Duchaplný šľachtic Don Quijote de la Mancha: kontext vzniku prvej slovenskej adaptácie Cervantesovho románu „El ingenioso hidalgo Don Quijote..."

Author(s): Anikó Dušíková / Language(s): Slovak Issue: 1/2016

The study reviews the first Slovak adaptation of Cervantes’s novel Don Quixote. It maps the route of this novel on its way towards Slovak and Hungarian audiences, pinpointing the specifics of its reception in the 19th century in the context of national literatures. Despite the fact that the first complete Slovak translation of the novel appeared only in 1950, the novel Bendegucz, Gyula Kolompos und Pista Kurtaforint published by Ján Chalupka in 1841 indicates a much earlier presence and significance of this topic. The first Hungarian translation of the novel from the Spanish original by Vilmos Győry appeared between the years 1873 and 1876. It achieved importance in the Slovak context as well, considering that the translation by the Slovak translator Ján Rovnan ml. (Milo Urban) from 1926 has some significant similarities with the Hungarian translation, particularly in the translation of aphorisms, but also in calling the knight Don Quixote “The Sad Face”. Because the differences between these two texts are, however, so comprehensive, it is not possible to prove that the Slovak text was based on the Hungarian. One of the following Hungarian adaptations based on Győry’s translation, the one by Vilmos Huszár published in 1900, however, bears a very strong resemblance to the Slovak version of 1926 and their concordance can be considered a confirmation of the hypothesis that the first Slovak adaptation of Cervantes’s novel was indeed created as a second-hand translation of the Hungarian adaptation for the young people.

Jack London and Korea

Author(s): Wook-Dong Kim / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2016

Broadly historical in its approach, this article explores the extent to which Jack London obtained material for his writing from the experiences he had while serving as a correspondent covering the Russo-Japanese War in Korea. It argues that from this material London wrote such literary works as the short story “A Nose for the King” (1906), the historical essay “The Yellow Peril” (1904), and some portion of his memorable fantasy novel, The Star Rover (1915). This article claims further that in these works London not only revealed his racist prejudices towards Korea and its people, but also that information on Korea is sometimes inaccurate and unreliable.

Avangarda – razbijanje žanrovskih okvira

Author(s): Nadira Puškar Mustafić / Language(s): Bosnian,Croatian Issue: 10/2013

Вербализация звокового пространства в поэтическом творчестве В.С. Соловьева

Author(s): Simona Koryčánková / Language(s): Russian Issue: 1/2015

The aim of this article is to analyse semantics of verbal meanings connected to Solovyov's mystical and philosophical opinions. The basic task was the excerption of philosophically important poetic images of sound typical for author's individual style. Consequently, such lexical units which bear a corresponding philosophical meaning in selected poetic images were detached. Based on a further analysis, other lexemes which bear association nuances of sensual meanings and reflect the intellectual correlation between poet's language and writer's philosophical thinking were defined.

"Mimeza procesa" u romanu Zlatna bilježnica

Author(s): Aida Džiho-Šator / Language(s): Bosnian Issue: 10/2015

This paper deals with the literary technique of metafiction in Doris Lessing’s novel The Golden Notebook and with some of the ways of its realization. The paper attempts to analyze the problem of presenting the truth in novel writing, or the representation of reality in fiction, which is one of the main preoccupations of the novel’s protagonist, Anna Wulf.

Világjobbító barbárság

Author(s): Gergely Péterfy / Language(s): Hungarian Issue: 97/2015

Interview with Péterfy Gergely by Rostás Eni

Interdiskurzivnost: stilistički prilog teoriji književnoga diskurza

Author(s): Anera Ryznar / Language(s): Croatian Issue: 1/2014

The paper consists of four parts. The introductory part focuses to the argument made by the Slovenian literary theorist M. Juvan who claims that literary theory should be restructured as the theory of literary discourse, based on the “discourse turn” in the contemporary stylistics. The paper further discusses the style in the field of discourse by analysing ambiguous relationship between style and discourse, and by introducing the concept of style as an identity marker (Juvan). This is followed by the concept of the stylistics of (inter)discourse based on the term interdiscursivity. The notion of interdiscursivity is discussed through its different applications and definitions (Kovačević and Badurina, Fairclough, Pecheux, Link), and its distinctiveness in relation to intertextuality. The final part of the paper offers an analysis of interdiscursivity in selected literary texts, with special emphasis on the texts of literary avant-garde (Slabinac), and relates interdiscursivity to J. Ranciere’s politics of literature.

Prevodilačka praksa između teorije i kritike

Author(s): Drago Brajt / Language(s): Serbian Issue: 249/1979

Mi u Sloveniji nemamo kritiku prevoda, kritiku književnih dela prevedenih sa stranih jezika na slovenački. Zato se domaća literarna kritika prevedenim delima bavi samo jednostrano, nepotpuno, manjkavo, jer ne poznaje ni osnovna načela teorije prevoda, ni teoriju prevodilačke kritike. To se može videti na svakom koraku. Imamo malo kritičkih analiza koje se bave problemima prevođenja. Imamo malo članaka i rasprava o teoriji i praksi prevođenja, bilo izvornih ili prevedenih. Nemamo posebnu publikaciju za objavljivanje prevedene literature i, s njom povezane, metaliterature (kritika i teonija prevođenja). Nemamo odgovarajućih ustanova za samostalno izučavanje i posredovanje u prevodilačkim problemima — problemima nauke koja se u poslednje vreme osamostalila pod imenom teorija prevođenja.

Enseñar literatura después de Derrida (reflexiones entorno a la enseñanza literaria desde el New Formalism)

Author(s): Adolfo Rodríguez Posada / Language(s): Spanish Issue: 54/2016

Marjorie Levison introduced the notion of New Formalism in 2007, to name a movement within literary criticism which vindicates the methodological principles of New Criticism, with the aim of dealing with the questions posed by the indeterminacy and undecidability of literary meaning, as upheld by the deconstructive critics. From then on, several researchers have joined the movement, such as Verena Theile and Linda Tredennick, who edited the volume New Formalism and Literary Theory (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013). This work is remarkable because it provides the Neoformalist methodological basis. Both Theile and Tredennick start from pedagogical premises with a view to recovering close reading as a didactic method for teaching literature, but without contradicting at any time the deconstruction theory on the instability of literary meaning. Despite the newness of approaching Derrida’s theory from a pedagogical point of view, the New Formalist perspective does not clarify the issue of the impact of hermeneutical relativism on education. The present article engages with the matter in the light of Theile and Tredennick’s didactic proposal and, in addition, weighs the consequences for teaching literature, considering the deconstructive denial of hermeneutical consensus.

Postcolonialism și postcomunism în studiile literare românești

Author(s): Dumitru Tucan / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 54/2016

For the last two decades, postcolonial theory has become one of the most dominant perspectives in the study of literature and culture in the Western Academia (Chioni Moore 2001). Together with its increasingly more authoritarian voice, postcolonial theory has also become able to influence peripheral scholar communities, including those coming from cultures with no direct link with the historical phenomenon of colonialisation (Anfeng 2007). This influence seems to be of two distinct types. The first one is a mimetic one (i.e. unintermediated by local experiences), which has generated an imitative postcolonial discourse in local academia, mostly used by members of English language departments. The second one, which may be called particularizing (i.e. intermediated by local cultural experiences), has tried to adapt (to various degrees of intensity) the postcolonial perspective to local conditions. This second type of influence can be seen, for example, in the adaptation of postcolonial theory to the analysis of postcommunist cultural phenomena in Central and Eastern Europe (Kelertas 2006). The same thing has happened in Romanian literary studies, although at a low degree of intensity. In this article, I will try to analyse the impact of postcolonial theoretical speculation on the Romanian literary studies of the last two decades. By focusing especially on the practical problem of the relationship between postcolonialism and postcommunism, I will try to evaluate how adaptable postcolonial theory can be in relation to local cultural / historical experiences. Last but not least, I will try to analyse the way in which these theories adapt to local particular conditions.

Приказката - звездният жанр в литературата за де-ца

Author(s): Hristina Andonova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 1/2017

The article has been written in the style of an argumentative essay and is an attempt to consider the literary surveys in Bulgarian Literature Science which are related to the story as genre and reveal the inaccuracy of the term. The researched authors are presented in chronological order beginning with Ivanka Kovacheva, followed by Angel Tonov, Ivan Simeonov, Svetlana Stoicheva and finally Peter Stefanov. Then the article summarizes and clarifies the problematic issues concerning the theory. There are different opinions regarding the classification of the folk stories retold by literary means. The author tries to give an answer to the question: Do we have the reason to rank the story whose author is known, with the literary genres when the author has only taken dialect words and expressions, even being alienated from its folk source?

Repenser le politique à travers des imaginaires dispersés

Author(s): Laura T. Ilea / Language(s): French Issue: 30/2016

Истина и фикција у роману Вирџиније Вулф "Ка светионику"

Author(s): Dražen Jašović / Language(s): Serbian Issue: 1/2016

This paper deals with relations of truth and fiction in afore mentioned V. Wolf’s work of fiction. We have tried to define terms truth and fiction in relation to V. Wolf’s understanding of literary forms and genres. Research methods used in this paper are close reading and passage comparison of V. Wolf’s fiction and her essays. Both in fiction and essays she is determined to understand life but accomplished effects differ due to formal differences among these discourses.

Књижевно-теоријски и критички систем епохе реализма у Европи

Author(s): Predrag Jašović / Language(s): Serbian Issue: 1/2016

In this paper we analyze the literary criticism and literarytheoretical reflection, and paradigmatic foundation of positivism and realism, their permeation, merger and differentiation. We do this in the case of theoretical systems of major European scholars and literary historians who have marked this direction in world literature (Sent-Bev, Ernest Renan, Hippolyte Ten, Wilhelm Scherer, Gustave Lanson, Anatol France, Belinsky, Chernyshevsky, and others). With their work in the field and involvement in study of history and criticism, they have proven the purpose of utilitarianism in literature and the specificity of mimetic in realism. In this paper we are revealing their importance in relation to our moment in time, where being set up in temporal distance we can observe the extent to which these theoretical works have influenced the formation of the aesthetic and axiological judgments in the future. Literary criticism in the era of realism was highly developed, and this not only in Eurocentric circles, but beyond. Understanding realism in literature and utilitarian requests and their achievement are not uniformed. They differ from theorist to theorist forming a wide, but in the basic mimetic demand a coherent theoretical system, which is confirmed by its complexity only after being viewed as a whole.

Йордан Бадев. Забравеният редактор

Author(s): Gergana Nacheva / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 1/2014

Proposed article problematizes Yordan Badev’s figure and intellectual activity – editor of the elite journals „Slovo”, „Zora”, „Makedoniya”, the magazines „Zlatorog”, „Rodina”, „Narodnost” and Masonic „Mirogled”. It shows totalitarian procedures on the person and his work

Literární měsíčník mladých: edice nenaplněného návrhu na časopis pro dobu po druhé světové válce

Author(s): Jan Bílek / Language(s): Czech Issue: 47/2015

This contribution places an edition of a document from the archives into its historical context. It is the text of a proposal for a literary monthly for young people, to be published once the Second World War would finally be over. The proposal was made in 1944 by Jiří V. Svoboda (1924–1981) to Josef Träger (1904–1971), the director of the Melantrich publishing house, but was never carried out.

Temeljci španske pikareske - Lesariljo i Buskon i tema časta

Author(s): Andrijana Đordan,Maja Ćuk / Language(s): Serbian Issue: 8/2016

This paper deals with the theme of honor in two main representatives of the picaresque novel subgenre - Lazarillo and Buscón. After the introduction, which provides an overview of the Spanish novel in the 16th and 17th centuries and its key subgenres, detailed attention is dedicated to the picaresque novel as a national subgenre. The selected representatives are presented through all important factual information, their formal and content characteristics. The paper focuses on treating the theme of honor in these two literary works, observed from the perspective of the character of the protagonist, the anti-hero – picard (pícaro), but also from the perspective of his family and social context. Special emphasis is on the idea of differentiation of the idea of honor, which can be seen as external – material or internal - human and moral.

Despre „va + conjunctiv” în limba română contemporană

Author(s): Cristina Bocoș,Diana-Maria Roman / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 1/2016

The paper aims to illustrate that va + subjunctive future: va să cânte [will sing], va să vină [will come], used in Old Romanian alongside va + infinitive future: va cânta [will sing], va veni [will come], is still used in Modern Romanian to express future time reference, despite claims that it disappeared from the language by the end of the 17th century (cf. Valeria Guțu -Romalo, Le futur en Roumain aux XVIe – XVIIIe siècles). Various examples taken from religious texts, newspapers articles, TV shows, commercials, etc. will prove that va + subjunctive is still an active means of expressing future time reference in Romanian, while emphasizing on some distinctive features, such as: limited usage (it is used only with verbs like a fi [to be], a veni [to come], a judeca [to judge], a zice [to say]), low frequency or a paradigm restricted to the 3rd person singular.

Литературна комуникация през българското средновековие

Author(s): Wolf-Henrich Shmidt / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 1/1990

Удаљено читање: у корист Франка Моретија

Author(s): Jasmina Radojičić / Language(s): Serbian Issue: 157/2015

This paper has as its goal to show the path of development for the theoretical thought of Franco Moretti; one of the most important contemporary historians and literary theorists. Franco Moretti is one of those critics whose work constantly provokes the traditional methods of studying literature, and puts forth a new and radical approach. In the case of Franco Moretti, such an approach entails distancing oneself from the interpretation of individual literary works and literary canon in order to study a much larger collection of texts from the entire literary market (“the great unread”). Following the model of the natural sciences and sociology, such a large database of texts should serve as a reliable pattern for the establishment of a literary system that in its abstraction and stability become the basis for a more scientific and comprehensive study of literature. This, however, does not mean that by Moretti’s advocating of methodological abstraction separates himself from the messy reality of social history. As a primarily Marxist critic, by separating himself from the abstract he searches for the all-encompassing laws and forces in play, so that they can be re- contextualized and confirmed in practice. In a desire to draw attention to Moretti’s methodology, this paper specifically focuses on two of the author’s works Distant Reading and The Bourgeois: Between History and Literature.