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"A myśli w mym sercu przesłane przez Boga" - ewolucja dominanty lirycznej w poezjach Jehudy ha-Lewiego

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"A myśli w mym sercu przesłane przez Boga" - ewolucja dominanty lirycznej w poezjach Jehudy ha-Lewiego

Author(s): Barbara Gryczan / Language(s): Polish Issue: 03/2017

The author presented a number of Yehuda ha-Levi’s poems accompanied by their literary translation into Polish. Based on selected lyrical poems she presented ha-Levi’s artistic and philosophical attitude, and especially the changes it underwent during the author’s long life. The author paid special attention to the mystical themes in the works. The inimitable manner of portraying the intimate bond with the Absolute, the dreams, the recollections of Israel’s history, and the trip to Jerusalem as the climax, became a source of inspiration for generations of mystics. In order to encourage fuller and more comprehensive understanding of the phenomenon which Yehuda ha-Levi’s poetry represented, the author also included numerous commentaries serving as references to the author’s biography and the historical, cultural and linguistic background of his times.

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"Ikaromenippos" – starożytny dialog o locie na Księżyc i do niebiańskiej siedziby bogów

Author(s): Dominika Budzanowska-Weglenda / Language(s): Polish Publication Year: 0

Dominika Budzanowska-Weglenda’s chapter proposes an analysis of the Ikaromenippos or Voyage in Space, which is one of dialogues of Lucian of Samosata and probably the first literary description of the human trip to the Moon. The main character takes on this journey because of his aversion to philosophy. Lucian’s Ikaromenippos is a fantastic dialogue: a philosopher, probably the cynic, and satirist Menippus of Gadara, flies here “through the stars”. He takes two wings of large birds: the wing of the vulture and the wing of the eagle, and performs an incredible feat, worthy of Icarus: he reaches the Moon (from where he looks at the people and their actions on Earth), and then flies to Heaven—to the gods, “in upper Zeus’ rooms”. The story of Menippus’journey is like a swift current of the river, full of jocular tone, with a fantastic plot. But it clearly carries a deeper message: it expresses criticism of human attitudes and actions (adulteries, murders, conspiracies, perjury, betrayals among the closest to ones, war, courtship, piracy), meanness, false and mercenary piety, especially when stigmatizing bad behavior of philosophers, without sparing the representatives of any philosophical school. According to Lucian’s narrative, philosophers are lazy, quarrelsome, bloated, angry, grotesque, tumultuous, surly, unworthy people. The author reinforces the accusations of philosophers with the deity’s words, as the goddess of the Moon, Selene, having been encountered by the traveler, complains about them as well. She believes that philosophers are impostors, leading a shameful nightlife behind the scenes: they commit adultery, steal, and commit any other evil deeds. Ikaromenippos belongs to Lucian’s satirical works featuring reflective comedy. Correspondingly, Lucian postulates the liberation from the practical cognitive pressure of the logical rules and from the philosophical logic of cognition of the universe.

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"L’Amas ardent" de Yamen Manai ou comment penser la crise politique au miroir de l’écologie

Author(s): Sonia Zlitni-Fitouri / Language(s): French Issue: 17/2022

The purpose of this study is to show how the Tunisian writer Yamen Manai, describes, in “L’Amas ardent”, the mechanisms of an environmental crisis coupled with a political crisis. He looks at it both with nostalgia for the “pre-crisis” time, that of a harmonious relationship between man and nature, but also with concern about a world in danger. This ecological concern seems to assert itself, through a magical realism and imagery giving the impression of an atmosphere of general “crisis”. This story, in the form of a tale, subtly mixes ecology and political satire in modern Tunisia. Le Don, a beekeeper living with his bees, far from men and the hustle and bustle of the world, one day sees his hives ransacked and thousands of his bees cut in two. Wondering about this terrible disaster, he goes out searching to understand this mystery in a land upset by the Arab Spring, where God’s fanatics raged. The writing of the crisis, discarding any form of pathos, is based on an ironic wit reminiscent of Voltaire’s philosophical tales and a reflection on environmental issues that leads to an ecological fantasy.

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"Niezwykły klejnot wiary", czyli o duchowej bliskości pietyzmu i oświecenia. Na przykładzie poezji religijnej Hansa Adolpha Brorsona (1694–1764)

Author(s): Krystyna Szelągowska / Language(s): Polish Publication Year: 0

This paper tries to present Pietism as a current and set of ideas linked to the Enlightenment, as a culture focused on individualism and “subjectification”, as well as on the need to dismantle the old authorities and hierarchies. Such a way of thinking is visible in the religious poetry at that time, with the Danish pastor Hans Adolph Brorson. His main work The Rare Jewel of the Faith (Troens rare Klenodie, 1739), a collection of hymns used in the Danish and Norwegian church till today, belongs to the canon of the Danish literature.

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"SIMPLEMENTE MARIA": Naming Labor, Placing People in the Global Service Economy

Author(s): Karen Richman / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2007

On a Sunday morning in April, while visiting family in Newton, Massachusetts, I joined my parents and others for brunch in the restaurant of the local Marriott hotel. As an ethnographer of Haitian society, I immediately took notice that the men refilling the abundant buffets, cooking omelets, and clearing tables, and Haitian women waiting the tables were Haitian immigrants. The name badges worn by the workers confirmed their Haitian origins. But the badges identified them by a strange and unprecedented form of appellation. They were assigned typically Haitian first names—Frantz, Yves, Marie, Jeanne—but no surnames, that is, they did not have the kinds of surname one would expect to compliment and complete these first names, for example, Pierre, Belizaire, Jean-Baptiste, Saint-Fort. In place of their middle name, rather, was a city or province in Haiti! And where their last name might have been was the nation-state itself. They were ‘Frantz, Cap Haitien, Haiti;’ ‘Yves, Aux Cayes, Haiti;’ ‘Marie-Carmel, Portau-Prince, Haiti;’ and ‘Jeanne, Jacmel, Haiti.’ There were other employees who were ‘of,’ as opposed to simply ‘from,’ the United States. They were white and worked the more visible jobs of hostess and cashier. They weren’t ‘of’ a nation-state but were surnamed for a state in the US. A receptionist at the front desk was Cathy, Newton, Massachusetts.The apposition of a unique person’s first name with a concrete locality in a ‘real’ nation-state made unconscious sense to everyone in my party of four except me. For them, Marriott’s ‘writing of identity’ had taken on a sort of inevitability. If the first name, city, and country were already on the badges, these signifiers must have had status in a real or natural order. But I was struck by the non-sense of putting a first name and a location together, as though there were some inherent linkage between the elements. I was unnerved by the sight of human bodies as props for a new kind of signification.

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"Wolność albo śmierć". Prolegomena do badań nad twórczością czeczeńskiego barda Timura Mucurajewa

Author(s): Kamila Pączek / Language(s): Polish Issue: 157/2017

The article is a preliminary study of contemporary Chechen bard Timur Mutsuraev and texts of his songs. The underground bard and active participant of the First Chechen War has become a legend and symbol of the Chechen struggle for independence and freedom. Despite strong anti-Russian and Islamic message Mutsu¬raev’s songs are popular not only among independence-oriented Chechens but also among Russian youth. Most of Mutsuraev’s works are patriotic war-songs glorifying national effort to defend Chechnya against Russian aggressors. The artist celebrates Chechen national symbols, myths and ethos. Mutsurayev’s songs are particular in¬teresting subject of study in context of postcolonial theory.

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"Ненормативне тіло" в романі Енн Райс "Плач до небес": музикознавчий дискурс

Author(s): Yuri CHEKAN / Language(s): Ukrainian Issue: 27/2015

Art of Castrato singers – people who have deliberately modified bodies – until recently was a tabooed topic in local musicology. At the same time, the understanding of the development of European baroque and classical opera without their contributions is not only incomplete, but largely deformed because from 1590 to 1798 in the cradle of opera – Italy (in the Papa State) – women were officially banned from performing on stage. Consequently, all the female parts were performed by castrati. This article in terms of an intermedia approach examines the realities of European opera culture that became the feature material of the novel by Anne Rice "Cry to Heaven" (1982), as well as their interpretation by the contemporary American writer. Contemporary American novelist Anne Rice is known to the public primarily through his texts about vampires and witches – eleven novels form a series of "Vampire Chronicles" (1976- 2014), three novels – the series "Meyfeyrski Witch" (1990-1994), two novels – series "New Vampire Chronicles" (1998-1999). Her debut work "Interview with the Vampire" (1976) became the basis of the same movie Irish director Neil Jordan with Brad Pitt and Tom Cruise starring (1994), bringing the author the deserved popularity and reputation as one of the leaders of modern gothic novel.

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"Царството на славяните" от Мавро Орбини, руският превод на Сава Владиславич и изследванията по въпроса

Author(s): Roberto Adinolfi / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 2/2015

The paper discusses some major publications dealing with Mavro Orbini’s Il Regno degli Slavi and its translation in Russian by Sava Vladislavich, which in turn is one of the sources of Paisiy’s Istoria slavyanobalgarska. Works by numerous Slavicists and philologists provide comprehensive explorations on this subject. This paper mainly focuses on studies by Bulgarian and Italian scholars.

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(BE)LONGING AND LOSS: EXPLORING VASSANJI’S NOSTALGIA

Author(s): Preeti Shirodkar / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2018

M. G. Vassanji’s latest novel – Nostalgia (2016) explores the dilemmas of identity and (be)longing - expressed or suppressed, realised or hidden, imposed or experienced - that have constituted the heart of diasporic writing. This paper explores the novel as a narrative that seems to move away from the genre, only to, before its close, arrive unexpectedly, at its centre, to focus attention on the unresolved and nagging concerns that serve for the diasporic as an albatross, that s/he is bound eternally to carry, whether at the physical or the psychological level.

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(DIS)OBEYING THE “INEXORABLE CENSOR”: CATHOLICISM IN THE FICTION OF KATE O’BRIEN AND EDNA O’BRIEN

Author(s): Vesna Ukić Košta / Language(s): English Issue: 7/2013

This article examines the ways in which two Irish authors, Kate O’Brien and Edna O’Brien, articulate and subvert the repressive Catholic dogma which heavily impacted on the shaping of Irish woman's identity throughout most of the twentieth century. The chosen novels, The Ante-Room (1934) and Mary Lavelle (1936) by Kate O'Brien, and The Country Girls Trilogy (1960, 1962, 1964) by Edna O'Brien are read in the same cultural and ideological context, and are considered to graphically enact what the philosopher Louis Althusser terms as the “ideological state apparatuses” at work. The heroines of both authors are constantly “interpellated” as individuals subjected to the controlling force of religion and thus deeply and often painfully steeped in the ideology and doctrine of the Irish Catholic Church.

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(Post)colonial Chronopolitics and Mapping the Depth of Local Time(s) in Global Literary Studies: an Itinerary to Guinea-Bissau

Author(s): Ewa Łukaszyk / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2021

This article is an attempt at deconstructing the chronopolitics inherent to the (post)colonial way of thinking about the world. As it is argued, what should replace it is a vision of multiple, overlying temporalities and forms of time awareness, reaching deeper than a literary history reduced to the cycle of colonisation – decolonisation – postcolonial becoming, originating from just a single maritime event: the European exploration and conquest of the world. The essay brings forth a choice of interwoven examples illustrating the variability of local time depths, associated with a plurality of origins, narrations, forms of awareness and cultivation of cultural belonging. It shows the lack of coincidence between the dominant and non-dominant perceptions of the past in such places as the archipelagos of São Tomé and Príncipe, Maldives, the Gambia, Cape Verde and Guinea-Bissau. Their ways of living the global time, as well as embodying significant texts (rather than simply preserving them) stretch far beyond the frameworks created by competing colonial empires, such as the Portuguese or the British one.

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(Un) cultural Cats: Multi-dimensional Transition of Felines in Human Society

Author(s): Katarzyna Łogożna-Wypych / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2018

The status of cats has changed in both society and literature. In human society and literature. Cats have fought their way to human homes, hearts, and to the centre of interest of various fields of science. In the time of buoyantly developing field of animal studies and Athrozoology, cats have been given a chance to be appreciated and understood. Their transition in both real world and virtual reality has been a multi-layered and complex process yet to be completed.

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(Авто)біографічна фальсифікація як знаряддя десакралізації канонічного автора (“Трагедія Артура” А. Філіпса)

Author(s): Natalia Vysotska / Language(s): Ukrainian Issue: 91/2015

Due to a number of socio-cultural factors biography (sub)genre “аuthor as character” has become fairly popular in current biographic writings. It is no wonder that William Shakespeare – the central figure in the Western canon according to H. Bloom – is one of its favorite “heroes”. In his novel The Tragedy of Arthur (2011) Arthur Phillips increasingly referred to as one of the most promising American writers of his generation engages his readers in a sophisticated play carried out around Shakespeare as a cult person. The play is centered on Shakespeare’s “unknown” tragedy; its text is incorporated into the novel being a masterful stylization imitating conventions and language of Elizabethan drama. The bulk of the novel has the form of an Introduction to the play relating the latter’s story which is simultaneously the story of the protagonist’s (the writer Arthur Phillips’) personal and professional coming of age. The paper sets out to explore the strategies the novelist deploys to tackle topical issues of present-day humanities. These include institutionalizing of the canon; machinery of literary cult functioning; blending borders between the original and the copy/forgery in the age of electronic technologies; limits of autofiction, etc. The timeliness of these issues guarantees Phillips’ daring experiment no small degree of interest both in its matter and its form.

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(РА)СТВАРАЊЕ PERSONAE DRAMATIS У МАГБЕТУ ЕЖЕНА ЈОНЕСКА

Author(s): Katarina Z. Milić / Language(s): Serbian Issue: 57/2015

Dans ce travail nous offrons les résultats de l’analyse des concepts dramatiques contemporains par rapport au théâtre dit traditionnel, et nous prêtons attention surtout au statut du personnage dramatique, vu que celui-ci est l’un des éléments inévitables dans la structure dramatique. Notre but est de présenter des tendences singulières du théâtre de l’absurde (le degré zéro du théâtre), et plus particulièrement la création des personnages dramatiques en tant que des figures disséminatives, mais aussi d’indiquer leur rôle dans le théâtre contemporain et leur rapport avec les contraintes structurales de celui-ci.

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`СМИСАО ЗА ИСТОРИЈУ` И `ЖИВА ТРАДИЦИЈА` У ЕЛИОТОВОЈ ПУСТОЈ ЗЕМЉИ И ПОЕЗИЈИ ШЕЈМУСА ХИНИЈА

Author(s): Ana S. Živković / Language(s): Serbian Issue: 54/2014

Comparing the poem Wasteland by Thomas Eliot to the Irish Nobel-prize winner Saemus Heaney’s collection of poetry Bogland, the paper underscores the similarities and differences aiming to prove that almost identical “sense of history’ is present in the poetry of both poets. Eliot views the “sense of history’ as the ability to recognize the same situations and patterns not only in the past, but in the present and future, bringing time into a whole, not chronological, but cyclic. “Living tradition’ is the tradition of stopping and continuing, basing the existence in the past and surviving in the present. The research includes the incongruities of Eliot’s theoretical considerations about tradition and practical realizations of those ideas in poetry, and we conclude that, according to the poet, tradition is not everything written since Homer until today, but only those works that possess the “sense of history’. The important myths (mermaid myth, Holy Grail myth, Narcissus myth) remind us that the 20th century man is not free from the primeval striving towards the spiritual and physical healing, as well as the eternal craving to divulge one’s own being completely. Civilization and capitalist tradition have distanced contemporary man from nature and sexual emotion, and directed him towards profit and material production. Despite Eliot’s declaring as a royalist and follower of catholic tradition, his poetry as well as Heaney’s is predominated by the influence of humanistic tradition based on the conflict of different cultural concepts, on the archetypes of light and darkness, heavens and the underworld.

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19.YÜZYIL GÜRCÜ EDEBİYATINDA COŞKULU ŞİİR (AKAKİ TSERETELİ’NİN EDEBİ YÖNÜ)

Author(s): Gül Mükerrem Öztürk / Language(s): Turkish Issue: 24/2018

Our purpose in this study, it is aimed to examine the poets of Akaki Tsereteli, one of the most important writers and poems, in a literary sense. It was tried to make analyses and evaluations on the examination of the work and influence of Georgian Romanticism on that period. ın summary, it seems that the Akaki Tsereteli’s period articulated his mood in his literary way in his social, political, cultural, economic and literary qualities.

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1920 – 1950’li YILLAR AZERBAYCAN EDEBİYATINDA MİLLİ MANEVİ İDEALLER HAKİM İDEOLOJİNİN GİRDABINDA

Author(s): Yaşar RIZAYEV / Language(s): Turkish Issue: 2/2009

1920-1950s, national-spiritual ideals of the Azerbaijan literature in the servitude of the judge ideology. This article is dealt from in which condition was national-spiritual ideals of Azerbaijan literature in the servitude of the soviet ideology and problems of Azerbaijani writers lived during this period.

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21. Yüzyıl Postmodern Japon Edebiyatının Aykırı Sesleri: İkezava Natsuki, Seirai Yūiçi ve Kobayaşi Takici

Author(s): Devrim Çetin Güven / Language(s): Turkish Publication Year: 0

The 20th century ended with the dissolution of systems based on “modernist” ideals. Although the 21st century was considered to become the construction process of a unipolar but multibase, decentralized, harmonious “new World”, it began as an era of crises of terror, war, refugee issues reminding Huntington’s twisted prediction entitled “the clash of civilizations”. To these were added major economic crises and ecological disasters such as tsunami and global warming. These crises deeply affected Japan, which is one of the important actors of the new world order, especially at the socioeconomic level. In response to such national and international crises, in Japanese literature it was observed several efforts of settling accounts with the past on the one hand, and grasping the “present” on the other. To grasp and express these phenomena a new language, a new style and an entirely new imagination were needed. Indeed, the most predominant feature of 21st century Japanese literature is the reception of postmodernism at theoretical and artistic levels. The prominent figures of this new postmodern literature have been such experimental writers as Tawada Yōko, Levy Hideo, Ikezawa Natsuki and Seirai Yūichi who skilfully articulated the national-international crises, and the individuals’ reactions at them. In our article, we named this literary style as “alternative postmodern Japanese literature” and focused on three specific works: Ikezawa Natsuki's novel Burden of Flowers (2000), Seirai Yūichi’s short stories Ground Zero— Nagasaki (2006) and Kobayashi Takiji’s novella Crab Cannery Ship (1929) that was rediscovered by readers in 2008. We aim firstly to explain the originality of this sui generis literary current, then to demonstrate how postmodernism was received by such writers as Ikezawa and Seirai, or how such theories were anticipated almost a century ago, as is the case in Kobayashi’s text, finally to put forward suggestions about how these literary works with such features may contribute to the education of Japanese language.

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Author(s): Mathias Enar / Language(s): Serbian Issue: 504/2017

U svom sandučetu sam 2. septembra 2004. godine pronašao elegantnu brošuru svetlosive boje, u kojoj su se veličale prednosti mastera iz književnog stvaralaštva koji je organizovala škola „La eskuela de letras” 2 u Barseloni.

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35 soneta - Fernando Pessoa

Author(s): Fernando Pessoa / Language(s): Bosnian Issue: 1-4/2020

Sonnets by Fernando Pessoa

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