OBITELJSKI ROMAN U HRVATSKOJ DJEČJOJ KNJIŽEVNOSTI DEVEDESETIH GODINA PROŠLOGA STOLJEĆA

Author(s): Sanja Vrcić Mataija / Language(s): Croatian Issue: 13/2015

Considering the position of the dominant narrative figure within the Croatian children's realistic novel of the nineties of the last century it is possible to define type of the family novel that belongs to social-psychological fiction. Narrative pattern of the family children's novel implies a story of the family atmosphere in which adult characters appear alongside with children's characters equal to them at the narrative level, portraying the adult and children's characters and a way of building their identity in a family community of different types. Children's characters create their personality strongly influenced by family relationships and characters of their parents and relatives, modeling their activity on them as well as adopting gender standardized roles. The traditional and contemporary family relationships could be recognized according the prevailing world view on the selected corpus of the novel. Unlike the traditional family, which includes parents and children, strong family, mostly male authority, more liberal attitude of the weaker parental authority prevails in the majority of contemporary families. It is possible to identify several forms of a family novel: family novel with a picture of the traditional patriarchal family, family novel with a picture of contemporary patriarchal family and family novel with a picture of contemporary liberal family.

DIFICULTADES EN LA TRADUCCIÓN DE TERMINOS ARGÓTICOS DEL ESPAÑOL AL RUMANO

Propuesta de traducción del lenguaje argótico de HISTORIAS DEL KRONEN

Author(s): Hose Barroso / Language(s): Spanish Issue: 1/2014

In the following article we shall analyse the Spanish juvenile jargon, with a focus on its main characteristics and the difficulties arising in the process of its translation into Romanian language. We shall also see that the limited available support material represents an important obstacle for a thorough translation of the jargon terminology. Additionally we shall proceed to a translation exercise in which juvenile jargon terminology from a famous Spanish novel/movie -Historias del Kronen, of Jose Angel Mañas, is translated to both standard and jargon Romanian language. Based on the translation exercise we shall draw our conclusion in relation to the difficulties implied by the translation of juvenile jargon terms.

L’INTERTEXTUALITÉ DANS L’ADAPTATION CINÉMATOGRAPHIQUE DE L’ŒUVRE LITTÉRAIRE

Author(s): Maria Cătălina Radu / Language(s): French Issue: 1/2015

In this article I intend to approach various aspects concerning the “translation” of literatures into film and the variety of transformation requested by this kind of modern adaptation. The first part of the article intends to give an answer to questions such as how can texts change into filmic image, what makes fiction become film, how could one make the translation from words to image? In a second section of my paper I will focus on the controversies raised by the relations established between literatures and cinematography, with a focus on the issue of fidelity of the cinematic expression to the literary source, the restriction the concept of fidelity supposes and the power of innovation of the cinematography.

За някои особености на традиционната люлчина песен

Author(s): Elena Savova–Tsolova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 1/2018

The topic of analysis in this paper are lullabies. The idea is to compare and contrast some of the themes, imagery, and motifs of this specific genre within different folk traditions, as well as their inclusion and development in the Bulgarian lullaby. This paper is split into several small chapters: Growth and prosperity – Death; Forest – Crib in a Tree; Who Rocks the Crib? (motif “Everyone is at work”) and Animals (motif “Your mother is a fox,//your father is a wolf…“).

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.

Доц. д-р Елена Коцева-Арнаудова (16.08.1936 – 04.04.2018)

Author(s): Elena Uzunova,Elissaveta Moussakova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 57-58/2018

Jewish Anti-Christian Polemical Treatises in Early Modern Central and Eastern Europe: Where are They?

Author(s): Daniel J. Lasker / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2018

Jewish anti-Christian polemical treatises comprise a well-known genre in medieval Jewish literature. It is generally thought that these books were written in response to Christian missionary pressure. Yet, when considering eastern Europe in the early modern period, one sees that this genre is almost non-existent, despite continuing Christian attempts at converting Jews. An analysis of medieval Jewish anti-Christian writings shows that rather than being necessarily a response to Christian missionary pressure, many of them are part of the larger Jewish theological enterprise. Hence, such works are prevalent in areas where Jews engaged in theology – the Islamic world, Iberia, Provence, and Italy – and almost non-existent in northern Europe (Ashkenaz), where there was little interest in theology. This pattern continued into the early modern period, at which time Ashkenazic Jews still produced almost no anti-Christian polemical works. The most important early modern, eastern European anti-Christian book, the very popular Faith Strengthened, was written by a Lithuanian Karaite Isaac of Troki (died 1594), reinforcing our knowledge that eastern European Karaite Jews did not share the Ashkenazi intellectual ethos of their Rabbanite neighbors.

The Translation of the New Testament into Hebrew in the Eyes of Franz Delitzsch: Philology, Mission, Theology

Author(s): Eran Shuali / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2018

In this article, I examine the way in which Franz Delitzsch envisioned his masterpiece translation of the New Testament into Hebrew, first published in 1877. I focus on the aims Delitzsch attributed to his translation and on the way in which the translation project was embedded in the wider views held by Delitzsch as a Hebraist and a theologian. Furthermore, I show how Delitzsch’s conception of his endeavor structured the translation work itself.

Методически дейности за развиване на интеркултурната комуникативна компетентност на учениците чрез обучението по български език в първия гимназиален етап

Author(s): Polina Zarkova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 1/2019

The present article aims to provide methodological activities of developing students’ intercultural communicative competence in Bulgarian language teaching. The matter of the paper is motivated by the standpoint considering intercultural competence as the key competence of the 21st century. Its leading role is determined by multiligualism and multiculturalism that characterize the world nowadays. To turn youngsters into successful communicators in order to manage the challenges towards them, issued by the modern society, it is necessary for them to develop skills which enable students to participate in intercultural dialogue effectively. The communicatively oriented Bulgarian language teaching has the characteristics needed to make students master intercultural communicative skills.

QUEERING THE FAIRY-TALE IN ANNE SEXTON’S TRANSFORMATIONS

Author(s): Florina Năstase / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2019

Queering the Fairy-Tale in Anne Sexton’s Transformations. The current paper explores Anne Sexton’s volume of poetry, Transformations (1971), from a queer, feminist perspective. Each of the seventeen poems offers a distorted retelling of a Brothers Grimm fairy-tale, often replete with pop culture references and black humor. The paper examines the strategies of queering that the poet employs in her deconstruction of myths, storytelling, family relations (such as motherhood and fatherhood), gender roles, deformity and disability, and many other difficult subjects. The author makes use of feminist and queer theory, while also casting light upon the construct of the fairy-tale and why it offers a space for queer exploration. The fairy-tale allows the poet to examine aspects of trauma and intimacy at a remove, but with a view towards catharsis.

A STYLISTICS OF EXILED LIVES

Author(s): Roxana Patras / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2019

A Stylistics of Exiled Lives. The article explores the correspondence between the particular stylistics of exiled lives (specific ways, manners, and forms of living developed during exile) and a specific critical method (para-biography). While all exiles can be perceived as people with underachieved destinies - exile is, in this case, comparable to premature death, lost works, imperfect style, sterility, etc. - the biographer who endeavors to “capture” the ways of the exiled should rely on a critical faculty fit to such uncompletedness, yet a faculty mostly uncommon to his own lot: imaginativeness or critical imagination. Such correspondence between the unique situation and the para-biography of the exiled has been suggested by Ilina Gregori’s books on three personalities (Mihai Eminescu, Emil Cioran and Matila Ghyka) who turned their own experience of exile into particular expressions.

ANCA PEIU, ROMANTIC RENDERINGS OF SELFHOOD IN CLASSIC AMERICAN LITERATURE. BUCUREŞTI: C.H. BECK, 2017, 380 P.

Author(s): Andrada Danilescu / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2019

Anca Peiu connects eleven essential American writers under the central theme of self and its expressions, seen as rejecting the anxiety of influence and constructing profoundly original, characteristic modes of expression. Peiu focuses on the theme of selfhood "in/or poetry" for five of the trademark figures and "in/or story-telling for other six in an attempt to investigate the thematic as well as the foundational pillar of the American literature. Aware of her markedly ex-centric, East European position, the author decides to reiterate her standing as an advantage which offers her the opportunity to read and interpret these canonical, widely discussed and analyzed figures from a novel point of view. Peiu insists on the highly selective and subjective nature of the process, the final products serving as a guide for both students and American literature novices eager to expand their vision of the world literature and its continuum which spans continents and centuries.

Българската мемоарна литература след 1990 г. Преходът през спомените на Тошо Тошев, Георги Мишев, Евгений Дайнов

Author(s): Bistra Velichkova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 4/2018

Based on Mamardashvili’s words that “the meaning of the past is happening in the present,” we would like to investigate in what way the contemporaries of the period after 1990, period of transition from socialism to democracy, remember this time, and how do they interpret the events of the past from the perspective of the present. After a research on the published Bulgarian memoir literature from the year of 1990 to the year of 2018, based on a detailed list from the Collaborated Online Bibliographic System and Services (COBISS), we have chosen three authors of memoirs, whose books we are going to analyze in details. We have chosen these authors by two criteria: 1) their active participation in the social and political life of the country, both in the first years after 1990, and until today; and 2) the three authors are representatives of professions which are connected in some way with the words and writing. In this paper we are going to analyze the memoirs of the journalist and publisher Tosho Toshev, the writer Georgi Mishev and the political scientist Evgeniy Dainov. Our main goal is to analyze how do they see and interpret the period after the 1990, in their memoirs.

Мастацкiя асаблiвасцi аповесцяў Лукаша Калюгi «Дзе косцi мелюць» i «Зэнка малы нiколi не быў»

Author(s): Nadzieja Zujewa / Language(s): Belarussian Issue: 10/2018

In this article, the artistic features of two camp stories by Lukash Kalyuga “Дзе косцi мелюць” and “Зэнка малы нiколi не быў” are analyzed. The author examines the identification of the national character, culture, life of the Belarusian people. The work presents their psychology in the early twentieth century, their defining mental features, both positive and negative.

Ikja prej mitit të njeriut të ri, në “Zhurma e erërave të dikurshme”

Author(s): Etjona Hoxha / Language(s): Albanian Issue: 03-04/2016

While in Albanian public opinion, the case of Dritëro Agolli is randomly recognized as the profile of an official writer, the collection of stories “Zhurma e erërave të dikurshme” is a proof or testimony that his engagement in politics and literature, creates a rather complex relationship. Taking into consideration Agolli’s profile, on the one hand as a homo politicus, his engagement in Albanian political and social life during the years of communist dictatorship, and on the other one, his profile as a homopoeticus, in which we meet the correct application of dogma and principles of socialist realism and in other cases, in a part of his work, we find him as a conscious deviant of this platform. The profile of Dritëro Agolli presents curiosity from this viewpoint. The collection of stories “Zhurma e erërave të dikurshme”, a new literary performance for its time of writing, was published in 1964, but its publication was immediately banned. But what could have happened with reader’s approach of this collection at the time of its first publishing? How should this collection be read today? In our viewpoint, this collection should be read with a more objective and critical approach, far from the prejudices or different labeling attributed to Dritëro Agolli during these years of democracy, thus avoiding the traps and intrigues of the past, from which it is better to learn rather than deny and forget.

Initiatory Death in the Hindu Rite of Passage called Upanayana

Author(s): Hilda-Hedvig Varga / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2019

In world cultures, the individual’s transition from one stage of existence to the other is marked by specific ceremonies.When a youth is on the verge of entering adulthood, this milestone is touched upon through rites – more or less challenging from aphysical, mental and emotional point of view – meant to prepare him for the active participation in the community’s life, of which he is a member, and take on the specific responsibilities of his new identity.I have used the term identity since, we shall see, the transition from one stage to the other involves the casting off of one’s old garb and bedecking one’s self anew, a fundamental reconfiguration of the individual. Starting from the philosophical framing of the rites, in order to understand the concept of initiatory death we shall, first,reveal the origins of Upanayana, the context of its birth, its development stages, goal, and lastly, stop at some relevant passages for this rite from the sacred texts.

Универсалност и игрови характер на приказното произведение. Рецепция

Author(s): Rosina Kokudeva / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 5/2019

The aim of this article is to explore the universality and playful character of the fairytale with respect to its diverse perception. Its structure is split into two parts, united by the interest in the specific ways of both children’s and primitive man’s thinking. The first part illustrates the fairytale as an intrinsic part of children literature, and attention is given to the development of the genre and the characteristics of the folklore mind. The cognitive aspect of these types of texts is being discussed as well as its communicative function and its educational effect on children. Regarding the content and semantics of the texts it is being underlined that they positively affect the reader / listener, which is a consequence of the characteristics of the folklore mind and the stereotypes it brings about. The wide use of parody as a method, which tones down the horror elements of the fairytale is being pointed out regarding the psychological interpretation of fairytales. The second part attempts to explain the model of fairytales viewed through the concept of play proving its playful nature. The focus of attention is on Johan Huizinga’s concept of homo ludens, according to which the understanding of play is a key element of every culture. Based on the intrinsic connection between the fairytale and the myths and rituals, the article makes an attempt to search for mechanisms of play in the folkore fairytale model – regarding the repetition, variability, dynamics, improvisation. The function of play is being explored in the very structure of the fairytale - plot, heroes, formulas.

British Cultural (Re)Branding. The Cool Britannia Project or Great Britain between the Old and the New

Author(s): Mihaela Culea,Andreia Irina Suciu / Language(s): English Issue: 24/2019

This article theoretically discusses the national identity concept and its relation to the upholding of those distinctive elements that are associated with a country’s or a nation’s past. With a particular focus on the perceptions of British national identity in the 1990s, it presents some views of British academics, political pundits, politicians or journalists of those times regarding the state of the British society caught between the old and the new. The ‘Cool Britannia’ project proposed by the New Labour government aimed to resolve matters largely connected to a declining British society by putting forward a national rebranding plan, with the ultimate intention of modernizing a backward-looking British society at the turn of the century.

Genre Hybridization in Leonardo Sciascia’s The Day of the Owland Vikram Chandra’s Sacred Games

Author(s): Alessandro VESCOVI,Elisabetta Sorini / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2019

The rise of an original Indian detective novel can be dated back to the 1950s. Like its European predecessor, the genre was initially considered strictly popular; books were sold at railway stations as cheap reading matter for commuters. During the Sixties, however, thanks to the rising importance of the middle class, detective novels became increasingly popular. For years the detective genre had been on the wane and it was only in the first decade of the 21st century that new detective and noir stories appeared.

AN ATTRACTIVE ENEMY: THE CONQUEST OF CONSTANTINOPLE IN BULGARIAN IMAGERY

Author(s): Nikolay Aretov / Language(s): English Issue: 4/2019

The Ottoman conquest of Constantinople was a critical event in the history of the Balkans, that left its profound imprint on the notions of Bulgarians of their past and of their self-image. Behind the seemingly unambiguous evaluation of this event – a defeat of Christendom that has to do with the fall of the Bulgarian Kingdom – an observer could trace one more complicated, ambivalent picture. The paper marks some of its premises:A) The city was unsuccessfully attacked by Bulgarians several times in the past and they still think themselves through the prism of these wars. B) Byzantines (Greeks) and Ottomans (Turks) are the traditional enemies in the Bulgarian national mythology. Their conflict and their interrelations as a whole generate different reactions, multiple plots.C) In the nineteenth century when the foundations of Bulgarian nationalism were set up, Constantinople (Istanbul) was probably the city with the largest Bulgarian population and the stage for many of the important events in the Bulgarian society.This paper offers а brief review of the main types of Bulgarian texts from the 19th and early 20th centuries dealing with the fall of Constantinople, comparing them with some Byzantine sources, with some Greek and other interpretations of this event and focuses on one not so popular dramatic work, written in verses by Svetoslav Milarov in the early 1870s. Here the ambivalent attitude of a part of Bulgarian society to the Ottoman conquest of Constantinople was more visible.