Abbreviations

Introduction: Writing a Linguistic Biography of a Ukrainian Maverick

Part I: The Bible

Chapter 1: Exploring Psalmody

The Book of Psalms

Alexandrine Verse or Trochaic Foot?

Invoking Gavrila Deržavin

Church Slavonicisms

¿Kulišisms¿

Xarkiv Chimes In

The 1897 Poetic Crowning

Chapter 2: The Makings of the Rusian Bible

A Pentateuch Prolusion

Gearing Up for New Challenges

¿Poison and Ruin for the Rusian People¿

¿The Labor Pangs of a Unified Ukrainian Literary Language¿

Reception of the Translation

The Sloboda Bulwark

The Archangel Havrylo

Who Else Bears a Grudge?

The Creation of the New Biblical Style

Means of Archaization

Means of Vernacularization

Chapter 3: Galicia ¿Writes Back¿

The West or the East?

Fostering ¿Rusian Church Vernacular¿

Any Palliative Solution?

Lost in Diacritics

To ¿Secularize¿ or ¿Synthesize¿?

Chapter 4: Here Comes the Bible!

The Holy Writ Doesn¿t Burn

Tobit and Job

At the Crossroads of Poetry and Prose

Ivan Ne¿uj-Levyc¿kyj Takes It Personally

The Pranks of Ivan Franko

Ivan Puljuj Makes His Riposte

How Should It Sound?

How to String Words?

How to Choose Words?

How to Spell Words?

Ivan Ne¿uj-Levyc¿kyj Is Shuffled Backstage

Interpreting Hebrew Poetry

The Book of Job

Lamentations

The Song of Songs

The Versified Bible

Summary

Part II: Shakespeare

Chapter 5: ¿Oh, Shakespeare, Our Father, Native to All Peoples¿

Ethics Avant la Lettre!

Bringing Forth the ¿Ukrainian Shakespeare¿

The First (Over)Reaction

The Language of the ¿Ukrainian Shakespeare¿

On the Threshold of a New Secular High Style

Chapter 6: Expanding the Literary Canon of the ¿Ukrainian Shakespeare¿

The First Step Is the Hardest?

¿Huculia Did Not Appear; Rather Shakespeare Was Merely Hidden¿

Hamlet or Hamljet? That Is the Question

Hamlet in Peasant Leather Shoes

The Younger Generation Steps to the Fore

¿We Are All Peasants Today¿

One or Multiple Homesteads?

Conclusion: Detours Offered But Never Taken

Bibliography

Indices

Geographical and Personal Names

Subjects and Titles of Literary Works and Translations

Word-forms