Literackie (kraj)obrazy Jane Austen a angielska estetyka malowniczości

Author(s): Sylwia Borowska-Kazimiruk / Language(s): Polish Issue: 2/2019

The main inspiration for the article dedicated to aesthetics of picturesqueness in Jane Austen’s novels is W. J. T. Mitchell’s Introduction in Landscape and Power, where he defines a landscape not as a noun, but as a verb. In this context, this term becomes a cultural medium, by which the new political and social meanings of the epoch are transmitted and sanctioned. Selected parts of Austen’s works, in which long descriptions of nature have been replaced by dialogues about a landscape as an artistic, picturesque object, will allow to describe the consequences of the reconceptualization of the nature within English theory of aesthetics.

Jane Austen (dla) Josepha Conrada

Author(s): Karol Samsel / Language(s): Polish Issue: 2/2019

The understanding of Jane Austen was for Joseph Conrad (probably) the condition of the understanding of the English soul as such. And, even if we roam around fascinating hypotheses, it is worth formulating them – mainly because they are a new key to the reading of the works of the author of Lord Jim. His problems with the literary heritage of Austen could be affected by different, numerous factors: 1) the growing popularity of Janeites; 2) the authority of, appreciating the author of Mansfield Park, Henry James; 3) the feeling of being lost of the Polish writer in the situation of the late novelist debut; 4) the literary tradition of the Ukrainian School in the Polish Romanticism, in which he was raised and he formed his personality. Conrad could make an attempt of dealing with, incomprehensible for himself, Austen in the 1910s, in the period of jubilees of the editions of her novels. In this spirit, it is worthy to read again such prose texts of Conrad, as: Zwycięstwo (1915) and Ocalenie (1920), but above all – the earliest from this group – Gra losu (1913).

Drugie życie Dumy i uprzedzenia. Tennant – Austen

Author(s): Aleksandra Budrewicz / Language(s): Polish Issue: 2/2019

The article is a comparative study of Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen and the contemporary novel by Emma Tennant Pemberley, which is a continuation of the story of Austen’s characters. Tennant enriched the description of certain protagonists of Sense and Sensibility; for example, the new information about Elizabeth come from the sources which are connected to the biography of Austen herself (letters, memoirs). The theoretical background of the paper is based on research of A. Fulińska, A. Stoff etc.

Jak znaleźć męża między żywymi trupami a krwiożerczymi ośmiornicami? Mash-up, czyli „klasyczne romanse z okresu regencji” z domieszką elementów nadnaturalnych (na przykładzie Pride and Prejudice and Zombies oraz Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters

Author(s): Iwona Przybysz / Language(s): Polish Issue: 2/2019

In this article, the author confronts two mash-up novels (novels, in which new motives and elements are added to the masterpieces of world’s literature) – Pride and Prejudice and Zombies by Jane Austen and Seth Grahame-Smith and Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters by Jane Austen and Ben H. Winters. The author shows how the new elements (zombies and sea monsters) are added to Jane Austen’s novels and underlines which elements have to be left in their original form, and which can be changed. The author also describes how the development of the new motives affects the ways of describing the world of the novel and its characters.

Teoria, nostalgia, alt-right: amerykańska Austen w XXI wieku

Author(s): Mikołaj Golubiewski / Language(s): Polish Issue: 2/2019

In July 2017, some American scholars accused alt-right groups of appropriating Jane Austen’s works for extreme-right propaganda. How could Austen’s texts – an author associated with the beginnings of feminism – be used by blatant misogynists? This clash of perceptions reveals a dispute between Austen’s broad reception as classically romantic romances and a whole range of narrow theoretical academic readings. In the analysis of this dispute, the paper outlines long-lasting threads of Austen’s interpretation in AngloAmerican culture, whose ideological reconstruction of the last few decades clashes with a nostalgia for imperial order.

Mój rok 1968

Author(s): Mariusz Klapper / Language(s): Polish Issue: 52/2018

Marzec i maj 1968 we Wrocławiu

Author(s): Michał Siciński / Language(s): Polish Issue: 52/2018

Editorial

Author(s): Jeffrey H. Cohen / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2021

Cash flows from destinations to sending homes may capture a core feature of remittance practices, yet, like the act of migrating, the flows do not take place in a vacuum.  Rather they are part of a complex and dynamic system linking movers and non-movers. While the complex dynamism of remittance practices can be a challenge, as the articles included in this volume of Remittance Reviews note, understanding is within our reach.

The Delusion of the Dream in Ta-Nehisi Coates’ The Water Dancer

Author(s): Alicia Josey / Language(s): English Issue: 11/2021

The Lockless estate in Ta-Nehisi Coates' fantasy neo-slave narrative The Water Dancer mirrors the United States in terms of their treatment of race. Both Coates's two autobiographical works introduce the concept of family, from his childhood and from his young fatherhood, which highlights the lack of healthy familial relationships in The Water Dancer. The Walkers bastardize fatherhood and brotherhood with the protagonist, Hiram, who constantly vies for their affection despite their unequal relationship. Looking at the novel through a CRT lens allows us to break down this relationship. The Dream of hope, of race relations and treatment getting better in every single way throughout history is often weaponized by the dominant culture in order to force forgiveness, as well as a gruesome idea of family, and drive out the memory of the past.

Postmodern Tendencies in the Russian Poetry of the “Silver Age”

Author(s): Ihor Chornyi,Viktoriia Pertseva,Viktoriia Chorna,Olena Horlova,Oleksandra Shtepenko,Mykola Lipisivitskyi / Language(s): English Issue: 4/2021

For the first time, the article analyses certain aspects of Russian poetry of the “Silver Age” in order to identify the rudiments or features which are characteristic of the postmodern creative paradigm. It is noted that a number of poets almost do not have any postmodernist tendencies. Despite the fact it is proved that postmodernism denies the personality-centric and aesthetically oriented concept of modernism, it nevertheless arose on the basis of modernism and has sharpened evolutionary features formulated in the first half of the 20th century. The article aims to prove a hypothesis that arises in the authors during a preliminary perceptual reading of the poets` works of the “Silver Age”: in the early 20th century. Sporadically and consistently in individual authors can be observed irony, play, reconstruction and performance as precursor of postmodernist creative thinking. Specialties of the Russian poetry of the “Silver Age”, which directly correlate with postmodernist tendencies of the second half of the 20th century is not a description itself, but the realization of reality, ambivalence, as well as following the linguistic and figurative, conceptual, motive levels of gradual transitions between the paradigms of “symbolism – modernism” and “modernism – postmodernism”. The international significance of the article is that the material of one of the Eastern European literatures has proved the existence of postmodern (quasi-postmodern) features in the first half of the 20th century for the first time, which can serve as a deeper research in the field of literary typology, continuity; culturology and anthropology.

Artistic Conceptualization of Native Land in William Wordsworth’s Poetry

Author(s): Nataliia Romanyshyn / Language(s): English Issue: 12/2021

The paper focuses on revealing linguistic and cognitive mechanisms that underlie the formation and functioning of verbal images of native land in William Wordsworth’s poetic system. The artistic concept of Motherland is subjected to linguistic-poetic interpretation. The national specificity of Wordsworth’s poetics reveals itself in the dominance of ethnographic details and naturalness of description, foregrounding the idea of inseparability of individual personal fate and the processes of ethnic environment transformation. Everyday themes and dramatic effect of personal and intimate events in the life of a poetic persona are ascribed symbolic senses and reflect the universal and national destiny of England at the turn of the century.

"Auf unserem Papier findet das meiste gleichzeitig statt": Zum Projekt der Gegenweltgeschichte in Günter Grass' "Der Butt" in kulturökologischer Perspektive

Author(s): Nathalie Kónya-Jobs / Language(s): German Issue: 18/2021

In this article, the novel The Flounder is re-read from the perspective of environmental literary criticism and with a view to the highly topical issues of education for sustainable development. The line of argument moves along the central questions for Grass’s work about the importance of fairy tales and myths for literary-anthropological processes of the formation of meaning, his Enlightenment criticism, his critical understanding of history, his poetics of ‚Vergegenkunft‘ and his examination of feminism, ecology and dystopian visions of the post-human age. The article closes with an outlook on relevant research desiderata. An overview table for a selection of thematic, relevant works should serve as an inspiration to rediscover Grass as a representative of ecocriticism in schools and universities.

Асацыятыўна-сэнсавае поле аповесцi Янкi Брыля “Муштук i папка”

Author(s): Tamara Tarasawa / Language(s): Belarusian Issue: 13/2021

The article deals with text associations on the example of the story “Mushtuk I Papka” by Y. Bryl. The study of the mechanism of associative links contributes to an in-depth understanding of ideological and thematic content of the story, its artistic imagery, the writer’s thesaurus, the peculiarities of the author’s style and worldview. The associative and semantic field of the story “Mushtuk I Papka” by Y. Bryl includes vocabulary, intertext, the author’s reminiscences, lyrical tone, plot-compositional structure of the text, and the author’s conceptual sphere. The fundamental role of associativity is to provide comprehensive perception and understanding of the story.

Мастацкая аксiясфера “Палескай хронiкi” Iвана Мележа

Author(s): Wanda Barouka / Language(s): Belarusian Issue: 13/2021

The article examines the artistic axiosphere of “Chronicle of Palesie” by I. Melezh. The artistic axiosphere is a totality of artistic qualities of the work which are recognized as valuable and significant by both the writer and the readers. They include the subject and the perspective of the image, subject matter, life persuasiveness, humanistic orientation, polemic attitude to traditional aesthetic conventions and artistic experiment. The artistic axiosphere of “Chronicle of Palesie” is dynamic and subjective, which ensures the work dialogue with time and with various generations of professional and amateur readers.

Эга-дакумент як камунiкатыўная падзея ў лiтаратурным працэсе (на прыкладзе аўтабiяграфiчнай аповесцi Алеся Адамовiча “Vixi”)

Author(s): Wolga Gubskaja / Language(s): Belarusian Issue: 13/2021

The article uses narrative techniques to explore the role of a fact in literary works. A. Adamovich’s autobiographical novel “Vixi” that serves as illustrative material has been analyzed. The purpose of the article is to examine a literary work at several textual levels: “event – naration – discourse”, “events in the novel – historical context (internal and external chronotope)”, the relationship of “author – narator – reader”. It is argued that the fact in the process of a narrative story cannot remain unchanged – a subjective interpretation of the writer expressed by narrator’s words changes it explicitly. It is emphasized that the fact can be used as a trigger for deploying the main action or changing the style of writing. For A. Adamovich self-reflection as the way of understanding reality is a means to create the world model which represents clear polarization.

Iдэйна-мастацкiя пошукi паэтаў беларуска-польскага памежжа: творчасць Адама Плуга

Author(s): Anatol Brusewicz / Language(s): Belarusian Issue: 13/2021

This article is devoted to the study of the ideological and aesthetic foundations of Adam Ploug’s poetry in organic correlation with the artistic experience of other representatives of the Belarusian-Polish literary borderland (A. Mitskevich, J.I. Krashevsky, etc.). It is worth noting that the formation of A. Ploug’s creative consciousness took place under the direct influence of a number of ideas of Western European Romanticism, including the sacralization of the homeland and its past (historical memory), the idealization of freedom, Christian humanism and non-conformism, the idea of the timelessness of art. At the same time, both the concept of the lyrical hero and the artistic space in A. Ploug’s works are all built on the basis of the traditions of the Belarusian folk culture, which makes it possible to assert that the poet belongs primarily to Belarusian Romanticism.

Once Again on Claudian's Egyptian Origin

Author(s): Tomasz Babnis / Language(s): English Issue: 24/2021

The life of Claudius Claudian (c. 370 – c. 404 AD), the great Latin poet active during the reign of Honorius, is unknown, especially the years before his great debut in 395 AD. Communis opinio holds that he was a pagan Egyptian Greek born in Alexandria c. 370 AD, who having come to Italy in 394 AD started a career of a political poet in the service of the elites of the Western Roman Empire. This view codified by Alan Cameron (1970) was challenged by Peder G. Christiansen (1997), who asserted that Claudian was actually a Westerner. The thesis of the poet’s Egyptian origin was defended by Bret Mulligan (2007) and then again attacked by Christiansen and Christiansen (2009). This article aims to reconsider the scarce textual evidence and to put an emphasis on some points that have been underestimated so far: the possibility of Claudian’s early connections with Constantinople and the ruling circles of the eastern capital.

За любовта

Author(s): Andreas Cappellanus / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 27/2021

The treatise De amore (On courtly love) (ca. 1180) by Andres Capellanus is one of the central texts of medieval literature. Created in the court of Mary of Champagne, the text follows the tradition of the antient artes amatoriae (‘arts of love’). It is focused on the nature, the features, and the rules of development of love relationships as they were pictured in the courtly culture in medieval Western Europe. The present first Bulgarian translation presents two sections of the text: the theoretic opening of the treatise, modelled as a scholastic discussion on the essence of love; and the final section of the second book, where a romance narrative appears, telling the story of the knight Brito who is the first to receive the Rules of Love through courage and virtue.

On semantic and semiotic multilingualism in earlier and latest works of Sabira Ståhlberg and Tzveta Sofronieva

Author(s): Johanna Domokos / Language(s): English,Romanian Issue: 1/2021

The present study describes the poetics of two contemporary multilingual writers, one born in Finland (Sabira Ståhlberg) and one in Bulgaria (Tzveta Sofronieva). Besides being prolific writers in literary genres such as poetry, prose, drama, both also translate and edit world literature. Early in their career each of them achieved a PhD. Sofronieva and Ståhlberg carry out academic activities through their research studies. After visiting a multitude of places, they have become not only literary figures of both their birth countries’ literature and the literatures of several other countries, but real literary citizens of the ‘new’ world literature (McDougall, 2014). Their philosophical and ecological aestheticism voices the most urgent problems of humanity by incorporating the latest insights of brain studies, quantum physics, psychology, migration and cultural studies. Their oeuvre addresses any reader irrespective of language(s), background(s), and location(s). After looking into the monolingually multilingual (using hidden code-switching) as well as multigraphic and multilingual (using overt code switching) artistic production of Sofronieva and Ståhlberg, this study compares two poems, one by each of them, sharing the common metaphor of the sea horse. The aim of this comparative study is to point out how their highly topical poetries activate the multilinguality of any reader, as well as how the linguistic, alphabetic code-switching and shifts of interpretation paradigms loosen formal and conceptual borders. By their act, the reader is empowered to take part in not only piecing together but creating a better ‘new’ world.

« Comme si nous étions à la contredanse » : chorégraphies utopiques chez Claire de Duras et George Sand

Author(s): Tessa Ashlin Nunn / Language(s): French Issue: 11/2021

During the first half of the 19th century, contradances, made up of displacements and interactions between all the dancers starting in different places, abolish the obligations imposed by a society divided into classes. In Édouard (1825), Claire de Duras compares the performance of contradances, during an ancien régime ball, to fleeing to England, where social ascension seems possible. George Sand, in Le Compagnon du Tour de France (1840), contrasts the possibility of romantic relationships across classes during contradances with the impossibility of these unions in everyday life. By establishing a non-place, these fictional dances create ephemeral moments during which equality and freedom reign; however, off the dance floor, social hierarchies remain rigid.