- •1. Definition of culture and main approaches in its comprehension
- •2. Correlation between the world culture, ethnoculture, and national culture
- •3. Early forms of religious experience: animism, fetishism, totemism.
- •4. Cucuteni-Trypillian culture: main characteristics
- •7. Functions of culture
- •8. Scythian culture
- •9. Sarmathian culture
- •11 The idea of national culture
- •12 Sources of Ukrainian culture
- •13. Parts of Ukrainian culture
- •14. The differences between Ukrainian ethnoculture and professional culture
- •15. Sources of information about culture of Pre-Slavic and Slavic population in Ukrainian lands
- •16. Peculiarities of Slavic mythology
- •18. Cosmology in Slavic mythology
- •20. General characteristics of Kyivan Rus’ culture
- •21. Origins of Kyivan Rus’
- •22. Christian influence on cultural development of Kyivan Rus’
- •23. Literature of Kyivan Rus’
- •24. Slovo o polku Ihorevi (The Tale of Ihor’s Compaign)
- •27. Iconography in Kyivan Rus’
- •28. Prominent activists of Kyivan Rus’ culture (Ilarion, Nestor the Chronicler, St.Antony of the Caves)
- •29. Renaissance humanism in Europe
- •30. Cultural impulses of Reformation and Contrreformation in Europe
- •31. Religious life after the Church Union of Berestia
- •32. Cultural dimensions of Early Modern civil society
- •33. Brotherhoods as a cultural phenomenon
- •34. Education and Brotherhoods’ activity: general characteristics
- •35. Cultural role of Ostrih Academy
- •36. Kyivan Mohyla Academy
- •37. Ivan Fedorov and book printing activity of Brotherhoods.
- •38. Architecture of Cossack Baroque
- •39. Baroque style in Europe
- •41. Polemic literature and I.Vyshensky
- •42. H.Hrabianka and his Chronicle
- •Th.Prokopovich and his role in Ukrainian culture
- •H.Scovoroda in Ukrainian culture
- •45. Cultural meaning of the Enlightenment
- •46. The process of Russification in Ukrainian lands of Russian Empire: main waves
- •47. An Old Ukrainian tradition: Bard (kobzars, bandurysts, and lirnyks)
- •48. Rococo architecture in Ukraine
- •49 The style of Classicism in Europe
- •51. Classicism literature of Ukraine
- •52. I.Kotliarevsky and the new Ukrainian literature
- •53. Cultural activity of Cyril and Methodius Brotherhood
- •54. Hromada movement and the growth of Ukrainian national consciousness Hromadas
- •55. Realism and Romanticism as the main styles in literature and arts of the 19th century: general characteristics
- •56. Poetry of Ukrainian Romanticism
- •57. Romanticism in Ukrainian music (s.Hulak-Artemovsky, m.Lysenko)
- •58. Peredvizhniki and their role in Ukrainian culture
- •59. Ukrainian civil press of the 2nd half of the 19th century
- •61. Main representatives of Ukrainian theater
- •62.Prominent scholars of the 19th century (m.Maksymovych, m.Kostomarov, V.Antonovych, o.Potebnia)
- •63. Ukrainian writers of the 19th century (p.Kulish, Marko Vovchok, m.Kotsiubynsky, s.Rudansky)
- •64. Creative activity of n.Gogol
- •65. Creative activity of t. Shevchenko
- •67. Creative activity of I.Franko
- •68 Cultural activity of m.Drahomanov
- •70. Modernism in Ukrainian culture: general characteristics
- •71. Socialist realism in the ussr: general characteristics
- •72. Socialist realism in the ussr: main representatives
- •73. Les Kurbas and Berezil
- •74. O.Dovzhenko and Ukrainian cinematograph
- •75. Cubism in Ukrainian painting
- •76. Constructivism in Ukrainian arts
- •77. Ukrainian Impressionist Painters
- •78 Creative activity of o.Archipenko
- •79. Symbolism in Ukrainian literature
- •80. Expressionism in Ukrainian plastic arts
- •82. M.Khvylovy and Vaplite
- •83. M.Zerov and Ukrainian Neoclassicists
- •84. Ukrainian poetry of the 20th century (m.Bazhan, p.Tychina, m.Rylsky)
- •85. Cultural meaning of Shistdesiatnyky
- •86 Shistdesiatnyky: main representatives in Ukrainian literature
61. Main representatives of Ukrainian theater
Karpenko-Kary, Ivan
Kropyvnytsky, Marko
Sadovsky, Mykola
Zankovetska, Mariia
Mykola Lysenko
Mykhailo Starytsky,
Panas Saksahansky
62.Prominent scholars of the 19th century (m.Maksymovych, m.Kostomarov, V.Antonovych, o.Potebnia)
Antonovych, Volodymyr, b 18 January 1834 in Makhnivka, Kyiv gubernia, d 21 March 1908 in Kyiv. Historian, archeographer, archeologist, professor of history at Kyiv University from 1878, editor in chief of the publications of the Kyiv Archeographic Commission, patron and head (from 1881) of the Historical Society of Nestor the Chronicler in Kyiv, and organizer of archeological conferences in Ukraine
Antonovych was a major representative of the populist school in Ukrainian historiography.
Potebnia, Oleksander (Aleksandr) [Potebnja], b 22 September 1835 on his family's khutir near Havrylivka (now Hryshyne), Romen county, Poltava gubernia, d 11 December 1891 in Kharkiv. Linguist, folklorist, and literary scholar; from 1875 a corresponding member of the Russian Imperial Academy of Sciences
As a linguist Potebnia specialized in four areas: the philosophy of language, the historical phonetics of the East Slavic languages, etymology, and Slavic historical
Kostomarov, Mykola (pseuds: Iieremiia Halka, Ivan Bogucharov), b 16 May 1817 in Yurasivka, Ostrohozke county, Voronezh region, d 19 April 1885 in Saint Petersburg. Historian, publicist, and writer.
Kostomarov was the founder of the populist trend in Ukrainian historiography
63. Ukrainian writers of the 19th century (p.Kulish, Marko Vovchok, m.Kotsiubynsky, s.Rudansky)
Panteleimon Kulish was a Ukrainian writer, critic, poet, folklorist, and translator. His first longer work written in Ukrainian was the epic poem ‘Ukrana’ (1843)Panteleimon Kulish was the first person known to translate the whole of the Bible into the modern Ukrainian language and was also the first to write historical novels in Ukrainian. His most famous contribution in this field was the novel Chorna Rada (The Black Council) which was set in Cossack times.
Vovchok, Marko studied the Ukrainian language and Ukrainian traditions and folklore and wrote Narodni opovidannia (Folk Stories), which was published in 1857. In 1862 a two-volume edition of Narodni opovidannia was published, and individual works were published in the journals Osnova She wrote in Russian Zhivaia dusha (The Living Soul, 1868), Zapiski prichetnika (The Notes of a Participant, 1870), V glushi (In the Backwoods, 1875), and several other novels Other works continue the tradition of ethnographic romanticism and are typified by strong characters and willful heroes.
Kotsiubynsky, Mykhailo One of the finest Ukrainian writers of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.About two dozen books of his prose were published during his lifetime, ranging from individual stories to the large collections V putakh shaitana i inshi opovidannia (In Satan's Clutches and Other Stories, 1899), Po-liuds’komu: Opovidannia z bessarabs’koho zhyttia (In a Civilized Way: Stories from Bessarabian Life, 1900), Opovidannia (Stories, 1903), Poiedynok i inshi opovidannia (The Duel and Other Stories, 1903), U hrishnyi svit (Into the Sinful World, 1905), Z hlybyn (From the Depths, 1909), Debiut (Debut, 1911), and Tini zabutykh predkiv (Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors, 1913). A three-volume Russian edition of his works, translated by Mykhailo Mohyliansky, appeared in 1911–14. Many of his stories were translated into several European languages during his lifetime.
Rudansky, Stepan Poet.Rudansky began to write poetry in his pre–Saint Petersburg days, while still a student at the Kamianets-Podilskyi Theological SeminaryRudansky achieved long-lasting fame as author of Spivomovky (Singing Rhymes, 1880), which consisted of poems of various length, jokes, proverbs, and short anecdotes Rudansky wrote lyric poetry filled with an aching sadnessSome of those poems are autobiographical, and some became popular songs (such as ‘Povii vitre Rudansky's works also include translations, such as of Slovo o polku Ihorevi
rativ i desiata sestrytsia Halia’ (Nine Brothers and the Tenth Sister Halia, 1863), ‘Karmeliuk’ (1865), and ‘Marusia’ .
Kotsiubynsky, Mykhailo One of the finest Ukrainian writers of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.About two dozen books of his prose were published during his lifetime, ranging from individual stories to the large collections V putakh shaitana i inshi opovidannia (In Satan's Clutches and Other Stories, 1899), Po-liuds’komu: Opovidannia z bessarabs’koho zhyttia (In a Civilized Way: Stories from Bessarabian Life, 1900), Opovidannia (Stories, 1903), Poiedynok i inshi opovidannia (The Duel and Other Stories, 1903), U hrishnyi svit (Into the Sinful World, 1905), Z hlybyn (From the Depths, 1909), Debiut (Debut, 1911), and Tini zabutykh predkiv (Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors, 1913). A three-volume Russian edition of his works, translated by Mykhailo Mohyliansky, appeared in 1911–14. Many of his stories were translated into several European languages during his lifetime.
Rudansky, Stepan Poet.Rudansky began to write poetry in his pre–Saint Petersburg days, while still a student at the Kamianets-Podilskyi Theological SeminaryRudansky achieved long-lasting fame as author of Spivomovky (Singing Rhymes, 1880), which consisted of poems of various length, jokes, proverbs, and short anecdotes Rudansky wrote lyric poetry filled with an aching sadnessSome of those poems are autobiographical, and some became popular songs (such as ‘Povii vitre Rudansky's works also include translations, such as of Slovo o polku Ihorevi
