Myxajlo Lučkaj - A Dissident Forerunner of Literary Rusyn?

Author: Danylenko, Andrii

Source: The Slavonic and East European Review, Volume 87, Number 2, 1 April 2009 , pp. 201-226(26)

Publisher: Modern Humanities Research Association

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Abstract:

This article investigates the language programme of Myxajlo Lučkaj (Pop) (1789-1843), one of Subcarpathia's national awakeners. Special emphasis is placed on the `linguistic democratism' of his collection of fifty-seven sermons for popular instruction (1831). The author concludes that Lučkaj created a so-called `middle' plain language that was a continuation structurally of the `old' prostaja mova (Ruthenian), in contrast to seventeenth-century Church Slavonic. This explains the ambivalence of his linguistic legacy in the cultural context of Subcarpathia and Galicia where the Greek Catholic clergy advanced the idea of one literary language.

Document Type: Research article

Affiliations: 1: The Department of Modern Languages and Cultures at Pace University, New York

Publication date: 2009-04-01

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The Review is the oldest British journal in the field, having been in existence since 1922. Edited and managed by the School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University College London, it covers not only the modern and medieval languages and literatures of the Slavonic and East European area, but also history, culture, and political studies.