DOI: https://doi.org/10.37222/2524-0331-2021-11(29)-14
Mariana Komarytsia
SOFIA PARFANOVYCH’S ARTISTIC AND JOURNALISTIC LEGACY: WORD – PERSONALITY – AGE
Abstract:
The article focuses on the journalistic and literary achievements of Sofia Parfanovych – a doctor, writer, opinion journalist, editor, and a public figure – in the context of interdisciplinarity. Her active public stance as one of the leaders of the Ukrainian temperance society Vidrodzhennia, a member of the Ukrainian Medical and Hygienic Society, and Shevchenko Scientific Society encouraged educational activities in the Galician interwar press. She collaborated with periodicals such as Vidrodzhennia, Zhinocha Dolia, Likarskyi Vistnyk, Narodnie Zdorovlia, Nova Khata, etc. They published articles, stories, and discussions on a healthy lifestyle, healthy eating and threats posed by tobacco and alcohol, special attention was given to women’s health and child care. Many publications combined journalism and literature. For purely literary works – short stories and essays – O. Parfanovych used her experience as a medical practitioner. They were first published in the press (Nazustrich, Dilo, etc.), and later were included in the collections Tsina Zhyttia (Lviv, 1937) and Inshi Dni (Augsburg, 1948), producing strong reverberations in the Ukrainian literary environment. The article elaborates on a broad panorama of reception – i.e., reviews published in 1937 in the periodicals such as Dzvony, Zhinocha Dolia, Nova Zoria, Nova Khata, and Ukrayinska Knyha, written by by M. Hnatyshak, O. Duchyminska, O. Mokh, M. Rudnytskyi, as well as reviews by Yu. Sherekh and V. Nesterovych of the MUR (Artistic Ukrainian Movement) era. Critics argued that the first collection mostly includes «observations of life», and the second focuses on studying the laws of life with greater philosophical and psychological depth. The reviewers’ debates are analysed on a comparative basis, factors associated with mentality and gender are shown to account for differences in approaches while emphasizing the clear-cut national principles of the writer’s creative work.
Keywords: Sofia Parfanovych, Galician interwar press, medicine, abstinence, literary criticism, interdisciplinarity.
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