THE ANNALS OF THE UKRAINIAN ACADEMY OF ARTS AND SCIENCES IN THE U.S., INC. VOLUME XVI 1984-1985 NUMBER 41-42 STUDIES IN UKRAINIAN LITERATURE EDITED BY BOHDAN RUBCHAK STUDIES IN UKRAINIAN LITERATURE THE ANNALS OF THE UKRAINIAN ACADEMY OF ARTS AND SCIENCES IN THE U.S., INC. VOLUME XVI 1984-1985 NUMBER 41-42 STUDIES IN UKRAINIAN LITERATURE Edited by BOHDAN RUBCHAK Published by THE UKRAINIAN ACADEMY OF ARTS AND SCIENCES IN THE U.S., Inc. The Annals of the Ukrainian Academy of Arts and Sciences in the U. S. are published by the Ukrainian Academy of Arts and Sciences in the U. S., Inc. a d v i s o r y COMMITTEE: Oleksander Ohloblyn, Past President o f the Ukrain­ ian Academy of Arts and Sciences in the U. S.; John Fizer, Rutgers University; Omeljan Pritsak, Harvard University; John S. Reshetar, Jr., University o f Washington; Ihor Sevčenko, Harvard University. c o m m i t t e e o n publications : Yaroslav Bilinsky, Acting President of the Academy, University of Delaware; Lubov Drashevska; Oleh S. Fedy- shyn, Staten Island College CUNY; Jacob P. Hursky, Syracuse Univer­ sity; I. S. Koropeckyj, Temple University; William Omelchenko, Hunter College CUNY; George Y. Shevelov, Past President o f the Academy. v o l u m e e d i t o r : Bohdan Rubchak, University of Illinois at Chicago c o p y e d i t o r s : Carol R. Uhland and Marian Jean Rubchak All correspondence, orders, and remittances should be addressed to The Annals of the Ukrainian Academy of Arts and Sciences in the U. S., 206 West 100th Street, New York, New York 10025. Price of this volume: $35.00. Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 59-33060 All rights reserved. © 1986 The Ukrainian Academy of Arts and Sciences in the U.S. ISSN 0503-1001 Printed in U. S. A. by Computoprint Corporation 335 Clifton Avenue Clifton, New Jersey 07011 V olu m e XVI, 1984-1985 N u m b er 41-42 CONTENTS Contributors ................................................................................................. 11 Editor’s Foreword........................................................................................ 17 Part I An Enthusiast of the Ukrainian Revival: On Hryhorij Kostiuk’s Eightieth Birthday .................................................................................. 23 IWAN KOSZELIWEC Hryhorij Kostiuk: A Bibliography (1972-1985) .................................... 37 Part II Die Literatur des Kiever Höhlenklosters in der ostslavischen Kulturgeschichte ...................................................................................... 53 H an s R o t h e Gogol’s Revizor and the Ukrainian Dramatic Tradition ..................... 67 I r e n e M a k a r y k Images of Center and Periphery in the Poetry of Taras Sevčenko ... 81 Bo h d a n R u b c h a k Славьянскиі ріки: Sevčenko contra Puškin? .................................... 119 G e o r g e Y. S h ev elo v Sir Walter Scott and Pantelejmon Kulis .............................................. 135 R o m a n a Ba h r ij-P ik u ly k Byelorussian-Ukrainian Literary Relations before 1917 ................... 175 A r n o l d M c M il l in The Modality of Poetic Forms in Aleksander Potebnja’s Theory of Literature .......................................................................................... 191 J o h n F iz e r Futurist Polemics with Xvyl’ovyj during the Prolitfront Period ... 221 O l e h S. I l n y t z k y j Part III Volodymyr Vynnycenko’s Ideas in the Light of His Political Writings ................................................................................................... 251 Ivan L. R u d n y t sk y Vynnycenko’s Moral Laboratory ........................................................... 275 D a n y l o H u s a r St r u k Vynnycenko’s Philosophy of Happiness .............................................. 289 E u g e n e L a s h c h y k Predictions and Prognoses in Vynnycenko’s Sonjašna M ašyna ___ 327 W a l t e r S m y r n iw Utopia, Eutopia or Tutopia?................................................................... 341 L a r is s a M . L. Z a l e sk a O n y sh k e v y c h How to Save Your Marriage and Other Matters of Love: Vynnyčenko and Maugham .............................................................353 V a l e r ia n R ev u tsk y The Disinherited Dramatist: On the Reception of Vynnycenko’s Plays in Germany .................................................................................. 361 L e o n id R u d n y t z k y A Note on Emma Gramatica and Volodymyr Vynnyčenko .............377 D o m e n ic o A. D i M a r c o Part IV The Song o f Prince Igor: Russia s Great Medieval Epic. Translation, Introduction and Commentary by Robert Mann ... 385 W il l ia m E. H a r k in s Hryhorij Ja. Serhijenko. T. H. Ševčenko і Kyrylo-Mefodijivs’ke Tovarystvo............................................................................................... 386 G e o r g e S. N. L u c k y j Vybráni Lysty Pantelejmona Kulisa. Edited, with an Introduction, by Ju. Luc’kyj ........................................................................................ 390 Ivan K o s z e l iw e c Volodymyr Vynnyčenko. Ščodennyk, Volume I. Edited by Hryhorij Kostiuk .................................................................................. 392 L a r is s a M . L. Z a l e s k a O n y sh k e v y c h Hryhorij Kostiuk. Volodymyr Vynnyčenko ta joho doba .................398 Bo h d a n R u b c h a k Oksana Dray-Khmara Asher. Letters from the Gulag: The Life, Letters and Poetry of Michael Dray-Khmara..................................404 V. P a v lo v sk y Z hir karpats’kyx: Ukrajins’ki narodnipisni-balady ......................... 405 W il l ia m E. H a r k in s Part V Chronicle of the A cadem y........................................................................409 Compiled by W il l ia m O m e l c h e n k o Alexander Archimovych (O bituary).......................................................423 H r y h o r ij H a h a r y n Natalia Ossadcha-Janata (Obituary) .....................................................426 L ubov D r a s h e v s k a Stephen George Prociuk (O bituary).......................................................429 I. S. K o r o p e c k y j List of Periodicals in the Library of the Ukrainian Academy of Arts and Sciences in the U.S. (Part I) .......................................... 431 Compiled by W il l ia m O m e l c h e n k o and D im a K o m il e w s k a Contributors ROMANA BAHRIJ-PIKULYK is Assistant Professor of Ukrainian literature at York University in Toronto. She is the author of several articles on Pantelejmon Kuliš, including an introduction to G.S.N. and Myra Luckyj’s translation of Čorna rada (The Black Council, 1973), and on the literature of the 1920s. She has also done translations of imagina­ tive literature from Ukrainian into English. She is currently working on some contemporary dissident writers. DOMENICO A. DI MARCO is Associate Professor and Division Chairman of Italian at La Salle University in Philadelphia. He has also taught clas­ sical philology and history of art. Professor Di Marco is the author of monographs on Father Samuel Mazzuchelli and Alessandro Manzoni, and several articles on literature and the visual arts. LUBOV DRASHEVSKA, before her retirement, was Curator of geology and mineralogy at Paterson Museum in Paterson, New Jersey. She is the author of The Geology o f Paterson, N.J. (1976) and of numerous arti­ cles, in Ukrainian, on the cultural life of Ukrainians in the United States. She reports on the work of the Academy to the Ukrainian émi­ gré press. JOHN FIZER is Professor of Russian and literary theory at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey. He is the author of Psychologism and Psychoesthetics: A Historical and Critical View of Their Relations (1981) and numerous articles dealing with literary theory, aesthetics (especially the work of Roman Ingarden), as well as Ukrainian and Russian literatures. His monograph, Alexander Potebnja’s Psycholin- guistic Theory of Literature, is being reviewed for publication. HRYHORIJ HAHARYN received his education at the Moscow Academy of Agriculture, and held various positions in the area of agriculture in Ukraine. He is the author of ninety scientific works, written in four languages. WILLIAM E. HARKINS is Professor of Slavic languages at Columbia Univer­ sity. He is the author of The Russian Folk Epos in Czech Literature, Dictionary of Russian Literature and Karel Čapek, as well as numer­ ous scholarly articles on Russian and Czech literature. Professor Har­ kins has been a consultant for National Endowment for Humanities and President of the Masaryk Institute. DANYLO HUSAR STRUK is Professor of Ukrainian language and literature at the University of Toronto. His scholarly interest lies in contempo­ rary Ukrainian literature, with an emphasis on poetry. His publications include The Pain at the Heart o f Existence: A Study o f VasyV Stef any k 10 THE ANNALS OF THE UKRAINIAN ACADEMY (1973) and articles on contemporary Ukrainian poets—Cubaj, Kalynec’, Drač and Adijevs’ka. He is currently writing a monograph on Emma Andijevs’ka. Professor Struk is managing editor of Encyclopedia of Ukraine and director of “Encyclopedia Project,” Toronto Office. OLEH S. ILNYTZKYJ is Assistant Professor of Ukrainian literature at the University of Alberta in Edmonton. He has published articles on Mykola Bažan, Bohdan Ihor Antonyč and Myxajlo Semenko. Profes­ sor Ilnytzkyj is completing a book on Ukrainian Futurism. DIMA KOMILEWSKA is a widely published Ukrainian poet. I. S. KOROPECKYJ is Professor of economics at Temple University in Philadelphia. IWAN KOSZELIWEC is Adjunct Professor of Ukrainian literature at the Ukrainian Free University in Munich. He is better known as an inde­ pendent scholar and critic. He is the author of Panorama najnovišoji literatury v URSR (1963, rev. ed. 1974), Sučasna literatura v URSR (1964), Mykola Skrypnyk (1972), Oleksander Dovženko (1980) and, in Polish, Ukraina 1955-1968 (Paris: Kultura, 1968), along with numer­ ous articles, essays, and translations.