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Saglasje jedne slike-zapisa Maka Dizdara sa filozofijom kompozicije Edgara Alana Poa

Author(s): Mirjana Popović / Language(s): Bosnian Publication Year: 0

This paper explores a “text-image” of Mak Dizdar from linguistic, thematic and philosophical point of view. The polysemy of this image in Dizdar’s style is analyzed at the lexico-semantic level and compared with the principles of composition elaborated by E. A. Poe in his essay The Philosophy of Composition. The similarity and main parallel between the two texts is marked by the aesthetic principle of compatibility. Dizdar’s figurative language provides visual motifs that follow segments of poeticconstructs, corresponding to the understanding of this term within the aesthetic principles of E. A. Poe. In the poetry of Dizdar, the polysemic aspect of his literary images include the historical background, together with elements of a coherent compositional structure in which the lexemes acquire special cultural and moral values. Through comparative lexical and semantic analysis of Dizdar’s writings, the paper investigates communicative and symbolic functions of various lexemes and their effects in the domain of poetic style. The paper gives examples of the creation of a polysemic image in Dizdar’s “text-image” by using a set of specific lexemes. The author of the article observes this as Dizdar’s intention to join visual and linguistic elements together, forging both an idiosyncratic poetic style and a universal message.

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Leksičke osobitosti Divkovićevih Besjeda

Author(s): Ivo Pranjković / Language(s): Croatian Publication Year: 0

Divković’s lexis, which is markedly multi-layered and varied in origin in his work Divković’s Sermons on Sunday’s Gospel for Every Year, is analyzed in the attachment. Words of the so-called common people’s language,of Croatian-Glagolitic religious literature, of Dalmatian-Dubrovnik literature,and of Church Slavonic and Turkish origin, etc., are distinguished and concrete examples are analyzed. Special attention is given to words that are used in the modern language but have different meanings. Lastly, diminutives,contact synonyms, loanwords and Divković’s neologisms (including hapaxes) are discussed.

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Usporedba jezično-stilskih obilježja Divkovićevih Besjeda s ponekim obilježjima djela srednjovjekovne hrvatske književnosti

Author(s): Martina Kramarić / Language(s): Croatian Publication Year: 0

In this work stylistic and expressive features, textual structures and some linguistic features of medieval Croatian literature are compared with the text of The Sermons of fra Matija Divković (1616). In addition, Divković’s models borrowed from local Croatian literature are analyzed. Noted similarities and differences regarding the style of medieval literature, the structure of a text, and the textual cohesion of the medieval texts are presented.Similarities are observed between Medieval Croatian literature and the early Renaissance literature of Dubrovnik and Dalmatia.

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Sekundarna jotacija – zanimljivo, ali rješivo pitanje izdavačke prakse Divkovićevih djela (na primjeru Besjeda)

Author(s): Vuk-Tadija Barbarić / Language(s): Croatian Publication Year: 0

As the author of this paper had an active role in the recently published transcription of Divković’s Sermons and scholarly studies about this work, the author has come into contact with interesting questions regarding the potential realization of secondary iotation in Matija Divković’s literary works.To be more precise, the main question is whether it was publication practice to note potential secondary iotation as palatals /ļ/ and /ń/ or as non-fused sequences /l/ + /j/ and /n/ + /j/. The authors and editors of Divković’s Sermons have until now for the most part engaged in the practice of noting separate sequences, but the reasons behind such an approach have not been expounded on in literature. There are two possible and probable objections to differentiating non-fused sequences from palatals in publication practices.The first possible objection is that it is unclear which pronunciation lies behind the graphemes, and the second is that a non-fused pronunciation did not exist in Divković’s time, in other words that it is not accurate to distinguish between non-fused and fused pronunciations.

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Dijalog franjevačkih ljetopisa sa suvremenom bosanskohercegovačkom i hrvatskom književnošću

Author(s): Ena Begović-Sokolija / Language(s): Croatian Publication Year: 0

With the aid of intertextuality and cultural-memory theory, this paperan alyses connections between the chronicles of eighteenth-century Bosnian Franciscans and current (20th and 21th centuries) Bosnian-Herzegovinan and Croatian literature (e.g. the artistic prose of Ivo Andrić, Miljenko Jergović ,Josip Mlakić, Ivan Lovrenović, Feđa Šehović, Dževad Karahasan). The paper shows that the Franciscans are particular ‘sites of memory’(Pierre Nora) within Bosnian and Croatian literature, that current literary production gives new meanings to the Franciscan literary tradition in a new framework, and lastly it suggests possible models for and draws conclusions about quoted dialogue.

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"Koralina" Neila Gaimana w realizacjach teatru lalek w Polsce

Author(s): Maria Janus / Language(s): Polish Publication Year: 0

Maria Janus focuses on theatrical adaptations of Neil Gaiman’s "Coraline" in Polish puppet theatre. The analysed performances were directed by Włodzimierz Fełenczak in Teatr Miniatura in Gdańsk with a stage design by Mikołaj Malesza (opening 2009) and in the Białostocki Teatr Lalek with a stage design by Joanna Braun (opening 2011) and directed by Karolina Maciejaszek in Teatr Pinokio in Łódź with a stage design by Anna Chadaj (opening 2013). In addition, the Author discusses the performance of Rozalinda, written and directed by Krystyna Jakóbczyk in the Teatr Dzieci Zagłębia in Będzin (opening 2012), which was inspired by Gaiman’s novel. Janus presents this performance in the context of copyrights and difficulties of obtaining licenses for use of texts written by popular authors (especially from the Anglo-Saxon region). The author compares the adaptations of Neil Gaiman’s novel written by Fełenczak, Maciejaszek and the translation of the novel’s narration by Jakóbczyk (theatrical situations and visual narration vs. the narration performed live on-stage). Maria Janus also highlights theatrical references from the novel considering meta-theatrical elements that enhance the performance. Janus compares theatrical media used in performances from Gdańsk, Białystok and Łódź with special consideration to the stage design and puppetry techniques. In the second part, the author focuses on the popularity of Neil Gaiman’s Coraline among theatrical directors despite little interest in horror fiction. Puppet theatres in Poland do not produce performances based on modern epic literature, especially those nbased on fantasy. Classical fairy-tales and modern dramaturgy containing fairy-tale motives are still more popular. Furthermore, Janus reflects on the possibility of a change of the herein discussed situation. She further refers to the arguments of Bruno Bettelheim, Stanisław Grzelecki and Katarzyna Slany considering young spectator benefits from the contact with theatrical representation of youth horror literature.

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Subwersywny potencjał wypartego

Author(s): Aleksandra Łozińska / Language(s): Polish Publication Year: 0

In the chapter, Aleksandra Łozińska analyses the ways in which the authors of these novels refer to the issues of contemporary cities and the marginalization that occurs within them. The fantastic worlds created in these works are marked by much different constructs. These constructs include binary divisions of cities into official parts that converge with commercial images of the cities and areas hidden from the perspective of the former. These areas are built of redundant matter, inhabited by people marginalized in their own society and governed by practices that deviate from the confines of the official city narratives. This chapter expounds on the ways that these constructs allow for the re-evaluation of marginalized groups and elements (places, objects, fragments of history). Furthermore, methods of opposing exclusionary practices are included by penning subversive practices for the use of urban areas; and—in the case of Gaiman’s and Miéville’s works—by addressing the subject of economic stratification among the inhabitants of London (where metropolitan prosperity is dependent on citizens on the fringes of the social hierarchy). All three novels include characters whose lives are set outside of the mundane culture of consumerism (the life-source of all cities. Their social status becomes an exclusionary barrier to the circle of consumers around them. Thus the author approaches these threads as a type of project in flânerie (in contrast to the common understanding of his contemporaries) while maintaining its relevant critical potential. Against all odds and hardships, the situation of the protagonists is transformed into a positive, beneficial experience by bestowing upon them certain privileges, access to places and the ability to commit practices that are unattainable to the people living within the official sphere of the metropolis / social order. This aligns with the Bell-Hook margin theory therefore it will serve as the looking glass for the analysis of this subject matter.

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Polska niezwyciężona

Author(s): Magdalena Wąsowicz / Language(s): Polish Publication Year: 0

Magdalena Wąsowicz’s chapter provides an analysis of Polish novels that propose an alternate history to War War II. The author focuses on the way in which these novels change the course of history and reflect on current politics and culture. Three novels are analysed: "Wallenrod" by Marcin Wolski, "Powroty (Coming back)" by Adam Pietrasiewicz and Wojciech Bogaczyk, and "Burza. Ucieczka z Warszawy ‘40 (The Tempest. The Withdrawal from Warsaw ‘40)" by Maciej Parowski. The first two novels display similar sets of images relating to events in World War II and they both focus on the military aspects of the possible victory for Poland. In contrast, "Burza Ucieczka z Warszawy ‘40", demonstrates the power of the Polish spirit and the greatness of the culture of the Second Polish Republic. As a result, a utopian vision of Poland emerges—a vision which can now only be considered nostalgia. Maciej Parowski’s novel is thus a nostalgic retrospection of the perfect, lost world that can become a source of inspiration for future generations.

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Umierająca, rozwiązła, szukająca miłości. Przygody Alicji w XXI wieku

Author(s): Anna Goworek / Language(s): Polish Publication Year: 0

Anna Goworek reflects in this chapter on the rewriting of Lewis Carroll’s novel "Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland". Lewis Carroll’s novels—"Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland" as well as its sequel, Through the Looking-Glass—are both multidimensional works, considered to be the beginning of fantasy literature and classic children’s novels. They became an inspiration for many modern writers, theater and film directors and game creators. This work focuses on recounting the problem in Carroll’s dilogy in relation to literature (Andrzej Sapkowski’s "Złote popołudnie" and Patrick Senécal’s "Aliss") and television series (Nick Willing, "Alice"). I will discuss the contemporary problems of identity that Alice must confront. By creating the character of the young, stray girl, Lewis Carroll forces self-determination unto Alice. However, Alice from the twenty-first century is an adult woman, who tries to find herself in male-female relationship, tries to reconcile with her father’s departure and tries to deal with addiction. In addition, there is a modification in the creation of Wonderland and the land on the other side of the mirror. In modern remakes there are often scenes of narcotics, violence and with new technologies. Modern authors making genuine stories about a girl lost in Wonderland are usually only focusing on a few threads from novels of the English mathematician. They experiment with Alice’s character, often targeting adults with their books including the experienced reader or recipient who are familiar with Carroll’s dilogy and his biography. With every successive rework of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, there are many intertextual questions raised that are worth investigating by researchers. Perhaps this is a way for modern authors to ward off the stereotypical perception of Lewis Carroll’s novels as merely children’s literature. Despite the countless revisions of the story, contemporary interpretations of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass have adapted to the trends of the reader.

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Dos poetas de posguerra (Wislawa Szymborska y Carlos Bousoño)

Author(s): Santiago Fortuño Llorens / Language(s): Spanish Publication Year: 0

This study, the blending of postwar Polish writer W. Szymborska (1923–2012) poetry with Carlos Bousoño’s verses (1923–2015), contemporary first generation of postwar poets in Spain, shows common trends amongst both: life projected through the means of poetry and the manifestation of life happenings through artistic expressive modes. Along with the creation of the self, to literary fiction, they choose drawing on mythology, painting, the Bible, literature itself… as demonstrations of cultural universality.

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W harmonii z naturą i kosmosem? O poezji Antonia Colinasa i Zbigniewa Herberta

Author(s): Maria Judyta Woźniak / Language(s): Polish Publication Year: 0

There exists a deep spiritual union between poems by the Spanish author, Antonio Colinas (born 1946), and those written by Zbigniew Herbert (1924–1998), which is reflected by, among others, seeking harmony in nature and the universe. Although the poetic concept of the two authors often runs in various directions, a comparative analysis gives rise to a dia¬logue which reveals at some points surprising similarities and striking differences. When contemplating nature and arrangement of the universe both authors arrive at a conclusion that in fact the world is not an order, and what may be found in it, instead of the desired sense, is an emptiness which, however, for Colinas as opposed to Herbert, unveils the desired sense to the human being. What Herbert mostly sees is the union of suf¬fering between the human being and nature, whereas Colinas can notice a trace of some order in the omnipresent death.

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Un esbozo comparativo de la ensayística de Zbigniew Herbert con textos hispánicos

Author(s): Amán Rosales Rodríguez / Language(s): Spanish Publication Year: 0

A re-reading of some of Zbigniew Herbert’s essays is proposed in base of a comparison with texts by Octavio Paz and Rafael Argullol. The following topics are commented: characteristics of the literary essay, the travel as geographical displacement and spiritual experience, the relationship between the individual and history, and the moderately skeptical view of Western culture, present, in different degrees, in the three authors.

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Literackie obrazy transformacji. „Poturbowana prawda” w Oszuście Javiera Cercasa, Spisie cudzołożnic Jerzego Pilcha i Sońce Ignacego Karpowicza

Author(s): Agnieszka Kłosińska-Nachin / Language(s): Polish Publication Year: 0

The aim of the article is to compare three literary pictures of the political transformation presented in The impostor (2014) by Javier Cercas, Spis cudzołożnic (1993) by Jerzy Pilch and Sońka (2014) by Ignacy Karpowicz. These novels emphasize their discursive character, thereby revealing that the history is always a narration, not an uninfected series of events. The transformation is shown in conjunction with the theme of historical memory and imposture. The transition to the democracy revealed the new ways of falsifying history, in which the culture got involved on the basis of mass communication.

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Roberto Bolaño y Witold Gombrowicz: dos rebeldes de las letras

Author(s): Natalia Sadowska / Language(s): Spanish Publication Year: 0

The aim of the present work is to provide examples which are clear illustration of the connection between Polish and Hispanic literature, in this case incarnated by the figures of Roberto Bolaño and Witold Gombrowicz: two writers known for the rebellious nature of their poetics and the urban legend of controversial which was created around their lives. Therefore, the following work proposes the approach to the life and work of both authors with the purpose of indicate relations between them, both literary and biographical, thus prove the connections which exist between Polish and Spanish letters.

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Formy powrotu (do pisania). Powiedzmy… Alejandro Zambra

Author(s): Arkadiusz Żychliński / Language(s): Polish Publication Year: 0

The article starts with the striking observation that the writing of Alejandro Zambra, a distinctive contemporary Chilean writer of the middle generation, can be treated both as a string of intriguing experiments sounding various ways of (a personal going back to) writing, and as a convenient frame of reference to discuss the notion of the progress in literature. Accordingly, a comprehensive analysis of Zambra’s literary work intertwines with questions concerning the spectrum of literary innovations, the conditions of the possibility of producing new narrative dispositives, the limitations of formal inventiveness, and the regulative function of the cognitive value added.

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Писатели мигранти

Author(s): Amelia Licheva / Language(s): Bulgarian Publication Year: 0

How do contemporary writers that we associate with the migrant wave in modern world literature write about the other? Why do they emphasize on the exotic? Do they believe in the possible encounter of cultures? These are only some of the questions this text attempts to answer, working on texts of authors as Sandra Cisneiros, Jhumpa Lahiri, Ornella Vorspi and Mohsin Hamid.

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Новата класика на "Двойник" на Ф. М. Достоевски: Машини, поети и насекоми

Author(s): Maya Gorcheva / Language(s): Bulgarian Publication Year: 0

In the monography “After the end of classics” Rakyovsky argues that Dostoevsky’s Double (“Dvoynik”) and Mandelstam’s Egyptian stamp (“Egipetskaya marka”) discard traditional narrative and put forward the paradigms of splintering, madness, terror. The article highlights the new anthropology in Dostoevsky’s works by the figures of machines, poets and insects (vermin, bug). As an alternative of the poet, Dostoevsky’s plots put in play the figures of (male) novel writing and (female) book editing and managing. All together with the tragic, the author elaborates the category of comic absurd in the margins of folly, nonsense and object.

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(Trans)pozycje idei w postjugosłowiańskim dramatopisarstwie oraz teatrze (1990–2020). Perspektywa transkulturowa

Author(s): Gabriela Abrasowicz / Language(s): Polish

The Post-Yugoslav playwriting and theatre production constitutes a space which facilitates observation of the transposition of artistic, socio-political and philosophical ideas. Those phenomenon stems from cultural mobility, the integration of multiple components coming from different cultural backgrounds and involves the creation of new qualities. The fundamental research principles in this case are the perception of culture as a process of exchange and the implementation of the open connection networks model. The discussed artistic projects of playwrights and theatre directors active in the countries of the former Yugoslavia confirm that this phenomenon is still in the nascent stage. Its dynamic formula is a good starting point for reflection on the flows and ideological and aesthetic links that are becoming apparent in the drama and theatre of many European countries.

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ПОРТРЕТЪТ В ЛИТЕРАТУРАТА НА МОДЕРНИЗМА : ОСКАР УАЙЛД, ДЖЕЙМС ДЖОЙС, ХОСЕ МАРТИНЕС РУИС – АСОРИН

Author(s): Teodora Tzankova / Language(s): English,Bulgarian,Spanish

The book explores the portrait in Modernist literature by focusing on the novels The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce and Doña Inés (a love story) by José Martínez Ruiz – Azorín. In order to put the theme in the necessary cultural, historical and theoretical perspective, the first two chapters are dedicated to the autonomous pictorial portrait and to different types of portraits in literature. The remaining three chapters offer a close reading of the three chosen literary works from the point of view of the portrait: the diverse manifestations of the portrait are registered, their functions are pointed out and analysed, the relationships existing between them are established, and, finally, the problems that the portraits pose are determined. As a result, the comparative analysis of the novels of Wilde, Joyce and Azorín outlines their common commitment to the representation of a contradictory, constantly developing and self-reflexive human individual. The three protagonists reject the authorities, value their individual freedom highly and perceive their identity as subject to their past. By revealing the capacity of the portrait to expound the issues pointed out above, the research deems it an adequate embodiment of Modernist worldview.The present book is a revised version of a PhD thesis defended at Sofia University in 2012.

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Ruská literatura: setkání a konfrontace

Author(s): Ivo Pospíšil / Language(s): Russian

This monograph contains texts covering diverse topics, including the conception of Russian literature in the works of the two founders of Slavonic studies, Slavonic literary history, Karamzin’s construction of new Russian literature, the participation of “foreigners” in the formation of Russian classical and modern literature, and the leaders of Russian classical literature such as Alexander Griboyedov, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Maxim Gorky and long-neglected Nikolay Leskov. Czech views of more recent literature from the second half of the 20th century (Valentin Rasputin, Evgeny Vodolazkin) are also included, along with consideration of the participation of Russians or, more generally speaking, Eastern Slavs in interwar Czechoslovakia (Alfred Bem, Valery Vilinsky, son of Masaryk University adjunct professor Sergey Vilinsky) and the opinion of the time not quite precisely called “the period of stagnation” (in Russian “period zastoay”). Even at that time there appeared interesting discussions with axiological shifts of emphasis which have often had a crucial influence upon further developments in Russia. And then some specific features of Czech Russian literary studies (“A Small Reflection…,” Jaroslav Burian) including Wollman’s polemic with the Poles on Pan-Slavism which, in the Czech environment, has often been connected – incorrectly – only with Jan Kollár. The volume concludes with considerations on the problem of terminology applied only to Russian literature, and a treatise on the universality of Russian literature and Russian literary scholarship in connection with their reception by Czechs in the 19th–21st centuries, including various controversies. If today Czech-Russian relations are again becoming a focus of attention – most of all hot button issues of a political nature which have not been sufficiently revealed and recognised – this work stands as a modest invitation to Czech Russian studies and the deep research on the so-called Russian phenomenon in general comparative contexts and other intersections based on genre, thematic, ideological, sociological, anthropological and philosophical studies, i.e. in the framework of area concepts. And this book should also stimulate reflection on the past, which might inspire new views of the present and encourage more long-term interest than the impressionistic and emotional digressions we have seen to date. Let us take this volume as an attempt at a small contribution to such a view and understanding.

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