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Los refranes de “Los trabajos de Persiles y Sigismunda” y su traducción al rumano

Author(s): Lavinia Similaru / Language(s): Spanish Issue: 1-2/2015

The study of proverbs is a relatively new science, according to which the difficulty of translating proverbs is due to their permanent nature and the cultural elements inevitably involved. In his work, Miguel de Cervantes used an endless number of proverbs and popular sayings, which sometimes make translation difficult to any other language. The translator has always found creative solutions to translate the proverbs of Cervantes's novel by means of Romanian proverbs, or by means of cultural creations, when a corresponding proverb did not exist in Romanian.

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La metafora della luce nel paradiso dantesco. Prospettive poetiche contrastive

Author(s): Mirona Bence-Muk / Language(s): Italian Issue: 1-2/2015

Having the principles of poetic linguistics as a starting point, principles that have been developed and founded by the linguist Eugeniu Coseriu and professor Mircea Borcila within the School for Integral Linguistics of the Babes-Bolyai University of Cluj Napoca, the article suggests a new approach to the reading of Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy, an approach opposed to the rhetoric vision of metaphors. The article also points, within the same approach, to the priorities and finality of the poetical creative act of Dante’s text.

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Piracki kodeks Poego

Author(s): Wojciech Hamerski / Language(s): Polish Issue: 02/2014

Edgar Allan Poe’s ‘The Gold Bug’ broke the bank in a literary contest sponsored by the Philadelphia Dollar Newspaper, earning the author the top prize of $100. Soon, however, allegations emerged that the writer had in fact stolen the idea from 13-year-old Miss Sherburne... At the same time, Poe vigorously tracked down the literary thefts of other poets and writers, including those whose ideas, and even entire stories, he himself pilfered. The history of double appropriation contained in ‘The Gold Bug’ can be used to describe the ambiguous role of the pirate-Poe in an era in which the problem of authorship and ownership, despite the Copyright Clause in the U.S. Constitution, is still subject to a code of power, sealed with an oath taken on crossed pistols.

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Wojny otaku

Author(s): Marek Bochniarz / Language(s): Polish Issue: 02/2014

The article introduces the topic of fan culture associated with manga, anime and Japanese games. A characteristic feature of otaku fandom is the hybrid market model that accompanies it, in which professional production exists side-by-side with the work of amateurs. The author presents the genesis of the founding and rise of the otaku community in the United States, describes the reasons that contributed to the rapid development of fan activities that have been labelled piracy. In the case of otaku culture, piracy is distinctive and intriguing, as it is one of the cornerstones of its existence. The article includes the contemporary state of research on manga and anime fandom.

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From Victim to Victor. Changing the Narrative in 21st Century China

Author(s): Mugur Zlotea / Language(s): English Issue: 2 (38)/2023

The paper analyzes the transformation of the victim narrative present in the Chinese political discourse, all along the 20th century, both prior and during the first decades of the People’s Republic founded in 1949, into a narrative of success. Used to motivate and rally people around the Communist Party, the victim narrative lost its luster once the economic reforms and opening initiated by Deng Xiaoping in the 1980s started bearing fruit, during Jiang Zemin and Hu Jintao governments. Thus, the party needed to find a new narrative as a means of legitimation. Based on the reports made at the Party Congresses in 1997, 2002, 2007 and 2012 by two of the Secretaries-General, Jiang Zemin and Hu Jintao, the paper analyzes how the economic success attained by China at the beginning of the 21st century triggered a shift in the elite political discourse, toning down the image of China as a victim of internal or external forces, in favor of that of a rejuvenated and strong country. The new image projected was not that of a besieged China any longer, but one of a victorious country which managed to overcome major obstacles. However, the victim narrative did not totally disappear. The paper also looks at how the victim narrative was reflected into the public discourse on the internet, immediately after Hu Jintao’s rule, when the space for debate on the micro blogging platforms was much more unrestricted than it is today, in order to understand how the victim narrative was differently used by the people in order to reevaluate various events from their recent history.

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Experiments in Narrative: Katherine Mansfield and the Close-up

Author(s): Anna Kwiatkowska / Language(s): English Issue: 05 (44)/2024

In the publications dedicated to Katherine Mansfield’s oeuvre, the traces of the cinematic in her narratives and, in particular, the importance of close-up are duly noted. However, despite the fact that the writer’s interest in close-up is earlier than her mature interest in cinema, the discussions do not devote much consideration to the beginnings of the technique visible in Mansfield’s early works. The compara-tive analysis of two stories, i.e., “At ‘Lehmann’s’” and “The Little Governess,” exemplifies, therefore, the development of Mansfield’s close-up technique and, most importantly, describes how exactly the writer develops it. The essay points to the traces of this particular cinematic tool in the writer’s pre-cinematic period and considers Mansfield’s verbal close-ups with a close reading method. The analysis adds to the critical conversations over Mansfield’s cinematic interests and their influence on her narrative technique. It demonstrates how the development of close-up enhances what is to become Mansfield’s central point, i.e., the subject-object relationship, and how it influences the emotional reception of the character

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JOURNEY AS SELF-REFLECTION - KAIKŌ TAKESHI’S “ESCAPE” FROM JAPAN

Author(s): Nina Habjan-Villareal / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2024

This paper sets out to analyze Kaikō Takeshi’s travelogue "Kako to mirai no kuniguni – Chūgoku to Tōō" (“Countries of Past and Future – China and Eastern Europe”), which describes Kaikō’s first experience of Eastern Europe and China. As a writer who got to be well-recognized for his reportage writing and novels based on his own experience, Kaikō’s initial struggle abroad turned out to be the opportunity that lit his inner desire to continue searching for the truth, leading him towards the exploration of the boundaries between fiction and non-fiction, which is the writing he is still most well remembered for today.

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TRANSMISSION AND AGREEMENT: READING AND THE CONTEMPORARY NORTHERN IRISH NOVEL

Author(s): Eve Patten / Language(s): English Issue: 3/2024

Transmission and Agreement: Reading and the Contemporary Northern Irish Novel. This paper evaluates the capacity of the contemporary Northern Irish novel to act as an agent of transmission for a ‘post-Troubles’ readership, one distanced by a generation from the 1998 Good Friday Agreement that symbolised the partial end of sectarian violence. The critic Liam Harte suggests that “no part of modern Europe (if not the world) has greater claim than Northern Ireland to the mantle of most-narrativized region”, but the transmissive function of fictional works in this context remain under-critiqued. Here, I assess the aspirations of novelistic narrative to cater for what Premesh Lalu has described, in the context of post-apartheid South African art forms, as ‘psychic repair’ (Undoing Apartheid, 2023). The essay engages the 2018 novel Milkman, by Northern Irish author Anna Burns, to ask how fictional narrative transmits the detail of the past across a generation first, in parallel to other literary and artistic genres, and second, in relation to an expanding archive of ongoing legal tribunals and government incentives directed towards the production of an ‘official history’ for Northern Ireland. Through attention to the self-conscious foregrounding of forensic reading practice by Burns and fellow writers, I show the necessary place of fictional recovery in the field of political and cultural memory.

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“SHINING WITH SOUND IN THE UNTRANSLATABLE DARK”—REBECCA ELSON’S POETRY OF COSMIC WISDOM

Author(s): Octavian More / Language(s): English Issue: 3/2024

“Shining with sound in the untranslatable dark”—Rebecca Elson’s Poetry of Cosmic Wisdom. Despite having left us only a small body of verse, collected in the posthumously published A Responsibility to Awe (2001), Montreal-born astrophysicist and poet Rebecca Elson impresses through a particular sensibility resulting from the unlikely union of positivist certitude and existential angst informed by an acute sense of one’s biological finitude. In this paper, intended both as a recuperative effort and an interpretive exercise, we will try to shed light on how poetry, as Elson’s case demonstrates, can be a fundamentally ecological effort and a disciplined quest for belonging, reminding us that even the most unremarkable aspects of our everyday existence are irrevocably linked to our profound connections with the universe.

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Mesék, amelyek máshol kezdődnek

Author(s): Imre József Balázs / Language(s): Hungarian Issue: 10/2024

Leonora Carrington: Fehér nyulak. Összegyûjtött novellák. Ford. Cseh Réka Zsuzsanna, Greilinger Szonja, Kiss Gábor. Ampersand, Bp., 2024.

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Miből születik a szépség?

Author(s): Péter Demény / Language(s): Hungarian Issue: 12/2024

Karin Smirnoff: Elmentem az öcsémhez. Scolar, Bp., 2023.

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Bangha Imre: Nap s Hold nélkül ragyog a fény. A klasszikus hindi irodalom története 1350–1800

Author(s): Katalin Helga Revuczky / Language(s): Hungarian Issue: 4/2024

Bangha Imre: Nap s Hold nélkül ragyog a fény: A klasszikus hindi irodalom története 1350–1800 Budapest, Eötvös Kiadó, 2023, 276 p.

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Recenzie la Lavinia Similaru, El universo femenino según Galdós, Beau Bassin, Editorial Académica Española, 2021, 151 p.

Author(s): Virgil Borcan / Language(s): Spanish Issue: 62/2024

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Ainu Representation in the World of Japanese Comics : Shumari and Golden Kamuy Take on the Ruling Narratives of Hokkaidō History

Author(s): Zsófia Keller / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2025

Examining Japanese history through manga may initially seem unconventional, given the considerable distrust towards the medium in Western scholarship, where it is often viewed as a tool for distorting history. To avoid misinterpretation in the analysis of Japanese comics, it is essential to approach them with what Tessa Morris-Suzuki terms historical truthfulness, recognising them as gateways to a complex web of inherited ideas rather than direct representations of the historical periods that they depict. This approach is supported by Luc Pauwels’ integrated conceptual framework for visual sociology, which cautions against conflating the depiction with the depicted in the analysis of pre-made visuals. This study employs this methodological framework to analyse and compare two manga series that explore Ainu history and culture: Tezuka Osamu’s Shumari and Noda Satoru’s Golden Kamuy. Both narratives are set in Meiji-era Hokkaidō, a time when Wajin newcomers sought to erase the Indigenous Ainu from the northern island’s history. Consequently, Hokkaidō is often still perceived as a natural frontier developed by settlers for the benefit of the Japanese nation, while the Ainu continue to be stereotyped as a dying race. By critically engaging with these prevailing narratives, Tezuka and Noda elevate their work to what Pierre Nora calls places of memory. Nissim Otmazgin describes the way in which interacting with such seemingly unassuming places of memory creates, propagates, and reproduces a variety of memories about history among its readership as banal memory. Tezuka’s Shumari challenges the narrative of Hokkaidō as empty land by portraying it as the colonised land of the Ainu, yet he struggles to escape the dying race stereotype in the depiction of his Ainu characters. Conversely, Noda’s Golden Kamuy rejects this stereotype by vividly—and at times anachronistically—showcasing the beauty of Ainu culture. However, by sidelining historical injustices in his narrative, Noda offers readers a shallow understanding of Ainu history.

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Guanxi as Métis in the Legal Cases of Jin Ping Mei

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Guanxi as Métis in the Legal Cases of Jin Ping Mei

Author(s): Ruihui Han / Language(s): English Issue: 3/2024

Jin Ping Mei 金瓶梅 details the legal activities in Ming society with exceptional vividness. In other pre modern Chinese literary narratives, the ending usually featured poetic justice. However, Jin Ping Mei is a novel with unique realism in Chinese fiction in that it does not have a happy ending. More importantly, the novel depicts the normal condition and rationale of life based on guanxi 关系, an informal institution that was ubiquitous in Chinese society. Guanxi is a concrete embodiment of métis in the novel. This article sets out to demonstrate the métis in Jin Ping Mei through the analysis of guanxi in two cases. It argues that Jin Ping Mei depicts guanxi as the rationale of legal activities. Through guanxi, which is achieved through the manipulation of li 禮, ganqing 感情, renqing 人情, and mianzi 面子, gifts, banquets, and intermediaries, the culprits can easily find their way out of the unfavorable condition. The blend of rationality and emotion which is embodied in guanxi is the cultural root of the manipulation in the legal activities. The narrative of legal activities in Jin Ping Mei focuses on the métis based on guanxi in microlevel society and thus achieves unprecedented realism in premodern Chinese fiction narrative.

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Review of Cross, Cameron. Love at a Crux. The New Persian Romance in a Global Middle Ages

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Review of Cross, Cameron. Love at a Crux. The New Persian Romance in a Global Middle Ages

Author(s): Kristof Szitar / Language(s): English Issue: 4/2024

Cross, Cameron 2023. Love at a Crux. The New Persian Romance in a Global Middle Ages. Toronto, Buffalo, London: University of Toronto Press. xiv + 370 pp. ISBN: 978-1-4875-4728-8 (EPUB), 978-1-4875-4727-1 (Cloth)

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Aspects of Multilingualism in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Purple Hibiscus

Author(s): Edit Fazakas / Language(s): English Issue: 3/2024

When examining the topic of multilingualism, Nigeria emerges as a captivating subject due to its renowned linguistic diversity. Authors who have a bicultural background encompassing African and European language cultures consistently exhibited a type of hybridity in their use of the colonial language. Consequently, a unique European linguistic variation emerged as a result of this. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie demonstrates a strong inclination to transcend the extensive language debates prevalent in the history of African literature. What is more, she asserts her use of English and her interjections in Igbo as normative rather than confrontational. Adichie frequently incorporates Igbo vocabulary, phrases, and proverbial expressions into her predominantly English writing, demonstrating a profound understanding of the enduring influence of English colonialism. However, Adichie also embraces and skilfully uses English as a universal language, transcending its postcolonial connotations. Consequently, she possesses the ability to access and engage with a broader spectrum of global literary traditions and contemporary movements. The primary focus of this study has been the elucidation of the manifestation of multilingualism in the fiction of the Nigerian writer, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. The motivational elements of code-switching, which Adichie uses to express various aspects of oppression and cultural hybridity, have received a great deal of attention.

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Egy japán klasszikus a szamurájok hajnaláról immáron magyarul: Heike monogatari, avagy a Heike tündöklése és bukása. Fordította: Bärnkopf Zsolt. Budapest: Flaccus Kiadó, 2022

Author(s): Richárd Gábor Gottner / Language(s): Hungarian Issue: 1/2023

Richárd Gottner's review of the new Hungarian translation of Heike monogatari by Zsolt Bärnkopf.

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Küldetéstudat, értékőrzés és őszinteség. A 80 éves Bengt Pohjanen visszatekintése

Author(s): Enikő M. Bodrogi / Language(s): Hungarian Issue: 3/2024

In this study I publish the Hungarian translation of my interview with Bengt Pohjanen, the most outstanding representative of the Meänkieli language and literature. I also analyze the most important issues that were discussed – the writer’s calling, the concept of minority literature, the difficulties he encountered in his career as a writer, and thoughts concerning the future of his native language. During the past fifteen years, along which I have followed and researched Pohjanen’s activity, I have made several oral interviews with him, but this time I sent him my questions in written form, and he also answered me in writing. Pohjanen’s life as a writer, as a public figure and his everyday life form a unit in which everything is connected to everything, and his most important aim is to unveil the truth and to utter it; at the same time to acknowledge his own role in a surrounding where he is not understood.

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A Karib-térség angol nyelvű regényirodalmának korai szakasza. Trinidad és Barbados

Author(s): Attila Tárnok / Language(s): Hungarian Issue: 03/2025

To escape the restraints of a colonial society many Caribbean authors in the years of an evolving West Indian literature had to leave their native island for opportunities in the wider colonial world or the metropolis. This experience finds a voice in a number of novels: in novels of childhood characteristically ending with the main character leaving the Caribbean for further studies. Our article discusses works from this perspective by Michael Anthony (The Year in San Fernando), Geoffrey Drayton (Christopher), George Lamming (In the Castle of My Skin) and Austin Clarke (Among Thistles and Thorns and Growing Up Stupid).

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