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HOW TO COPE WITH RECENT CZECH AND SLOVAK HISTORY VIA THEATRE?

JAK SE V ČECHÁCH A NA SLOVENSKU DIVADLEM VYROVNAT S NEDÁVNOU HISTORIÍ

Author(s): Eva Formánková / Language(s): Czech / Issue: 4/2010

The contribution is analyzing three Czech and Slovak theatrical and dramatic projects which have attempted to reflect recent history. What they have in common is failing in forming the complex dramatic text of the undoubted quality and rather unsuccesfully staying at mere draft. Though they are separated by four years of the time of their origin, the subject-themes are strikingly similar – regardless of the generation stratification of the authors. We may argue that in spite of the unequal quality and more or less undefinitely formed shape, all the texts are part of the present tendencies of the Czech and Slovac theatre.

Social criticism in the Soviet literature

Gesellschaftskritik in der Sowjetliteratur

Author(s): Alfred Burmeister / Language(s): Georgian / Issue: 17/1957

Nicht allein die theoretischen Schriften der revolutionären Klassiker, nicht nur Marx und Lenin haben das geistige Klima Rußlands bestimmt, in dem die revolutionären Ideen reiften, die schließlich zum Sturz des Zarismus führten. Neben ihnen haben gesellschaftskritische Romane und Erzählungen, Gedichte und Dramen diesen Ideen den Weg geebnet. Noch vor dem "Kommunistischen Manifest" oder Bucharins "ABC des Kommunismus" drückte auch der westliche Kommunist, der für seine Ideale warb, dem politisch "Indifferenten", dem Jugendlichen oder der Frau, die er dafür interessieren wollte, "Germinal" von Emile Zola oder "Jimmy Higgins" von Upton Sinclair in die Hand. Es ist sogar mehr als wahrscheinlich, daß Gorkijs "Nachtasyl" oder seine Erzählungen eine revolutionierendere Wirkung auf die russische Jugend ausgeübt haben als die nur einem ganz kleinen Personenkreis zugänglichen Artikel Lenins in der illegalen "Iskra". Zumindest ging ihre Wirkung der Wirkung der leninschen Theorien voraus.

On Memory and Identity of the Slovak Drama

Pamäť a identita slovenskej drámy

Author(s): Viliam Jablonický / Language(s): Slovak / Issue: 03/2008

Viliam Jablonický puts to use the examples of selected drama texts of several authors of the 1970s up until the recent time to demonstrate that memory and identity (more individual and civil rather than collective) pose a problem even for the new generation of dramatists and theatre makers. It is any less challenging for them as it was for their forerunners.

Collected and Forgotten Works

Gesammelte und vergessene Werke

Author(s): David Dallin / Language(s): German / Issue: 043/1952

review of the edition of: Josef W. Stalin, Collected Works, Gossdat, Moscow

Recyclages apocalyptiques : Vers un héroïsme de la conscience dans Dogville de Lars von Trier

Recyclages apocalyptiques : Vers un héroïsme de la conscience dans Dogville de Lars von Trier

Author(s): Florence Bögelein / Language(s): French / Issue: 2/2013

Keywords: Dogville; Lars von Trier; Antonin Artaud; recyclages; adaptations; cinéma et mythes; utopie et théâtre; cruauté sociale; manipulation des spectateurs; responsabilité

Cet article propose d’examiner le film Dogville du réalisateur danois Lars von Trier (sélectionnée au festival de Cannes en 2003) sous l’aspect du scénario qui se veut, de prime abord, recyclé. Dans l’Amérique des années Trente, Grace (Nicole Kidman), une jeune et belle femme, pourchassée par des gangsters est recueillie par Tom (Paul Bettany), un jeune et bel homme, von Trier donne à voir un film désarmant par sa construction, jusqu’à réaliser une épopée moderne, ayant adapté les diverses anamorphoses de la représentation : non seulement cinématographiques mais aussi théâtrales et romanesques. Répétitions, allusions explicites, clin d'œil entendu, clichés littéraires appuyés ou poncifs : c’est bien le domaine de l'intertextualité qui forme la trame de cette intrigue.

LANDSCAPE AS MYTHOLOGICAL SPACE: PŘEDZPĚV (OUVERTURE) IN KOLLÁR´S SLÁVY DCERA

KRAJINA JAKO MYTOLOGICKÝ PROSTOR: PŘEDZPĚV KE KOLLÁROVĚ SLÁVY DCEŘI

Author(s): Dalibor Tureček / Language(s): Czech / Issue: 3/2011

The paper deals with conceptualization of the space in the key poem of Czech patriotic romantism, in Předzpěv (Ouverture) in Kollár´s Slávy dcera. The poem takes place in context of previous texts – as pretexts we can recognize Byron´s Childe Harold´s Pilgrimage, mme de Stael´s Germania, Heinrich luden´s Geschichten des teutschen Volke and the imaginary landscape of the Old testament. As we can see, some geographical data (that were a part of ideological a literary polemic about the character of Middle European culture) were integrated and then modified here. Communicative strategy (that looks like objective story about the deep past) is in the real something like adaptation of „ground plan“ of another great story and then filling of that „ground plan“ with many details that suggest the important role of the Old Slavs in cultural development of („desert“) Middle Europe. Similar strategy is characteristic for another texts too, e. g. Jirásek´s Staré pověsti české (The Old Czech legends), published 50 years later. The story presents here not the objective reality – more likely it presents the „mental map“ in which are constituated the collective ideas about the space as a frame for the self-understanding and identity of Czech nation.

Beziehungen zwischen Literatur und Film am Beispiel des Schaffens von Kathrin Röggla

Beziehungen zwischen Literatur und Film am Beispiel des Schaffens von Kathrin Röggla

Author(s): Ewa Wojno-Owczarska / Language(s): / Issue: 4/2013

Keywords: film and literature; literature and cinematic art; influence of modern filmic art on Kathrin Röggla’s work; Kathrin Röggla

In the article I attempt to analyze Kathrin Röggla’s “cinematic style” using a theory which assumes the simulation of media-related forms in literature (e.g. Philipp Löser’s works). Her literary style is characterized by features such as film metaphor (e.g. the “dual perception” phenomenon), editing seemingly unconnected scenes, citations from TV and interview recordings, and narration inspired by film techniques such as time-lapse and slow motion. The author seems to be fascinated by Japanese anime and Harun Farocki’s film essays. David Lynch’s and Tom Tykwer’s masterpieces function as metaphors for today’s entangled reality in her work. In “tokio, rückwärtstagebuch” she depicts the culture clash phenomenon similarly to Sofia Coppola in Lost in Translation. Both Kathrin Röggla and Susan Sontag criticize the voyeuristic personality of modern man and the influence of our media-dominated culture on the means of artistic expression

A HISTORICAL SCOPE OF PUSHKIN‘S DRAMA ON DMITRY FROM THE REIGN OF VASILY II, THE BLIND, TO THE TIME OF TROUBLES

HISTORICKÝ ZÁBER PUŠKINOVEJ „DIMITRIÁDY“ OD PANOVANIA VASILIJA II. PO TEMNÉ ČASY SMUTY

Author(s): Anna A. Hlaváčová / Language(s): Slovak / Issue: 02/2014

My thesis is that, in his drama Boris Godunov, Pushkin did not work solely on the Time of Troubles, but having chosen events that happened around 1600 he opened up the older issues that shaped them. Namely this concerns the polarization that occurred after the Council of Florence (1439). Although this council confirmed cultural plurality and recognized both Latin and Byzantine ritual practices and wordings of the Creed as valid, it was rejected during the reign of Muscovite Grand Duke Basil II, the Blind.

Teachera and Translator Ladislav Vymětal (1895–1940), the Native of Jaroměřice near Jevíčko

Pedagog a překladatel Ladislav Vymětal (1895–1940), rodák z Jaroměřic u Jevíčka

Author(s): Michal Schuster / Language(s): Czech / Issue: Suppl. 2/2014

Ladislav Vymětal, the prominent native from Jaroměřice near Jevíčko, was the big enthusiast of the English language which he intensively focused on during his unfortunately short life. He worked as an English teacher in Prague and as an author of many English textbooks, he was a great pioneer inthe field of English Philology in interwar Czechoslovakia. He published over twenty grammar books and textbooks for the English Institute in Prague, where he also worked, and then another books in Brno. His textbooks have been repeatedly published and used for a long time aft er the year 1945.Moreover, he was a significant translator of English written novels, of which the most important is certainly the first translation of the famous book Odysseus by James Joyce into Czech. Ladislav Vymětal died from a heart attack on 15 August 1940 in his hometown Jaroměřice near Jevíčko, wherewas buried in the local cemetery.

Any Where Out of the World – Room Trip in the Age of the Decadence

Any Where Out of the World – Călătoriile în jurul camerei din vremea decadenţei

Author(s): Michelle Mattusch / Language(s): Romanian / Issue: 64/2015

Keywords: Comparative Studies; Room Trip; Decadence; Aesthetics;

Die Zimmerreisen der Dekadenz stehen in einer doppelten Tradition, der Poetik der Moderne, die die romantische Fernsehnsucht von der Außenwelt nach innen umlenkt, und der Harmonisierung von Seele und Umfeld im Raum des privaten otium. Vor der Folie einer entdeckten, technisierten und touristisch erschlossenen Welt, wendet sich die Wahrnehmung der nahen Ferne zu. Aus dem bric-à-brac von Möbeln, Kunstwerken, Bibelots und exquisiten Literaturzitaten, dem ekletischen Nebeneinander des Historismus, schöpft der Sinndilettant eine gesteigerte Eigenwirklichkeit, die ihm die Erlebnisse verschafft, die ihm die Realwelt verweigert. Er schafft sich künstliche Räume, in denen er seine Seele auf Reisen schickt. Dabei gerät der mentale Flaneur in den abschüssigen Rausch seiner ziellosen Bewegung, lässt ganze Kulturen in der Gegenwart Revue passieren, treibt in innere Abgründe und an äußerste Grenzen. In der Nähe sieht er die Ferne, in der Gegenwart die Vergangenheit, im Selbst entdeckt er den Anderen, so dass sich die Sinnhorizonte seiner Welt vervielfachen. Ausgehend von Charles Baudelaire und Xavier de Maistre untersucht der Vortrag, wie die Zimmerreisen eines Karl-Joris Huysmans und eines Mateiu I. Caragiale einen Umbruch der Wahrnehmungs- und Denkmuster einleiten, die man heute gern den Medienerfahrungen einer globalisierten Welt zuschreibt, obwohl sie nichts anderes sind, als das ästhetische Erleben par excellence, das die Postmoderne bis heute fortschreibt.

The historical novel as a specific fictional world - some methodological remarks

Le roman historique comme monde fictionnel spécifique: quelques remarques méthodologiques

Author(s): Jaroslav Stanovský / Language(s): French / Issue: 2/2020

Keywords: theory of fiction; fictional worlds; historical novel; 19th century; myths;

The historical novel, in vogue from the beginning of the 19th century, represents a specific literary genre, situated between fiction and (historical) reality. This paper examines the possibilities of this genre through the theory of fictional worlds. The fictional narrative, including the historical novel, already differs from the factual narrative in that it is the fruit of the invention of the writer and its relation to reality is thus specific. Fiction, obviously, is not just an imitation of reality and mimetic theories cannot sufficiently explain the nature of the fictional referent. The theory of fictional worlds, which supposes the existence of a specific universe generated by the text of the novel, offers a more appropriate concept for analysing and explaining fictional narratives. However, the conception of this theory based on a strict separation of fictional worlds and reality is not applicable to historical novels, for at least two reasons. First, historical novels are read as representations of history by their readers. Second, historical novels refer constantly to an extratextual reality, as demonstrated by the differences between the historical characters and the purely invented characters. It is therefore possible to consider historical novels as a special type of fictional world. They refer to, but do not depend on, historical reality and can thus contribute to the creation of “historical myths”.

Lesser Known Writings of Clement of Alexandria:

Méně známé spisy Klementa Alexandrijského:

Author(s): Jana Plátová,Veronika Černušková,Vít Hušek / Language(s): Czech / Issue: 2/2021

Keywords: Clement of Alexandria; Excerpta ex Theodoto; Eclogae propheticae; Hypotyposes; Stromata VIII; “The other Clement of Alexandria”; Biblical exegesis; Early Christianity;

Clement of Alexandria is well known as the author of Stromata I–VII and Paedagogus I–III, and also the minor works Protrepticus and Quis dives salvetur?. There are several texts by Clement, however, which are often neglected by scholars concerned with Clement’s theology: the so-called Stromata VIII, Excerpta ex Theodoto, Eclogae propheticae and the extant fragments of Hypotyposes. These texts have been evaluated as Clement’s masterpiece by certain scholars while others perceive them as strange and dissonant to Clement’s “standard” theology represented by Stromata and Paedagogus. There were even opinions in the past claiming that these texts represent heretical ideas of a too young or too old Clement. The aim of this paper is to present these works in the light of contemporary scholarship and encourage a reading of these texts as valuable evidence of early Christian (orthodox and heterodox) biblical hermeneutics.

SCHLINGENSIEF’S CONTAINERS. UNCONCOMPROMISING EXPOSURE OF THE FACE OF THE FAR RIGHT

SCHLINGENSIEF’S CONTAINERS. UNCONCOMPROMISING EXPOSURE OF THE FACE OF THE FAR RIGHT

Author(s): Martin Hodoň / Language(s): English / Issue: 03/2021

Keywords: Christoph Schlingensief; Wiener Festwochen; Bitte liebt Österreich; social sculpture; nanoracism;

The study deals with the re-enactment of the multimedia installation Bitte liebt Österreich [Please Love Austria], realised by Christoph Schlingensief at the Wiener Festwochen festival in 2000. The theoretical starting point of the analysis is the post-colonial theory of Achille Mbembe, who deals with the notion of nanoracism. Schlingensief’s social sculpture on the border between actionism and installationism was a direct response to the Austrian parliamentary elections, in which the far-right party Freiheitliche Partai Österreichs (FPÖ) attempted to enter parliament. In particular, the study examines the degree of performativity, the media structure, and the themes of racism and xenophobia. The focus of the study is on the use of compositional practices and their intersections of type, genre and media. In summarising Schlingensief’s work, whether theatre or cinematic, the author also attempts to capture the artist’s ability to use the medium within and through art forms with respect to the speed of information exchange.

REPREZENTĂRI ALE MALADIVULUI LA M. BLECHER ȘI THOMAS MANN

REPREZENTĂRI ALE MALADIVULUI LA M. BLECHER ȘI THOMAS MANN

Author(s): ANDREEA PILOIU / Language(s): Romanian / Issue: 1-2/2022

Keywords: llness; characters; novel; Blecher; Mann;

The present paper focuses on the ailments of modern man, whether we consider the physiological aspect, or whether we refer to the metaphorical, ontological dimension, and performs a comparative analysis between the work of M. Blecher and the novel The Enchanted Mountain by Thomas Mann. Illness - the overarching theme of the novels - receives numerous valences, from the most noble to the most detestable, but what remains common to these texts advanced for analysis is the existential crisis, the inner void that the characters experience acutely. The universe that both the Romanian and the German author create is permeated by the specter of death, which, without being tragically experienced, rather gives off a strange fascination, and ends up creeping into the thoughts, habits and belongings of the characters, becoming a kind of obsession that convulsively controls everyone, but which they paradoxically ignore, with just as much indifference. On a macro level, the smoldering malaise can be assimilated on the level of all mankind, as if foreshadowing the dire fate of humanity in the upcoming period.

JOKES AND COMIC ISSUES IN EARLY MODERNITY

FACÉTIE ET ENJEUX COMIQUES DANS LA PREMIÈRE MODERNITÉ

Author(s): Valentin-Cezar Teodorescu / Language(s): French / Issue: 33/2022

Keywords: facetiae; comic literature; first modernity; genericity; sociability;

Despite its constant presence in the theoretical discourse related to humoristic literature, the facetiae represents a rather new interest centre of literary research. The complexity of the facetious manifestations in the comic literature at the dawn of modernity is due on one hand to the difficulties of finding the unity of its lexical definitions and on the other hand to its genericity, meaning its capacity of appearing within more than one literary genres. Our paper proposes to synthetize the phenomenon of the facetious expression, which crosses a long period (since the end of Middle Age until the dawn of Enlightenment). Always oscillating between placere and docere, between pure entertainment and socio-pragmatic utility, the facetiae finds its essential place within the European cultural space, both in literature (especially in narratives as well as in theatre), and in the new social relations, signs of a new sociability.

On data collection in the process of computer game localization: On preparation of a study

Datenerhebung im Lokalisierungsprozess von Computerspielen – zur Vorbereitung einer Studie

Author(s): Marcin Michoń / Language(s): German / Issue: 13/2022

Keywords: translation process; eye tracking; game localization; source text; CAT; multimodality

The paper aims to describe the current methods in process-oriented research of translation and to show the distinctive nature of computer game localization. A localization assignment confronts the translator with multi-modal material. On the one hand, it means concentration on the verbal content, but on the other hand this verbal layer and other semiotic channels interpenetrate one another and need to be taken into account together as equally important parts of the communicational goal. The paper evaluates the technical instruments and methods of translation process analysis. The study of such instruments and methods should be conducted in an environment that is as neutral and as close to the reality of the translation process as possible, with access to common tools used by translators, including digital sources and computer-bound translation aids. The translation process research data available today give an overview of the methods used for observing the steps in the process, the decisions made by the translators and the usability of their tools. The research focus here is on the decision making and perception in the transfer of verbal content to the multisemiotic and transmedia context. The examples provided in the paper refer to the specific problems encountered in the author’s pilot study simulating a translation task aimed at localizing narration and dialogues for a popular computer game that has been very successful worldwide.

The Experience of the Limit and the Manifestation of Meaning: the Mythological Journey of Meaning in Lesya Ukrainka’s Cassandra

L’expérience de la limite et la manifestation du sens : un voyage mythologique du sens dans Cassandre de Lessia Oukraїnka

Author(s): Yaryna Tarasyuk / Language(s): French / Issue: 17/2022

Keywords: Limit; boundary situation; meaning formation; meaning transformation; myth; literary interpretation of myth;

The article explores the limit phenomenon in terms of its participation in the process of the formation and transformation of meanings. The functioning of the concept is considered on the basis of the dramatic poem Cassandra by Lesya Ukrainka. Since the work is based on myth and itself imitates the structure of a myth, thus revealing a noticeable feature of European culture at the turn of the 19th–20th centuries regarding the fundamental developments of mytho-critical schools, the border phenomenon is illuminated through the prism of two aspects – content and form. The first aspect focuses on existential meanings; it is about the formation or transformation of meanings at the moment a person reaches his limit or the limit of the world (first of all, a meeting with fate or death). The second aspect concerns the phenomenon of myth and the manifestation-formation of new meanings at the moment of interaction between the myth matrix and its literary interpretation. The focus of the analysis on the threshold phenomena of Cassandra demonstrates the playwright’s skill in working with the ancient myth. Lesya Ukrainka preserves the outline of the myth and the literary image of the Trojan prophetess, but also inscribes new meanings that are relevant to her time, thus universalizing them, and revives myth itself as a universal form of preserving and transporting meanings.

LETIȚIA BRANEA. A PROTAGONIST OF A NARRATIVE TRIPTYCH

LETIȚIA BRANEA. A PROTAGONIST OF A NARRATIVE TRIPTYCH

Author(s): Florina Georgiana Olaru / Language(s): Romanian / Issue: 16/2019

Keywords: self; inner dimension; emblematic character;

The present paper follows the itinerary of the main character Letiția Branea in the narrative triptych Drumul egal al fiecărei zile, Provizorat and Fontana di Trevi. Moreover, this article intends to bring into the foreground the idea that these three novels have their roots in the inner dynamic of the protagonist Letiția Branea. Thus, in the first part, we have tried to portray the figure of the young Letiția Branea, whose life is taking place in the University campus and in the provincial town. Her existence, caught within the boundaries of the same existential patterns, is characterized by flatness and uniformity. The title of the novel, Drumul egal al fiecarei zile, already reveals an uneventful life, situated at an impasse. In Drumul egal al fiecărei zile, the voice who carries away the story, is, indubitable, Letițiařs, the voice of a pregnant character who suffers from the complex of belonging to the edge zone, to the periferic area. The young Letiția Branea is depicted accuratedly in Drumul egal al fiecărei zile. In this novel, Letiția has a dull life and a pessimistic perspective upon the way in which women are perceived in society. In Provizorat, Letiția Branea lives the same uniform live and her existence is governed by the institution in which she works (The Building). This enigmatic institution astonishes precisely via the despotic and defiant look of Lenin. This over-penetrating look reminds us, to some extent, about the Orwellian well-known syntagma: „Big brother is watching youŗ. In this novel, Letiția Branea is distinctly hypostasized in the role of wife (she is unhappily married with Petru Arcan) and mistress (she resizes her entire emotional horizon reffering to Sorin Olaru, her colleague). In Fontana di Trevi, Letiția Branea became an emblematic character because she symbolizes, through the role of the emigrant, a world more opened than ever. Moreover, Letitia Branea embodies, in Fontana di Trevi, the idea of an intermediary, hybrid identity, but she can be also perceived as „past-keeper", as a depositary-character in which the reminiscences of a devastating past are reunited.

DIMINEAŢA TINERELOR DOAMNE BY MARTA PETREU. AN ANALYTICAL APPROACH

DIMINEAŢA TINERELOR DOAMNE BY MARTA PETREU. AN ANALYTICAL APPROACH

Author(s): Laura Alexandra Petrea (Şopterean) / Language(s): English,Romanian / Issue: 17/2019

Keywords: Petreu; 1983; echinoxism; language; poetry;

Marta Petreu is a teacher, poet, writer and editor. Her real name is Rodica Marta Petreu and after marriage her last name became Vartic. She is formed in the ambiance of „Echinox” and she belongs to 80s. Her second volume of poetry is called „Dimineaţa tinerelor doamne” and it is published in 1983. The major theme of this volume is the loneliness, melancholy, fear and language. Its pure and rough realism doesn‘t have figures of speech. From de beginning of the volume we can notice the fact that the poetry is an autobiographical type.

BILINGUALISM AND SELF-TRANSLATION IN SAMUEL BECKETT’S WORKS

BILINGUALISM AND SELF-TRANSLATION IN SAMUEL BECKETT’S WORKS

Author(s): Aliteea Turtureanu / Language(s): French / Issue: 18/2019

Keywords: Bilingualism; Self-Translation; Language; Text; Work;

This work aims to examine Samuel Beckett’s bilingual development, as well as the practice of self-translation of the English-French versions of his texts. In Beckett’s case it isn’t about a definitive switch to French but about a relatively balanced cohabitation between English and French with a predilection for the latter. It was the author himself who translated most of his works in the two languages. The differences between them are very interesting. His switching from one language to the other did not arise from his desire to be technically perfect but from a real enactment of a literary project.