Afektywna topografia współczesnego Tokio w powieści Yoriko Shōno „Kombinat zakrzywionej czasoprzestrzeni” (Taimu surippu konbināto )

Author(s): Beata Kubiak Ho-Chi / Language(s): Polish Issue: 6/2015

Kubiak Ho-Chi reads Yoriko Shōno’s novel ‘Time Slip Kombinat” (1994) in the light of Brian Massumi’s theory of affect. She highlights the importance of affect and the cognitive potential of studying the emotional interaction between the individual and the place (Tokyo) in Shōno’s novel. She also emphasizes the correspondence between the chaos of the city and the chaos of feelings, which becomes apparent in the novelistic world after the industrial catastrophe. While Shōno is still untranslated into Polish, in Japan she is counted among the most revolutionary contemporary writers. Saturated with an atmosphere of surrealism and a nightmarish combination of dream and wakefulness, her experimental prose represents a postmodern Japan as well as a modern individual lost in the globalized world, filled with fear and lacking all faith in the future.

ДВЕ МОДЕЛИ АМЕРИКАНСКОЙ УТОПИИ (НА ПРИМЕРЕ ПРОИЗВЕДЕНИЙ Э. БЕЛЛАМИ И Р. ХАЙНЛАЙНА)

Author(s): Dmitry Evgenievich Martynov / Language(s): Russian Issue: 1/2016

This paper is devoted to the utopian genre in the United States during the period of 1880–1940. Practical orientation of the society for implementation of the utopia is a specific feature of the utopian consciousness, as well as, therefore, of the utopian fiction in America. The United States embraced the European tradition of constructing a utopian ideal, in which inversion allowing the imagination to simultaneously overcome the reality and create a radically different world is the main method. Whereas egalitarianism was the ideal of European utopianists, the American utopia very early took the idea of justice; it was more associated with the equality of opportunities, rather than with the equality of property and consumption. Thus, E. Bellamy’s utopian novel “Looking Backward, 2000–1887” (1888), with no literary merit, made a revolution in the minds of both the United States and Europe, thereby laying the basis for a number of major social trends, especially in the sphere of consumption. R. Heinlein made an attempt to create his own utopian ideal in the second half of the 1930s. He faced the misunderstanding among publishers and completely switched to writing commercial science fiction.

БЪЛГАРСКАТА ЛИТЕРАТУРА ОТ XIX ВЕК И ПРОБЛЕМЪТ ЗА СМЕСЕНИТЕ БРАКОВЕ

Author(s): Nikolay Aretov / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 1/2017

Mixed marriages are one of the effects of migration. Every community has its own marriage regulations that define which marriages (meaning also which forms of inter-cultural exchange, inter-cultural dialog) are allowed, possible and inadmissible. In the foundations of these rules, strictly related to the definitions of the “own” and “alien”, and with the further differentiation of the “own”, lay the ideas about what is useful for the community. These rules are embedded in different tests; for the time when national law system was still not created, oral traditions and literature were among their main carriers. The paper is focused at the plots in literature dealing with marriages and love affairs of Bulgarian women with men from other ethnical origins, other religion and especially with the faith of some women that had to live in a community, different from their own.

GOETHE AND HIS FOLLOWERS: WELTLITERATUR AND ITS AFTERLIVES

Author(s): Leena Eilittä / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2019

Goethe and his Followers: Weltliteratur and its Afterlives. Goethe´s Weltliteratur, which recalls cosmopolitan ideas of the 18th century, drew attention to literature´s multicultural role in the international exchange and networks. His ideas were developed by subsequent scholars who reflected upon the importance of translations, literatures belonging to small nations, and putting in contact local and global aspects in their discussions about literary studies. Hugo Meltzl emphasized multilingualism for development of literary studies; Georg Brandes drew attention to the importance of small literatures; and Fritz Strich proclaimed that world literature should challenge the Eurocentric notion of literary studies.

FROM CLOSE TO DISTANT READING OF 100 ROMANIAN NOVELS FROM 1850 TO 1920

Author(s): Luiza Marinescu / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2019

From Close to Distant Reading of 100 Romanian Novels from 1850 to 1920. In Romania, among the academic personalities, Solomon Marcus (b. the 1st of March 1925, Bacău – d. the 17th of March 2016, Bucharest) was perhaps the only one who happily combined linguistics and mathematics, being known in the Romanian philological environment especially for Lingvistica matematică [Mathematical Linguistic], Modele matematice în lingvistică [Mathematical Models in Linguistics], 1963, 1966, and Poetica matematică [Mathematical Poetics], in 1970, and in the international scientific field for numerous translation and also for numerous papers published in prestigious publishing houses in Paris, New York and Bologna. Grounded in the Distant reading paradigm (i.e. using digital humanities in analyzing large collection of literary texts) the paper, From close and to distant reading of Romanian novels from 1850 to 1920 provides a historical classification of texts in order to be included in a multilingual European Literary text Collection (ELTeC), permitting to test methods and compare results across national traditions and consider the consequences of such resources and methods for rethinking fundamental concepts in literary history. The paper is following main ideas in relation with the consequences of an absent research field in Romanian academic studies, digital humanities: Close and distant reading in digital humanities: Romanian literature case from 1850 to 1920; Romanian literary history and ways of transnational knowledge through Distant Reading of literary facts: 100 Romanian novels from 1850 to 1920; Transnational redefinition of periods in national history through a literary species: the novel; The problem of "translation / export" of national literary histories.

BEYOND THE HISTORY OF A LITERARY GENRE: THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF ROMANAIN MEMORY WRITING

Author(s): Doris Mironescu / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2019

Beyond the History of a Literary Genre: The Encyclopedia of Romanian Memory Writing. The paper presents the theoretical frame of the research project The Encyclopedia of Romanian Memory Writing, currently being developed at the “A. Philippide” Institute for Romanian Philology. This encyclopedia joins other recent projects, such as literary dictionaries, in an effort to construct an alternative approach to the (national) literary history by subverting the (legitimizing) causal narration. It will include canonical texts, memoirists, various categories of title-articles, but also a set of operative concepts that allow for a definition of memoir-writing starting from the psychological, philosophical and anthropological implications of memory. By indexing literary phenomena in an encyclopedic manner, the textual corpora of Romanian literature may be described and analyzed in a transnational, comparative and interdisciplinary manner.

Où est La femme dans les films de Kiarostami ?

Author(s): Radu-Cristian Andreescu / Language(s): French Issue: 1/2019

The aim of this paper is to analyse femininity as a cinematic depiction of uniqueness in three of Abbas Kiarostami’s films, Certified Copy, Like Someone in Love and a short film included in the anthology film Tickets, investigating the problem of universality and individuality in close connection with Jacques Lacan’s formula “The Woman does not exist”. Following the psychoanalytical approach that leads us to the problem of feminine jouissance and the way women escape from the phallocentric generalisation, we will emphasize the philosophical relevance of three recurring themes in Kiarostami’s films: woman’s identity, past-present continuity and artwork originality. This approach will allow us to grasp the problem of time, uniqueness, continuity and perception in Husserlian phenomenology and Gadamer’s philosophy of art, alongside the critique of truth in Heidegger’s ontology as well as in Austin&Searle’s “speech act theory”. The nodal point of these theories will be a concept of reality involving the consciousness and the interpretive acts of a subject and the woman’s role in expressing originality

Българските видеоблогъри в Ютюб: пет години по-късно (2014-2019)

Author(s): Genika Grigorova,Greta Grigorova,Dobromir Tsvetkov,Eva Taseva,Katrin Asenova,Kristian Dudekov,Maria Nikolova,Nikolai Sulov,Preslava Marinova,Ralitsa Vasileva,Simona Dafinova,Francheska Hristova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 5/2019

The research is implemented by fourth year students in Journalism, specialization Radio, at Sofia University. Research team: Genika Grigorova, Greta Grigorova, Dobromir Tsvetkov, Eva Taseva, Katrin Asenova, Kristian Dudekov, Maria Nikolova, Nikolai Sulov, Preslava Marinova, Ralitsa Vasileva, Simona Dafinova, Franchaska Hristova. Computer data processing: Genika Grigorova.

Oтзив за Mеждународната научна конференция „Oт слово към действие: разкази и репрезентации“, СУ „Св. Кл. Охридски“, от 2 до 4 май 2019

Author(s): Nikolay Genov / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 5/2019

Conference report on the International academic conference “From word to action: tales and representations”, Sofia University, 02.05-04.05 2019

Християнско смирение и гражданска непримиримост в детското творчество на Константин Величков

Author(s): Ognyana Georgieva-Teneva / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 5/2019

The article discusses two key messages of the children‘s works of Konstantin Velichkov: of Christian humbleness and civic implacability. Considering the fact that these values combine relatively rare both in real life and literature, the paper supports the view of the semantic passability at the border between religious-theme poems, presenting man in a silent dialogue with himself and with God, and fables whose allegories refer to the need for an active stance on the socio-institutional status-quo. The analysed texts are interpreted in the paradigm of the modern idea of the Orthodox theology of participation, according to which true humanity implies not only meekness but also benevolence towards the community and disagreement with political autocracy.

Възбудени читатели: поезията като средство за коментар в онлайн форумите

Author(s): Orlin Spassov / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 6/2019

The text analyses an interesting phenomenon: commentary in poetic form that appears frequently in online discussion forums. What causes the participants in the discussions to switch to poetic means of expression? Why, in some cases, are verses and rhymes saturated with obscene words and hate speech? The use of such language tactics complicates the relationship between the media and their publics, as it opens opportunities for creativity and resistance to imposed norms.

Отвъд колективните въображаеми: разкази без разказвачи

Author(s): Snezhana Popova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 6/2019

The understanding that the social imaginary is not the “opposite” of the real, but a peculiar reality, is among the most important social insights of the last century. For today century, the anxiety of the advance of the imaginaries remains. The article traces their evolution – from collective representations generated in structured communities and reference groups, through virtually formalized subjects, constituted in media, to various forms of narration in virtually collective non-entity. The focus of attention are precisely the “subjectless stories” (conspiracies, social tendencies, social desirability), the imaginary ones launched through them, and the participation of contemporary media in the legalization of arbitrary relationships.

Историите на Джуха ал-Хариси

Author(s): Nedelya Kitaeva / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 40/2020

Short introduction to Jokha al-Harthi, her writing and the cultural context she comes from by the translator, Dr. Nedelya Kitaeva, who is teaching Arabic language and Culture at the New Bulgarian University.

Авторската музикa в популярните видеоигри

Author(s): Teodor Penev / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 7/2020

Original music plays a leading role in many popular video games. Although it's not always the best solution for all titles, developers often resort to the services of experienced composers to create an original soundtrack that fits the atmosphere of the game. But this is not the only role of original music in video games, and sometimes it’s creators are not experienced composers, but gamers themselves

Cityscapes in Zadie Smith’s NW

Author(s): Andreia Irina Suciu,Mihaela Culea / Language(s): English Issue: 25/2020

The article focuses on the manner in which the space of the city is employed in Zadie Smith’s NW so as to reveal not only a cosmopolitan map of contemporary London, but also to draw a map of the journey of the contemporary individual in finding himself/herself. Smith adopts in NW an experimental manner of introducing the contemporary individual in a strongly cartographied space both at the level of the city and at the level of the body of the text. Thus, through the space of North West London, the author speaks about family, social class, (inter-racial, marital) relationships, (complying or not with) gender roles (and dealing with the defiance against such roles), mobility (at the level of the cityscapes and at the level of the mindscapes), community and possibilities (and impossibilities) of belonging.

Book review

Author(s): Ibukun Filani / Language(s): English Issue: 4/2020

Pandemia koronawirusa w utworach dla dzieci. Analiza w świetle badań nad dziecięcą książką informacyjną

Author(s): Krzysztof Rybak / Language(s): Polish Issue: 2/2020

The paper analyses e-books and – contextually – animated films about the coronavirus pandemic in the light of the research on children’s informational books. The first part of the article is to outline the terminology and definitions fostered in the Polish scholarly discourse. The second part provides a proper analysis of selected works available in Polish. Three important elements of children’s informational books are discussed: the use of illustrations, inclusion of fictional elements, and presentation of the current state of knowledge.

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Author(s): / Language(s): English,Bulgarian,Polish,Macedonian Issue: 1/2021

This first issue of volume 9 of Studies in Linguistics, Culture, and FLT titled “Discourses of Change: Language and Literature” encompasses five papers dealing with different aspects of language, comparative linguistics, literature, and journalism.

Book review

Author(s): Peter Zolczer / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2018

Невидимата антология. Литературата в последните български банкноти

Author(s): Georgi Gospodinov / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 3/2021

There is an invisible anthology of the Bulgarian literature that we literally carry along with us and hold in our hands every day. Its “pocket edition” is constantly before our eyes. And precisely because of that, it remains invisible and hidden from us. I am speaking about the texts printed on the last Bulgarian banknotes, those that we use now and that one day will be replaced by the common European currency. We’ll demonstrate how through the selected 7 figures and their texts the ‘canon of the banknotes’ is slightly retreated from the national-revolutionary canon, yet remains in the patriotic register. There is an accent on culture and its institutions, on the openness to the European space and the world. Part of the figures that appear on the banknotes are canonical yet presented with less known para-canonical works. What I will try to do in this text is to provide a magnifying glass for seeing the hidden signs and reading the texts and stories inscribed on today’s banknotes, including the delicate female presence on one of them.