The Ukrainian–Russian Encounter in the Romantic Era
Taras Koznarsky
2/2022
Forum AI
Russia’s War on Ukraine and Nineteenth-Century “Russian Studies”
SUMMARY:
A contribution to the forum “Russia’s War on Ukraine and Nineteenth-Century ‘Russian Studies,’” this essay tackles the problem of recovering Ukrainian literature in the Russian classical literary canon of the nineteenth century. It charts two directions for the rethinking of Russian literature and Ukrainian–Russian cultural reciprocities in the nineteenth century and offers a reassessment of the Russian literary canon and intellectual history.