FAIRY TALES AND STORIES IN THE ROMANIAN TRADITION FROM VOVODINA, THE REPUBLIC OF SERBIA

Author(s): Brânduşa Juica / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 22/2020

This paper aims to suggest some points of reference, which could help to reach a clearer image that is focused on the attention paid to a real and current state of affairs, namely: the place of fairy tales and stories in the cultural space of the Romanians in the Serbian Banat. In the mentioned cultural context, folk and fairy tales were spread and received orally, but also from written sources and the mass media. The important factors that contributed to the spread of fairy tales among the Romanians in Vojvodina were: family, educational institutions, researchers and some of the Romanian-language writers, who turned their gaze to the world of childhood. Fairy tales and stories, in addition to other folk creations (legends, anecdotes, fables, lyric and epic pieces of writings in verse), are one of the means that contribute to the preservation of the cultural and identity heritage of the Romanians in Serbia and, at the same time, the preservation of their mother tongue.

RETELLING OF THE PAST IN JOSEPH SKIBELL’S A BLESSING ON THE MOON

Author(s): Paula Rebeca Cozma (Drăgan) / Language(s): English Issue: 22/2020

The problem of the past has been a topic of interest for many novelists, poets and artists throughout time and there has been a constant interest in its exploration and understanding. The past represents one of the most common and used themes in literature, in general. The theme of the past is often connected in literature with the theme of memory and of remembrance. History, general, communal and personal, plays an important role in the life of the individual and in his or her sense of identity. A person’s past is crucial in shaping who an individual is in the present and the way in which the individual thinks and behaves. Scientists, psychologists, physiatrists and many others agree that events in the past shape influence a person’s present and future. Moreover, memory is a key element of the extent to which the past is still present in a person’s life. Therefore, the purpose of this paper is to analyze the way in which the Jewish American ethnic writers Joseph Skibell deals with one of the most common themes of literature (the theme of the past) in his novel entitled A Blessing on the Moon.

REPRESENTATIONS OF THE CHILD IN THE UNIVERSAL ART AND LITERATURE

Author(s): Marta Albu / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 24/2021

The status of the child has evolved in time, from all points of view: social, pedagogical, moral, literary, artistic, not having a single image of childhood, but several contradictory images, several systems of representations of childhood. Children were virtually ignored by both their contemporaries and later historians. A small but growing number of current researchers are working diligently to resolve this imbalance. Even so, most of the history of childhood still remains hidden, as most research focuses on the relatively recent past of the last centuries. The present study aims to highlight the representations of the child in arts and literature. We do not follow all the representations, but simply present different trends that can be observed in arts and literary works from various centuries, to evoke the role of the child in literature and transformations, the evolution of mentalities and its rendering in fiction.

HYPERTEXT OR AMPUTATION OF DAEDALUS

Author(s): Simona Gruian / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 24/2021

Postmodern culture has overcome the stage dominated by iconocentrism being a culture of the virtual, and this is noticeable in terms of the status of the text within the virtual world, but also the attempt to virtualize the world. Today, there are computer programs or games that reproduce the world, function as simulations of reality and as compensatory worlds through which the user can become something completely different from what is in the real world, because with the Internet virtuality, our world it has entered a potentially infinite virtual labyrinth, which if we traverse it we build a thought in the ether. The hypertext inaugurates the transition from the formula of the two-dimensional text, specific to the condensed literature in paper books, to the electronic, three-dimensional text. Beyond its informative function, hypertext brings a change within the human being; spoken and written language becomes virtual language. As hypertext remedies printing, hypertext and other forms of electronic writing also participate in updating the notions related to the representations of the "self". Hypertext is the revelation that this virtual book of the consumer society is a cultural machine, through which the forms of communication of the future will be projected. Hypertexts are a new reality to which the human mind must learn how to relate. Rhizomatic narrative constructions are created by manipulating the reader who is imagined / constructed as a cyborg merged into an integrated system, a circuit with one or more intelligent machines. Hypertexts are the creation of cyborgic subjectivity.

JANE WHERE

Author(s): Melinda Barta-Mihaly (Gorgan) / Language(s): English Issue: 24/2021

The title JANE WHERE brings together a feminine first name and a relative adverb, which sum up the argument of this paper: Charlotte Brontë’s famous character, Jane Eyre, which is the portrait in the homonymous novel of the author, is a persuasive example of social change through attractors which introduce a new type of information into the system changing it in time. Jane Eyre, as the representative of a new class – female middle-class professionals - stirred discontent among the conservative aristocrats, but the British society of the nineteenth century proved remarkably open to reform and progressive, democratic ideas. That explains why Jane earned her creator the reputation of a heroine of the time, capable to force open the doors to public career for categories of people who had been traditionally marginalized and muted. The same type of character, however, may have just met with a tragic end in locations which sociologists call postfigurative (living according to their ancestors, opposing change). The pronunciation of Jane Where, sounding similar to Jane Eyre, suggests this determination of space over human lives. This is an interdisciplinary study which applies Philip Anderson’s theory of localization, impurities and attractors to literature.

VOICULESCU AND HIS SYMBOLIC UNIVERSE

Author(s): Denisa Marian / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 24/2021

In this paper I have framed the fundamental themes (magical practices, rituals and superstitions) that function as cultural models, as an opportunity for the reader to regain the powers and the greatness of folklore. Vasile Voiculescu manages to achieve a series of possible but rare events, making use of a vocabulary full of archaisms and regionalisms that give it a unique tone. The protagonists are described as bearers of mysteries, with their unusual, extraordinary appearance, in a space where primitive popular imagination and modern civilization meet. The two parts propose a type of character initiated in the ancestral mysteries of the symbolic universe. As concrete examples I used the short stories The Last Beer and the Bad Lake. Through the story In the midst of wolves I approached the subject of events beyond nature, that is, the common world, wild animals, magical people, hunters. This is what Vladimir Streinu called in the substantial introduction to the two volumes of Stories from 1966 the pairing of the tribal mentality with modern intellectualism, from which came stories of a fascinating naturalistic and folkloric occultism or ancient magical practices, lost in the modern world, inattentive to them. With the help of the novel Zacchaeus the Blind, I concluded the work by summing up the folk motifs as figures of rhetoric that were also used in the exaltation of some chosen ones of the divinity. In their lives the intervention of the sacred was constantly brought to light by the writer who undertook his work precisely to edify, to fortify piety. The lives of the saints are a mixture of the natural and the supernatural.

FRENCH INFLUENCES IN GRIGORE ALEXANDRESCU`S CREATIVE FORMATION

Author(s): Elena-Andreea POPA / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 24/2021

This work tries to illustrate the way that French translations represented a main source for Grigore Alexandrescu. During the first part of the XIXth century the West culture represented the pattern for the Romanian culture and literature. Starting from Lamartine or Boileau, the French ideas and literary currents were significant elements for the Romanian writer. Grigore Alexandrescu developed his literary creation through an original process, by mixing the classical elements with romantic ones.

THE UTOPIAN ELEMENTS IN ,,SÎNTA CETATE” OF HELIADE RĂDULESCU

Author(s): Ana-Maria Vlad / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 24/2021

In this paper I focuses on Heliade Rădulescu and his visionary poetry. This is a continuation of the my last article intitulated ,,Sînta Cetate by Heliade Rădulescu- The utopism as the paradox description” published in Journal of Romanian Literary Sudies, Issue no. 21/2020. The perfection of a spiritually dead society, the hypocrisy of people too full of self, the split between the hidden desires of a subconscious marked by their own social condition and the "sinful" reality are some utopian elements that deeply mark the prophetic poems of Heliade Rădulescu.

THE FAIRY TALE OF THE BEING (BASMUL FIINȚEI) – CONSTANTIN AND RAFAIL NOICA

Author(s): Alexandru Stănescu / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 24/2021

This article proposes a new reading of the classic Romanian fairy tale “Everlasting Youth and Endless Life” (“Tinerețe fără bătrânețe și viață fără de moarte”), collected by Petre Ispirescu in 1862. A hermeneutics of this text was published in 1978, under the name “The fairy tale of the being”, by Romanian philosopher Constantin Noica. His son – Hieromonk Rafail Noica, is an important contemporary theologian, following the teachings of Saint Sophrony Sakharov. The fairy tale will be analyzed through a tri-conceptual lens: the philosophy of Constantin Noica, the theology of his son - Hieromonk Rafail Noica, and a reinterpretation that critically integrates these visions.

SCHRIFTSTELLER ALS ÄRZTE VERSUS SCHRIFTSTELLER ALS PATIENTEN

Author(s): Simona Olaru-Poşiar / Language(s): German Issue: 25/2021

When we talk about medicine as a scientific field of research, we rarely expect to see its connection to literature. The article underlines the connection between literature and medicine by speaking about the fact that doctors are gifted writers as well. Nevertheless, some of the best works are written by patients as well. Sometimes doctors become patients, because a physician is not merely a health provider, but he himself can be touched by illness and suffer like any other human being. When this happens, the scientific rendering of the doctor- patient image is unique and offers works of literature that can be analyzed from a double perspective. Doctor- patient renderings of reality and fiction are full of precision, unique depictions of literary universes on a background canvas of objectivity.

Elementy dźwiękosfery górskiej w poezji Juliana Przybosia

Author(s): Łukasz Piaskowski / Language(s): Polish Issue: 1/2021

The article is an attempt to explore and describe the audio motifs in mountain poems by Julian Przyboś. The author, using the methodological achievements of the anthropology of sound, attempts to analyze and interpret poems devoted to the mountains. The article presents a number of concepts developed by the sound studies’ methodology, such as audiosphere, phonosphere, sonosphere, soundscape, or galenosphere. The text clearly demonstrates the existence of Przyboś’s ideas about the world of sounds which the poet contained both in his poems and his program texts. Particularly noteworthy is the poet’s conceptualization of silence and silence in the mountain space.

Філософія поетичної мови Ліни Костенко

Author(s): Svitlana Yermolenko,Galyna Siuta / Language(s): Ukrainian Issue: 1/2021

The article reveals the meaning of the concept “philosophy of Lina Kostenko’s language,” characterizes the features of individual style as a way of poet’s creative thinking. Lexical-semantic and textual analysis of the defining token “word” is carried out, its semantically attractive connections with the tokens “soul” and “thought” are revealed. Expressive means of transmitting a person’s preverbal emotional state have been recorded. The semantics of the concept of “time,” available in different linguistic and structural units of the text, is traced. Cognitive-linguistic, structural and linguistic analysis of Lina Kostenko’s aphorisms is a testimony to her creative innovation in the formation of aesthetic treasures of the Ukrainian literary word from the second half of the 20th to the beginning of the 21st century — a cultural code of the nation, which organically combines historical sources of language, connections with the Ukrainian classic poetic texts and reflection of modern life of the Ukrainian language.

Muzyczne nośniki pamięci kulturowej w poezji Jana Lechonia

Author(s): Łukasz Piaskowski / Language(s): Polish Issue: 1/2019

Jan Lechoń was a poet who actively used memory motifs in his works. These threads were very often correlated with musical and sound themes. First, this article is an attempt to show how Lechoń constructed specific models of cultural memory, in which musical reminiscences played an important role. Secondly, the text shows a lot of evidence that the main method of building musical and literary dependencies that Lechoń used was the Musicality II specified by Andrzej Hejmej, consisting in treating music as an element of a larger topic. Music in Lechoń’s poetry is not always treated as a value in itself. The poet often treats music, e.g. the theme of a concert or playing an instrument, as a pretext to show other content, especially those that are important to Polish cultural memory.

Лекарят и обществото

Author(s): Dimitar Goshev / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 1/2021

Трансформациите на жените в животни в китайската и българската народна култура

Author(s): Latchezara Pravtcheva / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 1/2023

The cultural artistry of people always impresses with interesting characters and plots. This following article aims to present the transformations of women into animals and of animals into women in Chinese and Bulgarian folklore, starting from ancient myths and the deities who created the humans, passing through the traditional transformations into dragons or hydras, as well as into other creatures such as nine-tailed foxes, hedgehogs, bears, goats, and birds.

Föl fogok mászni Zákeus mellé a fügefára, hátha én is megláthatom Jézust. Interjú Lövétei Lázár Lászlóval

Author(s): László Lövétei Lázár,Levente Vermesser / Language(s): Hungarian Issue: 867/2023

Levente Vermesser's interview with poet Lázár László Lövétei.

Laikmetīgi par Blaumani

Author(s): Ivars Ījabs / Language(s): Latvian Issue: 50/2023

Review of: Benedikts Kalnačs. Pavērsiens. Rūdolfs Blaumanis latviešu un Eiropas literatūrā. Rīga: LU Literatūras, folkloras un mākslas institūts, 2022.

Usmena književnost u književnosti za djecu i omladinu Alije Isakovića i Ljubice Ostojić

Author(s): Edina Murtić / Language(s): Bosnian Issue: 23/2023

The purpose of this paper is to show how the elements of oral literature interpolate in the contemporary literature for children and youth of the prominent Bosnian-Herzegovinian authors Alija Isaković and Ljubica Ostojić. Firstly, this Paper theoretically elaborates on the presence of the elements of oral literature in the literature for children and youth. These two different literary directions touch each other at their roots, and in the contemporary interpolation, they exist parallelly in the genre re-semanticization of the elements of oral literature. Following theoretical postulates of the most prominent authors from the South-Slavic Interliterary Community in the field of researching oral literature and literature for children and youth, we will show how the linguistic-stylistic heritage is re-interpreted through the traditional oral literary forms in the texts of contemporary authors, and how the elements of orality appear in new narrative structures- short stories and fairy tales of a new type. We will show how the rhetorical and rhythmical values of a text spill over in linguistic audacity, and how old oral structures; folk songs, and folk tales are narratively defamiliarized, deconstructed, and parodied.

Josefa Rosensohna Tractatus de Kabała, czyli najstarszy oświeceniowy traktat o chasydyzmie

Author(s): Marcin Wodziński / Language(s): Polish Issue: 51/2023

The article presents an unknown treatise written by a Vilna-based maskil and medical doctor, Josef Rosensohn (ca. 1774–1849). The newly discovered text, commissioned by a Polish aristocrat and Enlightenment activist Tadeusz Czacki (1765–1813), is the oldest maskilic treatise on Hasidism, written in either late 1804 or 1805, important not only for the history of the Haskalah, but also a significant source on the history of Hasidism and Jewish-Polish cultural relations. The article consists of two parts: (1) extensive introduction presenting the author, circumstances of the treatise creation, and significance of the source; (2) a thoroughly annotated treatise itself.

Cartographies of Lost Places: An Oriental Oasis on the Danube River

Author(s): Lorena-Clara MIHĂEȘ / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2023

Situated at the crossroads of East and West, there once existed a small and enchanting island on the Danube River, which separated the Ottoman Empire from the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Throughout its lengthy and intricate history, the island had various names and was ruled by diverse forces. Ada-Kaleh now only exists in the memories of those who once inhabited it, many of whom have long since passed away. Submerged in 1970 to make way for the construction of the Iron Gates hydroelectric power plant, Ada-Kaleh continues to pique curiosity and bewitch the imagination of people who have heard of it but have never had the chance to set foot on it. Its disappearance from the map does not mean it has fallen into complete oblivion. Rather, it endures in multiple forms of artistic expression, including exhibitions, documentaries, novels, poetry, and movies. The present endeavour aims to explore the tumultuous history of this long-lost Oriental haven and to examine the various ways in which it has been recreated and reimagined in popular culture.