The Poet as Mythmaker: A Study of Symbolic Meaning in Taras Sevčenko

by George G. Grabowicz

Taras Sevcenko (1814-1861) is the central figure in modern Ukrainian literature, but despite the enormous attention that has been devoted to his person, his work, and his role in Ukrainian history and the Ukrainian national renascence, the core of the Sevcenko phenomenon--the symbolic nature of his poetry--has received little systematic analysis. As this book argues, myth serves as the underlying code and model of Sevcenko's poetic universe. Examining...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674678524
• ISBN13: 9780674678521
• Release Date: August 1982
• Publisher: Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute
• Length: 186 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.3" x 9.3"