Qu’en est-il du lien entre mythe et fiction ? Réflexions à partir de l’ethnographie des Aranda (Aborigènes australiens).

Author(s): Marika Moisseeff / Language(s): French Issue: 1/2019

The author adopts a comparative cultural perspective in order to grasp the social role played by fiction in contemporary Western societies. As Jean-Marie Schaeffer reminds us, fictional competence stems from a child’s early interactions with care-givers. However, cross-cultural studies have identified significant structural differences in how these interactions take place. The author relates these differences to the divergent modes of sociability obtaining in two types of cultural contexts: present-day Western societies in which literary traditions have become central on the one hand, and societies with an oral tradition on the other. The current role of fiction in the West is compared with the processes at play in the creation of mythical narratives among the Aranda, an Aboriginal population of Central Australia. The author shows that whereas both mythological accounts and fictional works are cultural products made to be shared, the form this pooling of knowledge takes, and the functions associated with it, are closely connected with the modes of relational mediation characteristic of the society concerned.

Южнославянското сравнително литературознание днес – посоки и контексти.

Author(s): Ina Hristova / Language(s): English,Bulgarian Issue: 1/2019

The article examines current trends in the development of South Slavic comparative literary studies. The discussion revolves around the reviewing of the notion of a South Slavic literary community and a unified South Slavic literary process. Interpretation focuses on the comparison of the Yugoslav and Post-Yugoslav literary contexts. Reference is made to the affiliation of South Slavic literatures to various cultural regions. The author comes to the conclusion that there is a need for a reviewing of South Slavic literatures as an open construction and a dynamic field of identities.

Deen (Faith) and Donya (the Secular): Al Ghazali's the alchemy of happiness

Author(s): Ali Mirsepassi,Tadd Graham Fernée / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2019

The 11th -12th century Abbasid philosopher al-Ghazālī is the center of controversy today in Western societies seeking to understand Islamic radicalism. The article initially examines the al-Ghazālī debate, split between popular images of al-Ghazālī as a fanatical enemy of rational thought, and scholarly depictions of a forerunner of postmodernism. After analyzing a principle example of the latter tendency, centered on the Persian term dihlı̄z, the article undertakes a sociological investigation of al-Ghazālī’s Alchemy of Happiness within the historic context of the Abbasid crisis of political legitimacy. The troubled historic vista of Abbasid politics, the unique role of al-Ghazālī as representative of ideological power, and the crucial influence of the intercontinental Sufi revolution, are discussed. The analysis focuses on al-Ghazālī’s central concepts of deen (faith) and donya (the secular), that he employed to stabilize and guarantee the continued political success of the multi-civilizational Abbasid state. Spurning the dogma of unified identity, al-Ghazālī recognized the civilizational pluralism underpinning Abbasid political survival. Reconciling multiplicity and unity, al-Ghazālī labored to integrate Islamic and non-Islamic intellectual traditions. Three elements are investigated: (1) Investing epistemology with social significance, al-Ghazālī opposed orthodox conformism; (2) Denouncing ignorance, the passions, and intellectual confusion, al-Ghazālī promoted the dialogic principle – not dogma - as the unique public guarantee of the universal truth; (3) This universal truth had an exclusively secular, not religious, dimension, based on the deen/donya distinction, separating universal secular truth from religious identity. An intellectual exploration of the secular dilemma, of corresponding imaginative magnitude, hardly existed in Western societies at the time. This casts doubt on the current academic enthusiasm for representing traditional Islam in the mirror image of French post-structuralism, and the false depiction of al-Ghazālī as the dogmatic enemy of reason. It opens an entire terrain of possible research that is barely tapped, which contradicts the confused dogmas of Islamic radicalism. A secular conceptual dualism pervaded the Islamic tradition, indeed pre-dating European secularism.

„История на славянските литератури“ – съвременни перспективи пред една традиционна филологическа дисциплина.

Author(s): Ani Burova / Language(s): English,Bulgarian Issue: 1/2019

The article examines the current state of the discipline “History of Slavic Literatures” in the contemporary academic environment. The paper discusses its nature of a large-scale literary-historical course and its perspectives for development in the context of contemporary tendencies in university philological education. We comment the need for the discipline to be conceptually connected to varying perspectives in rationalizing the contexts of cultural identity for different examined literatures.

Intertekstualni susreti: splin i njegove manifestacije u Disovoj i Bodlerovoj poeziji

Author(s): Jovana Golubović / Language(s): Serbian Issue: 01/2018

This paper examines the intertextual encounters between poetry of a Serbian poet, Vladislav Petković Dis, and French poet, Charles Baudelaire from a thematic and a lexical perspective. What Dis did was to liberate the Serbian poetry of the 20th century from its shackles of tradition and formalism by instilling it with a novel poetic impulse: gruesome pessimism, melancholy, sorrow, transience, pain, disintegration and death. Around the middle of the 19th century, with his volume The Flowers of Evil, Baudelaire had already defined the modern understanding of poetry and beauty as something that springs out of the ugly and the hideous (aesthetics of ugliness). The motif of the spleen being ubiquitous in the poetry of Dis and Baudelaire, we dedicate particular attention to intertextual relations of the spleen’s different manifestations that are based on pessimism and the conversion of poetry into a reflection of a poet's soul. Therefore, the intention of this work is to show the similarities and, above all, the differences between the manifestations of the spleen in the poetry of these two poets.

Титрологията и новата взискателност към озаглавяването. За книгата: Клео Протохристова. Записки от преддверието. Теория и практики на заглавието.

Author(s): Roumiana L. Stantcheva / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 1/2019

Повей от Босфора

Author(s): Borislava Ivanova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 02/2018

BATILILARIN YAZDIĞI SEYAHATNAMELERDEKİ GRAVÜRLERE YANSIYAN ŞEKLİYLE ANADOLU GELENEKSEL MİMARİSİ

Author(s): İbrahim Çoban,Nurcan Sert / Language(s): Turkish Issue: 52/2018

In the period beginning from century 15 to century 19, Anatolia Traditional Architectural examples as images included in travel books occurred as a result of travels to Eastern and Ottoman lands, written by tradesmen, ambassadors, artists like Charles Pertusier, Joseph Pitman De Tournefort, Antonie Ignace Melling, M. François Preault, Charles Texier, Thomas Allom, William Henry Bartlett and travelers like Corneille Bruyn, Guillaume Joseph Grelot, Cornelius Loos, Jean Baptiste Hilair in engraving method in this study had been examined. Building materials, Architectural works and building features occurred under various geographic conditions of various regions of Anatolia have been selected as subject of the research as an original language in the plastic frame of painting art. The oldest image samples of Anatolian Traditional Architecture are seen at engraving of travel books belong to centuries XV – XIX according to data occurred as result of literature scanning and qualitative research method. It is thought that this study is important regarding to setting forth the aspects of today artists who are trying to create an original language in Modern Turkish Painting about Anatolian Traditional Architecture and using of possibilities presented by this architecture. At the same time, it is thought that commenting of the artists referring to their composition and fiction while getting benefit from Anatolian Traditional Architecture and getting together such date will provide contribution to determine position of architectural tradition in modern art.

Realism–4. Israeli Russophone Literature Today

Author(s): Roman Katsman / Language(s): Polish Issue: 1/2019

Семантика возвышения в еврейской традиции и представления в русской ментальности

Author(s): Piotr Czerwiński / Language(s): Russian Issue: 1/2019

The Torah texts (the book of Genesis) are the base for the appointing and describing of the thirteen degrees-stages of Joseph’s raising as the characteristic and full from that is typical for the Judaic mental tradition. Then this tradition is described as a model to be compared with the examples from the Prophets (Mordecai, Daniel) as well as with other texts including the literary ones and the well-known historical facts.

Beyond Time and Continents: Irena Klepfisz’s Vision of Poland, America and the Space Between

Author(s): Michaela Weiss / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2019

Podróż z Jakubem Frankiem — Księgi Jakubowe Olgi Tokarczuk

Author(s): Anna Jeziorkowska-Polakowska / Language(s): Polish Issue: 1/2019

Jakub’s Books by Olga Tokarczuk talk about Józef Frank (1726–1791), the creator of “probably the most significant phenomenon of public life in which the Jewish communities participated in the beginnings of the modern era”. The writer, thanks to his hero, considered the successor of the leaders of the largest messianic movement, Sabbatai Zvi and Baruchja Ruso, guides the reader through the multicultural and multiethnic Polish Republic in the turbulent 18th century.

Karnawalizacja świata w chełmskich opowieściach Menachema Kipnisa

Author(s): Martyna Dymon / Language(s): Polish Issue: 1/2019

This article is devoted to Menachem Kipnis: a Polish cantor, journalist, satirist, columnist, songwrit¬er, photographer, and person fascinated by folk tales and Jewish folk tradition. Depicted in Kipnis’ stories, epon¬ymous Chełm happens to be a place existing first and foremost in imagination, which is abundant in grotesque and absurd representations of everyday life of its citizens. As it is argued in the article, this is the realm founded on folk superstitions, whose inhabitants seek wisdom: the value they deem to be of greatest importance.

Recenzje: Życie woli barwy złamane i wielokropek. O zbiorze Z Rosji do Izraela. Opowiadania

Author(s): Beata Waligórska-Olejniczak / Language(s): Polish Issue: 1/2019

Recenzje: Węzły pamięci. Rutka z będzińskiego getta

Author(s): Agnieszka Lenart / Language(s): Polish Issue: 1/2019

Litteraria: Jakov Shechter, czyli odrodzenie metafizyki

Author(s): Paweł Łaniewski / Language(s): Polish Issue: 1/2019

Litteraria: Полюбите слово. Беседа с Яковом Шехтером о книгах . Второе пришествие кумранского учителя и Самоучитель каббалы

Author(s): Roman Katsman / Language(s): Russian Issue: 1/2019

Litteraria: Gieorgij Fiedotow 1886–1951

Author(s): Marian Kisiel / Language(s): Polish Issue: 1/2019

Litteraria: Nowe na stary temat. W stronę współczesnego ujęcia kwestii żydowskiej Przełożył Marian Kisiel

Author(s): Gieorgij Fiedotow / Language(s): Polish Issue: 1/2019

Epizod szczeciński w prozie Bohumila Hrabala Rzecz o granicach tłumaczenia

Author(s): Wojciech Soliński / Language(s): Polish Issue: 2/2019

The object of the analysis is the so-called Szczecin episode in its many variants. The episode plays a significant role in interpreting the novel Too Loud a Solitude, the Czech version of which is a source text for a number of foreign translations. As such, the episode creates space for specific translation operations that are possible in some languages (e.g. Polish and German), while impossible in other.