Dostoevsky on immortality of the soul and unearthly Paradise

Author(s): Grzegorz Przebinda / Language(s): English,Polish Issue: 1/2018

Dostojewski o nieśmiertelności duszy i raju pozaziemskim Artykuł stanowi próbę opisu światopoglądu rosyjskiego pisarza i myśliciela Fiodora Michajłowicza Dostojewskiego (1821–1881) w kontekście rozumienia przez niego nieśmiertelności duszy ludzkiej oraz raju pozaziemskiego w opozycji do ateistycznych i antyteistycznych ideologii Rosji drugiej połowy XIX wieku, w tym przede wszystkim „bezbożnego socjalizmu”. Ukazuje fundamentalne różnice pomiędzy cząstkami ideowo-fabularnymi powieści Bracia Karamazow – Przewrót geologiczny, Legenda o raju i Wielki Inkwizytor – w kontekście rozważań pisarza o osobowej nieśmiertelności człowieka i jego istnieniu w „raju pozaziemskim”. W odniesieniu do bliskiej Dostojewskiemu ideowo postaci nacjonalisty Iwana Pawłowicza Szatowa z powieści Biesy została sformułowana teza o sprzeczności jego światopoglądu z chrześcijańskim uniwersalizmem, wyrażonym źródłowo w Liście do Galatów apostoła Pawła (3:28): „Nie ma Żyda ani Greka, nie ma niewolnika ani wolnego, nie ma mężczyzny ani kobiety, gdyż wy wszyscy jedno jesteście w Jezusie Chrystusie”.

Dziesięciolecie Polski odrodzonej w publikacjach książkowych – analiza edytorska na wybranych przykładach

Author(s): Joanna Kułakowska-Lis / Language(s): Polish Issue: 2/2019

The aim of the paper was to analyse publications (compact editions) published on the occasion of the 10th anniversary of Poland's regaining independence in 1928 and 1929. The source of information on over 100 publications of this nature was Wykaz Druków wydawanych w Rzeczpospolitej Polskiej druków polskich lub Polski dotyczących wydawanych za granicą (List of Printed Works Published in the Republic of Poland and Polish Printed Works or Printed Works of Poland Concerning those Published Abroad), which had been published since 1928. The books analysed were grouped according to their subject matter: historical studies, publications devoted to Józef Piłsudski, poems and songs, publications on economic issues, etc. Selected issues were subject to detailed editorial analysis: Dziesięciolecie Polski Odrodzonej Księga Pamiątkowa (The Tenth Anniversary of Poland Reborn. Memorial Book), Złota księga Polski (The Golden Book of Poland) and Przemysł i handel (Industry and Trade), discussing issues related to the editorial concept, graphic design, layout and selection of illustrations, as well as the purpose of publication.

МЕТОДОЛОШКИ ОКВИРИ ИСТРАЖИВАЊА СРПСКЕ КЊИЖЕВНОСТИ ПРЕДРАГА ПАЛАВЕСТРЕ

Author(s): Valentina Veljić / Language(s): Serbian Issue: 8/2022

Предмет рада је истраживање методолошких оквира књижевноисторијског рада Предрага Палавестре са циљем указивања на његов књижевнонаучни допринос изучавању српске књижевности у светлу регионалних и европских књижевних оквира. Истраживање се заснива на дијахронијском прегледу развоја књижевноисторијске (књижевнонаучне) методологије Предрага Палавестре и синтези у погледу грађе и виђења српске књижевности са аспекта једног од најзначајнијих проучавалаца књижевности на нашим просторима. У завршном делу рада указујемо на значај истраживања Предрага Палавестре у контексту методологије науке о књижевности. Како бисмо сагледали приступ Предрага Палавестре књижевним појавама у својим књижевно-научним радовима (монографијама, студијама, огледима; књижевноисторијским прегледима), у обзир узимамао следеће књиге: Послератна српска књижевност 1945–1970, Историја модерне српске књижевности: златно доба 1892–1918, Књижевност Младе Босне (објављене у два тома) и Јеврејски писци у српској књижевности.

Representations of the Black Sea in Radu Tudoran's Nautical Novels

Author(s): Roxana Elena Doncu / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2022

Radu Tudoran, the son of a maritime officer, was one of the few writers committed to writing about the sea and seafaring in Romanian literature. Among his nautical novels the best-known are Un port la răsărit [A harbour in the East], Toate pânzele sus! [All Sails Up!] and Maria și marea [Maria and the sea]. The last two were turned into movies by Mircea Mureșan, but only the filmic adaptation of Toate pânzele sus! enjoyed long-lasting success with the public. I will analyse only the first two novels, the first written before the communist take-over, and the second during Ceaușescu's rule, at the high time of national communism. Although Tudoran kept his distance from his brother's (Geo Bogza) communist sympathies, Toate pânzele sus! [All Sails Up!], a classic of adventure on the seas, allowed the nationalist ideology of the Communist party to seep into it.

The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes by Suzanne Collins, or the Redemption (?) of Coriolanus Snow

Author(s): Alexandra Roxana MĂRGINEAN / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2020

The starting point for this analysis is that Coriolanus Snow is a character that has not beencapitalized on fully in the trilogy of The Hunger Games, leaving us with a sense ofincompleteness, as far as the narrative, emotional and psychological potentialitiesconnected with him, as well as, perhaps, a feeling that this unexploited potential has donehim injustice. The introduction to the study, called Relay, puts this notion forth, lookingback (or, rather, forward, in the chronology of the story) to the context of the trilogy’sending, to see what avenues of meaning it has opened to cause this sense in both thereceiver of the work and in its author, since Collins decided upon a prequel. Then, once wehave established that Coriolanus Snow is the highlight of the research and explained thepotential rationale behind that, the next section looks into the biography of the character,relying on the logic that his background and origin of his family, as well as significantevents in his early life, which turn out to be highly traumatic, may delineate some traits ofcharacter that he sets out with in the journey of his life and becoming. The third partfocuses on elements that may be considered as links with the trilogy, i.e. aspects that arehighly symbolical and rich in signification and which will go through a type of flourishmentlater on, holding the skeleton for the interpretation of the whole story. This part reveals theother directing line in our research, or other interest, but the scrutiny into these aspects isalways related with the character Snow, shedding light on his future way of being as well.The conclusions reiterate the ideas stated previously with respect to Snow’s personality andaspects that connect the prequel with the trilogy, also highlighting the focal protagonist’sevolution. We conclude that Coriolanus Snow’s becoming is influenced by his traumaticpast, but mainly and mostly, as far as its negative turns, by the politics and morals of TheCapitol.

Metaphors of Limitation in Vasile Voiculescu’s Poems

Author(s): Mădălina Deaconu / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2020

The present paper aims at at giving an insight into Vasile Voiculescu’s poems focusing onthe metaphors of limitation. They are present in a large number, in all stages of creation,pointing to Vasile Voiculescu’s consistent and permanent attempt to surpass all obstaclesin order to establish a genuine relation with God. Mention should be made of the fact thatthese metaphors of limitation are analysed having in cognitive linguistics.

THE ROLE OF SOCIAL MEDIA IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF INTERCULTURAL COMPETENCE AMONG UNIVERSITY STUDENTS IN AZERBAIJAN

Author(s): IMANOVA Sevda / Language(s): English Issue: 17/2022

The paper deals with the issues of forming and developing students’ intercultural competence (IC) level and the demands for culture-based, appropriate teaching materials including social websites in Azerbaijan. In order to succeed in fostering students’ intercultural competence, the content and teaching strategies of foreign languages, all educational documents, programs, syllabi, and teaching materials must be thoroughly designed based on culture. The swift development of global economy, transportation, and communication necessitates the tendencies relating to intercultural competence meaning that people from multicultural backgrounds has made intercultural competence very relevant. In this context, social media play a key role in increasing the Internet users’ culture awareness and improving intercultural competence. In this study, the questionnaire was designed in order to gain the influence of social media in the development of intercultural competence and the impacts of learning foreign languages among the students who study at Azerbaijan University of Languages. Using social media in the classroom environment contributes to understanding of foreign cultures which facilitates the language acquisition

Preface

Author(s): Maya Ivanova / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2023

Cyril and Methodius. Images. Memory. Identity (A Book Review)

Author(s): Ewelina Drzewiecka / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2023

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Еditions of the Cyrillo-Methodian Research Centre at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences for the period 2021–2022

Author(s): Nely Gancheva / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2023

Hans Bergel (1925-2022)

Author(s): Raluca Nicoleta Spiridon / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 1-2/2023

Hans Bergel was a German-speaking Romanian writer and publicist, born in the first half of the last century. His life was constantly governed by the idea of escape. He takes refuge in the mountains to escape deportation to the U.S.S.R. and evades judicial liability when he is about to execute the punishment for the attempted fraudulent crossing of the border. On September 19, 1959, Hans Bergel was sentenced, along with Andreas Birkner, Wolf von Aichelburg and Georg Serg, to hard years in prison for the content of his literary work. In 1968 he emigrated to Federal Germany, as a last act of refusal of the totalitarian state's constraints. Hans Bergel left behind a huge cultural heritage, from novels with autobiographical nuances to poems of existentialist essence.

ЗА ЕДНА КЪСНА И НЕИЗВЕСТНА ПОЕМА ЗА ПАИСИЙ ХИЛЕНДАРСКИ ОТ МИХАИЛ КОВАЧЕВ (1962)

Author(s): Iveta Rasheva / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 22/2023

In 1962, the Bulgarian Church canonized Paisij Hilendarski. “Church Newspaper” devotes its entire issue from December of the same year to the event. It contains the lyrical poem “Paisij Hilendarski” by Mihail Kovachev, a researcher of Mount Athos and the Zograf Monastery. The report dwells on the question of what she managed to “say” in the difficult time of socialism.

The Image of the Danube in Contemporary Novels Associated with Hungarian Culture

Author(s): Monica Manolachi / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2023

The natural elements of inhabited areas often shape people’s lifestyles, psychology and worldviews, influencing their moods, decisions and actions. Rivers in particular are often associated with the historical development of human relationships and the emergence of settlements and urban life. This paper explores the representations of the Danube in four contemporary novels by Hungarian authors or set in Hungary: The White King (2008) by György Dragomán, Train to Budapest (2008) by Dacia Maraini, Under Budapest (2013) by Ailsa Kay and Los Amantes Bajo el Danubio (2016) by Federico Andahazi. The aim of this analysis is to show how the river operates as a framework of “liquid modernity” (Bauman, 2000) in each of these works, it has a representative power of its own and determines people’s destinies and human relationships in heterogeneous cultural contexts. It functions both as a natural backdrop for historical events and as a means of expressing and conveying emotions, creating a transnational political identity that is both socio-cultural and deeply intimate.

Aesthetic Dimensions in Novels by Writers from Banat

Author(s): Daniel-Sorin Vintilă / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2023

Writers belonging to cultures once subordinated to the Austrian Empire display a dual attitude towards the Centre: both rejection and nostalgia. These circumstances are translated into a multitude of cultural, behavioural, psychological and psycholiterary features, as well as a wide range of literary procedures. Sorin Titel, Miloš Crnjanski—as well as Danilo Kiš, Herta Müller and others—are writers who lived the moment of the disintegration of the Empire, with everything that this meant for the European literature, in general, and for the literature of the Banat region, in particular. This study examines how such writers analyse the history of the nations they belong to and the local perception of the Centre (administration, religion, political leaders) while exploring how they approach themes such as exile, migration, and the trauma of being separated from the place of birth. Moreover, it highlights the aesthetic dimensions of the literature from Banat and the presence of the Danube as a natural link associated with the Central-European space, together with other relevant hydronyms and toponyms.

From Postmodernism, with Love: Neo-Victorian Sexual/Textual Politics in The French Lieutenant’s Woman

Author(s): Michaela Praisler,Oana-Celia Gheorghiu / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2023

Against the backdrop of the sexual revolution that the world was undergoing and of the textual experimentation that literature was undertaking in the late 1960s, the silence of the female characters populating Victorian fiction became nothing less than audible – the source of the debate around the ‘sexual/textual politics’ to have dominated the end of the twentieth century. With The French Lieutenant’s Woman, John Fowles gives a voice to his central character, Sarah Woodruff, and, in so doing, constructs a woman who deconstructs the (predominantly male) canon. Moreover, the novelist weaves her tale into his story and thus builds successive layers of fictionality for the interrogation of outmoded patterns of thought and the associated narrative strategies – symptomatic for the late Victorian era, yet lingering in the mindset of readers a century later. To illustrate the general postmodern ‘dis-ease’ with tradition and the particular subversive manner in which Fowles challenges expectations, the present study lays focus on the cultural production of early Neo-Victorian novels, highlights parody and metafiction as recurrent modes of writing, with frequent incursions into text, context, and intertext.

Ghostwriting and Spectrality in Robert Harris’s The Ghost

Author(s): Robert Lance Snyder / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2023

A critique of Tony Blair’s collaboration with George W. Bush in the War on Terror, Robert Harris’s The Ghost (2007) goes beyond its topical subject by exploring the connections between ghostwriting and spectrality. The unnamed protagonist of Harris’s novel is a professional ghostwriter who, after being commissioned to revamp former Prime Minister Adam Lang’s memoirs, becomes enmeshed in various forms of spectrality. While isolated with his hosts in a fortress-like compound on Martha’s Vineyard during the island’s bleak off-season, the ghostwriter experiences the Uncanny firsthand. In the end he compiles a 160,000-word book, not realizing that with the project’s completion he is signing his own death warrant by writing a work about the pursuit of truth. The novel’s coda differs from that of Roman Polanski’s 2010 film adaptation, but Harris’s narrative captures the universality of literary Gothicism.

Les variétés du français dans la réception en classe de littérature francophone du secondaire au Cameroun

Author(s): Isabelle Valérie DEMGNE,Constantine Kouanken / Language(s): French Issue: 40/2023

Reception figures prominently in French classes. This activity is based on the textbooks in the program. The pedagogical use of these textbooks reveals a proliferation of languages in contact. Borrowing from the general theory of reception, this study is based on a hundred occurrences extracted from African works used as reading manuals in French programs in Cameroon in order to exploit, analyze and interpret the varieties of French present in these works. The study of ethno-signs and socio-culturemes has enabled us to identify African phraseology and onomastics, learn through orality, and determine the didactic value of songs. Analyzing the significance of the diversity of languages in the examined works reveals a multilingual syntax which refers to a linguistic dynamism or even a questioning of linguistic purism. From these readings, there emerges a harmonious cohabitation of languages that evolve together and tolerate each other.

Notes de lecture sur Errare humanum est... Revue Internationale d’Étudee en Langues Modernes Appliquées International Review of Studies in Applied Moderne Languages Numéro spécial 2018, Cluj-Napoca, 106 pp.

Author(s): Răzvan ROGOZ / Language(s): French Issue: 40/2023

Konzervatorsko-restauratorski proces orijentalnog rukopisa Aṭ-Ṭāriqa al-Muḥammadiyya

Author(s): Nejra Ljubuškić / Language(s): Bosnian,English Issue: 28/2023

This paper represents the conservation-restoration process of the oriental manuscript in the Turkish language, Aṭ-Ṭāriqa al-Muḥammadiyya. The manuscript is stored in the library of the Tekke Mesudija which has very important old and rare book materials, among which oriental manuscripts hold a special place. The goal of the restoration was to restore the functionality of the binding and preserve the texts. The restoration treatments included: mechanical and chemical cleaning of the pages, repairing a missing portion of a page with Japanese paper, sewing the forms into the bookblock, embroidering the endband, and restoring the original covers. Conservation-restoration documentation with a proposal on the handling and preventive conservation of manuscripts was also prepared.

Термини и концепции от теории на рецепцията: приемственост в научни изследвания на японски език върху различни изкуства

Author(s): Miglena Tzenova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 4/2023

The study examines terms and concepts of reception theories by Vodička and Jauss in the field of literary studies and linguistics. In the course of the research, it was confirmed that concepts from Vodička’s theory of reception and search-es of scholars from the Prague Linguistic Circle contributed to the creation of Jauss’s reception theory. The text outlines circumstances, novel for Bulgarian musicology and theatre studies, regarding the influence of reception theories on Japanese re-search in the field of literary studies and linguistics as well as on Japanese research on various arts: literature, music, theatre, fine arts, etc. Intersections between terms of reception theories adopted in other research fields such as semiotics, sociology, musicology, theatre studies, etc., as well as Japanese publications on different arts are also outlined for the first time.