The Hermeneutics of Forgetting

Author(s): Ioana Cosma / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2016

In an article titled ―An Ars Oblivionalis? Forget about It!‖ (PMLA 1988), Umberto Eco avers his skepticism towards the possibility of an ars oblivionalis, which could be translated, in light of his arguments, rather as a semiotics of forgetting, which is impossible, from the author‘s viewpoint, because of the involuntary and passive character of forgetting. At the same time, the notion of forgetting keeps emerging in the European cultural and literary history. As Harald Weinrich showed in a book published in 1997, Lethe: The Art and Critique of Forgetting, the history of European literature and history abounds in examples of authors who integrated forgetting in their poetics. We can therefore, speak at least of a cultural history of forgetting and even of a poetics and hermeneutics of this concept. This essay will define and analyze the hermeneutics of forgetting as presented in the works of Harald Weinrich and Paul Ricoeur.

ȘARPELE CERESC ȘI CALENDARUL AGRAR

Author(s): Iharka Szücs-Csillik,Zoia Maxim / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 1/2016

This study will try to find answers to the question "Why did our ancestors use the snake symbol and sign in their nonverbal communication?" When we observe the snake’s life and behaviour, we come to understand why Neolithic men used the snake symbol, and why it was important for our ancestors to represent the snake. The snake signs as revealed by archaeological finds enable us to deepen the research about these „famous reptiles”. During the Neolithic, the snake was a symbol for good, helping humankind, but also unknowable and unpredictable, so for the Neolithic men the snake became sacred. That is the reason why they represented the sacred snake on vases, bracelets, buildings, even more, the snake can be found on the sky as a unique constellation charting. In Romanian tradition the snake has many meanings, the best known is that of the guardian serpent (the snake of the house), which represents the protector of the household goods, or the foreteller of rain. Connections between the snake and the cyclic regeneration of nature appeared not only are not typical to Romania. Frequently encountered signs of the snake are the following: the spiral; zigzag; ascending meander; little sticks; chain of S’s; the alphabetical character S (snake in attack); the shape of the S letter around the eggs (circles).

O CARTE DESPRE GHEORGHE DĂNCUȘ

Author(s): Iordan Datcu / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 1/2016

Activitatea scriitoricească a lui Gheorghe Dăncuş nu este de aflat în volume, singurele pe care le-a publicat fiind volumul Literatura populară. Crestături și crâmpeie (Cluj, 1945, 30 p) şi două antologii: Grai și suflet românesc – Versuri din Transilvania Nordică, pe care o însoţeşte cu un „prolog lămuritor“ (Cluj, 1941, 208 p.) şi Din viaţa satului transilvănean, culegere de povestiri din mai mulţi autori, cu o precuvântare (Cluj, 1942, 240 p.). Pentru ca să-i examineze publicistica în cartea Gheorghe Dăncuş (Editura Enesis, Baia Mare, 2015, 240 p.), Pamfil Bilţiu s-a adresat direct publicaţiilor la care a colaborat cărturarul maramureşean: Gazeta maramureşană, Graiul Maramureşului, pe care Gh. Dăncuş l-a înfiinţat la 1 martie 1932, Crainicul Maramureşului, Acţiunea maramureşeană, Tribuna Ardealului şi Calendarul Tribuna Ardealului. O publicistică bogată (cartea lui Pamfil Bilţiu consemnează 274 de titluri), în care un loc aparte îl constituie articolele despre starea românilor transilvăneni după odiosul dictat de la Viena. Publicistul scrie despre teoriile horthyste referitoare la spaţiul şi locul de formare a poporului român, soarta cărţii şi a bibliotecilor în urma cotropirii horthyste, demască demagogia regimului horthyst în problema minorităţilor, politizarea vieţii culturale după nefastul dictat, combate nerespectarea egalităţii cetăţenilor români cu cei maghiari, cere libera întrebuinţare a limbii materne.

O LUCRARE DE TINEREȚE A LUI ANTON GOLOPENȚIA

Author(s): Iordan Datcu / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 1/2016

Spunem lucrare iar nu carte pentru că autorul ei n-a reuşit s-o încheie şi s-o publice (despre cauzele acestei situaţii a se vedea pp. 43–44 din ediţia pe care o comentăm). Îndreptar pentru tineret a devenit carte în 20l5, ediţia fiind îngrijită de Sanda Golopenţia şi Ruxandra Guţu Pelazza, cu introducere şi note de Sanda Golopenţia (Editura Enciclopedică, 254 p.).

SCRISORI DE LA GHEORGHE PAVELESCU

Author(s): Iordan Datcu / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 1/2016

Gheorghe Pavelescu (1915-2008), alături de alţi reprezentanţi ai vechii gărzi a etnologiei româneşti, precum Al. I. Amzulescu, Tancred Bănăţeanu, Ovidiu Bârlea, Valer Butură, Adrian Fochi, Ovidiu Papadima, Mihai Pop şi Sabina Cornelia Stroescu, m-a onorat cu colaborarea sa, în sensul că am fost redactor al cărţii sale Studii şi cercetări de folclor (Editura Minerva, 1971, 335 p.).

Literatură populară în cercetările monografice ale Şcolii Sociologice de la Bucureşti

Author(s): Ancuța MOCAN / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 1/2016

Titlul cărţii prezentate, Literatură populară în cercetările monografice ale Şcolii Sociologice de la Bucureşti - Littérature populaire dans les recherches monographiques de l'École Sociologique de Bucarest, stârneşte la prima lecturare un triplu interes: pentru etnologi, pentru filologii pasionați de ramura folclorului literar și pentru cititorii dornici să descopere texte populare autentice.

Literatură populară în cercetările monografice ale Şcolii Sociologice de la Bucureşti

Author(s): Mihaela Mureșan / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 1/2016

Editarea volumului Ion C. Cazan - „Literatură populară / Littérature populaire / în cercetările monografice ale Şcolii Sociologice de la Bucureşti. I. Nerej-Vrancea” de către Muzeul Satului din Bucureşti, a reprezentat un eveniment extrem de important în cadrul colecţiei de carte etnologică.

Prietenul

Author(s): Răzvan Ionescu / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 10/2019

The article evokes archimandrite Grigore Băbuţ (1915-2007), who was the director of the Holy Synod’s Library. He was connected, through a life-long friendship, to Metropolitan Bartolomeu Anania and Patriarch Teoctist. He made his way up to the Cheia Monastery, starting from his hometown Teişani, where he was the third in a family with 11 brothers. He studied at the Cernica Seminary, where he met the future Patriarch Teoctist and the one who would become the spiritual father of many people from Bucharest, Father Sofian Boghiu, At the young age of almost 20 years, the future director of the Holy Synod Library, took the angelic robe at Cheia Monastery, where his uncle, Archimandrite Grigorie Georgescu, has been the previous abbot. Father Gregory Băbuţ was a discreet and authentic scholar. His genuine vocation for friendship was for his fourth vote after the three known votes of the monk (obedience, poverty, chastity). And his friendship also had a threefold source: discretion, loyalty, generosity.

Paul Gherasim la umbra Bolţii de lumină

Author(s): Costion Nicolescu / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 10/2019

The present essay was exposed at the colloquium “Dome of Light - Octagon, from Lainici Monastery” (8-10 August 2019). The creation of the world begins with the creation of light. But, following the Divine Revelation, we sense the existence of a light even before the Creation, a divine light. The Light is one of the names of Christ. But whether light is created or not, it is beautiful and indestructibly connected to beauty. Thinking of any light, we instantly connect it with sight, whatever sight it may be, physical or spiritual. The sight of the divine light is ultimately a state of supreme spiritualization of the one who sees. And physical light can sometimes be viewed as an image of spiritual Light. Theology speaks a lot about light in terms of knowledge. Paul Gherasim brings into two-dimensional what is spatial. It is, as a matter of fact, the general way of expression for the good painting. Ultimately, the dome becomes a surface, but one in a space with many dimensions, physical, metaphysical or spiritual.

THE PROBLEM OF DIFFERENTIATION OF GROUPS OF RELIGIOUS PERSONALITIES IN RUSSIA: THE EXPERIENCE OF PSYCHOLOGICAL RESEARCH

Author(s): Ilya Shmelev,Vadim A. PETROVSKY / Language(s): English Issue: Supplement/2020

The purpose of the study was to distinguish groups of believers according to the type of religiosity. This investigation is based on the personal approach and focuses on the problem of differentiation of groups of religious personalities who are young. Psychodiagnostic research was carried out only in the classrooms designated of the educational institutions. Based on the analysis of western literature, the differences between the types of religiosity of young believers ("quasi-religious," "moderately religious," "truly religious") were determined. Procedure of hierarchical cluster analysis allowed indicating empirical referents of the concept "type of religiosity". The differences between the groups were empirically confirmed, using the method of psychodiagnostic.

Крилати фрази за хора, на които не им се отваря парашутът

Author(s): Nikolay Genov,Iliya Tochev / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 01/2021

Česká literatura přes železnou oponu

Author(s): Karel Komárek / Language(s): Czech Issue: 4/2020

Hét törpe

Author(s): Árpád Farkas / Language(s): Hungarian Issue: 811/2021

Zbiór Najnowszych Pieśni Odpustowych z oficyny Teofila Nowackiego w Piekarach

Author(s): Jerzy Myszor / Language(s): Polish Issue: 2/2020

The subject of interest is the collection of pilgrim songs from the turn of 19th and 20th centuries, printed by Teofil Nowacki‘s publishing house in Piekary. Author analyses one of Upper Silesian pilgrim songs collections from the second half of 19th century, taking into consideration circumstances of its creation and the impact of mentioned songs on both parish ministry and individual piety.

Разкази

Author(s): Halyna Korytska / Language(s): Russian Issue: 7/2022

Франц Кафка: „Записки от 1920 година“ (откъс)

Author(s): Franz Kafka / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 1/2022

Metamodern urban experience in the anthology of topophilic prose V Pitere zhit’

Author(s): Maxim Duleba,Irina Dulebová / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2023

This article applies metamodernism as a new discursive practice for interpreting contemporaneityto the anthology V Pitere zhit’: ot Dvortsovoi do Sadovoi, ot Gangutskoi do Shpalernoi. Lichnyeistorii (To Live in Petersburg: From Dvortsovaia to Sadovaia, from Gangutskaia to Shpalernaia.Personal stories, 2017) edited by Natalia Sokolovskaia and Elena Shubina. It demonstrates thatdespite the plurality of authorial styles in the collection, it advocates a homogeneous metamodernmode of urban experience within which postmodern anti-anthropocentrism is substitutedby the affirmation of the feeling (affective) subject, and the postmodern ahistorical presentismis replaced by the pursuit of self-situating into the historical time, allowing for a valorizationof Being through a subjectivity affirming dialogue with the historical and contemporary Other.

В УТРОТО НА ДОБРИТЕ ВЪЛШЕБСТВА

Author(s): Petar Stefanov / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 1/2020

The study explores one of the most controversial periods in the development of Bulgarian fiction for children, i.e. the second half of the 20th century, a period marked by aesthetic normativism. It pinpoints the literary attempts that aim at deofficialization of childhood, the movement of literary consciousness towards new psychological and conceptual beginnings, situated outside the zone of the unrelenting paternalistic norm which dictates what “must happen”. A type of fiction, representative of the tendency toward monopsychology is being identified. A peculiarity which makes such fiction a priori antinormativistic, as much as it becomes a sign for full, even demonstrative denial of the collectivistic ideal. Subject of analysis are thе works that emphasize the existential completeness of children’s life: the ability of the young protagonists to contemplate and observe, their inner freedom, desire to play, their inclination to fantasize and dream.

ПОЛИТИКА АНТОЛОГИЈА

Author(s): Dubravka Đurić / Language(s): Serbian Issue: 539/2023

СРПСКА МАКЕДОНИЈА У ПРИПОВЕТКАМА ТОМА СМИЉАНИЋА БРАДИНЕ

Author(s): Goran M. Maksimović / Language(s): Serbian Issue: 8/2022

У огледу су анализиране двије збирке приповједака заборављеног српског писца из Македоније, Тома Смиљанића Брадине (1888–1969). Ради се о књигама На планини и друге приповетке из Македоније (Скопље, 1924) и Стојна и друге приповетке из Македоније (Скопље, 1924). У свакој збирци има по осам приповједака, које су тематски везане за тегобан национални и социјални живот српског народа на простору Македоније на крају 19. и у почетним деценија 20. вијека. Национални живот сагледан је кроз борбу против однарођавања и присилне бугаризације, кроз очување народних обичаја и везаности за српску усмену епску и лирску традицију, те кроз дубоку везаност за српску православну цркву и вјерске обреде и празнике. Социјални живот сагледан је кроз приказ сиромаштва и сталне борбе за опстанак, кроз печалбарску судбину, али и кроз љубавне заплете. Управо та непрестана борба за опстанак свједочи о виталности српског народа на простору Македоније. Приповиједање карактеришу разноврсни умјетнички поступци: укрштање наративне проспекције и ретроспекције, објективног и субјективног казивања, као и језичка диглосија и непрестано укрштање српског стандардног језика у казивању приповједача са дијалекатским обиљежјима локалних српских говора са простора Македоније у дијалозима јунака.