Expressionist Narrative of War (Vasyl Stefanyk’s Novellas in the Western European Context)

This article shows how the influence of Western European expressionism on Ukrainian art contributed to the formation of its national version in the works of Vasyl Stefanyk. The research applied comparative, biographical methods and method of close reading. The outcome of this detailed analysis demo...

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spelling oai:doaj.org-article:ade6545a0bd34a2b97ed529e97a65cb52021-12-02T09:30:53ZExpressionist Narrative of War (Vasyl Stefanyk’s Novellas in the Western European Context)10.15388/Verb.232029-62232538-8746https://doaj.org/article/ade6545a0bd34a2b97ed529e97a65cb52021-12-01T00:00:00Zhttps://www.journals.vu.lt/verbum/article/view/25141https://doaj.org/toc/2029-6223https://doaj.org/toc/2538-8746 This article shows how the influence of Western European expressionism on Ukrainian art contributed to the formation of its national version in the works of Vasyl Stefanyk. The research applied comparative, biographical methods and method of close reading. The outcome of this detailed analysis demonstrates that the common features of Stefanyk’s antimilitary novels and Western European Expressionists are similar and feature such themes as the crisis of cultural values, anti-military issues, condemnation of murder, states of existential anxiety, tragedy of human existence and eschatological feeling. Furthermore, Expressionists and Stefanyk focus on the psychophysical states of characters ‒ death, madness, injury, numbness, screaming, fear, panic, despair, agony, anxiety, prayer. Alla ShvetsVilnius University PressarticleexpressionismpoeticsnarrativeantimilitarismdeatharchetypeLanguage. Linguistic theory. Comparative grammarP101-410DEENFRVerbum, Vol 12 (2021)
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topic expressionism
poetics
narrative
antimilitarism
death
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Language. Linguistic theory. Comparative grammar
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poetics
narrative
antimilitarism
death
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Language. Linguistic theory. Comparative grammar
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Alla Shvets
Expressionist Narrative of War (Vasyl Stefanyk’s Novellas in the Western European Context)
description This article shows how the influence of Western European expressionism on Ukrainian art contributed to the formation of its national version in the works of Vasyl Stefanyk. The research applied comparative, biographical methods and method of close reading. The outcome of this detailed analysis demonstrates that the common features of Stefanyk’s antimilitary novels and Western European Expressionists are similar and feature such themes as the crisis of cultural values, anti-military issues, condemnation of murder, states of existential anxiety, tragedy of human existence and eschatological feeling. Furthermore, Expressionists and Stefanyk focus on the psychophysical states of characters ‒ death, madness, injury, numbness, screaming, fear, panic, despair, agony, anxiety, prayer.
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title Expressionist Narrative of War (Vasyl Stefanyk’s Novellas in the Western European Context)
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