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Literatura a exil
Translation of the chapter from the book El sol de los desterrados: Literatura y exilio by Claudio Guillén.
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Literatura a exil
Translation of the chapter from the book El sol de los desterrados: Literatura y exilio by Claudio Guillén.
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Černý, Václav a Pelán, Jiří. Italská renesanční literatura: antologie. Vydání první. [Praha]: Univerzita Karlova, nakladatelství Karolinum, [2020], ©2020. 2 svazky (456, 804 stran). ISBN 978-80-246-4343-4.
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Černý, Václav a Pelán, Jiří. Italská renesanční literatura: antologie. Vydání první. [Praha]: Univerzita Karlova, nakladatelství Karolinum, [2020], ©2020. 2 svazky (456, 804 stran). ISBN 978-80-246-4343-4.
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In the first half of the 20th century, especially around the time of World War Two, many writers started focusing on the sources of the Greek tragedy, revaluing ancient myths. The great Romanian playwright, Mircea Eliade has always stated that art can be regenerated by going back to where it all started and as example, theater, by returning to the mythical ritual complex. The Romanian writing, „Iphigenia”,reflects Eliade's youthful concerns, respectively the theme of sacrifice at construction rites and the idea of writing a fantastic drama which combines elements of diurnal consciousness with those related to subconscious life.Drama highlights the myth as a timeless source, to show that it is true in any historical context and on any level of civilization. The analysis that the great writer makes in the work "Iphigenia", highlights the myth through the role it has in traditional societies, that of depicting models for human behavior.The reference to myth and the recurrence of symbols requires a comparative approach that has the role of highlighting the text of Eliade's tragedy and the model he had in writing the work, respectively, Euripides. The method I will use to identify the mythical structures will be the one advanced by Gilbert Durand, according to which in order to analyze a myth analysis, it is necessary to start with a mitocritic. So we can say that mitocriticism refers to the elements that produced the works of art, the guiding myths, while the analysis analyzes the way in which a myth is updated in a certain era.
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Aim. The aim of this study was to trace the scenarios of theatrical adaptations of the novel Crime and Punishment, directed by both Andrzej Wajda and Waldemar Śmigasiewicz, as well as to indicate the similarities and differences between the works studied. Methods. Two separate theatrical scenarios were analysed and compared scene by scene in order to show, and then discuss, the similarities and differences in the construction of the play in terms of the translation of a literary work into a stage work. Results. Analysis revealed that both scenarios are based on three alternating dialogues between Raskolnikov and Porphyry and Raskolnikov and Sonya. Both theatrical adaptations focus on the criminal’s mental condition immediately after the crime committed, and on the question: why did Raskolnikov kill? The differences in scenarios are due, firstly, to the directors’ choice of supporting characters. Secondly, because of the episodes that occur between the dialogues of Raskolnikov with Porphyry and Raskolnikov with Sonya. Conclusions. In this study, only similarities and differences in the construction of the textual layer of the adaptations in question were taken into account, in order to understand which ideas and symbols of Crime and Punishment Wajda and Śmigasiewicz wanted to convey to the audience. Stage solutions such as acting, set design, costumes, lights, music and other means of expression were not covered by the study.
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As argued, among others, by Gaston Bachelard in The Poetics of Space (1958), a house which has been inhabited over a period of time becomes a composite of its physical structure and the mental space created by its residents’ thoughts, dreams and memories. This article analyses two contemporary novels in which houses as tangible manifestations of temporally remote experience provide a link to the Victorian past. Lauren Willig’s That Summer (2014) and Kate Beaufoy’s Another Heartbeat in the House (2015) represent the same type of neo-Victorian fiction: their plots are composed of two strands, one set in the modern age and the other in the nineteenth century, and in the course of each story parallels and convergences are revealed between the two ages and the two casts of characters. The article argues that both novels are also typical “romances of the archive” – as defined by Suzanne Keen (2001) − in which the material legacy of the past triggers a personally motivated inquiry, leading contemporary characters to uncover certain bygone mysteries, and, crucially, to recognise the past’s continuing appeal and relevance.
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This paper analyzes the novel Azazeel by the contemporary Egyptian novelist, Yūsuf Zaydān, from the perspective of imagology. Although awarded as the best novel in the Arab world in 2009, Azazeel and its author have become the subject of numerous controversies. In the media cacophony about the historical reliability of the plot and the characters in the novel, the stylistically highly valuable literary text was lost as well as the potential meanings emanating from it. Creating a special spiritual bildungsroman that speaks about the temptations and the spiritual maturing of Hypa, the monk from the fifth century, Zaydān offers a complex fictional self-image. This distinctive image reveals the diversity of ideological paternalism through self-reflections of Hypa’s spiritual fathers, Cyril and Nestorius, internalization of the Other as a sine qua non of the authentic self through the character of the philosopher Hypatia, and the burden of self-realization within inner universe of the individual in the mirror of Azazeel as the intrinsic doppelgänger of the protagonist.
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The rampant misrepresentation of Indigenous peoples in what is termed the Anglosphere appears as a direct consequence of the dominant culture taking aspects of historically subjugated cultures and using them for its own gain (Biron 2016). The culturally inappropriate depictions of Native Americans which are commonly found in the works of Canadian non-Indigenous writers such as W.P. Kinsella and Archibald Stansfeld Belaney create compelling images that endorse stereotypes and encourage harmful cultural opinions. The solution to this problem of cultural appropriation lies in allowing Indigenous Canadian authors to narrate their own stories and shed light on the internalized misconceptions of Indigenous characters in popular literature. Therefore, the aim of this paper is to deconstruct the stereotypical representations of Native American characters found in mainstream media such as “the noble savage”, “the Indian princesses” and “the easy squaw” by referring to the writings of an Indigenous language advocate Janice Acoose and performing a comparative analysis of three short stories by Indigenous Canadian writers Beth Brant (A Long Story), Emma Lee Warrior (Compatriots) and Emily Pauline Johnson (A Red Girl’s Reasoning) in order to offer an alternative way of accurately portraying Indigenous characters in literature.
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This paper presents a concise comparative analysis of the novel Hotel Zagorje by Ivana Bodrožić and Zaustavljeno vrijeme by Elena Daniela Poretti, with the war-related experiences in regards to Croatian Homeland War and the Siege of Sarajevo being at its core and discussed through the following four thematic units: life in exile, maturation, waiting as a source of frustration and inability to fulfill genuine yearnings and an encounter with death. Furthermore, the novels share the idea that a war is a traumatic experience regardless of age, that the pain caused by losing a loved one never disappears, but only eases up over time, and that a war has a paradoxical effect given its power to both separate and unite. Although the wounds of war never go away completely, they are a living reminder of how we ought to become more aware of one other as well as of our very own transience if we strive for creating a better present whilst simultaneously paving the way to a brighter future.
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The novel, although in appearance seems symmetrical, proves to be an intricate maze of alternations of time segments. Moments of the penetration and consolidation of communism in the cultural muscovite structures alternates with those occurred almost two thousand years ago, the trial and conviction of Ha-Nozri (Iisus Hristos) to death by crucifixion. The time of the narration is placed during The Holy Week, and lasts only a few days, from Wednesday to Saturday. The novel focuses on the existential issues filtered through the character’s own conscience. The significances are inferred from the conflicts of ideas dominating the content giving it a satirical tint. The discrete, persistent jewelry is captivating and draws the reader’s attention to the philosophical under layer completed by the drama of the intellectual seeking for knowledge. The beauty of this structural filigree sustained by outdate triggers a permanent reflexive attitude in the reader.
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The aim of this paper is to focus on the critical reception of Grigore Cugler, one of the representative writers for the Romanian avant-garde in exile. The Romanian critical discourses and articles frequently emphasise the epigonism of Cugler’s texts by comparative approaches with those belonging to the precursor of the Romanian avant-garde, Urmuz. This represents one of the manifestations of the marginalized avant-garde in the Romanian literature of the interwar period, marginalization established by the dominant conservative literary criticism. Consequently, the paper argues the epigonic labeling often associated with Grigore Cugler, placing the writer in-between two dichotomic types of critical reception: epigonism and a genuine continuity of the modern vision. The specific context of the avant-garde in exile may determine the particularization of the literary discourse, resulting in the originality and individuality of Grigore Cugler’s volumes. This aspect highlights the individual literary evolution of the writer, far removed from the established central model of the Romanian avant garde, Urmuz, with whom Grigore Cugler shares the modern vision that implies a spectacular dimension of unreality and absurd.
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The hereby paper proposes the analysis of Gellu Naum's poetry, "The Book of Apollodorus", following a series of theories and concepts that refer to the imaginary, symbol, sign, significance, space or time. Our intent is to enter the world of small beings, where the projection of space and time, ludic identity, the importance of play and the adventure of knowledge are specific to the children's universe. Children's literature has a deep symbolic meaning, and the imaginary is a possibility to mimic the concrete world, deeply marking our connections with the unknown, with time and space. Built on the principle of simplicity, children’s literature makes all feats seem so easy. We will follow the adventure of the hero Apollodorus who sets out on the journey of self-knowledge. Our attempt is to decode the signs of the seen and unseen world that constitutes the existential universe in Gellu Naum's poetry. The analys is will focus on the mythical and symbolic background, thus validating the poetry from a hermeneutical point of view.
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The aim of this paper is to make a distinction between the terms of space, and also a discrimination between phenomenology and phenomenon, concepts related to the term space.
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Historically, magical realist narratives blend the traditions, customs, and conceptions of the ancient or traditional world with those of the modern one, and, ontologically, such texts integrate magic and material, but generally within magical realist texts the real merges with the fantastic, making the latter seem like the most ordinary element possible. The perfect combination of the real with the fantastic is most often achieved in magical realist fictions by distorting time and space, by transgressing boundaries and multiplying the identity of the characters, as it is carried out in some of the Romanian writers’ works. Together with some well-known Romanian writers, such as Mircea Eliade or Ștefan Bănulescu, Vasile Voiculescu approaches these characteristics in his prose, thus perfectly fitting into the patterns of ontological magical realism.
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The imaginary universe of Convoiul Mieilor novel, written by Lucia Dărămuș, situates itself in an interference space, populated by imaginary beings, where every playful gesture is part of a poetics in the autistic syndrome area. Hence the consistency of the imagined world has its foundation in the biographical dimension of the author. Thus the world of the fabulous becomes a homogeneous overlap placed over a sick reality, the imaginary narrative perfectly imitating the defining fluctuations of autistic sensitivity. Therefore the autistic area in the author's biography acquires the terrifying image of the Holocaust, that of the furnaces that torment the body, just as autism consumes identity. In these dramatic circumstances, the compensatory immigration takes place through the portals specific to fantasy literature, but also through the positioning of the main character, Hannya - Alter Ego of the author, in the category of childhood prone to magical areas.
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Has the theatricality-as-reaction to the communist oppression disappeared from the social and cultural discourse? Has the freedom of speech been completely freed of performativity? It is obvious that western democracies have a different profile than the fresher eastern ones. The past "performativity" of the communist societies has turned towards a new "constative" agenda. Nostalgia and memory haunt the former communist area. Neoliberalism with its ruthless economic approach is stronger in the southeastern part of Europe and foments, after thirty years of freedom deprived of a true system of social protection, frustration and naive adoration of recent past dictatorial history. Some references to the Romanian, Russian, Slovenian and Serbian post-communist societies highlight some common social and economic data, regardless of their integration into various international structures. Collective memories are reinvented and are fueled by similar challenges.
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This paper analyzes the novel “Fahrenheit 451” (1953) written by American writer Ray Bradbury. It is a dystopian piece of writing, set in a post-apocalyptic America, that seeks to warn against what might happen if the tendencies dominating American society of that era would not change. The novel should be regarded as a reaction against censorship practices established during the McCarthy era and against the rapid development of technology that led to television and advertising having a strong influence on American population, especially the younger generation. The entire novel is permeated by a deep concern about the negative effects of totalitarianism and the suppression of intellectual pursuits that characterize the society depicted by Bradbury. The paper provides an analysis of the totalitarianism and anti-intellectualism displayed in the novel. The conclusion is that there is a high degree of idealism in Bradbury’s optimism regarding the ability of intellectuals and book lovers to create a new, reformed society. At the same time, contemporary democracies with their current characteristics –preference for comfort, contempt for argumentative debates and obsession for political correctness – might, one day, produce totalitarian elements themselves.
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This article analyzes the concept of food in Cormac McCarthy’s dystopian, (post-)apocalyptic fiction, aiming to prove that in the American writer’s universe the act of eating is deprived of its social and spiritual dimension, being restricted to its basic functionality similar to that of a meal-replacement product. The analysis draws a parallel between the concept of manna in the Exodus and the types of foodstuffs and their functionality in the novels Blood Meridian or the Evening Redness in the West and The Road, showing that food is one of the constituent ingredients of McCarthy’s desert imaginary and is interpreted as a crucial weapon in the fight against death and dehumanization.
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Drawing upon Sara Ahmed’s “cultural politics of emotion” and Claire Colebrook’s conceptualization of “Cartesian affect,” this article puts forward the notion of affective refuge, a phenomenon which is investigated through an analysis of Samuel Beckett’s Watt, Krapp’s Last Tape and Ohio Impromptu. First, I highlight the opposing perspectives as well the potential common ground between Ahmed’s and Claire Colebrook’s theories in order to argue that the thought of affective refuge might actually be defined as the movement away from seeing affect as that which “make[s] us aware of [our] bodily dwelling” (Ahmed 26) and towards recognizing “the Cartesian moment of … never being proximate to one’s own body,” as understood by Colebrook in her 2020 essay “Cartesian Affect” (442). I then go on to claim that, in Watt, affective refuge emerges as a reaction to fear, as the protagonist strives to process the surfaces of things and bodies around him via elaborate systems of perception, while in Krapp’s Last Tape and Ohio Impromptu, the pain of remorse the characters experience regarding their own grieving practices comes to shatter the remainder of the affective refuge which had unfolded in their relationships to their departed loved ones.
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