“PHILOLOGY SEMINAR” AND THE CREATIVITY OF TARAS SHEVCHENKO

Abstract

The “Philological Seminar” (originally called “Seminar of Russian Philology”) was a special training seminar in the curriculum for philology students at the University of Kyiv since 1904. Later in 1907, it became a course, which brought together students specializing in the study of history and theory of literature. In the 20 and 30s of the twentieth century, the seminar was canceled, and its participants were repressed. Taras Shevchenko’s work (due to the ideology of the Russian Empire that considered the poet as hostile) very slowly became the subject of research amongst “seminarians”. The proposed study deals with their first and later publications on the Shevchenko topic, but mainly on Shevchenko's motives in the reports at the seminar, which was revived in the mid-90s of the twentieth century. The author analyzes these motives from the standpoint of modern literary criticism, focusing on both “positive” views on the figure and work of Taras Shevchenko, and polemic moments in the perception and his interpretation as a poet and a person.

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