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De/Con x Struction = 0.3 (By Inference, Literature so Boyish, The Leaf Is Death)

Author(s): Dina Lipjankić / Language(s): English Issue: 14/2016

The aim of this paper is to apply the deconstructive method when analysing the poems by Alan Davies. The analysis should also cover the host theme, that is the parasite-host theme as introduced by Hillis Miller. The deconstructive readings of both Derrida and Paul de Man are blended together with the parasite theme in this article, resulting in findings relating both to the content and the structure of the poems. What is more, the analysis also focuses on the unity and the impossibility of the unity of the three poems. Results show that the Poem, as a whole, and the poems taken separately are parasitic, both in terms of structure and meaning. The structure is revealed to be parasitic when considering the titles and the verses, whereas the meaning is revealed as parasitic through Derridian play and supplementarity.

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Variations on a Virgil-theme, from the Aeneid to Brodsky’s Aeneas and Dido and its further paraphrases

Author(s): Éva Petrőczi / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2009

Joszif Brodszkij “Dido és Aeneas” című versét 29 évesen, három esztendővel kényszerű amerikai emigrációja előtt írta, mintegy “lelki főpróbaként” a hontalanság elfogadására. A parafrázis nyersanyagát Vergilius Aeneisének negyedik része szolgáltatta, a festmények sokaságán, Purcell operájában stb. Megjelenített szerelmi dráma, amelyben a trójai hős – épp a honvesztés állapotában – beleszeret Dido királynőbe, de hamarosan elhagyja, mert űzi az új haza – Róma – megalapításának kényszere. Joszif Brodszkij (angolul: Joseph Brodsky) Nobel-díjas orosz-amerikai költő-egyetemi tanár eredeti és új hazájában is “deáktalan”, azaz nem latinos kultúrájú ország lakója volt, mégis bízvást nevezhetjük a “leglatinosabb” huszadik századi költők egyikének. A számára legfontosabb költők sorában ott találjuk Vergilius mellett Catullust, Ovidiust és Martialist, s jellemző az is, hogy egyik kötetének igen kifejező latin címet adott: “Post aetatem nostram”. Választása, latinosságmániája nem egyszerű különcség, elitizmus volt, hanem sok versében a hanyatló Róma képeivel érzékeltette a széteső szovjet birodalom légkörét. Visszatérve jelen versére: ő, mint annyi poéta a világirodalomban, Aeneas szemszögéből láttatja a történetet. Így írta tovább az ő versét Brodszkij kiváló magyar fordítója, sok szempontból már-már alteregója, Baka István költő-műfordító is. Ezt a “férfiszempontú” olvasatot törte meg tizenegyedik verseskötetem címadó költeménye, a “Dido utolsó üzenete”, amely a szerencsétlen sorsú szerelmes asszony szemszögéből láttatja a történetet, vállalt szereplíraként. A dolgozatban amerikai klasszika-filológusok írásai mellett felhasználtam a legkiválóbb Brodszkij-szakértők, -fordítók munkáit, Kevin l. Kline-tól Zara M. Torlone-ig.

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Bohemians, Vagabonds, and Wanderers of the “Ragged Promised Land” in Jack Kerouac’s On the Road

Author(s): Daria Anna Urbańska / Language(s): English Issue: 04/2018

The article focuses on the journey into the “ragged promised land” (80) in On the Road. It can be seen as an escape of the main protagonist Sal Paradise from his roots and from the conformity of American society. Kerouac, having a Franco-Canadian heritage, presents a marginal possibility of heterogeneity in a homogenous postwar America. The author depicts additional mentors and heroes met along the way. They are, among others, tramps and hoboes, ragged wanderers and the Fellahin of Mexico, as well as Sal’s travel companion Dean Moriarty. Sal experiences something true and meaningful among those living on the margin of society. He travels considerable distances: from coast to coast across the United States, from boarder to boarder and to Mexico. The real journey, though, is inward, a passage through the wilderness of the self, the true “ragged promised land”.

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THE CHRONICLES OF DOUBLE UN-BELONGING: REPRESENTATIONS OF HYBRID IDENTITY IN MOHJA KAHF’S THE GIRL IN THE TANGERINE SCARF

Author(s): Ingrīda Kleinhofa / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2019

The writing of Mohja Kahf, an Arab-American novelist, poet, and scholar of postcolonial and comparative literature, is much noted for shattering stereotypes about the “oppressed and silenced Muslim woman” and speaking up for Arab American Muslim women with scathing “diasporic Arab feminist critique.”

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NI U CRNOM NI U BIJELOM NEGO U BOJI PURPURA

Author(s): Srebrenka Mačković / Language(s): Bosnian Issue: 1/2019

All of Walker’s novels deal with issues of racism, discrimination, gender inequality, sexuality and self-identity among black population in the United States, as well as power dynamics between the whites and the blacks. The Color Purple is no exception since the novel tackled many serious issues that troubled black communities throughout the Deep South in the post-Civil War America. The paper tries to present the key features of Walker’s ideology of womanism, which openly advocated sexual, sisterly and maternal love between black women as a political tool for radical social change in the context of discrimination, racism, family violence and abuse against silenced and deprived black women in the United states. Walker’s first novel The Color Purple masterfully demonstrates this concept by showing how women can overcome the oppressive environment by creating powerful bonds amongst themselves.

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Amerikan Şiirinde Avangart Geleneğin Elektronik Yansıması: Dijital Şiir

Author(s): Memet Metin Barlık / Language(s): Turkish Issue: 99/2019

The avant-garde movements of American poetry after the 1950s, criticizing the traditional norms of the former periods, were eager to form an alternative renewing and developing culture, and tended to consider the demands of the populace of the readers. Black Mountain College (1950—56), Greenwich Village (1950—63), the Black Arts Movement (1962—70), the Language poets of New York and San Francisco (1979—89) were among the major avant-garde movements. The avant-garde approach was not only affective in literature but also in other genres of art, such as music and painting. The expressionist painting and Jazz music brought a new function to these genres of art. Avant-gardism also created a warm communication among different genres of arts, and changed the traditional norms of the presentation of the new forms. Powerful computer technologies and the new innovations of telecommunication created sites such as e-identity, e-education, digital art and digital criticism.

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THE YIDDISH SELF OF THE NORTH AMERICAN POET RICHARD FEIN

Author(s): Fazıla Derya Agış / Language(s): English Issue: 14/2019

In this study, I aim to analyze two poems by the North American poet Richard Fein that he collected in his book entitled “At the Turkish bath.” In my analyses, I intend to follow a cognitive poetic point of view, as the theory of “Cognitive Poetics” (1992) of the Israeli linguist and cognitive scientist Reuven Tsur, is based on cognitive processes, through which one solves the semantic ambiguities, such as metaphors, and the cognitive obligations, which lead to the correct interpretation of the poetry. Concisely, I am going to talk about the North American Jewish culture, discovering the poet’s Yiddish and North American identities via the cognitive poetic analyses of the two poems, entitled “My World of Yiddish” and “The Yiddish Poet Yankev Glatshteyn Visits Me in the Coffee Shop.”

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Парампарчад Џејмса Фреја: једна ревизија мемоарског жанра

Author(s): Mirjana Bojanić Ćirković / Language(s): Serbian Issue: 19/2019

The subject of this paper is the analysis of the genre characteristics of one of the most controversial memoirs of today, James Frey's A Million Little Pieces. Without neglecting the social and cultural context in which Frey's work was published, the paper focuses on the study of the relations of A Million Little Pieces with the classic memoir canon, as well as with contemporary observations of cognitive psychologists regarding the mentioned genre. An in-depth analysis of A Million Little Pieces between the "classic" and the contemporary view of the memoir characteristics suggests that this piece of work uses the potential of "classic" memoirs in an innovative way (the re-creation of memories, issue of objectivity and the status of truth, narration about the feat, moral witness’ story, interference with literary and non-literary genres), varies in content and significantly reviews classic definitions of memoirs.

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Potisnuti ženski glasovi u romanu Alis Voker Boja purpura

Author(s): Jelena M. Abula / Language(s): Serbian Issue: 19/2019

The objective of this paper was to explore the concept of articulating silenced female voices in Alice Walker’s novel The Color Purple. While Walker is trying to find an adequate answer to the question of understanding black female writers as artists, she highlights the legacy of slavery and the power of women who managed to find their creative expression, and thus, Walker manages to articulate the silenced voices of her black heroines in The Color Purple. Introducing the term "womanist", Walker creates the space in which silenced female voices are articulated through their fight against repression. Class, gender and sexuality are shown as sites of difference and oppression, and then, as sites of operation of power. The first criticism on black women’s literature appeared upon this novel’s publication and Alice Walker became the first African American to win the Pulitzer Prize for fiction.

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Uniformity and Difference of Ageing

Author(s): Stipe Grgas / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2019

The author proposes that ageing and old age can be seen as a universal process but also as something that can be differentiated both by time and place. In the central part of the article, the author contends that one way of approaching the topic, particularly if it is addressed as part of the United States polity, is through the lens of American Studies and, more specifically, through the work of R.W.B. Lewis and his idea of the American Adam. It is precisely the self-image of the United States as a country of youth that elides the significance of ageing from the disciplinary agenda. In addition, the author contends that the American socio-economic order marginalizes ageing as incompatible with its dynamics. In the conclusion, the author up-dates the issue and shows how today’s pension schemes affect what was precisely designated as a time of retirement.

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An Alternative Model of Totalitarian Society (Through the Example of Leigh Brackett’s “Book of Skaith”)

Author(s): Olena Sergeevna Kolesnyk / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2019

The purpose of the research is to go beyond the strict borders of the genre of anti-utopia and to study the depiction of dystopic social system in a work of the science fiction. The main methods are hermeneutics and the comparative analysis. The scientific novelty. For the first time Leigh Brackett‘s work is researched as an example of sociological and culturological modelling with considerable prognostic potential. Conclusion. In Brackett‘s ―The Book of Skaith we see not a typical for anti-utopia ―island society, but a whole planet. This implies a whole new level of complexity. The author shows how the changes in environment influence different interconnected societies. This modelling of civilization under pressure can be seen as an implicitly-culturological study of political, social and cultural dynamics. An important ethical topic concerns the degradation of the best ideological principles if they are not adapted to the changing reality. The image of society, where social programs breed a considerable strata of people, who never worked is disturbingly relevant. Almost all depicted social groups develop such protective reaction to the crisis, as the search for oblivion. Brackett shows different variants of escaping from the unbearable knowledge of the impending catastrophe: hedonistic attempts of living in a moment, totalitarian religions etc. Even such intellectual activity as studying history can become an obsessive immersion in the past as a way of escaping the present. That is why ―The Book of Skaith can be viewed as a warning about the consequences of some tendencies of the contemporary (late ХХ – early ХХI ct.) civilization. In this it differs from many anti-utopias, whose futuristic entourage masks the habit of depiction of the already well-known social ills, and in the forms more typical for the first half of the XX ct., than for our own days.

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Обележја књижевне поетике Кормака Макартија у филмској адаптацији драме „The Sunset Limited“

Author(s): Miloš Arsić / Language(s): Serbian Issue: 13/2016

This paper examines those segments of the film adaptation of The Sunset Limited which represent key features of Cormac McCarthy’s literary idiom: treatment of time and space, allegory, violence, nihilism and an ambiguous ending. The most prominent and important elements, which constitute the poetics of this author, are to be recognised in the approaches opted for by the film’s director Tommy Lee Jones. Success of this adaptation lies in the right choice of motifs from the original novel and in a convincing way of placing them in the foreground.

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PIERCING THE VEIL: VISUALITY AND EPISTEMOLOGY IN AMERICAN MODERNIST FICTION

Author(s): Peter Knirsch / Language(s): English Issue: 5/2011

Drastic changes in the media and technology combined with new psychological concepts of seeing led to re-conceptualizations of the visual in philosophy and, eventually, to a fundamentally changed understanding of reality in the age of modernism. These changes manifest themselves in modernist literature. One master metaphor that reflects this development is the veil in the sense of a „veil of perception.‟ Following Henri Bergson, T.E. Hulme‟s aesthetics draws heavily on this metaphor when it argues in favor of the epistemological superiority of poetic perception as compared to „ordinary‟ perception. The supposed piercing of the veil, however, is rather a redefinition and individualization of the metaphorical „veil of perception‟ formerly believed to be universal: reality is now considered subjective, temporary, and perspectival.

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The Priest They Called Him: The Experimental Work of William Burroughs

Author(s): Jelena Ž. Mandić / Language(s): English Issue: 12/2015

This paper centres on William Burroughs’ writing and ideas, which changed the course of literature, and his multi-media collaborations, which generated new directions in music and film. Although primarily known for his involvement with the Beat Generation, he is one of the most prominent figures in the emergence of the postwar counterculture, a transgressive author with an absolute dedication to experimentation in narrative form and structure. He defines a literary evolution of the self in his rejection of American conservative society. Introducing the cut-up and fold-in techniques, he produces unexpected conjunctions and challenges a common understanding of the world. Much of his narratives are a working through of his thesis that the word – language – is a virus. The virus notion is accompanied by the concept of power and control defined in terms of drug addiction. Burroughs claims that dominating systems degrade us and reduce us to a level of totally repressed human beings that do not question the existing sociopolitical order and live in the accepted constructs of reality. These hidden mechanisms are also present in contemporary mass media. For this reason, he creates a new world, which liberates readers from the dominance of the established society, allowing them to form all their perception anew. His truly revolutionary ideas have inspired and creatively exhilarated many writers, musicians and artists who undertook a variety of collaborative multi-media ventures with him. These collaborations were, again, attempts to escape from authorial constraints and shape art production towards “making the words talk on their own.” They alter the complex interweave of creativity in the (post)modern age.

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Идентитет и разлика у роману „Госпођа Даловеј“ Вирџиније Вулф и „Сати“ Мајкла Канингема

Author(s): Sofija Nemet / Language(s): Serbian Issue: 11/2015

The focus of this comparative analysis is the identity formation of characters in Virginia Woolf ’s Mrs. Dalloway and Michael Cunningham’s The Hours, as influenced by the difference they perceive both within themselves, and in relation to others. The theoretical ground used in this essay is mostly borrowed from gender theory, feminist literary criticism and psychoanalysis, while the aim was to explore the impact of the process of differentiation on the personalities, the emotions and the lifestyles of the characters, particularly within the boundaries imposed by gender differences.

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Мимикрија и игра у Набоковљевој „Бледој ватри“

Author(s): Snežana J. Milojević / Language(s): Serbian Issue: 11/2015

Although in the reader of Nabokov’s novel Pale Fire, a search for any logos would turn into a Sisyphean task, although the reading of this novel is not a contact with one meeting, but rather a network of meanings, there is an obvious relationship with the real world in the form of a parody or reassesment. That is why some of the themes that this paper addresses are: the relationship between fiction and reality implied by the author’s narrative method; sexual discourse, as well as a parody of the world of intellectuals (professors, critics, writers), by which Nabokov deconstructs the world to which he himself belongs. Th e influence of the realistic one is obvious, not only with the presence of the elements relevant to the world, but also in the absence that results from it: the poet’s daughter, whose death starts the writing of the poem and a while chain of eventns is a little present - she is plump, not very pretty and too sensitive, completely below the basic requirements of the time of narration that she belongs.

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Fear and Paranoia as a Postmodern Condition in Thomas Pynchon’s “The Crying of Lot 49” and David Lynch’s “Blue Velvet”

Author(s): Jelena Ž. Mandić / Language(s): English Issue: 10/2014

This paper centers on the politics of fear and paranoia in Thomas Pynchon’s novel The Crying of Lot 49 and David Lynch’s film Blue Velvet. These artists posit narrative critiques of American culture of consumption and history of imperialism, complicating traditional ideas of race and nationhood. They provoke the very roles, rules and institutional practices that shield oppression and unfairness, enable displacement and alienation, deny subjectivity and personal identity. By underscoring a sense of uncertainty and conspiracy, Pynchon and Lynch attempt to understand paranoia as a symptomatic condition of postmodernity. They approach it in terms of the psycho-cultural processes that induce paranoid anxiety within the depthlessness and fragmentation in postmodern society. Th roughout their work, they explore the notions of fear and terror, suggesting that America has become a world of paralysis, cultural exhaustion and death. Th e society’s rubbish and its waste, the contact with the disadvantaged, a series of objects which, like the hieroglyphic streets, have to be decoded, represent the path typically chosen by Pynchon and Lynch’s major characters. These authors produce images imbued with the apocalyptical chaos and nihilism, referring to the erosion of values, the decline of civility, the denial of truth.

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FOUCAULT’S HETEROTOPIA IN DELANY’S NEVÈRŸON CYCLE

Author(s): Ivana Gilić,Brian Willems / Language(s): English Issue: 8/2016

This article analyzes the four books of Samuel R. Delany’s Nevèrÿon cycle: Tales of Nevèrÿon (1979), Nevèrÿona, or: The Tale of Signs and Cities (1983), Flight from Nevèrÿon (1985) and Return to Nevèrÿon (1987). Michel Foucault’s concepts of heterotopia, genealogy, biopolitics and reverse discourse are used to show how a sign of slavery in the novels, the slave collar, is used to create a heterotopia in which dominant discourse is reversed. This thesis starts by taking Foucault’s concepts heterotopia and biopolitics to show how they relate to discourse and illustrate that certain notions we see as inherent are anything but. It continues by putting them in context with Delany and his work in order to demonstrate their correlation to discourse and how these concepts are involved in shaping discourse itself. We outline the dominant sexual discourse of our time better to understand Delany’s need for subverting such discourse and the revolutionary stance he takes in his work by reversing it in a Foucauldian manner. Reading their work together shows that the key step in creating a heterotopia in fiction is not so much distancing oneself from universal thought, but rather, embracing a universal multiplication of discourses, which must be done with caution so as not to fall into the trap of binary oppositions.

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Acting out Trauma and Violence in Viramontes, Kingston, and Silko

Author(s): Radmila Nastić / Language(s): English Issue: 8/2013

The ethnic writing of Helena Maria Viramontes, Leslie Marmon Silko, and Maxine Hong Kingston offers patterns of the so called “redressive” rituals, the term introduced by the renowned anthropologist Victor Turner. According to this author, redress is the third stage of what he calls “social drama” or a crisis, which tends to be resolved in terms scripted by theatrical and fictional models.

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И анђео и лудакиња: женски лик и женско читање у роману „Вољена“ Тони Морисон

Author(s): Jelena Lj. Pršić / Language(s): Serbian Issue: 8/2013

The paper is concerned with Toni Morrison’s contemporary novel Beloved, from the point of view of Sandra Gilbert and Susan Gubar’s notions of the madwoman in the attic and the anxiety of authorship. The first term refers to the rebellious female hero from the nineteenth-century women’s literature, whereas the latter concerns the fear of writing as a male profession, felt by the nineteenth-century women writers. It is precisely this anxiety that influenced these writers to create the madwoman character, who opposes the patriarchal system in a latent manner. Starting from this critical perspective and asking the question whether contemporary women’s literature also contains such anxiety, the paper focuses on the main female character of the novel Beloved, initially published in 1987. The aim is to point out the difference which separates contemporary Toni Morrison from the nineteenth-century women writers, but is not solely temporal. This difference has to do with the character of the postmodern age, but is mainly related to a shift from the manner in which the nineteenth-century women writers created their female characters. The paper analyses this literary distinctiveness, but also attempts to find a broader meaning of this originality as seen from the point of view of contemporary women’s literature and reading. By focusing on Sethe – the main character of Beloved, the paper points out that Toni Morrison breaks with the tradition maintained by her literary ancestors in that she does not divide her female characters into obedient and recalcitrant ones in relation to the patriarchal system. Instead, she creates a character who is both a motherly angel and a madwoman committing infanticide, thus making it possible for her readers to interpret the novel from the perspective of a woman with ambivalent roles and specific experience. In this way, she also deconstructs the male writing and reading rules. By doing so, Morrison conveys a message that the anxiety of authorship of a contemporary woman novelist can be if not totally cured then certainly lessened by means of writing.

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