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ТЮРКСКИЙ МИР РУССКОГО ПИСАТЕЛЯ: «СКАЗАНИЕ О СИБИРСКОМ ХАНЕ, СТАРОМ КУЧУМЕ» Д. Н. МАМИНА-СИБИРЯКА

Author(s): Valentina Gabdullina / Language(s): English,Russian Issue: 2/2017

The article studies the special aspects of the author’s conception of the East and the principles of the reconstruction of the way of life and mentality of the Turks in “Eastern legends” by D. N. Mamin-Sibiryak within the context of the general interest the Russian literature of the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries experienced toward orientalism. Based on the “Legend of the Siberian Khan, Old Kuchum” the process of evolution of the poetic stylization into an individual and author’s version of the genre form is analyzed, as a result of comprehension, aesthetic mastering and the embodiment of the culture of another nation, folkloristic and mythological figurativeness in the artistic text of the Russian writer. In the “Legend…” there is clearly seen the aspiration of the author to show life of the nomadic people “internally”, to look beyond the existing estimative stereotypes about Siberian peoples set in the perception of the Russian in the period of the conquest of Siberia by the troops of the Russian Tsar with ataman Yermak at the head. For the purpose of a comparative analysis the annalistic sources are used (the Esipovsky chronicle). The research is conducted from the perspective of cultural and historical, imagological and motive approaches.

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Literackie (kraj)obrazy Jane Austen a angielska estetyka malowniczości

Author(s): Sylwia Borowska-Kazimiruk / Language(s): Polish Issue: 2/2019

The main inspiration for the article dedicated to aesthetics of picturesqueness in Jane Austen’s novels is W. J. T. Mitchell’s Introduction in Landscape and Power, where he defines a landscape not as a noun, but as a verb. In this context, this term becomes a cultural medium, by which the new political and social meanings of the epoch are transmitted and sanctioned. Selected parts of Austen’s works, in which long descriptions of nature have been replaced by dialogues about a landscape as an artistic, picturesque object, will allow to describe the consequences of the reconceptualization of the nature within English theory of aesthetics.

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Jane Austen (dla) Josepha Conrada

Author(s): Karol Samsel / Language(s): Polish Issue: 2/2019

The understanding of Jane Austen was for Joseph Conrad (probably) the condition of the understanding of the English soul as such. And, even if we roam around fascinating hypotheses, it is worth formulating them – mainly because they are a new key to the reading of the works of the author of Lord Jim. His problems with the literary heritage of Austen could be affected by different, numerous factors: 1) the growing popularity of Janeites; 2) the authority of, appreciating the author of Mansfield Park, Henry James; 3) the feeling of being lost of the Polish writer in the situation of the late novelist debut; 4) the literary tradition of the Ukrainian School in the Polish Romanticism, in which he was raised and he formed his personality. Conrad could make an attempt of dealing with, incomprehensible for himself, Austen in the 1910s, in the period of jubilees of the editions of her novels. In this spirit, it is worthy to read again such prose texts of Conrad, as: Zwycięstwo (1915) and Ocalenie (1920), but above all – the earliest from this group – Gra losu (1913).

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Drugie życie Dumy i uprzedzenia. Tennant – Austen

Author(s): Aleksandra Budrewicz / Language(s): Polish Issue: 2/2019

The article is a comparative study of Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen and the contemporary novel by Emma Tennant Pemberley, which is a continuation of the story of Austen’s characters. Tennant enriched the description of certain protagonists of Sense and Sensibility; for example, the new information about Elizabeth come from the sources which are connected to the biography of Austen herself (letters, memoirs). The theoretical background of the paper is based on research of A. Fulińska, A. Stoff etc.

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Jak znaleźć męża między żywymi trupami a krwiożerczymi ośmiornicami? Mash-up, czyli „klasyczne romanse z okresu regencji” z domieszką elementów nadnaturalnych (na przykładzie Pride and Prejudice and Zombies oraz Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters

Author(s): Iwona Przybysz / Language(s): Polish Issue: 2/2019

In this article, the author confronts two mash-up novels (novels, in which new motives and elements are added to the masterpieces of world’s literature) – Pride and Prejudice and Zombies by Jane Austen and Seth Grahame-Smith and Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters by Jane Austen and Ben H. Winters. The author shows how the new elements (zombies and sea monsters) are added to Jane Austen’s novels and underlines which elements have to be left in their original form, and which can be changed. The author also describes how the development of the new motives affects the ways of describing the world of the novel and its characters.

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Teoria, nostalgia, alt-right: amerykańska Austen w XXI wieku

Author(s): Mikołaj Golubiewski / Language(s): Polish Issue: 2/2019

In July 2017, some American scholars accused alt-right groups of appropriating Jane Austen’s works for extreme-right propaganda. How could Austen’s texts – an author associated with the beginnings of feminism – be used by blatant misogynists? This clash of perceptions reveals a dispute between Austen’s broad reception as classically romantic romances and a whole range of narrow theoretical academic readings. In the analysis of this dispute, the paper outlines long-lasting threads of Austen’s interpretation in AngloAmerican culture, whose ideological reconstruction of the last few decades clashes with a nostalgia for imperial order.

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“Trace” in Narration

Author(s): Aleksandra V. Jovanović / Language(s): English Issue: 5/2012

The Derridean concept of “trace” or supplement is set at the core of his studies of the unconscious meaning of a text. Further, the textual unconscious is crucial to the deferral of meaning along the axis of difference / différance. In view of Derrida’s ideas, Kazuo Ishigoro’s novels, The Pale View of Hills and When We Were Orphans are analyzed as a narrative attempt to deconstruct the construction of reality that is grounded in conventional discourse. The article is based on the assumption that in Ishiguro’s novels the narrative process offers an insight into how the mind deals with experience. In this vein, the complex narration in Ishiguro’s novels is viewed as a parallel to the processes in the human mind. The analysis of Ishiguro’s narration is based on Beckett’s and Proust’s ideas about the issue of memory. Proust sees the dynamics of memory as a game of voluntary and involuntary memory, in which the former is a product of the conscious and the latter of the unconscious memory. On the other hand, Proust’s meditations on the nature of memory may be linked with Freud’s studies of repressed emotions and Samuel Beckett’s conception of the process of forgetting as essential to recollection.

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Oral Narrative Genres as Communicative Dialogic Resources and their Correlation to African Short Fiction

Author(s): Loreta Huber,Evelina Jonaitytė / Language(s): English Issue: 37(42)/2020

Oral and written storytelling traditions in Africa developed at the same time and influenced each other in many ways. In the twentieth century, the relation between the deeply rooted oral tradition and literary traditions intensified. We aim to reveal literary analysis tools that help to trace ways how oral narrative genres found reflection in African short fiction under analysis. A case study is based on two short stories by women writers, The Rain Came by Grace Ogot and The Lovers by Bessie Head. Images and symbols both, in oral and written traditions in Africa, as well as the way they evolved and extended in a literary genre of short fiction are considered within the framework of hermeneutics, reader reception theory and feminist literary criticism. The results obtained in the study prove that oral narrative genres interact with literary genres, though most importantly, women’s writing as a literary category and images embodied in the short stories play a decisive role and deviation from the images embodied in African oral tradition.

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Ëndrra si toponim gjeografik “Makondo” e G.G Marquez-it dhe “Rrafshi” i Ismail Kadare-së

Author(s): Donjeta Gashi / Language(s): Albanian Issue: 38.2/2019

Often in literature, particularly when confronting literatures with each other, we see similarities in elements, themes or motifs between the two worlds, which in the first sight it would seem extremely distant, different and impossible. Creating a physical and geographical identity, an orientation of the topic of the author development, a daydreamer orientation, remembering his home and country, is a product of art written by both authors. Rrafshi, a fiction story (an invented world – imaginary place, a dream) aiming to explain a different viewpoint to the existing reality, it helps Kadare to reveal the harshness of life, love and death but also universalize the homeland. The same thing, even though miles away, we see in Marquez with the same aim to create an identity between life, death, love, fate and sacrifice, hence creating an afterlife, imaginary and daydreaming. “Makondo” and “Rrafshi” became synonyms of a reality full of pain, love and death, as a sacrifice for life! This study shall be based on these elements of the author. A confrontation of societies in a parallel word, with issues regarding the identity and origin, which reflect the myth of existence of human in space and time, a product of social and habit paradoxes of characters full of intrigues. For the readers, authors’ writings are a reflection of likeliness (the unrealistic) to a historical and geographical reality of a paradox which reveals boldness towards fear; reveals love towards hate as well as life towards death. What exactly represent these two literature themes, fictional stories that orient the reader towards an environment, with special features, which in fact do not exist? What are the similarities and differences between them? Why did Makondo and Rrafshi universalize? This work aims to confront these two authors/writings as well as demographic and topographic orientations in literature, a comparative confrontation and clash of values as well.

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Žemaitės kūrybos sklaida 1905–1914 metų švietimo sistemoje

Author(s): Ramunė Bleizgienė / Language(s): Lithuanian Issue: 1/2020

The article describes the syllabi of Lithuanian language subject for public and private schools prepared in 1905-1914 for the developing modern Lithuanian education system with the aim to determine the extent of representation of Žemaitė’s literary fiction. Referring to previous works by V. Pupšys, V. Pukienė, M. Karčiauskienė, A. Piročkinas and analysis of their sources, 9 syllabi of Lithuanian language and their recommended textbooks have been described in this article. The analysis has shown that Žemaitė first established herself in the Lithuanian education system as the author of the textbook Rinkinėlis vaikams, first published in 1904 and intended for primary schools. Žemaitė emerges as the author of short stories and a co-author of dramas for the first time in 1912 in the syllabus published by J. Kairiūkštis. The attention allocated to her and the list of her works is the same as for the majority of other fiction authors of the time. In 1912 M. Biržiška’s project of the Lithuanian language syllabus Žemaitė is referred to as one of the four women prose writers of the end of the 19th century among G. Petkevičaitė-Bitė, Šatrijos Ragana, and Lazdynų Pelėda.

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Broniaus Krivicko kūrybos žmogus ribinėje situacijoje: literatūrinė Dievo patirtis

Author(s): Dalia Čiočytė / Language(s): Lithuanian Issue: 1/2020

Bronius Krivickas (1919–1952), a Lithuanian poet and fiction writer, a fighter against the Soviet occupation of Lithuania, reflects carefully the main ideas of existentialism: Søren Kierkegaard’s concept of individual freedom, Martin Heidegger’s notion of being-toward-death, the concept of a limiting situation developed by Karl Jaspers. In the worldview of B. Krivickas’s literary works, these ideas are associated with the context of Catholic philosophy and theology. This article investigates the notion of God within the existential limiting situation (especially the situation of death) in the literary works by B. Krivickas. The main critical perspective is the theology of literature. In the context of the dramatic experience of World War II, B. Krivickas’s short stories, a symbolist play A Tale About a Princess, and poetical prose works interpret God as being perceived through human conscience and a human longing for spiritual harmony. God is being thought of as the ultimate metaphysical mystery. In the period of Lithuanian fights for freedom, B. Krivickas’s poetry reveals an intense partisan self-consciousness. The poetry interprets the fight against the Soviet aggressor as a sacrifice for the nation’s freedom and compares it indirectly with the ultimate sacrifice of Jesus Christ. According to the logic of existentialism, B Krivickas’s poetry claims that a human being is absolutely free, even if this means to choose freedom at the cost of life. God becomes the personal you for the fighter seen in B. Krivickas’s poetry. The main theme of the fighter’s dialogue with God is an existential complaint. The fighter experiences deep theodic dilemmas. He has no doubts about the righteousness of the war against the Soviet occupation, but he has deep doubts about the divine permission for evil to exist in the world. The faith of the poetic fighter is just his will to believe, his desire to believe. Thus the poetic figure of the fighter acquires both patriotic and religious heroism.

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Svegeneracijski roman o jednom neželjenom putovanju Zulmira Bečevića

Author(s): Edina Murtić / Language(s): Bosnian Issue: 83-84/2021

Based on the novel Putovanje započeto od kraja by Zulmir Bečević, the article aims to demonstrate how the thematic complexity encompassing growing up, undesired travelling, leaving home and searching for an identity of which the adult characters are not deprived, becomes transformed through narrative memories into a hybrid text, which goes beyond the common division of literature into children’s and adult books. The article shows how the narrator succeeds in interweaving the story containing a refugee trauma told from a child’s perspective with the world of adults, while not undermining the structure of the text and thematic orientation towards all readers’ groups.

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Tijelo i identitet u stvaralaštvu Senke Marić

Author(s): Melida Travančić / Language(s): Bosnian Issue: 1/2021

Senka Marić, in her book of poetry Do smrti naredne and in her novel Kintsugi tijela, focuses on the body, i.e. the analysis and interpretation of changes in the body caused by illness. The aim of this paper is to confirm the assumption that the body can condition identity and show how this is achieved in the book of poetry Do smrti naredne and the novel Kintsugi tijela, works which best show what kind of change in the body and then female identity we are talking about. These works tell a story about the changes that take place in a woman and the manner that they manifest in the world around her. The changes in the body condition all other “life roles” of a woman and it is the best indicator of (self-)identification. Special attention in the paper is paid to the way the illness affects the body, to what a woman (before and after) is. The body itself is a part of identity and it often physically reflects all the experiences and all the situations that we are exposed to are often visibly manifested on the body, as well as the pain that is impossible to hide and (or) control.

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Ştefania Mihalache, Copilăria: reconstituiri literare după 1989

Author(s): Andrea Bodan / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 18-19/2020

Review of: Ştefania Mihalache, Copilăria: reconstituiri literare după 1989, Piteşti, Editura Paralele 45, 2019, 374 p.

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Elogiul nostalgiei

Author(s): Dumitru-Mircea Buda / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 17/2014

The article discusses the problems regarding the crisis of reading and the relation between literature and history during the first post-Communist decade in Romania, starting from a review about Mircea Cărtărescu’s short-prose collection ”Nostalgia” written in the autumn of 1990 by Monica Lovinescu.

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ECOCRITICISM IS THE FLAGSHIP TO HUMANITY: REVISITING AND DECODING ABHIJNANASAKUNTALAM AND ARANYAK

Author(s): Biswajit Das / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2021

Health is a reciprocal term that combines mutual co-existence in the environment with a considerable veneration to all forms of life. Life on earth is a result of some favourable conditions in the environment from the empirical point of view. So, the health of the environment remains the supreme, and thereby life, once created, has to keep up the conditions in order to sustain or survive itself. Thus there has always been a fascinating relation between health and environment since the dawn of creation of life on earth. Among the innumerable forms of life on earth human beings are considered the best since they are gifted with immense possibilities to comprehend, create, nourish, admonish, reject and accept. So, they have to shoulder the responsibility largely to secure the health of the environment which, in other terms, is the health of the varieties of life forms on earth. Through the ages they undertook overwhelming initiatives that surely advertise humanity; and literature, especially Eco-critical, has been the best call to humanity in order to restore health which is, as mentioned earlier, very much reciprocal. Literature upholds and worships the heavenly relation between health and environment,humanity and Nature. It celebrates the reconciliation of man and environment in the name of poetry very often.

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IDENTITY AND BELONGING: INSIDER/OUTSIDER IN ED HUSAIN’S THE ISLAMIST

Author(s): Jillian Curr / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2016

Since the events of 9/11 and the so-called „war on terror‟ „Muslim‟ has been used synonymously with„terrorist‟ dividing particularly those Muslims living in the West into either „good‟ Muslims or „bad‟Muslims. Ed Husain uses in his memoir The Islamist this dichotomy, as well as that of the „witness‟ in presenting himself as a credible analyst in answering why some young Muslims become attracted to fundamentalist Islamist groups hostile to the West. The author is a second generation British Asian Muslim who rejected the Sufi political quietism of his parents for the revolutionary ideologies of Islamic „idéologues‟ such as Abu A‟la Mawdudi, Sayyid Qutb and particularly Taqi al-Din al Nahbani, joining Hizb-ut-Tahrir as an active member. Husain‟s story is one of a fractured past,manhood, the search for an authentic Islam and becoming British.

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„Ha ott a föld alattad, verhetetlen vagy”

Author(s): Attila Zsolt Papp / Language(s): Hungarian Issue: 842/2022

An interview with Király Lászlóval.

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В одвічних пошуках вічного: інтерпретація знання про вищі духовні істини (за творами Тараса Шевченка i Міхая Емінеску)

Author(s): Viktoria Kolomiţeva / Language(s): Ukrainian Issue: 1/2014

The article highlights key philosophic notions that presented special scientific interest for the classic of the Romanish literature Mihai Eminescu and of the classic of the Ukrainian literature Taras Shevchenko. Based on the fiction of M. Eminescu and the poetry and fiction of T. Shevchenko, phenomenology of such philosophical categories as soul, time, love are comprehended.

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Imaginea Berlinului în proza lui Vladimir Nabokov

Author(s): Camelia Dinu / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 1/2013

В статье рассматривается «берлинский текст» как структурообразующий элемент в малой прозе В.В. Набокова, созданной в период его эмиграции в Германии. Научная новизна статьи заключается в рассмотрении незатронутой литературоведением темы Берлина как текста в набоковской прозе. Объектом исследования являются механизмы построения и особенности функционирования образа города как текста особенно в малой прозе Набокова. Нами используется структурно-семиотический и психо-критический метод исследования. В прозе Набокова существует субъективное восприятие образа города персонажами и в его авторской интерпретации. Отличительной особенностью набоковского Берлина становится его пессимистичность и неразрывная связь с прошлым. «Берлинский текст» набоковской прозы представляет собой ресурс для перехода от конкретной действительности к духовным ценностям. Таким образом, город является не только фоном действия, но он может считаться некоторым основанием, на котором держится вся структура особое культурологическоехудожественного пространства. «Берлинский текст» Набокова явление, явившееся результатом творческой работы писателя в двадцатых-тридцатых годах XX века.

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