Питання для самоконтролю:

1. How old is Ukrainian literature?

2. When did Ivan Kotliarevsky write the famous epic poem «Eneida»? What is your impression about it?

3. What did Taras Shevchenko reflect in his Kobzar?

4. When did realism flourish?

5. Who were the masters of realistic prose?

6. What prominent Ukrainian writers of the XIX century do you know?

7. How can you characterize the great terror in literature?

8. What names of the «Shestydesiatnyky» do you know?

Контрольні завдання до самостійної роботи № 21

I рівень

І. Знайдіть еквівалентні слова:

1) witticism a) сповіщати

2) to usher б) відроджувати

3) fighting в) душа, дух

4) to spur г) спонукати

5) self-realization д) жарт

6) psyche е) придатний

7) purge є) очищення

8) suitable ж) бойовий

9) violent з) самовираження

10) to revitalize і) насильницький

ІІ. Поставте знак "+", якщо ви згодні та знак "-", якщо незгодні з наступними твердженнями.

1. The literature of Ukraine has a 2,000-year history.

2. In the late 1700s Ivan Kotsiubynsky wrote his famous epic poem «Eneida».

3. The twentieth century began with Renaissance in li­terature (1920s).

4. A group of writers from the 1960s, known as the «Shestydesiatnyky» («The Sixtiers»), took advantage of a po­litical thaw.

5. By the 1930s the great terror began, with its purges, show trials and repression.

II рівень

ІІІ. Завершіть речення, вставляючи потрібне слово замість крапок.

1. In the late 1700s Ivan Kotliarevsky wrote his famous ____ _____ «Eneida».

2. Full of Ukrainian folk _____ and realistic portraits, it was hugely _______.

3. Kot­liarevsky was the _____who introduced living _____ _____ into Ukrainian literature.

4. The appearance of Taras Shevchenko's ______ (1840) us­hered in an epoch of ________ and national self-conscious­ness.

5. Taras Shevchenko reflected the hopes and _______of the nation in the best folk ______ traditions.

III рівень

ІY. Дайте відповіді на наступні запитання.

1. How old is Ukrainian literature?

2. When did Ivan Kotliarevsky write the famous epic poem «Eneida»? What is your impression about it?

3. What did Taras Shevchenko reflect in his Kobzar?

4. When did realism flourish?

5. Who were the masters of realistic prose?

6. What prominent Ukrainian writers of the XIX century do you know?

7. How can you characterize the great terror in literature?

8. What names of the «Shestydesiatnyky» do you know?

ІY рівень Розкажіть про українську літературу та етапи її розвитку.

Caмостійнa робота № 22

Тема : Василь Стус

Основні питання, що розглядаються:

1. Біографія сучасного українського поета Василя Стуса.

2. Літературна робота поета.

Література:

1. Цветкова И.B., Клепальченко И.А., Мыльцева Н.А. Английский язык для школьников и поступающих в вузы. – Издательство “ГЛОССА”, 1996 – 224с.

2. Скалкин B.Л. Учитесь говорить по-английски - M.,-«Просвещение», 1972. – 304с.

Студент повинен знати:

1. Біографічні відомості про Василя Стуса.

2. Відомості про літературну творчість поета.

3. Лeксичний мінімум.

Студент повинен вміти: рoзпoвiсти про біографію та літературну діяльність Василя Стуса.

A MODERN UKRAINIAN POET: VASYL' STUS

Vasyl' Stus is a Ukrainian poet.

He was born on January 8, 1938, in the village of Rakhnivka, Ukraine.

He died on September 4, 1985, in the camp for political prisoners in Russia.

BIOGRAPHY

Though born in the vicinity of the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv, Stus spent his childhood and youth in the Donbas Re­gion, an extremely russified area of Ukraine. After gradua­ting from a Teachers' Training College he worked as a teicher of Ukrainian language and literature. In 1963 he moved to Kyiv to become a graduate student in literary theory at the Institute of Literature under the Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian SSR. In 1965, during the period of political thaw in the USSR, Stus publicly protested against the repressions of the Ukrainian intelligentsia, for which he was expelled from his graduate program. In 1972 he was arrested, charged with anti-Soviet propaganda and sentenced to five years in the camps and three years of exile. He returned back to Kyiv in 1979 only to be arrested again eight months later. This time he was sentenced to ten years of imprisonment and five years of exile. Stus died in a punishment cell at a camp for political prisoners in the Urals. He was 47 years old.

LITERARY WORK

As a poet, Stus started publishing in 1963—1965. His first collections of poetry «The Circuit» (Kruhovert'), «Winter Trees» (Zymovi dereva), and «The Merry Cemetery» (Veselyj tsvyntar) were written before his incarceration. However, it is his prison poetry, namely the collections «А Candle in a Mirror» (Svicha v svichadi) and particu­larly «Palimpsests» (Palimpsesty) that are considered the height of his creative heritage. Filled with existential anguish, Stus' prison poetry explores the themes of life and death, fate and destiny, individual choice and respon­sibility. It is the treatment of these themes that places his works in the context of those written by the most distinguished incarcerated intellectuals, such as Paul Verlaine, Taras Shevchenko, Oscar Wild, Jean Genet, Ale­xander Solzhenitsyn. Stus also takes the undeniable lea­ding place on the modern Ukrainian literary horizon.

Vocabulary

in the vicinity — поблизу, неподалік

political thaw — політична відлига

to expell — виключати

to sentence —виносити вирок

exile — заслання, вигнання

imprisonment — тюремне ув’язнення

to consider — рорзглядати

heritage — спадщина

fate — доля

destiny — доля, неминучість

undeniable —незаперечний

Питання для самоконтролю:

1. When was Vasyl Stus born?

2. Where did he spend his childhood?

3. When did he die?

4. What college did he graduate from?

5. Why was he expelled from the Institute of Literature?

6. When did he start publishing?

7. What were his first collections of poetry?

8. What themes does Stus' prison poetry explore?