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| Semester | fall semester 2020 |
| Course frequency | Once only |
| Lecturers | Bohdan Tokarskyi (bohdan.tokarskyi@unibas.ch, Assessor) |
| Content | Poetry has traditionally played a very special role in Ukrainian history, reflecting, changing and forecasting it at critical historical junctures. Most recently, it prominently featured at the Euromaidan revolution, where the poetic lines of Taras Shevchenko, Ivan Franko, Lesia Ukraїnka, and Vasyl’ Stus were no less galvanising than political slogans. Poetic resistance represents a long-standing tradition in Ukraine. The very first work of modern Ukrainian literature was Ivan Kotliarevs’kyi’s Eneїda (1789), a book-length poetic travesty of Virgil’s The Aeneid, which enunciated a gentle subversion of the imperial centre. Taras Shevchenko, Ukraine’s “first national intellectual”, to evoke Oksana Zabuzhko’s apt characterisation, and the central literary and even political figure in Ukrainin history, was much less gentle in his innovative poetry. Through his verse, he vigorously opposed the Russian Empire and laid the foundation of Ukraine’s national idea, which led to his arrest and exile. Shevchenko largely shaped the tradition of poetic resistance in Ukraine, which became actuated a great number of times over the following historical periods in the Russian Empire, the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and the Soviet Union. The aim of this course is to follow the trajectory of Ukrainian history from the publication of Kotliarevs’kyi’s Eneїda in 1789 to the developments in contemporary Ukraine through the particular prism of the poetico-political resistance. Exploring the opposition between the nation and the empire, the individual and the state, the poet and the regime, we will look at the reasons for such confrontation, the relevant historical circumstances, aesthetics, modes, ideas, images, as well as the shaping of this poetic tradition and its impact. Providing an usual gateway into Ukrainian history, such a focus of the course will allow us to gain valuable insights into the understanding of Ukraine’s past and present. The intimate connection between poetics and politics is comparably prominent in other countries of Eastern Europe. With this in mind, throughout our course, we will also be drawing illuminating parallels between the dynamics of poetic resistance in Ukraine, Russia and Poland. My hope is that the interdisciplinary and transregional nature of the course, as well as its broad ambit, will make it accessible to students from different subjects, levels, and country specialisations. |
| Admission requirements | Studierende der Geschichte aller Studienstufen sowie Studierende anderer Studienfächer, in deren Module die Übung verknüpft ist. |
| Language of instruction | English |
| Use of digital media | No specific media used |
| Interval | Weekday | Time | Room |
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No dates available. Please contact the lecturer.
| Modules |
Electives Bachelor Jewish Studies: Recommendations (Bachelor's degree subject: Jewish Studies) Modul: Archive / Medien / Theorien (Bachelor's degree subject: History) Modul: Areas: Osteuropa (Master's degree program: European History (Start of studies before 01.08.2018)) Modul: Areas: Osteuropa (Master's degree program: European History in Global Perspective) Modul: Europäisierung und Globalisierung (Master's Studies: European Global Studies) Modul: Geschichte Ostmitteleuropas (Master's degree subject: East European History) Modul: Geschichte Russlands und der Sowjetunion (Master's degree subject: East European History) Modul: Interphilologie: Literaturwissenschaft MA (Master's degree subject: French Language and Literature) Modul: Interphilologie: Literaturwissenschaft MA (Master's degree subject: Slavic Studies) Modul: Interphilologie: Literaturwissenschaft MA (Master's degree subject: Latin Philology) Modul: Interphilologie: Literaturwissenschaft MA (Master's degree subject: English) Modul: Interphilologie: Literaturwissenschaft MA (Master's degree subject: Italian Language and Literature) Modul: Interphilologie: Literaturwissenschaft MA (Master's degree subject: German Literature) Modul: Interphilologie: Literaturwissenschaft MA (Master's degree subject: German Language and Literature) Modul: Interphilologie: Literaturwissenschaft MA (Master's degree subject: Nordic Philology) Modul: Interphilologie: Literaturwissenschaft MA (Master's degree subject: Spanish Language and Literature) Modul: Literaturgeschichte (Master's degree program: Literary Studies) Modul: Praxis (Master's degree subject: History) Modul: Profil: Osteuropäische Geschichte (Master's degree program: European History (Start of studies before 01.08.2018)) Modul: Slavische Kulturwissenschaft (Master's degree subject: Slavic Studies) Modul: Slavische Literaturwissenschaft BA (Bachelor's degree subject: Eastern European Cultures) Modul: Slavische Literaturwissenschaft BA (Bachelor's degree program: Eastern European Studies) Modul: Slavische Literaturwissenschaft MA (Master's degree subject: Slavic Studies) Modul: Transfer: Europa interdisziplinär (Master's degree program: European History in Global Perspective) Modul: Vertiefung Geschichte (Bachelor's degree subject: Jewish Studies) |
| Assessment format | continuous assessment |
| Assessment details | Aktive Teilnahme. |
| Assessment registration/deregistration | Reg.: course registration; dereg.: not required |
| Repeat examination | no repeat examination |
| Scale | Pass / Fail |
| Repeated registration | no repetition |
| Responsible faculty | Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, studadmin-philhist@unibas.ch |
| Offered by | Departement Geschichte |