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TEXT AND PERFORMANCE. Modern Ukrainian Drama.
(In Ukrainian:TEKST I HRA. Ukrayins'ka Moderna Drama). Essays on Drama. Litopys, 2009. 472 pp.
Section I. ON TRENDS AND THEMES IN MODERN UKRAINIAN DRAMA
Essays on plays reflecting modernism, postmodernism, existentialism; plays by diaspora authors; plays about the National Revolution of 1917-1920; the Pereiaslav Treaty; on postmodern drama, and on issues of identity.
Section II. AUTHORS AND PLAYS, A COMPARATIVE VIEW
Essays on 18 individual dramatic poems/plays: from Ivan Franko and Lesia Ukrayinka, to Valerii Shevchuk and Wira Wowk.
Section III. TEXTS AND THEIR INTERPRETATIONS BY THEATRE DIRECTORS
Essays on 25 individual plays and performances, from the to several Ukrainian theatres in 1988 to 2000, in Ukraine and in the USA.
Section IV. NON-UKRAINIAN TEXTS AND UKRAINE
Essays on Polish, Russian, and American plays about Ukrainians.
Section V. BOOK REVIEWS ON THE UKRAINIAN THEATRE AND ACTORS
Reviews of books by Valerian Revutsky, Valerii Haidabura, and Irena Makaryk, resp.
Section VI. BIBLIOGRAPHY AND INDICES
Bibliography of publications by Larissa Zaleska Onyshkevych on drama and theater; Index of Names; Index of Book Titles.
AWARDS FOR THESE BOOKS
* This book of essays on Ukrainian drama and theatre was awarded First Prize at the L. and P. Kovaliv Competition (2011).
* listed by LitAkcent in the top best Ukrainian books for the 3rd quarter of 2010.
* listed in the top 10 books in The XIth Book Competition in 2010, in the category of Literary Studies in Ukraine (2010).
EVALUATIONS AND BOOK REVIEWS
*"Tekst i Hra" - is the most fundamental study of the Ukrainian modern drama, both as a literary and a theatrical phenomenon." Ivan Dziuba (Nat'l Academy of Arts & Sciences of Ukraine), Kyïv. 25 December, 2009. (Archives of the Shevchenko Scientific Society.)
*" As a literary scholar, Larissa Zaleska Onyshkevych focuses on the dramatic texts, discussing them as literary works in terms of their intertextuality, as well as in their correlation with other genres." Nadiia Sokolenko (Ed. in Chief of Ukraïns'kyi teatr), "Ihry z Tekstamy," Ukraïns'kyi teatr, nos.4-5, 2011.
TEXT AND PERFORMANCE. Modern Ukrainian Drama.
(In Ukrainian:TEKST I HRA. Ukrayins'ka Moderna Drama). Essays on Drama. Litopys, 2009. 472 pp.
Section I. ON TRENDS AND THEMES IN MODERN UKRAINIAN DRAMA
Essays on plays reflecting modernism, postmodernism, existentialism; plays by diaspora authors; plays about the National Revolution of 1917-1920; the Pereiaslav Treaty; on postmodern drama, and on issues of identity.
Section II. AUTHORS AND PLAYS, A COMPARATIVE VIEW
Essays on 18 individual dramatic poems/plays: from Ivan Franko and Lesia Ukrayinka, to Valerii Shevchuk and Wira Wowk.
Section III. TEXTS AND THEIR INTERPRETATIONS BY THEATRE DIRECTORS
Essays on 25 individual plays and performances, from the to several Ukrainian theatres in 1988 to 2000, in Ukraine and in the USA.
Section IV. NON-UKRAINIAN TEXTS AND UKRAINE
Essays on Polish, Russian, and American plays about Ukrainians.
Section V. BOOK REVIEWS ON THE UKRAINIAN THEATRE AND ACTORS
Reviews of books by Valerian Revutsky, Valerii Haidabura, and Irena Makaryk, resp.
Section VI. BIBLIOGRAPHY AND INDICES
Bibliography of publications by Larissa Zaleska Onyshkevych on drama and theater; Index of Names; Index of Book Titles.
AWARDS FOR THESE BOOKS
* This book of essays on Ukrainian drama and theatre was awarded First Prize at the L. and P. Kovaliv Competition (2011).
* listed by LitAkcent in the top best Ukrainian books for the 3rd quarter of 2010.
* listed in the top 10 books in The XIth Book Competition in 2010, in the category of Literary Studies in Ukraine (2010).
EVALUATIONS AND BOOK REVIEWS
*"Tekst i Hra" - is the most fundamental study of the Ukrainian modern drama, both as a literary and a theatrical phenomenon." Ivan Dziuba (Nat'l Academy of Arts & Sciences of Ukraine), Kyïv. 25 December, 2009. (Archives of the Shevchenko Scientific Society.)
*" As a literary scholar, Larissa Zaleska Onyshkevych focuses on the dramatic texts, discussing them as literary works in terms of their intertextuality, as well as in their correlation with other genres." Nadiia Sokolenko (Ed. in Chief of Ukraïns'kyi teatr), "Ihry z Tekstamy," Ukraïns'kyi teatr, nos.4-5, 2011.