A Strange New Harmony: A Posthumanist Utopia in J. G. Ballard’s Crystal World

Author(s): Barbara Klonowska / Language(s): English / Issue: 11S/2018

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.

A Study about Hino Ashihei’s “Stone and Nail” and “Ghost” in Comparison with Mizuki Shigeru’s Comic “Urine” Based on Legends from the Kyūshū Region

Author(s): Chikako Masuda / Language(s): English / Issue: 1/2017

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.

A STYLISTIC ANALYSIS OF “HOW TO BE AN OTHER WOMAN” BY LOORIE MOORE

Author(s): Rana SAGIROGLU / Language(s): English / Issue: 15/2017

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.

A Teaching Approach to William Faulkner’s Narrative Techniques

Author(s): Daniela Duralia / Language(s): English / Issue: 2/2015

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.

A tocharian B parallel to the legend of kalmāṣapāda and sutasoma of the old uyghur daśakarmapathāvadānamālā

Author(s): Jens Wilkens,Georges-Jean Pinault,Michaël Peyrot / Language(s): English / Issue: 1/2014

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.

A Trans(l)atlantic Transfer of Cultural Values: Constructing a Canada-Related Cultural Reader Series for the Secondary English Classroom in Central Europe

Author(s): Mátyás Bánhegyi,Judit Nagy / Language(s): English / Issue: 2/2014

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.

A VERGILIUS- ÉS DANTE-SZOBOR FELAVATÁSÁRA

Author(s): István Borzsák / Language(s): Hungarian / Issue: 2/2006

A. KƏMALƏNİN LİRİKASINDA VƏTƏNPƏRVƏRLİK MÖVZUSU

Author(s): Günay Asif SIR?LIYEVA / Language(s): Azerbaijani / Issue: 2/2009

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.

ABBASQULU AĞA BAKIXANOVUN YARADACILIĞINDA CƏLALƏDDİN RUMİ İRSİNİN ƏKSİ

Author(s): Vüqar Ism?t TEYMURXANLI / Language(s): Azerbaijani / Issue: 3/2009

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.

ABDULLAH BOŠNJAK KAO DUHOVNI POTOMAK IBN ‘ARABIJA I JALALUDDINA RUMIJA

Author(s): Rešid Hafizovic / Language(s): Bosnian / Publication Year: 0

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.

Abjection, monstrosity and cultural anxieties in Patrick Ness’ More than this

Author(s): Ðorde Stojanovic / Language(s): English / Issue: 164/2018

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.

Abraham Firkowicz: introduction to Sep̄er Massa u-Mriḇa

Author(s): Veronika Klimova / Language(s): English / Issue: 03/2017

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.

Accusativus Graecus u latinskoj poetskoj sintaksi

Author(s): Sanja M. Ljubišic / Language(s): Serbian / Issue: 17/2018

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.

ACHEBE

Author(s): Jidi Majia / Language(s): Bosnian,Croatian / Issue: 1/2018

Jedan od mojih čitalaca me je pitao: “Kako može neki pjesnik bolje komunicirati s ostalima posebnim načinom života svog naroda?” Pokušavam ponuditi neke primjedbe kao pjesnik naroda Yi. Mi svi znamo da je savremena afrička književnost punu majstorskih pisaca.

Adam Bede Revisited: Social Stigma and the Formation of Deviant Identity

Author(s): Nora Bonner,Elham Shayegh / Language(s): English / Issue: 01 (8)/2015

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.

Adaptare și imitație în romanele "No Time Like the Present", de Nadine Gordimer și „Vremea Minunilor", de Cătălin Dorian Florescu

Author(s): Simina Timofte / Language(s): Romanian / Issue: 1/2018

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.

Adok-kapok, avagy egy sajátos adásvétel Petronius Satyriconjában

Author(s): Szilvia Nemes / Language(s): Hungarian / Issue: 2/2015

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.

Aestheticization of Serial Killers in Contemporary Crime Literature and Film

Author(s): Ewa Ziomek / Language(s): English / Issue: 1/2018

Fictional serial killers often appear attractive, since the authors and film directors deliberately employ certain techniques to depict the villains as seductive and manipulate readers/spectators into forming a bond with devious protagonists. This article argues that by virtue of different stylistic and literary devices, the villains presented in contemporary texts are aestheticized. Moreover, it also explains why the reader/audience often sympathizes with the murderer rather than the victim.

AHMED MUJEZINZADEOV PEDAGOŠKI OPUS U DJELU ENISU'L-VA'IZIN

Author(s): Muhamed Mehanovic / Language(s): Bosnian / Issue: 7/2001

Ahmad Muyezinzade, known as Ahmad ibn Mustafa al-Mustari Mu'ezinzade, as he signed his works, is only one of many distinguished scholars. Unfortunately, the life of this 17th century Mostar scholar is, for the most part, a mystery to us. The exact date of his birth is unknown. No reliable information regarding his education and employment is available and there is no consensus among researches regarding the exact date of his death. Therefore, a study of pedagogical and educational work of this scholar can only be based on his works, and, for the most part, on his most famous work titled Anesu'l wa'ezeen. This article is a modest attempt to do just that. However, this article is, in effect, a horizontal kind of study, insofar that it deals with the entire work Anesu'l wa'ezeen and it describes the general characteristics, goals, means and methods of Muyezinade's work in the field of education.

Ailing Authors: Paul Auster’s "Travels in the Scriptorium" and Philip Roth’s "Exit Ghost"

Author(s): Aliki Varvogli / Language(s): English / Issue: 3-4/2009

Seven years after the attacks of 9/11 it is still unclear how, and to what extent, American literature has been or will be altered by the events and their aftermath. The scholar of contemporary literature may speak of ‘the 9/11 novel’ to refer to books dealing directly with the events of the day, but there is also a wider category of ‘the post-9/11 novel’ which not only denotes the self-explanatory date of publication, but more crucially carries the implication that all contemporary American literature can and should be read in the light of what happened and its consequences. The two novels under discussion here show that the distinction between the 9/11 and the post-9/11 novel is not always clear. Whereas Roth’s novel is set in New York after 9/11, refers specifically to the event and its effect on New Yorkers, and contains important references to politics and world affairs, Auster’s book is set in a primarily textual chronotope: an unidentifiable, non-realist time and place devoid of external referents. Yet Roth’s novel is not in any obvious way ‘about’ 9/11 and New York, whereas Auster’s novel, upon closer scrutiny, turns out to be a lot less ‘timeless’ than a first reading might suggest. What the two books have in common is a preoccupation with the role of the American author in contemporary society, and the place of the novel in today’s culture. There are of course a myriad good reasons why an American author may be asking these questions now, and indeed these are questions that have preoccupied authors throughout literary history. What these books help us to understand is how the question of authorship has now arisen as a response to the new realities precipitated by the attacks, and how these two authors have addressed the question in ways that seem strikingly dissimilar and yet have a lot in common. Roth and Auster have made different aesthetic, structural and narrative choices, and yet studying their books in tandem can prove fruitful and illuminating.When Paul Auster’s "Travels in the Scriptorium" came out in 2006, it seemed that even though there was poignancy and depth in the central premise of the author tormented by his fictional characters, it was a curiously self-indulgent book to publish in 2006, and a strange follow-up to "The Brooklyn Follies" (2005), which had seen the author venture further out of his room than even before. Whereas "The Brooklyn Follies" had been a strangely upbeat 9/11 novel about the real, lived world, this one, as the blurb suggested, represented a ‘return to more metaphysical territory’. In other words, Auster appeared to be playing the same kind of metafictional game he had been playing since the beginning of his novelistic career in the 1980s, and it seemed for that reason that "Travels" was not only somewhat slight but also an unnecessary novel. Most reviewers seemed to share this assessment. The book was described as a puzzle, a maze, or a magician’s trick (Smith, Marx, Barra). In "The New York..."