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The Spatial Imaginary and Literary Reflections on the Political

Author(s): Amaryll Chanady / Language(s): English Issue: 30/2016

Through an analysis of two immigrant narratives published in the francophone province of Quebec, Canada, I wish to examine the specifically literary forms of reflecting on the political, of rewriting dominant models of the nation, and even of deconstructing newer, critical models of inequality such as John Porter’s vertical Canadian mosaic. The complex and fluid spatial imaginary of the narratives rewrites commonly accepted paradigms and renders them more complex in a “making visible” of social, economic and political forces. Drawing on Rancière’s writing on the “politics of literature,” but going beyond it by using insights from Deleuze and Guattari, Lyotard, and Rorty to understand “literary thinking,” I focus on the immigrant authors Mona Latif Ghattas and Émile Ollivier.

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Vecteurs identitaires des discours autochtones: Affirmation d’une ontologie politique

Author(s): Nicolas Beauclair / Language(s): French Issue: 30/2016

With the colonization of the Americas, the Europeans imposed political and epistemic control structures. Indigenous peoples have seen, in this process, their ontological conceptions depreciated and ruled out. Today, an epistemic mobilization, coming from Aboriginal people themselves and academics, attempts to dislocate coloniality. This leads us to ask: what are the impacts and influences of indigenous ontological differences today? To partly answer this question, we will examine how these differences manifest themselves in different types of discourse: the novel The Saga of the Beothuk, Georges Sioui’s essays and a declaration of Idle No More Quebec. We will maintain that when it falls within discursive dimensions, Amerindian ontology is tinged as a political ontology.

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La route et la loi du père (jusqu’à La route de Cormac McCarthy)

Author(s): Simon Harel / Language(s): French Issue: 30/2016

The Road by Cormac McCarthy describes the industrial society in its most obvious aspects: railways, highways, suburbs. In this novel, we can see McCarthy’s critique of the consumer society, which continues the trilogy dedicated to the border between the United States and Mexico, as well as the novel Suttree (1979). Thus McCarthy became the narrator of worlds populated with eccentric characters: misfits and vagabonds, law enforcement officials exposed to the criminal perversion (No Country for Old Men). The Road is America’s ossuary in its absolute cruelty. While The Border Trilogy highlights the disappearance of lifestyle ranchers and owners of agricultural land, The Road is the story of a robbery, as if all life inhabited became the object of a merciless struggle. If the human is useless in this “crap” story in the sense intended by Artaud, of ignoble procreation, what alternative is then available? For McCarthy, the catastrophe allows paradoxically for the rebirth of a twilight topic. The collective killing, in the torments of a genocide or of a nuclear disaster, serves as a convenient argument that brings us back to the staging of the end (of the "hunger") by McCarthy, with some form of masochism.

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Exploring Diversity: The Literature of Migration

Author(s): Dana Bizuleanu / Language(s): English Issue: 30/2016

All modern forms of migration are being state controlled through the politics of migration. These kinds of movements enter interdisciplinary fields that can shed light upon how (new) societies appear. It would be more relevant to explore the manner in which migration and European memory seem to be intertwined. Literature uses its own means to find proper instruments and show how migration has turned into a fundamental condition of mankind. In the German speaking world we encounter the term “literature of migration”. There are several criteria deployed to define literature written by non-natives. The components of migration, identity, discourses on Otherness and the role of the state in the migration process are all part of a discourse on migration and “orienting diversity”. How does a literature of migration in the German space enter a dialog with a rather unknown Romanian literature? What similarities and differences emerge in the literature of two European spaces in regards to their nomadic and migrant authors? A possible answer could relate to the manner in which migrant authors uncover a source for the imaginary that can support and fuel memory, while revisiting traumatic spaces.

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Le Texte, l’image et la physique du temps réel : l’hypothèse du livre augmenté

Author(s): Jean-Michel Devesa / Language(s): French Issue: 31/2016

The crisis of representation is increasing due to an information society that undermines the way we feel and think, reflecting our relationship to time and space, which science, particularly physics, teaches us about. Now, with computers, we have a tool to expanded intersemiotic resources. Probably it is necessary to integrate the new technologies with an economy of language that resists "modeling" and reification by ways of the imagination. With this “new” book, the book of a new kind, we may have the vector and the focus of this “integral language” that Roland Barthes saw as the main motive for declaring that “literature is revolutionary”.

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La déficience de l’écriture chez Éric Chevillard et Anne Garréta : enjeux cognitifs

Author(s): Gabriella Bandura / Language(s): French Issue: 31/2016

This study highlights the writing deficiency in two contemporary novels, Du hérisson by Éric Chevillard and Ciels liquides by Anne Garréta, through cognitive science. Resorting to the autopoietic model, developed by Francisco Varela and Humberto Maturana, we propose to think this deficiency as the expression of an emergent functioning, which leads to a dynamics of individuation. The postures of this dynamics will be followed through the hedgehogful spiral which strikes the text, the narrator and the reader in Du hérisson and the experimentation of “je” in a fluid, abyssal space without language in Ciels liquides.

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Survivances du neutre

Author(s): Laura Marin / Language(s): French Issue: 33/2017

The French epistemologicallandscape has witnessed, since the 1950s,the emergence of a rather strange catego-ry: the neutral. From Maurice Blanchot toRoland Barthes, passing through the worksof Gilles Deleuze and Louis Marin, as well asphenomenology and a significant share ofpost-Freudian psychoanalysis, the neutralhas not ceased to challenge and fascinatemodern thought. Assuming as starting pointa today forgotten medical use of the word,still encountered during the Renaissance, myarticle aims to identify the forms in whichthis medical reference survives in contem-porary ways of conceiving the neutral. Thepresent essay examines more closely theemergence of this category, its conceptualfiliations, the transformations it has under-gone, and the effects it has produced, with aview to contributing to what may be called a(cultural) memory of the neutral.

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Mоя ремизовиана

Author(s): Rene Guerra / Language(s): Russian Issue: 2/2016

В 1960-е годы я открыл для себя чаро- дея слова – писателя Алексея Ремизова. Для меня откровением были его книги «Подстриженными глазами», «Мышки- на дудочка» и «Огонь вещей». А чуть позже вторым открытием стал Ремизов- художник – его рисунки, выполненные черной тушью, коллажи с фольгой и ру- кописные иллюстрированные альбомы. Я сразу понял уникальность этой лич- ности, неподражаемого рисовальщика и мастера каллиграфии.

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The Adventure of Structuralism in Romania

Author(s): Marius Miheţ / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2018

Imitated, reinterpreted, adapted or just tendentiously applied in Romanian literary criticism, pure and simple, structuralism has rather made history more among connoisseurs. "Bastionul lingvistic" is the synthesis of all of the manifestations of structuralist concepts in the Romanian space, as little as they lingered, with all of their obvious uses and benefits and failed attempts at prestige. Adriana Stan follows the history of the concept closely in an applied, extremely expressive demonstration, offering the specialized reader what they have so far lacked: the European perspective of structuralism as sole possibility for the reformation of Romanian Communist literary criticism.

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How to Fall Back in Love with Detective Novels

Author(s): Marius Miheţ / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2018

The problem with detective novels is that we love them only as long as they keep us under the pressure of suspense. When the mystery is decoded and we discover the key to the narratives, the detective novel is forgotten faster than any other kind of novel. How are we to read these texts such that they remain in the reader’s memory and, especially, re-discoverable? Mihai Iovănel proposes a hermeneutic based on re-reading the text, and his radiographies, written in an attractive and dynamic style, are convincing and, for that reason, paradoxical.

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What Has Become of Modernism?

Author(s): Anemona Alb / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2018

This review looks at a book by Gabriel Josipovici, "What Ever Happened to Modernism?", published in 2011. Gabriel Josipovici is a novelist, literary theorist, critic and scholar. He was a Professor of Literature at the University of Sussex, Weidenfeld Professor of Comparative Literature at Oxford, and is now research professor in the Graduate School of Humanities, Sussex, according to the bio-blurb in the book under scrutiny here. Josipovici sets out to decode the mechanisms whereby Modernism was prefigured and subsequently emerged in the history of humanity, in its artefact stance.

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ДЕКОНСТРУКЦИЈА НА БЕСПРЕДМЕТНОТО ТЕЛО / ПАРАДИГМА SOMAESTHETICS

Author(s): Afrim Rexhepi / Language(s): Macedonian Issue: 58/2011

According to Heidegger , the basic terms of aesthetics are : matter/form, binome which is realized through platonic concept for being , which understands the being through the look of eidos / idea. According to this concept, aesthetics is constituted through metaphysical distinction : the being and creation of the being / the being as a unity of matter and form .The second pair of terms are : technique/nature .The term techne means knowledge /knowing the being and its immanence that is thinking about the world and human relationship with the world . The metaphysical setting provides the creation and development of the aesthetic theory. The Cartesian subjectivity , is the third fact of Heidegger for development of the aesthetics .The Cartesian subjectivity means change of the perspective for researching the modern thought for subjectivity and that Cogito becomes supporting point for discovering the depth of the being , world and the truth. The beauty and art are being effected in the subject .The art loses its “ absolute power” ….With this you overtake the third fact .The Hegel’s aesthetics for “ big art”, for the end of the great art .The fifth basic fact , belongs to Wagner and his unsuccessful tendency “ to create complete art masterpiece..” The unsuccessfulness of Wagner , Heidegger links it with direct connection with effectiveness. The masterpiece is already a stimulant for the met experiences /subjective perception . The sixth basic fact of the Aesthetics , is the Nietzsche’s theory according to whom affectivness is set to the nerve stimulation of the body position. In that context somaesthetics is an effort to go further from the frontiers of conventional philosophical aesthetics, not as a theory , but insists of practical dimension of the real culture of the somatic disciplines , even it is worth mentioning that Baumgarten’s aesthetics was imagined as a discipline which is practiced not only in theory , but through aesthetic practical exercises . Through pragmatism of different disciplines (such as history, sociology, cosmetics, anatomy, meditative and martial arts , physiology , nutrition, kinesiology, psychology , and neuronal networks ), can be useful in understanding the position of the human being in the world.

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„Odsanjati košmar do kraja“: modernizam, (anti)tradicija i „jezik mrtvih“

Author(s): Vladimir M. Vujošević / Language(s): Montenegrine Issue: 9/2021

The tension between ‘tradition’ (as a system of communal cultural patterns) and ‘private experience’ is among the crucial features of Anglophone Modernism. Modernism has been described as a narrative turn towards the extreme subjectivity, probably due to the dominant sense of rupture with the stable Western cultural tradition in the aftermath of various dramatic events at the turn of the century. In an attempt to provide an utterly subjective narration with some narrative stability, Modernist authors often appropriate ‘myths’ (as universally recognizable plotlines embedded in cultural tradition) in order to employ them as symbolic frameworks for their own narratives. However, this Modernist use of ‘myth’ as a scaffolding for an otherwise extremely subjective narration always proves to be essentially unsuccessful because, in Modernism, a ‘myth’ is always transformed, ‘particularized’ (through excessive interpretation) into a private reference. A peculiar process of ‘translation’ of the cultural tradition into an uncommunicative and haunting ‘private language’ (‘the language of the dead’) is at work in much of the Modernist literary practice.

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ЛИНГВОСТИЛИСТИЧКИ И НАРАТОЛОШКИ АСПЕКТИ ПАРАФРАЗЕ

Author(s): Snežana М. Milosavljević Milić / Language(s): Serbian Issue: 3/2021

The paper questions the justifiability of a literary theoretical actualization of par¬aphrase, the figure that contemporary theories of alterity and poststructuralist paradigm have made an unnecessary and anachronous sign of referential delusion. A remnant of a rhetorical understanding of paraphrase which implies a synonymy of words and thoughts, as well as a general possibility that two texts have the same meaning, which is confirmed by the definitions of this figure in contemporary lexicographic publications, burdens the paraphrase in the present time of postdeconstruction. In translatological and linguistic theories paraphrase is connected to the concepts of “reformulation” of Roman Jakobson and “interpretant” by C. S Peirce. In contemporary linguostylistic research paraphrase is studied primarily in the context of the theory of metaphor as a living discourse of discus¬sion, which is traced back to the judgment of the “heresy of paraphrase” in the poetry of C. Brooks. A larger potential for the theoretical description of paraphrase and its role in the context of literary scientific research is found in postclassical narratology and representology, which are based on Bakhtin’s theory of Other’s speech as “speech within speech, utterance within utterance, but simultaneously speech about speech and utterance about utterance” (1980: 128). Pointing to the “delusion of direct speech” in Genette’s taxonomies, M. Sternberg interprets the negative consequences of adopting Plato’s dis¬tinction between mimesis and diegesis, which are reflected in the fusion of formal and representational criteria. According to Sternberg, any form of transferred discourse is just a symptom of an endless approximation and distancing from the original and the only equivalence that traditional mimesis can rely on is the “equivalence of homonymy” (1982: 133). Bakhtin’s view that direct speech also sees someone else’s utterance differently supports our presupposition that in the paraphrase that occurs in a literary text as a substitution or a comment on the quote of a protagonist’s speech/thought we should also see another narrative convention, a different story originating from a simultaneous extension and contraction of sense as an ambiguous characteristic of paraphrase. This is partly a conclusion that leads towards figurativity as an (inevitable) quality of language itself.

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Literarische Anamnesen. Krankheiten und ihre textlichen Anfänge

Author(s): Nicolai Glasenapp / Language(s): German Issue: 2/2021

Literarische Texte etablieren Krankheiten als Komponenten einer kommunikativen Struktur, die Krankheit selbst konstituiert. Es ist zu überprüfen, ob Literatur an einem Prozess teilhaftig ist, der als Enttabuisierung von Krankheit bezeichnet werden kann oder ob die spezifische Konstruktion literarischer Texte zu Tabuisierungen beiträgt. Der vorliegende Beitrag untersucht Textbeispiele verschiedener Epochen und fragt nach dem Stellenwert ihrer Anfänge bei der Vorstellung von Krankheit. Dabei etabliert der Aufsatz zentrale Kategorien, die mit der Konfiguration von Krankheiten und ihren textlichen Anfängen verbunden sind: symbolische Räume; Kausalität und Schicksal; Handlungen als Krankheit; Krankheit als offene Wunde; Körpergrenzen und epistemische Schließungen; Setzung und Suspension von Krankheit als Teil von Interpretation. Als ein zentrales Ergebnis stellt der Beitrag heraus, dass Krankheit in den behandelten Beispielen vielfach nicht vollständig enttabuisiert wird, sondern vielmehr zwischen Tabuisierung und Enttabuisierung oszilliert. Auf diese Weise erfasst Literatur Krankheit umfassend und umgeht die Problematik, eine rationale Perspektive zu verabsolutieren, die wichtigen Aspekte menschlicher Existenz marginalisiert. Dies hat bedeutende Implikationen für die Themenfelder Literatur, Wissen und Krankheit.

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КОВЕРТИРАН ПОТЕГ (или како се чита Митја Чандер на македонски)

Author(s): Vesna Mojsova-Čepiševska / Language(s): Macedonian Issue: 55/2010

Postmodernism – together with its quoting power, its patchwork, i.e. hodgepodge quality, its palimpsest, its pastiche – is the perfect period for the blossoming of the essay as a cultural event. This paper attempts to deal with the different interpretations that are presented by the self-recognized, apocalyptic intellectual Mitja Chander in the collection of essays A Covert Move, translated into Macedonian.

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ТРАНСФИГУРАТИВНО ПАТУВАЊЕ (ПАТУВАЊЕТО И ГРОБИШТАТА)

Author(s): Ilija Prokopiev / Language(s): Macedonian Issue: 55/2010

This text is based on the premise that travelling happens on the cemeteries. The travelling in base can be real or imaginary, but on places like cemeteries it is confusing. The real travelling movement is in crisis and the imaginary one produces images, fragments of stories and evokes different personal experiences. The cemeteries compared to TERRA INCOGNITA always had big influence on the human imagination. Creation of cemeteries in the same time is creation of culture or shaping a cultural life. These are places that have been changing during time according to different believes, into afterlife. Building graves, epitaphs, objects for rituals, drawings, etc. In different times, different cultures have been creating different imaginary traveling inspired by the imagined afterlife that helped in the development of the cultural identity and its continuity.

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ПРОИЗВОЛНОСТА НА БИОГРАФИЗМОТ

Author(s): Jasmina Mojsieva-Gusheva / Language(s): Macedonian Issue: 56/2010

This article analyses the novel Conversation with Spinoza by the young Macedonian writer Goce Smilevski, through the prism of the twisted dealing with biographies which can be seen in the choice of the theme for the novel, in the strategy of the game with the act of presentation, in writing and reading, as well as in the postmodernistic doubt in the credibility of the factography and the historic presentation.

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АКТИВНИОТ ЧИТАТЕЛ ПОМЕЃУ НАИВНОСТА И ПЕРФЕКЦИОНИЗМОТ

Author(s): Sonja Stojmenska-Elzeser / Language(s): Macedonian Issue: 56/2010

In this paper the emphasis is put on the role of the reader in the existence of the literature phenomena. Some influential theoretical concepts are quoted to show how the importance of the reader as a subject in the process of reading is crucial in the „fate“ of one literary work. As examples are analyzed two contemporary novels, very popular in Macedonian and Czech literatures. These are The Dialogue with Spinoza by Goce Smilevski (2002) and Shadow of the Cathedral by Milosh Urban (2003). The two novels are written and published in the new millennia and they approve the expectation of an active reader’s position and his/her wider cultural and literary competence.

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Cartografierea ca enactivare. Poetica cognitivă și subgenurile narativului: repere teoretice

Author(s): Alina Buzatu / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 1/2022

My study, though concise, problematizes the methodology and some of the conceptual vocabulary of cognitive poetics in relation to the narrative (sub)genre(s). This metatheoretical research attempts to reveal the specific algorithms and concepts of cognitive literary cartography, seen as an enactive process - the interpretation of narrative texts is defined as a dynamic interaction, a mutual transformation of both the `literary mind` and the text. In this respect, concepts such as `figure`, `image schemata`,`scenario` or`cognitive model` are relevant for the attempts to observe and explain the enactive (interpretative) approaches.

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