Lemko-Ukrainian Poet Bohdan Ihor Antonych Revisited

Session Submission Type: Panel

Brief Description

The panel will be somewhat of hybrid in nature. It will partly focus on the forthcoming Bucknell University Press paperback edition (“Ecstasies and Elegies: Selected Poetry of Bohdan Ihor Antonych”) of Michael Naydan’s translations of Antonych’s poetry with Lidia Stefanowska’s scholarly introductory article. The participants will use the new edition as a starting point for their discussion, but also more deeply examine various aspects of Antonych’s poetics that require further illumination both in the original Ukrainian as well as in translation into Polish and English. Lidia Stefanowksa will discuss Antonych’s search for “praslovo” (the primeval world) in his poetics. Katarzyna Jakubowska-Krawczyk will examine recent iterations of the influence of Antonych on contemporary Ukrainian and Polish culture. And Alla Perminova will focus on linguistic aspects of Antonych’s poetry and issues of translation.

Sub Unit

• Literature: 20th Century

Chair

• Michael M. Naydan, Pennsylvania State U

Papers

• Antonych’s Poetic Search for Praslovo, the Primeval Word - Lidia Stefanowska, U of Warsaw (Poland)

• Bohdan Ihor Antonych's Poetry: Intersemiotic Translation and Polish-Ukrainian Cultural Dialogue - Katarzyna Jakubowska-Krawczyk, U of Warsaw (Poland)

• Anomalous Syntax and Other Translation Issues in the Poetry of Bohdan Ihor Antonych - Alla Shyrokova Manno, Autonomous U of Barcelona (Spain)

Discussants

• Michael M. Naydan, Pennsylvania State U

• Olha Tytarenko, Yale U