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Homo Crispr and the Uncanny Art of Self-Reproduction

Author(s): Dunja M. Mohr / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2024

Selected classic 19th- and 20th-century fictional texts, I argue, function as imaginative precursors of material fusions, either by prosthetic integration in the sense of repurposed imperfection or by internalizing genetic perfection, creating homo crispr. E.T.A. HOFFMANN’s dark literary tale The Sandman (1816), MARY SHELLEY’s gothic proto-science fiction Frankenstein (1818), VILLIER DE L’ISLE-ADAM’s fin de siècle Tomorrow’s Eve (1886), and ANGELA CARTER’s carnivalesque The Passion of New Eve (1977) position the artificial other as both an externalization of the human desire for perfection in an uncanny act of autoerotic, poetic-scientific self-fertilization and as a reverse image of the composite self. They not only disrupt the perception of the other as external, but the subtexts, I contend, pre-empt this fusion of self and other that, in the logic of 21st-century discourse’s revaluation of imperfection, diversity, and dis/abilities, life sciences seek to realize with the imminent spectre of homo crispr’s dissolved material self/other boundaries.

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Of Information Superhighways, Sexbots, Friends: The Delights of the Uncanny

Author(s): Cordula Lemke / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2024

This article explores the uncanny potential of artificial intelligence in view of the trope of the Frankensteinian creature. I argue that since Masahiro Mori has coined the term ‘uncanny valley’ the link that has been created between AI and the uncanny has more to do with postcolonial notions of first contact than with the uncanny as such. Reading Jeanette Winterson’s The Stone Gods, Spike Jonze’s Her and Kazuo Ishiguro’s Klara and the Sun, I investigate how these texts follow a new trajectory of AIs that are programmed to please rather than the well-trodden paths of dystopian or apocalyptic worst case scenarios. The AIs all raise important posthumanist issues that need addressing, but they do so in a very unthreatening manner. My final take on previous developments of a new medium shows that new mediums have mostly been denigrated as evil.

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Kreacja struktur czasowych w narracjach graficznych na przykładzie Sandmana Neila Gaimana

Author(s): Katarzyna Sadowska-Dobrowolska / Language(s): Polish Issue: 1/2024

Time is a complex structural element of the narrative which consists of the fabula time (story duration and order), the arrangement of events and the pace of action. In graphic novels, temporality of the story is created not only verbally – the iconic layer is also used to anchor the temporal aspect in individual frames. The article describes methods of creating time structures and anchoring time frames in individual panels of NeilGaiman’s The Sandman. The undertaken research aims at attempting to describetemporal features most often expressed iconically or verbally. The analyses employedmethods of describing verbal messages (componential and formal-semantic analysis)and qualitative semiotic analysis, typical of the description of multimodal messages.They showed regularities in the way of expressing temporality. Verbal indicators of timedominate in the creation of the linear scheme and the sequence of events (retrospectionand anticipation). The paratactic pattern of events also requires verbal explanations of theiconic layer. The iconic creation of the temporal dimension of the plot dominates in the caseof building the pace of action and signaling its changes, and in creating a simultaneouspattern. In addition, the graphic layer is responsible for the visual anchoring of the plotin particular time frames.

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FROM PROTO-NOVEL TO POST-NOVEL: SALMAN RUSHDIE’S QUICHOTTE AS THE REWRITING OF DON QUIXOTE

Author(s): Mehmet Ali ÇELİKEL / Language(s): English Issue: 47/2024

Salman Rushdie’s 2019 novel Quichotte is the story of a hero reimagined by Rushdie as a 21st century version of Miguel de Cervantes’s Don Quixote. The novel opens in contemporary America where the 70-year-old protagonist Ismail Smile, who goes mad by watching TV, works as a travelling salesman for a pharmaceutical company called Smile Pharmaceuticals. The plot focuses on Ismail’s love for a famous television personality Miss Salma R. who, like Ismail, comes from India. He gets retired, changes his name to Quichotte and goes on a quest to win Salma’s love. The quest turns into a complete replica of Cervantes’s Don Quixote when, on a shooting star, he wishes that he had a son who suddenly appears in the passenger seat of the car he drives. He names him Sancho. Yet, the narration turns out to be a novel in the novel written by a spy novelist referred to only as Brother. Quichotte, therefore, becomes Brother’s imagination that recreates the classical Don Quixote in a contemporary setting. This paper, then, focuses on the concept of post-truth in the meta-narrative of Salman Rushdie who not only rewrites a classical novel but also raises questions as to whether or not truths and narrators are reliable. This study also analyses the saturation of the manipulating power of post-truth era in the lives of Rushdie’s characters.

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Shakespear’s Employment of Malapropism in “Much ado about Nothing” and The Merchant of Venice”

Author(s): Marzooqa T. Raheel,Zahraa Ammar Abd / Language(s): English Issue: 6/2024

Malapropism, according to the Encyclopedia Britannica, is a linguistic mistake occurs when one term is replaced with another that sounds similar but has a different meaning. The current article aims to find out how malapropism is used in Shakespear’s “Much ado about Nothing “and “The Merchant of Venice “and to investigate the most common type of malapropism used in these two plays .The article mainly draws on Fay and Cutler’s(1977) division of malapropism to analyze the selected data. The study concludes that malapropism is used by the plays’ characters basically to create a sense of humor by using a word or a phrase that is different from what they intended to say. It was also found that classical malapropism is the most common used type in both selected plays.

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Radość czytania (Conrada). Agnieszka Adamowicz-Pośpiech: „Adaptacje biografii i twórczości Josepha Conrada w kulturze współczesnej”. Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego, Katowice 2022, 364 s.

Author(s): Anna Gwadera-Dec / Language(s): Polish Issue: 2/2024

The review surveys Agnieszka Adamowicz-Pośpiech’s monograph Adaptacje biografii i twórczości Josepha Conrada w kulturze współczesnej. The study is divided into three parts, which concern separate fields of art – graphic novels and comic books, literary transformations, and theatrical and film productions. The author, conducting a meticulous analysis of selected works, puts forward an innovative thesis that not only Conrad’s works but also his biography are subject to adaptations. The publication is a valuable contribution to the field of Conrad studies, significantly supplementing the state of research.

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Reshaping Mystical Geometry of ”Vision and Prayer” by Dylan Thomas as Its Possible Re-Interpretation

Author(s): Srebrenka Mačković / Language(s): English Issue: 25/2024

Although Dylan Thomas and his poem ”Vision and Prayer” (1944) are usually not attributed to a specific kind of visual/concrete or ”shaped poetry,” his highly enigmatic and daring poetical articulation displays some interesting typographical features that can qualify him to be included in the label. It is a unique experiment of a kind mainly because of its two distinct geometric shapes, i.e. diamond and hourglass, within the two equal Parts, with six stanzas in each one of them. These shapes create a kind of “mystical geometry,” since they differ both in their pictorial presentation and the content matter. The paper tried to follow various attempts in English literature that might have served as a source of inspiration for Thomas in the works of George Herbert, Sir Thomas Browne, and W.B. Yeats. It also presents previous critical interpretations that revolved mainly around the themes of birth, death, and re-birth Resurrection of Jesus Christ, since religious imagery and poetic language seem to invite such an approach (Tindall, Burdette, Kidder, Bauer). However, a combination of Derridean deconstruction/restructuring and computer-assisted pictorial manipulation of the text produced yet an interesting experiment in analysis, having brought together all the stanzas into a ‘grand diamond’ shape. The newly reshaped version of the ‘poem’ opened up possibilities for interpretation while pointing out the central geometric shapes that emerged in the process.

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THE CONNECTION BETWEEN THE BODY AND EMOTION: CORPOREAL NARRATOLOGY VERSUS LOVE AS A METAPHOR IN THE WORKS OF TONI MORRISON, SUSAN SONTAG AND SARAH PERRY

Author(s): Simona Olaru-Poșiar / Language(s): English Issue: 38/2024

The original sacred time has nowadays become a communication that connects common actions for fulfillment that connect the body to the emotion. To escape the present crisis of identity, man eagerly seeks a place of spiritual life under the sign of togetherness. Compelled by history, man is aware of the impossibility of solitary survival. Using the power of the metaphor and of the (master) narrative, we are introduced to three different renderings of love. These universes are set metaphorically speaking, on different theatrical stages and in unique temporal spaces that are painted in prose by three different female writers: Toni Morrison, Susan Sontag and Sarah Perry. They come from different backgrounds, different cultures, share different perspectives and experiences. Each rendering offers a microcosmic window on love and the connection between body and emotion. Using the master narrative and the metaphor, love is the key for opening each universe.

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COMMUNICATION MANAGEMENT AT INTERNATIONAL SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL CRAIOVA. CROSS-CUTTING PERSPECTIVES

Author(s): Xenia Negrea / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2024

Through this analysis we aim to describe how the identity of the Craiova International Shakespeare Festival has been built over time. We will trace the communication patterns, the diversification of audience categories and the democratization of the festival's offer, as well as the evolution of communication strategies. An important stage will be the description of the communication barriers that the Festival's communicators have to overcome, as well as the techniques to attract certain influencers to take up and relay the message. The Craiova International Shakespeare Festival is already 30 years old, but its identity is still evolving. In our analysis we will highlight the stages of identity building as one of the main outcomes of the communication process.

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Sir Gawain and the Green Knight/ Sir Gawain şi Cavalerul cel Verde

Author(s): Monica Matei-Chesnoiu / Language(s): English Issue: 4/2022

Review of: Sir Gawain and the Grene Knyght/ Sir Gawain şi Cavalerul cel Verde. Translated with a foreword and notes by Mircea M. Touş Cluj-Napoca: Şcoala Ardeleanã, 2021.

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The Ethics of Form in Muriel Spark’s The Ballad of Peckham Rye

Author(s): Petronia Petrar / Language(s): English Issue: Suppl. 1/2023

Starting from Leona Toker’s inquiries into the ethics of narrative form, the essay explores the modes in which Muriel Spark’s novel undermines cognitive and moral certainties by producing plots that subject readers to the same kind of semantic disorientation that the characters “experience” within the fictional reality. The renewal of interpretive grids thus produced paves the way for a more ethical awareness of the shared nature of our positionality in the world.

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MITOVI I SNOVI NA JAVI

Author(s): Paul Tabori / Language(s): Bosnian Issue: 39-40/2024

Neki poznat pisac koji se sakrio iza pseudonima Johannes Starcius objavio je knjigu izazovna naslova - Tajanstveno blago junaka (Geheimnissvolter Helden-schatz). Ta se knjiga temeljila na načelima tzv. "magične nauke". Valja, naime, imati na umu da je izašla u vrijeme kad su ne samo obični ljudi nego čak i ozbiljni učenjaci spremno gutali privlačni mamac što je visio na udici "duboko naučne discipline". Laike je to, naravno, posebno privlačilo zato što je tu praznovjerje nastupalo prerušeno u nauku, pa se zato nisu morali bojati da će ih tkogod optužiti zbog bavljenja vradžbinama.

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SREDNJA ZEMLJA IZMEĐU ŽIVOTA I SMRTI: VENECIJA U KRILIMA GOLUBICE

Author(s): Biljana Dojčinović-Nešić / Language(s): Serbian Issue: 3-4/2005

The theoretical frame of the essay is E. Grosz' concept of the relation between body and city as ”a two-way linkage that could be defined as an interface. The thesis of the paper is that Venice in The Wings of the Dove is neither a mere frame nor just an expression of Milly Theale's destiny, but a character of its own. For Milly Theale, her Venetian Palazzo is a perfect shell within which she feels she might almost resolve the life and death opposition, whereas for James himself Venice is like a demanding lover.

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Points of Connection and Separation of the Text and the Play on the Example of Wilde’s and Zadar’s „Star-Child”

Author(s): Igor Tretinjak / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2024

Understanding adaptation as a two-way process in which the original medium and the medium of adaptation interact with each other, the paper analyzes the relationship between the fairy tale The Star-Child by Oscar Wilde and the puppet play The Star-Child by the Zadar Puppet Theater, directed and adapted by Milena Dundov. The two works are connected by a series of common elements that they approach and use in some places similarly, but more often differently. The key point of difference, in addition to the differences in the media, is the temporal, spatial and especially social context in which the fairy tale and the puppet show were created. The paper analyzes the similarities and, particularly, the differences between the two works, and attempts to notice the second part of the two-way influence — the adaptation’s influence on the source.

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Analiza porównawcza opisów przemocy w polskich przekładach powieści „Rebecca” Daphne du Maurier (1938)

Author(s): Katarzyna Jaworska-Biskup / Language(s): Polish Issue: 1/2024

The aim of this article is to analyse the representation of violence in Polish translations of Daphne du Maurier’s Rebecca. Du Maurier’s novel has been translated into Polish twice, by Wanda Wasilewska in 1939 and by Eleonora Romanowicz-Podoska in 1958. Katarzyna Jaworska-Biskup focuses on selected passages, i.e., scenes which depict violence. These scenes are private encounters between Mrs Danvers, a villain, and Max de Winter’s second wife. An attempt is made to assess how Polish translators have conveyed the novel’s depictions of violence in terms of the strategies and techniques used in translation.

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ON POST 9/11 FICTION. “TRANSATLANTIC LITERATURE AND CULTURE AFTER 9/11: THE WRONG SIDE OF PARADISE”

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ON POST 9/11 FICTION. “TRANSATLANTIC LITERATURE AND CULTURE AFTER 9/11: THE WRONG SIDE OF PARADISE”

Author(s): Ioana Cistelecan / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2024

New narratives and new stylistic choices have emerged, connected to the 21st-century disillusionment with the ideals of safety, security, and moral clarity that once used to be taken for granted. The book “Transatlantic Literature and Culture after 9/11: The Wrong Side of Paradise”, edited by Kristine A. Miller, is an academic collection of essays that brings together some studies which interrogate the complex ways in which 9/11 has been represented and processed within literature and culture. Life post 9/11 collective trauma perpetuates an intensified sense of crisis and vulnerability in a disorienting world. The volume has a transatlantic approach, bridging American and European viewpoints.

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Několik poznámek režiséra k Shakespearově Bouři podle Fibicha a Vrchlického a k inscenaci této opery v Národním divadle moravskoslezském (premiéry 1. a 3. 12. 2016 v Divadle Antonína Dvořáka v Ostravě)

Author(s): Jiří Nekvasil / Language(s): Czech Issue: 1/2021

Zásadním impulsem pro zařazení opery Bouře Zdeňka Fibicha na repertoár Národního divadla moravskoslezského bylo setkání s tímto dílem díky nedávno vydané (2012) historické nahrávce této opery zroku 1950 na CD. Tuto rozhlasovou nahrávku pod taktovkou Jaroslava Vogela, vydala Společnost Beno Blachuta v koprodukci s Radioservisem. V hlavních rolích zde účinkují Zdeněk Otava, Ludmila Červinková, Beno Blachut, Maria Tauberová a Vladimír Jedenáctík. Spoluúčinkuje Pěvecký sbor Československého rozhlasu, hraje Symfonický orchestr pražského rozhlasu. Vydání této pozoruhodné nahrávky, dosud nebyla žádná k dispozici, nabídlo jedinečnou možnost setkat se s touto operou po dlouhé době jinak než pouze četbou klavírního výtahu či partitury. Naposledy totiž tato opera zazněla v roce 1969 v Národním divadle. Již první poslech mě silně oslovil, dá se říci okouzlil. A obojí se více a více prohlubovalo při dalším opakovaném poslechu a hlubším poznávání tohoto mimořádného a jedinečného operního díla druhé poloviny 19. století.

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"All That Glitters is Not Gold": Reflections on Javor Gardev's Production of William Shakespeare's "The Merchant of Venice" at The Bulgarian National Theatre

Author(s): Georgi Niagolov / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2024

The article reviews Javor Gardev’s recent production of Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice on the stage of the Bulgarian National Theatre in the context of the play’s long debated generic ambiguity and the “unpleasant” issues it confronts. It argues that even though, due to good historical reasons, the issue of antisemitism has attracted most of the attention so far, the central “unpleasant” issue in the original text is patriarchalism and the inequality between men and women. The play and the production’s divergent treatments of this issue are considered in the context of today’s antifeminist backlash, as well as the more general tendency to withdraw from traditional Western values, such as democracy, freedom, human rights. The current global and locally Bulgarian perspectives are discussed in order to demonstrate the urgency of taking a clear stand in support of these values.

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Polyphonic Elegiac Lament over Percival in The Waves by Virginia Woolf

Author(s): Sylwia Janina Wojciechowska / Language(s): English Issue: 17(46)/2024

The groundbreaking “play-poem” "The Waves" has attracted much critical acclaim due to the innovativeness of the form. While endorsing the claims on Woolf’s experimentation, the present article suggests that ancient traditions and modes are discernible within the innovative narration of grief. The thematic scope involving the death of the major character, Percival, is argued to be a major reason for prioritising the fifth section of "The Waves" as the midpoint, and indeed the central point, of the narration. The formula of mourning contained in this section is investigated alongside the ekphrastic set-piece description of noon preceding it. Subsequently, the elegiac lament over Percival found in Section V is examined, with the analysis based on the references to tragic or pastoral traditions known and deployed in European literature since antiquity. This particular fragment of "The Waves" is argued to constitute a modernist version of prose elegy, being a literary rendition of a polyphonic lament in which each subsequent part differs in terms of mode and rhetoric. The paper examines how much the form and the premise of the elegiac triad of lamentation– confrontation–consolation predetermine the choice of the elegiac speakers: Neville – the pastoral, elegiac mourner; Bernard – the eulogist and chief representative of the community; and Rhoda – a performer of the rites of leave-taking.narration's midpoint, and indeed the central point

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The Original Versus Translations Over the Years: Faithful Copies or Translators’ Interpretations

Author(s): Anna Dybiec / Language(s): English Issue: 17(46)/2024

The article offers a comparative analysis of two of Charles Dickens’s Christmas Books: "The Chimes" (1844) and "The Cricket on the Hearth" (1845). Time influences literary fashions, which prompted me to conduct an analysis of these translations. Polish translations of the books were published at different times, encompassing the nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first centuries, which had a considerable impact on their poetics and quality. This paper aims to present various approaches to the linguistic representation of emotions in source texts and target texts. The study relies on structural analysis and cognitive linguistics, which includes spoken and written language, as well as non-verbal communication. It opens with a short introduction on the issue of emotions and how they can be examined. It also explores how languages manifest expressions of emotions and translators’ techniques to cover expressiveness. Special attention was given to various ways of depicting emotions in the texts, paying attention to the use of diminutives, metaphors, and phraseological units involving body organs (one of them being the “heart”) or symptoms of emotions. Triggered by interest in emotions in recent years, researchers have started to take them into account in research. Consequently, I claim that among the numerous linguistic works devoted to feelings and emotions, it is not easy to distinguish those whose corpus is a novel or literary fiction, especially from a comparative perspective in the retranslation. This article is part of the current research on the linguistic approaches to naming, communicating, and expressing emotions in literary texts compared to their translations as well as translators’ choices and their techniques. Hence, another notion that will be useful in the analysis is that of “retranslation”. However, although the issue of emotions has been tackled by many scholars, it seems still under-researched and it certainly seems possible to shed new light on how translators work and what drives their translation decisions. Thus, in the conclusions, I attempt to portray various ways of expressing emotion, as exemplified in "The Chimes" and "The Cricket on the Hearth" and their Polish renditions.

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