Старое для нового: Симеон Полоцкий в творческой эволюции Александра Белецкого

Aleksandr Beletskii / Oleksandr Bilets’kyi (1884–1961) was one of the founders of the new academic Ukrainian literary criticism. He belonged to the same generation of philologists as the Russian Formalists and was also influenced by the new Ukrainian literature of the 1920s. The purpose of the present article is to explore in greater detail Beletskii’s scholarly legacy thorough his engagement with Simeon Polotskii’s work in relation to the East Slavic literature of the late 17th century, as well as possible echoes of the fate of Polotskii in Beletskii’s own biography.

Keywords: Aleksandr Beletskii, Simeon Polotskii, Ukrainian philology, scholarly and folk literature, Baroque, literary adaptation, East Slavic cultural polyphony, modernism, pre-Petrine court culture