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‘it‘s a Great Pleasure – to Be So Alone – So Completely Alone With His Dreams’: Paul Scheerbart and His Spiritual Refuge at the Orient

„Es ist eine grosse Seligkeit – so allein – so ganz und gar allein mit seinen Träumen zu sein“ – Paul Scheerbart und seine geistige Flucht in den Orient

Author(s): Karolina Matuszewska / Language(s): German / Issue: 26/2017

Keywords: Orient; Paul Scheerbart; German-speaking literature; harem; passions; brutality

The article was dedicated to presentations of the Orient in three selected works by Paul Scheerbart: The death of the Barmakids. Arab Harem novel (1897), Tarub. Baghdad‘s famous female cook. Arab culture novel (1897) and Jests about power. Arab novellas (1904). As the author has never visited the Middle East, he draws from several sources, which he then transforms as he wishes. Passion, longing for higher values, brutality, revenge and fighting for the power ending with bloodbaths intertwine with the fairytale sceneries and legendary beings, to distract the recipient from the thought that the old Baghdad is Berlin, the year 897 – 1897 and Ascha’s problems could be the problems of Scheerbart. Power of poets, world and rebels – the essence of Scheerbart’s Orient is expressed in these words.

Seriously About Humour in the Works of Christine Nöstlinger: the Monograph Lustige Gespenster [Funny Phantoms] by Małgorzata Filipowicz

Ernst über Komik im Werk von Christine Nöstlinger: Zu der Arbeit von Małgorzata Filipowicz "Lustige Gespenster"

Author(s): Ewelina Kamińska-Ossowska / Language(s): German / Issue: 26/2017

Keywords: literature for children and young people; Christine Nöstlinger; humour; criticism of society

The paper is a presentation of the monograph Lustige Gespenster [Funny Phantoms] by Małgorzata Filipowicz, which is devoted to the techniques and forms of humour in the works for children and young adults by the Austrian author Christine Nöstlinger. The analysis of these aspects reveals a picture of literary output tightly correlated with the reality to date. Irony, grotesque, parody, exaggeration, accumulation of absurd situations are the ways and means the writer uses to present daily life full of problems. In her books she demythologizes family and traditional social roles, debunks stereotypes, shows the negative influence of authoritarian upbringing methods on young people and the ensuing intergenerational conflicts.

Reviews

Recenze

Author(s): Marián Lóži,Matěj Bílý,Karina Hoření,Tomáš Malínek,Michael Bernáth / Language(s): Czech / Issue: 03/2017

Keywords: book review;

Revied books: 1 Jan TESAŘ Česká cikánská rapsodie Triáda, Praha 2016, 1 364 s. 2. Michal KUBÁT – Martin MEJSTŘÍK – Jiří KOCIAN Populismus v časech krize Karolinum, Praha 2016, 227 s. 3.Ines KOELTZSCH Praha rozdělená i sdílená. Česko-židovsko-německé vztahy 1918–1938 Lidové noviny, Praha 2015, 342 s. 4. Kolektiv (anonymních) autorů Devět komentářů ke komunistické straně Lidská práva bez hranic, Třebíč 2017, 252 s. 5. Jakub DRÁBIK Fašista. Příběh sira Oswalda Mosleyho Academia, Praha 2017, 504 s.

Perspectives of Fantastic Folktale Towards Modernity

Deschideri ale basmului fantastic spre modernitate

Author(s): Oana Valeria Chelaru / Language(s): Romanian / Issue: 14/2014

Keywords: modernity; innovation; evolution; image folktale

The present study is just an aspect of an extended work dedicated to the Romanian fantastic folktale and consists of three parts, which are concentrated on the folktale’s perspectives towards modernity, in the complex form of the innovative aspects into the folktale’s language (such as transforming the initiatory, medial and final formulas into innovative ones or changing the hero’s status), of the folktale’s evolution, from folk to a bookish perspective (with particular reference to the texts of Nicolae Filimon, Mihai Eminescu and Ioan Slavici) and it opens the folktale towards modernity in the forms of cartoons, commercials, film adaptations, movies, in just a few words, the image folktale.

REVIEWS

REVIEWS

Author(s): Zoltán Erostyák,Gábor Gyóni,Szabina Bognár,Mónika Angyal,László Mód,András Gombos,Mária Szikszai / Language(s): German / Issue: 1-2/2004

Review of: Mária SZIKSZAI - Erzsébet ZAKARIÁS: Asszonyélet az Erdôvidéken [Leben der Frauen in Erdôvidék]. Marosvásárhely: Mentor Kiadó, 2000, 321 Seiten András GOMBOS - Theresa J. BUCKLAND (ed.): Dance in the Field. Theory, Methods and Issues in Dance Ethnography. Basingstoke: Macmillan Press Ltd., New York: St. Martin’s Press Inc. 1999, 223 Seiten László MÓD - Andrew PURVES: A Sheperd Remembers. Reminiscences of a Border Sheperd. East Linton: Tuckwell Press, 2001, 280 Seiten Mónika ANGYAL - Lindsay REID: Scottish Midwives. Twentieth-Century Voices. East Linton: Tuckwell Press, 2000, 193 Seiten Szabina BOGNÁR - Ján BOTÍK: Slovenskí Chorváti. Etnokultúrny vývin z pohľadu spoločenskovedných poznatkov. Bratislava: Lúč, 2001, S. 231 Seiten (in slowakischer Sprache, mit kroatischer und englischer Einleitung) Gábor GYÓNI - Boris A. RIBAKOV: [Heidentum der Urrussen]. Moskva: Sofia–Gelios, 2001, 741 Seiten Zoltán EROSTYÁK - Joseph S. WOOD: The New England Village. Baltimore. The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997, 223 Seiten

To the problem of "Block and Wagner"

К проблеме «Блок и Вагнер»

Author(s): Mária Gyöngyösi / Language(s): Russian / Issue: 1-4/2000

Both Blok and Wagner are artists of the “crisis”, and their aesthetics coincide in many points (Gesamtkunstwerk, Künstlermensch). In their arts neomythologism is realized in a myth concentrated in a symbol on the one hand, or in a music-drama swollen into a tetralogy on the other. The Wagnerian “Leitmotif’ plays an important composing role in the analyzed Blok-poems. Through a considerable part of the Blok-cycle the thematically also very musical “Harps and Violins” marches the duality of attraction of passion and suppression of passion, and in the end it is dissolved in the indelible memory of first love. Here, too, like in the drama “The Song of the Fate” the main role is played by the violins that symbolize passion. Considering Wagner-reminiscencies the essay emphasizes on the drama mentioned above and the poem “Retribution”. Both go back to the figure of Siegfried, who is a symbolically important hero to Blok. Retribution is the idea that connects Wagner and Ibsen — but Ibsen is also remarkable for the harp-motive (“The Master Builder”). The Wagnerian dragon from Nietzsche’s Zarathustra appears in Blok’s poem, too, and the idea common to all four authors: the motives of the child and of the new beginning is also apparent. The metaphysical music concept of Schopenhauer and Nietzsche is the key to the theoretical writings of the two analyzed authors. According to Wagner divine music that expresses the essence of phenomena combined with drama is able to come to life. It is new in Blok’s music concept that the life-changing, irresistible force of nature is also called “music” by him.

I Look for Extremes in Theater

W teatrze szukam skrajności.

Author(s): Monika Kwaśniewska / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 145-146/2018

Dorota Androsz speaks of her fascination for German theater and dance, showing how they influenced her artistic work and development. She describes the differences between working in an institutional theater (notwithstanding its huge diversity) and in independent institutions (sketching out a fascinating map of alternative art centers in the Tri-City area), in which she works as an actress, performer, choreographer, and director. She considers what makes the work in Ophelia Collective so special, and describes many more or less ephemeral projects by a variety of artists (e.g. Mikołaj Mikołajczyk and the GS Zakrzewo Theater Group, or Paweł Althamer and the Nowolipie Group).

Language of Practical Theology or of Theology in Practice?

La langue de la théologie pratique ou celle de la théologie en pratique?

Author(s): Andrzej Draguła / Language(s): French / Issue: 1/2016

Keywords: practical theology; pastoral theology; theological artifact; theological esthetics; discourse

The issue of the language of theology in the practical actions of the Church is first a question of how are these actions understood and of the form the theoretical thinking about it takes. Nowadays, alongside the notion of “pastoral theology,” the notion of “practical theology” is gaining place. This choice of wording emphasizes the whole of the Church’s action and not only the ones of the pastors. However, there is another meaning of practical theology that can be discussed, i.e. “theology in practice.” Marcel Viau, a Canadian protestant theologian, suggests calling practical theology with an Anselmian-like term: “fides quaerens verbum” (faith seeking the word). The notion of “word” should be understood broadly as any act by which the Church communicatesfaith or the discourse of the Church. Viau introduces the notion of “theological artifact,” which stands for every work of culture that can be seen as an element of discourse of the Church. In this way, Viau broadens the understanding of the Church’s action not only for its specific pastoral action, but also for the widely understood channel of cultural transfer of faith. Consequently, the language of practical theology transforms into the language of theology in practice.

Hypotyposis or the Dream Image of the Sea in Mona Latif-Ghattas’s Alexandrian Seashells

L’hypotypose ou l’image onirique de la mer dans Écailles Alexandrines de Mona Latif-Ghattas

Author(s): Gina Basta / Language(s): French / Issue: 11/2016

Keywords: hypotyposis; dream; beach; figure; rhetoric; cosmopolitan; exile; fluid; space

Alexandrian Seashells is a poetic collection of Mona Latif-Ghattas, where we try to study the dream image of the sea; poet recounts her memories of youth, stranded as seashells on the beach. Hypotyposis is the best figure of speech that reflects poetic hallucinated impulses, symbolic elusive relationships or inexpressible feelings. Essentially descriptive, this figure is based on the obser- vation of feelings, sensations or elusive impressions. It transmits the fleeting thoughts by its dynamic appearance. The multiple facets of hypotyposis, spread through the space-time items, include figures attached either to land, desert, beaches or fluid figures that derive their value from the sea. The hypo- typosis is able to connect the lived memories with the emotional effect produced by the moment.

Seneca and melancholy

Sénèque et la mélancolie

Author(s): Franck Colotte / Language(s): French / Issue: 19/2017

Keywords: Otium (leisure); taedium vitae (life-weariness); tranquillitas animi (quietness of the soul); libido moriendi (desire to die), praecepta (practical moral injunctions)

This paper, focused on Seneca’s conception of melancholy, attempts to analyse the link between two important philosophical notions – otium and taedium vitae – constituting the ethics of the sewer of life due to idleness, and its opposite, happiness. After examining the “anatomy” of melancholy, that means the origin and development of this concept in medicine, we try to interpret how otium can lead to taedium and what kind of remedies Seneca offers to his pupil Quintus Serenus to reach the untroubled and tranquil condition of the soul (tranquillitas animi), characteristic of the Stoic sage.

Between Order and Chaos – At the Limits of Madness: Man and Animal Imagery in Literature

Entre ordre et chaos – Aux limites de la folie : L’homme et l’imaginaire animal en littérature

Author(s): Marco Settimini / Language(s): French / Issue: 17/2016

Keywords: literature; symbol; animal; modernity; Deleuze (Gilles); Jünger (Ernst); Lawrence (D. H.);

With a continuous reference to some Western authors, this article tries to outline a perspective on the animal imagery in modern age literature (the 19th and 20th centuries),by making a list and a quick analysis of many examples and aspects of perception and sensation, of the symbols and the becomings of the act of writing when related to the animal world. In our endeavour, we started from Spengler and Junger’s interpretations of history, used Deleuze’s philosophical tools, and recovered,among the others, Hermann Melville’s, D. H. Lawrence’s and Henry Miller’s intuitions. Men are part of this biological sphere, but they also are different from beasts. Men can observe, approach, use, imitate, follow, relate to beasts and to their examples and make stories, symbols, myths, allegories out of them, or even become similar to them. The aim can be to find back some deep instinctive and living sides of our being. The high risk can be the drift into madness

Lucian Blaga’s View On The Philosophical Structure Of The Romanian Spirit

La configuration philosophique de l’esprit roumain dans la conception de Lucian Blaga

Author(s): Eugeniu Nistor / Language(s): French / Issue: Suppl 1/2018

Keywords: simbol spatial; procesul personantei; morfologia culturii; categorii

In his Horizon and Style Lucian Blaga sets forth the variables or matrix categories that can outline the psycho-social profile of an individual or a human community. The method is a Kantian one, but the fact that the Romanian philosopher operates with categorical doublets - both the conscious and unconscious (that is rational, and abyssal) - makes the difference.

MARC BERNARD : A JOURNEY TO HIS ORIGINS

MARC BERNARD : LE VOYAGE AUX ORIGINES

Author(s): Ángeles Sanchez Hernandez / Language(s): French / Issue: 24/2018

Keywords: Marc Bernard; travel; identity

In this article we look at the work of Marc Bernard, winner of the Goncourt prize in 1942 for his work Pareils à deux enfants. Bernard is considered to belong to the movement of proletarian literature in France. Our analysis focuses mainly on two accounts which deal with the subject of travel: Mayorquinas and Vacances, which reflect the different meanings conveyed by the author when dealing with this subject. Later, Bernard relates these travel experiences to what he himself felt during the long periods of time spent in Mallorca, the land of his ancestors. The lyricism of his work evolves from the description of the landscape to his inner world. The island of Mallorca gradually becomes a special part of his work as a whole. Travel turns into a search for identity and is filled with ontological significance.

AN ARCHIPELAGO OF LONELINESS – AN AERIAL VIEW

UN ARCHIPEL DES SOLITUDES – PERSPECTIVE À VOL D’OISEAU –

Author(s): Georges Banu / Language(s): French / Issue: 2/2018

Keywords: Romania; Romanian theatre; exile; loneliness; isolation; cultural influence.

An Archipelago of Loneliness – an aerial view. This paper traces a map and a brief history of the presence of Romanian theatre outside the borders of Romania. It is shown here that Romanian theatre artists (actors, stage directors, stage designers) left Romania for many different reasons: a need for affirmation and of international celebrity, political and cultural persecutions etc. The emphasis is put here on the communist period, when the censorship imposed by political power determined many people to exile themselves: Silviu Purcărete, Lucian Pintilie, Andrei Şerban, Liviu Ciulei, as well as the author of this text and many others. What one can see is that Romanian theatre artists worked individually, without building complex networks, even if they sometimes collaborated: that’s the archipelago of loneliness the title mentions. That doesn’t mean they hadn’t any influence on the theatrical life in the countries where they lived: they had a great impact, mainly through the theatre schools they founded.

The theology of existence at Vladimir Solovyov, Pavel Florenski and Sergei Bulgakov

Teologia existenţei la Vladimir Soloviov, Pavel Florenski şi Serghei Bulgakov

Author(s): Ioniţă Apostolache / Language(s): Romanian / Issue: 01+04/2017

Keywords: Soloviov; Florenski; Bulgakov; Russian theology; Russian theologians; the concept of existence; Orthodox anthropology; philosophy; Apologetic;

Vladimir Soloviov, Pavel Florenski and Serghei Bulgakov are through their ideas an important step in the direction of a theology of dialogue. They cross over through the old conceptions of the previous period and, starting with them, the Russian Orthodoxy receive more consistence in the process of his affirmation. Each of them has a personal and specific note, very important in the problematic of the Christian existence (or anthropology). Therefore, whether Soloviov try to justify the divine sense of created existence, Florenski is more preoccupated by the relationship between reason and believe. On the other hand, Bulgakov offers a very good explanation regarding the love between God and the created world in the context of kenotic theology. In our study, we try to discover the most important coordinates between this tree Russian theologians. Is also in our preoccupation to analyse the specific of Russian theology in the issue of existence and to see the links between the old philosophical preoccupation and the new way of religious thinking.

The pendatic philosophy: disrupture and continuity

FILOSOFIA PENTADICĂ: RUPTURĂ ŞI CONTINUITATE

Author(s): Ion Dur / Language(s): Romanian,Moldavian / Issue: 6/2016

Julien Green and the Art of Biographical Writing

Julien Green et l’art de la biographie

Author(s): Michael O’Dwyer / Language(s): French / Issue: 89/2014

Keywords: Twentieth-Century French Literature; Julien Green; Biography; Biographical Essay; Saint Francis of Assisi;

Contemporary critics agree that biographical writing belongs as much to the domain of Literature as it does to History. Mauriac saw parallels between biographical writing and the novel form. Daniel Madelénat also emphasises the literary dimension of biography. Writing a biography is also seen as a form of catharsis for the writer as he faces his own deep preoccupations. Critics agree that a biography tells us as much about the writer as it does about the subject.Chateaubriand stated that the biographer is analysing his own soul while attributing it to another person. Jean Lacouture states that in a biography we are dealing with a portrait of the model and not of the artist. Madeleine Lazard adds that, in a biography, the subject is a reflection of the temperament of the writer. In our study of Julien Green’s biography of Saint Francis of Assisi and of his biographical essay on Hawthorne, we will see that the author reveals the principal preoccupations which form the basis of his fictional world. We will see that, for Green, biographical writing is a mirror and that the author presents us with a literary transformation of the image which he finds in the mirror.

Bodies without Boundaries. On the Portrayal of Excretions in Newer German Pop Literature

Entgrenzte Körper. Zur Darstellung von Körperausscheidungen in der Neuen Deutschen Popliteratur

Author(s): Iris Meinen / Language(s): German / Issue: 27/2018

Keywords: Newer German Pop Literature; body; Charlotte Roche; Heinz Strunk;

The motif of excretions is portrayed as one of the main motifs in the newer German pop literature. Bodies portrayed in relation to excretions can be described as being without boundaries. The concept of blurring the boundaries is based on different, culturally established attributions and contextualizations, which this article both explains and uses as a starting point for analysis. References to faeces are analyzed on the example of two novels: "Feuchtgebiete" (2008) by Charlotte Roche and "Fleckenteufel" (2009) by Heinz Strunk.

Images of February 1948 in the Normalisation-era Cinematography and Today

Obrazy února 1948 v normalizační kinematografii a dnes

Author(s): Michaela Veselá / Language(s): Czech / Issue: 04/2018

Keywords: pop culture films ; kunematography; Czecha; events of February 1948

Our socialist past has become a popular topic to be depicted in film in recent years. It is therefore surprising that Czech post-November pop culture films avoid reflecting on the events of February 1948, unlike in the past when it was desirable to purposefully influence society’s historical awareness and to “correctly” interpret the motif of the state coup in ideological terms.

The Picture of the Reformation in Pomerania in the Writing of the Polish People’s Republic

Die Darstellung der Reformation in Westpommern in Veröffentlichungen aus der Zeit des kommunistischen Polen

Author(s): Paweł Migdalski / Language(s): German / Issue: 04/2018

Keywords: Reformation; historiography; memory; West Pomerania

After 1945 a bigger portion of West Pomerania became part of the Polish Recovered Territories; the legitimisation of the fact was looked for in the history of those lands. The article is an attempt to demonstrate how the Reformation in West Pomerania was depicted in the publications printed in the period of the Polish People’s Republic (1945–1989). The author concentrates on political questions – especially the ones concerning the effects of the Reformation – and on references to the Reformation in the fragments where the historical process is explained. The author analyses the image of the Reformation in the most important academic works, monographs of counties and towns, the literature written by Catholic ecclesiastical hierarchs, belles-lettres, pieces of reportage, tourist guides and collections of legends