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Wybuch wyobraźni. Poezja Anny Świrszczyńskiej wobec reprodukcji życia społecznego

Author(s): Katarzyna Szopa / Language(s): Polish

The monograph is devoted to the question of social reproduction in the poetry of Anna Świrszczyńska. In my interpretation, her feminist worldview is presented as an emanation of the era, which was structured by a complex dynamics of alterations and political tensions, both on a local and global level. The reading of Świrszczyńska’s oeuvre from the perspective of social reproduction allows me to unveil these tensions and to elicit from her work an imaginative project of the world, devoid of any harm or suffering, and based on a radical need for expansion of solidarity with all marginalized groups. Her writings are a testimony to the presence and development of the second-wave emancipatory project in the Polish People's Republic and they inspire us to a renewed reflection on the literary heritage of that period.

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Литературная сказка в индивидуальном стиле Геннадия Цыферова: в контексте чешской рецепции русской литературы для детей и молодежи во второй половине ХХ века

Author(s): Eva Kudrjavceva Malenová / Language(s): Russian

The monograph fills the gap in the research of Russian children’s literature from the Czech and Russian perspective. As for the time period, it is focused on the 2nd half of 20th century with an overlap into the present. It combines a new approach to the history of the Czech perception of Russian children’s literature and the first complex overview of the fairy tale works by G. Cyferov ever, with the first publication of his complete biography. The part devoted to G. Cyferov is (together with the theoretic summary on the authorial fairy tale) written in the comparative Czech-Russian view. Within the framework of Czech-Russian relations in the field of children’s literature, the work introduces into the academic discussion facts in the form of a new database of Czech translations from Russian, published in the appendix.

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Zapomenuté politické satiry Václava Vokolka

Author(s): Alena Klementová / Language(s): Czech Publication Year: 0

Contemporary Czech writer Václav Vokolek is in his work inspired mostly by the world of literature, paintings and spiritual concepts, distancing his writing from any political and social reality. But he made one exception at the beginning of new millennium, in cooperation with Czech illustrator Jindřich Strašnov. Together they have created Nejsme jako my (2001), cycle of political satires with expressive illustrations, pointed against main characters of Czech post-revolutionary political scene. The aim of this contribution is to highlight this artistically-literary work, that sure has potential to speak to readers but has not got any responses or reviews ever since publishing.

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Female Writers and Autonomy in Love:

Author(s): Noriko Hiraishi / Language(s): English Publication Year: 0

This study explores the voices of women in modern Japanese literature, focusing on female writers’ desire for autonomy in love during the beginning of the 20th century. Interestingly, female writers of this period often depict unfaithful wives. To explain this phenomenon, we examine the Japanese enthusiastic pursuit of European literary trends, such as the romantic reception of Paolo and Francesca in Dante’s Divina Commedia (The Divine Comedy), which glorifies adultery in the name of “true love.” In the Japanese literary world, empathy with the romantic concept of love idealized a longing for true love and overcame negative feeling towards adultery. Under these circumstances, female writers raised their voices for independence in love and marriage. Exemplifying the writers who adapted European literary and philosophical trends into their works to confront the laws and customs of Meiji Japan, this study clarifies that the trends paradoxically endorsed and created an explosive freedom for women to explore the concept of love.

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Illness in the Echo Chamber:

Author(s): Robert Ono / Language(s): English Publication Year: 0

This chapter will assess the quick rise of “leprosy literature” in Japan during the latter half of the 1930s using much of the primary sources available, including diaries and letters privately penned by Hōjō Tamio, a young writer who was at its epicenter. I will begin by taking a look at the collection of “confessions” compiled by the government in 1921 to see how the authorities manipulated the voices of patients before the boom. Then I will focus on Hōjō, who was uniquely ambitious to join the mainstream literary establishment, while many residents of the leprosarium were reluctant to have their voices heard knowing that public scrutiny would only make them vulnerable in a society brimming with eugenic ideals. Finally, some discussion from a wider historical and cultural context should facilitate a clearer understanding on different forms of power that sought to control and sometimes aggravated the situations surrounding Hōjō and other patients.

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Voiceless Witnesses:

Author(s): Martina R. Prosperi / Language(s): English Publication Year: 0

Thinking of China in the early 20th century and China today, one tends to highlight the great transformations dividing past and present. However, Chinese literature offers evidence of interesting thematic continuities, too. The figure of the beggar, an extremely significant yet voiceless outcast of society, is just one remarkable example. Represented by modern characters such as the protagonists of Lu Xun’s “Kong Yiji” (1919) and of Ba Jin’s “Dog” (1931), the beggar continues to appear in contemporary narratives, including A Yi’s short story “An Accidental Murder” (2010) and his novel Wake Me Up at 9:00 in the Morning (2014). Which continuities are traceable among these works? If literature has the power to voice the voiceless, what do the outcasts portrayed by these authors reveal to their readers? Drawing on Agamben’s reflections on the concept of testimony and on psychoanalytic categories, this chapter offers a comparative analysis of four case studies.

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Voiceless Tibet? Past and Present in Tibetan Sinophone Writing by Tsering Norbu

Author(s): Kamila Hladíková / Language(s): English Publication Year: 0

As a culturally and linguistically hybrid product emerging from specific historical and political conditions, Sinophone Tibetan literature has been often overlooked in Western academic and literary circles. Still, as argued in this article, it is a plausible voice coming from within Tibet, shedding more light on the present lived reality of the region and its inhabitants and forming a multilayered minor discourse of self-representation vis-á-vis the major Han Chinese discourse regarding not only Tibetan history and culture, but, more generally, literary creation. By analyzing the various representations of present-day Tibet in short stories by Tsering Norbu, this paper provides insights into the formation of collective historical memory and transformation of Tibetan society following the economic development of the region after the year 2000. While responding to the official call for a realistic representation of the lives of ordinary people, the author has come up with effective counterhegemonic narrative strategies of resistance to the dominant forces of ideology and brutal commercialization by including elements of religion, suppressed historical memory, and social problems in contemporary Tibetan society.

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Voices against Gender-based Violence in Contemporary Japanese Literature:

Author(s): Letizia Guarini / Language(s): English Publication Year: 0

While the #MeToo movement has not gained much popularity in Japan, in recent years, several individuals and organizations have spoken out against gender discrimination and gender-based violence. At the same time, literature is also a place where women address these issues. The aim of this paper is to explore feminist voices in Japanese contemporary literature vis-à-vis recent feminist movements. The first part of this paper examines recent examples of gender-based violence in Japan and the actions initiated by women in response to them. The second part focuses on two novels: Kanojo wa atama ga warui kara (It’s Because She’s Stupid, 2018) by Kaoruko Himeno, and Jizoku kanō na tamashii no riyō (The Sustainable Use of Our Souls, 2020) by Aoko Matsuda. Through an interdisciplinary approach, this study aims to explore the connection between activism and literary studies, looking at literature as a feminist act of resistance.

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Gender and Violence in Sakuraba Kazuki’s Red X Pink:

Author(s): Rafael Vinícius Martins / Language(s): English Publication Year: 0

Sakuraba Kazuki is a former light novel writer whose literature shows awareness of issues of gender, with narratives about violence, power, and identity. This chapter provides an analysis of her light novel, Red x Pink, a story narrated by three pro­tagonists who participate in a girls’ clandestine wrestling show, each of them performing a different type of character: the youthful Mayu, the dominatrix Miko, and the boyish Satsuki, whose narrative arc unveils a process of self-discovery and coming out as a transgendered man. The analysis of this work, informed by Azuma Hiroki’s concepts of database consumption and manga/anime-like realism, will clarify how Sakuraba expresses the gendered experiences of violence and exposes the consequences of oppression, appropriating the popular form of male-oriented media to narrate stories of oppressed young women and sexual minorities.

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Wprowadzenie do literatury chorwackiej i jej polskiej recepcji. Cz. 2: Recepcja literatury chorwackiej w Polsce w latach 1970–2010

Author(s): Leszek Małczak / Language(s): Polish

The second part of a new publishing series titled "Introduction to Croatian Literature and its Polish Reception" is devoted to the reception of Croatian literature and culture in Poland in 1970-2010. It is a continuation of "Introduction to Contemporary Croatian Literature (1970-2010)", the first part of the series, written by Krešimir Bagić and translated by Leszek Małczak. This time the view of literary works, as the title reveals, is presented from the Polish perspective. This is a one-of-a-kind study that reveals two worlds of translated literature before and after 1989 that are governed by completely different rules. The author considers the problems of the reception of Croatian literature in Poland in the broad context of translations from other languages with the demonstration of the mechanisms operating at the time in the sphere of interliterary relations. In a review of the publication, Professor Krystyna Pieniążek-Marković notes, among other things, that the book is an absorbing story about Polish cultural and political realities, cultural policy (or lack thereof). The entire period under study is divided into four parts, which are successive decades: the 1970s, 1980s, 1990s and 2000s. The book includes a bibliography of translations, biographies of Croatian writers and information on the translators. An important element of the publication is its graphic design, which through the visual aspect enriches the content and creates a more complete picture of the reception of Croatian literature in Poland.

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Wprowadzenie do literatury chorwackiej i jej polskiej recepcji. Cz. 1: Wprowadzenie do współczesnej literatury chorwackiej (1970–2010)

Author(s): Krešimir Bagić / Language(s): Polish

The first part of a new publishing series titled Introduction to Croatian Literature and its Polish Reception presents the recent history of contemporary Croatian literature. It discusses the most significant phenomena in Croatian literature and culture, in particular the following decades: the 1970s, 1980s, 1990s and 2000s. The publication is the only one on the market that shows the most important trends in literature taking into account a broad socio-political and cultural background (references to music, comics, photography, film, political events in Croatia and the world, scientific achievements, technological innovations, major events that affected reality not only in this part of Europe, etc.). The contextual approach ensures that literature is not seen and presented as a field of human activity suspended in a vacuum. This gives the reader a more complete understanding of the processes taking place in culture. This book is also a story about the modern world and literature and culture being a product of the surrounding reality on the one hand and on the other hand constructing it. In the analyzed texts of Croatian culture one can easily recognize problems, themes, literary forms present in other cultures and literatures, not only Slavic or European ones.

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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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Лекции по истории русско-українских литературных связей

Author(s): Vladimir Janovič Zvinjackovskij / Language(s): Russian

The book contains 16 chapters, which in the form of lectures are devoted to various aspects of the history of Russian-Ukrainian literary relations, especially in the 19th and 20th centuries. Some myths still alive in the consciousness of the wider and professional public are set to the right level, and issues of double cultural identity are tehere also discussed, namely on a philosophical, historical and literary level. The book is intended for readers fluent in the Russian language from among students of philological fields focused on the East Slavic area, professional literary scholars and the wider public.

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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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Terézia Vansová v slavistickom literárnom kontexte

Author(s): Eliška Gunišová / Language(s): Czech

The literary research of the personality of Terézia Vansová and her literary, publishing, and enlightenment activities provides a fascinating image of a woman dedicated to, at least in a little, contribute to the well-being of many, a woman with deeply anchored values, she did not only defined for herself, but she also followed within her entire life; a woman very often alone and lonely, standing out of the literary, ideological and political mainstream; a female representant of the Slovak intelligentsia, however living in close contact with the Slovak common people. Terézia Vansová was fully aware of the functionality of literary communication on the line author-reader-work and considered literature one of the tools of mass communication, thanks to which she was able to influence the value framework of the reader himself.

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Christian Gottfried Krause: O hudební poezii: Komentovaný překlad

Author(s): Kateřina Alexandra Šťastná / Language(s): Czech

“Von der musikalischen Poesie” can be recognised as one of the hitherto unjustly neglected and less known writings of the Berlin provenance of the second half of the 18th century – despite the figure of Ch. G. Krause and his most extensive work had a considerable influence on the formation of the aesthetic views of his contemporaries as well as a generation younger authors. Furthermore, Krause's treatise influenced the formation of the Prague intellectual milieu aesthetic views around 1800 and in the several decades that followed. The treatise offers a lot of valuable information for research related to the aesthetic, theoretical and practical aspects of musical art in the second half of the 18th century.

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Posthuman Transformations. Bodies and Texts in Cyberspace

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

Posthuman Transformations: Bodies and Texts in Cyberspace explores the re/positioning of the human body and the evolution of the textual body in technological culture. Through the examination of a selection of fictional texts - both print and computer-mediated - an extensive account of the transformations of the bodies of fictional characters and the actual reader in interaction with/(in) cyberspace is presented. The book is interdisciplinary - at the crossroads of posthumanism, postmodern literary theory, phenomenology and the philosophy of technology. The author seeks to answer the interrelated questions: How is the human body imagined in print and computer-mediated fictional texts? What is the body’s role in redefining the human in technological culture?

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Neusachliche Verhaltenslehren in der Prager deutschen Literatur

Author(s): Adéla Grimes / Language(s): German

This publication deals with the new-objective way of writing and new-objective cool conduct and its occurrence in Prague-German literature. Three representative novels, Otto Roeld’s Malenski auf der Tour, Hans Natonek’s Kinder einer Stadt, and Paul Kornfeld’s Blanche oder Das Atelier im Garten, were chosen to demonstrate the appearance of New Objectivity within the ‘circle’ of Prague-German authors. New-objective features analysed in these works prove the hitherto prevalent marginalization of New Objectivity within German-written literature in Prague to be unjustified. The biography of the authors included in this publication points out their most important stages in life, as well as their participation in the cultural space of Bohemia and the Weimar Republic.

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Хумор и журналистика от 60-те години на XIX век

Author(s): Elena Getova / Language(s): Bulgarian Publication Year: 0

This paper discusses the expressions of sociocultural centrality in the first humour publications in the Bulgarian Revival Period. It looks into the intentional choice and the graphic design of the newspaper title, the existence and meaning of a subtitle, the target audience of the publication, the visual layout of the front page, the presence of illustrations or cartoons, and of course the explicitly declared personal priorities and political biases of the editor/publisher or the owner of the newspaper. Exploring these paratextual spaces also includes the program articles, in which the personal priorities and publishing intentions of the editor are directly stated.

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Von „unseren Schlesischen Alpen“ zur Euroregion – die Sudeten als Grenzgebirge einst und heute

Author(s): Jan Pacholski / Language(s): German Publication Year: 0

The Sudetes and their highest mountain range, the Giant Mountains (German: Riesengebirge, Czech: Krkonoše, Polish: Karkonosze), form a natural border between Bohemia and Silesia, and today serve as the border between the Czech Republic and Poland. This paper presents the history of this border, from the Middle Ages through the early modern period to the Enlightenment. During this time, the border was not a language boundary, but it still played an important dividing role. In recent times, it has become the Czech-Polish language border, yet it now seems to unite rather than divide. The conclusion is that the language border does not always divide more than a political one.

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