Ukraine 10 клас Ukrainian Literature (profile level)

1. Introduction

Literature and reading

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2. Realism

Realism as a trend and method · I. Nechui-Levytskyi and Panas Myrnyi · Drama and theatre · B. Hrinchenko

• Drama: Elements, Stagecraft and Performance – Drama is a story told by actors who become characters and act it out in front of an audience. Every drama has characters who want something, a conflict when those wants clash, a plot that builds tension to a climax and then resolves, dialogue, a setting and a theme. On stage, actors use voice and body, and the production adds lighting, set, costume and sound.

3. Ukrainian literature c. 1900: modernism

Trends of the turn of the century · Ivan Franko · Impressionism: M. Kotsiubynskyi · Expressionism: V. Stefanyk · Neoromanticism: O. Kobylianska, Lesia Ukrainka · Symbolism: V. Vynnychenko, P. Tychyna · B. Lepkyi and I. Gasprinsky

• Impressionism – Impressionism was an art movement that began in France in the 1860s–1870s. Painters such as Claude Monet, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Edgar Degas, Camille Pissarro, Alfred Sisley, Berthe Morisot and Mary Cassatt painted outdoors, quickly, to catch the changing effects of light and the atmosphere of one moment. They used bright, pure colours placed side by side in visible brushstrokes, coloured shadows and scenes of modern everyday life. Their first group show in Paris in 1874 was mocked by critics, who took the name from Monet's painting 'Impression, Sunrise'. Impressionism opened the way to Post-Impressionism (Seurat, Van Gogh, Cézanne, Gauguin) and modern art, and the word was also used for music (Debussy) and literature.
• Expressionism: Painting What You Feel, Not What You See – Expressionism (about 1905–1925) was a modern art movement that showed inner feelings rather than the outside world. Artists bent shapes, used strong unreal colours and rough brushwork to show fear, anger, joy or loneliness. Its forerunners were Van Gogh and Munch. Fauvism in Paris (Matisse) freed colour; in Germany, Die Brücke (Kirchner) used jagged woodcut shapes and Der Blaue Reiter (Kandinsky, Marc) treated colour as spiritual feeling. Expressionism also shaped film, theatre, poetry and prose.
• Romanticism – Romanticism was a movement in literature, art and music from about 1780 to 1850. It reacted against the Age of Reason's strict rules and against ugly, crowded factory towns. Romantics valued nature, especially wild and 'sublime' nature, strong personal feeling, the free individual, imagination and dreams, the past and folk culture. Key figures include Wordsworth, Keats, Goethe, Pushkin, Mary Shelley, Victor Hugo, the painters Turner and Friedrich, and composers such as Chopin and Schubert.

4. Local literature and review

Home-region writers and review

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