Тереза Петрівна Левчук

The Initiation of the Dramatist: Lesya Ukrainka’s “The Possessed” from the perspective of the phenomenology of creativity

This article offers a phenomenological interpretation of Lesya Ukrainka’s dramatic poem Oderzhyma (The Possessed, 1901), the first major manifestation of her dramatic talent, based on the biblical narrative of Christ’s betrayal. The poem is examined as an autonomous aesthetic object whose meaning arises from within the...