OBITELJSKI ROMAN U HRVATSKOJ DJEČJOJ KNJIŽEVNOSTI DEVEDESETIH GODINA PROŠLOGA STOLJEĆA

Author(s): Sanja Vrcić Mataija / Language(s): Croatian Issue: 13/2015

Considering the position of the dominant narrative figure within the Croatian children's realistic novel of the nineties of the last century it is possible to define type of the family novel that belongs to social-psychological fiction. Narrative pattern of the family children's novel implies a story of the family atmosphere in which adult characters appear alongside with children's characters equal to them at the narrative level, portraying the adult and children's characters and a way of building their identity in a family community of different types. Children's characters create their personality strongly influenced by family relationships and characters of their parents and relatives, modeling their activity on them as well as adopting gender standardized roles. The traditional and contemporary family relationships could be recognized according the prevailing world view on the selected corpus of the novel. Unlike the traditional family, which includes parents and children, strong family, mostly male authority, more liberal attitude of the weaker parental authority prevails in the majority of contemporary families. It is possible to identify several forms of a family novel: family novel with a picture of the traditional patriarchal family, family novel with a picture of contemporary patriarchal family and family novel with a picture of contemporary liberal family.

W poszukiwaniu nowoczesności czyli Polska wyobrażona

Author(s): Agnieszka Haska,Jerzy Stachowicz / Language(s): Polish Issue: 04/2015

Restoration of Poland’s sovereignty as the Second Polish Republic in 1918 was the beginning of the process of unifying three different regions, which had previously been part of different countries. The main idea was to build one and powerful country and gain respect (and fear) on the international level. This project of imagined future can best be seen in the interwar science -fiction literature, in which military power intertwines with technical advancement and colonial expansion. The article deals with the elements of this project – from visions of new borders, modern cities and new citizens, through wars (especially with the East) to colonial and space expansion.

Uwagi o maskulinizmie „Mężczyzn” Wiktora Jerofiejewa

Author(s): Adrian Mrówka / Language(s): Polish Issue: 125/2009

The Men by Victor Erofeev is an important voice for men’s studies. The writer originally describes social situation of a modern man. He analyzes it very precisely. In his essays he’s sometimes amusing, sometimes serious. He shows examples of men, which in world’s opinion are too weak, too sensitive, too kind. Presenting complexity of man’s soul, he focuses on emotions of men, their fears and dreams. He also denies stereotypes. Erofeev divides males into men and unyoung boys, complimenting these first and criticizing others.

Jak człowiek stworzył człowieka. Geneza zjawiska sztucznych ludzi w kulturze

Author(s): Piotr Wojciechowski / Language(s): Polish Issue: 02/2013

Artificial people are present in every culture and in every period. Even without further analysis it can be seen that not only in fairy tales, my­thology and science­ fiction movies, we find in their presence. This theme is as old as literature. It is at the same time very complex and complicated. It contains the hidden essence of humanity – how artificial people are portrayed, is really a measure of empathy, compassion, respect for the other per­son or tolerance. Whether artificial people are monsters or victims, always ends the same way – burned alive by angry mob, left to oblivion at the bottom of the sea or shot in the street, ar­tificial people are tragic figures. This work tries to answer the question, what is the essence of the phenomenon, what are the roots and what is related to the fact that artificial people are brought to life, regardless of the historical pe­riod or geographical area in which the author lives. It helps to understand the phenomenon, which is the need for people to create their ar­tificial duplicates, and to answer the question, what are the associated fears and concerns and fascinations.

ЕВАНГЕЛЬСКОЕ СЛОВО В ПРОПОВЕДЯХ ФЕОФАНА ПРОКОПОВИЧА

Author(s): Daria B. Tereshkina / Language(s): Russian Issue: 1/2018

The article offers an analysis of the use of the Gospel text in the sermons of Theophan Prokopovich. It became evident that Theophan Prokopovich made much less references to the New Testament in his published works than to the Old Testament, which may result from his greater adherence to the Law than to Grace. The Gospel word by Prokopovich becomes a source of abundant and multidimensional allusions, often distantly related to its original meaning. In his sermons, Prokopovich seemed a skilled orator and cunning politician rather than a theologian. Prokopovich used the Gospel word to glorify the authorities and to justify their deeds manifesting, thus, a true talent of philologist skilful in the art of eloquence.

Petko Todorov’s Plays and the Poetics of European Symbolism

Author(s): Dina Mantcheva / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2018

The paper examines Petko Todorov’s five symbolist plays (Masons, Strahil the Redoubtable Haidout, The Fairy, Bride Boryana, and Dragon’s Wedding) from the perspective of European symbolist drama to emphasize their common aesthetic principles and their specific originality. The comparative analysis thus defined leads to the conclusion that Petko Todorov’s works follows the structural principles of Symbolist drama yet they have their own specifics. The unconventional structure of the dramatic action and dialogue; the wide use of music and painting in the staging of the plays as well as their new genre form make Todorov’s works akin to the francophone Symbolist model. On the other hand, the moral dimension and the pervading national atmosphere in the Bulgarian dramas betray their indebtedness to the Russian Symbolist drama. Finally, the de-valorisation of the fantastic characters and the playing down of Romantic and realistic elements in Petko Todorov’s dramas are totally unknown to the European Symbolist theatre. In this way, Petko Todorov’s dramas are a peculiar combination of Symbolist poetics and influences of the Bulgarian national context. They follow their own development and contribute hereby to the specific evolution of the Bulgarian modernist theatre.

The House of Usher Never Fell: Impossible Escapes and the Dark (K)night of the Soul

Author(s): Paweł Pyrka / Language(s): English Issue: 04/2017

Among the abundance of possible readings of Poe’s short story, one of the most intriguing is its treatment as an escape fantasy - the image of the unnamed narrator delirious, flight from the collapsing structure at his back seems almost too fortuitous, and invites questions as to the sole survivor’s relation to “the house of Usher”. As the structure’s suspected sentience could be seen to relegate its occupants to the position of psychological forces and manifest thought-content, the house is transformed into a combination of physical and mental spaces, akin to the twin “prisons” of body and mind which the narrator fantasizes about being freed from. The article examines the (im)possibility of Poe’s narrator’s escape, using Grant Morrison and Dave McKean’s graphic novel Arkham Asylum: A Serious House on Serious Earth as a companion text. Read alongside each other, the two narratives “construct” their “houses” by a superimposition of their characters’ mental landscapes onto the skeleton of physical (textual) space, in order to perform the fantasy of escape from psychological conflict, whether by tearing down the house as in Poe’s tale, or by restoring the externalized order as in the Batman novel.

“Uncanny Domesticity” in Contemporary American Fiction: The Case of Jhumpa Lahiri

Author(s): Jelena Šesnić / Language(s): English Issue: 04/2017

The argument contends that Jhumpa Lahiri’s fiction – in particular her two novels to date, The Namesake (2003) and The Lowlands (2013) – features a combination of the elements of homeliness and estrangement, domestic and foreign, ultimately, self and the other, that evokes the Freudian concept of the uncanny. Placing it in the context of the diasporic family dynamics, prevalent in Lahiri’s fiction, the uncanny effect may be seen to reside in the unspoken secrets and repressed content passed on from the first to the second generation and disturbing the neat acquisition of the trappings of middle-class domesticity. Drawing on recent models of the “geopolitical novel” (Irr), the “new immigrant fiction” (Koshy) and the “South Asian diasporic novel” (Grewal), the reading engages with the irruption of the unhomely into the domestic space, sustained by immigrant families in the face of local and global disturbances.

The Secret History of Hamden Campus: A Study in Elitism and Murder

Author(s): Evangelia Kyriakidou / Language(s): English Issue: 01/2018

This paper examines Donna Tartt’s The Secret History (1992) from the perspective of campus spatial modalities and their use or abuse by a privileged group of students. As in other campus mystery novels, the supposedly egalitarian and democratic space of the campus is transformed into an elitist enclave by a group of students who use knowledge-as-power in order to plot the murder of threatening intruders into their exclusive world. The unexpected turn of events brings about the disenchantment of Richard Papen, a low-class but talented, young Californian who enrolls to Hamden, Vermont with high academic expectations. At the same time as it introduces a series of personal disillusionments it also creates a crisis of meaning in the American campus in general.

Wprowadzenie do narratologii transmedialnej jako projektu kulturoznawczo-medioznawczej archeologii. Casus politycznych narracji Kapitana Ameryki

Author(s): Tomasz Żaglewski / Language(s): Polish Issue: 4/2018

The article stands as a proposition of a methodological clarification of the so called transmedial narratology as a comparative studies. By using the existing applications and understandings of transmedial narratology the author is suggesting a necessity of broadening the dominant models with a historical (diachronical) perspective connected with a transmedial archaeology approach to a given narratives. The author is trying to illustrate his project by showing a comparative look at some of the Captain America’s fictional narratives with theirs different ideological and political meanings according to a changing (trans)medial and temporal realities.

Peep Show: The Lamentations of Justyna Bargielska

Author(s): Adam Lipszyc / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2017

The author analyses poems of Justyna Bargielska from her first three volumes of poetry as well as her prose debut. Discussing then theories of Melanie Klein and Hanna Segal, the work of Nicole Loraux on the place of the feminine mourning voice in the ancient Athens. political system, as well as Galit Hasan-Rokem.s book on the Midrashim to the Book of Lamentations, the author builds a conceptual framework which might be helpful in understanding the feminine forms of expressions of mourning. Against this background he tries to describe the ironic dirges found in Bargielska’s work, paying special attention to the dominant figure of ‘container’ which among other things seems to refer to the very poem itself, conceived as the space which is to contain loss.

What a Shame! Memoirs of a Time of Queer Immaturity: Prologue

Author(s): Błażej Warkocki / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2017

This article focuses on the short story ‘Lawyer Kraykowski’s Dancer’ from Witold Gombrowicz’s debut collection ‘Memoirs from a Time of Immaturity’ (later published under the title Bakakaj or Bacacay in the English translation). Warkocki reads this collection as a ‘memoir of negative affects,’ with the opening story being a story about shame. Drawing on Silvan Tomkins and Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, Warkocki suggests that shame is an affect that interpellates the identity of the outcast and the misfit. Thus the short story represents a particular instance of queer performativity.

Българската мемоарна литература след 1990 г. Преходът през спомените на Тошо Тошев, Георги Мишев, Евгений Дайнов

Author(s): Bistra Velichkova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 4/2018

Based on Mamardashvili’s words that “the meaning of the past is happening in the present,” we would like to investigate in what way the contemporaries of the period after 1990, period of transition from socialism to democracy, remember this time, and how do they interpret the events of the past from the perspective of the present. After a research on the published Bulgarian memoir literature from the year of 1990 to the year of 2018, based on a detailed list from the Collaborated Online Bibliographic System and Services (COBISS), we have chosen three authors of memoirs, whose books we are going to analyze in details. We have chosen these authors by two criteria: 1) their active participation in the social and political life of the country, both in the first years after 1990, and until today; and 2) the three authors are representatives of professions which are connected in some way with the words and writing. In this paper we are going to analyze the memoirs of the journalist and publisher Tosho Toshev, the writer Georgi Mishev and the political scientist Evgeniy Dainov. Our main goal is to analyze how do they see and interpret the period after the 1990, in their memoirs.

Тема «Интеллигенция и война» в контексте художественной литературы

Author(s): Anatoliy Matveyevich Bazhenov,Tatyana Mikhailovna Martynova / Language(s): Russian Issue: 4/2018

The article analyzes the role of the artistic intelligentsia in understandding the phenomenon of war. With the help of literary images reveals the horror and inhumanity of any war. To achieve this goal, works belonging to outstanding writers are involved. These works reproduce the events of the Thirty years’ war (1618—1648), the Patriotic war of 1812, the First world war (1914—1918) and the Second world war (1939—1945). Worthy place in this series is the novel «Simplicissimus», owned by the German writer Hans Jakob Christoph Grimmelshausen. His work is a peculiar and unique canvas, full of bitterness and humor, reflecting the disasters and horrors of the Thirty years’ war. After the end of the war, the Treaty of Westphalia was signed. It marked the beginning of the formation of the system of national States and the state-centrist model of the world. A special status in the study of war is occupied by the novel-epic of Leo Tolstoy «War and peace». One of the best works devoted to the First World War, is a novel by Erich Maria Remarque «On the Western front without changes». A separate story in the article is the study of the events of the Second World War by the Nobel Prize — winning writers Heinrich Bell, Gunter Grass and Svetlana Alekseevich. And the first two writers were themselves participants in the Second World War. This gave them a reason to use their own military experience, which gave more convincing coverage of the events of the war. All conclusions are confirmed by the given fragments from the works of writers. All these writers are united by the desire to reveal and show the antihuman content of military operations.

Мастацкiя асаблiвасцi аповесцяў Лукаша Калюгi «Дзе косцi мелюць» i «Зэнка малы нiколi не быў»

Author(s): Nadzieja Zujewa / Language(s): Belarusian Issue: 10/2018

In this article, the artistic features of two camp stories by Lukash Kalyuga “Дзе косцi мелюць” and “Зэнка малы нiколi не быў” are analyzed. The author examines the identification of the national character, culture, life of the Belarusian people. The work presents their psychology in the early twentieth century, their defining mental features, both positive and negative.

Универсалност и игрови характер на приказното произведение. Рецепция

Author(s): Rosina Kokudeva / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 5/2019

The aim of this article is to explore the universality and playful character of the fairytale with respect to its diverse perception. Its structure is split into two parts, united by the interest in the specific ways of both children’s and primitive man’s thinking. The first part illustrates the fairytale as an intrinsic part of children literature, and attention is given to the development of the genre and the characteristics of the folklore mind. The cognitive aspect of these types of texts is being discussed as well as its communicative function and its educational effect on children. Regarding the content and semantics of the texts it is being underlined that they positively affect the reader / listener, which is a consequence of the characteristics of the folklore mind and the stereotypes it brings about. The wide use of parody as a method, which tones down the horror elements of the fairytale is being pointed out regarding the psychological interpretation of fairytales. The second part attempts to explain the model of fairytales viewed through the concept of play proving its playful nature. The focus of attention is on Johan Huizinga’s concept of homo ludens, according to which the understanding of play is a key element of every culture. Based on the intrinsic connection between the fairytale and the myths and rituals, the article makes an attempt to search for mechanisms of play in the folkore fairytale model – regarding the repetition, variability, dynamics, improvisation. The function of play is being explored in the very structure of the fairytale - plot, heroes, formulas.

British Cultural (Re)Branding. The Cool Britannia Project or Great Britain between the Old and the New

Author(s): Mihaela Culea,Andreia Irina Suciu / Language(s): English Issue: 24/2019

This article theoretically discusses the national identity concept and its relation to the upholding of those distinctive elements that are associated with a country’s or a nation’s past. With a particular focus on the perceptions of British national identity in the 1990s, it presents some views of British academics, political pundits, politicians or journalists of those times regarding the state of the British society caught between the old and the new. The ‘Cool Britannia’ project proposed by the New Labour government aimed to resolve matters largely connected to a declining British society by putting forward a national rebranding plan, with the ultimate intention of modernizing a backward-looking British society at the turn of the century.

Літературна спадщина Миколи Гоголя як джерело дослідження історії бюрократії

Author(s): Valentyna Vasylivna Bezdrabko / Language(s): Ukrainian Issue: 2/2019

The purpose of the article is to identify the general social characteristics of the capital bureaucracy of the Russian Empire in the first half of the nineteenth century on the example of Mykola Vasylovych Hohol «Petersburg Stories». The methodology consists of methods of scientific criticism, historical-chronological, historical-typological, structural-system methods for the study of belles-lettres as a historical source and the presentation of intrinsic results. The scientific novelty of the research is to update the works of M.V. Hohol as a fact of objective reality, a historical source in the study of the history of bureaucracy. Conclusions. Reform of the bureaucratic apparatus of the Russian empire of the first half of the nineteenth century determined: changes in the quantitative, qualitative composition of the bureaucracy; mental transformations; professionalization and features of activity; increase of educational qualification; reduction of the role of family ties, that is, patronage; development of the service hierarchy. The formation of class bureaucracy as a special stratum with a specific subculture illustrates the images of the Hohol titular counselor and collegiate assessor, depicted against the backdrop of general social history, the history of everyday life, the everyday life of the individual. Their official activity was conditioned by special qualification and rewarded with titles, pledges, and other honors. The multi-vector of the plot lines of «Petersburg Stories» enables a multidimensional perception of the image of the bureaucrat and the historically predetermined background of his existence.

Confesiunile literaților bărbați: Liana Cozea, Patru critici literari. Jurnale și memorii

Author(s): Florica Bodistean / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 2/2019

O nouă viziune: Iosif Cheie-Pantea, Cioran și spiritul romantic

Author(s): Adela Drăucean / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 2/2019