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Ukraine, the Middle East, and the West, Thomas M. Prymak

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Ukraine, the Middle East, and the West, Thomas M. Prymak

Language

eng

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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illustrationsplates

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Ukraine, the Middle East, and the West

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

1202054781

Responsibility statement

Thomas M. Prymak

Summary

"For decades, Ukrainian contacts with the outside world were minimal, impeded by politics, ideology, and geography. But prior to the Soviet period the country enjoyed diverse exchanges with, on the one hand, its Islamic neighbours, the Crimean Khanate and the Ottoman Empire, and, on the other, its central and western European neighbours, especially Poland and France. Thomas Prymak addresses geographical knowledge, international travel, political conflicts, historical relations with religiously diverse neighbours, artistic developments, and literary and language contacts to smash old stereotypes about Ukrainian isolation and tell a vivid and original story. The book treats a wide range of subjects, including Ukrainian travelers in the Middle East, from pilgrims to the Holy Land to political exiles in Turkey and Iran; Tartar slave raiding in Ukraine; the poetry of Taras Shevchenko and the Russian war against Imam Shamil in the High Caucasus; Ukrainian themes and the French writers Honoré de Balzac and Prosper Mérimée; Rembrandt's mysterious painting today titled The Polish Rider; and Ilya Repin's legendary painting of the Zaporozhian Cossacks writing their satirical letter mocking the Turkish sultan. Drawing together political and cultural history, languages and etymology, and folklore and art history, Ukraine, the Middle East, and the West is an original interdisciplinary study that reintroduces Ukraine's long-overlooked connections beyond Eastern Europe."--, Provided by publisher

Table Of Contents

From Abbot Daniel to Count Potocki: Middle East Travel to 1800 -- From the "Emir" to the Metropolitan: Middle East Travel (1800-1914) -- Tatar Slave Raiding and Turkish Captivity in Ukrainian History and Legend -- Maksymovych and the National Awakening -- Shamil, Shevchenko, and the Chef-d'oeuvre, "The Caucasus": A Poem as Seen from Afar -- All about Ève: The Realist Balzac's Ukrainian Dreamland -- La Guzla, Gogol, and the Cossacks: Prosper Mérimée Looks East -- Deciphering Rembrandt's Polish Rider -- Message to Mehmed: Repin Creates His Zaporozhian Cossacks

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