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Propast sveta nije šteta: motiv katastrofe u romanima Dž. G. Balarda

Author(s): Dejan Ognjanović / Language(s): Serbian Publication Year: 0

This paper deals with the process of alienation of our world and its transformation into an alien, radically different world. It also addresses the impact of that process to the psyche and identity of the characters of J. G. Ballard novels. Events in science fiction novels of this author seldom take place on other planets. Instead, the plot usually describes our planet, which influenced by catastrophes undergoes metamorphosis on both formal and substantial level that consequently determines the arising of a new psychology. Ballard’s novels "The Drowned World" and "The Crystal World", where planet undergoes deluge and crystallization, are taken as key examples. The paper explores rhetoric of catastrophe and apocalypse, and it is contrasted to Ballard’s vision which sees radical changes not only as fatal danger and damage, but also as new aesthetical (surreal). and evolutionary potentials. A philosophical view applied to material and themes previously (and thereafter) thematized in sensationalist, adventurous, and one-dimensional catastrophe and/or fantasy novels, is also emphasized. Instead of convulsive fight for the return to the old ways, which is dominant in such works, Ballard’s novels dare to examine the new, the unknown and radically different. By embracing catastrophe, they actually show full genre potentials of science fiction to discuss not other, but our own world, and not the aliens, but humans. By depicting apocalyptic devastation in neutral or even positive tones, Ballard actually speaks about the need for substantial rearrangement and redefinition of the existing world.

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Puraniveshtiskw rromisimi

Author(s): Yordan Yovkov / Language(s): Romany

This is the first translation into Romany of Jordan Yovkov's "Stara Planina Legends".

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GLAS NAJA

Author(s): Ahmad Džalālī / Language(s): Bosnian Publication Year: 0

In this paper, the focus is on two issues: the question of Mevlana’s ancestry and the task of Iranians in presenting Mevlana’s literary heritage in the world. On the basis of a quotation from the work Manāqebol-‘ārefīnby Aflāki, prof. Džalālī in an argumentative manner writes about Mevlana’s Khorasanian ancestry, and he further supports his argument by the fact tha tall Mevlana’s works were written in Persian. On the other hand, by gradual introduction into the world of Mevlana’s poetry, professor shows that, although Mevlana’s thought was shaped by the culture of Khorasanian mental and intellectual mind-set, his world reaches all the way to the homeland of his soul, which is the Najistan for whom the naj weeps so painfully. Iranian cultural workers have a task to show that Mevlana is a descendant of Iranian civilization and rich cultural heritage in Persian by argumentative and academic promotion of Mevlana’s spiritual heritage.

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ABDULLAH BOŠNJAK KAO DUHOVNI POTOMAK IBN ‘ARABIJA I JALALUDDINA RUMIJA

Author(s): Rešid Hafizović / Language(s): Bosnian Publication Year: 0

The contents of this paper draw on from the first volume of the manuscript ‘’Commentary’’ of the work Fusus al-Hikam by Abdulah Efendi Bošnjak from the 17th century. The content-related scope of the first volume of this manuscript ‘’Commentary’’ is reflected in the grand ‘’Introduction’’into the very interpretation of the mentioned Ibn ‘Arabi’s work,and afterwards in the interpretation itself which Abdulah Efendi Bošnjak brings in its extensive form onto the text of the first chapter or the first,‘’Adamic logos’’ of the work Fusus al-Hikam. Author’s text, considered here, tries to present in a resumed manner main hermeneutic points offered by the text of the first volume of the manuscript ‘’Commentary’’by Abdulah Efendi Bošnjak on Ibn Arabi’s text and on two smaller, independent treatises by Ibn Arabi included into this authorial text.

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O PRIRODI JEZIČKOG ZNAKA U JEDNOM KAZIVANJU IZ “MESNEVIJE"

Author(s): Munir Drkić / Language(s): Bosnian Publication Year: 0

The theme of this paper is a tale from Mathnawi about four speakers of different languages who argued about the name for grapes. The author wishes to present how this tale could be useful in solving the question of the nature of a linguistic sign, a problem that incited many debates and discussions in the 20th century, and even some of the most important linguists such as Saussure and Jakobson dealt with it. Rumi, in a practical manner, shows how for most speakers the connection about what would be later called in linguistics a signifier and signified is not arbitrary, but natural and the only possible one. After all, that is the reason for misunderstanding of speakers who are not able to listen to each other.

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SURURIJEV KOMENTAR MESNEVIJE

Author(s): Saeid Abedpour / Language(s): Bosnian Publication Year: 0

Sururi’s Persian commentary on Mathnawi is one of the oldest commentaries of this Mawlana’s work and the first complete commentary on Mathnawi in Persian. The author of this commentary is Muslihuddin Mustafa Sururi, and his work has not encountered more prominent attention of researchers, and it has not even been printed by now. AsA šik Čelebi notes, in 14th and 15th centuries – before our author – commentaries on Mathnawi in Persian and Ottoman language were written by Šemsudin Muhammad Asri Lahidzani, Daei illalah Širazi, Zarifi HasanČelebi, Vali Hasan ibn Ali Kašefi Beihagi, Sultan Han Osmani and Abdulvahabibn Jalalodin Hamadani, although there was not a single complete commentary on Mathnawi before Sururi’s.

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Diálogos con lo marginal. Witold Gombrowicz en la literatura argentina contemporánea

Author(s): Ewa Kobyłecka-Piwońska / Language(s): Spanish Publication Year: 0

The aim of the article is to present Witold Gombrowicz as an Argentinian writer. His inclusion in the Argentinian literary canon is analysed by applying the methodological tools provided by the theory of “world literature”. Different interpretation of his literary output, proposed by the Argentinian criticism, are also investigated. Finally, the study centres on the possible links between Gombrowicz’s aesthetics and Cesar Aira’s literary and critical works.

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Lectura e identidad de género: La imagen de la mujer lectora en la novela realista y naturalista española

Author(s): Pedro García Suárez / Language(s): Spanish

Drawing on the theory of literature and different perspectives of various literary criticism schools, the author studies an image of the woman reader in the realist and naturalist Spanish novel. With this objective in mind, he has chosen the works of three canonical realist and naturalist novelists as reference points, namely Leopoldo Alas Clarín, Benito Pérez Galdós, and Emilia Pardo Bazán. This selection reflects the need to obtain adequate samples that would allow to decode various interactions between the book and the woman reader.

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The Smell of Red Bricks

Author(s): Chiya Parvizpur / Language(s): English

The Smell of Wet Bricks is a pioneering short novel in English by a Kurdish author. ”The smell of wet bricks” is a fresh voice from a region marked by violence and wars over a century. An author from Kurdistan in Iran, Parvizpur “craves to become the voice of a rich repository of powerful stories.” Excerpt: “His life was not empty of excitement; never did he have a monotonous life, and, even now that his body is lying in a corner there under a tree, never will he be immune from menace. Wanderer, nomad, homeless, or whatever you may call him will not make a change in his path, since he is an emperor. Nothing else matters to him except for his mission. He is in thorough possession of freedom and, equally, emancipated from any kind of blameworthiness.” … “The girl closes the notebook. She thinks about the day that she can go to Resho’s room to be exposed to his inspirations. She would smell the bricks of his room’s wall from which Resho detached its plasters to pour water on them. He loved the smell of wet bricks.”

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Znaki czy nie znaki? Tom 3. Struktura i semantyka utworów lirycznych

Author(s): / Language(s): English,Russian,Polish

The book shows contemporary trends in research on the structure and semantics of lyric works. The authors attempt to answer the question how poems generate significant meanings. The presented texts are characterised by the accuracy proper to linguistics as well as by the comprehensive literary approach to the analysed works and discussed research problems.

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Ostatnie fastrygi. Irit Amiel w rozmowie z Agnieszką Piśkiewicz-Bornstein

Author(s): Irit Amiel,Agnieszka Piśkiewicz-Bornstein / Language(s): Polish

Drawn from conversations with Irit Amiel, the author of the famous Osmalone, Ostatnie fastrygi is, in a sense, her testament, her last, though not final, literary word. Sensing that she is writing for the last time, the writer once again tells her secretary, Agnieszka Piśkiewicz-Bornstein, her own biography and answers a number of previously unasked, sometimes quite uncomfortable questions, but this time she also lets herself be guided into various little alleys – she reveals details about Częstochowa, the ghetto, her first years in Israel, and raising her children. She also dissects the literature of the Holocaust, her relationship with Poland and with God. She is as strong and convincing in her judgments as she is in her feelings. It is also the first time she lets another person get so close to her, which is why Ostatnie fastrygi is also a masterpiece of intimate, long-running conversation, but a very meandering and warm one. The book is supplemented by numerous colour photos from the family album, footnotes, and an afterword.

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Svět v sinogramech

Author(s): Tereza Slaměníková,David Uher / Language(s): Czech

Languages using a pleremic writing system, from which Chinese is undoubtedly the most widespread, show a much deeper connection between language units and their graphic representations since it involves the semantic dimension. What makes the Chinese writing system a truly unique phenomenon is how its graphics capture the meaning of the represented linguistic unit. This semantic connection was primarily established through graphic components with their own meanings, so-called determinatives. Although their use was primarily associated with an effort to distinguish by graphic means the (often too many) different meanings of one sinogram, the entire system also undoubtedly provides unique insight into how ancient Chinese experienced reality. The semantic diversity of sinograms subordinated to one determinative forms a particular network of contexts with some relationship to the basic concept. This book provides a concise Czech translation of the oldest known study on Chinese grammatology Shuo Wen Jie Zi (Meaning Explanation of Primary Sinograms and Structure Analysis of Secondary Sinograms) which endeavors to reflect on the Chinese writing system as an essential bearer of Chinese culture. Based on the procedures of Chinese cultural linguistics, it adopts the author's determinative-based setting and analyses the so-called semantic profile of all the 540 determinatives by arranging sinograms into groups sharing certain semantic features

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THE PATHS OF DREAMS. A REREADING OF ANTONIO MACHADO’S GALLERIES

Author(s): Antonio Barnés Vázquez / Language(s): English Publication Year: 0

Poetic creation and encounter with God are two concepts that the Spanish poet Antonio Machado relates to dreams and childhood. He thus recovers the dream as a sphere of contact with God, overcoming in a certain way the faith/reason dialectic that modernity takes pleasure in emphasising. The dream is beyond reason, and there comes the divine inspiration which can then be translated into “a few true words”. Poetic language thus acquires a status far superior to that of delight: it is the key that allows us to touch the mystery. The relationship between dream and childhood also allows Machado to explore a lost innocence to which one always aspires to return.

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AZ ÍGÉRET ÉS A SZÜRKÜLET C. FILM ÖSSZEHASONLÍTÁSA A DÜRRENMATT-REGÉNYRE ALAPOZVA

Author(s): Emese Pfuscher / Language(s): Hungarian Publication Year: 0

The article deals with the importance of literature in culture. First of all, literature preserves the culture of a nation, and the task of the writer is to make it transparent as Durrenmatt suggested in Promise. Furthermore, literature is also turned into films and rewritten in scripts, even code-switching is applied. Past events are described grammatically in literature, whereas films show the storyline in present, intertwined with dialogues referring to the past. Results of child psychology are also discussed in the paper regarding emotional expressions. The conclusion raises the question whether Malraux or Hemingway owes anything to the art of film technique.

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TERTULLIANI ADVERSUS IUDAEOS

Author(s): Levente Pap / Language(s): Hungarian Publication Year: 0

Tertullian was a person of paradoxes. There are problems around the limits of his life, his birth and death, there are contradictory data about his studies, his work (was he really a lawyer?), and there are paradoxes in his theology, in his technique of argumentation and in his style. One of the most paradoxical aspects of his work is that Tertullian, a person belonging to a religious community founded by a Jew and heavily relying on Jewish tenets, attacks the same Jews in his Adversus Iudaeos, 'Against the Jews'. The paper examines Tertullian's literary and rhetorical arsenal in this writing.

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HIBRIDITÁS ÉS NYELVPOLITIKA A MOGUL BIRODALOMBAN

Author(s): Imre Bangha / Language(s): Hungarian Publication Year: 0

The emperors and noblemen of the Mogul Empire in North India(1526─1857) patronised artistic, linguistic and perhaps religious syncretism during the first phase of the Empire. It is well known that the Mogul miniature painting has developed from a synthesis of Iranian, traditional Indian and European styles. Less attention has so far been paid to the poetry in mixed language with Persian, Hindavi (Hindi) and Turk words and phrases. Deconstructing some modern and pre-modern myths about mixed-language poetry, Rekhta, and examining its early history on the basis of reliably datable works and manuscripts, the paper shows that almost all early exponents of mixed-language poetry belonged to the Mogul courtly elite.

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Hľadanie identít v modernej libanonskej ženskej próze

Author(s): Danuša Čižmíková / Language(s): Slovak

The monograph presents a study of women’s literary responses to the civil war in Lebanon. It focuses on two of the most prominent writers of (post-)civil war novels, namely Ḥanān ash-Shaykh and ʿAlawiyya Ṣubuḥ. The focus is on those works that feature female protagonists, while the scope is narrowed to the study of identity formation. Having situated women’s writings on the war into a broader socio-cultural and literary context in the introductory chapter, the second chapter traces the process of identity formation in the novel Ḥikāyat Zahra (The Story of Zahra), while the third presents the reader with analysis of Maryam al-ḥakāyā (Maryam of Stories). The chapters are complemented by excerpts from the novels that have not yet been translated into Slovak or Czech.

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Mongolian Ritual Texts in Manuscript Collections in the Czech Republic: Part 1

Author(s): Ondřej Srba / Language(s): English,Mongolian

The present book is a critical edition of Mongolian ritual manuscripts preserved in Czech collections. It offers palaeographic descriptions and transcriptions for all the manuscripts, accompanied by English translations and selected facsimiles. The edition includes the majority of popular ritual text categories written in Classical Mongolian (mostly incense offering rituals) commonly circulating in the extramonastic milieu of premodern Mongolia: texts on fire-worship, White Old Man, Offering of the Fox, Geser Khan rituals, hunting rituals, while several texts related to cults of local deities, protection of livestock, as well as popular religious songs and individual prayers are appearing in the scholarly literature for the first time.

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Respublica Litteraria in Action

Author(s): / Language(s): English

The fourth publication in the Respublica Litteraria in Action series, part of the editorial project Corpus Epistularum Ioannis Dantisci conducted at the University of Warsaw for two decades under the direction of Anna Skolimowska and Jerzy Axer. The series features papers from participants in the scientific sessions held alongside the international council meetings of the “Registration and Publication of Ioannes Dantiscus’ Correspondence (1485–1548)” programme. The issues of the meetings deal with various aspects of the international environment in the sixteenth century, called in Latin respublica litteraria, formed by the literati, scholars and intellectuals of Europe. The latest volume, in addition to texts related to the broad topic of the representation of geographical space in the culture of the Early Modern era, includes an itinerary of Piotr Tomicki, covering the period of his tenure as Sub-Chancellor of the Crown of the Kingdom of Poland.

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Skrytí hrdinové: tři případy mexického románu noir

Author(s): Markéta Šimková / Language(s): Czech

Hidden Heroes: Three Cases of the Mexican Noir Novel examines the novels of three writers who enriched Mexican crime fiction between 1976 and 2014. The first is Paco Ignacio Taibo II, considered by literary critics to be the founder and leading promoter of the noir subgenre in Mexico. The second author is Juan Hernández Luna, who incorporated fantastical elements into his work and revitalized Mexican noir. The last author is Gabriel Trujillo Munoz, who set his novels in the frontier north, but whose work cannot be simplistically classified as popular 'narcoliterature'. The selected works are analyzed using Doležel's theory of fictional worlds in an attempt to explore what characterizes the chosen narrative worlds and at the same time to demonstrate that the characters of the ""detectives"" of the Mexican noir novel are united by the concept of hidden heroism.

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