M. KOSTOMAROV’S DRAMATIC: ANTIQUITY AS A POLITICAL ALLEGORY Cover Image

ДРАМАТУРГІЯ М. КОСТОМАРОВА: АНТИЧНІСТЬ ЯК ПОЛІТИЧНА АЛЕГОРІЯ
M. KOSTOMAROV’S DRAMATIC: ANTIQUITY AS A POLITICAL ALLEGORY

Author(s): Olha Yablonska
Subject(s): Ukrainian Literature, Theory of Literature
Published by: Fundacja „Oświata i Nauka Bez Granic PRO FUTURO”
Keywords: Romanticism; antiquity; allegory; post-colonial approach; ideological drama; historical drama; autobiographical; category of freedom;

Summary/Abstract: In the article is interpreted the ancient stories of M. Kostomarov’s drama as a political allegory. It is shown that the ideological drama «Cremutius Cordus» is figurative of Nicholas’ period, and historical drama «Greek’s Tauris» – Khmelnitsky’s period. In the context of problems is analyzed of poetry «Jupiter light float in the green waters of the Cimmerian». It is examined complex of social and moral-ethical components of the problems of the texts of "Cremutius Cordus" (tyranny, denunciation, internal freedom, public freedom, the role of the historian in society) and "Hellenes of the Tauris" (power, betrayal, dual political game, linguistic question, gender aspect, the spirit of the people). The problem of works can be traced in line with the ideological and aesthetic principles of Ukrainian romanticism, the ideology of the "Cyril and Methodius Brotherhood". It is analyzed relationship of ideological aspects and compositional features of texts. It is emphasized on the autobiographical features of individual images – the historian Cremutius Cordus from the work of the same name, the Shadow of the Ionian ("Jupiter Light floating through the green waters of the Cimmerian").

  • Issue Year: 22/2018
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 214-223
  • Page Count: 10
  • Language: Ukrainian