![Apokalipsa - i co dalej?: Lech M. Nijakowski, Świat po apokalipsie. Społeczeństwo w świetle postapokaliptycznych tekstów kultury popularnej](/api/image/getissuecoverimage?id=picture_2018_44960.jpg)
We kindly inform you that, as long as the subject affiliation of our 300.000+ articles is in progress, you might get unsufficient or no results on your third level or second level search. In this case, please broaden your search criteria.
The object of the article are the memoirs of postwar freedom fighters, liaison agents and others who aided partisans, which Romualdas Kaunietis had collected for over four decades and which were published as a series of ten volumes, titled Memories of Aukštaitija Partisans, Memories of Aukštaitija and Žemaitija Partisans, Memories of Freedom Fighters, and Years of Fighting for Freedom and Losses. The article aims to answer questions about the ways in which these memories create a specific content and whether they have the potential to become an integral part of the memory culture. The research is based on memory theories and is focused on genre definitions, traumatic experience, strategies of memory narratives and multilayer structure of the books. The aim of the article is to include polyphonic memories in the discourse of literary criticism.
More...
This critical essay is focused on the philosophical definition of culture, according to one of the most important Romania philosophers, Constantin Noica. Even if most of his philosophical essays proposed a hermeneutical approach on the main important problems in the philosophy of culture and the theory of mentalities, Noica is still not enough known with his Journal of ideas, an interesting collection of thoughts, a critical frame on his own reading experiences, events, meetings, streams of consciousness, concepts and philosophic system, all of them in the European context. That is why we sincerely think that any of his theoretical approach can be considered a strong point on a possible nowadays cultural recipe, a possible escape from the confusions of our own identity. Especially those that explain the sense, the reason and the effect of the so-called „high-culturalism”. More than a philosopher, Noica is also a very fine essayist, so that so that any reading is fresh and enriching
More...
Clashing tendencies of despair, sadness and spiritual yearning can be observed in the work of the leading Slovak spiritual poet Erik Jakub Groch. The disturbing preponderance of the strained motives in the author’s recent collections leads to reflections on the nature of religious melancholy and its possible integration within the spiritual path and personal growth. Since visualization plays an essential role in the synthetic consciousness of this Slovak poet, the author of the study attempts to give more engaged solutions through the analysis of his viewpoint. In her search for answers, she relies mainly on Søren Kierkegaard’s reflection on despair (Tungsind), the concept of the dark night of St. John of the Cross, and the reversible visuals of Maurice Merleau-Ponty.
More...
The work of contemporary French writer Sylvie Germain is often compared to a “silent symphony”. Whispered from the depths of being, Germain’s novels resonate with the richness, grandeur and poeticism of the language. Underneath the fetching words, a gentle murmur of the unknown rises. But how to capture the “chant of the end of silence”, that the authorrefers to in her essay “Les Échos du silence”? The confrontation with God’s extremely reticent presence becomes the focus of Germain’s fictional characters, as well as an impulse for her literary work. This interpretative analysis of selected excerpts from novels by Sylvie Germainis an attempt to identify typical expressive means of the “ineffable”. The study wants to be not only an illustration of the patient search for the expression of transcendent experience, but also a sincere look at one particular literary (and human) testimony.
More...
The subject of this paper is the status of Serbian adjectival derivational suffixes with initial j in comparison to their variants with initial lj, nj, and also without an initial consonant. Azbučnik prideva u srpskoj prozi dvadesetog veka by Miroslav Josić Višnjić was used as a corpus. The most favourable possible scenario for adjectival derivational suffixes ‑jan, -j(a)n, ‑jav, ‑jast, ‑ji, ‑jiv, ‑jal(a)n, ‑jar(a)n, -jat, -jev, ‑jevit, -jikav, -jin, ‑jit, ‑juškast and their distribution were analysed regarding the phonological characteristics of the final consonant of a derivational base they are combined with. These derivational suffixes with initial j in Serbian are the most stable with n and l at the end of a base (n + j from a derivational suffix > the phoneme nj, l + j from a derivational suffix > the phoneme lj), but they are rarely visible on the surface structure of adjectives (cf. pasji). In word formation analyses, adjectives with derivational bases with final nj, lj and other palatal and palatalised consonants can be morpho-phonologically explained with derivational suffixes with an initial j, but some of them also with initial nj, lj or without initial consonant.
More...
The Apostolic Appointment letter of bishop Iliya Marinov, partially quoted in the historical tractate of Petar Bogdan, has not been published until now. Copy of the letter was recently found by the author in Archivio Segreto Vaticano. Its publication and translation is a neccesary step in the process of studying the historical work of Petar Bogdan and the Bulgarian Catholic community in the first half of the 17th century.
More...
This paper follows the cult towards some of the St. Holy Seven Saints - St. Cyril, St. Methodius, St. Klement and St. Naum. The accent falls on countries like Bulgaria, Russia, Romania, Ukraine, Moldova, Turkeу and others. Scientific, as well as festivе manifestations are being reviewed during the anniversary years 1963, 1966 and 1969, and different scientific meetings, conferences and simposiums, which show the cult in new light. On one hand the article takes into account the scientific achievements from the middle of the 19th century until 1945, and on the other - after the Second World War. Known facts and hypotheses are being ideologized or moved aside, so that the new political landmarks can be emphasized. During these scientific forums Bulgaria was considered as a bridge between the East and the West.
More...
Im Artikel werden die Interpolationen in der Óláfs saga Tryggvasonar en mesta (der größten Saga über Óláfr Tryggvason) in der Handschrift Flateyjarbók untersucht, die jene Männer im Gefolge von König Óláfr Tryggvason betreffen, die mit ihm in der Seeschlacht zu Svǫlðr kämpfen. Zuerst werden die Quellen und die unterschiedlichen Redaktionen der Saga vorgestellt. Den Ausgangspunkt für die Analyse bildet die Liste der Gefolgsleute von Óláfr auf dem königlichen Schiff Ormrinn langi in der älteren Redaktion der Saga. Von diesen Männern treten nur wenige auch in anderen Teilen der Saga auf. Die Modifikationen in der Flateyjarbók umfassen sowohl die Interpolation von Namen in der Liste über die Gefolgsleute als auch zusätzliche Erzählungen im Erzählblock vor der Schlacht. Dadurch intensivieren die Modifikationen die Kohärenz und narrative Vielschichtigkeit in der Saga über Óláfr Tryggvason.
More...
The Grand Inquisitor holds a special position within the oeuvre of F. M. Dostoevsky, not only because it is highly imaginative, but also because it is rather intriguing in terms of its genre classification. The writer's designation of this text as a poem, in opposition to it being labeled as a legend by numerous critics, proves to be an important one since it reveals some of Dostoevsky's key poetic features. His continuous search for the novel-poem, as an ideal genre that could reflect the overall creative enterprise, puts Dostoevsky within a wider European context, where Gogol's poem Dead souls imposes itself as the key to understanding the poem in broader terms. With regard to this, Dostoevsky's closeness to Gogol's genre settings is visible at the beginning of his career, reaching the full swing in The Grand Inquisitor, which encompasses virtually all genre features of the poem and uses them to reach an all-human and universal meaning. By doing so, the literary term of poem shows much greater genre potential than that deemed in conventional terms. The poem can and should be understood in much broader context, not only as a literary term but also as a quality that goes beyond purely versified poetic forms, as a specific sensitivity allowing writers to determine their novels through the characterisation of the protagonist as a common human being, who serves as a reflection of an entire epoch, along with all virtues and flaws it features.
More...
The purpose of this paper is to analyse two autobiographical novels by John M. Coetzee – Boyhood: Scenes from Provincial Life and Youth, from the perspective of postcolonial criticism. In the first part of the paper the author discusses the characteristics of the genre autre-biography, which is a term coined by Coetzee himself when referring to his novel Boyhood. As the author of the paper considers the aforementioned genre a type of historiographic metafiction which focuses on the issues of otherness, power/knowledge and the truth-fiction relation, the interpretation of the given novels targets the problems of discursive construction of identity of the autobiographical subject in the context of the complex sociopolitical situation in South Africa, notably the problem of the main character’s identity search in regard to his relation to otherness (Other and other). The last part of the paper includes an elaboration on the motif of the farm, as an example of heterotopia; the given motif is seen not only as an indication of the potential existence of the autobiographical subject beyond the realm of violence and otherness, but also as a symbol of the main character’s transformation and the key point from where he may be able to establish continuity with himself and others. Furthermore, the importance of open endings in Coetzee’s novels is emphasized: by means of open endings Coetzee insists on the idea that speaking with the other is impossible. Eventually, the author points out the relation between open endings and Coetzee’s understanding of autobiography as a secular confession.
More...
In this paper we analyse the drama Woyzeck written by Georg Büchner, which is a fragment drama characterised with an open form. Therefore, this drama is interesting for analysis. The fragment drama Woyzeck has undergone multiple analyses and to this day is a frequently mentioned topic of many literary debates. This is supported by the fact that we also decided to deal with this topic. For the subject of this work, we set up a structural analysis of the drama, where the drama is divided into several parts and we examine the existence of dramatical functions, clarifying the dramatical geometry within it. The aim of the paper is to show that such an analysis can be done on a drama with an open-form, which is also a fragment drama and therefore we have used the theory of Souriau and Ginestier. The research begins with the study of the mentioned individual structures, in order to be fully integrated in the whole, whereby in this case it is possible to determine the interconnection of these parts.
More...
In this paper, we sought to analyse non-fictional prose about the Serbo-Turkish War – The Diary of a Volunteer by Pera Todorović and Vladan Đorđević’s Memories from the Serbo-Turkish War – from the point of view of different literary characteristics in the type of text that pleads for objectivity and authenticity. The genres of diaries and memoirs, despite their documentary background, are also subject to literarisation. Subsequent stylisations, pronounced literarisation and subjectivity of the narrator show the positioning of documentary prose between historiographical and literary. In this paper, we sought to illustrate the openness of documentary genres to various types of discourse, the dominant one being polemical. Pera Todorović, an oppositionist, is very critical of the ruling regime in his diary, to which Đorđević belongs to, but political discourse is present in the works of both authors. Both in the memoirs and the diary the confrontation between the public and the private is often themed, as is the complete disintegration of the human being in war in general. The works of Pera Todorović and Vladan Đorđević show us this. Pera Todorović’s diary gives us an inside look from the point of view of participant, while Vladan Đorđević’s memoirs gives us the point of view of a witness. As a result, the depiction of war differs in the works of these two authors depending on roles they had during the war.
More...
Review of: Arsić, Irena (2019), Srbi u Dubrovniku, Beograd: Ars Libri.
More...
Introduction to the selection of the papers presented at a two-day workshop “The End of the Story?” Problems and Perspectives of East European Literary Studies,” held at Princeton University on 8–9 February 2013.
More...
The paper explains that the famous writer Grigorije Božović had linguistic knowledge and in many of his texts raised various linguistic issues. The material was excerpted from Božović’s travel writing, which is around 1500 pages long. These documentary forms, in addition to offering descriptions of events, people, regions and everything else found in the world that Božović writes about, also provided insight into the vernacular of a certain region, stylistic features of speakers, syntactic characteristics, the wealth of semantics of certain words, etc. In sketching the dialectal features the writer points to the fact that some cases were preserved, to the role of demonstrative pronouns, to the lack of article in a sentence, but he also makes interesting parallels between the vernaculars of different geographic areas. Having in mind the diversity of linguistic issues that occur in the material, we will apply the criterion of linguistic disciplinarity to classify as linguostylistic, sociolinguistic and systemic-linguistic the views of this significant Serbian writer who wrote travelogues about Old Serbia at the beginning of the 20th century.
More...
John Wesley’s famous account of his heart being “strangely warmed” is often considered a conversion. However, his change is less about identity as a Christian, and is more about manner of being. Wesley’s change is best understood as an affective encounter. It is affective in being about bodily experience and initially pre-rational. However, that affective moment was possible due to previous encounters and intentional designs that prepared the possibilities for affective experiences. It is an encounter, following Louis Althusser’s theorization of the term, as a moment of change that might not have happened. Chance is taken seriously with the encounter, and combined with intentional design. Wesley might not have interacted with the Moravian sect in ways that set him up for his affective experience; rhetorical studies can use the encounter and affect to consider probability and chance more, and to think about rhetoric as the design of possible encounters.
More...
This paper examines two American works of fiction concerning how teenage characters explore and manifest their identity, looking up to transcendentalist ideas, whether consciously or not. The paper puts forth the most individualistic protagonists and investigate their motivation, ways of escaping the society’s expectations and the interaction between them and their environment. The first source analyzed: the film Little Women directed by Gillian Armstrong tells the story of the March family living in the 1860s Concord, influenced by the spirit of transcendentalism. The second source discussed: John Green’s novel Paper Towns employs the notion of a character coming back to transcendentalist values and authors in the 21st century. This paper shows how the teenagers use the transcendentalist ways, whether they are aware of them, and defy the rules of the society frequently represented by the people in their closest environment.
More...
The delimitation of a literature according to the ethnicity of the authors is problematic in the case of the Romanian men of letters who, at the beginning of the 20th century, wrote and published in Hungarian studies in the history of Romanian literature. Both the professional status, and the multilingualism played a major role in their scientific development. The basic criterion of judging the literature values is usually the aesthetic one; this is why writing in a foreign language, in this case – Hungarian, did not increase the literary recognition. It is the bibliographic value of such a corpus that makes it useful for the research of intercultural relations.
More...