NEWS AND VIEWS

Shevchenko Scientific Society active in realm of publications

During the last year, The Shevchenko Scientific Society (NTSh) published numerous new books. What follows is a brief survey.

• Word. Symbol. Discourse. An Anthology of Literary and Critical Thought in the 20th Century", (in Ukrainian), edited by Maria Zubrytska with the assistance of Larissa M.L.Z. Onyshkevych and John Fizer. Lviv: Center for Humanities, Lviv University and the Shevchenko Scientific Society, 1996, 636 pp., $35 (paperback).

Included in the Anthology are chapters such as: "Psycholinguistic Theories of Potebnia," "Philosophical Basis of European Modernism," "Psychoanalysis and Archetype Theory", "Phenomenological Theory and Criticism", "Literary Hermeneutics, Existentialism in Literature", "Reader Response Esthetics, Structuralism and Semiotics", "Postructuralism and Deconstruction", "Feminist Criticism" and "Post-Colonial Criticism."

The collection of essays was translated from eight languages. It has an extensive Dictionary of Literary Terminology and an index of names.

This is the first such anthology in Ukrainian, of such a scope. In order to work on this publication, the editors and translators held three workshops on translating literary theory (at Urbana and Lviv). Both IREX and The Shevchenko Scientific Society provided grants for the project.

• "Towards an Intellectual History of Ukraine: An Anthology of Ukrainian Thought from 1710 to 1995," Ralph Lindheim and George S.N. Luckyj, editors. Toronto: University of Toronto in association the with Shevchenko Scientific Society, 1996, 420 pp. $65 (cloth), $24.95 (paper).

This compilation is another first in terms of an anthology of this type about Ukraine. It includes a 50-page introduction by the editors, and then such documents as the Bendery Constitution of 1710 (popularly known as the Orlyk Constitution), The Fourth Universal of the Ukrainian Central Rada (1918), The Manifesto of Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (1940), and The Manifesto of the Ukrainian Intelligentsia (1995).

It includes articles by Mykola Kostomarov, Mykhailo Drahomanov, Oleksander Potebnia, Borys Hrinchenko, Ivan Franko, Mykola Mikhnovsky, Bohdan Kistiakivsky, Mykhailo Hrushevsky, Volodymyr Vynnychenko, Dmytro Dontsov, Mykola Khvyliovy, Milena Rudnytska, Yevhen Malaniuk and Ivan Dzyuba.

This anthology is the third recent publication af the Society in association with the University of Toronto Press, following Ukraine and Ukrainians throughout the world. The first two are: "A Demographic and Sociological Guide to Ukraine and the Ukrainian Diaspora," edited by Ann Lencyk Pawlichko (1994, 526 pp., $75, $35), and "Ukrainian Literature in the Twentieth Century: A Reader's Guide to Ukrainian Literature," by George S.N. Luckyj (1992,144 pp., $40, $18.95).

• "Ukrajinsko-Cesky Slovnik, Volume Il, A. Kurimsky, R. Siskova, and N. Savicky. Prague: Academia, 1996, 1,377 pp; in association with the Czech Academy of Sciences and The National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine.

Volume of this Ukrainian-Czech dictionary was published in 1994. Both volumes together contain 75,000 entries.

• "Halychyna's Contribution to the Formation of the Ukrainian Literary Language" (in Ukrainian), by George Shevelov. Lviv and New York: 1996, 200 pp.

This book contains chapters on Halychyna's influence until 1876, then during the periods until 1905, 1906-1920 and 1921-1941. Individual chapters deal with the lexis, stress, syntax, phonetics and morphology of the Ukrainian language. There is also an article on the Chernihiv area's influence on the Ukrainian language. An index of words and names is included.

• "The Poetry of Vasyl Stus" (in Polish), edited by Agnieszka Korniejenko. Krakow: Universitas, 1996, 175 pp.

Translations of over 50 poems by Stus from 1958-1979 are included in this collection as are articles on Stus' poetry by Marko Carynnyk, Marko Pawlyshyn, Bohdan Rubchak, Leonid Rudnytzky and Yuriy Sherekh.

Three publications, in Ukrainian, honor the Shevchenko Scientific Society's former activists.

• "Hryhorii Luzhnytskyi (1903-1990)." Wolodymyr T. Zyla, Oleh Kupchynskyi, Leonid Rudnytzky, Wasyl Jaszczun, editors. Lviv: 1996, 360 pp.

This book is in the style of a festschrift (a scholarly tribute), with articles by Bishop Lubomyr Husar, Jaroslaw Padoch, Ostap Tarnawsky, Natalia Pazuniak, Yaroslav Rozumny and others.

• "Vasyl Lev (1903-1991)," Oleh Kupchynskyi, Maria Ovcharenko, Leonid Rudnytzky, Eugene Fedorenko, Bohdan Chopyk, editors. Lviv: 1996, 316 pp.

This is a festschrift with articles by such authors as Leonid Rudnytzky, Mykhailo Lesiv, Oleksa Horbach, Natalia Pazuniak, Yaroslav Rozumnyi, Osyp Kravcheniuk and others on linguistics, literature, as well as on Dr. Lev.

• Roman Osinchuk Medical Committee Series, Volume 4. "The Medical World of Lviv." Oleh Kupchynskyi, editor-in-chief. Lviv: 1996, 158 pp.

This book is a compilation of articles by Dr. Osinchuk about medicine in Lviv at various periods since 1883, under both the Bolsheviks and Nazis, about medical studies at the Ukrainian Secret University (1920-1924); about Drs. M. Panchyshyn and M. Muzyka, and Lviv hospitals. There is also an article on Dr. Osinchuk's life. Biographical data about the honoree and 14 pages of photographs are included in the volume.

Copyright © The Ukrainian Weekly, October 5, 1997, No. 40, Vol. LXV

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