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Chapter Lope de Vega’s La hermosa Ester: a heroine on the Dutch stage
Several recent studies on Amsterdam’s Grand City Theater (the Schouwburg, est. 1637) have focused on transnational adaptations of Spanish comedias in the Dutch repertory, analyzing ways of transfer, marketing, artistic translation and adaptation, popularity and impact on Dutch theatre life…
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Як воює ІДІЛ = How ISIS Fights
Based on extensive field work, this book analyzes how ISIS – a widely hated, massively outnumbered, and ludicrously outgunned organization – managed to occupy over 120 cities, towns, and villages from the Southern Philippines to Western Libya. Seeking to understand ISIS’s combat effectiveness, Omar…
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Посткомуністичні режими = A Concise Field Guide to Post-Communist Regimes
The unanticipated and unsolicited Russian aggression against Ukraine in February 2022 highlighted the urgency of updating general assumptions about post-communist countries. The war has revealed the inadequacy of the terms and concepts employed for western democracies for describing, understanding…
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Chapter Художня рецепція образів України та українців у повісті М. Гоголя Тарас Бульба (перша редакція 1835 р.)
Artistic Reception of Images of Ukraine and Ukrainians in Mykola Gogol’s Taras Bulba (First Edition, 1835). This paper discusses Mykola Gogol’s story Taras Bulba (1835) and its exploration of Ukrainian history and culture. Gogol’s work reflects his deep study of Ukrainian and world history, as well…
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Chapter Тема війни і миру в сучасній українській поезії
The Perception of War and Peace in Modern Ukrainian Poetry. Ukrainians are going through a very difficult, traumatic, catastrophic experience. Contemporary Ukrainian poetry about the war, for instance, is closely connected with the themes of women and childhood during the war. The tragedy of…
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Chapter Від femme fatale до femme vital: сліди віденської сецесії в українському модернізмі
The femme fatale as a code of Viennese modernism. The article examines the image of the femme fatale as one of the key transnational images of European modernism. Special emphasis is placed on the Viennese ssecession context, as well as the formation of a new type of femininity in the archetypal…
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Hrammatiki slavenskija pravilnoe syntagma. Kirchenslavische Grammatik
Als eines der bedeutendsten slavischen grammatischen Werke vor J. Dobrovskys 'Institutiones linguae Slavicae' (Wien 1822) bzw. vor M.V. Lomonosovs 'Rossijskaja grammatika' (Sankt-Petersburg 1755/1757/) wird mit Recht die kirchenslavische Grammatik angesehen. Jedoch sowohl bezüglich des…