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Versiunea Feminină A Prozei Chineze: Teng Xiaolan, Pan Xiangli Și Xue Shu

Author(s): Tatiana Ciocoi / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 3-4/2020

This article analyzes three texts signed by three modern Chinese writers, published in French translation of 2014 edition of the journal “Promesses littéraires”, under the patronage of the cultural mission “La Maison de la Chine”, at Beijing. The Chinese literature written by women is, until now, “an unknown continent” and presents a peculiar interest to the extent that it provides an unusual vision over the writing itself and the feminine condition. The analysis highlights the differences of style, composition, concept of space, object world and behavioral structures between masculine and feminine prose.

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Lectura – O Copie Imperfectă A Operei Literare

Author(s): Diana Dementieva / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 3-4/2020

The article involves an attempt to analyze and determine the main features of the act of reading. Especially during the last century, the concept of reading became one of the most controversial notion of literary theory. Being understood as a process of decoding the literary message, the particular act of reading has been interpreted in various ways. In general, the approach investigates reading as a way through which the existence of the literary work is revealed. The literary work is not only the experience and the subconscious of the author, it is not limited only to the form or content and it does not represent only the experience and reception of the reader. Literary work lives through reading, however reading does not fully define it, a reader's interpretation is not the equivalent of the literary work itself, because reading is personal and variable, but literary creation is unique and static. Also, the approach emphasizes the idea that when reading and interpreting the literary work it is necessary to avoid extremes, in other words to avoid platonicism or nominalism in favor of perspectivism. It is noteworthy that the Polish philosopher Roman Ingarden establishes several important differences between the literary work and the readings applied to it. The fact that the reading is only a copy of the absolute literary work is justified by analogy with other similar dichotomies from linguistics („langue” vs. „parole”) and from semiotics (sign vs. meaning).

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Influenţa Factorului Temporal Asupra Surselor Hermeneutice Utilizate De Traducatorul Literar

Author(s): Miroslava Metleaeva / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 3-4/2020

The hermeneutical aspect of translation can be attributed to problems of understanding and interpretation of the original by the translator and to the same problems by recipients of the text of his translation. The task of the analysis is to confirm the idea that certain essential keywords in the "Luceafarul" poem, read as a linear text, can also generate important hypertextual relationships (outside the text). These words can be considered as some kind of navigational elements in the respective hypertextual space.The success of the translation (interpretation) depends very much on the way and the intensity of the correlation of the translator universe with the author's universe. The hermeneutical approach to literary translation aims at proper recreation, not reproduction. Without translating into the temporal environment, that is to say, in the space of multiple autocratic creation relationships, the translator is unable to adequately translate the spirit of the work translated into the cultural space of another language into its temporal environment, comprising the core of the understanding of the Eminescu’ s universe both in the essential and the philosophical realm. The introspective analysis of data (direct or relative) and the use of the introspective method of content and disciplinary membership in various research of poetic language is a confirmation that this cognitive capacity deserves a more meticulous study.

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Imagologia Literară: De la Cadrul Sistemico-Structurant La Concepte OperațIonale

Author(s): Elena Prus / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 3-4/2020

Lucrarea de doctorat în filologie a Elisavetei Iovu cu tema „Imagologia literară: școli, direcții, metode” (Program de doctorat 622.03.Teoria literaturii; Conducător: Aliona GRATI, dr. hab., conf. univ.) ține de domeniul teoriei literaturii, afirmat în RM, dar la care puțini se raliază în virtutea complexității sale de ordin euristic.

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Pourquoi Honoré de Balzac Entre Si Facilement Dans la Vie de L’Europe et Celle du Monde : 220 Ans Dès Son Anniversaire

Author(s): Ion Manoli / Language(s): French Issue: 1-2/2020

The cohort of the Balzacians is enormous and worth admiring. If only we tried to evoke here the names of all those who left us valuable judgments about Balzac and religion in his work, or about Balzac and social life, or about his vision of money (l'argent dans l'oeuvre de Balzac), then we would be privileged to have an iconic lexicographic source. The cohort of those, who continue to decode the “miracle” of Balzac, is renovating and growing year by year. It seems that no writer, in the last 400 years (except W. Shakespeare), has enjoyed so much scientific attention and curiosity. Balzac's creation, like the pyramids in Egypt, fascinates and compels us to conduct new philological investigations in order to decipher his greatness. It is a real fact, which can be explained quite objectively: Balzac is a universe, a planet, Himself, being considered a universe in the universe, a world, because he is the world. We are at the beginning of another age. 220 years from the birth of a genius have become history. But this story is alive, contemporary and always vibrating, because everything Balzac discovered in his monumental work La Comédie Humaine, remains undoubtedly important today.

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Experimentul în Dramaturgia Din Secolul Al XX-Lea

Author(s): Emilia Taraburca / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 1-2/2020

From Antiquity to the end of nineteenth century, the art of scenic representation, theoretically motivated still by Aristotle in Poetics, has not registered major changes. In twentieth century there is a revolution that seems to try to recover everything that has not been achieved in over two thousand years. The most obvious are the experiments of modernists, whose innovations refer not only to the modification of the content structure and to the characters reconfiguration, but also to the entire directorial conception.The article researches: - the innovative character of the Dadaist shows recepted by the contemporaries as true public scandals with the aim of discrediting by means of parody traditional dramatic representations, - the scenic experiments of surrealism, the theater of cruelty, which through the ritual of violence and cruelty has pursued to renounce any moral obligations and arguments in order to awaken man from emotional hibernation and to discover mystical and metaphysical surreality, - the Theater of Absurd that brought the techniques of artistic experiments to the maximum degree of deconstruction, in the tragic farces simulating an anti-world populated with antiheroes. The experiment in the dramaturgy of twentieth century has also targeted the traditional one. In this context, epic theater is researched, which, announcing itself as non-aristotelian and experimental and aiming to create a synthesis art that will determine the spectator to think and take attitude, inclusively by means of the "effect of detachment", has been also included into the tendency of drama reform.

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Retraducerea ca Interogare Teoretico-Practică Asupra Traductologiei Eminesciene

Author(s): Elena Prus / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 1-2/2020

The need of retranslations and original contribution of each generation is a factor of renewing the national patrimony of each culture. The translations of dedicated authors, as the case Eminescu’s opera, contribute to the deep revolution of all aesthetic norms in force in their literary space and play an essential role in the process of cultural space convergence. The researcher Miroslava Metleaeva appreciates in her work the artistic aspect of the previous translations of the poetry “Luceafarul”, their merits and deficiencies firstly, and the preservation of original text spirit and the transmission of the auctorial idea sense. The request of the translator Miroslava Metleaeva has deepened the existing translations by creating her own version and a freedom of increased creation. Her act of creation has followed the decoding of Eminescu’s philosophical implications and the assignment of strong identity color of the original. The personal special quality retranslation of Miroslava Metleaeva inscribes in the logics of moving forward by overcoming of Hegel and the representation-supplement (according to Gadamer), as the identity of translations relies on alterity, and its bicultural nature shows two modes of being and the intercultural relations between them.

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Stylistyka listów Bolesława Prusa do żony

Author(s): Magdalena Czachorowska / Language(s): Polish Issue: 20/2021

The linguistic shape of the letters depends on the role that the writer plays when writing them to his wife. When he writes from distant Germany, Switzerland, and France, he is a traveler who wants to bring his beloved closer to his views and impressions, hoping to visit wonderful, unknown places together. When he rests in Nałęczów, he verifies or supplements known facts, events, landscapes, talks about new acquaintances, describes the lazily passing days recording even the smallest details. The letters written from the room next door are a language joke, an exercise for a hand hitting the keys of a typewriter. The epistolographic works described above are the best illustration of Stefania Skwarczyńska’s claim that the letter “is a phenomenon in its genesis most strongly associated not only with the person of the author, but also with the person of the addressee who, through his silent participation, grows to the dignity of a co-author”.

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Jubileu Dabijian : O Jumătate de Veac de Poezie!

Author(s): Liviu Chiscop / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 1-2/2020

Dabija, Nicolae. Reparatorul de vise. Antologie de versuri, Chișinău: Editura „Cartier”, 2016. 256 p.

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Od Bogurodzicy do Kobiety Świętej – o recepcji najstarszej polskiej pieśni przez współczesną młodzież

Author(s): Izabela Kępka ,Lucyna Warda-Radys / Language(s): Polish Issue: 20/2021

The aim of the article is to analyze elements common to the paraphrases of Bogurodzica – written by the students of one of the secondary comprehensive schools in Łódź and published in “Duży Format” (a supplement to “Gazeta Wyborcza”) in January 2003 – and the medieval original. The analysis involves the elements of the text’s genology: structure of the prayer, sender – receiver relationship, and the universe of the sender’s values expressed in the form of their petitions or desires. The analysis demonstrated the reference of the students’ poems to Bogurodzica. It follows from the shape of the prayerful poem, clearly exposed addressee (predominantly Mother of God or Mother of God and Son of God/God), and – most frequently collective – sender, who brings their petitions to the addressee. In the paraphrases of Bogurodzica the sender is –similarly as the addressee – clearly named (unlike in the medieval hymn), their petitions are more concrete (than these contained in Bogurodzica) and result from their membership in a particular community. The language of these poems is simple, precise, colloquial at times, lacking hieraticism typical of religious language. This results in the desacralization of the texts, but at the same time emphasizes closeness of the sender and the addressee, so important for the young, injured by life, humans.

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Folclorul obiceiurilor calendaristice (primăvară, vară, toamnă) documentat în colecțiile de materiale etnografice și folclorice digitizate

Author(s): Dorina Onica / Language(s): English,Romanian Issue: 3/2021

The article informs and provides an analysis on the qualitative and quantitative level of the data regarding the folklore of the calendar customs (spring, summer, autumn), which were digitized within the project Saving the Folkloric Archival Material Preserved in Chisinau, Republic of Moldova (EAP1045). Transgressed from the classic archiving format to the digitized one, the manuscripts and cassette tapes offer us valuable information gathered between 1956-1992, with reference to the folklore of the feasts celebrated in the warm season of the year, as well as of the customs, social, ceremonial and ritual practices, beliefs and mythical representations associated with them. Evaluating the consistency of documenting these folkloric and ethnographic expressions in the archival materials, we noticed inequalities and prioritizations in their recording and researching, the attention of the folclorists being visibly diffused towards other genres of folklore.

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Corps de Femmes ET Maisons D’Enfants Dans Enfants du Diable de Liliana Lazar

Author(s): Andreea Bugiac / Language(s): French Issue: 4/2021

Women’s Bodies and Children’s Homes in Liliana Lazar’s Enfants du diable [The Devil’s Children]. Many contemporary Romanian writers who chose French as a literary language seem to share a common interest in revisiting through fiction Romania’s relatively recent communist past, thus exposing the dysfunctionalities of the ‘multilaterally developed socialist society’ during the last years of Nicolae Ceaușescu’s dictatorship. In her novel, Enfants du diable (2016), Liliana Lazar’s merit is to emphasize the abusive nature of the Romanian totalitarian regime by exploring a topic which is normally less taken into account by post-communist Romanian fiction, namely the private body of women transformed into a public, even political body after the implementation of the Anti-abortion Decree 770/1966. Our aim is to examine the way in which Lazar’s book deals with this topic and its social and personal consequences, as well as its denunciation of a less evident form of the communist carceral system, namely the institutionalization of orphaned children.

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Transformative Voyages: The Boat and the Ship in Ursula K. Le Guin’s Earthsea Cycle

Author(s): Gabriela Debita / Language(s): English Issue: 11/2021

In her Earthsea cycle, Ursula K. Le Guin explores the finer nuances of itinerant heterotopias and the transitions and transformations they enable. Drawing mostly on Michel Foucault’s heterotopia of the boat/ship, but also on Margaret Cohen’s chronotope of the ship, this paper distinguishes between these two variations in Le Guin’s series. The fragile boats in which the young wizard Ged crosses the world of Earthsea and his own tormented mindscapes, in search of the shadow born of his reckless mishandling of magic, is a metaphor for the self, and the voyage is one of self-discovery and of passing from adolescence to maturity. By contrast, the majestic ship in which King Lebannen and his companions sail to parlay with the dragons represents a microcosm of Earthsea’s cultures and a union of previously disparate elements: a coming together which foreshadows the subsequent healing of an ancient rift. Thus, the different uses of the same heterotopic space in the first and last book of the series point to a shift in Le Guin’s focus, from the personal to the political, from magic to secular power, and from knowledge of the self to knowledge of the world.

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Intertextuality and Spatiotemporal Agency in Butor’s La Modification

Author(s): Erfan Fatehi / Language(s): English Issue: 11/2021

Michel Butor’s body of work has always defied the classic literary classification, which is the main reason why he is often, against his own accord, associated with the Nouveau Roman movement. His magnum opus, La Modification (1957) is the epitome of the time-space collateral where the linear time is deconstructed and is led towards being spatial. This paper intends to analyse the spatial and temporal semiotic world that the author creates by mean of intertexts and workings of time and memory, and therefore provides a better understanding of the work. Intertextuality is the main meaning making mechanism that Butor relies upon and the takeaway from this study, thus, can be summarized in a six-pronged model with regard to the references made to art and architecture in Paris and Rome throughout the novel. Time in the narrative of the work starts with the looming clock in the train station and slowly transforms from linear to a multi-layered form. Butor tamers with the concept of time, which only develops within the central character’s mind, throughout the novel with the technique of time-montage. Considering which, the eidetic image of time in the novel is investigated in this study and the eleven strata of time which the narration of the work is constructed on is enumerated.

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Shakespeare in the Box: Gregory Doran’s Hamlet (2009)

Author(s): Ana-Maria Iftimie / Language(s): English Issue: 11/2021

A constant in the history of film since its inception, William Shakespeare’s Hamlet, Prince of Denmark has been delivered to filmgoers throughout the twentieth and the twenty-first centuries in various adaptation schemata of the three versions of the text available for free interpretation and reprocessing. While Laurence Olivier’s, Franco Zeffirelli’s and Kenneth Branagh’s acclaimed ‘multimodal rewritings’ seem to have acquired critical consensus, tens of other Hamlet films are launched regularly, placing the young Dane’s tragedy in the most unexpected settings or periods of time. A telling example is Gregory Doran’s 2009 filmed theatrical performance, which places Elsinore in a modern-day British society under constant surveillance, probably with a view to transposing the old Elizabethan habits of espionage and control of the population in a manner both accessible and relatable to the contemporary viewer. This paper contends that, by using surveillance devices, such as CCTV or hand-held cameras, and by redesigning King Hamlet’s ghost as the ultimate embodiment of the watchful eye of the (divine?) authority, the film brings to the fore the timelessness of the Shakespearean themes.

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The Delusion of the Dream in Ta-Nehisi Coates’ The Water Dancer

Author(s): Alicia Josey / Language(s): English Issue: 11/2021

The Lockless estate in Ta-Nehisi Coates' fantasy neo-slave narrative The Water Dancer mirrors the United States in terms of their treatment of race. Both Coates's two autobiographical works introduce the concept of family, from his childhood and from his young fatherhood, which highlights the lack of healthy familial relationships in The Water Dancer. The Walkers bastardize fatherhood and brotherhood with the protagonist, Hiram, who constantly vies for their affection despite their unequal relationship. Looking at the novel through a CRT lens allows us to break down this relationship. The Dream of hope, of race relations and treatment getting better in every single way throughout history is often weaponized by the dominant culture in order to force forgiveness, as well as a gruesome idea of family, and drive out the memory of the past.

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Writing Country: Aboriginality Through Poetry in the Works of Australian Aboriginal Authors Paul Collis and Jeanine Leane

Author(s): Trevor DONOVAN / Language(s): English Issue: Special/2021

Through a study of poetry by Indigenous Australian poets Paul Collis and Jeanine Leane, this essay focuses on the poetic form as a means of expressing aboriginality. This essay examines the grammatical shift from language and country to language is country. The aim of this essay is to highlight the role of the relation between language and country in the construction of Indigenous identity. As such, poetry in First Nations’ languages gives form to Indigenous identity and allows for a reflection on the place of the English language in colonization, both historically and in contemporary contexts. Finally, Indigeneity emerges in this essay through the prism of language revitalization and autonomy,understood as a fundamental step in the reaffirmation of Indigenous identity.

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Эга-дакумент як камунiкатыўная падзея ў лiтаратурным працэсе (на прыкладзе аўтабiяграфiчнай аповесцi Алеся Адамовiча “Vixi”)

Author(s): Wolga Gubskaja / Language(s): Belarusian Issue: 13/2021

The article uses narrative techniques to explore the role of a fact in literary works. A. Adamovich’s autobiographical novel “Vixi” that serves as illustrative material has been analyzed. The purpose of the article is to examine a literary work at several textual levels: “event – naration – discourse”, “events in the novel – historical context (internal and external chronotope)”, the relationship of “author – narator – reader”. It is argued that the fact in the process of a narrative story cannot remain unchanged – a subjective interpretation of the writer expressed by narrator’s words changes it explicitly. It is emphasized that the fact can be used as a trigger for deploying the main action or changing the style of writing. For A. Adamovich self-reflection as the way of understanding reality is a means to create the world model which represents clear polarization.

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«Эмотивные ключи» в творениях Свт. Кирилла Туровского

Author(s): Lyubov Levshun / Language(s): Russian Issue: 13/2021

The author shows how emotive means when falling into the sphere of Christian iconology, are transformed into tools for the spiritual change of a person. One such tool is represented by emotive keys. In the prayers of St Kirill Turovsky they are represented by such varieties as “liturgical emotive keys” – fragments of liturgical sequences (direct quotations, individual reminiscences and/or allusions, centons from reminiscences, allusions, paraphrases, etc.) and “emotive toposes” – images specific to the Pax Christiana culture, easily recognizable by its adherents (hyperbolized self-abasement, different types of metaphors).

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Iдэйна-мастацкiя пошукi паэтаў беларуска-польскага памежжа: творчасць Адама Плуга

Author(s): Anatol Brusewicz / Language(s): Belarusian Issue: 13/2021

This article is devoted to the study of the ideological and aesthetic foundations of Adam Ploug’s poetry in organic correlation with the artistic experience of other representatives of the Belarusian-Polish literary borderland (A. Mitskevich, J.I. Krashevsky, etc.). It is worth noting that the formation of A. Ploug’s creative consciousness took place under the direct influence of a number of ideas of Western European Romanticism, including the sacralization of the homeland and its past (historical memory), the idealization of freedom, Christian humanism and non-conformism, the idea of the timelessness of art. At the same time, both the concept of the lyrical hero and the artistic space in A. Ploug’s works are all built on the basis of the traditions of the Belarusian folk culture, which makes it possible to assert that the poet belongs primarily to Belarusian Romanticism.

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