Lectura în cenaclul „Viața românească”. De la practică individuală la imaginar colectiv

Author(s): Maricica Munteanu / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 2 (34)/2021

Reading is a highly frequented practice in the literary cenacles. However, at “Viața românească” group the out loud reading seems to be an incidental phenomenon which doesn’t mean it is absent from the life of the community. Although the writers of the circle prefer the individual and intimate readings to the collective ones, the act of reading is present through a shared affection, and a shared imaginary. When enjoying a particular reading, the participants at the cenacle exhibit their opinions towards the literary text through emotions, acting as an affected community. Also, the reading is invested as a social competence due to the collective imaginary they share together: the writers of “Viața românească” behave in a similar manner, because they read the same books, and their lives are shaped by the same literature.The manner of reading at “Viața românească” cenacle is influenced by Ibrăileanuʼs thinking that depicts a relationship between reading and intimacy. In this respect, the article analyses one of the critic’s studies on the matter, The Misery of Literary Criticism, in which he dissociates between literary criticism, seen as a specialized and sterile manner of understanding literature, and reading, described as pleasure experienced with the book. The writers of “Viața românească” cenacle behave as readers who invest their emotions in the reception of literature, choosing for their reading moments only texts from their favourite writers. Another aspect of Ibrăileanuʼs thinking analysed here is the similarity between reading and femininity, explained as common secrecy. This idea has significant consequences on the perception of the women writers at “Viața românească” who are seen as mysterious beings, present only with their names or literary works, and never as physical occurrence.

Portal społecznościowy jako narzędzie do promowania informacji regionalnych –na przykładzie profili Facebook TVP Łódź, Radia Łódź i „Expressu Ilustrowanego”

Author(s): Zbigniew Gruszka / Language(s): Polish Issue: 3/2021

The author aims at evaluating the activities on the Facebook profiles of three regional media editorials – namely the ‘TVP 3 Łódź’ TV channel, the ‘Radio Łódź’ radio channel, and the Express Ilustrowany daily – particularly in terms of including local and regional information in their posts. Another objective was to attempt to quantify and compare these activities. The used research method is the analysis of profile content on Facebook, and the study was conducted within the period of one month (1st March – 31st March, 2018).

TEKİNSİZİN GERİ DÖNÜŞÜ

Author(s): Alper Kara / Language(s): Turkish Issue: 35/2021

Psychoanalysis, which is built on a series of psychological theories and methods, aims to understand and eliminate mental problems in the dark spaces of the unconscious getting to the root of them. Sexual fantasies during childhood and events forgotten through repression in this period are seen as sources that feed this dark place. Psychoanalysis tries to understand this dark, unknown area through the concept of "uncanny". The emotions that the characters repressed during their childhood in the novels The Last Voice They Hear, Silent Children and The Face That Must Die written in an uncanny atmosphere by the modern English horror writer Ramsey Campbell form the basis for the concept of “uncanny”. The source of the uncanny that characters experience is the undesired things of the past reaching the present with qualities unfamiliar as a result of the suppression. An unfinished, incomplete childhood comes to light in an adult body. What comes out with the return of the repressed deviates from what is familiar, and assumes a familiar but a strange form. The characters experience uncanny during the round trips between the two extremes. The dilemma that arises between the familiar and unfamiliar symbolizes their conflict with their own selves and their struggle between good and evil. The study will analyse Ramsey Campbell's aforementioned novels in the context of "uncanny".

Pociąg do przyszłości – lekcja historii z Colsonem Whiteheadem

Author(s): Agnieszka Gondor-Wiercioch / Language(s): Polish Issue: 3/2021

In my article I am going to focus on the innovating way in which Colson Whitehead presents African-American history in his novel The Underground Railroad. Similarly, to the classical texts exposing erased and buried histories in the U.S. such as written by William Faulkner and Toni Morrison, Whitehead proposes a history lesson for Americans and non-Americans, but instead of producing another historical reconstruction, he uses the technique of multisynchronism combining the past, present and future that constantly interplay in his narrative. The plot that binds all other motives together is that of the Underground Railroad which is simultaneously referring us to the historical organization and a secret vehicle that never stops and thus it is a metaphor for actions undertaken to abolish systemic racism that never ends in the U.S. I would like to argue that apart from the above-mentioned literary strategies Whitehead also created timeless language so different from his literary predecessors like Faulkner and Morrison who often relied on modernist history reconstruction and the use of dialects (including AAVE). In my article I will not only attempt to answer the question if Whitehead’s formal achievements are indeed revolutionary, but I will analyse his way of incorporating Black history into fiction, trying to compare his diagnosis of the American society to the conclusions of Faulkner’s Light in August and Morrison’s Beloved. I will focus particularly on the combination of post-racial prose, speculative realism and afrofuturism.

Latające statki i podwodne plemiona – afrofuturystyczne konteksty mitu Flying Africans

Author(s): Elżbieta Binczycka-Gacek / Language(s): Polish Issue: 3/2021

This article’s objective is to compare different afrofuturistic texts containing references to the Flying Africans myth. I am going to analyse Anthony Joseph’s text The African Origins of UFOs and Nalo Hopkinson’s novel The Salt Roads in the musical funk and ambient context. My main focus is the song Star Child from album The Mothership Connection by the American band Parliament-Funkadelic and an electro-ambient album by the American group Drexciya, entitled The Quest, built around a story about an underwater human race living in the bottom of the Atlantic, born of pregnant women thrown overboard by slave ships.

„Afryka, która nadchodzi”. Nie-utopijna wizja przyszłości w powieści Rouge impératrice Léonory Miano

Author(s): Agata Mrowińska / Language(s): Polish Issue: 3/2021

This article seeks to present the way in which the Afrofuturism as a literary genre can be used to reflect on the potential of the African future. In the novel Rouge impératrice, published in 2019, Cameroonian author Léonora Miano introduces a vision of the future united state of Katiopa which enables her to reconsider some present problems and offered socio-political solutions. The image of the possible future of the African states constitutes a clever and innovative analysis of the current political and cultural issues of the African continent, and its possibilities for a stable and peaceful progress. At the same time, Miano tries to stay clear of the category of Black utopia.

Afro-futurism and Black Technopoetics: An Interview with Louis Chude-Sokei

Author(s): Elżbieta Binczycka-Gacek,Dariusz Brzostek / Language(s): English Issue: 3/2021

Toplumsal Gerçekliği Anlamada Kurgu Metinlerin Güvenirliği

Author(s): Rızkan Tok / Language(s): Turkish Issue: 2/2021

It is possible to argue that literary works have had vital importance in people’s lives throughout the ages. Subjectivity is thought to be the determining factor in these works since their nature consists of fiction. Based on this approach, the idea that it is difficult to reach objective or scientific inferences through fictional texts is emphasized, and it is highlighted that these texts may have problems in terms of reliability in reflecting social reality. In the context of this idea, it is argued that it is not possible for the fictional texts to be included in the rational epistemology of the sciences since they include too much subjective feelings and fictive images. In this study, while the backbone of the fiction-reality distinction which forms the basis of this idea is discussed, the problematic aspects of making this kind of sharp distinction are pointed out. In this respect, the novel as a literary genre is determined as the starting point in terms of exemplifying fictional texts. Therefore, starting from the novel, the possibilities of reaching social reality through fictional texts are tried to be investigated by referring to the concepts, perspectivism and relativism.

Egy közép-európai regénylexikon

Author(s): Imre József Balázs,Júlia-Réka Vallasek / Language(s): Hungarian Issue: 03/2022

“The Dictionary of the 20th Century Central European Novel” (Dicţionarul romanului central-european din secolul XX) is a forthcoming reference book edited by Adriana Babeți, the result of a collective effort of scholars affiliated with the Third Europe Foundation, Timișoara, a project carried out in more than 20 years. The book includes scholarly articles about 250 novels, written by 197 authors. As coauthors of the Dictionary, with an expertise on Hungarian and comparative literary studies, we discuss the theoretical background of the Dictionary, presenting the contexts of its creation. Through some examples we present how the volume conceives and defines the idea of Central Europe, and how it circumscribes the specific values and themes of the region.

Преходът след 1989 г. – процеси, кризи и трансформации в съвременната литература и културата

Author(s): Slaveya Dimitrova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 1/2022

The paper presents and comments on the papers, responses, and discussions from the Round Table “The post-1989 Transition in Contemporary Bulgarian Literature.” It gave focus to several topics related to events, ideas, and attitudes intrinsic to the understanding of the Transition but also to the period preceding it. The participants offered their analyses of how the changes in the social and political order were reflected in the literature, the public consciousness, the media, theatre, and film, among others.

“Listening” to the Rhetoric of the “Mccarthy Era” in I Married a Communist

Author(s): Corina Alexandrina Lirca / Language(s): English Issue: 16/2014

I Married a Communist is a long novel and the seventh book in the Zuckerman series to feature the character Nathan Zuckerman, a character-narrator who for the second time chooses to step aside and focus on the life story of a different character. The novel comprises the narrator’s apparent reporter-like reconstruction of Ira Ringold’s life experiences by locating them within a political, social and autobiographical context. The audience soon realizes the unreliability of the narrator who in an effort to render coherence to the man’s destiny fills in the gaps of information with his own imagined explanations. The novel also offers an explanation to Zuckerman’s choice of a writing career.

“Lo que nos interesa de una obra es su capacidad de conmovernos, de replantear nuestra posición en el mundo o de arrojar una distinta luz sobre ella” Entrevista a Darío Ochoa de Chinchetru, director de Automática Editorial

Author(s): Borja Martín Mozo / Language(s): Spanish Issue: 11/2020

En apenas una década de existencia, Automática se ha consolidado como una de las editoriales de referencia en España para los lectores de narrativa extranjera y en una parada obligatoria para aquellos que tienen la brújula orientada hacia las letras del Este. Desde Centroeuropa a China, pasando por Rusia y los Balcanes, su cartografía literaria no ha dejado de crecer y de afinarse con el paso del tiempo, tanto a la hora de sondear territorios poco o nada frecuentados en busca de nuevas voces como de recuperar algunos clásicos ineludibles que pedían a gritos una segunda oportunidad.

Nebezpečná cenzura?

Author(s): Roman Kanda / Language(s): Czech Issue: 6/2013

Beatific Experience: Jazz, Buddhism and Addiction

Author(s): BIANCA-ROXANA MOISE-NEACȘU / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2022

What was it really like being a Beat? What exactly shaped the identity of the artists that started both a media craze ridiculing them during the containment era in America and a literary revolution which later brought them recognition as some of the most influential writers in world literature? The term ‘Beat’ referred both to the ‘beaten-down’ state and, at the same time, the state of beatitude one could get from spiritual epiphanies. The Beat artists were enchanted by any ideology having to do with peace and the search for the true nature of the human soul. They used alcohol and drugs in order to find spiritual freedom and inspiration. This consumption practice, along with their back-then scandalous lifestyle, appearance, preferences and subversive reaction to the postwar American ‘heyday of mass consumption’, became a bearer of meaning for their identities both as individuals and as a group. This article will discuss the spiritual space in which the Beats were living while practicing philosophy, enjoying music and consuming alcohol and addictive substances.

De veghe în spațiul uimirii

Author(s): Graţiela Benga-Țuțuianu / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 5/2022

An essay on the work of Gabriel Liiceanu.

Swoistość form adresatywnych w tekstach współczesnych gazet polskojęzycznych wydawanych w Ukrainie (na tle normy ogólnopolskiej)

Author(s): Ałła Krawczuk / Language(s): Polish Issue: 10/2022

This article analyses the nominal as well as attributive and nominal forms of address found inPolish-language newspapers released in Ukraine in the 20th century. The research materialconcerns the forms of address the structures or functions of which are specific compared to thePolish standard. The discussion focuses on the causes of their formation in the circumstancesof language and cultural contacts and their functional and pragmatic peculiarities in the Polishlanguage in Ukraine. The scale of the acceptability of the analysed forms of address in the Polish-centric communication community in Ukraine is identified by means of cultural and linguisticcriteria for the evaluation of linguistic devices (while taking into consideration also a moreextensive research material than the one found in newspapers).

FANTASY W POLSCE I PROBLEM WYKLUCZENIA

Author(s): Sebastian Tauer / Language(s): Polish Issue: 1 (9)/2022

Fantasy is one of the most popular literary genres today. The article analyzes the subject of exclusions that take place around this trend. This reflection concerns mainly the academic (omitting fantasy in the scientific discourse), authoring (excluding authors by the fandom and fandom members by authors) and fandom (mutual exclusion of fandom members) plane. The conclusion of the article is that in the case of the fantasy trend, you cannot talk about a specific exclusion, but about different types, depending on a given plane.

HENRIK HAJDUS (1890–1969) ROLLE I UDBREDELSEN AF DET 19. OG 20. ÅRHUNDREDES DANSKE LITTERATUR I UNGARN

Author(s): Gábor Attila Csúr / Language(s): Danish Issue: 23/2017

The Hungarian literary translator Henrik Hajdu (1890–1969) was one of the most extraordinary persons in the history of translating Scandinavian literature into Hungarian. Aside his activity as a translator from Norwegian and Swedish, Hajdu was also an important promoter of Danish authors of the 19th and 20th century. He held lectures on Nordic culture and literature, wrote reviews in prominent Hungarian journals and maintained regular contact to many of the Scandinavian publishers, writers, dramatists and poets. He translated novels by Henrik Pontoppidan, Martin Andersen Nexø and Sigrid Undset, made an edition of Ibsen's complete works and a great amount of short stories and poems. His oeuvre numbers about a hundred separate publications. This paper focuses on how he contributed to the general acceptance and reception of Danish literary works written between 1850 and 1930 among the Hungarian readers.

Komunikacja z czytelnikiem w sytuacji kryzysu czytelnictwa końca XVII i początku XVIII wieku

Author(s): Ewa Rodek / Language(s): Polish Issue: 01/2023

This article is devoted to issues in the literary culture of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth of the end of the 17th and the beginning of the 18th centuries. The material of prefaces to an anonymous recipient a􏰅ached to works of 1675–1739 served as the basis for analysing the statements concerning the process of reception and the act of reading. The results of the analysis indicate that the authors of the prefaces perceived a crisis of readership and interest in books. To this end, they activated the audience for attentive and engaged reading. Moreover, the authors declared that they adapted the form and content of the works to the needs and tastes of readers. Going beyond the traditionally established convention of using topical motifs, they often extolled their offerings in direct, concise but succinct messages, which alludes to the characteristics of advertising language.

Homo juridicus et homo ludens: une approche en jurilinguistique affective

Author(s): Corina Veleanu / Language(s): French Issue: 53/2023

This paper offers a multilingual perspective from the point of view of affective jurilinguistics on the link between the concepts of justice and play through media and literary discourses. The emotional impact of social norms on the members of any social group is highlighted, while individual and collective identity is built by playing. Playing is construed as a socializing activity per se, be it under an explicit or hidden form. Homo ludens is, by definition, a homo juridicus, too, as he complies with the rules of the social games which characterize life in a community. Researchers in the field of affective neurosciences have demonstrated that our perception of the world is first and foremost affective. The rational construction of concepts and discourse follows affective perception and is rooted in it. In the field of justice, this means that a person needs to feel safe within the group they belong to and make sure that their life and the group’s will go on. Perception is the result of a permanent social contract which is renewed regularly and cathartically through arts. Alain Supiot stated that man is a metaphysical animal, adding that “the life of the senses in a human being is intertwined with the meaning of life” (Supiot, 2005: 7). By perceiving the world through his senses, the human being must bond with the other human beings, being thrown to the others through words. Thus, “the bond of the Law and the bonds of the words are intertwined in order to introduce every new-born baby to humanity, that is to give meaning to their life, in the double sense, general and juridical, of this word” (Supiot, 2005 : 8). Affective jurilinguistics appears to be a privileged area of multidisciplinary research in pragmatics, discourse analysis, history of mentalities and neurosciences, as well as a useful instrument for the observation of language and discourse phenomena within legal texts and texts which are related to the field of law and justice (journalistic and literary texts, etc.)