The profound ethos. Essays in literature and philosophy: Toronto, Homin Ukrainy (Ukrainian Echo) Publishing, 1984, 494 p.

The material is an extensive collection of literary and philosophical studies by Dmytro Koziy. The publication contains an analysis of the literary work of famous Ukrainian writers, in which the author examines the stylistics, philosophy of writers, and psychology of the Ukrainian people. Koziy paid special attention to the figures of T. Shevechnko, I. Franko, and Lesia Ukrainka. The collection also includes works dedicated to a number of other outstanding figures. The most important topic of the author’s research is human nature and the ethos that he finds in literary texts.

Contents:

Instead of an introductory speech

Lord of our souls

Shevchenko life affirmation

Shevchenko’s man

Shevchenko’s idea of righteous law

Shevchenko’s ethos

Shevchenko’s Prometheism

Aspects of Shevchenko’s hope

Ethical paradox in the poem «Haidamaky»

The idea of «our sea» in the mind of T. Shevchenko

Girl’s heart in the Shevchenko world

Friendship in Shevchenko’s life

The problem of tragic guilt in the dramatic works of Lesia Ukrainka

Lesya Ukrainka’s forms of tragedy

The concept of the prophetess Cassandra

Mavka

Classic images in the work of Lesia Ukrainka

To the problem of Ivan Franko’s worldview searches

Development of Ivan Franko’s worldview

Trust to the being

The idea of loyalty in Ivan Franko’s concept

Khoryv’s fire

To the genesis of Franko’s legends

Franko’s moralistic poetry on an old basis

In the laboratory of the scientist and the poet

Spiritual structure of Fedkovych

To the depths of existence

Stefanyk’s man in limit situations

Ukrainian Niobe

Spiritual face of Olha Kobylyanska

A threefold source of creative inspiration of B. I. Antonych

Poet’s truth

«God, who didn’t feel You?»

«And the world caught me»

Lina Kostenko

The language of things

«Stop, minute, you’re beautiful!»

Fullness of life

Voluntarism

The ethos of honor

Doubt

Nature as a moment of religious experiences

The problem of eros

Narcissus in the spiritual world of Skovoroda

Three aspects of self-knowledge in Skovoroda

Skovoroda – Plato – Epicurus

The philosophy of the mystery of Gabriel Marcel

In time and eternity

How to read Vassyian’s monograph about Stefanyk

In memory of my father

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