Ukrainian Projection of Motives of Egyptian and Babylonian Captivity in Dramas of Lesya Ukrainka Cover Image

Українські проєкції мотивів єгипетської та вавилонської неволі у драмах Лесі Українки
Ukrainian Projection of Motives of Egyptian and Babylonian Captivity in Dramas of Lesya Ukrainka

Author(s): Ihor Nabytovych
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Studies of Literature, Ukrainian Literature
Published by: Towarzystwo Naukowe KUL & Katolicki Uniwersytet Lubelski Jana Pawła II
Keywords: Lesya Ukrainka; modernism; Egyptian and Babylonian captivity; Ukraine enslaved by Russian Empire

Summary/Abstract: Issue of Egyptian and Babylonian captivity in poetry and drama of Lesya Ukrainka has multi axiological, ideological and aesthetic perspective. However, all these ideas of artistic works are proected on problems of national captivity. They are focused on painful problems of modern Ukraine that is enslaved by Russian Empire.You Fighted Like Israel Once, My Dear Ukraine!.. – this is poetry that is the key to symbolic comparing of Egyptian and Babylonian captivity of Israel to Russian captivity of Ukraine.Poetess shows burdens of Egyptian and Babylonian captivity / Russian captivity and creates program of overcoming it in an art form.

  • Issue Year: 66/2018
  • Issue No: 7
  • Page Range: 33-53
  • Page Count: 21
  • Language: Ukrainian