{"product_id":"the-all-encompassing-eye-of-ukraine-ivan-nechui-levytskyis-realist-prose-hardback-9781442650084","title":"The All-Encompassing Eye of Ukraine; Ivan Nechui-Levyts'kyi's Realist Prose (Hardback) 9781442650084","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eThe All-Encompassing Eye of Ukraine\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eIvan Nechui-Levyts'kyi's Realist Prose\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eMaxim Tarnawsky (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781442650084\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 16 April 2015\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e384 pages\u003cbr\u003e23.5 x 16.1 x 2.9 cm, 0.72 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u0026amp;#x2018;A thorough and much needed re-examination of the author and his work.\u0026amp;#x2019;\u003c\/p\u003e - The Ukrainian Weekly, January 10, 2016 \u003cp\u003e\u0026amp;#x2018;Tarnawsky\u0026amp;#x2019;s book shines a welcome light on an important writer and period that research in the west has neglected.\u0026amp;#x2019;\u003c\/p\u003e - Oleh S. Ilnytzkyj (Slavic Review vol 75:02:2016) \u003cp\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eThe All-Encompassing Eye of Ukraine\u003c\/i\u003e is evidence of the revelatory force of careful and unprejudiced reading, and a demonstration of the benefits to be gained from taking one\u0026amp;#x2019;s canonical authors seriously.\"\u003c\/p\u003e - Marko Pavlyshyn, Monash University (Harvard Ukrainian Studies, vol 35:1-4)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eOne of the most important realist novelists of nineteenth-century Ukraine, Ivan Nechui-Levyts'kyi was caricatured and then forgotten by a generation of literary modernists who rejected his aesthetic and ideological views. In \u003cem\u003eThe All-Encompassing Eye of Ukraine\u003c\/em\u003e, Maxim Tarnawsky presents a thorough and much-needed reexamination of Nechui-Levyts'kyi and his work.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA solitary, modest man whose chief interest was in promoting and defending a Ukrainian identity threatened by the cultural policies of the Russian Empire, Levyts'kyi’s writing described Ukraine, its people, its culture, and the forces threatening it. A satirist who attacked modernism and cosmopolitanism, he wrote in a style marked by what Tarnawsky calls non-purposeful narration – slow-paced humour built on rhetorical finesse rather than on plot or character development.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA vital reconsideration of a significant Ukrainian novelist written by the foremost expert on his work, \u003cem\u003eThe All-Encompassing Eye of Ukraine\u003c\/em\u003e deepens and expands our understanding of Ukraine’s nineteenth-century literature.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1. The Unknown Nechui\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2. Describing Ukraine\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3. Defending Ukraine\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4. Realism, Rhetoric, and Repetition\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5. Nechui’s Characters: Women and Joy\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6. Nechui’s Historical Writing\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConclusion\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"University of Toronto Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52739658809624,"sku":"9781442650084","price":52.49,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/the-all-encompassing-eye-of-ukraine-ivan-nechui-levytskyis-realist-prose-hardback-9781442650084","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}