{"product_id":"shakespeare-in-the-undiscovered-bourn-irena-makaryk-9780802088499","title":"Shakespeare in the Undiscovered Bourn: Les Kurbas, Ukrainian Modernism, and Early Soviet Cultural Politics","description":"\u003cp\u003eLes Kurbas - director, actor, playwright, filmmaker, and translator - was the first artist to introduce Shakespeare to the Ukrainian stage. Creating the foundations of Soviet Ukrainian theatre and cinema, he was also responsible for its avant-garde direction. \u003ci\u003eShakespeare in the Undiscovered Bourn\u003c\/i\u003e is the first book-length study in English of Kurbas's modernist productions of Shakespeare and the first book on Soviet Shakespeare productions in Ukraine in any language.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSituating Shakespeare within the ideological and cultural debates and conflicts of the early Soviet period, Irena Makaryk traces the trajectory of Shakespeare's and Kurbas's fortunes while also investigating the challenges that modernism posed to early Soviet ideology.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eUkraine's cultural history - still an undiscovered bourn - has frequently been submerged within a homogenized Soviet experience. The fall of the Soviet Union and the consequent opening up of many hitherto inaccessible archives has allowed a new probing of the master narratives created during that regime. Invoking contemporary debates about the cultural uses of Shakespeare (especially issues of canon, classic, and authority), \u003ci\u003eShakespeare in the Undiscovered Bourn\u003c\/i\u003e examines the complexities of the Soviet encounter with Shakespeare. It thus makes an important contribution to the studies of theatre, cross-culturalism, modernism, and postcolonialism.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Irena Makaryk\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 080208849X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780802088499\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Toronto Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/20\/2004\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 270\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.25lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 6.30h x 9.32w x 1.06d","brand":"Irena Makaryk","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":49096734081279,"sku":"9780802088499","price":91.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/shakespeare-in-the-undiscovered-bourn-irena-makaryk-9780802088499","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}