Concordance to Shevchenko's works is published (06/30/02)

Concordance to Shevchenko's works is published

by Dr. Bohdan Klid

EDMONTON - The Shevchenko Scientific Society (U.S.A.) and Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies Press have announced the publication and immediate availability of an invaluable research tool for scholars and students of the poetic legacy of Ukraine's national poet, Taras Shevchenko.

"A Concordance to the Poetic Works of Taras Shevchenko" by Oleh S. Ilnytzkyj and George Hawrysch is a four-volume publication containing over 3,200 pages. It is a complete alphabetical index of all the words contained in Shevchenko's Ukrainian- and Russian-language poetry, showing both the places where each word may be found and its immediate textual setting.

While concordances are rather common, for example in English literature, the work produced by Prof. Ilnytzkyj and Dr. Hawrysch is the first of its kind in Ukrainian literature.

It promises to be an important and useful guidebook not only for literary critics, but for linguists and lexicographers as well. The concordance permits quick and easy access to Shevchenko's every word and provides each and every context in which the word is used. Thus, scholars can easily trace nuances of meaning and syntactical or grammatical structures, and investigate major themes or topics.

The concordance records not only the words found in Shevchenko's canonical poems, but also in all of their variants. To assist researchers, the edition contains a dozen appendices that show word frequencies and other statistics.

The text of the concordance was prepared at the Ukrainian Language and Literature Program at the University of Alberta thanks to a three-year grant from Canada's Social Science and Humanities Research Council.

Prof. Ilnytzkyj teaches in the department of modern languages and cultural studies at the University of Alberta and heads the newly established Ukrainian Center for Multimedia, Interactive Learning and Digital Publishing. He is also the author of "Ukrainian Futurism, 1914-1930: A Historical and Critical Study (1997)." His co-author, Dr. Hawrysch, was awarded a doctorate in Ukrainian literature at the University of Alberta.

This four-volume edition of "A Concordance to the Poetic Works of Taras Shevchenko" was jointly published by the Shevchenko Scientific Society (U.S.A.) and the Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies Press. It is now available at a price of $250 per four-volume set.

U.S. orders should be sent to: Shevchenko Scientific Society, 63 Fourth Ave., New York, NY 10003; telephone, (212) 254-5130; fax, (212) 254-5239; e-mail, [email protected]. Canadian orders should be forwarded to: CIUS Press, 450 Athabasca Hall, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, T6G 2E8; telephone, (780) 492-2972; fax, (780) 492-4967; e-mail, [email protected].

The Shevchenko Scientific Society (U.S.A.) has donated 450 sets of the concordance to libraries and universities in Ukraine.

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