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Alegorické a reálné v románu a filmu Cesta

Author(s): Petr Bubeníček / Language(s): Czech Issue: 1/2018

The study is concerned with The Road, a post-apocalyptic novel by Cormac McCarthy, and with its film adaptation. It follows the artistic configurations involved, as they reduce people to their biological foundations while, at the same time, pointing to the survival of rudimentary ethical consciousness even in individuals living in extremely strained conditions. The film, especially, shows the downfall of the protagonist into post-apocalyptic horror as leading to the eventual discovery of his quintessential humanity. Moreover, the text by McCarthy can also be read as a postmodern argument against the rationale of modernism: instrumental behaviours stand opposed to ethical behaviour, which is irrational in that it disadvantages those who engage in it. The study examines why, in McCarthy, this divine, ethical principle does not go the way of the rest of the bygone symbolic system, i.e. devolves into a mere phantasma.

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THE DISUNITED STATES OF AMERICA AND THE LIMINALITY OF MEMORY IN PAUL AUSTER’S 4321

Author(s): Mihaela Popuţa / Language(s): English Issue: 27/2021

4321 has become Auster’s most vocal narrative on political awareness so far. The novel dwells on how individuals see and experience cyclicality and the liminality of memory. The present paper examines Auster’s take on what he so bluntly terms the “Disunited States of America”.

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AN ANALYSIS OF THE AWAKENING FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF SARTRE’S ONTOLOGY AND ETHICS

Author(s): Shpetim Madani,Greta Përgjegji / Language(s): English Issue: 28/2022

This article examines Kate Chopin’s novel The Awakening from the perspective of Sartre’s ontology and ethics. The study starts with a short introduction to existentialism and its main representatives. Then, it analyses the novel by applying Sartre’s phenomenological ontology of being and its three structures (being in-itself, being for-itself, and being for-others). Finally, the book’s main ideas are explored through Sartre’s ethical concepts of freedom and responsibility, authenticity and bad faith

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MOTHER-DAUGHTER RELATIONSHIPS IN JAPANESE IMMIGRANT FAMILIES: MOTHERS AND DAUGHTERS IN SEVENTEEN SYLLABLES AND AND THE SOUL SHALL DANCE

Author(s): Midori Endo / Language(s): English Issue: 28/2022

The focus of this study is the mother-daughter relationships depicted in Japanese American literature in the mid- to late 20th century. I analyse the short stories of Hisaye Yamamoto (1921-2011) and Wakako Yamauchi (1924-2018), to illustrate how the mother-daughter relationships are closely connected to different ethnic and cultural identities in the Japanese immigrant families.

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Dante i Ezra Pound, očima T. S. Eliota

Author(s): Ante Armanini / Language(s): Croatian Issue: 11+12/2008

Esej T. S. Eliota o Danteu smatram egzemplarnim dokumentom i za moderno pjesništvo i za čitav niz školskih i akademskih rasprava o modernom pjesništvu, koje svojom atribucijom »moderno« više zbunjuju čitatelje i razvodnjavaju mogućnosti tumačenja pjesništva en general nego što pridonose razumijevanju bilo književnosti bilo pjesničkih djela. Dakako, egzemplarna u Eliotovu tekstu je implicitna polemika s purificiranim ili tehničkim tumačenjem bilo kakve književne tradicije u pjesništvu, od Dantea pa sve do Ezre Pounda.

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The Subversion of the Meanings of Food Tropes in Salman Rushdie’s Novel “Midnight’s Children”

Author(s): Jūratė Radavičiūtė / Language(s): English Issue: 42(47)/2022

The article investigates the subversion of the meanings of food tropes in Salman Rushdie’s novel “Midnight’s Children”. The research is carried out within the theoretical framework of Postethnic Narrative Criticism, which postulates that historical and political contexts are relevant for understanding and interpreting the postethnic literary work; however, literature should not be perceived as an accurate representation of reality outside the world of fiction or interpreted as such. The article provides an analysis of the key connotations of the tropes in the description of Doctor Aziz and his family, emphasizing that food-related tropes are restricted to the private life of the characters discussed and are mainly associated with female characters. In portraying the Azizes’ children, the initial meanings of the tropes are subverted and undermined. The process of subversion is determined by societal changes which impact the main characters’ public and private lives.

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Poetry and Time in the Light of Mediology

Author(s): Erika Lujza Nagy / Language(s): English Issue: 109/2021

This article is about poetry from the perspective of mediology. It examines the corporeal aspects of poetry. It changes the philological approach towards poetry because it convinces us that poetry is the unity of ideas and material form. Thanks to Brodsky’s Nobel Lecture the connection between poetry and action is expressed in a more explicit way. It allows us to understand the personal significance of poetry for the reader. We realize that reading a poem is a way to achieve an authentic being. The article also discusses time, which is the common point of mediology and poetry. It allows one to notice the main task of human being: to think about death. The paper introduces the complexity of poetry thanks to which the reader becomes aware of time.

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Atticus Finch's Perspective on Sociocultural Consciousness in Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird

Author(s): Zana Timothee Ouattara,Koffi Eugene N'guessan / Language(s): English Issue: 24/2021

Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird (1960) remains a timeless work of reference that highlights American social and cultural heritage regarding the issue of race. Lee reveals the character of Atticus Finch as a champion of justice as well as an activist for black people’s social freedom. In this paper, we consider the consistency of Atticus Finch’s moral message as he seeks to change American sociocultural consciousness. His participation in building a society of equity and justice is unparalleled and requires a change of perspective concerning cultural diversity to preserve social bounds.

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New York City on Stage: (De)Constructing Urban Space in John Guare’s Plays: 1

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New York City on Stage: (De)Constructing Urban Space in John Guare’s Plays: 1

Author(s): Ludmila Martanovschi / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2021

John Guare distinguishes himself as a playwright who has represented New York City’s various neighborhoods and has fought realist conventions throughout his work. By relying on considerations advanced by Robert Bennett in his study of the literature, art, jazz and architecture of New York City after World War II, the current analysis shows that Guare approaches the discourse of the global capital of the world deconstructively, just like the post-war avant-garde he is probably familiar with. Moreover, Guare’s own search for experimental strategies reflects that of his predecessors and of the shape-shifting city itself. Included in a volume which is part of the Contemporary Dramatists series published by Methuen Drama, the four plays under discussion are: “The House of Blue Leaves” (1971), “Landscape of the Body” (1977), “Bosoms and Neglect” (1979, 1986) and “Six Degrees of Separation” (1990). Exploring the main characters’ experiences in New York City and their encounters with recognizable (or easily legible) sites of this quintessentially American metropolis, such as Greenwich Village and Central Park, the essay examines how Guare deconstructs urban space, advancing a most original and coherent reading of the city.

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CHARACTER DESIGN IN RELATION TO LANDSCAPE AND TIME DIMENSIONS IN HENDERSON THE RAIN KING BY SAUL BELLOW

Author(s): Valentina Robu / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2022

This article analyses aspects of character design in Saul Bellow’s novel Henderson the Rain King. It focuses on the association of space and specific moments in time and highlights the use of landscape structures in important moments of the book, aiming to explore the evolution of the central character. The overall discussion of the relationship between character development and landscape patterns uses Bakhtin’s idea of chronotope and identifies several significant moments in the economy of the book that are relevant to the construction of the main character. On the whole, this article was inspired by Saul Bellow’s recurrent and energetic attempts to rescue, throughout his writing activity, that part of the traditional novel which is centered around a problematic hero.

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Lineage versus Affect in Shakespeare’s, Brontë’s, and Faulkner’s Representations of Family Systems

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Lineage versus Affect in Shakespeare’s, Brontë’s, and Faulkner’s Representations of Family Systems

Author(s): John Peacock / Language(s): English Issue: 38/2022

King Lear makes his daughters compete for inheritances by declaring “which of you . . . doth love us most.” His youngest refuses to let her dowry depend on displaying filial piety, instead declaring her fealty in the old, less emotional language of lineage: “I love your Majesty / According to my bond; no more nor less.” Brontë’s Heathcliff expresses the dialectic of lineage and affect in terms of affective will and testamentary wills. By asserting the former, he succeeds in revising the latter – forcing his dying son to name him his heir. Faulkner’s protagonists identify with grandparents in order to reassert older, extended lineage ties over unacceptable affective ties to parents or siblings. Or else they do just the opposite: repudiating lineages to miscegenetic or incestuous grandparents in order to form more responsible emotional bonds. Whichever generation they consciously identify with, they often end up unconsciously perpetuating the example of the generation they rejected. In family systems, role reversal often keeps things essentially the same. A homeostatic tendency resists the inevitabilities of children growing up and becoming parents, of parents growing old and reliving some of their former feelings of dependency as children, only now vis-à-vis their own children.

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Modernism, Postmodernism and the Nature of the Times: A Conversation with Randall Stevenson

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Modernism, Postmodernism and the Nature of the Times: A Conversation with Randall Stevenson

Author(s): Adriana Neagu / Language(s): English Issue: 37/2021

The interview offers a comprehensive, paradigmatic overview of the experience of literary modes within the broad frameworks of modernity and postmodernity. It invites reflection and rethinking of epistemic change from a major literary historian and theorist whose work in the Anglo-American context has become synonymous with the examination of temporality, historicity, and poeticality in twentieth century experimentation with form. Revisiting central concepts and aesthetic categories in literary criticism and theory, Randall Stevenson contributes a highly contemporary, ground-breaking vision of the literary act against the backdrop of the new structures of knowledge pertaining to the digital age and the post-humanist crisis.

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The sea in the works of Sylvia Plath and Petya Dubarova: A comparison

Author(s): Hristo Boev / Language(s): English,Bulgarian Issue: 3/2022

This article compares the portrayals of the sea in Sylvia Plath’s and Petya Dubarova’s works. Both authors wrote their major poetry and prose during the Cold War, the former in the 1950s, early 1960s, the latter in the 1970s, on both sides of the Atlantic, respectively. They also belonged to opposing political and military camps – the USA and NATO on one side, and the Comecon on the other of which Bulgaria was a member state. The sea as a heterotopic place and space bordering on the human ones in their case will be shown to be a frequently personified natural element that is benevolent to the narrator and that allows a getaway into a phantasmatic world composed of dreamscapes marked by fictional transformations of the body typically contained in the areas around Boston, USA and Burgas, Bulgaria. Strongly present in their childhood, the sea also served as a vital force of the imagination which helped sustain both poets in their adolescence years and whose waning power in terms of its receding literary presence eventually signaled their approaching untimely demise.

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Gönülsüz Bir Dönüşüm: Revizyonist Bir Hikâye Olarak “The Frog Prince”

Author(s): Mürüvvet Mira Pınar Dolaykaya / Language(s): Turkish Issue: Sp. Issue/2022

In “The Frog Prince”, published in The New Yorker in 2014, Robert Coover uses the Brothers Grimm’s namesake tale as a backdrop to interrogate and subvert fairy tale conventions specifically with a focus on gender roles. The story dwells on the experiences of its eponymous protagonist not as a prince who is transformed into a frog through evil magic but as a naïve frog which is transformed into a human being against his will. Opening with an anonymous woman’s kiss, Coover’s story probes concepts such as individualism, self, identity, happiness, and belonging through the relationship of the couple. This study reads Robert Coover’s “The Frog Prince” as a revisionist story. It explores Coover’s story as a text which problematizes and revises fairy tales as far-fetched, idealized, and ideological narratives that fail to represent the individual and the individual experience.

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From Blind to Blinding: Saturated Phenomena and the Speculative Lyric of the Invisible in Andrew Joron’s Poetry

Author(s): Ming-Qian Ma / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2022

This essay presents a critical reading of Andrew Joron’s speculative oeuvre from a phenomenological standpoint. Proceeding from the poet’s cosmic perspectives, it focuses on the central issue of language in relation to the emergence of meaning and the world. Through a close reading of both Joron’s poetry and poetics, this essay demonstrates his conceptual affinity with the work of contemporary French philosopher Jean-Luc Marion, arguing that both Joron’s poetry and Marion’s phenomenology of givenness postulate an emergence of meaning and the world that is absolutely unconditioned and unconditional, an emergence characterized by an intuitively blinding richness that saturates the phenomenon over and beyond any limit and, hence, makes the phenomenon invisible.

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The Omega Machine

Author(s): Felix Bernstein / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2022

The following is the script for a performance developed in tandem with artist and performer Gabe Rubin and painter Jacqueline Humphries for her show jHΩ1:) at Wexner Center for the Arts in October 2021. Humphries’s work blurs the line between the painterly expression and the automated simulacrum. Her paintings in this show included 3D printed blacklight flat sculptures that resemble paintings that use as a base layer text encoded (ASCII) versions of earlier paintings with novel features palimpsestically overwriting them, such as Greek letters, Möbius strips, emoticons, and brand names. Our script ties together Humphries’s innovative practice with debates regarding the relative indeterminacy of the subject in comparison to the algorithm and artificial intelligence – debates which are linked to related questions as to the possibility of chance and spontaneity within seemingly closed discourses such as those interpreted by psychoanalysis, discourses famously encoded by Jacques Lacan into algorithms – and psychoanalysis itself. For the event, we invented a character for Gabe Rubin named Absinthe Omega, a brand ambassador for automated painting, to serve as a queer figure who might dramatize these issues while also fading into and out of the ground of painting itself as if they were a kind of subjectile substrate to these antinomic debates.

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‘Committing Poetry’: A Review of Timothy Yu (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Twenty-First-Century American Poetry

Author(s): Laurent Milesi,Arleen Ionescu / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2022

Review of: ‘Committing Poetry’: A Review of Timothy Yu (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Twenty-First-Century American Poetry, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021, ISBN 978-1-108-48209-7 Hardback, ISBN 978-1-108-74195-8 Paperback, xix + 246 pages

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Parryjevo epsko prikupljanje epike

Author(s): Sead Šemsović / Language(s): Bosnian Issue: 7/2019

Review of: Mirsad Kunić, Čitanje Parryjeve zbirke, Connectum, Sarajevo 2018.

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The Many Cri(s)es of Mia

Author(s): Catalina-Florina Florescu / Language(s): English Issue: 39/2022

Developed as a character in 2011, Mia is part of the world’s first breast cancer trilogy. Mia is a personal and professional project because the play’s roots are subjective (I lost my mother to breast cancer thirty years ago), as well as objective (I hold a PhD in Medical Humanities with publications at the intersection between the arts and medicine). This article focuses on the many cri(s)es that Mia faces as a woman. She is in her early thirties when she is diagnosed with breast cancer. The treatment is aggressive and, consequently, not only does she lose one of her breasts (via mastectomy), but she cannot keep a pregnancy. We meet Mia outside of the white and somewhat terrifying hospital walls, that is, we meet her at home, and because of that, we have the illusion that she is in a protected space. We soon discover otherwise

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Campus/Academic Novels and “Built-In” Nostalgia

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Campus/Academic Novels and “Built-In” Nostalgia

Author(s): Corina Selejan / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2022

The present article traces nostalgia across various campus and academic novels published during the last three decades and identifies different kinds of nostalgia – writerly and readerly nostalgia, vicarious nostalgia, ersatz nostalgia – not in the systematic manner of a classification but guided by the novels themselves. The readings are informed by theories stemming from different backgrounds – the social sciences, cultural and literary studies, psychology and cognitive science – in an attempt to create a productive dialogue, one that emphasizes the creative potential of nostalgia.

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