Ukrainian Futurism

[Robert De Lossa]

New Title Announcement
Ukrainian Research Institute
Harvard University

Ukrainian Futurism, 1914­1930: A Historical and Critical Study
Oleh S. Ilnytzkyj

>>From its inception just before WWI to its demise during the turmoil of the
Soviet 1930s, Ukrainian Futurism remained little studied and much
misunderstood. It has remained so in the late 20th century. Professor Oleh
Ilnytzkyj¹s study of the Futurists and their leader Mykhail' Semenko
addresses this problem, providing the first major monograph on this vibrant
literary movement. The study includes histories of Futurism and other major
Ukrainian literary movements and analyses of the major figures of the
movement and their works, focusing first and foremost on Semenko himself.
Color and black and white illustrations, as well as special typography show
the important link between the written and visual media. As well, Ilnytzkyj
discusses the interaction of the Futurists with such important film and
theater figures as Oleksandr Dovzhenko and Les' Kurbas.

Ukrainian Futurism will be of great value to all those interested in
twentieth-century Central and East European culture.

Oleh Ilnytzkyj is Professor in the Department of Modern Languages and
Literatures at the University of Alberta. He received his Ph.D. in Slavic
Languages and Literatures from Harvard University and is the author of
numerous works on twentieth-century Ukrainian literature.

Winner of the 1997 American Association for Ukrainian Studies Book Prize

1997. 430 pp., illus., ISBN 0-916458-56-3 (hardcover) $35.00, 0-916458-59-8
(paperback) $18.00.
Harvard Series in Ukrainian Studies.

Available from:
Harvard University Press
79 Garden St.
Cambridge, MA 02138
1-800-448-2242 (US and Canada); fax. 1-800-962-4983
Book Codes: ILNUKR (hardcover) and ILNUKX (paperback)

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Robert De Lossa
Director of Publications
Ukrainian Research Institute, Harvard University
1583 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge, MA 02138
617-496-8768; fax. 617-495-8097
reply to: rdelossa at fas.harvard.edu
http://www.sabre.org/huri