Sakrifica e Femrës në Baladat me Motive të Përbashkëta Ballkanike

Author(s): Leontina Gega-Musa / Language(s): Albanian Issue: 44/2014

Since the antiquity, certain cultures had the fate to meet and intertwine for a relatively long period of time, undergoing this way mutual impact in different cultural aspects. From this intertwining, both in oral literature and concretely in ballads, results occurrence of a common cultural substrate of Balkan peoples. This substrate is obvious in mythological components, in some ethno psychological features and partially in poetical structure. Given this fact, in this paper I will be focusing particularly on the sacrifice of woman as a symbol of life, fertility and carrier of life strength. This act is known in ballads with motifs of immurement, present in Albanian oral literature, but also in other oral literature in Balkans, therefore the comparisons were made by taking into consideration examples of existing ballads in these cultures

Тълкуванията на старозаветни и новозаветни книги в средновековната българска култура

Author(s): Borjana Hristova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 2/1994

Some observations are made and some conclusions drawn in the article about the translation and spread of the exegeses of various Biblical texts in Bulgarian literature from the 10th to the late 17th с. The preferences are outlined for a particular interpretaion depending on the age and the literary centre for which they were intended, drawing general conclusions about their place in the translated literature in Bulgarian. The causes for the popularity of some exegetic books at the expense of other works have also been sought.

Плачът и сълзите в средновековната литература

Author(s): Donka Petkanova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 2/1994

The article consists of three parts. In the first "Do not weep exceedingly for the dead" the authoress sets forth the views of the official Church on mourning for the dead in accordance with the precept of Damascenus Studites on this subject. The Church regards excessive weeping as a pagan manifestation and allows quiet sorrow and moderate tears which should not annoy God and the people. The second part is dedicated to "Laments in literature". Lamentationas a literary genre, lamentation in funeral orations and the sermons of mourning in hagiographic literature are all considered. A comparison is made between the Serbian and Bulgarian hagiographic traditions. The third part deals with the question: "When is it the most appropriate to weep". Based on statements by different authors, emphasis is laid on the view that one should weep the most for sins. Tears possess a purifying force, weeping is a means of spiritual healing. Throughout the article attention is paid to the passages in which lamentation is expressed.

Travel Writings as Means of Intercultural Translation

Author(s): Carmen Dominte / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2016

As a literary genre, the travel literature was considered a literary hybrid made of several other sub-genres, or a literary sub-species made of the autobiographic writings (Paul Fussell) or of the ethnographic writings (PatrickHolland). Being defined on several axes, such as fiction/non-fiction literature,internal/external travels, poetical/historical form, time/space perspective, the travel writings differ not only in terms of narrative strategies but also in terms of method or purpose of writing. The travel writings belong both to cultural studies and to translation studies, allowing the association of the traveller’s functions with the functions developed by the translator in the process of trans-positioning all the elements from the foreign culture in his own. Thus, the act of cultural translation becomes the act of constructing the self in a foreign culture. The aim of the article is to analyze the manner in which travel writings develop their narrative strategies in the act of intercultural translation.

Shakespeare’s Untranslatable Englishness Translated into Opera

Author(s): Alina Bottez / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2016

This article will analyse the various ways in which opera translations of William Shakespeare’s works are part of the cultural adaptation process. Using examples from various libretti, from the classical to the Romanian versions, the author claims that these adaptations are actually making Shakespeare more accessible across linguistic and cultural borders.

The Absence of Otherness and the Fiction of Corporeality in Michel Houellbecq’s Prose

Author(s): Anamaria Mihăilă / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2016

The current paper aims to illustrate how Michel Houellebecq's prose revolves around the failure of otherness. His character, always male, is in search of indemnifying options to rebuild the connections that have been suddenly interrupted, such as miscarriages or losing partners due to suicide. At first sight, the woman's figure naturally meets these requirements. Otherness is being reduced to a barren body, that acts as an extension of the traditional female role: woman as an erotic partner and maternal figure. The inability to communicate, the split between the two above-mentioned fixed roles leads to the abnegation of the self while failing to be defined through otherness. My thesis will argue that Houellebecq's prose grows as a fiction of otherness: excessively eroticised bodies that impel communication, dispersed families by repudiation of sons as feasible otherness, artificial heroes, either orphans or abandoned, incapable of exceeding their own individuality, replace the claim for the heroic in contemporary French writing.

Subaltern Framings of the Posthuman in Jeanette Winterson’s THE STONE GODS and David Mitchell’s CLOUD ATLAS

Author(s): Cristina Diamant / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2016

The present paper, drawing mainly on the findings of Rosi Braidotti, Donna Haraway, and Richard Kearney, aims to explore the complex framing as subalterns undergone by Spike, the obscenely beautiful Robo sapiens of Jeanette Winterson’s The Stone Gods, as well as Sonmi-451, one of the ascended fabricants or cognitively awakened clones in the service industry of David Mitchell’s Cloud Atlas. There is an inherent paradox here: if these posthumans are both posterior and superior, what makes it possible to infantilise or fetishise them to the point of talking them down? Both the Robo sapiens and the fabricants are, ultimately, what Haraway terms “companion species” forced into affective kinship with humans. Their liminality triggers in us a feeling of “hostipitality” (Jacques Derrida) given the urge towards an “ontological hygiene” (Elaine Graham) and so they are scapegoated to preserve the illusion that (trans)human identity is stable and that there is no need for a “flat ontology” (Levi Bryant).

Kuntaka’s Theory of VAKROKTI and Russian Formalism: Affinities and Parallelisms

Author(s): Ashima Shrawan / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2016

Both Indian and Western aesthetic thinking is impregnated with significant views about the language of literature. However, the Indian theory of vakrokti (obliquity) and the Western theory of Russian Formalism deal with the language of literature exhaustively. Kuntaka’s theory of vakrokti and Russian formalism consider that a certain obliqueness or indirection or defamiliarization is the most distinguishing characteristic of the language of literature. Both theories point out this very aspect of language of literature. In spite of this common ground, there is no onetoone correspondence between the theories. The present paper aims at exploring a significant area of intersection between the two. The basis of the intersection includes the development of both theories in terms of the levels of the language of literature, the role of author and the reader, the role of emotions and the role of sound and meaning.

Византийската редакция на Физиолога в южнославянската средновековна книжнина

Author(s): Ana Stoykova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 2/1992

Der Karst als ›Kriegslandschaft‹

Author(s): Boris Previšić / Language(s): German Issue: 25/2016

Der Geodeterminismus um 1900 wird im Gebirgskrieg und im Speziellen an der Isonzo-Front in vielerlei Hinsicht überlagert: Dem Karst, der 1914 in Montenegro durch Rifat Gozdović Pascha noch kolonial metaphorisch überhöht wird, kommen bei Ernst Décsey und Kornel Abel paradoxe Funktionen zwischen Schutz und tödlicher Gefahr zu. Die Literatur insbesondere eines Giuseppe Ungaretti ist davon fasziniert und schreibt den Karst in eine palimpsestartige Struktur von Kriegs- und Friedenslandschaft ein, welche nach der sechsten Isonzo-Schlacht mit neuen Taktiken im Stellungskrieg einhergeht. Doch eine gemeinsam aufgearbeitete europäische Kriegsgeschichte verliert sich in der Kontingenz der Erinnerung selbst.

Der Medienverbund Kriegspressequartier und sein technoromantisches Abenteuer 1914–1918

Author(s): Peter Plener / Language(s): German Issue: 25/2016

Jeder Krieg hat seine Erzählungen, seine Lieder und seine Bilder. Und jeder, der Krieg betreibt, braucht diese, um seine Narrative durchzusetzen. Über die Jahrtausende hinweg änderten sich neben den Waffensystemen die Informationsformate; mit diesen Entwicklungen erfuhren auch Komplexität und Organisationsgrad der Berichterstattung vom Krieg einen Wandel. Im Ersten Weltkrieg unterhielten alle kriegsführenden Mächte Informationssysteme und manipulierten die öffentliche Meinung nach Kräften. Am Beispiel des k.u.k. Kriegspressequartiers erweist sich exemplarisch, mit welcher Ahnungslosigkeit – und zugleich: umfassenden Wirkung – Medien erstmals tatsächlich zu Medienverbünden verschaltet wurden.

Die Reporterin Alice Schalek bei der Isonzoarmee

Author(s): Mira Miladinović-Zalaznik / Language(s): German Issue: 25/2016

Im Beitrag wird die Berichterstattung von Alice Schalek über die Schlachten am Isonzo thematisiert. Dabei gelangt die Verfasserin zu der Überzeugung, dass die einzige Berichterstatterin im Ersten Weltkrieg einerseits Propaganda im Sinne der Habsburger Monarchie betreibt, dabei ihren niedrigsten Instinkten frönend (K. Kraus), zugleich aber die vielen anonym Kämpfenden der Vergessenheit entreißt.

Erinnern nach der Erinnerung

Author(s): Daniela Kirchstein / Language(s): German Issue: 25/2016

Fiktionales Erinnern ohne zeitzeugenschaftliche Instanz, die eine tatsächliche Erinnerung an den Ersten Weltkrieg hätte, lässt sich auf die Formel ›Erinnern nach der Erinnerung‹ bringen. Der Beitrag untersucht die narrativen Strukturen und erörtert die poetologischen Konsequenzen des ›Erinnerns nach der Erinnerung‹ in Erwin Mortiers "Götterschlaf" (2010), Jean Echenoz’ "14" (2012) und Hans von Trothas "Czernin oder wie ich lernte, den Ersten Weltkrieg zu verstehen" (2013).

S druge obale načela ugode: Ibsenova Gospođa s mora

Author(s): Ana Tomljenović / Language(s): Serbian Issue: 1-2/2016

In the book Thalassa (1924) Sandor Ferenczi constructs his theory of genitality on the analogy between the sea and the womb as our phylogenetic and ontogenetic birth place. Relying on Freud’s Beyond the Pleasure Principle (1920), Ferenczi states that the whole life is determined by a tendency to return to the womb/sea, or to re-establish intrauterine peace and silence. Following Ferenczi’s analogy, the paper explores structural similarities between literature and psychoanalytic theory, and thematic similarities between two plays: Henrik Ibsen’s Lady from the Sea (1888) and Luigi Pirandello’s To Find Oneself (1932).

Obraz Odyseusza w powieści Sándora Máraiego Pokój na Itace

Author(s): Magdalena Garbacik / Language(s): Polish Issue: 6/2013

The aim of this paper is to analyze and interpret the affinities between Sándor Márai’s novel Béke Ithakában and Homers’ Odyssey. The analysis focuses on the figure of Odysseus and the differences between the portrayal of the legendary hero in these two works. The study argues that Márai not only refers to Antiquity, but makes a creative use of classical motifs to show the contemporary man.

Stablo za budućnost

Author(s): Zdravko Zima / Language(s): Croatian Issue: 01+04/2017

Umro je Ante Stamać (1939–2016). Prvo što mi pada na pamet pri spomenu njegova imena jest nevjerojatna energija spojena s isto takvom erudicijom i osjećajem za vrijednosti. Ovo potonje iskazivao je u široko rasprostranjenim interesima, u potrebi za perfekcionizmom, ali isto tako u svakodnevnim prilikama. U vrijeme naših čestih kontakata, između 1975. i 1990. godine, nalazili smo se u različitim situacijama i svim mogućim društvima, književničkim, studentskim i kavanskim. Kad bi se među nama zatekao netko nepoznat, a pogotovo ako je bio pisac, Stamać ga je predstavljao s vrstom obzirnosti i građanskog takta koji je o tom osjećaju za vrijednosti svjedočio jednako uvjerljivo kao njegovi eseji, prijevodi i specijalističke knjige.

ESTETSKA OBILJEŽJA BOŠNJAČKE U CRNOGORSKOJ KNJIŽEVNOSTI XX STOLJEĆA NA MODELU PRIPOVIJEDANJA ĆAMILA SIJARIĆA, U ROMANU „CRNOTURCI“ HUSEINA BAŠIĆA I U ROMANESKNOJ TRILOGIJI MURATA BALTIĆA

Author(s): Rašid Durić / Language(s): Bosnian Issue: 39-40/2008

Zadaća je i smisao ove studije opisati i u izdvojenim primjerima pripovjedačkoga teksta dokazati estetske i stilske osobenosti sandžačkomuslimanske u kontekstu crnogorske i južnoslavenskih književnosti XX stoljeća. Izabrani karakteristični pripovjedački tekstovi Sijarića, Bašića i Baltića su u ovom referatu estetski model za poetološku sintezu opisivanja stilske i jezičke autohtonosti sandžačko muslimanske u južnoslavenskim književnostima.

Dva autobiografska iskaza o snevanju i pesničkom stvaranju

Author(s): Slobodan Vukobrat / Language(s): Serbian Issue: 275/1982

Vizionarski doživljaji i snoviđenja oduvek su ulazili u književnost, usmenu i pisanu. U literaturi lako su postajali tehnički elemenat kazivanja, kao motiv, tema ili okvir pripovedanja. Tako je u srednjovefeovnoj književnosti Evrope alegorijski san prosto konvencionalni pesnički soblik sa stalnim obeležjima. U gotovo svakom delu ove vrste nalazimo pesnika koji se, mućen nesanicom, laća knjige, pa potom nad njom zaspi. Usni da se našao u nekom lepom vrtu, u proleće. U vrt, ili u neki njegov zakutak, mahom ga dovlodi kakva životanja. U isamom vrtu, ili pri odlasku iz ovoga, pesnik doživljava niz zgoda u kojima se javljaju libovi alegoiičnog značeaija, najčešće i obeleženi alegoričnim imetaima. San čini veći deo pesme, a ova se završava naglo, buđenjem pesnika. Na kraju je, ponekaid, i poziv upućen čitaocu da san protumači.

Playing With(out) Borders: Video Games as the Digital Expression of Transnational Literature

Author(s): Diana Melnic,Vlad Melnic / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2017

This paper inquires whether video games, as cultural artifacts stemming from the digital environment, can be interpreted from the angle of transnational literature. As such, two main hypotheses are reviewed: first, that video games are transnational in content, recycling in a syncretic manner the themes and archetypes that were once rooted in local, nationalized mythologies, but that are now decontextualized and reevaluated in a transnational narrative space; and secondly, that video games create transnational communities with specific social morphologies, where both authors and readers can each become the immigrant who plays without (outside of) national borders. The conclusions that we may draw hereof do not concern game studies alone. Indeed, they may very well lead us to believe that in video games, transnational literature can and does find its most accomplished expression – a literature that not only places itself between national borders, but that also transcends these borders altogether.

Mapping Femininity as Self-reflection Strategy in Lady Mary Wortley Montagu’s Travel Letters

Author(s): Amelia Precup / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2017

The present paper participates in the discussion about the differences between masculine and feminine modes of travel in terms of interests, perception, and representation, by exploring the Letters of the Right Honourable Lady M--y W--y M--e Written during Her Travels in Europe, Asia and Africa, by Lady Mary Wortley Montagu. As a traveller, Lady Mary engaged in the contemplation of cultural landscapes: she attempted to understand the social logic of the communities she met and to assess the cultural distance between the English society and the local customs of the countries she visited. Within this large social and cultural framework, the focus of her keen spirit of observation is represented, in many of her letters, by gender dynamics and the status of women, thus allowing a feminine configuration of the map of continental Europe and the Ottoman Empire and a comparative understanding of femininity and expected feminine behaviour. Therefore, the contention of this paper is that, in Lady Mary’s letters, the female-traveller’s gaze ends in meditation and self-contemplation, and functions as a means of comparing and reassessing female identity.