Dostoevsky on immortality of the soul and unearthly Paradise

Author(s): Grzegorz Przebinda / Language(s): English,Polish Issue: 1/2018

Dostojewski o nieśmiertelności duszy i raju pozaziemskim Artykuł stanowi próbę opisu światopoglądu rosyjskiego pisarza i myśliciela Fiodora Michajłowicza Dostojewskiego (1821–1881) w kontekście rozumienia przez niego nieśmiertelności duszy ludzkiej oraz raju pozaziemskiego w opozycji do ateistycznych i antyteistycznych ideologii Rosji drugiej połowy XIX wieku, w tym przede wszystkim „bezbożnego socjalizmu”. Ukazuje fundamentalne różnice pomiędzy cząstkami ideowo-fabularnymi powieści Bracia Karamazow – Przewrót geologiczny, Legenda o raju i Wielki Inkwizytor – w kontekście rozważań pisarza o osobowej nieśmiertelności człowieka i jego istnieniu w „raju pozaziemskim”. W odniesieniu do bliskiej Dostojewskiemu ideowo postaci nacjonalisty Iwana Pawłowicza Szatowa z powieści Biesy została sformułowana teza o sprzeczności jego światopoglądu z chrześcijańskim uniwersalizmem, wyrażonym źródłowo w Liście do Galatów apostoła Pawła (3:28): „Nie ma Żyda ani Greka, nie ma niewolnika ani wolnego, nie ma mężczyzny ani kobiety, gdyż wy wszyscy jedno jesteście w Jezusie Chrystusie”.

Dziesięciolecie Polski odrodzonej w publikacjach książkowych – analiza edytorska na wybranych przykładach

Author(s): Joanna Kułakowska-Lis / Language(s): Polish Issue: 2/2019

The aim of the paper was to analyse publications (compact editions) published on the occasion of the 10th anniversary of Poland's regaining independence in 1928 and 1929. The source of information on over 100 publications of this nature was Wykaz Druków wydawanych w Rzeczpospolitej Polskiej druków polskich lub Polski dotyczących wydawanych za granicą (List of Printed Works Published in the Republic of Poland and Polish Printed Works or Printed Works of Poland Concerning those Published Abroad), which had been published since 1928. The books analysed were grouped according to their subject matter: historical studies, publications devoted to Józef Piłsudski, poems and songs, publications on economic issues, etc. Selected issues were subject to detailed editorial analysis: Dziesięciolecie Polski Odrodzonej Księga Pamiątkowa (The Tenth Anniversary of Poland Reborn. Memorial Book), Złota księga Polski (The Golden Book of Poland) and Przemysł i handel (Industry and Trade), discussing issues related to the editorial concept, graphic design, layout and selection of illustrations, as well as the purpose of publication.

МЕТОДОЛОШКИ ОКВИРИ ИСТРАЖИВАЊА СРПСКЕ КЊИЖЕВНОСТИ ПРЕДРАГА ПАЛАВЕСТРЕ

Author(s): Valentina Veljić / Language(s): Serbian Issue: 8/2022

Предмет рада је истраживање методолошких оквира књижевноисторијског рада Предрага Палавестре са циљем указивања на његов књижевнонаучни допринос изучавању српске књижевности у светлу регионалних и европских књижевних оквира. Истраживање се заснива на дијахронијском прегледу развоја књижевноисторијске (књижевнонаучне) методологије Предрага Палавестре и синтези у погледу грађе и виђења српске књижевности са аспекта једног од најзначајнијих проучавалаца књижевности на нашим просторима. У завршном делу рада указујемо на значај истраживања Предрага Палавестре у контексту методологије науке о књижевности. Како бисмо сагледали приступ Предрага Палавестре књижевним појавама у својим књижевно-научним радовима (монографијама, студијама, огледима; књижевноисторијским прегледима), у обзир узимамао следеће књиге: Послератна српска књижевност 1945–1970, Историја модерне српске књижевности: златно доба 1892–1918, Књижевност Младе Босне (објављене у два тома) и Јеврејски писци у српској књижевности.

THE FICTIONAL JOURNALISTIC DISCOURSE OF A CONTROVERSIAL WRITER: MARGUERITE DURAS ABOUT THE VILLEMIN CASE

Author(s): Daniela Cătău-Vereș / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 24/2021

With the realization of her talent as a writer in the 1950s, Marguerite Duras made her debut in journalism. Whether she takes the path of politics or journalism, she does it to defend the idea of freedom, taken in an infinite sense. In 1984, she published a very controversial article in the Libération about the Gregory affair or the crime committed by Christine Villemin against her son. There are some precious Durasian pages about the status of women in society, which raises the issue of Marguerite Duras's subjective journalism. In her article on Christine Villemin, she crosses the line between fiction and reality to find in this real story a pretext to write a sublime text.

REPRESENTATIONS OF THE CHILD IN THE ROMANIAN ART AND LITERATURE

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

The present study aims to highlight the image of the child in the Romanian art and literature. This theme of the childhood has been approached with great interest, regardless of the era, in an innovative direction by artists and writers. We do not follow all the representations, but simply share different trends that can be observed and which help us to conceive the pieces for a history of childhood in the Romanian sphere.

GEORGE STEINER – A LIFE

Author(s): Dorina Nela Trifu / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 24/2021

In the present paper entitled „George Steiner- A life” we aim to draw the profile of a complex personality, George Steiner, American writer, with French origins, pointing out just some few important biographical and bibliographical aspects. The presentation will not be exhaustive, due to the type of scientific paper considered. Obviously, this presentation will not refer to George Steiner as a man, as a teacher, as a translator, as a linguist, as a literary critic, but the ideas will refer tangentially to some dominant aspects, and sometimes they will refer to some papers or some perceptions and concepts launched by the author. We will focus though on Steiner the translator. A picture from an article about George Steiner published at the beginning of 2020, shortly after his demise, by „Agerpres.ro”, illustrates the senior in a room surrounded by books, this aspect demonstrating the passion of his life, to which he owes the erudition.

LECA MORARIU – BETWEEN MEMORY AND HISTORY. THE JOURNAL FROM VÂLCEA

Author(s): Luminiţa IPATE (CĂŞUNEANU) / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 24/2021

The present study is part of a research paper which reveals the profile of Leca Morariu, the scholar, and his relation with history. The Journal from Vâlcea is a source of treasured data and information, being a safe path to the analysis of interiority. The journal includes amazing and fascinating pages about a man who, if we did not know his history, could as well be a novel character: a strict, extremely studious intellectual who ‘builds himself’ calmly and safely, overcoming years of hardships. Leca Morariu went through dramatic situations, over and over again, bearing them all with dignity and hope.

ȘTEFAN BĂNULESCU'S PLACE IN CONTEMPORARY LITERATURE

Author(s): Maria-Mirela Puiu / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 24/2021

Ștefan Bănulescu is a writer who is part of the ꞌ60th generation. He manages to stand out through what he writes and what he thinks. From an early age he likes to read and tell everything in detail. He spent his childhood in his native village of Făcăieni in Ialomița County, and he will spend high school in Călărași. The style with which each writing relates makes him become a true writer who ends up being loved by every reader.

POET(H)IC IRONY. COMMITMENT TO COMMUNIST REALITIES. THE CASE OF NINA CASSIAN

Author(s): Dragoș Bogdan Popa / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 24/2021

The present article focuses on an important chapter in the history of the Romanian literature: poetry in communist times. The study proposed in this article does not approach the notion of “irony” as a mere means of expression, but as a vision of the world. Its purpose is to show the Romanian poets’ critical commitment to the realities of the communist world. In this respect, the case of Nina Cassian is suggestive and fascinating by the transformations of her ironic discourse, her poetry making an (almost) complete circle: first, she expresses by means of irony against the war, then becomes a militant in favour of (the utopia of) communism, to finally readjust by using irony against it. More or less opportunist, the presence of ironic poetry during the times of the communist regime was, certainly, opportune, fact that generates new interpretation dilemmas even three decades after its fall. The poetry of Nina Cassian (1924 - 2014) certainly remains a paradoxical case, the author combining with intelligence revolt and submission, concession being, in those times, a form of adaptation of the writers ‘species’ to reality. The poet under discussion certifies, at textual level, a surprising compromise that deserves a special treatment, as we see it as a perfect example of connivance of a totalitarian structure with a nonconformist poet.

"На прощаване" в типологията на лирическите жанрове

Author(s): Alexandar Panov / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 4/2023

The article analyzes Hristo Botev's poem „Farewell in 1868“, tracking the different genre paradigms to which it can be referred. Adopting the thesis that the typology of lyrical genres is mainly determined by the performative character of lyrical discourse, the author clarifies the discursive characteristics of the poem. It is established that the appellative nature of the „message“, as the poem is in appellative form, is only an artistic convention. The real communicative purpose of the literary text is not appellative, but declarative, and wants to achieve the joining of the perceiving community to the value system and value architectonics of the world shared by the lyrical hero. This discursive analysis allows to determine the place of the poem in the typology of lyrical genres.

Литературните произведения в учебните програми за VIII - XII клас в контекста на възпитанието и превантивната педагогика

Author(s): Daniel Polihronov / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 4/2023

The article interprets the problem of the educational and preventive functions of literature. A systematisation and interpretation of the literary works included in the curricula in the first and second high school stages of secondary education is proposed, in the context of the components determining the structure of personality upbringing.

THE ROLE OF SOCIAL MEDIA IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF INTERCULTURAL COMPETENCE AMONG UNIVERSITY STUDENTS IN AZERBAIJAN

Author(s): IMANOVA Sevda / Language(s): English Issue: 17/2022

The paper deals with the issues of forming and developing students’ intercultural competence (IC) level and the demands for culture-based, appropriate teaching materials including social websites in Azerbaijan. In order to succeed in fostering students’ intercultural competence, the content and teaching strategies of foreign languages, all educational documents, programs, syllabi, and teaching materials must be thoroughly designed based on culture. The swift development of global economy, transportation, and communication necessitates the tendencies relating to intercultural competence meaning that people from multicultural backgrounds has made intercultural competence very relevant. In this context, social media play a key role in increasing the Internet users’ culture awareness and improving intercultural competence. In this study, the questionnaire was designed in order to gain the influence of social media in the development of intercultural competence and the impacts of learning foreign languages among the students who study at Azerbaijan University of Languages. Using social media in the classroom environment contributes to understanding of foreign cultures which facilitates the language acquisition

Preface

Author(s): Maya Ivanova / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2023

Cyril and Methodius. Images. Memory. Identity (A Book Review)

Author(s): Ewelina Drzewiecka / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2023

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Еditions of the Cyrillo-Methodian Research Centre at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences for the period 2021–2022

Author(s): Nely Gancheva / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2023

Hans Bergel (1925-2022)

Author(s): Raluca Nicoleta Spiridon / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 1-2/2023

Hans Bergel was a German-speaking Romanian writer and publicist, born in the first half of the last century. His life was constantly governed by the idea of escape. He takes refuge in the mountains to escape deportation to the U.S.S.R. and evades judicial liability when he is about to execute the punishment for the attempted fraudulent crossing of the border. On September 19, 1959, Hans Bergel was sentenced, along with Andreas Birkner, Wolf von Aichelburg and Georg Serg, to hard years in prison for the content of his literary work. In 1968 he emigrated to Federal Germany, as a last act of refusal of the totalitarian state's constraints. Hans Bergel left behind a huge cultural heritage, from novels with autobiographical nuances to poems of existentialist essence.

ЗА ЕДНА КЪСНА И НЕИЗВЕСТНА ПОЕМА ЗА ПАИСИЙ ХИЛЕНДАРСКИ ОТ МИХАИЛ КОВАЧЕВ (1962)

Author(s): Iveta Rasheva / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 22/2023

In 1962, the Bulgarian Church canonized Paisij Hilendarski. “Church Newspaper” devotes its entire issue from December of the same year to the event. It contains the lyrical poem “Paisij Hilendarski” by Mihail Kovachev, a researcher of Mount Athos and the Zograf Monastery. The report dwells on the question of what she managed to “say” in the difficult time of socialism.

Aesthetic Dimensions in Novels by Writers from Banat

Author(s): Daniel-Sorin Vintilă / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2023

Writers belonging to cultures once subordinated to the Austrian Empire display a dual attitude towards the Centre: both rejection and nostalgia. These circumstances are translated into a multitude of cultural, behavioural, psychological and psycholiterary features, as well as a wide range of literary procedures. Sorin Titel, Miloš Crnjanski—as well as Danilo Kiš, Herta Müller and others—are writers who lived the moment of the disintegration of the Empire, with everything that this meant for the European literature, in general, and for the literature of the Banat region, in particular. This study examines how such writers analyse the history of the nations they belong to and the local perception of the Centre (administration, religion, political leaders) while exploring how they approach themes such as exile, migration, and the trauma of being separated from the place of birth. Moreover, it highlights the aesthetic dimensions of the literature from Banat and the presence of the Danube as a natural link associated with the Central-European space, together with other relevant hydronyms and toponyms.

From Postmodernism, with Love: Neo-Victorian Sexual/Textual Politics in The French Lieutenant’s Woman

Author(s): Michaela Praisler,Oana-Celia Gheorghiu / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2023

Against the backdrop of the sexual revolution that the world was undergoing and of the textual experimentation that literature was undertaking in the late 1960s, the silence of the female characters populating Victorian fiction became nothing less than audible – the source of the debate around the ‘sexual/textual politics’ to have dominated the end of the twentieth century. With The French Lieutenant’s Woman, John Fowles gives a voice to his central character, Sarah Woodruff, and, in so doing, constructs a woman who deconstructs the (predominantly male) canon. Moreover, the novelist weaves her tale into his story and thus builds successive layers of fictionality for the interrogation of outmoded patterns of thought and the associated narrative strategies – symptomatic for the late Victorian era, yet lingering in the mindset of readers a century later. To illustrate the general postmodern ‘dis-ease’ with tradition and the particular subversive manner in which Fowles challenges expectations, the present study lays focus on the cultural production of early Neo-Victorian novels, highlights parody and metafiction as recurrent modes of writing, with frequent incursions into text, context, and intertext.

Ghostwriting and Spectrality in Robert Harris’s The Ghost

Author(s): Robert Lance Snyder / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2023

A critique of Tony Blair’s collaboration with George W. Bush in the War on Terror, Robert Harris’s The Ghost (2007) goes beyond its topical subject by exploring the connections between ghostwriting and spectrality. The unnamed protagonist of Harris’s novel is a professional ghostwriter who, after being commissioned to revamp former Prime Minister Adam Lang’s memoirs, becomes enmeshed in various forms of spectrality. While isolated with his hosts in a fortress-like compound on Martha’s Vineyard during the island’s bleak off-season, the ghostwriter experiences the Uncanny firsthand. In the end he compiles a 160,000-word book, not realizing that with the project’s completion he is signing his own death warrant by writing a work about the pursuit of truth. The novel’s coda differs from that of Roman Polanski’s 2010 film adaptation, but Harris’s narrative captures the universality of literary Gothicism.