Svitlana Kobets
Biographic Data
| ID | 5713091 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Svitlana Kobets |
| GIVEN NAMES | Svitlana |
| FAMILY NAME | Kobets |
| SIGNATURE | KOBETS S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Toronto |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 15 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
From the Tabennisi nunnery to Pussy Riot
In this paper, as the author explores the gendered aspects of the holy fool’s phenomenology, she argues that, despite the presumed egalitarianism and the fact that female holy fools appeared in Byzantine hagiography as early as the fifth century, throughout the history of holy foolishness the urban model – hagiographically established in the Byzantine vita of Simeon the Fool of Emesa – was available exclusively to males. Females, recently canoniz…
Folly, Foolishness, Foolery
In Eastern Orthodox Christianity the fool for Christ (Russ. iurodivyi, Greek salos) is both a canonical saint and a social pariah. While he is an ascetic, he prefers the city's commotion to the serenity of seclusion, constantly engaging his audiences in interactive shows, which shock them into the realization of vital truths about themselves, worldly existence and higher reality. It was this role of the iurodivyi that elevated him to the position…
The Paradigm of the Hebrew Prophet and the Russian Tradition of Iurodstvo
This paper proceeds from the premise that Russian iurodivye—or fools for Christ—display a remarkable resemblance to the Hebrew prophets. As it explores the genealogical link between these two cultural paradigms, the paper shows that, during the various stages of the developmental history of holy foolery, the figure of the Old Testament prophet served as the holy fool’s literary and behavioural model. The influence of the prophetic paradigm on the…
The Joy of All Who Sorrow
Quest for Selfhood and Dystopia in Valerii Shevchuk’s Eye of the Abyss
This paper argues that Valerii Shevchuk’s recent work, Eye of the Abyss(1996), is a dystopian novel that ponders post-Soviet dilemmas through the lens of mythological events that take place in Ukraine’s pseudo-historical past. The novel’s themes include a utopian quest for happiness and totalitarianism; the value of true knowledge and the consequences of unawareness; a search for self-awareness and conformism. The quest of four main characters, w…
Diagnosing Literary Genius
Contents: Preface On Transliteration and Spelling Introduction 1 Gogol, Moralists, and Nineteenth-Century Psychiatry 2 Dostoevsky: From Epilepsy to Progeneration 3 Tolstoy and the Beginning of Psychotherapy in Russia 4 Decadents, Revolutionaries, and the Nation's Mental Health 5 The Institute of Genius: Psychiatry in the Early Soviet Years Notes Bibliography Index
Russkie ooety KhKh veka
Takoe vot kino … Russkie fil'my 1990-kh godov
Ruslan Russian 1
Kirill of Turov
Discovering the Universe Between the Feminine and Masculine
In the present essay I employ archetypal criticism to explore the mythological subtext of Valerii Shevchuk’s novella Hunchback Zoya. I argue that the theme of initiation of the male characters—congruous with the theme of healing repeatedly present in Shevchuk’s works—is central to this particular novella. My analysis of this topic relies on such Jungian notions as the archetype, the conscious and unconscious psyche, and individuation. I further a…
Foolishness in Christ
SVITLANA KOBETS (Urbana, IL, U.S.A.) FOOLISHNESS IN CHRIST: EAST VS. WEST The Foolish E a s t Eastern Orthodox Christianity has a unique category o f saints, the holy fools for Christ's sake, who in the Byzantine tradition were called saloi and in Russia are k n o w n as iurodiv'ye.1 These saints are representative o f a special kind o f Christian asceticism. While a "conventional" ascetic renounces the Profane world in order to devote his life t…
Vizantiiskoe Iurodstvo
The Subtext of Christian Asceticism in Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
Svitlana Kobets, The Subtext of Christian Asceticism in Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, The Slavic and East European Journal, Vol. 42, No. 4 (Winter, 1998), pp. 661-676
Pol'ovi doslidzhennia z ukrains'kogo seksu
The Paradigm of the Hebrew Prophet and the Russian Tradition of Iurodstvo
This paper proceeds from the premise that Russian iurodivye—or fools for Christ—display a remarkable resemblance to the Hebrew prophets. As it explores the genealogical link between these two cultural paradigms, the paper shows that, during the various stages of the developmental history of holy foolery, the figure of the Old Testament prophet served as the holy fool’s literary and behavioural model. The influence of the prophetic paradigm on the…
Pol'ovi doslidzhennia z ukrains'kogo seksu
Vizantiiskoe Iurodstvo
The Subtext of Christian Asceticism in Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
Svitlana Kobets, The Subtext of Christian Asceticism in Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, The Slavic and East European Journal, Vol. 42, No. 4 (Winter, 1998), pp. 661-676
Foolishness in Christ
SVITLANA KOBETS (Urbana, IL, U.S.A.) FOOLISHNESS IN CHRIST: EAST VS. WEST The Foolish E a s t Eastern Orthodox Christianity has a unique category o f saints, the holy fools for Christ's sake, who in the Byzantine tradition were called saloi and in Russia are k n o w n as iurodiv'ye.1 These saints are representative o f a special kind o f Christian asceticism. While a "conventional" ascetic renounces the Profane world in order to devote his life t…
Takoe vot kino … Russkie fil'my 1990-kh godov
Ruslan Russian 1
Kirill of Turov
Discovering the Universe Between the Feminine and Masculine
In the present essay I employ archetypal criticism to explore the mythological subtext of Valerii Shevchuk’s novella Hunchback Zoya. I argue that the theme of initiation of the male characters—congruous with the theme of healing repeatedly present in Shevchuk’s works—is central to this particular novella. My analysis of this topic relies on such Jungian notions as the archetype, the conscious and unconscious psyche, and individuation. I further a…
Diagnosing Literary Genius
Contents: Preface On Transliteration and Spelling Introduction 1 Gogol, Moralists, and Nineteenth-Century Psychiatry 2 Dostoevsky: From Epilepsy to Progeneration 3 Tolstoy and the Beginning of Psychotherapy in Russia 4 Decadents, Revolutionaries, and the Nation's Mental Health 5 The Institute of Genius: Psychiatry in the Early Soviet Years Notes Bibliography Index
Russkie ooety KhKh veka
Quest for Selfhood and Dystopia in Valerii Shevchuk’s Eye of the Abyss
This paper argues that Valerii Shevchuk’s recent work, Eye of the Abyss(1996), is a dystopian novel that ponders post-Soviet dilemmas through the lens of mythological events that take place in Ukraine’s pseudo-historical past. The novel’s themes include a utopian quest for happiness and totalitarianism; the value of true knowledge and the consequences of unawareness; a search for self-awareness and conformism. The quest of four main characters, w…
The Joy of All Who Sorrow
Folly, Foolishness, Foolery
In Eastern Orthodox Christianity the fool for Christ (Russ. iurodivyi, Greek salos) is both a canonical saint and a social pariah. While he is an ascetic, he prefers the city's commotion to the serenity of seclusion, constantly engaging his audiences in interactive shows, which shock them into the realization of vital truths about themselves, worldly existence and higher reality. It was this role of the iurodivyi that elevated him to the position…
The Paradigm of the Hebrew Prophet and the Russian Tradition of Iurodstvo
This paper proceeds from the premise that Russian iurodivye—or fools for Christ—display a remarkable resemblance to the Hebrew prophets. As it explores the genealogical link between these two cultural paradigms, the paper shows that, during the various stages of the developmental history of holy foolery, the figure of the Old Testament prophet served as the holy fool’s literary and behavioural model. The influence of the prophetic paradigm on the…
From the Tabennisi nunnery to Pussy Riot
In this paper, as the author explores the gendered aspects of the holy fool’s phenomenology, she argues that, despite the presumed egalitarianism and the fact that female holy fools appeared in Byzantine hagiography as early as the fifth century, throughout the history of holy foolishness the urban model – hagiographically established in the Byzantine vita of Simeon the Fool of Emesa – was available exclusively to males. Females, recently canoniz…
Art (13 works) · Literature (8 works) · Philosophy (7 works) · Byzantine Studies and History (6 works) · Eastern European Communism and Reforms (5 works) · History (5 works) · Psychology (5 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Theology (4 works) · Asceticism (3 works)