Simonid na Balkanu: jezik haosa

Author(s): Peter Ramadanović / Language(s): Serbian Publication Year: 0

Prema legendi koju su nam preneli Ciceron i Kvintilijan, umetnost pamćenja izumeo je Simonid Kejanin, čuveni grčki pesnik. Jedan imućan čovek, tesalijski plemić Skopas, zatražio je od Simonida da za njega sastavi napev u slavu pobednika bokserskog meča. Budući da je polovina peana bila posvećena Kastoru i Poluksu, mitskim prototipovima boksera, Skopas je odlučio da pesniku isplati samo polovinu ugovorene sume. Drugu polovinu, Skopas reče, platiće Dioskuri.

U spomen Karla Krausa

Author(s): Rolf Schott / Language(s): Serbian Publication Year: 0

Naši lični odnosi sa najoštroumnijim i najstrastvenijim, najnemilosrdnijim i najduhovitijim od svih satiričara, koji su — da li da izuzmemo Hajnea — ikada pisali na nemačkom jeziku, dakle, sa austrijskim moralistom češkog porekla i pesnikom Karlom Krausom, bili su retki, mada prijateljski. Pesnik? Nego šta! U svakom pogledu slave dostojan, iako čitaoci i poštovaoci čoveka, koji je umro pre 28 godina, toga nikad onako sasvim nisu bili svesni. Biće da je za to i sâm pomalo kriv, jer je tvrdio: »Kada mi je dosadno ja pišem pesme«.

“A City of Resurrections” and “a City of Nightmares”: London, Female Monstrosity, and the Weird Sublime in Arthur Machen’s “The Great God Pan”

Author(s): Jacek Mydla / Language(s): English Publication Year: 0

As a point of departure I present the psychoanalytic interpretive strategies used to address late-Victorian, or fin-de-siecle, Gothic fictions. These strategies see in the fictions expression of the numerous anxieties that troubled Victorian at the turn of the nineteenth century. Also, one of the second-wave Gothic’s representatives, Arthur Machen’s “The Great God Pan” can be read as a fictional expression of those anxieties. The approach I propose in the main body of the article consists in seeing in Machen’s story a realisation of a new type of the sublime, called here the weird sublime. I show how Machen engages the ideas of the modern metropolis (London), the femme fatale, and of the occult to construct this type of sublimity. In particular, attention is drawn to the way in which the female element becomes fused, via the intercession of the pagan deity, with the city.

All Eyes in Swinging London: Antonioni’s “Blow-Up” and the Maze of Violence

Author(s): Sławomir Masłoń / Language(s): English Publication Year: 0

Antonioni’s “Blow-Up”, released in late 1966, is usually taken, on the one hand, to represent (celebratingly and scandalously) the youth culture of Swinging London and, on the other, the problems of (tenuous) relation between reality and its representation (the main protagonist thinks he discovers a murder by analysing photographs he has taken). Although most critics have attempted to link these two levels by means of some existential metaphor (most often: the main protagonist who represents the image-crazed youth of Swinging London encounters its biggest taboo, death, which is unrepresentable to boot), the paper proposes a more literal and political interpretation arguing that the abstraction of blurry grain of silver halide into which the image of the corpse finally dissolves in a series of photographic blow-ups is a way of representing something which also cannot have a proper image: the all-pervasive but no longer perceptible lowkey everyday violence which constitutes the propelling force of the supposedly emancipated “swinging” lifestyle.

Street Lit and Subversion

Author(s): Bartosz Stopel / Language(s): English Publication Year: 0

The aims of this article are twofold. First, it explores some key elements and themes of “street lit”—a movement in contemporary, predominantly African-American fiction that takes place within the urban underwold, describing gang and ghetto life. The commercial success of street lit leads me to reconsider some common approaches to the study of subcultures, underclass, and “alternative communities” within cultural studies. Specifically, I wish to address two major claims which often tend to go together in cultural studies. One of them, which I ascribe to Marcuse, Hebdige, Hall, and others, is the glorification of gangs, subcultures or the underclass as possessing a revolutionary political potential that can challenge the capitalist economical system and lead to social change. The other tendency is what I see as excessive textualisation of the phenomena studied within cultural studies, which results in understanding them either as reinforcing or subverting established cultural codes. I argue that to understand the aforementioned groups as either reinforcing or subverting the dominant economical system is to make a fallacy of excessive textualisation, and that their activities can never fall easily into either category. In the end, the combination of both approaches makes the study of alternative communities and their potential severely flawed.

Āp kitnā kamāte haĩ? “How much money do you earn?” The Indian way of politeness

Author(s): Magdalena Varga / Language(s): English Publication Year: 0

Everyone is aware of the fact that ignorance and the lack of proper knowledge are our worst enemies in every field of life. Therefore, it will not be an exaggeration to say that they are the cause of the most undesired results in the process of communication.The present paper shows how the language competence not followed by the knowledge of cultural background and context may lead to gaffes or misunderstandings at best, and even to offences and conflicts at worst. Its main goal is to outline the complex connection between family and caste in particular, or broadly speaking – community and religion in India, and to show the specificity of their influence on Hindi, the most widely known language of the Indian subcontinent. The paper describes all the most important factors which are crucial to the Indian concept of “face.” They also present grammatical and lexical measures and politeness strategies with the use of which Hindi speaking people deal within the multilevel socio-cultural relations and are able to coexist with each other more or less peacefully. Finally, the nuances one should take into account while making conversation with Hindi-speaking partner are mentioned.

Edebiyat ve Posthümanizm

Author(s): Sümeyra Buran / Language(s): Turkish Publication Year: 0

Çevre ve teknolojideki değişimler, insanlık ve doğa tarihini her dönemde etkilemiştir. Günümüzde ise bu değişimler giderek hızlanmakta ve doğa, insan ve teknolojinin farklı seviyelerde iç içe geçtiği bir kırılma dönemi yaşanmaktadır. Teknobilimsel kültürlerin çoğalması, küresel ekonomik zorluklar, çevresel tahribatın ve doğal felaketlerin artması, dijitalleşmenin yayılması, insan ve insan olmayan varlıklar arasındaki geleneksel sınırların teknolojik, biyolojik ve çevresel düzeylerde aşınması ve bulanıklaşması, insanlık ve insanlığın içinde yaşadığı çevre için alternatif fikirler ve düşünceler arayışına yol açmaktadır. Dijital yaşam tarzları, sanal gerçeklik teknolojileri, sanallaşma gibi teknobilimsel, kültürel ve sosyal eksenlerdeki hızlı gelişmeler insanlığın yaşam serüvenini yeniden şekillendirmektedir. Posthümanizm, tam da bu çoklu gelişmeler sonucunda doğan, insanlığın yaşam biçimlerini, çevre ve doğa ile ilişkilerini yeniden düzenlemesi gerektiğini öngören bir paradigma değişikliğidir. Posthümanizm, tüm bu dönüşümlerin bir yansıması olarak geçmiş, bugün ve gelecek arasındaki bağları irdeler; bu bağlamda insan, insandışı, insanötesi ve insanüstü alternatif senaryolara dayanan araştırmalara odaklanır.

Gaston Bachelard a francuskie środowisko naukowe i intelektualne

Author(s): Teresa Castelão-Lawless / Language(s): Polish Publication Year: 0

Pojęcie czasu u Gastona Bachelarda

Author(s): Stéphane Partiot / Language(s): Polish Publication Year: 0

Odnos središta i periferije u oblikovanju književnoga kanona: hrvatsko-poljski književnopovijesni primjeri

Author(s): Tea Rogić Musa / Language(s): Croatian Publication Year: 0

Using the examples from Romanticism and Moderna period, this paper will examine the opposition centre-periphery regarding the role of the ideology of pan-Slavic reciprocity in the field of Polish-Croatian literary ties. Next, we will describe the process of attribution within literary and cultural history in which a series of so-called great authors have arisen, and to which their communities (Polish and Croatian) attribute central aesthetic and ideological roles. Further, starting from the assumption that the Polish and Croatian cultural communities used their literary canon to legitimise their own artistic and social inclinations, we shall attempt to determine the universalistic characteristics that allowed the Polish literary canon to become a desirable alternative and a source of homogenizing poetics that enabled the aesthetic synchrony of Croatian literature with a European paradigm in two literary periods – Romanticism and its younger relative, Moderna.

CONCEPTUL „SPIRITUS LOCI” REFLECTAT ÎN LITERATURĂ

Author(s): Elena Negoiță / Language(s): Romanian Publication Year: 0

Since the oldest of times, people have tried to comprehend the environment,in all its aspects: sky, soil, water, natural phenomena and animals. The human beingrealized that it cannot compete with the power of the universe. Unable to conquer itsforces, energies, beasts, elements, mankind wanted to tame them. Or at least to findsome explanations for them, in order to possess knowledge on how to avoid them.The human race tried to grasp the enigma of lightning and thunder peal, the mysteryof earthquakes and volcanic eruptions, it tried to decipher the secrets of the worldthat’s invisible to the human eye, to unravel the riddles of metaphysics. An elementof the intangible that caught the attention of the human societies is genius loci/spiritus loci. Over the past centuries, the Latin expression “genius of the place/ spiritof the place” has earned various acceptances.Regardless of the multiple meanings of the phrase, “genius loci” alwaysinteracted with people that attempted to peacefully communicate with the telluricenergy. This mutual conditioning is found in multiple literary works, from variouscontinents. The writers of the magic realism illustrated the human being’sdependence over a certain place, but also the human’s mark over a terrestrialsurface.

Жан Оризе - Азбука на междувремието

Author(s): Sonya Aleksandrova / Language(s): Bulgarian Publication Year: 0

The current text presents Jean Orizet’s point of view toward the basic concept of his works for “entretemps”. The specific understanding of this concept allows transitions across different by nationality creators and works, which are individually utilized so as to serve as an alphabet for the new creation. Their insertion in the author’s text is regarded here as building elements without which “the awakening” of the subjective voice would not be possible. The artistic parameters of the selected “stories from entretemps” allows for the building of a “concentric-circular work with quotations, echoing and references, leaning towards universal human union”.

Figura drugog kao otvoreni projekat, na primeru albanskih autora iz Albanije i sa Kosova

Author(s): Saša Ćirić / Language(s): Serbian Publication Year: 0

This article offers a comparative analysis of literary works of authors from Albania and Kosovo translated into Serbian in the period after 2000. It detects the notions of the figure of the other by making recourse to cultural and political references to the conflict situations found in these books. The article is divided into sections according to the literary genres of the analysed books (novels, short fiction, poetry, drama) and the region that the authors refer to (Albania and Kosovo). The crucial distinction between the authors from Albania and Kosovo is the domination of political other for the former in comparison to the ethnic other for the latter. The authors from Albania are preoccupied by the phenomenon of auto-isolationistic Albanian totalitarianism, while the authors from Kosovo are obsessed by the trauma of Serbian-Albanian war 1998-1999 war at Kosovo. Serbian-Albanian relations are presented as relations of collective distance and deep mistrust, with no examples of achieved interethnic friendship or love affairs. Another feature characteristics for the works of the authors analysed in this article is the resistance to the political authoritarianism and patriarchal conservatism in the form of a satire, as well as examples of religious tolerance and rejecting revanchism.

Književnost kao ratni diskurs Albanski i srpski pisci u „ratu rečima“

Author(s): Anton Berishaj / Language(s): Serbian Publication Year: 0

This essay offers theoretical and explanatory model of the literary war discourse, which is described thorough its three seminal features: 1. Literary war discourse is a discourse that by necessity creates special referential relations with a particular contexts, that is with the real and symbolic power, politics and its actors, by way of replicating textual functions into context and particular rhetorical and semantic strategies, and thus by establishing a specific model of communication; 2. Literary war discourse is pervasive – in itself, under “its aegis”, it can encompass particular discourses – theoretical, religious, scientific, legal, politico-historical etc. Literary war discourse, as the war discourse in general, appears as overarching discourse, aiming (and to the large extend succeeding) to reach even to the infinitesimal point of communicational space – and one which rules this space excluding the Other from it, depriving the Other actors and Different discursive action (that would enable for the projection and creation of different political decisions) from their space; 3. Literary war discourse is a cannibalistic discourse – discourse that symbolically eats its “subject”, as well as other texts and discursive subjects whose decisions do not belong to the field of war discourse, by creating a pervasive referential framework (Goodman, 1978), always, of course, taken in the relations and functional proportions under 1 and 2. The real “subject” of this discourse is the destruction of Other, devouring the life of Others and finding jouissance and eros (Barthes, 1975) in that “devouring”.

SROVNÁNÍ POSTAV ZE SLOVANSKÝCH MÝTŮ A LEGEND S IDENTICKÝMI POSTAVAMI V LITERATUŘE FANTASY

Author(s): Lucie Fiurášková / Language(s): Czech Publication Year: 0

This article deals with characters from Slavonic, predominantly Czech, legends that occur in texts of contemporary fantasy writers. The comparision is made between individual characters and their actions in legends and in contemporary texts. The similarities and differences between them are, subsequently, laid out. The changes characters have to undergo in order to become fantasy heroes and modern versions of themselves are mapped out as well.

FROM TANGO TO ROCK ‘N’ ROLL. A COMPARATIVE STUDY IN TWO DISSIDENT DRAMAS

Author(s): Katarzyna Jaworska / Language(s): Czech Publication Year: 0

This paper aims to examine Sławomir Mrożek’s Tango and Tom Stoppard’s Rock ‘n’ Roll. Both plays explore the concept of intelligentsia, its role and condition in a postmodern society. Although these plays were written at different periods, they have the same motives of rebellion and conformity. Both texts challenge the conventions of bourgeois drama. Both plays convey an ideological message by criticizing totalitarianism and its influence on society and an individual. Furthermore, popular culture and music that are present in both plays reflect the social and cultural changes of 20th century. Tango and Rock ‘n’ Roll became symbols of a certain culture and ideology. The comparative study of the two plays is aimed at examining such their similarities as, for example, the rise and fall of communist regime in Central Europe.

THE INTENTIONALITY OF THE IMAGINATION IN ST. TERESA OF ÁVILA

Author(s): Silvia Brodňanová / Language(s): English Publication Year: 0

This paper pretends to make a brief incursion into the teachings of Saint Teresa of Ávila (1515–1582) about the imagination throughout her four main writings: The Life, The Way of Perfection, The Interior Castle and The Book of the Foundations. Firstly, it offers a terminological clarification. Secondly, it presents the Teresian semantics of the terms.

« Barbe Bleue » d'Amélie Nothomb - avatars et perspectives

Author(s): Elena Simina Bădărău / Language(s): French Publication Year: 0

"Blue Beard" by Amélie Nothomb illustrates from the very beginning certain elements of intertextuality and seeks to enrich the famous story of Charles Perrault through an insolit perspective and innovative style, dynamic dialogues and powerful characters showing extreme passions. One can identify here the phenomenology of the mystery referring to a secret chamber, associated with inexpressible things, whose indiscretion becomes overwhelming. Stepping through the door (“l’entr-ouvert”) - unavoidable and terrifying place, means beyond doubt changing the characters’s lives. Our study mainly refers to a comparative analysis which focuses both on the metamorphosis of the story into a novel and the avatars of the latter one along the process of narration or adaptation from Blue Beard myth in a modern context, in short, the premises of an original writing, surprising and profound at the same time.

Le modèle français dans la culture roumaine au XIXe siècle – la formation de la jeune génération

Author(s): Dana Damian / Language(s): French Publication Year: 0

During the 19th century, the French model exerted a decisive influence on the modernizing Romanian social, intellectual and cultural life, integrating mentalities of Western Europe different from the Eastern “models” - Turkish, Greek, Russian - until then. French influence reached its peak and manifested itself in almost all areas of social and cultural life. The Romanians found in French culture and spirituality a source of inspiration, a model, a training base. Through French influence, Romanian culture crosses the threshold to modernity. One can observe the readiness of the Romanians to push the door of the West, an action capable of triggering a series of visible and irreversible acts for the creation of the modern state.

Българо-кипърски връзки в областта на литературата

Author(s): Boryana Manolova / Language(s): English,Bulgarian Publication Year: 0

This report examines the Bulgarian-Cypriot relations in the field of literature. For this purpose, various articles, books and interviews with well-known researchers of Cypriot literature have been studied. Some accents and events from the history that have a direct impact on the literary relations between Cyprus and Bulgaria are considered. The research of the Bulgarian-Cypriot relations in the field of literature unfolds the chronology of their origin, their development during some of the more significant historical periods, as well as the interaction of the Bulgarian and Cypriot literature to the present day. Some similar characteristics between Bulgarian and Cypriot literature are indicated. Researchers of Cypriot literature, considered in this article, outline the origin and development of the connections of Cypriot literature and its interaction with Bulgarian literature. In addition they reveal the way in which Cypriot literature is popularized in Bulgaria, as well as the popularization of Bulgarian literature in Cyprus.