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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.

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Heart to Heart: The Power of Lyrical Bonding in Romantic Nationalism

Author(s): Joep Leerssen / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2023

In nineteenth-century nation-building, the textual genres investigated by researchers are usually long-distance, mediated ones, such as journalism and the novel. This article attempts to assess the function of a much more intimate literary genre, the lyrical, in that process. Lyricism was a central poetical element in Romanticism; its emotive, affect-centered mode was seen as specifically “immediate”, non-mediatized and deeply personal (and therefore non-political). How could this register aid the formation of self-defining national communities? The article suggests a special role for female poets and a privileged position of the lyrical in the interplay between print-disseminated literature and oral-performative literature, in shaping the nation as an “emotive community”.

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Romantic Poets in Epic Form of Nordic Countries and Estonia’s Classical Dialect Poetry

Author(s): Lauri Pilter / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2023

The recently awakened academic interest in the multilingual character of the written culture of the Baltic region in more distant times calls for fresh attention to and reassessment of the poetry of the ethnic minorities that have inhabited the territory of Estonia. One such minority was the Estonian Swedes who dwelt in western Estonia up to 1944. This paper mainly focuses on the lifecourse, as reflected in his poems, of Estonian Swedish native skald Mats Ekman, who wrote in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Since his work and the whole topic of Estonian Swedish culture are largely unknown in Estonia and everywhere else, except for the direct descendants of that minority, the paper offers the necessary background information, while also applying the method of close reading to a few of the author’s poems in the original Swedish dialect and in English. Parallels are drawn with the major classical authors of neighbouring Nordic countries, such as Esaias Tegnér of Sweden and Aleksis Kivi of Finland, authors who can be seen as models not only for Ekman, but also for a number of significant ethnic Estonian poets who wrote in Estonian, such as Juhan Liiv and Ernst Enno.

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The Semantics of the Absurd: On German ‘Hermetic’ Poetry and Political Commitment after 1945

Author(s): Marko Pajević / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2023

German culture experienced an enormous rupture after 1945. Not only was the country in ruins and an outcast of the international community because of the recent regime and its devastating effects, its entire cultural tradition was under suspicion: had German culture always been steering towards this catastrophe? Was everything within it corrupt? While the frenetic economic activity of the ‘Wirtschaftswunder’ side-stepped a mainstream confrontation with the horrors of the recent past, intellectuals and artists radically interrogated the reasons for the disaster. As always, language and the meaning-making procedures in language prepare the mind to open up and to prepare for action. Language is at the root of action and this insight fuelled reflections on language, for instance by philosophers such as Wittgenstein and Heidegger. But it was particularly in lyric poetry that a lucid and politically aware examination of the recent past took place and an expression of such considerations could be found. This paper demonstrates how poets made a unique and highly significant contribution to the development of a new political awareness in German language culture. By integrating silence and the absurd (that is, the unheard of and the unspeakable) into literary language, this so-called hermetic poetry did not entail a withdrawal from society but, on the contrary, devoted itself to a particular form of political commitment. This procedure represents a rupture with what Max Horkheimer and Theodor W. Adorno called the ‘culture industry’ (1947), opposing conventional and habituated approaches to art in terms of its production and reception and advocating instead a stringent and critical concept of arresting aesthetic form that was to distinguish the work of art from products of that culture industry. Paul Celan, Ingeborg Bachmann, Ilse Aichinger, Günter Eich and Nelly Sachs are the household names associated with this poetics. While it was never necessarily mainstream, it was arguably the most innovative poetic strand of its time and in the long run a key factor in shaping a modern German culture that could come to terms with its past and overcome authoritarian structures.

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Estonian, Russian and Samizdat Identity: Arno Tsart and Elena Shvarts

Author(s): Miriam Rossi / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2023

The article explores a case of literary mystification by Elena Shvarts that occurred in samizdat during the eighties, featuring a fictitious Estonian poet. Aware of the relevance that translation played in the literary samizdat of Leningrad during the eighties, the investigation focuses on the similarities between the poetess’ hoax and the concept of pseudo-translation, analysing the reasons for and outcomes of her endeavour in terms of identity research. Engaging with Shvarts’ verses, Sergei Stratanovsky’s account of the episode and the position that Estonia played in the samizdat imagined world, the article explores the role of Shvarts/Tsart’s mystification in relation to the poetess and her readership.

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New Religious Teachings and Narrative Baojuan in the Late 19th Century: The Example of the Complete Recension of the Scroll of Mulian

Author(s): Rostislav Berezkin / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2023

Most baojuan (precious scrolls), predominantly religious-oriented prosimetric texts in the vernacular language, in the late period of their development (late 19th–early 20th centuries) lost connection with heterodox religious teachings. Notwithstanding this several newly emerged religious traditions in the 19th century continued to use the baojuan form to propagate their teachings. This paper analyses specific religious ideas in the Complete Recension of the Scroll of Mulian, first printed in Hangzhou in 1877. This text still has not been translated into any foreign language and is rarely discussed in research work, although it is considerably different from the more widespread recensions of this baojuan. The Complete Recension includes many additional entertaining episodes from the voluminous Mulian dramas of southern China. We can also find ideas of syncretic religious teachings, including references to the inner alchemy technique, which is especially characteristic of the Former Heaven Religion (Xiantiandao) groups. I also compare this text with other recensions of the Mulian Baojuan still recited in China in order to demonstrate the interplay of various beliefs and practices in the late baojuan texts.

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The spatial representation of the Blessed Mary in Italian poetry at the time of the Second Vatican Council

Author(s): Magdalena Maria Kubas / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2023

The representation of the Holy Virgin has long constituted one of the most important thematic lines in Italian poetry, both sacred and profane. In terms of the representation of space, the Blessed Mary was traditionally placed in far-away, celestial hierarchies. In more recent periods, this figure is often placed in the space of earthly life, with which the lyrical subject (the enunciator) is more familiar. Juri Lotman’s perspective on the space of the typological description of culture shows that divinities belong mainly to the exterior (E) space of culture. Building on these considerations, the purpose of this article is to analyse recent Marian representations – both poetic and theological – in Italian culture. I will demonstrate that, during the 20th century in Italy, Marian sacrum was moved closer to or even inside interior space (I), as the Blessed Virgin started to appear mostly in scenes of daily life and her divine traits gradually lost importance. This kind of spatiality is also found in the ecumenical dialogue. The Second Vatican Council normalized both Marian theology and the faithful’s practices, which influenced textual production and brought about further changes in the spatial placement of Mary. While the general social trend towards secularization has been increasing the distance between the human and the divine, Mary’s sanctity was transferred to the interior space (I) of everyday life – and this could be one of the factors that relaunched Marian poetry.

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“Have you not heard, my soul [...]?”: The Great Kanon of St Andrew of Crete as a multimodal autocommunicative text

Author(s): Jason Van Boom,Alin Olteanu / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2023

This paper examines the Great Kanon (also Great Canon; in the original Greek, Ὁ Μέγας Κανών) of St Andrew of Crete (ca. 660–740) as a case study in how religious ritual texts deploy autocommunicative processes. To study this complex liturgical hymn that occupies a key role in the ritual practice of Eastern Orthodox and Byzantine Catholic Christians we employ a theoretical framework rooted primarily in Juri Lotman’s theory of autocommunication, as complemented by more recent developments in social and cognitive semiotics, particularly ideas of multimodality and viewpoint. We find that the Great Kanon performs a variety of autocommunicative functions, primarily through its provision of a rhetorical metalanguage for the interpretation of the Old and New Testaments. This is a metalanguage which is multimodally enacted in ritual performance. The process makes the believer’s experience of reading the Bible an open and unfolding dialogue, in which the viewpoints of biblical characters become models for (re)interpreting one’s life experiences and reshaping one’s sense of self. The paper ultimately highlights that analyses of ritual texts, which deploy methods from cultural and cognitive semiotics, can deepen our understanding of autocommunication.

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Beneath Thy Protection: Portrait of the Holy Virgin as a semantic operator

Author(s): Francesco Galofaro / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2023

Starting from the third century, many songs, prayers, and icons testify to the way the Virgin Mary – Mother of God – has been attributed the role of protecting the community. Examples include the Akhathist hymn traditionally dated to the siege of Constantinople (626), the Polish anthem “Bogurodzica”, associated with the battle of Grunwald (1410), the icon of Częstochowa that protected Poland from the Swedish invasion (1655), and numerous others. The role of menace is embodied by different enemies: infidels, heretics, or atheists. The Virgin watches over the frontier between two cultural spaces: the inside and the outside of the semiosphere. A case study will provide insight into the function played by the Madonna at the border: the Madonna of the Rocciamelone, the highest sanctuary in Europe, founded by the crusader knight Rotharius (1358). A bronze statue of the Virgin was placed in the sanctuary in 1899. A small corpus of pastoral letters written by blessed Edoardo Rosaz, bishop of Susa (Piedmont), expresses the hope that the Virgin will protect Catholics from liberal heresy. Plastic oppositions such as top/bottom, resulting from the relationship between the Virgin and the landscape, are used to manifest abstract oppositions such as reason/passion, order/disorder, and Church/revolution. This homologation helps us understand how the Virgin, placed in upper space, embodies knowledge and cognition: she becomes a lookout, allowing a transfer of values from the semantic field of war to the religious one. The Virgin guards the border of the semiosphere, the border dividing the self from the other. Her function is the semiotization of incoming materials, transforming external non-communication into information and meaning. This article thus considers the Virgin as a semantic operator inverting the values of liberal discourse into information stored in Catholic cultural space. A mathematical model of the function played by the Virgin will be presented in the terms of quantum computing.

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Sources of the Encyclical „Ut unum sint”

Author(s): Stanislav Přibyl / Language(s): English Issue: 10/2022

John Paul II’s encyclical Ut unum sint on commitment to ecumenism was published 30 years after the ground-breaking ecumenism decree of Vatican II Unitatis redintegratio. It was meant to present a summary of everything the Catholic Church and its partners achieved in the field of ecumenical efforts. However, the article does not list these achievements but discusses the very fundamentals of Catholic identity, namely, how the Catholic Church is to remain faithful to itself in developing ecumenical dialogue with other churches and ecclesial communities. The article thus provides a detailed analysis of the way the encyclical uses the basic sources of faith, that is, the logia of the Sacred Scripture, Church Fathers and the Magisterium. As one might expect, the documents of the Magisterium that are quoted are the documents of Vatican II because this council represents a real turning point in the relations of the Catholic Church towards ecumenism. The article also considers the role of the canon law for ecumenism because both codices of canon law as well as the ecumenical directory represent major tools for the realisation of ecumenical efforts.

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Lühikroonika

Author(s): Not Specified Author / Language(s): Estonian Issue: 10/2023

3.–7. juulini toimus USA-s Bostonis Rahvusvahelise Huumoriuuringute Seltsi (The International Society for Humor Studies) konverents. 4.–8. septembrini peeti Vilniuses Euroopa Usundiuurimise Seltsi (EASR) 20. onverents „Religioonid ja tehnoloogia 5. augustil peeti Kuramaal Irē ehk Mazirbe külas Liivi liidu 100. aasta-päevale pühendatud peopäev „Um eņtš kēmi mäddõn“ („Meil on oma tee”). 24.–27. augustini toimunud Tartu semiootika suvekooli raames korral-dati rahvusvaheline tulevikuteemaline konverents „Coming soon”. 5. septembril toimus EKI veebiseminar „Kuidas edeneb ÕS 2025?”. 7. septembril esitleti Tartus „Tartu Ülikooli Lõuna-Eesti keele- ja kultuuri uuringute keskuse aastaraamatut XXI–XXII. Pühendusteos Karl Pajusalule 60. sünni-päevaks”. 7.–9. septembrini toimus Ljubljanas Slo-veenia Teaduste ja Kunstide Akadeemia Etnoloogia Instituudis rahvusvaheline konverents parömioloogia, folkloristika ja digihumanitaaria (DH) kokkupuute-punktidest läbi uute uurimisperspektiivide ja -meetodite. 11. septembril toimunud Eesti Kirjandus - muuseumi seminaril pidas Ave Goršič ettekande „Virumaa kogujad ja konteksti ringid”. 3.–15. septembrini toimus Riias rahvus-vaheline noorte folkloristide konverents, mille keskseks teemaks oli XXI sajandi välitööd. 4.–15. septembril peeti Tallinnas Kumus konverents „Keskkonnakaitse ja kultuuri-vormid Ida- ja Põhja-Euroopas – uusi vaatenurki” 15. septembril korraldasid Emakeele Selts ja Eesti Keele Instituut Jüri Viik-bergi 70. sünnipäeva puhul kõnekoos-oleku. 21.–22. septembril korraldati Tallinnas Underi ja Tuglase Kirjanduskeskuses rahvusvaheline konverents „Kriiside kujutamine varauusaja kirjanduses” („Representing crisis in early modern literatures”). 22. septembril peeti Väike-Maarjas Wiedemanni keelepäeva. 25. septembril toimunud Eesti Kirjandusmuuseumi seminaril tutvustas Priit Koppel Eesti Huumorimuuseumi andme-baasi võimalusi. 28. septembril toimus Eesti Kirjandus-muuseumis Akadeemilise Rahvaluule Seltsi liikumisaastale pühendatud kõne-koosolek. 29. septembril toimus Tallinna Ülikoolis teine ühisseminar koostöös Bologna Üli-kooli Umberto Eco keskusega, mis see-kord keskendus konfliktisemiootikale.

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Backfisch – An Adolescent Girl in German and American Literature of the 19th Century

Author(s): Agnieszka Kocznur / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2023

The review article addresses the monograph Transforming Girls: The Work of Nineteenth -Century Adolescence by Julie Pfeiffer (2021), in which she juxtaposes American 19th-century girls’ novels and German Backfischromane. The article re-views individual chapters of the book, in which Pfeiffer incorporates key perspec-tives on the differences and similarities between eight novels. According to the author of the article, the monograph makes an important contribution to the state of research on this literary genre.

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Koniec wieku poetów? O zszyciach literatury i filozofii

Author(s): Andrzej Zawadzki / Language(s): Polish Issue: 37/2022

The article presents an attempt to outline, from a mainly typological and partly historical perspective, what the author considers the most important varieties of the relationship between philosophy and literature (which is, of course, understood here in a working and broad sense, as poesis). In the first of these varieties, for which the fundamental significance is Plato’s gesture of excluding poets from the state, the philosophical logos defines itself in opposition to literature, or mythos. In the second, which appears to predominate from Aristotle to the 18th century, the relationship between philosophy and literature takes on a more neutral character: the former provides the latter with motifs, themes, topics, mainly related to moral philosophy in the broadest sense, while the latter provides the former with discursive modes, such as genre. Modern aesthetics and the philosophy and theory of literature (fundamentally different from the tradition of the great poets and rhetoricians of the 16th and 17th centuries), which emerged together with transcendental philosophy and its reception in German Romanticism, contributed both to the increased interest among philosophers in literature and to a clear embedding, or even closing, of literature in philosophical notions, which originated mainly in the tradition of transcendentalism and dialectical thought. Finally, the beginning of the twentieth century is distinguished, in most of the major continental philosophical traditions, by a tendency to seek, or to find, in literature the most important partner of philosophical thinking, and sometimes even the identity of philosophy.

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Le impressioni sulla Polonia del 1953 di Tommaso Fiore

Author(s): Simone Guagnelli / Language(s): Italian Issue: 2/2023

The article contextualizes and presents an unpublished paper by Tommaso Fiore that served as the text for the series of lectures on Poland given between 1953 and 1954 throughout Italy following his 1953 trip, which would result in the book I corvi scherzano a Varsavia (The crows joke in Warsaw). The document presents in a concise form all the most favourable themes and impressions that had struck the Apulian writer and politician on Poland undergoing reconstruction after the disaster of World War II, in a continuous and hopeful comparison with the fate of the Italian peninsula.

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Transparentność, refleksyjność, dialog. Lampedusa wobec migracji w „Wielkim przypływie” Jarosława Mikołajewskiego

Author(s): Magdalena Horodecka / Language(s): Polish Issue: 2/2023

In her article, Magdalena Horodecka analyzes Jarosław Mikołajewski’s literary reportage Wielki przypływ [High Tide] (2015), approaching the text in the perspective of literary journalism studies and literary anthropology. Key in Horodecka’s interpretation are the tools of journalistic epistemology, particularly the concept of transparency. She also examines ethical issues and the problem of migration. In Mikołajewski’s book, an important role is played by the characteristics of the Italian people who help the refugees. A crucial aspect of his narration and perception is the art of dialogue with the direct witnesses of events. Horodecka also stresses the importance of his reflective attitude, which is stimulated by the landscape of the Lampedusa island.

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Etyka i polityka. O twórczości Pawła Smoleńskiego

Author(s): Monika Wiszniowska / Language(s): Polish Issue: 2/2023

In her article, Monika Wiszniowska looks into Paweł Smoleński’s creativeness. Smoleński is a reporter and publicist, since 1989 a journalist affiliated with „Gazeta Wyborcza”, and an author of many books in which he has written on Polish and international issues, regarded as the most important observer of Israeli and Middle East affairs. Wiszniowska focuses on Smoleński’s two roles, adequately concretized in two textual layers. The first role is that of a social and political writer, realized in this part of a text which tells the reader about the world, using the available knowledge and acting as a guide to unknown parts of the world. He tries to understand this world, and to explain the phenomena that occurr in it. In his books, Smoleński is not trying to convey or make visible his ideology but rather to present the ideas that influence the text’s structure. One can find those ideas not only in the few passages which present the author’s way of thinking, but above all in deeper layers of narration, where one can discover Smolenski’s perception of the world. The other role is that of a writer-humanist who cannot narrate any complicated events in our present day reality without concentrating on the fate on an individual human being. He listens to his protagonists’ stories as they tell about their experiences but also as they expose their individual ways of thinking. In Smolenski’s tales, not only those concerning the Middle East, we find incorporated an ethical project which is based on such European values as rationalism and the anthropocentric perspective. Both roles complement each other creating the original idiom of Smolenski’s work.

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Mapa i mafia. O „Drodze krajowej numer 106” Antonia Talii

Author(s): Giulia Kamińska Di Giannantonio / Language(s): Polish Issue: 2/2023

The author undertakes an analysis of the reportage volume Droga krajowa nr 106. The text reconstructs not only the image of the ‘ndrangheta (i.e., the Calabrian mafia) presented in the reportage but also of Calabria itself, the region from which this criminal organization originates, the local population, the prevailing way of understanding sacrum, and even the atmospheric phenomena typical of the region.

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«D’occulte terre altro emispero»: viaggio e conqista nell’epica secentesca

Author(s): Giulia Dell’Aquila / Language(s): Italian Issue: 2/2023

Between the late Sixteenth century and the first half of the Seventeenth century, an epic production dedicated to the narrative of the discovery and conquest of America became widespread. The customs and traditions of the native peoples and the fascinating nature of those places, untouched by civilization, are made known to European readers through a series of oceanic poems, which correspond to the desire for knowledge and exoticism typical of the 17th century. For these reasons, the American epic, while collaborating in consolidating stereotypes related to ethnicity, well represents the seventeenth-century spirit, animated by a broad and bold project of revolution in every field of knowledge.

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Ezio Mauro e il suo scrittore senza nome. Mauro Ezio, „Lo scrittore senza nome. Mosca 1966: processo alla letteratura”, Milano, Feltrinelli, 2021, 333 p.

Author(s): Anna Mezzina / Language(s): Italian Issue: 2/2023

This review deals with the most recent novel written by Italian journalist and former editor-in-chief of la Repubblica Ezio Mauro, Lo scrittore senza nome: processo alla letteratura (2021). The plot revolves around the events that precede and follow the arrest and trial of Russian authors Andrei Sinyavsky and Yuli Daniel. However, from the very beginning, the reader is made aware of the character around whom the story is centered: Yuli Daniel. To tell this story, the author writes a journalistic novel, which is a variation of the traditional literary genres combining fictional and non-fictional elements.

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“Forgotten Friend(s)”: Polish Literary Diplomacy in Slovenia

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“Forgotten Friend(s)”: Polish Literary Diplomacy in Slovenia

Author(s): Boštjan Udovič,Janž Snoj,Tanja Žigon / Language(s): English Issue: 04/2023

The aim of this article is to study the translation of Polish literature into Slovene to shed light on Polish literary (and cultural) diplomacy in Slovenia. Being acquainted with the culture of another nation is an important factor in forming closer political and economic relations, since literature is a source of “soft power,” which relies on attraction rather than on the power of explicit or implicit coercion. Using quantitative analysis, we surveyed how many and which works were translated from Polish into Slovene between 1865 and 2021. Our qualitative analysis based on semi-structured interviews with Slovene translators further explores who chose the texts and decided what to translate from Polish into Slovene. The key finding of the article is that strong cultural cooperation (in our case, translation of Polish literature into Slovene) can be an advantageous platform for enhancing and strengthening political and economic relations between the two countries, as well as for fostering better understanding between the two nations.

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