Books from the “Litopys” publishing house were presented at VDU today

On March 18, a presentation of books from the "Litopys" publishing house took place at Lesya Ukrainka Volyn State University, with the participation of author and compiler Mariia Zubrytska and Olena Haleta. This was reported to "Lutsk Investytsiinyi" by the press center of VDU.

Mariia Zubrytska. Homo legens: Reading as a Sociocultural Phenomenon. For the first time in Ukrainian literary studies, an attempt has been made to panoramically illuminate the main theoretical problems related to the discourse of the reader and reading, which was formed by literary-critical thought of the 20th century. The areas of theoretical borderland in the discourse of reading have been identified and analyzed through the prism of philosophy, cultural studies, linguistics, aesthetics and ethics, rhetoric and epistemology*. The author examines the sociocultural phenomenon of reading against the background of dynamic changes that contributed to the emergence of ever-new general cultural and literary visions, the birth and circulation of unexpected theoretical ideas, as well as the search for practical embodiment of diverse formats of communication between the Reader and the Text.

Oleh Ilnytskyi. Ukrainian Futurism. A book by a Canadian literary scholar about Ukrainian futurism — the artistic revolution carried out by M. Semenko, H. Shkurupii, O. Slisarenko, L. Kurbas and others, and thanks to which, for the first time in several centuries, Ukrainian culture found itself in the avant-garde of European artistic life.

*Epistemology – the same as the theory of knowledge or gnoseology. A branch of philosophy that studies the regularities and possibilities of cognition, the relationship of knowledge (sensations, perceptions, concepts) to objective reality, examines the degrees and forms of the process of cognition, the conditions and criteria of its probability and truth. Generalizing the methods and techniques used by modern science (experiment, modeling, analysis and synthesis, and so on), epistemology emerges as its philosophical-methodological foundation.