History, or more exactly prehistory, of the Center for American Literary Studies in Ukraine began from the time of formation of the Ukrainian independent state. Events of scientific life of the Ukrainian americanists that from 1993 have been supported by Shevchenko Institute of Literature of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine and the USA Embassy in Ukraine can be regarded as gradual steps of realization of the idea to organize the Center. Thus, we present the most important from these events that were significant for scholar community in Ukraine as well as abroad.
1. International symposium "Postmodernism and contemporary literature" (Kyiv, Shevchenko Institute of Literature of the NAS of Ukraine, September 21 - 23, 1993)
Organizational Committee:
Mary Kruger, Public Affairs Officer, U.S. Embassy in Ukraine
Mykola Zhulynsky,Academician of the NAS of Ukraine
Tamara Denysova, Doctor of Philology
Galyna Syvachenko, Doctor of Philology
Natalja Zhluktenko, Candidate of Philology
Program:
M. Zhulynsky, Academician of the NAS of Ukraine
Opening Address.
D. Zatonsky, Academician of the NAS of Ukraine
The End of Ideology and Postmodernism.
W. divos, Prof. (USA)
Reconsideration of Postmodernism.
Ì. Ignatenko, Doctor of Philology (Ukraine)
Postmodernism and the End of the Classics?
Ò. Gundorova, Candidate of Philology (Ukraine)
Decadence and Postmodernism - the Problem of Language.
G. Syvachenko, Doctor of Philology (Ukraine)
Sign in Modernism and Postmodernism.
V. Zinchenko, Candidate of Philology (Ukraine)
On “Synthesis Aesthetics” in Postmodernist Literature.
D. Gorbachov, Prof. (Ukraine)
Postmodernist Artistic and Literal Parallels.
Î. Dubovyk (Ukraine)
Palimpsest as an Aesthetic Device.
G. Shton, Candidate of Philology (Ukraine)
Avant-garde. Postmodern. Renaissance. Terminology and Practice.
Î. Bily, Doctor of Philology (Ukraine)
Pseudomorphoses of the power discourse in V. Nabokov’s works.
P. Balditsin (Russia)
The world Through the Eyes of Idiot: the Way of literature to Postmodernism (Dostoevsky, Faulkner, Sokolov).
À. Kravchenko, Candidate of Philology (Ukraine)
To the Sources of the Modern Ukrainian mentality.
G. Yanashek-Ivanichkova, Prof. (Poland)
Postmodernism in the Polish Literature.
R. Brinkmayer, Prof. (USA)
Postmodernism and Modern North-American short story. Three writers from Mississippi.
Y. Pokalchuk, Candidate of Philology (Ukraine)
Post-postmodernist novel in the French Literature.
Î. Pronkevych, Candidate of Philology (Ukraine)
The Metaphor “Life is Dream” in Literature in divish (from Baroque to Postmodernism).
Î. Zverev, Doctor of Philology (Russia)
Ì. Kundera and the Problem of Postmodernist Novel.
L. Bashmakova, Candidate of Philology (Russia)
On the Problem of Novel and the Newness of the Genre in the Postmodernist Epoch.
Ò. Denysova, Doctor of Philology (Ukraine)
Postmodernism and the Novel Thinking.
Reviews:
Southern Register, Fall, 1993.
2. Faulkner party "Faulkner at 100 retrospect and prospect"
(Kyiv, American House, October 17, 1997 ð.)
Organizational Committee:
Tamara Denysova, Doctor of Philology
Program:
Gregory Orr, Cultural Attache, U.S. Embassy
Opening Address.
Ò. Denysova, Prof. (Ukraine)
William Faulkner’s First Centennial.
Steven Saum, Exchanges Programs Director, USIS (USA)
William Faulkner as a short story writer.
R. Dotsenko (Ukraine)
Translating Faulkner into Ukrainian.
Î. Loshchenova (Ukraine)
Faulkner and Gothic Tradition.
N. Subotkovska (Ukraine)
William Faulkner and Romance Tradition.
G. Gulyaeva (Ukraine)
Mobie Dick and Go Down, Moses: fragment of comparative analysis.
N. Vysotska (Ukraine)
Faulkner’s Oxford.
Film Intruder in the Dust.
Reviews:
Foreign Literature
3. ² International conference "20th c. American literature after mid-century" (Kyiv, Institute of International Relations of Kyiv National Taras Shevchenko University, May 25-27, 1999)
Organizational Committee:
Mary Kruger, Public Affairs Officer, U.S. Embassy in Ukraine
Mykola Zhulynsky, Academician of the NAS of Ukraine
Tamara Denysova, Doctor of Philology
Oleksandr Gon, Candidate of Philology
Natalja Zhluktenko, Professor
Natalja Vysotska, Doctor of Philology
Program:
Opening Ceremony:
S. Pifer, U. S. Ambassador in Ukraine
Ì. Kruger, Public Affairs Officer, U.S. Embassy in Ukraine
G. Orr, Cultural Attache, U.S. Embassy
V. Skopenko, Academician of the NAS of Ukraine, Rector of Kyiv National Taras Shevchenko University
L. Gubersky, Prof., Director of the Institute of International Relations
Ì. Zhulynsky, Academician of the NAS of Ukraine, Director of Shevchenko Institute of Literature of the NAS of Ukraine
Plenary Session
². Hassan, Prof. (USA)
What Was and What Will Become of Postmodernism? Literary and Cultural Aspects.
Î. Zverev, Prof. (Russia, Moscow)
John Updike’s Evolution in the Context of Contemporary American Literature.
Y. Stulov, Prof. (Belarus, Minsk)
Subverting Canon. In Search of new Identities.
C. Hallam, Prof. (USA)
Ì. Bakhtin and the Problem of Postmodernism.
Panel Session: Contemporary Literary Process
N. Zhluktenko (Ukraine, Kyiv)
Robert Stone’s Novels in the Context of Artistic Quest in the Second Half of the 20th Century.
Y. Pokalchuk (Ukraine, Kyiv)
Sexual Revolution in Literature. America in the 1960-1970s and Ukraine Today.
Ì. Koval (Ukraine, Lviv)
John Barth’s writings and the Problem of Cultural Tradition in Postmodern American Fiction.
Î. Tunska (Ukraine, Kyiv)
The Motif of Traveling in John Barth’s “Chimera”
S. Shcherbina (Ukraine, Poltava)
Fable as nature of the Black Humor (S. Elkin’s Miles).
T. Kravchenko (Ukraine, Cherkasy)
The Opposition Man to the System in Don DeLillo’s Libra.
T. Mykhed (Ukraine, Nizhyn)
Short Stories Alice Wallace.
V. Fedyainova (Ukraine, Donetsk)
The Problem of Tradition in J. C. Oates’ Novel Angel of Light.
Ì. Rozhko (Ukraine, Uzhgorod)
Funktion of Narrator in K. Kesey’s One flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest.
². Horbachevska (Ukraine, Chernivtsi)
Arthurian Legend in J. Steinbeck’s Novel.
G. Lobanovska (Ukraine, Kyiv)
"Generetion Manifesto" as Socio-Cultural Phenomenon in the American Literature After Mid-century.
Î. Kishko (Ukraine)
Dashiel Hammett and the Poetics of Contemporary Detective Novel in the USA.
Panel Session: American Poetry
J. McGann (USA)
Contemporary American Poetry
V. Shpak (Ukraine, Cherkasy)
Some Aspects of American Post-War Poetry.
Î. Glazkova (Ukraine, Cherkasy)
The Regionalist Idea in Wallace Stevens’ Works.
L. Kolomyets (Ukraine, Kyiv)
Ukrainian Translations of Ezra Pound’s Works in the Context of the Author’s Translation Practice and the Concept of “Creative Translation”.
Panel Session: The Problems of Literary Theory and Criticism
Î. Kozlov (Ukraine, Sevastopol)
The Myth and Contemporary Literary and Critical Thought in the USA.
L. Yevtushenko (Ukraine, Cherkasy)
American Multiculturalism and Modern Women Literature.
N. Shishanova (Ukraine, Sevastopol)
N. Frye’s Literature Study Method: Some Aspects.
Î. Gronik (Ukraine, Sevastopol)
G. Hartman’s research Methods.
T. Morozova (Ukraine, Sevastopol)
Ì. Krieger as a representative of the Californian School of Literary Studies.
Ernest Hemingway’s Centenary Round table
².Hassan, Prof. (USA)
Ernest Hemingway as a Modernist.
Ò. Denysova, Prof. (Ukraine, Kyiv)
Ernest Hemingway’s For Whomm the Bell Tolls: Point of View.
J. Brasfield, Prof. (USA)
Ernest Hemingway and James Wright: the Syntax of Omission.
S. Close (USA - Kyiv)
Ernest Hemingway and Ethnicity.
B. Nikolayev (Ukraine, Kyiv)
Metonymic Nature of E. Hemingway’s Sort Stories.
Î. Prylutska ((Ukraine, Donetsk)
E. Hemingway’s Short Stories Cycles.
V. Kutasty (USA - Kyiv)
Faulkner’s Screenplay to Hemingway’s To Have and Have Not: A Classroom Guide.
Panel Session: Literature and Ethnicity
S. Close (USA - Kyiv)
Language and Ethnicity.
². Udler (Russia, Chelyabinsk)
Slave Narratives Archetype in African American Literature after Mid-century.
Î. Lomonos (Ukraine, Kyiv)
The Middle passage: Reading History Anew.
Î. Lashchonova (Ukraine, Kyiv)
American Gothicism: European Tradition and Ethic Peculiarities (Toni Morrison’s Beloved)
Î. Drahan (Ukraine, Uzhgorod)
E. Annie Pronex’s Accordion Crimes: Mosaic Structure.
L. Shallak (Ukraine, Kyiv)
A. Melnyczuk’s What is Told in the Multicultural Context.
Plenary Session
N. Vysotska, Prof. (Ukraine, Kyiv)
American Literary Studies Today: Multicultural Dimensions.
Ò. Denysova, Prof. (Ukraine, Kyiv)
Mainstream and the Context of Multiculturalism.
Reviews:
Word and Time, 1999, ¹ 10.
4. Cycle of seminars on the problem of postmodernism (Kyiv, Resource Center for the Teachers of English of Public Affairs Section of U.S. Embassy, during 2001)
Scholar administration: Tamara Denysova, Prof., Doctor of Philology
5. Seminar on the contemporary American literature (Mykolayv State Humanitarian Petro Mogyla University, January, 2002)
Organizational Committee:
Oleksander Pronkevych, Candidate of Philology, Assistant Professor
Oksana Starshova
Ganna Kolesnyk
Lecturers:
T. Denysova, Prof., Doctor of Philology
N. Vysotska, Prof., Doctor of Philology
G. Zaporozhets, Candidate of Philology
L. Serdukova, Candidate of Philology
6. ²² International conference on American literature "American literature on the edge of the 20th and 21st centuries" (Kyiv, Institute of International Relations of Kyiv National Taras Shevchenko University, September 24 - 26, 2002)
Organizational Committee:
Janet Demiray, Counselor for Public Affiars, U.S. Embassy in Ukraine
Mykola Zhulynsky, Academician of the NAS of Ukraine
Tamara Denysova, Doctor of Philology, Professor
Natalja Zhluktenko, Professor
Natalja Vysotska, Doctor of Philology, Professor
Oleksandr Gon, Candidate of Philology, Assistant Professor
Yulia Tkachuk
Opening Ceremony:
Janet Demiray, Counselor for Public Affiars, U.S. Embassy in Ukraine
V. Skopenko, Academician of the NAS of Ukraine, Rector of Kyiv National Taras Shevchenko University
L. Gubersky, Corresponding Member of the NAS of Ukraine, Director of the Institute of International Relations
Ì. Zhulynsky, Academician of the NAS of Ukraine, Director of Shevchenko Institute of Literature of the NAS of Ukraine
Plenary Session
Î. Zverev, Prof. (Russia, Moscow)
American Literature in the Age of Globalization
N. Vysotska, Prof. (Ukraine, Kyiv)
New Books, New Names.
R. Fleming, Prof. (USA)
Eurocentrism, Multiculturalism and the Politics of Culture.
J. Durczak, Prof. (Poland)
How America and the Americans Have Been Perceived in Poland Over recent Decades.
V. Tkacz (USA)
Experiment in Theatre.
Panel Session: New Modes of Text Analyzing
N. Zhluktenko, Prof. (Ukraine, Kyiv)
Myth and Ritual in A. Walker’s The Color Purple.
Î. Dubinina (Ukraine, Kyiv)
The Southern Mentality Trough Narrative Analysis of W. Styrons Lie Down in Darkness
N. Pustovoytova (Ukraine, Kyiv)
Communication Peculiarities of S. Sontag’s Short Prose.
G. Leshchenko (Ukraine, Cherkasy)
Modern American Detective Fiction: The Concept of Game.
Î. Pidmoskovnykh (Ukraine, Cherkasy)
Play Principle in K. Vonnegut’s Novel Timequake.
Î. Bilous (Ukraine, Kyiv)
Neogothic Prose: An Attempt at Semiotic Analysis.
Î. Yermolenko (Ukraine, Symferopol)
Myth and Reality in G. Vidal’s Fiction of Political History.
À. Rozova (Ukraine, Khmelnytsky)
Women Through John Updike’s Eyes.
Panel session: Postmodernism
Ì. Koval (Ukraine, Lviv)
Lost in Fiction and History: Problematizing Search for Self-Identity in W. Gass’s Novel The Tunnel.
². Limborsky (Ukraine, Cherkasy)
Paradoxes of Enlightenment and American Postmodernism.
². Gorbachevska (Ukraine, Chenivtsi)
Postmodernist Arthurian Romance of Donald Barthelme.
J. Kurnosova (Ukraine, Odesa)
Existential Motives in J. Barth’s Novel The Floating Opera.
Î. Starshova (Ukraine, Mykolayiv)
The Author’s Role in J. Barth Novel Once Upon a Time
Panel Session: Poetry
V. Shpak, Prof. (Ukraine, Cherkasy)
Poetic Schools in Modern American Literature.
Î. Yerko, (Ukraine, Cherkasy)
Creative Works of R. Wilbur in Academic Poetry.
L. Kolomiyets (Ukraine, Kyiv)
L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E Project as a Problem of Translation
Î. Glazkova (Ukraine, Cherkasy)
The Author’s Image in Wallace Stevens’ Poetry (concerning the problems of lyric text analysis)
G. Kolomiyets (Ukraine, Kyiv)
Rock-poetry: Mass Orientation and Text.
Panel Session: Drama
J-À. Franko, Prof. (USA)
Current Dramaturgical Methods for Analyzing Dramatic Literature.
Ò. Kozymyrska (Ukraine, Mykolayiv)
American Theatre of the 1970s-1980s: Sam Shepard and His Plays.
G. Gulyaeva (Ukraine, Kyiv)
Retrospective Structure as a Meaning Producing Technique in Paula Vogel’s How I Learn to Drive.
Panel Session: Multiculturalism
Y. Stulov, Prof. (Belarus, Minsk)
The Problem of Gender in Contemporary African-American Fiction.
Î. Pronkievich (Ukraine, Mykolayiv)
The Motive of Remembering in Contemporary Native American Writing.
G. Zaporozhets (Ukraine, Mykolayiv)
American Women’s Short Stories at the Turn of the 20th-21st Centuries: Multicultural Aspect.
². Tkachenko (Ukraine, Cherkasy)
A. Walker’s Novel Possessing the Secret of Joy. New Approaches to the Study of Ethnic Problems.
N. Monakhova (Ukraine, Kyiv)
The Female as Postcolonial: The Caribbean Context (Autobiography of My Mother by Jamaica Kincaid)
Panel Session: Criticism
Î. Kozlov (Ukraine, Sevastopol)
Perceptive Criticism in the USA.
N. Abramkyna (Ukraine, Sevastopol)
The Phylosophy of Art of E. Langer.
Ì. Moskovy (Ukraine, Sevastopol)
Literary Deconstarction of Paul de Man.
Round Table Discussion: Teaching of American Literature in Ukraine
Ò. Denysova, Prof. (Ukraine, Kyiv)
Teaching American Literature in Ukraine: Goals and Methods.
N. Nevyarovych (Ukraine, Kherson)
Poetics of American Postmodernism: The Modes of teaching at a Pedagogical University.
S. Shcherbyna (Ukraine, Poltava)
Teaching American Literature - from University to School.
Î. Sokolova (Ukraine, Kyiv)
American Literature in School.
Ò.Kravchenko (Ukraine, Cherkasy)
Idiom in American Fiction: How They Are Used in Lectures and in Home-Reading.
Closing Plenary Session: Globalization
Ò. Potnitseva, Prof. (Ukraine, Dnipropetrovsk)
Innocence as the key Image of American Literature.
Ì. Anastayev (Russia, Moscow)
Globalization: American postmodernism and Post-Soviet Context.
Ò. Denysova (Ukraine, Kyiv)
Americanization or Globalization.
Round Table Discussion: The Ukrainian Ingredient in American Multiculturalism
Key-Note Speaker: À. Melnyczuk, Prof. (USA)
Images of Ukraine in Recent American Fiction.
Ò. Ostapchuk (Ukraine, Mykolayiv)
Multicultural Approach to the Reading of Y. Tarnavsky’s Prose.
Y. Tkachuk (Ukraine, Kyiv)
Mythological and Historical Levels in A. Melnyczuk’s What Is Told.
Ì. Roshko (Ukraine, Uzhgorod)
Gender Issues: Kesey and Zabuzhko (a comparative analysis).
Reviews:
Word and Time, ¹ 3, 2003.
The Day, 10.10.2002.
7. Informal school on American literature (Kyiv, Resource Center for the Teachers of English of Public Affairs Section of U.S. Embassy, 2002 till now)
Organizational Committee:
Tamara Denysova, Doctor of Philology, Professor
Oleksandr Gon, Candidate of Philology, Assistant Professor
Yulia Tkachuk
Olena Dubinina, Candidate of Philology
Ganna Kolomiyets, Candidate of Philology
Scholar administration:
Tamara Denysova, Prof., Doctor of Philology
Topics of meetings:
2002 (December) Literature of Native Americans.
2003 Puritan Literature of the Northern America.
2004 Literature of Enlightenment in the USA.
2005 Literature on the edge of the 18th-19th centuries in the USA. Transcendentalism.
2006 Literature of Romanticism in the USA.
8. All-Ukrainian scholar symposium "Puritan tradition in American literature" (Kyiv, Shevchenko Institute of Literature of the NAS of Ukraine, February 7, 2004)
Organizational Committee:
Janet Demiray, Counselor for Public Affiars, U.S. Embassy in Ukraine
Mykola Zhulynsky, Academician of the NAS of Ukraine
Tamara Denysova, Doctor of Philology, Professor
Natalja Zhluktenko, Professor
Natalja Vysotska, Doctor of Philology, Professor
Oleksandr Gon, Candidate of Philology, Assistant Professor
Yulia Tkachuk
Program:
Opening Ceremony:
Janet Demiray, Counselor for Public Affiars, U.S. Embassy in Ukraine
Mykola Sulyma, Doctor of Philology, Deputy Director of Snevchenko Institute of Literature of NAS of Ukraine
Plenary Session
Ò. Denysova, Doctor of Philology, Prof. (Kyiv)
Purita Tradition: What is it?
Å. Frykholm,Prof. Fulbright program. (USA)
The Puritan Apocaliptic - Then and Now
Ò. Lazarenko (Kyiv)
Interaction of Puritan and Indian Cultures in American Literature of the 18th Century Presented Trough the Texts by Samson Okkom.
Ì. Koval, Candidate of Philology, Assistant Prof. (Lviv)
Philosophy, Morals, and Customs of Colonial America: From E. Cook to J. Barth
². Limborsky, Candidate of Philology, Assistant Prof. (Cherkasy)
American Puritanism of the Colonial Period and European Enlightenment.
Panel Session “Puritanism and Romanticism”
Ò. Potnitseva, Doctor of Philology, Prof. (Dnipropetrovsk)
Puritan Code of a “New man” and Its Opponents in the Literature of American Romanticism.
S. Shcherbina, Candidate of Philology, Assistant Prof. (Poltava)
Transformation of Puritan Tradition in N. Hawthorne’s Works.
². Arendarenko, Candidate of Philology (Kyiv)
Puritanism Through W.Scoott’s and N. Hawthorne’s Eyes.
Y. Pavlenko (Kyiv)
Puritan Tradition in N. Hawthorne’s Prose.
Î. Huseynova (Kyiv)
Puritan space images in N. Hawthorne’s Novels.
Ò. Mykhed, Candidate of Philology (Kyiv)
Biblical Word in W. Whitman’s Poetics.
Plenary Session “Puritanism in the Context of the 20th Century”
N. Vysotska, Doctor of Philology, Prof. (Kyiv)
Puritan “TEXT” in F. Prows’ Novel Blue Angel.
Î. Gon, Candidate of Philology, Assistant Prof. (Kyiv)
Puritan Aspects of E. Pound’s Poems.
Î. Dubinina (Kyiv)
Puritan Tradition in W/ Styron’s Novels.
N. Pustovoytova (Kyiv)
Puritan Aspect of the Interpratation of Death in Don DeLillo’s White Noise.
G. Kolomiyets (Kyiv)
Jim Morrison Dialog with Puritan Tradition.
Ò. Stovbun (Kyiv)
Manifestation of Puritan Ideology in J. Gardner’s Prose.
N. Shpylyova (Cherkasy)
Puritan Tradition and Postmodernism in R. Brautigan’s Works.
Y. Tkachuk (Kyiv)
Puritan Conception of Idiot in W. Groom’s Forrest Gump.
Reviews:
Word and Time, 2004, ¹ 4
9. All-Ukrainian scholar symposium "Tradition of enlightenment in American literature" (Kyiv, Shevchenko Institute of Literature of the NAS of Ukraine, February 19, 2005)
Organizational Committee:
Janet Demiray, Counselor for Public Affiars, U.S. Embassy in Ukraine
Mykola Zhulynsky, Academician of the NAS of Ukraine
Tamara Denysova, Doctor of Philology, Professor
Natalja Zhluktenko, Professor
Natalja Vysotska, Doctor of Philology, Professor
Oleksandr Gon, Candidate of Philology, Assistant Professor
Yulia Tkachuk
Program:
Opening Ceremony:
Janet Demiray, Counselor for Public Affiars, U.S. Embassy in Ukraine
Mykola Sulyma, Doctor of Philology, Deputy Director of Snevchenko Institute of Literature of NAS of Ukraine
Panel Session “Eighteenth Century Enlightenment Context”
Ò. Denysova, Doctor of Philology, Prof. (Kyiv)
Enlightenment Within the Framework of American Literary History.
N. Vysotska, Doctor of Philology, Prof. (Kyiv)
"Our Black Brethren": race Rhetoric in Thomas Jefferson’s Enlightenment Discourse.
². Muratkhayan, Candidate of Philology, Assistant Prof. (Kyiv)
Enlightenment in the USA: Rhetoric and Didactic Tradition.
Î. Bàbych (Kyiv)
North American and divish Colonialisms: Jesuit and Enlightenment Variants of Modernization
². Limborsky, Candidate of Philology, Assistant Prof. (Cherkasy)
European and American Enlightenment: Reception of Ideas and Dialogue of Cultures.
². Arendarenko, Candidate of Philology (Kyiv)
Reminiscence of Epistolary Novels by S. Richardson in The Coquette by H. W. Foster.
Ò. Potnitseva, Doctor of Philology, Prof. (Dnipropetrovsk)
J. Trumbull’s Poetry: American Variant of European Styles).
N. Zhluktenko, Prof. (Kyiv)
Category of Imagination in Ph. Freneau’s Long Poems.
G. Zaporozhets, Candidate of Philology, Assistant Prof. (Mykolayiv)
Women’s Voices in Enlightenment: Themes and Personal Questions.
Ò. Mykhed, Candidate of Philology (Kyiv)
Gender Discourse in J. S. Murray’s Enlightenment Fiction.
G. Gaydash, Candidate of Philology (Kyiv)
Political play The Group by M. O. Warren as an Example of early American Drama.
Y. Pavlenko (Kyiv)
Two Narratives of Biography: F. Douglas and B. Franklin.
Panel Session “Traditions of the Enlightenment â ñó÷àñí³é àìåðèêàíñüê³é ë³òåðàòóð³”
Î. Gon, Candidate of Philology, Assistant Prof. (Kyiv)
Founding father’s Presentation in E. Pound’s Cantos.
Î. Huseynova (Kyiv)
Superstition, Erorr, Ignorance: Good Bye Enlightenment? (A. Hemon’s Blind Joseph Pronek).
Î. Starshova (Mykolayiv)
Transformation of Epistolary Genre in J. Barth Letters.
L. Kazakova (Slovyansk)
Thread Connecting Times: Enlightenment Tradition in J. Heller’s Short Stories of 1980s.
N. Krynytska (Poltava)
Resonance of Enlightenment in U. LeGuin’s Prose.
Ò. Lazarenko (Kyiv)
Echoes of Enlightenment in L. M. Silko’s Writings.
G. Pokydko (Kyiv)
Reconceptualizing Enlightenment Epistolary Genre in A. Tyler’s Novels.
N. Pustovoytova (Kyiv)
Fundamental Features of Enlightenment in modern electronic literature on the USA.
Ò. Stovbun (Kyiv)
Human Nature, Freedom, Law. The Sunlight Dialogues by J. Gardner: American Enlightenment Tradition.
Î. Dubinina (Kyiv)
Enlightenment Aspect of W. Styron’s Writing.
N. Shpylyova (Cherkasy)
Library Topos in R. Brautigan’s Writings.
G. Kolomiyets (Kyiv)
Enlightenment Deism Elements in American Rock Poetry.
Y. Tkachuk (Kyiv)
World Reception Model in A. Melnyczuk’s Novels.
Reviews:
Word and time, 2005, ¹ 4.
Agora, , 2005, Vol. 1.
10. ²²² International conference on American literature "Mainstream, heterogeneity, canon in current American literature" (Kyiv, Institute of International Relations of Kyiv National Taras Shevchenko University, October 3 - 5, 2005)
Organizational Committee:
Mykola Zhulynsky, Academician of the NAS of Ukraine
Tamara Denysova, Doctor of Philology, Professor
Natalja Zhluktenko, Professor
Natalja Vysotska, Doctor of Philology, Professor
Oleksandr Gon, Candidate of Philology, Assistant Professor
Ganna Kolomiyets, Candidate of Philology
Olena Dubinina
Opening Ceremony
Mishelle Logston, Public Affairs Section, U.S. Embassy in Ukraine
L. Gubersky, Corresponding Member of the NAS of Ukraine, Director of the Institute of International Relations
Ì. Zhulynsky, Academician of the NAS of Ukraine, Director of Shevchenko Institute of Literature of the NAS of Ukraine
Plenary Session
Emory Elliott, Prof. (USA)
Enduring Myths/Disturbing Realities: Heterogeneity or Chaos?
Patrick O’Donnell, Prof. (USA)
Y. Stulov, Prof. (Belarus, Minsk)
Feminization of the Black Canon of Canonization of Black Feminism.
Panel Session “Genres’ Development in Current American Literature”
À. Salska, Prof. (Poland)
Some Contemporary Short Stories: Story writers and the Poetics of the Humorous Tale.
Î. Osovsky, Prof. (Russia, Saransk)
Desparately Looking for Ozone: Paul Theroux’s O-Zone in the Context of the US Distopian Tradition.
G. Leshchenko, Candidate of Philology (Ukraine, Cherkasy)
Realization of Principles of “Geometric Modeling” at Analysis of Modern Detective Narrative.
S. Yakovenko (Ukraine, Kyiv)
Topos of Home in Modern American and Central European Essayistics.
N. Pustovoytova (Ukraine, Kyiv)
Poetics and Tricks of the Web-Fiction.
Î. Bàbych (Ukraine, Kyiv)
Influence of the Hollywood on the Contemporary divish Novel.
Panel Session “Heterogenity in Current American Literature: Multicultural Dimensions”
L. Serdukova (Ukraine, Gorlivka)
Multicultural Inroads in the Canon of American Literature.
Ph. Cavalier, Prof. (USA)
Maps in Literary canon: Invisible Man’s Challenge to the Known World.
G. Zaporozhets, Candidate of Philology, Assistant Prof. (Ukraine, Mykolayiv)
Telling Stories About Indians: Louise Eldrich.
Ò. Lazarenko (Ukraine, Kyiv)
Transformation of Indian Archetypes in Female Short Stories of 1980-1990s.
N. Krynytska (Ukraine, Poltava)
Feminist Fabulation as a Kind of Metafictional Enterprise.
Panel Session “Creating and Breaking the Canon: Personalities of the American Literature”
V. Lipina, Doctor of Philology, Prof. (Ukraine, Dnipropetrovsk)
Stephen Dixon: A Neglected Classic.
Ò. Potnitseva, Doctor of Philology, Prof. (Ukraine, Dnipropetrovsk)
Literary Debuts of the Recent years: Components of Success.
S. Vatchenko, Candidate of Philology (Ukraine, Dnipropetrovsk)
Poetical Versions of Authorship Canon in J. Barth’s Chimera and J. Gardner’s Grendel.
Î. Starshova (Ukraine, Mykolayiv)
Author’s Strategies in J. Barth Postmodern Texts.
Ì. Koval, Candidate of Philology, Assistant Prof. (Ukraine, Lviv)
Telling Stories, Making the Past: Personalization of History in R. Pavers’s Three Farmers on Their Way to Dance.
L. Kazakova (Ukraine, Slovyansk)
The Mirrors Up to Art: Metafiction in J. Heller’s Portrait of an Artist as an Old Man.
Î. Bilous (Ukraine,Kyiv)
Gothic Ontology in W. Percy’s Fiction.
². Gorbachevska (Ukraine, Chernivtsi)
Middle Age English Canon in the American Arthurian Cycle of the Second Half of the 20th Century.
Ò. Stovbun (Ukraine, Kyiv)
John Gardner’s art: Traditions and New Trends.
N. Shpylyova (Ukraine, Cherkasy)
American Wilderness in R. Brautigan Interpretation.
². Limborsky, Candidate of Philology, Assistant Prof. (Cherkasy)
Î. Dubinina (Ukraine, Kyiv)
Outside or Inside: W. Styron’s Writing in Postmodern Epoch.
Panel Session “American Poetry: Canon and Contemporaneity”
Hortense Simmons (USA)
The Hampton Camera Club’s Illustrations of P. L. Dunbar’s Poetry.
K. Bartchak (USA)
John Ashberry and the Idea of Canon.
L. Kolomiyets, Candidate of Philology, Assistant Prof. (Ukraine, Kyiv)
Realization of Principles of Heterogeneity in Translation Practice of American Artists.
Î. Gon, Candidate of Philology, Assistant Prof. (Ukraine, Kyiv)
The Poetics of Ezra Pound’s Adams Cantos.
G. Kolomiyets, Candidate of Philology (Ukraine, Kyiv)
Ò. S. Eliot in the Creative Space of American Rock Culture of the 1960s.
Round table Discussion “S. Bellow’s Ancestry: Contemporary Perspectives”
Ì. Anastayev (Russia, Moscow)
"The fall of Intellectuals" in S. Bellow’s Herzog and Humboldt’s Gift.
N. Zhluktenko, Prof. (Ukraine, Kyiv)
S. Bellow’s early Novels.
S. Shcherbina, Candidate of Philology, Assistant Prof. (Ukraine, Poltava)
The Correlation of Picaresque and parable in S. Bellow’s Henderson, the Rain King.
Ì. Portnova (Ukraine, Kyiv)
Body Aspect of Ethno-Cultural Text (novel by S. Bellow Mister Summer’s Planet).
Ò. Ostapchuk, Candidate of Philology (Ukraine, Mykolayiv)
Reception of S. Bellow’s Writing: Comparatinvist’s Perspective.
Closing Plenary Session
Ò. Denysova, Doctor of Philology, Prof. (Kyiv)
Heterogeneity in/and Mainstream.
N. Vysotska, Doctor of Philology, Prof. (Kyiv)
Does Heterogeneity Threaten the Canon?
11. Organization of the centre for American literary studies in Ukraine (CALSU)
(October 5, 2005)
The Centre for American Literary Studies in Ukraine was created according to the decision of All-Ukrainian constitutional meeting of americanists that took part on October 5, 2005 in the Institute of International Relations of Kyiv National Taras Shevchenko University. CALSU will work on the basis of Shevchenko Institute of Literature of the national Academy of sciences of Ukraine and with the support of the U.S. Embassy in Ukraine. CALSU’s activity is defined by its Statute.
