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Csillagokkal táncoló Kojot. Észak-amerikai indián mesék. Vál. Cseh Tamás. Méry Ratio Kiadó, Somorja, 2006.
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Csillagokkal táncoló Kojot. Észak-amerikai indián mesék. Vál. Cseh Tamás. Méry Ratio Kiadó, Somorja, 2006.
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This essay presents a sociosemiotic analysis of My Children! My Africa! (1989) by Athol Fugard. By considering the characters’ views about self, community, education, and time, it points to the Fugard’s anxious attempt to offer liberalism as the solution to apartheid in South Africa instead of oppositional politics, especially blacks’ calls for activism and communalism. Sociosemiotics is suitable to plays overtly political; it holds that political writers are troubled by political changes that do not correspond to a firmly held ideology—a tension between what a playwright believes is absolute and what s/he senses and perhaps fears is happening. Keys to the analysis are contemporary texts, including essays from leading Black writers and journalists and from studies and essays from attendees of a 1986 conference on liberal solutions to the unrest in South Africa.
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This paper examines the emergence of metaphorical creativity from the creative elaboration of the single walking journey metaphor, which is used in British political discourse for the conceptualisation of Brexit. Using the cognitive linguistic theory of conceptual metaphor, three instances of creative metaphors are analysed at the level of conceptual domains and metaphor scenarios, as well as metaphorical stories activated by those metaphors, which, according to Ritchie (2017), seem to be crucial for the complete comprehension of creative metaphors. Special attention is given to contextual factors that motivate the emergence of creative instances of the walking journey metaphor, as well as the rhetorical force with which they shape political reality.
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J.G. Ballard’s novel The Crystal World (1966) has been commonly read as a futuristic vision of an apocalypse—a dystopian ending of the human and biological universe precipitated by an unknown and lethal virus that causes climate disturbances and the ensuing crystallisation and freezing of biological life. Read over fifty years after its original publication, the novel seems increasingly less fantastic—given the evident climate change—and, perhaps paradoxically, less apocalyptic. The article analyses Ballard’s novel as an example of posthumanist reflection, arguing that the changes it describes may be interpreted as less of an apocalypse and more of a strange new harmony emerging without the decision or influence of man. The resulting new configuration of power unites human beings with nature and establishes a radically different model of relations between man and universe which may be labelled as a posthumanist utopia.
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Hino Ashihei served the longest time for Japan, in the Pacific War, and was widely known as a war writer. Also, he greatly loved one kind of Japanese goblin (yōkai) called kappa, and wrote many novels, children’s stories, and essays about them. He published a collection of forty-three kappa stories called “Kappa Mandala”, and other collections like “Kappa Ascension, “Kappa Conference” , and “Twelve Kappa Stories”. However, this group of works by Hino about kappa has not been studied yet. In this paper, from the many works about kappa which Hino wrote, I will discuss “Stone and Nail”「石と釘」, a story based on a folktale from the author’s birthplace. Although an absurd children’s story, “Stone and Nail” carries within it Hino’s longing for peace. Here, I will also discuss the comic titled “Urine”「小便」, based on two of Hino’s stories, “Stone and Nail” and “Ghost”「亡霊」, and drawn by Mizuki Shigeru, a Japanese cartoonist who loved yōkai.
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Stylistic studies aim to move literary criticism beyond interpretation for literary texts. To reach this goal, it serves a wide range of linguistic data under stylistic categorizations to provide a scientific sight to text readings. Thus, it is clearly understood that the effort stylistics is to set forth that linguistics and literature are indivisible parts. Preparing concrete basements for literary criticism, stylistic studies reveal fingerprints of an author that makes the author unique and original. In this study, the short story “How to be an Other Woman” written by the contemporary American author Lorrie Moore is selected to be analysed from the stylistic point of view under the categorizations of lexical category, grammatical category, figures of speech and narration to go to show what makes Moore a remarkable short story author.
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Faulkner’s way of writing has proven to be most often discouraging, a generating source of frustration, anxiety and even reluctance for many brilliant college students. Beyond the author’s deliberate effort to create confusion, there lie enormous reasons and substratum meaning. Had such readers possessed the necessary knowledge before starting reading his novels, they would not have gotten out of their depth. In response to such attitude, this research is meant to insure a thorough supportive guidance targeting students’ preparation as fully-fledged detectives and judges of Faulkner’s writing intentions.
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According to the colophons of the Old Uyghur Daśakarmapathāvadānamālā (DKPAM), this collection of Buddhist birth legends was translated from a Tocharian A (tohrı) source which in turn was based on a Tocharian B (küsän) original. A Tocharian B fragment from the Paris Pelliot collection presents a close parallel to the legend of Kalmāṣapāda and Sutasoma of the Old Uyghur DKPAM. This legend is so far not attested in Tocharian A. Although the existence of a Tocharian A intermediary text cannot be excluded, the parallel is so close that the Old Uyghur text may also have been translated directly from Tocharian B.
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The ‘Canada in the English Classroom’ joint research team of the University of Colongne and Károli Gáspár University of the Hungarian Reformed Church has been producing a cultural reader series to enhance the dissemination of up-to-date and engaging cultural information on Canada through general English language classes for the secondary school age group in Central Europe. The cultural reader series is seen as a means of facilitating cultural discourse and cross-cultural learning, also advocated in Canadian contexts by Berrell and Gloet (1999). Using Kramsch’s (1991) and Damen’s (2003) theories, the readers have been devised so that more abstract and/or lesser-known Canadian cultural aspects can be brought closer to the target group through English as a foreign language. To realize this objective in an effective way in the English classroom, Gochenour and Janeway’s (1993) model of culture learning has been observed, which advocates the gradual involvement of students in culture-related issues: starting from observation of culture moving towards genuine communication about culture. After introducing the cultural reader series project briefly, the paper will discuss the theoretical background behind the series and the project activities leading up to the preparation and compilation of its completed volumes. As a next step, an overview of the content of these volumes and the accompanying teacher’s notes will be presented. This will be followed by a sample unit demonstration of how the series achieves the goals that research has targeted.
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In the article have been analysed well-known Azerbaijan poetess Kamala Agayeva’s patriotism poems. A.Kamala patriotism poems have shown that, love the country as a miracle, suggest this desire to the youth as ideal are valuable pearls.
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Makale, ünlü sufi ve düşünür Celalaeddin Rumi’nin XIX yüzyıl Azerbaycan düşünürü A. Bakıxanov’la ilgili edebi konuların ilmi tahlilini konu edinir. Yazıda, Azerbaycan’dakı ilim adamları ve eleştirmenlerin konu ile ilgili düşünceler üzerinde durulmuş, A. Bakıxanov’un eserlerinde Mevlana’dan yapılmış alıntılar tespit edilmiştir. Her iki düşünürün eserlerinde konu, yapı ve didaktik amaç bakımından benzerlikler araştırılmıştır. Manevi sansür karşısında Bakıxanov’un Mevlana sanatından nasıl faydalandığı üzerinde durulmuştur.
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The contents of this paper draw on from the first volume of the manuscript ‘’Commentary’’ of the work Fusus al-Hikam by Abdulah Efendi Bošnjak from the 17th century. The content-related scope of the first volume of this manuscript ‘’Commentary’’ is reflected in the grand ‘’Introduction’’into the very interpretation of the mentioned Ibn ‘Arabi’s work,and afterwards in the interpretation itself which Abdulah Efendi Bošnjak brings in its extensive form onto the text of the first chapter or the first,‘’Adamic logos’’ of the work Fusus al-Hikam. Author’s text, considered here, tries to present in a resumed manner main hermeneutic points offered by the text of the first volume of the manuscript ‘’Commentary’’by Abdulah Efendi Bošnjak on Ibn Arabi’s text and on two smaller, independent treatises by Ibn Arabi included into this authorial text.
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This paper will analyze different cultural anxieties embodied in the characters of monsters, sick children and young adults in Patrick Ness‘ novel More Than This, using the theoretical framework provided by the theories of abjection and monstrosity.
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The article is a contribution to studies of Karaite literature in Eastern Europe. It presents an introduction to Massa u-Mriḇa written by the best known Karaite scholar Abraham Firkowicz (1786–1874). The author is engaged in a prolonged polemic against the Rabbanites who claimed Talmud to be an oral explanation of the laws God gave to Moses. He refers to the history of the Karaites and emphasizes a frequent misunderstanding of their origin as they are incorrectly identified with Sadducees. Firkowicz does not hesitate to level harsh criticism and utilizes his Biblical lexicon in defending the purity of Karaite faith.
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This paper deals with the usage of the Greek accusative (Accusativus Graecus) in Latin. This type of accusative, also called the accusative of respect (Acc. respectus and Acc. limitationis), has been transferred from Greek to Latin. In order to better understand the Greek accusative in terms of its functionality and semantic field, it is first viewed within the context of Greek, to be followed by its functions, ways of translation, and usage in syntactic structures in Latin. All this is substantiated by numerous examples from Roman poetry and prose, where this form is well-rooted. In addition, the paper points out and explains the functional, syntactic, and semantic similarity between the ablative of respect (Abl. limitationis) and the accusative of respect (Acc. Graecus) in Latin. By means of comparative analysis of grammar companions and the examples from Roman poets and fiction writers, which served as the corpus for this paper, the author has come to the conclusion that the usage of the Greek accusative is strictly syntactically determined. In the first place, this is to the credit of Roman poets and fiction writers, who, by looking at Greek poets as their role models, transfer a lot of syntactic structures from Greek to Latin, thus Hellenizing the Latin poetic syntax. In a similar fashion, there are Latin fiction writers who are enthusiastic in terms of usage of the Greek accusative, mimicking their poetic role models in terms of style. The Latin poetic syntax is rich in figures of speech and rhetoric devices, so the rhetoric trope of pars pro toto is realised in its full capacity in the Greek accusative, labeled by some grammar book as the synecdoche accusative. In Latin-Serbian and Latin Croatian dictionaries respectively, this notion is poorly explained. This paper provides comprehensive and more detailed explanations concerning this notion, thus enabling a clearer insight into its functions within the Latin poetic syntax.
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In Adam Bede, George Eliot explores the way a society divides its members into categories and how these categories contribute to the formation of an individual’s identity. In the mid-nineteenth century, authors in the naturalist tradi-tion often discussed this dialogical relationship between individual and society, the specific roles for social gaze, the labeling and degrading. Eliot shows an acute of these labels that no one shapes identity without their influence. Ac-cording to Nancy Anne Marck, Adam Bede introduces the theme of “emerging social consciousness” where the charac-ters gain broader awareness of human interdependence through an experience of suffering (447). This is particularly evident when examining Eliot’s characters of “lesser fortune.” Once we have investigated how Eliot portrays these negative social forces throughout the novel, the labeling and the stigmatization, we will return to how Eliot addresses the larger question permeating her novel of education: how one judges another against the backdrop of community values.
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In a series of lectures in 1994, Nadine Gordimer remarks the different status of Africa which is no longer at the edge of the empire, but on the contrary, in the center of it. In this respect, post-apartheid Africa has rebuilt its national identity on the background of global events that write universal history, offering citizens the chance to escape their country's constraints and bring important key elements in the globalization process.Thus, replacing apartheid themes in a new country is an extreme taskby the applicant. Some of the favourite subjects of the "old guard" are the following: the importance of multiculturalism in post-apartheid South Africa, the writer's status, vulgarisation of violence due to mass-media, reconciliation with a violent past and their economic and cultural implications, the fight against AIDS, sexual emancipation, globalization and loss of cultural and national identity, uprooting, migration and economic exile which replaced major pre-existing concerns about violence, racial and gender discrimination, the relationship between literature and politics, or the role of ethics in literature.The same situation can be applied to eastern countries. Even though they were not "postcolonial" in the classical sense of the term, applicable to the former British, French, Spanish, Portuguese or Dutch colonies, the "post-communist transition" through which they passed included the disarmament of a certain political and economic "occupation".People had to adapt to the new order, to the new reality, which was a complex process, a difficult one, that implied, many times, exile.Therefore, the purpose of my argument is to present what consequences can occur at the psychological level because of the attempt of adaptation of the characters to the new social and political order, by imitation, postcolonial and post-communist context. And here comes the question: does imitation facilitate adaptation? Although the logical answer would be yes, we will notice, by discussing the two texts, exactly the opposite.
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The interaction between classical Latin literary language and Latin legal language developed by Roman iurisconsulti, is a less studied field standing on the border of Roman law and Latin literature, which conceals many unanswered questions. The emergence of legal terminology in classical Latin literature is apt to look to the non-lawyer like a strange phenomenon, which could become interesting to readers by its veiling and often dubious interpretability. This study deals with the role and function of legal terminology in the XII-XV chapters of Petronius’ Satyricon through an analysis of law-related facts. The scene at the forum reveals the true nature of Petronius’ intent, and also leaves a question to the reader. Whether the key to understand the situation lies within the rules and interpretations of Roman law, or we shall consider that it is merely the intention of the writer? There is a contrast between the precision of Roman legal terminology and the irony of Petronius, which exploits Latin legal language in purpose of creating a specific way of humour.
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