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This book may be used in university courses on the history of Slavic languages and literatures, contemporary theories of nation-building and national identity as well as language contact and (historical) sociolinguistics. The discussion of language policy in the Russian Empire and Austria-Hungary can be included in regular university courses on Slavic civilizations, history of Central and Eastern Europe (Russia, Poland, and Ukraine).
— Maxim Tarnawsky University of Toronto
"The monograph, about the language of Pantelejmon Kuliš’s seminal Bible and Shakespeare translations from the 1860s until his death in 1897, is a major contribution to our understanding of the formation of modern literary and standard Ukrainian and a long-due appraisal of Kuliš’s contribution. It is based on an impressive wealth of unpublished sources and an extensive range of secondary literature. The principal merit lies in numerous detailed analyses of Kuliš’s and his contemporaries’ language and the assessment of the forms and words found with respect to their provenance. This is a notoriously difficult undertaking, which very few scholars in Ukrainian philology are able to carry out with the same care, expertise and balanced approach."
— Jan Fellerer, University of Oxford
"The learning and industry [of this book] are deep and wide. Modern technology has enable Danylenko to display and discuss different systems of transliteration and fonts accomodating variations in Cyrillic spelling, including Church Slavonic. Documentation occurs internal to the text in streamlined form ... well worth the price as a reference tool."
— Eugene E. Lemcio, Emeritus Professor of New Testament, Seattle Pacific University
“From the Bible to Shakespeare represents a truly innovative and fundamental study of an important contribution to the Ukrainian linguistic culture, made by the famous Ukrainian writer and cultural figure Pantelejmon Kuliš. . . . the volume also appears to be a very useful text for university studies. It provides a great deal of facts and theoretical concepts for reconstruction of the history of biblical studies on the Ukrainian terrain in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.”
— Sergii Golovashchenko, Kyiv-Mohyla Academy
This is a well-researched, meticulous and erudite analysis that offers a wealth of information on the development of literary Ukrainian and Kulish’s lasting contribution to the effort. It is a remarkable achievement and a welcome contribution to Ukrainian studies.
Andrii Danylenko’s From the Bible to Shakespeare: Pantelejmon Kuliš (1819-1897) and the Formation of Literary Ukrainian is a profound study that offers an insight into a complex process of the development of language, embracing the formation of the literary and the national. Kuliš’s translations represent an intriguing study case not only for the exploration of linguistic synthesis, but also for investigation of identity fluidity that stems from openness towards linguistic and cultural dialogism.
— Nataliya Shpylova-Saeed, New Books Network, 23 February 2017
“This book could be rightly considered as a further step towards the realization of an ‘integral history of the new Ukrainian literary language’ which Danylenko is striving for. … Overall, the book can be read with the utmost curiosity and recommended to those scholars with a keen interest in the formation process of modern literary Ukrainian. Danylenko’s detailed analysis of the language used in the exemplified translation fragments by Kuliš and the comparison with the translations made by his, more or less famous, contemporaries, inserted in broader socio-historic and cultural-literary context, adds a fundamental milestone in the history of the Ukrainian language.” —Salvatore Del Gaudio, Richerche Slavistiche Vol. 1 (LXI)
— Salvatore Del Gaudio
Abbreviations
Introduction: Writing a Linguistic Biography of a Ukrainian Maverick
Part I: The Bible
Chapter 1: Exploring Psalmody
The Book of Psalms
Alexandrine Verse or Trochaic Foot?
Invoking Gavrila Deržavin
Church Slavonicisms
“Kulišisms”
Xarkiv Chimes In
The 1897 Poetic Crowning
Chapter 2: The Makings of the Rusian Bible
A Pentateuch Prolusion
Gearing Up for New Challenges
“Poison and Ruin for the Rusian People”
“The Labor Pangs of a Unified Ukrainian Literary Language”
Reception of the Translation
The Sloboda Bulwark
The Archangel Havrylo
Who Else Bears a Grudge?
The Creation of the New Biblical Style
Means of Archaization
Means of Vernacularization
Chapter 3: Galicia “Writes Back”
The West or the East?
Fostering “Rusian Church Vernacular”
Any Palliative Solution?
Lost in Diacritics
To “Secularize” or “Synthesize”?
Chapter 4: Here Comes the Bible!
The Holy Writ Doesn’t Burn
Tobit and Job
At the Crossroads of Poetry and Prose
Ivan Nečuj-Levyc´kyj Takes It Personally
The Pranks of Ivan Franko
Ivan Puljuj Makes His Riposte
How Should It Sound?
How to String Words?
How to Choose Words?
How to Spell Words?
Ivan Nečuj-Levyc´kyj Is Shuffled Backstage
Interpreting Hebrew Poetry
The Book of Job
Lamentations
The Song of Songs
The Versified Bible
Summary
Part II: Shakespeare
Chapter 5: “Oh, Shakespeare, Our Father, Native to All Peoples”
Ethics Avant la Lettre!
Bringing Forth the “Ukrainian Shakespeare”
The First (Over)Reaction
The Language of the “Ukrainian Shakespeare”
On the Threshold of a New Secular High Style
Chapter 6: Expanding the Literary Canon of the “Ukrainian Shakespeare”
The First Step Is the Hardest?
“Huculia Did Not Appear; Rather Shakespeare Was Merely Hidden”
Hamlet or Hamljet? That Is the Question
Hamlet in Peasant Leather Shoes
The Younger Generation Steps to the Fore
“We Are All Peasants Today”
One or Multiple Homesteads?
Conclusion: Detours Offered But Never Taken
Bibliography
Indices
Geographical and Personal Names
Subjects and Titles of Literary Works and Translations
Word-forms