Salamone corse et Solomonar roumain : la magie pastorale et la figure de Salomon

Author(s): Olena Berezovska Picciocchi / Language(s): French Issue: 1/2016

This paper examines Corsican and Romanian traditions of mountainous shepherds in the context of the magic quest for milk. This quest is narrated in the tales and in the legends and it is embodied by the magic traditional characters as Corsican Salamone and Romanian Solomonar. Corsican Salamone would like to be the magic specialist of the brocciu’s creation and fabrication. But he can’t. Why? We will try to answer to this question. The brocciu is Corsican typical cheese. Solomonar is a Romanian weatherman who requests for the eggs and for the milk in his village. Why? We will try to answer to this second question. Finally, both characters Salamone and Solomonar are a re-appropriation of the famous mythical character in the Grimoires books, Solomon. This comparative research aims to understand his symbolical role in this ritual quest transformed in the popular narrative tradition.

Zwierzęce początki muzyki. O „Ptasim radiu” Juliana Tuwima

Author(s): Anna Filipowicz / Language(s): Polish Issue: 2/2016

The essay is concerned with the topic of archaic “ethological tales”, which often present non‑anthropocentric definitions of an animal as an emotional, rational, aesthetic creature – not formulated in opposition to the human. This point of view also appears in the poetry of Julian Tuwim, who connects the mythical idea of interspecies community with the Darwinian theory of evolution. In “Ptasie radio”/”Bird radio” (1938) he shows, for example, that the concept of melic poetry inherited from the ancient Greeks, has a biological base and comes from birds’ vocalisation. Analysing birds’ mating songs leads him to the idea that not only does man have the ability to generate aesthetic sounds, but that he also shares this ability also with other animals. Today, his intuition can be confirmed also in the field of genetic research.

La Caricature littéraire : L’Éducation sentimentale de Flaubert

Author(s): Cécile Guinand / Language(s): French Issue: 5/2015

In the fictional universe of L’Éducation sentimentale, caricature is practiced in several ways by some characters who design caricatural portraits, play the role of famous caricatural characters and perform literary caricature in their press releases. Present and produced in the fictional universe, Flaubert also integrates it in the narration. He builds a literary caricature on the basis of graphical caricature. Based on the principle of distance, he highlights the gap between the pretensions of the characters and the paltry result of their efforts. He restores the device of the framework of lithography, in which the figures move like puppets, on the model of ball scenes by Gavarni. He then adds a caption that emphasises their comical scope. Finally, he skillfully practices caricatural portrait on the model of Daumier through the accentuation and reduction of traits. Characters and narrator thus fashion and allow a satirical view of society through the use of caricature. However, Flaubert’s "romanesque" poetics aims not to conclude. As such, the sharp judgment specific to caricature is not satisfactory to him. The author will redirect the intention in the wake of Daumier in order to mitigate its satirical scope and develop its ludic aspect. He will thereby superimpose the different voices of the characters to preserve the narrative’s polyphony. Flaubert as well as Daumier take some distance in order to avoid any definitive moral conclusion.

Senoji baltų leksikografija Hanzos pirklių tarnyboje. Rankraštinių žodynų paskirtis bei sudarymo laikas

Author(s): Ilja Lemeškin / Language(s): Lithuanian Issue: 78/2018

It is meaningful to study the medieval Baltic lexicography from the perspective of the Hanseatic linguistic policy and in the context of the Hanseatic lexicographic production (bilingual and utilitarian). Such a direction of research reveals the similarity of composition of closely related vocabularies. The comparative analysis of German-Prussian, Prussian-German and Russian-German vocabularies shows that the protograph of the “Russian books” of the 13th–14th centuries (created in Low German in the office of Novgorod) resembled the Elbing vocabulary of the second half of the 13th century by its layout, scope and composition.The latter source will be useful in reconstructing the protograph of Russian-German vocabularies. The comparison with the Latin-Low German Liber ordinis rerum dating to the late 14th century should be considered remote and abstract. By analogy with the akin “Russian books”, it is proposed to call Elbing vocabulary (Elbinger Vokabular) and the so called Grunau’s vocabulary the “Prussian (Elbing) Book” and the “Littl Prussian Book” respectively.

Akwarium i luneta. Metaforyka okulocentryczna w twórczości Brunona Schulza

Author(s): Katarzyna Szalewska / Language(s): English,Polish Issue: 11/2018

The paper is an analysis of the motif of glass in the fiction of Bruno Schulz. The writer’s fascination with this particular material is related to the experience of modernity, sinceglass served as the substance of permanent and repetitive phantasms. In this respect, Schulz’s writing can be read as an artistically processed testimony of fascination with one of the material dimensions of modernity, which was glass architecture. The author interprets the modernist oculocentrism in Schulz’s stories, focusing on transparency in the spatial figures of the author of Cinnamon Shops (including panoramas, glass balls,telescopes, etc.).

Tjetri dhe mrekullia e hutisë: Kamy e Pashku

Author(s): Avdi Visoka / Language(s): Albanian Issue: 35/2017

This paper will examine the concept of the Other in Literature by introducing many cultural, philosophical, religious, ethical, and aesthetic issues. In fact, the Other can be considered in the function of cultural, ethical, ethnic, and social belonging. The perception of the Other is also inseparable from self-construction and personal identity preoccupations, as well as from the construction of relationships with the other:This is a sui generis articulation and self-articulation within illusion, fiction, and reality.The Concept of the Other has a very particular resonance in the novels of Camus (The stranger) and Pashku (Oh). The concept of absurd as a perception of the Other, as an articulation of the self and as a generator of mutual relations makes these authors very special in literature. The examination of convergences and differences in the novels of these authors will shed light thorough this paper by interrogating the lieuxcommuns between Albanian and French literary space, with a special regard to the relationships of us versus them.

Njemačka lirika u bosanskohercegovačkim književnim časopisima u periodu od 1878. do 1918. Godine

Author(s): Jasmina Đonlagić / Language(s): Bosnian Issue: 3/2013

The transition from the 19th into the 20th century is of great importance to Bosnia and Herzegovina and could be referred to as a process of modernisation and europeanisation of this Ottoman province as a result of the Austro-Hungarian occupation in 1878. The process of integration of cultural and literary life of all ethnic groups began with the arrival of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy and its strives to strengthen the position in the newly occupied country by bonding the three ethnic groups. Although in this period all ethnic groups faced increased national awakening the Austro-Hungarian monarchy saw a convenient way to promote the idea of unity; mutual respect and coexistence of all people by development and strengthening of journalism. Periodicals were entertaining and educational, and readers were allowed to acquire new knowledge and broaden their horizons. Literary magazines were the first one to open up to Western European culture and cultural heritage, and as a result of that the bosnian-herzegovinian readership for the first time was introduced to literary production of entire Western Europe. Given that the occupation and everything that came from German-speaking countries was viewed with suspicion no translation of literary works from the German language have largely filled the columns. Such an attitude towards German and Austrian authors changed only after the year 1907. The contact with the world’s literature is very important for further development of Bosnian literature and culture in general and has a dual meaning: creating a circle of educated readers and creating a new generation of Bosnian writers, who are gradually moving away from the influence of national ideology, creating the preconditions for the birth and development of modern Bosnian literature. This paper will try to show the development in terms of themes and motifs of poetry translated and published in literary magazines during the Austro- Hungarian rule in Bosnia and Herzegovina, as well as the reception of German poetry from the Bosnian public and its contribution to the development of culture.

Сравнителното балканско литературознание в Софийския университет. Основания за сравнението между литературите на Европейския югоизток.

Author(s): Roumiana L. Stantcheva / Language(s): English,Bulgarian Issue: 1/2019

This article presents the methodological grounds for teaching Comparative Literature of the Balkans as a subject within the syllabus of the Balkan Studies master’s degree programme at Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski”. The examples borrowed from the reception of Romanian literature in Bulgaria show the absence of targeted interest in neighbouring countries’ literatures. The reasoning continues with the discussion of cases in which a hypotext from French literature acquires a unifying role and allows for finding grounds for comparative studies (around ideas expressed in Naturalism and Symbolism) of the otherwise indifferent to one another South-Eastern European literatures, and quotes examples from Romanian, Bulgarian, and Greek literatures.

Предложение за промяна. За книгата: Амелия Личева. Световен ли е „Нобел“?

Author(s): Miglena Nikolchina / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 1/2019

NARAȚIUNI DESPRE LUME ȘI DESPRE NOI ÎNȘINE. CONSIDERAȚII DESPRE FUNCȚIA TERAPEUTICĂ A POVEȘTILOR

Author(s): Ioana Todor / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 2/2019

From immemorial times people create and use stories to relate and share experiences with others, to inform them, to organize their thoughts, to create their self-image, to know the world and to gain a sense of predictability, to obtain something from the others, to liberate from their own fears, to share joy or sadness, to express love or hate. Narrative psychology is a postmodern approach in psychology based on the assumption that human beings make sense to their world and perceive themselves through the narratives. Narratives are coherent mental structures people construct to organize actual and past experiences, memories, life histories, social and factual knowledge, actions, values, intentions and aspirations etc. The narrative approach(es) has(ve) broader implications in a variety of domains in psychology (such as psychological therapies, clinical, educational, developmental, social, health or organizational psychology). Biographical stories are used as therapeutic tools in experiential psychotherapy and rational stories are used in cognitive therapy. The aim of the paper is to identify and discuss from various theoretical perspectives the roles of narrative in mental functioning and psycho-social adaptation to life events.

ГОДЕНИК И РАЗБОЙНИЦИ (ЕДИН ЕПИЗОД ОТ ЖИВОТА НА ИВ. НАЙДЕНОВ ОТ 1866 Г.)

Author(s): Nikolay Aretov / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 1/2019

The paper presents one episode in the life of Ivan Naydenov (1834–1910), Bulgarian journalist from Constantinople and social activist: the robbery that occurred when he was travelling to be engaged in his native Kazanlak. Different documents – newspaper information, memoirs and a short story – narrate the adventure and offer a slightly different image of two events that are interesting from an ethnographic and historiographic perspective.

Преполовљени – први роман Предрага Степановића (интертекстуална анализа)

Author(s): Rada B. Stanarević / Language(s): Serbian Issue: 20/2019

An intertextual analysis of Stepanović's novel reveals two things. First, a fruitful influence of Turgenev on the structure of fabula (reunion of friends at the same location) and on the typology of characters (Dragan – Lytvinov, Vojin – Rudin). Secondly, a highly unusual, impressive mixture of Turgenev and Goethe with reference to their respective works of the same title, Faust, providing the two aforementioned encounters of old friends with magic properties. This is achieved in such a manner that the two nocturnal, Mephistopheles-like meetings happen simultaneously, with Stepanović's characters enduring double destiny (Ana = Margareta and Vera Nikolayevna, Vojin = Mephistopheles and Rudin).With regard to its composition and subject matter, Stepanović's novel offers several interesting features. To start with, Mephistopheles' First/ Mother Night, unique and very successfully designed in artistic terms, takes place, intertwined with another night, within Chapters IV and VI, which justifies their central position as regards the novel's overall structure of fourteen chapters. In contrast with that, the protagonists' split lives of the present develop in the respective chapters of VIII, X, and XII. As for the subject matter – Ana and Dragan's unhappy love – it is comprised within the respective Chapters of V, VII, IX, and XI. As a result, events and relations between characters are not portrayed in a linear manner, but mutually intertwined. Yet, the frame, that is, the first and final chapters, which feature the partly ironically depicted character of Milorad Janković, makes sure that the desired unity of the plot, taking the novel in its entirety, is achieved, thus providing us with an open door to indulge in aesthetic delight.

Narativi (de)materijalizacije: gotska spektralizacija u „Beskrajnoj groznici“ Fleneri OʼKonor

Author(s): Vladimir M. Vujošević / Language(s): Serbian Issue: 20/2019

The genre structure of the “ghost stories” is preserved in the key works of the so-called Southern Gothic, although these works often lack the real ghosts which were repeatedly portrayed in the early British prototypes of the genre. The basic genre technique employed in the “ghost stories” can best be described as “spectralisation”. Flannery O'Connor's “The Enduring Chill” is perhaps the focal text in the analysis of the spectralisation theme in the Southern Gothic fiction, since it evokes various procedures used in the two pivotal works of this American genre: Tennessee Williams's drama The Glass Menagerie and Faulkner's novel Absalom, Absalom!. This paper explores various subcategories of Gothic spectralisation, such as the motifs of “body loss,” romanticisation of death, and fictionalisation of experience.

INTIMATE EYES: A HISTORIOGRAPHY OF EUROPEAN WOMEN TRAVELERS’ IMPACT ON ORIENTALISM

Author(s): Ali Abdullah / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2020

This essay explores the historiography of pre-Victorian and Victorian women travelers in the Islamic Orient and their impact on Orientalism. The major focus will be on how scholars on the subject express the ways in which the intimate gaze aided in developing the eroticism and exoticism of not only the female space but also the Islamic Orient in general. The essay is divided into two parts: the first examines authors who consider women’s travel writing pivotal in shaping the Victorian preconceived notions of the Islamic Orient; and the second explores scholars who contextualize European women’s travel writings as vital agents of both the Imperialist and the Orientalist agendas.

Vivre ses langues

Author(s): Olena Berezovska Picciocchi / Language(s): English,French Issue: 1/2020

In this study, reflection on bilingualism and bilingual writers leads to the didactics of language learning.The question of the imaginations of languages is at the heart of this research, which first gives voice to literature and then to pedagogical experience in order to reach a general conclusion on the cohabitation between language sand peoples.

На какви езици говорят и пишат просветителите? Периодични издания в многоезична среда: Случаят „Шутош“ (1873-1874)

Author(s): Nikolay Aretov / Language(s): English,Bulgarian Issue: 1/2020

Residing within the confines of the multi-cultural and multi-lingual Ottoman Empire Bulgarians spoke and wrote in different languages, depending on the type of communication and the audience. This paper presents several examples of Bulgarian enlighteners from the 19th century who used a language other than their own native Bulgarian. Shutosh was a comic newspaper, published in Istanbul in the 1870s. It was the Bulgarian version of a periodical owned by the Greek Teodor Kasap. Almost all publications in the newspaper were either anonymous, or signed with pen names. Large parts of them were translations, but neither the names of the authors, nor the translators were mentioned. One such translation was in fact an adaptation of Voltaire’s Zadig ou la Destinée. This article traces the history of that newspaper and presents some of its publications that have to do with literature.The observations lead to the conclusion that there was considerable multilingualism among Bulgarians in the mid-19th century. There were some multilingual periodicals, and there were texts published in languages other than Bulgarian and Greek. After the establishing of the new Bulgarian state (not so much in Eastern Rumelia), the trend changed and the Bulgarian language gained its high status and almost monopoly position, as well as the status of a lieu de mémoirе.

Езиците на театъра – за няколко двуезични български представления от началото на ХХ век

Author(s): Nikoleta Patova / Language(s): English,Bulgarian Issue: 1/2020

Verbal language is one of many theatrical languages, and it accounts for the spectators’ unhindered reception when one of the roles is performed in a foreign language. Andrea Fian and Maria Strozzi were two Croatian actors who acted upon on the stage of Slavyanska Beseda Theatre (1904, 1905). Sofia Zvonareva was another guest actress from Croatia, and she was invited to stay for a couple of seasons as part of a Bulgarian troupe. Joseph Shmaha, a Czech actor and producer who was offered a position as artistic director at the Bulgarian National Theatre, also had two acting appearances on the Bulgarian stage. All guest actors, with the exception of Zvonareva, performed their roles in their native language even though the plays were staged in bulgarian. This text shows the theatre critics’ attitude to the bilingual performances on the Bulgarian stage during the first decade of the 20th century, when Bulgarian professional theatre was making its first steps to develop purposefully as a national cultural institution.

За книгата: Милош Църнянски, славянството и славяно-славянският диалог. За книгата: Валентина Седефчева. Славянската тема в творчеството на Милош Църнянски.

Author(s): Ina Hristova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 1/2020

Book review: Miloš Crnjanski, the Slavic Cultural Community and the Dialogue among Slavic Nations. Book review: Valentina Sedefceva. The Slavic theme in the novels by Miloš Crnjanski / Milos Tsernianski.

Сomptes rendus : Olena Berezovska Picciocchi. Mazzeru corse et Molfar des Carpates - Antiques personnages des légendes européennes. Préface de Karin Ueltschi-Courchinoux. Riveneuve, 2019.

Author(s): Roumiana L. Stantcheva / Language(s): French Issue: 1/2020

Book review: Olena Berezovska Picciocchi. The Corsican Mazzeru and the Carpathian Molfar: Ancient Characters of European Legends. Preface by Karin Ueltschi-Courchinoux. Riveneuve, 2019.

За книгата: Маргарита Серафимова. Пространството в литературата. Ролята на местата в конструирането на смисъла. Велико Търново, Фабер, 2018.

Author(s): Anguélina Vatcheva / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 1/2020

Book review: Margarita Serafimova. L’Espace dans la littérature. Le rôle des lieux et la construction des sens. Veliko Tarnovo, Faber, 2018.