АПОТЕОЗА НА СЛОБОДАТА (КОН РОМАНОТ СОК ОД ПРОСТАТА ОД ЈОВАН ПАВЛОВСКИ)

Author(s): Kristina Nikolovska / Language(s): Macedonian Issue: 5/2023

This paper refers to the latest, critical edition of the novel “Prostate Juice” from 2022, enriched with texts from literary criticism. “Prostate Juice” is the cult novel of a Macedonian: poet, storyteller, novelist, children’s writer, translator, publicist, encyclopedist, cultural worker. The most provocative novel of our 20th century has become a new redefinition of values such as: honesty, openness, originality, the brutal truth of intimacy. The novel is the apotheosis of freedom – spiritual, sexual, social, political. With this work, Pavlovski immortalized himself as the most widely read author of his time, but also as a grand master of the word and an instigator of the advanced, the avant-garde, the new, the thought-inducing and the rebellious.

Dialogi z chińszczyzną w piśmiennictwie polskim drugiej połowy XIX i początku XX wieku – formy obecności, sposoby absorbcji. Przybliżenia

Author(s): Dawid Maria Osiński / Language(s): Polish Issue: 2/2024

The aim of this introductory survey article is to present the various ways in which Chineseness is dialogued with and exposed in Polish literature of the second half of the 19th and early 20th centuries. Another objective of this exploratory paper is to indicate the forms of presence and the ways and functions of absorbing Chinese themes, as well as to reflect on their functionality in different genres and discourses of that period. Following the findings and diagnoses of Bogdan Mazan (and other scholars focused on the second half of the 19th century), the author tries to indicate and bring closer slightly different areas of meaning than those investigated in research to date. He points to possibilities of interpreting traces of Chineseness in the literature of that period and in other texts determining important, albeit often marginal and not central, messages of the analysed works authored by Polish positivist and modernist writers.

Serial „Westworld” — badanie etycznych granic „przesadnej przesady”

Author(s): Marcin Telicki / Language(s): Polish Issue: 1/2023

Based on the Westworld series created by the directorial duo of Lisa Joy and Jonathan Nolan, the author of the article discusses exaggeration as a diagnostic tool of contemporary culture. He analyses the image of a fantastic, post-humanist landscape in which the boundaries between reality and illusion and between humanity and its ideal imitation constructed by artificial intelligence are blurred. One of the most important points in the reflection on androids is the attitude to death and its ways of showing it. It leads not only to asking in-depth philosophical questions, but also to showing the literary and cultural series which Westworld is a part of. Finally, the series becomes a contribution to ethical considerations that are inscribed in the contexts of the most contemporary events and phenomena: the pandemic, the war in Ukraine or the development of AI. The threads of history and tradition, temporality and technological fantasies collide here, which makes the viewer and the reader reflect on the conditio humana.

Mickiewicz poetą mściwym czy nauczającym przebaczenia? W poszukiwaniu „trzeciej drogi” przekładu interkulturowego na przykładzie "Zdań i uwag" Adama Mickiewicza

Author(s): Tingting Zhang / Language(s): Polish Issue: 2/2024

The literature of Polish Romanticism, which Marta Piwińska called “a Renaissance of Christianity”, from the beginning of its presence in China has had a contrastingly different reception from that of Polish readers. This article offers a reading of Adam Mickiewicz’s "Zdania i uwagi. Z dzieł Jakuba Bema, Anioła Ślązaka (Angelus Silesus) i Sę-Martena" ["Sentences and Remarks. From the Works of Jakob Böhme, Angelus Silesius and Saint-Martin"], conducted so as to open up a space for reflection on a set of questions that are crucial to cross-cultural studies: Will cultural differences always impede intercultural translations and, by the same token, the reception of works originating from one tradition by readers from another? Is it possible to find a platform that would allow for a dialogue between an author rooted – often in a dialogical way – in the Christian Romantic tradition on the one hand and a reader brought up in the Confucian culture on the other? The aim of this article is to propose an answer to these questions.

Theatre Reviews

Author(s): Maria Sławińska / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2024

ПОИМОТ HAMARTIA ВО НАРОДНИТЕ ПЕСНИ ЗА БОЛЕН ДОЈЧИН

Author(s): Trajce Stameski / Language(s): Macedonian Issue: 5/2023

In Aristotle's theory of tragedy, the concept of hamartia (tragic flaw) has a crucial influence on the dramatic action, as it causes the downfall of the hero from happiness to misery and is connected with the concept of an unexpected reversal of the hero's fate. The entire history of literature encompasses various interpretations of hamartia, from an unintentional mistake, failure in something, or wrong belief, to a tragic flaw or sin. In principle, Aristotle's hamartia can be used in three basic meanings: first, as a synonym for an individual error that arises from insufficient knowledge of certain circumstances that could have been known to the hero. In this case, the error itself is unintentional, and his eventual moral responsibility depends on whether he is guilty of his own ignorance. Second, when it comes to conscious but also unintentional individual wrongdoing, which is more interpreted as the hero's action in an affective state. The third meaning of hamartia is related to various types of human weaknesses, due to which the error is a consequence of some character flaw. In the Christian interpretation of the concept, the tragic flaw is identified with sin. If we refer to Aristotle's indications of natural similarities between heroic epics and tragedy, then the structural and conceptual connection of Macedonian heroic folk songs for Sick Dojchin with the concept of fatal flaw characteristic of dramatic characters is indicative. That is precisely why, in this text, we will interpret the concept of hamartia in the extended variants of the folk songs for Sick Dojchin, in which the fatal flaw of the hero is not only intellectual (ignorance of some essential data) but also necessary hybridization of his deep mythological substrate and religious moral code. If a tragedy, in an ontological sense, represents a fiction about the downfall of the leader (hero) at the zenith of his glory, then the reason for the downfall is interpreted as the only way for his separation from society. In that case, his death is experienced as a necessary moral act. In the epic poems about Sick Dojchin, the dignified death of the hero is understood as a metaphor for cathartic purification, and the act of cultic self-conscious sacrifice is perceived as the highest expression of the ideal: the culmination of heroism, reintegration into the memory of the community and re-establishment of order.

Przedstawienie i analiza xiehouyu w literaturze oraz jako zjawisko językowe

Author(s): Xie Chuyue / Language(s): Polish Issue: 2/2024

My work is concerned with the topic of xiehouyu, a phenomenon specific to Chinese language, but little known in Poland. I try to present and analyze xiehouyu and its use in literature. The paper consists of three chapters. In the first chapter, I describe xiehouyu in general. The second chapter analyses the use of xiehouyu in Chinese literature. The last chapter offers a summary of the significance of xiehouyu. By means of concrete examples and textual analysis, the article aims to help readers grasp the meaning and value of xiehouyu, and to deepen their understanding of Chinese literary works and Chinese way of thinking.

Maternitate, coping religios și afectiv în confesiunea Floricăi Baţu-Ichim

Author(s): Emanuela Ilie / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 49/2023

The following study continues some of the research I published a few years ago (particularly, the papers interested in the reflection of the imaginary of the traumatized corporeality in the women's confessive writings). It analyzes a very provocative, sadly almost unknown, cancer narrative: Florica-Baţu Ichim's book, entitled La porţile disperării, începutul speranţei/ At the Gates of Despair, the Beginning of Hope. As most of the confessive texts, written during radical identity crisis (caused by receiving a diagnosis perceived as lethal), this auto-biographical splendid text articulates itself as a hybrid narrative, in which the author mixes fragments of micro-family novel, diary notes, hospital reports, reading notes, etc. But the truly specific note of this volume – as in the case of Mioara Grigore's Cancer, my love – is given by the way in which the writer (priest's wife and devoted mother of six children) intuitively mixes religious coping with a sort of affective coping, with the aim of strengthening her spiritual identity during the terrible struggle with the Great C.

„Majsterkowanie” Mozartem. Dziadów część III a Don Giovanni

Author(s): Iwona Puchalska / Language(s): Polish Issue: 1/2007

The essay is devoted to a very specific and interesting example of intersemiotical link between the scene of the Senator’s ball in the third part of „Dziady” by A. Mickiewicz and „Don Giovanni” by W. A. Mozart. Analysis of some elements of the opera included by Mickiewicz in his text, in the way of ‘bricolage’, leads to the conclusion that the similarities in both compositions are not restricted to the construction level, but they also seem to have ideological consequences which have an impact on the overall force of the work by Mickiewicz. Its connection with Mozart’s and da Ponte’s work, even if visible in just a few parts of „Dziady”, is a guide to the simultaneous reading of both texts. This read develops their interpretation and understanding as well as expresses the idea of providence present in Mozart’s and Mickiewicz’s masterpieces.

Czym jest pisanie dla socjologa? Wokół Płynnej nowoczesności Zygmunta Baumana

Author(s): Elżbieta Rybicka / Language(s): Polish Issue: 1/2007

Recenzja ksiązki Z. Baumana, Płynna nowoczesność, przeł. T. Kunz, Kraków 2006

Piękno w zwierciadle piękna – Torquato Tasso w wizjach Delacroix, Baudelaire’a i Norwida

Author(s): Olga Płaszczewska / Language(s): Polish Issue: 3/2008

The article constitutes a reflection on non-stereotyped attempts to interpret the myth of Torquato Tasso in the ecphrases of Charles Baudelaire and Cyprian Norwid. The direct source of creative inspiration here proves to be not so much the legend which had grown around the figure of the Italian poet (who is regarded almost as the embodiment of the Romantic visions of the brilliant, but rejected artist, a madman and unhappy lover), but a concrete work of art –namely the painting Le Tasse en prison (Tasso in Prison) by Eugene Delacroix as well as the studies and sketches which accompany it. A comparative analysis of the painting, drawings and Charles Baudelaire’s sonnet On “Tasso in Prison”, an epistolary commentary to Delacroix’painting (letter to Marian Sokołowski from the 9th October 1864) as well as Cyprian Norwid’s lyrical poem Wierny portret (fithful Portrait) allows one to make some worthwhile observations concerning the links between literature and painting, and in particular the Romantic conception of beauty inspired by beauty and generating beauty.

Анализ литературного наследия классика туркменской литературы Махтумкули Фраги

Author(s): Tohfa Mammadaga Talibova / Language(s): Russian Issue: 9/2023

The article analyses the literary heritage of the classic Turkmen literature Magtymguly Pyragy. The general work of the poet and its specific directions, the poet's role in the development of academic ties, folk relations, artistic features of his work, etc., are taken as the object of study. Makhtumkuli Fraghi wrote unique poems. His works are fascinating, sincere, convincing and national. The analysis of the poetic heritage of the poet in Azerbaijani literary studies will serve to approach the Azerbaijani and Turkmen peoples, strengthening the ideas of friendship, solidarity, humanism, and Turkism between them.

ZÜREFADAN BİR ZAT TARAFINDAN KALEME ALINMIŞ OLAN 7 ŞABAN 1260/22 AĞUSTOS 1844 TARİHLİ BİR MÜKEYYİFAT MÜNAZARASI: MUHÂKEME-İ MÜKEYYİFÂT

Author(s): Fatih Ülken / Language(s): Turkish Issue: 81/2024

Disputes in Turkish literature, in which pleasurable substances such as opium, berş cannabis, boza, wine, arak and coffee, in a dispute-based struggle for supremacy, with the claim of being the most popular pleasure or being the sultan of mukeyyifat, are the debates in Turkish literature has an important place in it. In this study, the work named Muhâkeme-i Mükeyyifât, which is among the 84b-102a leaves of a 109-leaf journal, which is registered under the name of "poetry journal" in Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality Taksim Atatürk Library, number 1172, is discussed. Written on 7 Şaban 1260/22 August 1844 by a person from the zurefa with the desire to leave a relic containing advices and warnings to future generations, this work is a collection of seven pleasurable substances (opium, berş, cannabis, boza, wine, arak, coffee) in the province of Tahayyulat. It is a debate on meritocracy, describing the fierce struggle and arguments they entered in a pavilion in the field of Isret-âbâd. The coffee, which comes out of this terrible test in which pleasure substances enter, with a white face, sends all the mukeyyifat into exile as the sultan-ı mukeyyifat.

19. YÜZYILDA TÜRKİSTAN’DA RAMAZAN KÜLTÜRÜ VE ÇAĞATAYCA ANONİM ŞİİRLERE YANSIMASI

Author(s): Lira Mairambek Kyzy / Language(s): Turkish Issue: 82/2024

Ramadan has been a more important month for Muslim Turks than other months, regardless of geography and historical period. At the same time, it also raises curiosity about how the month of Ramadan was spent in the Turkic states during this historical period. While information about Ramadan culture in Ottoman society was obtained in the light of studies conducted in Turkey, curiosity about how the month of Ramadan was experienced in Turkestan led to the emergence of this paper. However, given the paucity of pre-19th century sources on the topic and the fact that most works providing information on Ramadan culture in Turkestan date from the Russian Empire, research has been limited to the 19th century. In this paper, the culture of Ramadan in Turkestan is discussed in general terms, according to information in the records of British and Russian explorers such as Meakin, Geyer, Khanikov, Nalivkin, Nalivkina, Ostroumov, Pantusov, and Shishov, who came to Turkestan in the 19th century. In addition, the paper includes anonymous poems of Ramadan in Chagatay, which attracted the attention of orientalists Ostroumov and Pantusov and served as the reason for their compilation, and also examines the culture embodied in these poems.

Exilios de Arturo Barea

Author(s): Elżbieta Bender / Language(s): Spanish Issue: 23/2023

The article analyzes the literary works of Arturo Barea that deal with the experiences of his two exiles: the French and the British. In The Clash Barea evokes his sad life in Paris: great poverty and uneasiness caused by the growing resentment of the French towards the Spanish exiles on the eve of World War II. In contrast, the British exile (shown in the stories Teresa and A Spaniard in Hertfordshire) appears as a mostly positive experience, as Barea achieves a certain economic and emotional stability. Nevertheless, there are moments (reflected in his letters and his novel The Broken Root) in which the author suffers from nostalgia for his homeland and remorse for having abandoned his children in Franco’s Spain.

Wybielony książę? Kilka uwag na temat biografii Hieronima Floriana Radziwiłła (1715–1760)

Author(s): Andrea Mariani / Language(s): Polish Issue: 9/2023

Th e present scientific review supplements the latest biography of Hieronim Florian Radziwiłł (1715–1760). Its author, Paweł Gad, convincingly refutes the thesis that the Lithuanian aristocrat was a fool and a sadist, as previously argued by many historians. He shows that Radziwiłł’s behaviour, although peculiar, fi tted into the acceptable standard of the Polish-Lithuanian magnates of the eighteenth century. Th e biography focuses on Hieronim’s family life, political activity, passions, and cultural interests while downplaying other issues, such as his economic activity, religiosity, and relationship with various confessions. Based on manuscript sources unknown to Paweł Gad, the reviewer confi rms and broadens the aristocrat’s picture that emerges from his biography. The weakness of the reviewed book is the omission of various publications and careless editing.

Konferenca shkencore “Studimet letrare në proces: Rezultate dhe probleme”, III, Tiranë, 14 korrik 2017

Author(s): Laura Smaqi / Language(s): Albanian Issue: 03-04/2017

Report on conference "Studimet letrare në proces: Rezultate dhe probleme” held in Tirana at July 14th of 2017.

Dramaturgu Etëhem Haxhiademi në fokusin e trajtimeve letrare e gjuhësore

Author(s): Evalda Paci / Language(s): Albanian Issue: 01-02/2021

Report on conference “Dramaturgu Etëhem Haxhiademi në fokusin e trajtimeve letrare e gjuhësore” held at "Aleks Buda" hall on June 25th of 2021.

‘Prologu’ i këngëtores arbëreshe I F. A. Santorit, i shqyrtuar përmes prurjeve teorike dhe koncepteve të përpunuara në analizën e diskursit dhe pragmatikën letrare

Author(s): Tomorr Plangarica / Language(s): Albanian Issue: 03-04/2021

The aim of this paper is to show the importance of the viewpoints, methodologies and refined concepts of the speech sciences, respectively for the discourse analysis, text semantics and, linguistic and literary pragmatics in reviewing, assessing and reinterpreting a literary work. In the focus of this study is “The prologue” of the “The Arbëresh singer” from A.F. Santori, the first literary work of the author, written in his early youth, but which has remained representative of his large literary and cultural corpus. Starting with a holistic overview of this heritage, the review passes in the shape of concentric circles from the wider space that includes several distinct features of the work in general, towards the peculiarities in the creative process of “The Arbëresh singer”, to finally focus on the “Prologue” of “The Arbëresh…”, as an introductory passage of a metatextual nature, and one of the keys for analyzing, interpreting and reinterpreting the whole work “The Arbëresh…”. This reviewing and interpreting approach concentrates on entities and categories such as discourse, text, metatext and metatextual function, constituent/initial discourse, author (and its components biographical oneself/individual, writer, enunciator or textual being), or concepts such as paratopic, enunciation stage, discourse ethos, etc. These categories and concepts of the analysis, contribute in the reinterpretation of the literary work and enable the today’s reader to better assess the literary and cultural heritage of the author, the one published at his lifetime and the one disclosed later, in order to give the appropriate and deserved praise to the large corpus of the literary and cultural works of F. A. Santori.

The Stylistic Features Of "Winged Phrases" In The Works Of Walter Scott

Author(s): Gunay Khalid Afandiyeva / Language(s): English Issue: 5/2024

The study of "winged expressions" enables the interdisciplinary integration of linguistics with anthropology, cultural history, sociology, psychology, philosophy, and other fields. In this context, it is essential to note that the research has an ethnolinguistic character. In light of the above, we examine the etymology of "winged phrases" by analysing the language used in the works of Walter Scott, a renowned English writer of Scottish origin who is regarded as the "founder of the historical novel genre" at the beginning of the XIX century. "Winged expressions" that have withstood the test of time and have been handed down from generation to generation as the most valuable heirlooms have retained their communicative and expressive richness. The study of "winged expressions" in languages with different systems is of interest in creating a correct and complete picture of the development of the language and its lexical-semantic system. The significance of translation is on the rise, parallel to the growing prevalence of foreign language study. The most challenging aspect of translation is the phraseological language. Winged expressions occupy a distinctive position among language units in translation. This is based on the fact that winged expressions are directly related to the ethnopsychology of each nation and serve as a benchmark.