Dziesięciolecie Polski odrodzonej w publikacjach książkowych – analiza edytorska na wybranych przykładach

Author(s): Joanna Kułakowska-Lis / Language(s): Polish Issue: 2/2019

The aim of the paper was to analyse publications (compact editions) published on the occasion of the 10th anniversary of Poland's regaining independence in 1928 and 1929. The source of information on over 100 publications of this nature was Wykaz Druków wydawanych w Rzeczpospolitej Polskiej druków polskich lub Polski dotyczących wydawanych za granicą (List of Printed Works Published in the Republic of Poland and Polish Printed Works or Printed Works of Poland Concerning those Published Abroad), which had been published since 1928. The books analysed were grouped according to their subject matter: historical studies, publications devoted to Józef Piłsudski, poems and songs, publications on economic issues, etc. Selected issues were subject to detailed editorial analysis: Dziesięciolecie Polski Odrodzonej Księga Pamiątkowa (The Tenth Anniversary of Poland Reborn. Memorial Book), Złota księga Polski (The Golden Book of Poland) and Przemysł i handel (Industry and Trade), discussing issues related to the editorial concept, graphic design, layout and selection of illustrations, as well as the purpose of publication.

“Walking on the Wall”: Postmemory and Hiberno-English in Hugo Hamilton’s The Speckled People

Author(s): Helen Penet / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2021

This article explores how Hugo Hamilton’s childhood memoir The Speckled People works through the postmemory of the narrator’s paternal grandfather’s enlistment in the Royal Navy. The narrator’s father has concealed the photograph of the “sailor in the wardrobe” from his children, and in parallel has built a linguistic wall around his family, denying them access to the English language. In his memoir, Hamilton manages to “walk on the wall” by poetically merging the two languages, and writing in Hiberno-English, which circumvents his father’s binary view of the Irish and English languages.

Wooden Language - a Contemporary Tool in Political and Advertising Communication

Author(s): Daniela Cătău-Vereș / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2021

Appeared with the totalitarian ideology, the wooden language remains a linguistic phenomenon frequently used in contemporary discourse. Used in contemporary thought circles, by advertisers, by communication agencies, by the media, by politicians, by polling institutes, etc., the wooden language pejoratively qualifies the discourse that contains it, provided that its specific structures be decrypted, as well as the intention of the issuer who wants to give the impression of authenticity, credibility and transparency. The issue of the use of wooden language in discourse presupposes a complex and transdisciplinary decryption process, which goes first through the identification of the means and procedures of realization, then through the identification of the functions that these linguistic structures hold at the level of discourse.

მისტიკურ -ფილოსოფიური მიმდინარეობა სუფიზმი და რუმის შემოქმედებაში ღვინის სიმბოლიკა

Author(s): Nona Nikabadze / Language(s): Georgian Issue: 1/2019

Mystic-Philosophical direction Sufism and the work of the greatest Sufi poet Mawlana Jalal ad-Din Rumihas long been a sunject of discussion. Mystic-Philosophical direction Sufisms­trongly influenced Oriental poetry and Western scholars also became involved. In Sufism, there is only one authentic God with whom wine is combined with. With Sufi poets, wine is the source of the separation between the human being and the God. “Wine” itself, is a metaphor for the esoteric doctrines of Rumi and other Sufi poets. In spiritual ideology, one can find spiritual wine, this wine is love, and love is God.

DINTOTDEAUNA, OMENIREA A AJUNS PE MÂNA UNOR MARI NEBUNI

Author(s): N. Grigorie Lăcrița / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 51/2022

During this period, the danger of a third world war frightens the entire humanity, which can be destroyed, even several times, distinctly by each „type” of war, such as: biological warfare; chemical warfare; war with kinetic bombs; particle beam superweapon warfare; warfare with directed energy laser weapons or electromagnetic weapons etc. These weapons used in a world-wide conflict could destroy humanity on the entire planet in the same way that it would be destroyed by a nuclear bombardment. The use of the approximately 15,000 nuclear weapons owned by 10 countries, of which around 13,500 are owned by Russia and the USA, would lead to the total disappearance of man from Earth, even for a few million years, according to some specialists.

Introduction: ‘Make It New’ Once Again: Experimental Trends in 21st-Century Poetry in English

Author(s): Laurent Milesi,Radu Vancu / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2022

One hundred years ago T. S. Eliot published The Waste Land, the acme of High Modernism (along with Rainer Maria Rilke’s Duino Elegies and, for fiction, James Joyce’s Ulysses, Marcel Proust’s In Search of Lost Time and Franz Kafka’s composition of The Castle, to nam but these), in which the poet articulated his response to post-WW1 disillusionment.

Raluca Bianca ROMAN, Sofiya ZAHOVA, Aleksandar G. MARINOV (eds.), Roma Writings. Romani Literature and Press in Central, South- Eastern and Eastern Europe from the 19th Century until World War II

Author(s): Manuela Marin / Language(s): English Issue: 61/2022

I.D. SÎRBU-SURVIVING ROMANIAN COMMUNIST DETENTION

Author(s): Carmen-Ancuța Morari / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 29/2022

The drastic regime of prisons, camps, forms of detention as such hunger, cold, fear, death or survival have become the subject of numerous historical, political, sociological studies, but also of memoirs, diaries and autobiographies that have demystified the communist project. I.D.Sîrbu became a victim of the proletariat dictatorship for seven years and he served his sentences in Jilava and Gherla prisons, in Periprava, Grindu and Salcia labor camps. He will never regret this experience because for the man who „did not lose his lampˮ in prison, detention was a test through which he gained self-control over his own being.

SYMBOLIC AND MYTHOLOGICAL DISCOURSE IN FIVE POPULAR TEXTS FROM BUCOVINA

Author(s): Sergiu Crăciun / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 30/2022

In the present study-article, we aim to highlight a series of defining and thematic aspects, from a symbolic and mythological perspective, at the level of five popular epic texts, from the Bucovinean literary folklore. In this regard, through the analysis of the collected popular stories, we want to briefly represent and develop peculiarities of the epic popular discourse and especially, the presence of characters and mito-symbolic valences, as part of the local and national literary folklore. The corpus of popular epic texts, collected by famous folklorists such as: Ludwig Adolf Staufe, I.. G.. Sbiera, Leca Morariu, Ion Dominte and Mihai Lupescu include an impressive number of stories, as an integral part of the popular literature of Bucovina, from the 19th and 20th centuries, ethnographic activity carried out by other representatives of the popular culture in the region, of the era, which preceded and succeeded them.

PSYCHOTROPIC, HALLUCINOGEN AND NARCOTICS PLANTS IN ROMANIAN FOLKLORE AND MYTHOLOGY

Author(s): Constantin-Andrei Pătrăucean / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 30/2022

Romanian mythology contains numerous magical-ritual beliefs and practices that can fulfill their true purpose only with the help of external symbolic stimuli: in this sense, in the present work we focused our attention on psychotropic botany and its image within Romanian folklore. We must state from the outset that open discussion of narcotics and hallucinogenic plants has until recently been considered taboo, perhaps because of the effect they can have on the human psyche. Thus, in the present study we aim to create a general picture of psychotropic plants from Romanian mythology, bringing into question involuntary intoxications or cases in which these plants are used in certain rituals and magical practices, but starting with a brief context of the existence of shamans. This paper is not an encouragement to try narcotics and hallucinogenic plants, but aims to discuss magical or even medicinal effects as they occur within archaic societies. Starting, in particular, from Andrei Oișteanu's study on psychotropic plants, we made an inventory of plants specific to the Romanian people, among which we mention: sorghum, butcher's wort, hemp (cannabis sativa), poppy, rye horn, hashish, opium, elder or even various alcoholic beverages with strong psychotropic effects.

BUILDING SELF CONTROL AS PART OF HEALING-NORMAN COUSINS

Author(s): Mirela Radu / Language(s): English Issue: 32/2023

Born into a Jewish family settled in America, Norman Cousins (1915-1990) had to face several vicissitudes including a misdiagnosis of tuberculosis, and even ankylosing spondilitis, cancer and a heart attack. But that didn't stop him from looking at life with optimism and teaching others to do the same. As a teenager, Cousins discovered his literary talent by editing the high school newspaper. At Columbia University Cousins gained a broad perspective on fields such as psychology and education. These two landmarks together with the leaning towards writing would guide his steps in life. Norman Cousins practiced journalism at the New York Evening Post in 1934 and literary reviews for Current History in 1935. After other five years he joined the staff of The Saturday Review of Literature whose editor was from 1940 to 1971. This literary magazine offered readers a wide range of reporting on topics as diverse as world events, science, art and medicine. His first book, The Good Inheritance: The Democratic Chance (co-written with William Rose Benét in 1942), promoted freedom as the foundation of existence. In fact, all his subsequent books and articles promote freedom as the foundation of individual or social development.

THE MARAÑUELA FLOWER. GENERAL BALLADS OF THE CANARY ISLANDS, VOLUME I BY DIEGO CATALÁN

Author(s): Carmen-Elena ȘTEFĂNESCU (POGONICI) / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 32/2023

"El Romancero" is a very well-known literary genre in Spanish oral literature. Many authors have been engaged in the collection of romances and ballads and their study, but in this article we will deal with one of the most important Spanish collections, quite complete for the time in which it was drawn up, the first collection of romances and ballads collected from the entire territory of the Canary Islands. Diego Catalán is the one who handled the coordination of their editing, the historical analysis of the origin, transmission and collection of romances from the islands, from the 18th century until the moment of publication, but also the compilation of some of them, an activity he did- together with his family. "La flor de la marañuela. Romancero general de las Islas Canarias, Volume I" is part of the "Romance Collection Archive" - Archivo del Romancero, an archive which today constitutes the complete universal fund of this type of oral literature and which the well- known folklorist Ramón Menéndez Pidal, the author's grandfather, had started with his wife and which, with his death, reverts to the task of Diego Catalán to conserve, catalog and publish it.

THE LEGEND IN THE ORAL EPIC FROM THE LEAOTA AREA – NORTHERN DÂMBOVIȚA

Author(s): Aurora ALBESCU / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 32/2023

In the space of Romanian literary folklore categories, a well-defined space is occupied by non-ritual creations, namely: aphoristic and enigmatic literature, types of popular prose (fairy tale, stories, legend, snow), epic song, lyrical song and cries. Among the difficulties of a terminological nature, which folklore has recorded, there are also those raised by the name given to the category of popular stories called legends today. In general, the species of the epic genre in prose have provoked numerous discussions over time, regarding not only the delimitation of these categories, but also the specification of the specific features of each of them. Ever since Simion Florea Marian (1892), the semantic ambiguity that surrounds the types of popular prose can be observed, and the attempt to strictly define the notions of fairy tale, story, legend, snoavă, runs into the interpenetration of the semantic spheres of the concepts. Therefore, as a type of oral narrative, as an ethnological fact, as an act of communication and as a speech, the legend can be viewed from the perspective of the wider ensemble of oral narratives in prose, along with fairy tales, stories (marking the next genre by recognizing some characteristics common to all the mentioned species and, by opposition, the drawing of specific differences, the delimitation of distinguishing marks). So, compared to its „classic" aspect - as it results from folklore collections and folklore studies – the repertoire of oral narratives has changed. The authority of the old models has diminished, a fact evident in: the alteration of the models, the reduced frequency with which the old forms appear, especially the fairy tale and the epic song, the change of language, the substitution of the mythical fabulous by a magical fabulous, the interest in the strange and sensational.

Литературните произведения в учебните програми за VIII - XII клас в контекста на възпитанието и превантивната педагогика

Author(s): Daniel Polihronov / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 4/2023

The article interprets the problem of the educational and preventive functions of literature. A systematisation and interpretation of the literary works included in the curricula in the first and second high school stages of secondary education is proposed, in the context of the components determining the structure of personality upbringing.

LA LIBERTE D'UN PHILOSOPHE SOLITAIRE ET ASOCIAL

Author(s): Marinela-Alexandra POPA (ENACHE-POPA) / Language(s): French Issue: 34/2023

Reporting to innovation, the concepts of multilingualism, interculturality and multiculturalism, we identify these concepts, as taking the form of indisputable values that become step by step reality for today's society. E.M.Cioran created his own cultural community in Paris and practiced multilingualism to the degree of excellence. Only through an educational approach can results be obtained in the order of acceptance, equality and globalization. Promoting and highlighting multiculturalism in order to develop a correct and generative thinking of intellectuals who know the feeling of empathy. In this context, we will search with insight to decode the depth of Cioran's pessimism. The whole study will focus on a disambiguation of man's thinking of culture, which proved to be the illustrious philosopher, E.M. Cioran.

STATES WHICH ARE FAVOURABLE TO INTROSPECTION

Author(s): Elena Bădoiu (Tudose) / Language(s): French Issue: 34/2023

In this article I want to capture the mental and psychological state in which the young Cioran found himself at the time he wrote the book "On the heights of despair", as opposed to the interviews he gave at the age of maturity. The analysis of despair is justified by the abundance of anguished moments captured throughout the writing and the testimony offered by the great philosopher.

THE REPRESENTATION OF THE NEGATIVE NATURE (TRAIT) ON THE CHARACTERS AND OBJECTS IN THE FOLK TALES GATHERED BY I. G. SBIERA

Author(s): Sergiu Crăciun / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 34/2023

The negative character represents an essential narrative compositional element in folk fairy tales, being in opposition to the positive one. The two narrative instances may or may not tend towards a certain goal, sometimes common, sometimes different. In most cases, the destiny of the future hero, who has gone through the initiation stage, is decided by the negative character, with whom he must confront in the end. What are the reference points that guide us to consider a character, at a certain moment, the antagonist of the action? Is the presence of the antagonist in folk fairy tales singular or doubled, sometimes tripled depending on the situations and obstacles encountered by the hero during his initiatory journey. These are some of the premises from which we start to reveal the mythical-symbolic values of negative characters in fairy tales collected by I. G. Sbiera.

ANTHROPOLOGY OF CULTURE AND FOLKLORIC CREATION

Author(s): Rodica Bălan / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 34/2023

Culture starts from cultivation and is cultured, and means teaching, and cult man has a high and varied level of instruction. The first meaning of culture is the cultivation, care, cultivation of the earth, orchards, plants, animals and, of course, humans. but the most common and familiar sense of culture is education and training, which complements or corrects human nature. In this sense, the Greeks have created a unique education system in which not a specialist is formed in a certain profession, but man is cultivated as a personality with certain value orientations.

Термини и концепции от теории на рецепцията: приемственост в научни изследвания на японски език върху различни изкуства

Author(s): Miglena Tzenova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 4/2023

The study examines terms and concepts of reception theories by Vodička and Jauss in the field of literary studies and linguistics. In the course of the research, it was confirmed that concepts from Vodička’s theory of reception and search-es of scholars from the Prague Linguistic Circle contributed to the creation of Jauss’s reception theory. The text outlines circumstances, novel for Bulgarian musicology and theatre studies, regarding the influence of reception theories on Japanese re-search in the field of literary studies and linguistics as well as on Japanese research on various arts: literature, music, theatre, fine arts, etc. Intersections between terms of reception theories adopted in other research fields such as semiotics, sociology, musicology, theatre studies, etc., as well as Japanese publications on different arts are also outlined for the first time.

Академичната рецепция на концепцията на Емил Щайгер в България

Author(s): Angel Valentinov Angelov / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 1/2024

My goal is to present the reception of several writings by Emil Staiger in the Bulgarian academic environment. Also – to pose a more general question – do approaches to these writings imply credibility? The publications I discuss are by Rossitza Dimtshewa, Nikola Georgiew, Atanas Natew.