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Лицар сумного образу в жанрі мюзиклу

Author(s): Iryna Yevhenivna Zaitseva / Language(s): Ukrainian Issue: 39/2017

Purpose of Article. To characterize and highlight the creative activity of the famous artist of the art stage - V. Zeldin, his interpretation of the image of the protagonist of the novel M. Cervantes "Don Quixote" and performance of the role in the genre of the musical "Man of the Channel" M. Lee. Methodology. The research consists in applying the methodology of general-cultural, literary, historical and theatrical, biographical, functional, art-study methods of studying the versatile professional activities of the outstanding master of stage art V.Zeldin, his creative achievements in the work on the famous classical character M.Servantes Don Quixote, interpretation and traction of the artistic image. Scientific Novelty. For the first time, the fruitful, multifaceted creative activity of the outstanding theater and cinema artist V. Zeldin is explored, the peculiarities, the original artistic achievements of the famous master and his phenomenal skill of embodiment the image of Don Quixote in the musical genre. Conclusions. Miguel de Cervantes is a humanist, a theater supporter, a talented writer, and a playwright who proved himself as an innovator in the field of literature, having created a work-parody of knight novels. Thanks to Cervantes, world literature was replenished with the "eternal image" of Don Quixote and the emergence of the term "quixotic." This image and progressive ideas of the novel inspired the work of the most famous artists at different times and found the embodiment in different genres of art, particularly in ballet, cinema, theater. The appearance of the American musical "Man of La Mancha" in 1965 influenced the development of this genre in the European theater space as well, humanistic ideas and eternal moral values in the image of Don Quixote attracted attention of the Ukrainian director V. Lizogub, Russian director A. Goncharov in the 70's, and in the beginning of the third millennium - Yu. Gusman, who created the musical-ode for ideas of nobility and idealism of the generation of the sixties. A bright page in the history of the musical "Man of La Mancha" was written by one of the last performers of the role of Don Quixote - V. Zeldin, whose phenomenon of actor's longevity is a unique fact in the history of contemporary theater and needs further study of researchers.

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Negation of Survival in the Post-war Urban Revival: Septimus in “Mrs Dalloway” and Édouard in “The Great Swindle”

Author(s): Jelena Lj. Pršić / Language(s): English Issue: 15/2017

This paper focuses on Virginia Woolf ’s Mrs Dalloway (1925) and Pierre Lemaitre’s The Great Swindle (2013), with the aim of pointing out that these two novels share strikingly similar presentations of post-First World War urban social conditions. We first emphasise that in both novels there is visible post-war progress (in London and Paris, respectively), marked by obvious enthusiasm, which is, however, weakened by war consequences. In addition, we detect the presence of the sandwich board job in each novel as indicative of post-war emotional ambiguity. We then claim that the post-war social revival, as the characters of Septimus in Mrs Dalloway and Édouard in The Great Swindle suggest, is constantly being slowed down by some war survivors who, due to harsh war experiences, cannot reintegrate into society, but instead negate their own lives. Thus, as we further stress, they seem to embrace death much before they actually die. Assisted by Elizabeth Grosz’s theory of interface, we derive conclusions about the characters’ communication with the city. Lastly, we offer examples of Septimus’s and Édouard’s obsession with and anticipation of personal deaths, and of a hidden interpretation of their post-war deaths as war dying. Our final goal is to answer whether the two representatives of war survival renunciation, despite living through the war, can be said to die metaphorically in it. In addition, we recognise and (re)define a collective understanding of the war in relation to post-war novels.

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Viktorijanski roman kao tragedija

Author(s): Ognjen M. Kurteš / Language(s): Serbian Issue: 19/2019

Review of: Tica, Dijana (2018), Poetika tragičnog: tri junakinje viktorijanskog romana, Banja Luka: Filološki fakultet.

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L’autobiographie – un genre impossible ?

Author(s): Radana Lukajić / Language(s): French Issue: 11/2015

Through a short diachronic overview of the development of autobiography, the author tries to point out basic epistemological principles this, in many terms problematic genre, rests upon. By pointing to possible formal and content variations of an autobiographical letter, and upon a reflection on the so-called ‘anti-ego’ ideology that came as a reaction to certain autobiographical ‘egotism’, the author provides a short overview of autofiction, by invoking Proust’s capital work, In Search of Lost Time, and of heterobiography, by pointing to basic ideological and formal guidelines of the trilogy of The Labyrinth of the World by Marguerite Yourcenar.

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Аутор и аутофикција у роману Карта и територија Мишела Уелбека

Author(s): Sanja J. Ignjatović,Mina Z. Petković / Language(s): Serbian Issue: 20/2019

This paper examines the phenomenon of autofiction and the role of the author in fictional narratives in which the narrating entity relies, in a greater or lesser degree, on real-world referents. Moreover, the paper focuses on the difference between fiction and docu-fiction, and, essentially, the problem of narrativity and fictionality in the narrative discourse, and ultimately reception. The approach to defining key differences between autofiction and autobiography is comparative, and the objective of the paper is to illustrate the nature of autofiction, its effect on the reader, as well as to explain the rhetorical peculiarities of the author-performed narration in the context of Michel Houellebecq’s novel The Map and the Territory. In that sense, the paper investigates the referentiality of the autofictional protagonist, Michel Houellebecq, and the degree of veracity of his relation to the actual, real-world referent – the author. Therefore, the paper highlights autofictional elements in the novel and examines their referential relation to the author’s objective reality. The authors of this paper underscore the significance and rhetorical intent of the autofictional nature of the mentioned novel and interpret it as the author’s potential introspective expression.

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Грасов првенац у Њемачкој и Србији

Author(s): Ljiljana S. Aćimović / Language(s): Serbian Issue: 11/2015

Review of: Zobenica, Nikolina (2014), Književno delo između estetike i politike: Limeni doboš Gintera Grasa u Nemačkoj i Srbiji 1959–2009, Novi Sad: Faculty of Philosophy.

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The Survival Value of Telling Stories: “Pincher Martin” and “Life of Pi”

Author(s): Vesna Lopičić / Language(s): English Issue: 9/2014

The last two decades in literary studies have been marked by increasing interest in evolutionary theories of art involving psychology, cognitive science, biology, neurology, etc., all somehow related to Darwinism. A common conclusion of various researches is that storytelling is an adaptation that has significantly contributed to human survival as a species, making man Homo Fictus rather than Homo Sapiens. A number of reasons are given as to why people tell stories and how stories make us human. In this article, I would like to argue that telling stories indeed has a high survival value, not only because Boyd (On the Origin of Stories 2009) claims art develops creativity and encourages cooperation, or because Gottschall (The Storytelling Animal 2012) believes we need to make sense of the world and satisfy our hunger for meaning by imposing patterns, but also because storytelling can be a survival technique. In this sense, the fi ctional Shahrazad offers an option to existentially threatened individuals. The possible survival value of telling stories will be illustrated by the characters from the novels of William Golding and Yann Martel who employ the same defensive mechanism of storytelling to different effect.

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Klon kao metafora Drugog u romanu „Ne daj mi nikada da odem“ Kazua Išigura

Author(s): Milica Živković / Language(s): Serbian Issue: 9/2014

In the tradition of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein (1818) and Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World (1932), Kazuo Ishiguro’s novel Never Let Me Go (2005) employs human cloning as a complex metaphor for personal identity and social relations. Unlike these classics of the literary dystopia, the novel’s anxieties are not generated by the relationship between the human being and biotechnology, more specifically, the possibility of the creation of post human life forms in the near future, which can easily be assumed from the centrality of the metaphor of cloning both in the novel and the contemporary socio/ cultural context. Its deepest anxieties concern eff ective ways of surveillance and social control by “a Leviathan”, which Darko Suvin associates with any kind of “collective, politico-economic and ideological hegemony” (Suvin 2009: 226), and the novel identifies with the contemporary age of biocapitalism and neoliberalism. The concept of biopolitics as deployed in the theories of Giorgio Agamben and Michael Foucault and Darko Suvin’s ideas about the hegemony of a “new Leviathan” are used as the framework within which the novel will be read as Ishiguro’s critique of utilitarianism and the rising instrumentalisation of life.

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Свадбени обичаји и представе о браку у романима „Бихорци“ и „Мојковачка битка“ Ћамила Сијарића

Author(s): Nadija Rebronja / Language(s): Serbian Issue: 8/2013

The paper deals with the theme of wedding, wedding customs, views, and beliefs connected to marriage, girlhood and the notion of erotic in the novels Bihorci and The Battle of Mojkovac by Ćamil Sijarić. The paper links the text of the novels to traditional beliefs connected to wedding and marriage, based mostly on Slavic mythology and the way of life in a traditional rural community. The ethnologically-precisely described wedding customs are parodied and caricatured within the novel’s context or are given a tragic context. Such parodied customs and beliefs play a role in characterisation of characters and in building up their grotesque or, on the other hand, being torn between traditions on the one hand and social and the historical circumstances that the characters live in.

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Javna i privatna istorija u romanu „Bledi obrisi brda“ Kazua Išigura

Author(s): Zlata Lukić / Language(s): Serbian Issue: 8/2013

Given that the complex relationship between history and fiction has been among the never-ceasing topics of discussion, and has even been additionally problematized in the age of postmodernism, the objective of this paper was to analyse Kazuo Ishiguro’s novel A Pale View of the Hills, primarily addressing its treatment of history; the dialogue between the past and the present; the subjective vision of history conditioned by different perspectives; and the two types of history opposed in the novel – public and private, i.e. collective and individual history. The narrated past events in the core of this novel take place on two different, yet mutually connected levels – the wider-ranging level of public history and momentous historical events, on the one hand, and the narrower level of personal, individual and highly biased history, on the other. By successfully intertwining these two aspects of history in A Pale View of the Hills, Kazuo Ishiguro underlines exactly what we have defi ned as the essence of the postmodern problematizing of history – i.e. its qualities of being elusive, perspective-conditioned and impossible to ascertain.

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Nekoliko aspekata u prevođenju romana Sitničarnica „Kod srećne ruke“ Gorana Petrovića sa srpskog jezika na italijanski

Author(s): Anja Đ. Pravuljac / Language(s): Serbian Issue: 8/2013

The paper analyses the problems of translation of specific groups of words from Serbian into Italian in the novel Trifle-shop “Lucky hand” by Goran Petrović. Starting from the translation of the title of the novel, in Italy published under the title 69 cassetti (69 drawers), the analysis follows the problems of translation of specific groups of words with special reference to their semantics. The analysis focuses on the phrases difficult for translation, which are directly related to the culture of the Serbian people, as well as on the expressions with characteristics of archaic, colloquial speech or words of foreign origin, and on the compound words that are not characteristic of Serbian literary language but are the main characteristics of the writer’s literary style. The analysis and comparison of the translator’s choices of particular Italian words as the equivalents of the original Serbian words shows that the main problem of a translator’s job is the question of what remains “lost in translation”, and also the problem concerning the translation of the style of a writer like Goran Petrović.

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Gotsko u kiberpanku Vilijama Gibsona

Author(s): Mladen Jakovljević / Language(s): Serbian Issue: 8/2013

Gibson’s cyberpunk interface of human and technology, as well as his constructed reality of cyberspace, houses the motifs and conventions typical of Gothic fiction. In his first cyberpunk trilogy, William Gibson reconstructs and reconfigures traditional Gothic elements in such a way so as to respond to the contemporary urban and technological context, thus highlighting the tendencies, dilemmas and fears in contemporary society.

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Ovo nije zemlja za žene – Amerika kao antifeministička utopija u romanu Žaklin Suzan „Dolina lutaka“

Author(s): Bojana Gledić / Language(s): Serbian Issue: 8/2013

On the eve of the second wave of feminism and the years for which it would often be said that they changed the world, a modestly successful actress from Philadelphia mesmerized the public with her dark story of sex, glamour and the world of the rich and famous. Readers were presented with another cult classic – Valley of the Dolls by Jacqueline Susann. The public was delighted, the critics in shock, and what remains of that turbulent 1966 is the unfading popularity of this controversial story. Some ascribe this popularity to the author’s ingenuity, others celebrate her as a herald of feminism, while most resent the fact that she used kitsch to gain great popularity and make money. This paper will deal with the possible reasons behind the unwavering popularity of this novel almost half a century after its publication, examining at the same time whether there is truth in the claims that through her work Jacqueline Susann contributed to the advent of feminism.

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Analiza prevoda kulturoloških pojmova (kulturema) u romanu „Ansichten eines Clowns“

Author(s): Rada Stakić,Kornelia Tanjga Vidović / Language(s): Serbian Issue: 8/2013

By comparing the chosen examples from the novel “Ansichten eines Clowns” by German writer Heinrich Böll, which contain cultural notions of two translations into Serbo-Croatian/Croato-Serbian language, the authors of this paper shed light on the translation processes and discover translation methods at the basis of those processes. The purpose of this analysis is to point to the importance of the cultural competence of translators, as well as the prospective need for new translations of Böll’s novel, which would bring closer to the readers of our time Böll's world and the criticism of German society after WWII.

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Лавиринтом прозе Горана Петровића

Author(s): Jelena G. Reljić / Language(s): Serbian Issue: 8/2013

Review of: Aleksić, Jana (2013), Opsednuta priča. Poetika romana Gorana Petrovića, Beograd: Službeni glasnik.

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Ka novim utopijskim horizontima: postpatrijarhalne vizije u romanima „Čovjek praznih šaka“ i „Žena na rubu vremena“

Author(s): Milka Bojanić / Language(s): Serbian Issue: 7/2013

The flowering of women’s utopian writing coincided with the upsurge of the Second Wave feminism, reaching its peak in the mid-1970s. This was an extremely prolific period during which a significant number of women writers recognised the subversive potential of the genre. Attempting to reveal and critically analyse various institutional manifestations of patriarchy in contemporary society, feminist authors produced works that were critical both of the dominant ideology and of the concept of traditional utopia itself. Thus, they stretched boundaries of the utopian genre that had traditionally been dominated by male authors and masculine concerns. Two notable novels of this period are Ursula Le Guin’s The Dispossessed and Marge Piercy’s Woman on the Edge of Time, which are discussed in this paper. Its main objective is to investigate the transformative potential of these critical utopias that were designed to raise the readers’ consciousness, to alter their perception of current problems in society, and to motivate them to take an active part in political life. Additionally, the paper focuses on the literary, social, and historical factors that have contributed to the rebirth of utopia.

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Nanny, Signifying Empowerment: The Evolution of the Dispirited Black Female in Zora Neale Hurston‘s Their Eyes Were Watching God

Author(s): Iris M. Lancaster / Language(s): English Issue: 7/2017

The essay contains a stylistic analysis of the dispirited black female. Hurston uses Their Eyes Were Watching God to deconstruct the negative image of the dispirited black female, a woman who is dogged by a tragic past. True to her commitment to not fall under the constraints of feeling ―tragically coloured, Hurston uses Nanny and an empowered sermon to create a warrior woman who struggles to hold on to the remnants of a spirit that had been beaten down by the effects and after effects of slavery. While there are a plethora of articles on Nanny, there are no articles (at least none that were found after quite an exhaustive search) that focus on a stylistic study of Nanny’s sermon. In an effort to add to the scholarship for Nanny, this paper analyses Nanny’s sermon—the independent and dependent clauses, the signifiers, and the cohesive ties—all of which help Nanny shed the burdens of her past, whereby freeing her from the burdens of the dispirited black woman.

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The Coral Island vs. Lord of the Flies. Variations in Emotional Intelligence Skills

Author(s): Raluca-Ștefania Pelin / Language(s): English Issue: 7/2017

The present paper aims at a close analysis of two novels that bring to light the issue of human behaviour and survival in unfamiliar conditions: The Coral Island, by Robert Michael Ballantyne and Lord of the Flies, by William Golding. Although the former novel has served as a source of inspiration for the latter, its utopian atmosphere and the power relations in it are cruelly overshadowed by the dystopian perspective Golding offers. Strikingly enough, the characters in both novels are cast on islands of almost equal beauty and resources and are let free to choose in fairly similar extreme contexts. However, the reader is faced with two unexpected unveilings of human manifestations that reveal the inner structure of the acting people in both cases. By means of a transfer of concepts from the psychological field of Emotional Intelligence, the profiles of the characters gain new dimensions, and the reader gets a deeper insight into the intricate inner workings of the human mind and human relations, and not in the least, into the power of the context to turn these relations into beneficial or destructive outcomes. The boys themselves - with their emotional and ethical heritage - determine the courses of action and in the end they either rejoice in the emotional and the moral choices they have made or deplore the flaws of their character.

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Memory and Identity in The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman

Author(s): Irina Rață / Language(s): English Issue: 7/2017

In his novel The Ocean at the End of the Lane (2013), Neil Gaiman has succeeded in telling another spellbinding fairy-tale for adults. It is unique among Gaiman‘s novels, as it features a child protagonist and his specific worldview. Despite being a fantasy novel, with a narrative filled with magic and wonder, it tells the traumatic tale of memory, identity, self-sacrifice, and survival. It portrays the essential role of memory as a coping mechanism, necessary for survival, and the ways in which childhood occurrences ultimately shape the adult‘s identity. This article aims to address and analyse the identity formation and the role of the memory in this process in The Ocean at the End of the Lane, through the lens of memory studies, and structuralist theory.

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Textual Hybridity in Orhan Pamukʼs The Black Book

Author(s): Cristina Stan / Language(s): English Issue: 7/2017

The aim of this article is to explore the way memory and identity intertwine and are reflected by textual hybridity in one of Orhan Pamuk’s most acclaimed writings, The Black Book. As an admirer of great writers such as Borges or Calvino, who redefined and innovated traditional narrative discourses and styles, Pamuk also chooses to experiment, break fictional confinements and go beyond established patterns. The Nobel winner succeeds in creating a well-crafted intertextual network that teems with all sorts of playful allusions, rewritings, references to and evocations of Islamic texts, Turkish literature, Oriental allegories and Western literature. Configuring one‘s identity and coming to terms with memory both find a unique and intriguing expression in a labyrinthine universe.

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