From the Bible to Shakespeare

“From the Bible to Shakespeare represents a truly innovative and fundamental study of an important contribution to the Ukrainian linguistic culture, made by the famous Ukrainian writer and cultural figure Pantelejmon Kuliš. . . . the volume also appears to be a very useful text for university studies. It provides a great deal of facts and theoretical concepts for reconstruction of the history of biblical studies on the Ukrainian terrain in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.” -- Sergii Golovashchenko, Kyiv-Mohyla Academy
Andrii Danylenko’s From the Bible to Shakespeare: Pantelejmon Kuliš (1819-1897) and the Formation of Literary Ukrainian is a profound study that offers an insight into a complex process of the development of language, embracing the formation of the literary and the national. Kuliš’s translations represent an intriguing study case not only for the exploration of linguistic synthesis, but also for investigation of identity fluidity that stems from openness towards linguistic and cultural dialogism. -- Nataliya Shpylova-Saeed, New Books Network, 23 February 2017 * New Books Network *

“This book could be rightly considered as a further step towards the realization of an ‘integral history of the new Ukrainian literary language’ which Danylenko is striving for. … Overall, the book can be read with the utmost curiosity and recommended to those scholars with a keen interest in the formation process of modern literary Ukrainian. Danylenko’s detailed analysis of the language used in the exemplified translation fragments by Kuliš and the comparison with the translations made by his, more or less famous, contemporaries, inserted in broader socio-historic and cultural-literary context, adds a fundamental milestone in the history of the Ukrainian language.” —Salvatore Del Gaudio, Richerche Slavistiche Vol. 1 (LXI)

-- Salvatore Del Gaudio * Richerche Slavistiche *