Archives
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The Phenomenon of a Place
No. 1 (2020)The first issue deals with the phenomenon of a place in terms of literature, culture, and philosophy. Svitlana Kocherga identifies the representation of borderlands in contemporary Ukrainian novels. Yaroslava Muravetska critically reflects upon the map of Ivan Nechui-Levytskyi's fiction, while Maryna Prepotenska considers the map of genius loci in contemporary cities including Kyiv. Iryna Nakashydze accesses the opposition of Ukraine and abroad in Yevheniia Kononenko's short stories. Svitlana Marchuk observes the genre of modern travelogue in the poetry.
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Terra Incognita, Terra Nova
No. 2 (2021)The second issue covers a broad "mental geography," a variety of genres and intellectual approaches within geopoetical studies. Read the studies of the foreign land's topos (the phenomenon of which in Volodymyr Pidpalyi's poetic reception is being analyzed by Olha Sharahina), the literary space of Polissya (Inna Halak and Iryna Hryhorenko consider it in the works of the Polissia writers Fedir Odrach, Ivan Khmel, and Dmytro Falkivskyi), the mythological and utopian worlds (they are being studied by Olha Havruliuk, based on Halyna Pahutiak's fiction), the interaction between anthropology and travel literature (Olha Romanova explores this multifaceted theme in French travel literature), as well as a fundamental imagological category of the heteroimage (Olha Demchuk looks at the role and the features of the Others and the Aliens in Vasyl Makhno's essay collection).
