The seminar is concerned with the literary transfer of concepts and the linguistic coding of figurative meaning in intellectual and cultural history. Selected works of Ukrainian philosopher Hryhorij Skovoroda (1722-1794) will be analysed to examine the migration of concepts in time and space as building blocks of culture as a phenomenon of transformation. We will read Skovoroda in translation, if needed, of course, comparing them with the Ukrainian original. We want to discuss the migration of ideas and concepts, which may be found in other media (painting, sculpture, architecture, dramatic plays) of Skovoroda's time, as well. Participants are welcome to broaden the thematic range of the seminar according to their academic interests (e.g. translation theory, literary studies, linguistic phenomena). The seminar combines a close reading of some of Skovoroda's work and corpus-based contextualisation of their key-words.
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