The Discourse of Modernism in Ukrainian Literature

Solomiia Pavlychko's monograph proposed a new reading of Ukrainian literature of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries through the lens of modernism. The scholar shows that Ukrainian modernism was not a peripheral echo of the European movement but had its own dynamic, closely bound to questions of language, gender and cultural independence. Particular attention is given to Olha Kobylianska and Lesia Ukrainka and to how their texts work with women's subjectivity. The book substantially changed the academic conversation about the period and remains foundational for university courses in contemporary Ukrainian literary studies. The monograph is included in university syllabi and remains a reference for research on modernism. The book has appeared in several print runs and is also available in digital form.