Acta Albaruthenica. Tom 22 (PDF)

The issue is devoted to the current problems of Belarusian studies and the research in the field of literary, linguistic, and cultural studies. The authors of the articles are scholars from Polish, Belarusian, German, Italian, and Chinese universities, who examine both archival materials and contemporary phenomena.

The volume contains articles on the work of the first national poet of Belarus, Yanka Kupala, whose poetry was and is often considered prophetic and messianic in the 20th and 21st centuries. Among other things, the problem of the functioning of religious, especially Christian, motifs in his early lyric poetry is studied. Literary and cultural studies describe the issues related to how the “other” was depicted in Belarusian literature of the Renaissance and Baroque eras, and in particular the difference in the perception and interpretation of writers’ works between Polish and Belarusian scholars, which stems from different historical experiences. Also analyzed are the role and legal status of languages in Belarus in different historical periods (from the time of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania to the present) and the impact of state language policy on the development and functioning of the Belarusian language.

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