Уточнения к родословию Достоевских (по материалам петербургского архива)

Author(s): Tatyana Viktorovna Panyukova / Language(s): English,Russian Issue: 1/2018

The article explores some archival sources concerning St. Petersburg line of the Dostoevskys. Based on the original documents thirty three records from parish registers and lists of the deceased, kept in the Central State Historical Archive of Saint Petersburg, were published and analyzed. All the records are reproduced with the indication of the archival storage sites. Their studying allows considering the given archive as a valuable source of the documentary data on Dostoevsky’s genealogy and his family entourage. The documentary information on the burial at the Smolensk, Bolsheokhtinsky Georgievsky orthodox cemeteries in Saint Petersburg and at the cemetery of the Novodevichy Voskresensky monastery (Central State Historical Archive of St. Petersburg, Funds 457, 641 and 639) for the first time was introduced into scientific use. Two younger brothers and sister of F. M. Dostoevsky, their relatives (the Dostoevskys, the Rykachyovs, the Golenovskys, the Shevyakovs, the Stavrovskys), the descendants of the elder brother (the Dostoevskys, the Vladislavlevs) were buried there, as well as the relatives of the writer on the part of Anna Grigorievna Dostoevskaya (the Snitkins). Based on these documents some biographic data, presented by previous researchers, have been revised or updated.

Crossing the Borders of the East: Petya Tsoneva Ivanova, Negotiating Borderlines in Four Contemporary Migrant Writers from the Middle East

Author(s): Ayham Abu Orouq / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2019

The Multicentric Identity of David Albahari: A Jewish Serbian-Canadian Writer

Author(s): Vesna Lopičić,Milena Kostić / Language(s): English Issue: 10/2014

Besides spatial dynamics, Albahari’s literary poetics is to a great extent defined by his religious affiliation. The article aims to show how Albahari’s different personal reference points (Serbia, Canada, Jewishness) build up the image of Albahari as an author comfortable in the emerging multicentric cultural economy.

THE PARSIFAL PROJECT - COMMON CULTURAL ELEMENTS IN EUROPEAN LEGENDS, MYTHS AND TRADITIONAL TALES

Author(s): Anca Colibaba,Irina Gheorghiu,Irina Croitoru,Carmen Antonita / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2019

The article is based on the Parsifal project, a European project funded by the Erasmus+ programme (Project Number: 2018-1-PL01-KA201-050865), which is being implemented by EuroEd Foundation Iasi, Romania. The project aims to bring cultural heritage to the attention of students in order to enrich their learning processes. The project looks at traditional tales and legends in each partner country (Poland, Italy, Lithuania, Bulgaria and Romania) with a view to identifying common European roots. The paper focuses on main themes and common features identified in Bulgarian, Italian, Lithuanian, Polish and Romanian legends: real and mythological characters and animals, heritage, environments and common objects, recurring situations and challenges, moral and ethical topics.

Простори Станковићеве приповједне поетике

Author(s): Goran M. Maksimović / Language(s): Serbian Issue: 8/2013

Review of: Milosavljević Milić, Snežana (2013), Otpori i prekoračenja (Poetika pripovedanja Bore Stankovića), Niš: Filozofski fakultet Univerziteta u Nišu.

Андрићево дјело у огледалу цивилизација

Author(s): Ranko V. Popović / Language(s): Serbian Issue: 8/2013

Review of: Vučković, Radovan [Ed.] (2012), Andrić između Istoka i Zapada; Zbornik radova; Banja Luka: Akademija nauka i umjetnosti Republike Srpske.

О стилској вредности именичких деминутива у Андрићевим приповеткама

Author(s): Milica Stojanović / Language(s): Serbian Issue: 6/2012

This paper discusses the style value of diminutive nouns in Ivo Andrić’s short stories between 1925 and 1941. Andrić’s style is characterised by the absence of expressives, although one notices a number of diminutive nouns the writer commonly utilized in nominal function. While the use of some diminutives achieves a certain stylistic and poetic function — it also reveals subtext and more accurately represents the psychology of his characters, in particular the psychological conditions and characteristics of the main character. Furthermore, this paper indicates the reactions and actions of the characters and describes their interior.

Ombre e riflessi della città. Considerazioni sull’immaginario urbano nella narrativa polacca dopo il 1989

Author(s): Dario Prola / Language(s): Italian Issue: 3/2009

Shadows and reflections of the city; Considerations on the urban imagination; Polish fiction after 1989;

Nanny, Signifying Empowerment: The Evolution of the Dispirited Black Female in Zora Neale Hurston‘s Their Eyes Were Watching God

Author(s): Iris M. Lancaster / Language(s): English Issue: 7/2017

The essay contains a stylistic analysis of the dispirited black female. Hurston uses Their Eyes Were Watching God to deconstruct the negative image of the dispirited black female, a woman who is dogged by a tragic past. True to her commitment to not fall under the constraints of feeling ―tragically coloured, Hurston uses Nanny and an empowered sermon to create a warrior woman who struggles to hold on to the remnants of a spirit that had been beaten down by the effects and after effects of slavery. While there are a plethora of articles on Nanny, there are no articles (at least none that were found after quite an exhaustive search) that focus on a stylistic study of Nanny’s sermon. In an effort to add to the scholarship for Nanny, this paper analyses Nanny’s sermon—the independent and dependent clauses, the signifiers, and the cohesive ties—all of which help Nanny shed the burdens of her past, whereby freeing her from the burdens of the dispirited black woman.

The Coral Island vs. Lord of the Flies. Variations in Emotional Intelligence Skills

Author(s): Raluca-Ștefania Pelin / Language(s): English Issue: 7/2017

The present paper aims at a close analysis of two novels that bring to light the issue of human behaviour and survival in unfamiliar conditions: The Coral Island, by Robert Michael Ballantyne and Lord of the Flies, by William Golding. Although the former novel has served as a source of inspiration for the latter, its utopian atmosphere and the power relations in it are cruelly overshadowed by the dystopian perspective Golding offers. Strikingly enough, the characters in both novels are cast on islands of almost equal beauty and resources and are let free to choose in fairly similar extreme contexts. However, the reader is faced with two unexpected unveilings of human manifestations that reveal the inner structure of the acting people in both cases. By means of a transfer of concepts from the psychological field of Emotional Intelligence, the profiles of the characters gain new dimensions, and the reader gets a deeper insight into the intricate inner workings of the human mind and human relations, and not in the least, into the power of the context to turn these relations into beneficial or destructive outcomes. The boys themselves - with their emotional and ethical heritage - determine the courses of action and in the end they either rejoice in the emotional and the moral choices they have made or deplore the flaws of their character.

Representations of the Upper-Class Victorian Father in Ellen Pickering‘s The Fright

Author(s): Alina Pintilii / Language(s): English Issue: 7/2017

The Fright by Ellen Pickering deals with parental roles within a wide range of foster families of early Victorian upper classes and with parent-child relationships these roles imply. A special attention is drawn to the paternal figure as it is depicted in the characters of Mr Bradley and Mr Rolleston, and to the relationships they develop with Grace, whom they foster one after another. Mr Bradley is a kind and loving foster parent to Grace, but his physical and psychological absence and lack of domestic authority allow his wife and children to mistreat her. In contrast, Mr Rolleston is described as a sovereign father who is always present, being actively and directly involved with his foster daughter, but whose parental involvement derives from self-oriented reasons, making his fatherhood swing from stern coldness to affection. The contention is that the portrayals of Mr Bradley‘s and Mr Rolleston’s fatherhood depart from the socio-historical prototype of early Victorian wealthy fathers, who were often absent from their households, but nonetheless ruled them with undisputed power. By comparing the literary representations of the upper-class English father to the typical historical construct, this article aims at proving, through the deviation existing between these two, that the realism of the Victorian novel does not consist in rendering characters and their actions in consistency with socio-historical templates.

Hi(s)story Gone Wrong. Martin Amis on the Holocaust in Time‘s Arrow

Author(s): Michaela Praisler / Language(s): English Issue: 7/2017

A historical novel told backwards, Martin Amis‘s Time‘s Arrow recycles the shared memories of the Holocaust, experiments with narrative representation and uses black irony throughout, in an attempt at healing the past and avenging the dead, while shedding surgical light on the present and the living. The paper focuses on the aforementioned, analysing the way in which form supports content, and his story (that of a Nazi doctor) rewrites history (which emerges as a series of consecutive dystopias).

Memory and Identity in The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman

Author(s): Irina Rață / Language(s): English Issue: 7/2017

In his novel The Ocean at the End of the Lane (2013), Neil Gaiman has succeeded in telling another spellbinding fairy-tale for adults. It is unique among Gaiman‘s novels, as it features a child protagonist and his specific worldview. Despite being a fantasy novel, with a narrative filled with magic and wonder, it tells the traumatic tale of memory, identity, self-sacrifice, and survival. It portrays the essential role of memory as a coping mechanism, necessary for survival, and the ways in which childhood occurrences ultimately shape the adult‘s identity. This article aims to address and analyse the identity formation and the role of the memory in this process in The Ocean at the End of the Lane, through the lens of memory studies, and structuralist theory.

Textual Hybridity in Orhan Pamukʼs The Black Book

Author(s): Cristina Stan / Language(s): English Issue: 7/2017

The aim of this article is to explore the way memory and identity intertwine and are reflected by textual hybridity in one of Orhan Pamuk’s most acclaimed writings, The Black Book. As an admirer of great writers such as Borges or Calvino, who redefined and innovated traditional narrative discourses and styles, Pamuk also chooses to experiment, break fictional confinements and go beyond established patterns. The Nobel winner succeeds in creating a well-crafted intertextual network that teems with all sorts of playful allusions, rewritings, references to and evocations of Islamic texts, Turkish literature, Oriental allegories and Western literature. Configuring one‘s identity and coming to terms with memory both find a unique and intriguing expression in a labyrinthine universe.

FANTASY LITERATURE: CULTURE AND CIVILIZATION COURSE MATERIAL?

Author(s): Irina-Ana Drobot / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2020

The paper starts from the observation that topics of discussion proposed by students for the Culture and Civilization Course I teach at the Engineering in Foreign Languages Faculty centered on myths and mythology of various cultures: Norse, ancient Greek, Chinese, etc. The fact that fantasy novels are very popular nowadays may have influenced them and built their curiosity for these topics. Fantasy novels can be useful for getting the students’ interest in culture and civilization topics starting from what they know. We can use as examples of culture identity manifestations these fabulous worlds, with their traditions, habits, heroes, values, rituals. The research methodology is provided by popular culture and English Language Teaching. The hypothesis of the paper is that students have a tendency to prefer certain topics due to the influence of popular culture and that this interest can be used productively to engage them in course participation.

Dekonstrukcija kulturno- identitetskih stereotipa u romanu Prokleta avlija Ive Andrića

Author(s): Azra Ičanović / Language(s): Bosnian,English Issue: 8-9/2020

By placing Ivo Andric in the context of Western European tradition of Orientalism, the paper discusses the deconstruction of the cultural-identity stereotypes in the novel “The Damned Yard”. With the aim of showing that the stereotypical cultural divides are one of the mechanisms of political action by which he, through the attempt of monopolization of culture and construction of an eligible collective identity which van (and must) be accomplished as vassal, seeks to establish and/or maintain the absolute power, the paper, starting from questioning postcolonial opposition East-West in Andric‘s “Devil‘s yard”, is considering the hybrid identity of the protagonists of the novel and their confrontation with the repressive measures of the totalitarian regime as factors of degradation orientalist discourse and deconstruction of cultural-identity stereotypes. The paper leads to the conclusion that in the process of identity hybridization of Camil and Fra Peter and the proces of articulation of the identity, moral and existential drama of a man exposed to repressive measures of the totalitarian political system, all the difference between the characters, including those which are arising from cultural and civilizational division into East and West, are deleted and relativized.

Самодеятельные объединения интеллигенции в позднем СССР: клубы любителей фантастики

Author(s): Vladimir Vyacheslavovich Komissarov / Language(s): Russian Issue: 4/2019

The publication presents an archival document of the funds of the Russian archive of socio-political history (RGASPI). The document is a report prepared by the editor-in-chief of the journal «Technology — to the youth» for the Komsomol Central Committee. The report summarizes the results of the survey of Clubs of fans of science fiction (CFSF), which the journal conducted in 1982—1983. The document describes the social and age structure of the CFSF, tasks, problems that they experience in their activities. The comments give a description of the document, its attribution. The circumstances of the creation of the report are analyzed. Ideological and political conditions are described; assumptions on authorship of the document are expressed. An attempt is also made to determine the source knowledge of the published report. Three problems are identified, in the study of which this document can be useful to researchers. First, it is the degree of independence of the CFSF from the authorities; second, it is an assessment of the organizational unity of the Soviet fan movement; third, the importance that the Soviet ideological leadership attached to science fiction. The comments also describe the events that followed the creation of this document. We are talking about repressive campaigns against the journal «Technology — to the youth» and against the clubs of science fiction fans, which occurred in 1984. And although the connection of these events with the published document is more than indirect, all these events are within the framework of ideological control over science fiction. The detailed notes explain the terms, abbreviations, proper names mentioned in the report.

Hristo Botev. Ludicrous cry (прев. Шон Фоли)

Author(s): Hristo Botev / Language(s): English Issue: 02/2019

Climate Change: An Apocalypse for Urban Space? An Ecocritical Reading of “Venice Drowned” and “The Tamarisk Hunter”

Author(s): Özlem Akyol / Language(s): English Issue: 101/2020

As encapsulated by eco-conscious author Margaret Atwood, climate change has an unprecedented effect on human life. Throughout history human beings have adapted to numerous climatic changes by complying with the available sources of food, housing, clothing, water or warmth. Today, however, climate change creates more devastating and instant consequences that populations and the ecosystem cannot cope with. The situation seems to have become too compelling to ignore so many authors feel an urge to warn people by transforming graphs and scientific data into emotion and experience in their narratives. At this point, “climate fiction” commonly known as “cli-fi” emerges as a new category engaging global and local effects of the global warming with literature. Despite the fact that cli-fi was not officially coined until the late 2000’s, many authors have been writing about climate change for years now. In this sense, “Venice Drowned” (1981) and “The Tamarisk Hunter” which was published 25 years later are the best examples to illustrate how deep-rooted and long-standing environmental issue climate change is. Kim Stanley Robinson and Paolo Bacigalupi have produced a great deal of works relating to not only the physical destruction of climate change to the Earth but also its long-term effects on our social and economic structures. Accordingly, the stories both set in urban space skillfully exemplify the social, political and economic effects of climate change. So far, a great amount of cli-fi texts have been produced and literary critics have also responded to this trend with an increased quantity of analyses in the context of eco-criticism. In this paper “Venice Drowned” by Kim Stanley Robinson and “The Tamarisk Hunter” by Paolo Bacigalupi will be studied through the theories of ecocriticism in order to demonstrate how cli-fi texts function in providing the reader with an objective perception by elucidating the explicit and belated challenges posed by the problem of climate change.

“Turn back if possible!” On Fears Related to the “End” and Hopes for a “Continuation” in Plays by Jarosław Jakubowski

Author(s): Joanna Michalczuk / Language(s): English Issue: 4/2019

The article comprises an analysis of selected plays by Jarosław Jakubowski, one of the most interesting Polish playwrights of the recent years. The analyzed plays were published in two collections of, respectively, 2014 and 2017. Jakubowski’s works address the questions of the foundation of the humanity and of the actual meaning of a human life. In his plays, he unveils the consequences of the cultural transformations of modernity. His special focus is the results of the erosion of traditional values (shaped within the Judeo-Christian culture) and he investigates in particular the implications of replacing them with ones that are merely contingent and short-term. Among others, he issues a warning against the destructive tendency to rid the area of public discourse of the spiritual element. His plays are literary exemplifications of the prevalence of anthropological reductionism in the ideational realm, triggered by modern day philosophy. The insights into the social reality of today he offers describe the process of the gradual passing of what is ‘human’ in our world and are contrasted with the popular view that humankind has power and dominion over everything. Jakubowski’s futurological dramas make use of catastrophic and postapocalyptic motifs, which he turns into metaphors. The quotations used in the title of this article come from the play entitled “Kosmonauci” [The Astronauts], in which a severely damaged spaceship with its crew on board drifting in the space becomes a metaphor of the postmodern world. In the wobbly reality that leads to nowhere, Jakubowski’s protagonists long for a stable and certain element in their lives and start an unequal fight so as to save both their lives and their humanity. Although the disaster seems unavoidable, Jakubowski leaves his readers with a hope for a “continuation” which is far from naive optimism. It is a hope for the return of what has been rejected and rendered no longer valid by the modern world: the spiritual dimension of human existence and a stable value hierarchy which can become a reliable foundation of human relations.