Syncretism and salience in “The Man to Send Rainclouds”

Author(s): Frederick White,Michael Goodwin / Language(s): English Issue: 6/2012

This article addresses two important issues concerning Indigenous identity, syncretism and salience. Leslie Silko’s short story, “The Man to Send Rainclouds”, presents significant insight into the issues that syncretism and salience have upon Indigenous perspectives of the world and of themselves. The crucial dynamic of syncretism affecting both salience and identity is examined as well as the ramifications of succumbing to syncretic practices. Syncretism, while offering a sense of accomplishment, ultimately only diminishes both the salience and identity of the Indigenous community.

La description du corps furieux dans les tragédies de Sénèque

Author(s): Sophie Roesch / Language(s): French Issue: 6/2012

In Seneca’s tragedies there are numerous descriptions of characters overwhelmed with fury. These descriptions, which imply both static and dynamic features, are rooted into what was known in ancient times as ekphrasis – it is a rhetorical procedure which encompasses the accentuation of expressive details during a thorough description of a certain situation or scene. In Seneca’s works, in such descriptions there are traces of stoic theories where there are displays of inconstantia, which is typical for a person exposed to passion or which represents a connection between man and the universe, where furor represents furious elements. On the other hand, ekphraseis too are conditioned by physiognomic and medical theories of Seneca’s era, according to which the body is but a reflection of soul. The frequent use of these descriptions points out to their specific dramaturgic function – embedded in key moments of action, they enrich the discourse with additional elements by exerting affective influence on the audience. Finally, the descriptions make an intertextual fabric which puts characters from different tragedies into immediate vicinity, thus amplifying their dissuasive effects through such resonance.

„Пергаменти“ Јеле Спиридоновић Савић: зачудан пример женске епске поезије

Author(s): Jovana Reba / Language(s): Serbian Issue: 6/2012

This paper analyses the forgotten poem of Jela Spiridonović Savić – The parchments (1923). In line with the global tendency of feminist writers’ rediscovery (who are forgotten or insufficiently studied) and analysis of their literary works, we wanted to examine and highlight different aspects of this work, written in the spirit of the religious mysticism’s dialectic, postulates of spiritual philosophy, and Rilke’s religious poetic prayer The book of hours. Having analised the mystical experiences of mediaeval monks and nuns, the writer concludes that, Rastko Nemanjić – St. Sava, represented the embodiment of mystics, because of his spiritual tendencies, asceticism and desire for a union with God. Her vision of the Serbian Orthodox Church’s founder is artistically shaped in The parchments, a poem which created a lot of attention, not only within the Serbian literary audience but also in Italy (the Italian translation was published in 1927). Evangelistic philosophy is the spiritual essence of the The parchments, and therefore, it was impossible to interpret the work beyond its theological framework. The analysis was enriched with a dictionary of biblical terms, as a roadmap for understanding the poetess’s intentions. This work primarly belongs to the religious discourse of Serbian history, from mediaeval hagiographies to Njegoš’s Luča Microcosma. We conclude that Jela Spiridonović Savić, within her spiritual icon of St. Sava, has especially illuminated the psychological process of his religious ascension – the fight with his own weaknesses, doubts and sins, and his union with God in absolute humility and raising awareness of his assignated purpose.

Хетеротопија у „Убику“ и „Tамном скенирању“ Филипа К. Дика

Author(s): Mladen Jakovljević / Language(s): Serbian Issue: 6/2012

Alternative spaces within the science fiction novels of Philip K. Dick can be analysed in the context of Michel Foucault’s six principles of heterotopia and some tendencies in the transformation of urban spaces. Heterotopias in Dick’s fiction act as ontological destabilisers that reconfigure the familiar and create new, alternative realities. In Ubik and A Scanner Darkly, by redefining and questioning the relations between the known spaces, Dick creates new, different, altered spaces, built on the border of reality and imagination, thus challenging the standard norms and generally accepted principles of perception, spatiality and linear time. Dick’s spaces, combined of imagination and reality, imply that there is more than one reality, as well as that reality perceived as objective is yet another illusion.

Делото на Кирил и Методий и на техните ученици и последователи в България през погледа на охридските архиепископи от XI и ХII в.

Author(s): Iliya Iliev / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 17/2007

The article presents an analysis of all the facts and tendencies, concerning the Cyrillo-Methodian heritage in Mediaeval Bulgaria, as they are exposed in the writings of two Byzantine Archbishops of Bulgaria from the late 11th and the middle of the 12th c. – Theophylactos of Ohrid (mainly his Long life of St. Clement of Ohrid) and loannes Comnenos (the nephew of emperor Alexios I Comnenos), who ruled the Church of Bulgaria when the so called List of Bulgarian Archbishops (The Du Conge Catalogue) was completed. In conclusion the investigation points to similarities between the analyzed historical sources in interpretation of facts, considering the activities of St. Cyril and St. Methodius and their disciples in Bulgaria, aiming the recognition of high status and full ecclesiastical independence of the Church of Bulgaria (= The Archbishopric of Ohrid).

Archiwum dekanalne – podstawy prawne

Author(s): Mieczysław Różański / Language(s): Polish Issue: 112/2019

The function of the dean’s archive is not regulated in the canon law of the Catholic Church. The duties of a dean, who is the bishop’s close associate, require an independent dean’s office. The records produced by Polish synods recognise the necessity of establishing the dean’s archive, which can preserve the records and documentation produced by a dean or collected by him from parishes in accordance with the laws. The regulations of the synods require running the dean’s archive as an institution independent of parish archives, but they do not specify in detail how these records should be preserved and made available, and when the materials ought to be transferred to the central historical archives in the diocese.

Ogólnopolska konferencja naukowa Archiwa kościelne w niepodległej Polsce. Łódź, 14-16 października 2019 roku

Author(s): Artur Paweł Hamryszczak / Language(s): Polish Issue: 112/2019

Psychoanaliza i autobiografia – trzy hasła do słownika terminów autobiograficznych

Author(s): Lena Magnone / Language(s): Polish Issue: 2/2019

The article presents the three main types of relations between psychoanalysis and autobiography. Psychoanalysis is defined as an autobiographical practice that has become a science. Autobiography also provides its most important therapeutic technique. Moreover, in the light of Freud’s theory, any given autobiography can be understood in terms of screen memories.

Autobiografia i homoseksualność we Francji w XIX wieku

Author(s): Philippe Lejeune / Language(s): Polish Issue: 2/2019

Napięcia autobiograficzne

Author(s): Paweł Dziel / Language(s): Polish Issue: 2/2019

This article analyses Artur Hellich’s book Gry z autobiografią: przemilczenia, intelektualizacje, parodie (Games with autobiography: concealments, intellectualisations, parodies), which outlines various strategies for processing the autobiography genre paradigm. Hellich analyses the variations of playing with the traditional model of confession represented primarily by writers of Jewish origin, especially Polish authors publishing in the PRL (Polish People’s Republic) period. The research material includes works of Kazimierz Brandys, Stanisław Lem, Roman Zimand, Artur Sandauer, Philip Roth, Paul Karl Feyerabend and Michał Głowiński. The article shows category of conventions against the background of transformations of twentieth-century literary theories. Literary criticism practices that attempt to define intimacy as a supra-species phenomenon have been highlighted.

The mere habit of learning to love is the thing: Janeitism and/in Karen Joy Fowler‘s The Jane Austen Book Club

Author(s): Gabriela Iuliana Colipcă-Ciobanu,Ioana Mohor-Ivan / Language(s): English Issue: 7/2017

To the present day, Jane Austen has remained a subject of almost religious adoration for her numerous fans, the Janeites, who keep returning to her writings, take interest in the films and the popular works derived from them, and even seek to surround themselves with objects that remind them of their ‗beloved‘. Determined by the desire to engage in social practices that emulate Austenian sociability (O‘Farrell 2009: 478-80), many of Jane Austen’s ―everyday enthusiasts‖ (Wells 2011: 11) have joined reading groups/ book clubs in order to discuss her fiction and to better understand its meanings. The flourishing of book clubbing and the reflection on the symbolic values attached to Jane Austen as an icon in the contemporary popular culture are foregrounded in Karen Joy Fowler‘s The Jane Austen Book Club (2004), a postmodernist novel which focuses on several issues in today’s American society such as gender relations, private lives, public social interactions/rituals and cultural practices or rivalry between the arts, yet all seen in relation to the reception of Austen‘s novels by ―everyday‖ American readers. The paper proposes an analysis of this novel, considered illustrative for both postmodernist writing practices and the development of ―Austen cult and cultures‖ (Johnson 1997) at the turn of the new millennium.

The Mock-Shakespeare by Les Podervianskyi: Overcoming Soviet Experience

Author(s): Daria Moskvitina / Language(s): English Issue: 9/2019

Shakespeare’s presence in the Soviet and early post-Soviet culture was ensured not only by translations, productions and general official appraisal, but also by travesty and mockery, which were typical of the underground cultural space. The paper considers the specificity of the Soviet Shakespeare appropriation with a special focus on its burlesque type. The case of the Ukrainian artist and playwright Les Podervianskyi, who employed Shakespeare’s plots and characters to mock Communist ideological clichés and stereotypes, is under study. The author aims at tracing the ways in which irony, mockery and burlesque remakes of the eternal classic literature undermine a range of destructive political and social discourses at various levels. Through the analysis of Shakespeare-based plays by Les Podervianskyi – Hamlet, or The Phenomenon of the Danish Katsapism and King Liter – the article highlights one of the main tendencies of the Soviet underground literature (that of mocking the gruesome reality) and specifies Podervianskyi’s unique attitude which was both anti-Soviet and anti-Russian.

Polish philology education in the digital age. Is it still present at Polish schools and universities?

Author(s): Agnieszka Wierzbicka / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2020

This article is an analysis of the use of digital education in Polish philological education, both at schools and at public universities. The author presents how Polish lessons and classes are fulfilled using technology, which electronic resources are worth using in education, and identifies the needs of schoolteachers and lecturers. She also answers the question whether the Polish-language virtual landscape is a natural extension of the social-communication environment to which the young generation is accustomed, and whether education platforms are eagerly used in Polish education.

Obrzędowe pieczywo weselne podlaskiej tradycji wschodniej – korowaj, rahulki, dwojany, korowajczyki, huski

Author(s): Irena Matus / Language(s): Polish Issue: XXII/2020

This article presents types of ritual bread used as part of wedding customs, paying special attention to korowaj. In former villages, a wedding could not exist with-out the traditional korowaj and ritual baking pastries such as korowajczyki, dwojany, huski. Korowaj was treated as sanctity and it was sacralised. It was baked only once in a lifetime for the bride and for the groom. The paper discusses in detail the baking process, the accompanying rules and prohibitions and special songs which were sung. The ceremonial baking was prepared by a team of women – korowajnić. Dough served to predict the future life of the bride and the groom.Decorations made of dough were significant, characterized by timeless symbolism, for example, the most popular twisted spiral-like huski,double-branched sticks dwojany and triple-branched sticks trojany – both covered with dough. In time, new floristic and zoomorphic decorations appeared. Korowaj was round, which had a symbolic meaning as a wedding ring, and offered to newlyweds and the wedding guests. In former villages korowajczyki were also baked for the bride and used in magical procedures. Huski were given as gifts. The symbolic dwojany were prepared to protect marriage from disintegration. With the fall of tra-ditional culture, the old customs and wedding ceremonies disappeared and the baking of ritual pastries was ceased.

Бытование кириллической книги XVI – первой четверти XVII в. в старообрядческой среде

Author(s): Elena Titovec / Language(s): Russian Issue: XXII/2020

The subject of analysis is the old printed Cyrillic editions of the 16th – first quarter of the 17th century books, acquired by the Central Science Library of NAS of Belarus from Old Believers M.S. Sevastyanov and N.M. Sorokin. Based on a study of handwritten notes, stamps and other book signs, the author reveals the history of these copies. The owners of the books were representatives of various social groups. All the features of the exemplars are represented in the catalogues of the Cyrillic editions of the Central Science Library of NAS of Belarus.

The terms “light”, “illumination”, and their synonyms in the “Theotokarion” of Saint Nicodemus the Hagiorite

Author(s): Emmanouil Doundoulakis / Language(s): English Issue: 1-3/2019

This paper focuses on the terms „light”, „illumination”, and their synonyms based on the Theotokarion, a book of selected hymns dedicated to the Virgin Mary and edited by Saint Nicodemus the Hagiorite. These subjects are examined alongside selected hymns of this Liturgical book, by comparing them to their original Patristic or other sources.

Bilinguisme et repli sur soi : les choix de Lubomir Guentchev

Author(s): Alain Vuillemin / Language(s): English,French Issue: 1/2020

Lubomir Guentchev is a Bulgarian writer whose work was discovered in 1999. By 1930, he had conceived poems in Bulgarian, then, between 1949 and 1955, plays including one, which he transposed into French (Théurgie). He translated Bulgarian Symbolist poets into French (Peyo Kr. Yavorov, Nikolai Liliev and Teodor Trayanov, among others), and numerous French and German authors into Bulgarian. He also composed several collections of poetry in French. To what extent did this bilingualism foster in him a paradoxical phenomenon of self-restraint imposed by the circumstances of the time? What were its motives, goals and scope?

THE PAST AND THE PRESENT OF THE GEORGIAN BUSINESS LANGUAGE

Author(s): Mariam Beridze / Language(s): English Issue: 46/2020

The necessity of separating out business language as the object of special studies is the problem at hand considered in the represented paper. The essence of the term branch language at one hand and its relation to the notion such as functional style at the other, are analyzed here. This issue is topical as far as it has become obvious that recently, in international as well as in Georgian linguistics we meet the term language used instead of the term functional style. Our discussion is based on the correlations between such notions as the branch language, language style and diglossia. For this goal, the history of creation and setting up of the most part of the Georgian economical terminology is discussed. This terminology was fundamentally set up and determined after the Tbilisi State University opened and began its scientific activities. The research showed that the Georgian language did not meet the novelties brought by the economical development in the 20th and 21st centuries unprepared. The represented article concerns such issues as: a term as a nomen; the means to distinguish between nomenclature and usual appellative (especially in the phraseology units and syntagmatic pairs) and principles for their study. Analysis of the corresponding material confirms that the principles of so called grammatical organization of the terminology are common; these principles repeat the basic tendencies of “adjusting” the main tendencies of the terminology as a branch of science. The methods of observation, description, analyzing, comparing and correlating are used in the process of investigation.

L’espace littéraire mondial : Entre les stratégies d’écriture et les discussions théoriques

Author(s): Margarita Serafimova / Language(s): English,French Issue: 1/2020

The article looks at the effects of the concept of “globality” on the literary theory and practice. The World Republic of Letters is dominated by relations of power, cultures and languages are divided into dominating and dominated, and the battles fought for literary recognition are far from the myth of the “magic” world of creativity. At the same time, it is precisely this perspective on literature, thought of as world literature, and the creation of supranational spaces that could lend visibility to the figure in the carpet as is each creative piece of work that would otherwise remain hidden, lost, particularly if it belongs to some “marginal” culture. The balance between the local and the global puts to the test both writers and theoreticians, who also find themselves involved in the case they explore…

Stefan Greif, Marion Hein und Heinrich Clairmont (Hrsg.), Herder Handbuch

Author(s): Wolfgang Kessler / Language(s): German Issue: 1/2017

Review of: Herder Handbuch. Hrsg. von Stefan G r e i f , Marion H e i n und Heinrich C l a i r m o n t . Wilhelm Fink. Paderborn 2016. 858 S. ISBN 978-3-7705-4844-6. (€ 98,–.). Reviewed by Wolfgang Kessler.