —Jonathan E. M. Clarke16. The Translator In-Between. Ukrainian Translations of Nikolai Gogol's Taras Bulba (1835, 1942) —Yuliya Ilchuk17. Ромео і Джульєтта українською: колізії засвоєння —Елеонора Соловей 18. Socialist Itineraries in a "Nationalist" City: the First of May in Austrian Lviv —Andriy Zayarnyuk19. Galician Sex: Ivan Franko and Leopold von Sacher-Masoch —Maxim Tarnawsky20. Attitudes Passionnelles. The Blue Rose (Блакитна Троянда)—The First Play by Lesia UkraїnkaIwona Boruszkowska21. Out of the Carpathians, Across the Sea: Displacement and Identity Crisis in the Works of Vasyl' Stefanyk and Joseph Conrad —Vitaly Chernetsky22. Науковий доробок Богдана Лепкого та становлення літературного канону —Ярослав Поліщук23. Other Voices—Protest against War and Violence in Polish and Ukrainian Poetry on World War I —Alois Woldan24. Between Two Powers: Nationalist vs. Bolshevik in Volodymyr Vynnychenko's Works about the Ukrainian Revolution —Valentyna Kharkhun25. How Ukrainian Futurist Viewed Italian Futurism —Oleh S. Ilnytzkyj26. On the Other Side: Dina Lipkis, Yiddish poet of 1920s Kyiv —Hinde Ena Burstin27. The Construction of "Historical Truth" in Oleksandr Korniichuk's The Destruction of the Squadron —Serhy Yekelchyk28. Поліморфізм «Доктора Серафікуса» В. Домонтовича в контексті постмодерної епохиТамара Гундорова29. Towards a Literary History: The Ukrainian Australian Literary Field Sonia Mycak30. Shades of Dissent: Manifestations of Resistance within the Ukrainian Literary Milieu of the 1960s and Its Post-Independence Implications —Maria G. Rewakowicz31. Sukhomlinsky's German Connections: The Publication of My Heart I Give to Children in Berlin in 1968 —Alan Cockerill32. Ivan L. Rudnytsky and His Visit to the Soviet Union (1970) —Yaroslav Hrytsak33. Contact Zone vs. Postcolonial Condition. On the Relevance of a Concept from Latin American Studies for Research on Ukraine —Ulrich Schmid34. Гумор та сатира в українській літературі дев'ятнадцятого–двадцятого століть: Спроба постколоніального прочитання —Ростислав Семків35. Постмодерний канон української літератури в полоні посттоталітарних аберацій —Оксана Пахльовська36. Towards a New Postcolonial Ukrainian Literature: Ievheniia Kononenko's A Russian Story —Alessandro Achilli37. Mined Words: An Un-Imaginable Reality and the Search for a New Language in the Poetry of Maidan —Olena Haleta38. Towards a Postcolonial Ethics: Rewriting Ukraine in the "Enemy's Language" —Marco Puleri39. Росіяни і російськомовні у Львові: сусіди, витіснені з поля зору —Катажина Котинська40. Від дітей розпачу до cновид війни: кілька думок з приводу культурних передумов війни в Україні —Роман Дубасевич41. Defining the Main Push-and-Pull factors of Ukrainian Highly Skilled (IT) Migration to Berlin: the EU Blue Card or the Euromaidan —Olha Shmihelska 42. Integrating into a (Pseudo-)Europe: Ukrainian Churches and the Perils of the European Choice —Denys Shestopalets 43. The Past and Future of Ukraine's Europeanization: Tracing Images of the EU as a Normative Actor and Influence in Post-Maidan Ukraine —Natalia Chaban and Iana Sabatovych 44. Language Politics, Minority Rights, and International Relations: the Curious Case of the 2017 Ukrainian Education Law —Volodymyr Kulyk 45. The Russian Question: Understanding the Russo-Ukrainian Entanglement —Serhii Plokhii