Między mimikrą a rebelią. Pejzaż (post)kolonialny regionalnej literatury

Author(s): Małgorzata Mikołajczak / Language(s): Polish Issue: 5/2015

Mikołajczak looks at postwar regional Polish literature – especially the literature that originates in the so-called recovered territories – from a postcolonial perspective. Her point of departure consists of two related assumptions: first, that the relationship between regional works and the historically variable political and cultural centre plays a key role in the mechanisms of these works’ creation; and second, that the development of these works is steered by a tension between regionalism’s tendency towards the universal on the one hand and its tendency towards differentiation on the other hand. These opposing tendencies also inform the positions of ‘mimicry’ and ‘rebellion’ that recur in different stages of the development of regional literature, representing a compensation for the weakness that results from the conditioning of centre and periphery.

LOST IN TRANSLATION? THE ODYSSEY OF ‘DIGITAL HUMANITIES’ IN FRENCH

Author(s): Claire Clivaz / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2017

By examining the case of the French translation of the expression “digital humanities” (DH), this article argues that cultural diversity and multilingualism could be fostered in digital culture. If other languages have been invited and forced to welcome this English phrase, its translations have to be studied since they could potentially have strong epistemological backwash-effects on it. Through an historical etymological inquiry, it can be demonstrated that the use of the outmoded French word humanités is the most significant element in the two French expressions humanités numériques or humanités digitales. This single word opens up a specific space for humanist approaches within the open-ended digital approaches. On this base, the encounter between Humanities and hard sciences can be reconsidered, as it happens already in two examples of new DH masters in French-speaking countries.

БЪЛГАРСКАТА ЛИТЕРАТУРА ОТ XIX ВЕК И ПРОБЛЕМЪТ ЗА СМЕСЕНИТЕ БРАКОВЕ

Author(s): Nikolay Aretov / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 1/2017

Mixed marriages are one of the effects of migration. Every community has its own marriage regulations that define which marriages (meaning also which forms of inter-cultural exchange, inter-cultural dialog) are allowed, possible and inadmissible. In the foundations of these rules, strictly related to the definitions of the “own” and “alien”, and with the further differentiation of the “own”, lay the ideas about what is useful for the community. These rules are embedded in different tests; for the time when national law system was still not created, oral traditions and literature were among their main carriers. The paper is focused at the plots in literature dealing with marriages and love affairs of Bulgarian women with men from other ethnical origins, other religion and especially with the faith of some women that had to live in a community, different from their own.

Домът на литературата: Югославски и постюгославски представи за литературната споделимост

Author(s): Ludmila Mindova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 1/2018

The Home of Literature is a metaphor of the literature and literary community. However, this metaphor is connected with the home obsession in contemporary post-Yugoslavian literatures. After the collapse of the Former Yugoslavia and Bosnian war, the home is one of the constant themes in contemporary literature in all area. We can see that in the poetry of the Bosnian-Slovenian poet Josip Osti, but also in the novels and essays of the famous emigrant writer Dubravka Ugrešić, as well as in the works of Peter Semolič, Miljenko Jergović, Vida Ognjenović, Jasna Koteska etc. The home is often present even in the titles of their works (House of Language by Osti, House of Words by Semolič, The House of Dead Scents by Ognjenović), and what is more important – the home is a counterpart of the literature as a place of the sense in the world that every day loses a part of its sense and good taste. The literary home is not a utopian place, because it is a collective image and it could be the dystopian place as well. We mark that through the works about the prison and concentration camps – The Damned Yard by Ivo Andrić, the novels and stories by Danilo Kiš, Dragoslav Mihailović, Branko Hofman, Miroslav Popović etc. At all events, the literary home is always a place of the reinventing of the sense.

DIGITAL HUMANITIES AND E-COMMERCE: CONSIDERATIONS ON DIGITAL MONOGRAPHS

Author(s): Alessandra Di Tella / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2018

“Humanities”, “Commerce” and “Monographs” are three terms that have been existed for a very long time. Nowadays, they are often conceptualized in a digital way that implies a radical paradigm shift in their main features. The aim of this article is to investigate the possibility of interaction between digital humanities and e-commerce, through their application to the genre of digital monographs. By “digital monograph” we mean born-digital, long-form, media-rich, scholarly publication, that rejects the print-based form (and so the e-book format) and takes advantage of the methods and tools of digital humanities. In particular, digital monographs re-think the traditional textuality of essays; textuality becomes “liquid” and multimodal. Because of publishing, obsolescence, discoverability, use, evaluation, etc. these products must be hosted on a publishing platform that is suitable for the scholarly needs both of the authors and of the final users. The link with e-commerce arises from the need of the publishers to sell the products of research, especially in countries where the academic publishing system is not based on University Presses but on commercial ones. This study wants to reflect on how the economic logic of profit and cultural logic can coexist in a digital publishing platform: is it possible to overcome the “monograph crisis”? What are the major problems that arise when selling an academic monograph? What business models could be the most suitable for this kind of publication? In what way can a publisher improve customer loyalty? The thesis of this article is that digital enhancement of the monograph plays a key role in its sale. The opportunities offered by the digital humanities, in fact, are not only a matter of format; they are, indeed, what makes the substantial difference in the quality of scientific communication. They enable the authors and the publishers to offer the consumer something that neither the print version, nor the e-book can do. First of all, a digital monograph allows a direct link with primary and secondary sources; secondly, it supports different layers of use and wider accessibility. Moreover, it gives both the author and the reader, the possibility to better represent and understand the complexity of the research and of the methods and tools that are used. On the other hand, this article considers the infrastructure for producing and hosting these products and its importance in the development of a cultural community based on scholarly value creation. These are some of the issues that a digital publishing project needs to consider in order to sell its products and become sustainable. After discussing these questions, this article postulates a possible functioning business model of subscription based on the concept of cultural engagement. The conclusions concern the requirement of an editorial workflow that links together all the phases of production, from the author’s composition to the reader’s purchase.

Приказката в детско-юношеските периодични издания до Първата световна война

Author(s): Tanya Stoyanova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 5/2015

This article focuses on the uses of the term “fairy tale” and its manifesting in the periodicals for children by the World War I. The author discusses some kinds of fairy tales (folklore and literary) and sets some problems about children literature in the context of the periodicals for children.

Женската красота в творбите на Петко Тодоров

Author(s): Milena Dimitrova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 5/2015

The article examines the part of Petko Todorov’s characters, that appears to remain away from the reception of literary criticism. These are all the famele characters, no mater their ethnicity or social status. This work propeses a semeotic analysis of all elements involved in the construction of the characters, looking for their common features and distinctive characteristics. As dominant in female imagery is displayed their exclusiveness – both in their appearance and their behavior. A conclusion is formulated, that Petko Todorov’s heroines aspire to love and freedom transgress taboos of the community and become a victim of their own modern selfhood.

Едно издание на „Митарствата“ от епохата на Българското възраждане

Author(s): Lyubka Nenova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 3/2019

The edition contains various texts with eschatological visionary content. One of them is the “Trials of the Soul ” – a part from the “Vita of St. Basilthe New”. The main text of the “Vita of St. Basil the New” appeared during the Middle Ages. The text became popular again during the Renaissance, and especially the part of the soul`s trials of Blessed Theodora.This edition is translated from Church Slavonic language and was published by Naiden Ioanovich in 1843. The translation from the Church Slavonic was made by Joakim Kurchovski. This study aims to describe the edition in terms of content and specific features of the Bulgarian literary language.

Обучение по превод на поетичeн текст – практически аспекти

Author(s): Veneta Sirakova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 5/2016

Because of the ever wider introduction of translation courses at universities in recent decades, contemporary translation studies have begun to develop methodological guidelines for specialized training in poetry translation, an area that until recently remained on the fringes of research.This article presents a sample schedule for organizing classes in poetry translation that is consistent with both the specificity and difficulties of this genre of translation, and with the objective limitations of university courses in terms of time and resources. The proposals are practical and their purpose is to help teachers optimize the teaching and learning process in fulfilling their complex task of training future translators of poetry.

Хан Татар и Тодорка (Един прочит на варианта от Велико Търново)

Author(s): Stoyan Antonov / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 4/2018

The text interprets Khand Tatar and Todorka ballad by commenting the historical terms used from the one hand, and, from the other hand by doing a transformational analysis of the attributes and functions of the mediator in the plot. The situations connected with the Tartars as historical population are analyzed as potential sources of folk personages and motifs. Resultantly, the folklore situation is seen in the light of a possible reflection of the mythological understandings while at the same time the basic psycho-social functions of the ballad are outlined. Thus the reading combines historical and mythological aspects and compares the particular “Bulgarian” case with the universal models and structures of thinking.

Забавления по френски

Author(s): Tzveta Todorova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 1/2016

LES OUBLIS DE L’HISTOIRE LITTÉRAIRE ROUMAINE : LA POÉSIE DE GUERRE

Author(s): Corina Croitoru / Language(s): French Issue: 2/2019

Forgotten Issues of Romanian Literary History: War Poetry. Having as a starting point a general reflection on the belonging of Romanian literature to a cultural geography constantly conditioned by history, this study aims to question the reasons why Romanian poetry of the Great War represents for over a century a taboo subject of Romanian literary history, contrary to tendencies in international literary history.

FROM CLOSE TO DISTANT READING OF 100 ROMANIAN NOVELS FROM 1850 TO 1920

Author(s): Luiza Marinescu / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2019

From Close to Distant Reading of 100 Romanian Novels from 1850 to 1920. In Romania, among the academic personalities, Solomon Marcus (b. the 1st of March 1925, Bacău – d. the 17th of March 2016, Bucharest) was perhaps the only one who happily combined linguistics and mathematics, being known in the Romanian philological environment especially for Lingvistica matematică [Mathematical Linguistic], Modele matematice în lingvistică [Mathematical Models in Linguistics], 1963, 1966, and Poetica matematică [Mathematical Poetics], in 1970, and in the international scientific field for numerous translation and also for numerous papers published in prestigious publishing houses in Paris, New York and Bologna. Grounded in the Distant reading paradigm (i.e. using digital humanities in analyzing large collection of literary texts) the paper, From close and to distant reading of Romanian novels from 1850 to 1920 provides a historical classification of texts in order to be included in a multilingual European Literary text Collection (ELTeC), permitting to test methods and compare results across national traditions and consider the consequences of such resources and methods for rethinking fundamental concepts in literary history. The paper is following main ideas in relation with the consequences of an absent research field in Romanian academic studies, digital humanities: Close and distant reading in digital humanities: Romanian literature case from 1850 to 1920; Romanian literary history and ways of transnational knowledge through Distant Reading of literary facts: 100 Romanian novels from 1850 to 1920; Transnational redefinition of periods in national history through a literary species: the novel; The problem of "translation / export" of national literary histories.

BEYOND THE HISTORY OF A LITERARY GENRE: THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF ROMANAIN MEMORY WRITING

Author(s): Doris Mironescu / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2019

Beyond the History of a Literary Genre: The Encyclopedia of Romanian Memory Writing. The paper presents the theoretical frame of the research project The Encyclopedia of Romanian Memory Writing, currently being developed at the “A. Philippide” Institute for Romanian Philology. This encyclopedia joins other recent projects, such as literary dictionaries, in an effort to construct an alternative approach to the (national) literary history by subverting the (legitimizing) causal narration. It will include canonical texts, memoirists, various categories of title-articles, but also a set of operative concepts that allow for a definition of memoir-writing starting from the psychological, philosophical and anthropological implications of memory. By indexing literary phenomena in an encyclopedic manner, the textual corpora of Romanian literature may be described and analyzed in a transnational, comparative and interdisciplinary manner.

LIRE LE SOCIAL DANS LA DÉNÉGATION. SUR LES POSSIBILITÉS D’UNE SOCIOLECTURE DU LITTÉRAIRE

Author(s): Magda Răduță / Language(s): French Issue: 2/2019

Looking for the Denegation. Possibilities of Reading the Social Reality in Literature. Despite a disciplinary history filled with embarrassing determinisms, the sociology of literature still tries to overcome al methodological obstacles, by proposing a mediate reading between the literary work and its socio-historical conditions. The present paper examines two recent examples of this mediate reading: Pierre Bourdieu’s homological model between the author’s position in the literary field and its literary production, respectively Jacques Rancière’s argument for an internal literary structure capable of self-explaining. Irreconcilably different, these two readings present nonetheless a common effort: both of them look for the categories of denegation – unintentional textual structures and silent style choices caused by the author’s habitus and by the social practices and constraints.

FOLKLORE ARCHIVES – WITNESSES OF THE HISTORY OF ETHNOLOGICAL STUDIES

Author(s): Eleonora Sava / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2019

Folklore archives – witnesses of the history of ethnological studies. This study proposes a rereading of the documents kept in a folklore archive from Romania, with a focus on the methods used by those who drafted and archived these documents. The research demonstrates that, in the absence of testimonies regarding the manner in which fieldwork was conducted, the documents of the archive can provide valuable information on the field research and the vision on folklore of several generations of researchers. Thus, archives of folklore are seen as witnesses of the history of ethnology.

Prikazi

Author(s): Ema Miljković,Rifat Alihodžić,Draško Došljak,Faruk Dizdarević,Jasmina Srdanović,Jasmin Jajčević / Language(s): Bosnian Issue: 81-82/2019

Reviews of: - “Turski (Osmanski) izvori za istoriju Crne Gore”, Podgorica, CANU 2019, tom I-1, I-2, I-3, 1926 pages, review by: Ema Miljković - Zlatko Karač, Alen Žunić: “Islamska arhitektura i umjetnost u Hrvatskoj - Osmanska i suvremena baština” (Islamic Architecture and Art in Croatia - Ottoman and Contemporary Heritage), Arhitektonski fakultet Sveučilišta u Zagrebu, UPI-2M PLUS, Zagreb, 2018, 432 pages, review by: Rifat Alihodžić - Zuvdija Hodžić: „Kapija Prokletija – Gusinje i Plav u zapisima i putopisima“, Almanah, Podgorica 2019, 298 pages, review by: Draško Došljak - “Putovanje kroz boje Ibrahima Kurpejovića” (Sa otvaranja izložbe I. Kurpejovića u Historijskom muzeju u Sarajevu 24. aprila 2019. Godine), review by: Faruk Dizdarević - Husein Bašić: “Nedovršene tuge”, review by: Jasmina Srdanović - Izet Šabotić: “Čivčijski odnosi i promjena vlasništva nad zemljom u Bosni i Hercegovini (1878-1918)”, Centar za istraživanje moderne i savremene historije Tuzla, Tuzla 2019, 320 pages., review by Jasmina Jajčević

Où est La femme dans les films de Kiarostami ?

Author(s): Radu-Cristian Andreescu / Language(s): French Issue: 1/2019

The aim of this paper is to analyse femininity as a cinematic depiction of uniqueness in three of Abbas Kiarostami’s films, Certified Copy, Like Someone in Love and a short film included in the anthology film Tickets, investigating the problem of universality and individuality in close connection with Jacques Lacan’s formula “The Woman does not exist”. Following the psychoanalytical approach that leads us to the problem of feminine jouissance and the way women escape from the phallocentric generalisation, we will emphasize the philosophical relevance of three recurring themes in Kiarostami’s films: woman’s identity, past-present continuity and artwork originality. This approach will allow us to grasp the problem of time, uniqueness, continuity and perception in Husserlian phenomenology and Gadamer’s philosophy of art, alongside the critique of truth in Heidegger’s ontology as well as in Austin&Searle’s “speech act theory”. The nodal point of these theories will be a concept of reality involving the consciousness and the interpretive acts of a subject and the woman’s role in expressing originality

Българските видеоблогъри в Ютюб: пет години по-късно (2014-2019)

Author(s): Genika Grigorova,Greta Grigorova,Dobromir Tsvetkov,Eva Taseva,Katrin Asenova,Kristian Dudekov,Maria Nikolova,Nikolai Sulov,Preslava Marinova,Ralitsa Vasileva,Simona Dafinova,Francheska Hristova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 5/2019

The research is implemented by fourth year students in Journalism, specialization Radio, at Sofia University. Research team: Genika Grigorova, Greta Grigorova, Dobromir Tsvetkov, Eva Taseva, Katrin Asenova, Kristian Dudekov, Maria Nikolova, Nikolai Sulov, Preslava Marinova, Ralitsa Vasileva, Simona Dafinova, Franchaska Hristova. Computer data processing: Genika Grigorova.

Християнско смирение и гражданска непримиримост в детското творчество на Константин Величков

Author(s): Ognyana Georgieva-Teneva / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 5/2019

The article discusses two key messages of the children‘s works of Konstantin Velichkov: of Christian humbleness and civic implacability. Considering the fact that these values combine relatively rare both in real life and literature, the paper supports the view of the semantic passability at the border between religious-theme poems, presenting man in a silent dialogue with himself and with God, and fables whose allegories refer to the need for an active stance on the socio-institutional status-quo. The analysed texts are interpreted in the paradigm of the modern idea of the Orthodox theology of participation, according to which true humanity implies not only meekness but also benevolence towards the community and disagreement with political autocracy.