Retranslation as an (un)successful counter-narrative: Les frères Karamazov versus Les frères Karamazov
Drawing on Narrative Theory, this article analyses the second French translation of The Brothers Karamazov as a counter-narrative for the novel’s first translation into French. In the mid-1880s, the critic Vogüé blocked the introduction of Dostoevsky’s narrative ...
Poetics of the deconstruction of Reinhard Jirgl’s text: A translational perspective
... Semiotic and discursive analyses allow identifying lexical, syntactic, and semantic elements of the structural and functional performativity of Jirgl’s texts. His prose exploits the enormous poetic potential of the alphanumeric code, the aesthetics of narrative simultaneity and hypertextuality, and the fragmentedness of the agent. The principle of aberrant text production helps the author stage the process of sense formation and brings to the fore the concept of hierarchical rule destruction, which ...
The ‘Russian Poetic Speech — 2016’ Project as a Cultural Narrative of Modern Russian Poetry
This article presents a methodological description of the ‘Russian Poetic Speech — 2016’ narrative project aimed to identify, demonstrate, and study a cross-section of modern Russian poetry. The author addresses the foundations of the narrative project, its ideology, as well as its publication and promotion components. The article explores ...
Visualization of the esthetics of memories in the novels of W. G. Sebald «The Rings of Saturn» and «Austerlitz»
... literary critics. Early novels of W. G. Sebald have been studied in more detail. Photography performs an illustrative function in them. In “The Ring of Saturn” and “Austerlitz” the significance of visual inserts for the formation of the narrative is determined by their absolute integration with the text. I hold that photography in W. G. Sebald’s works is the embodiment of a collective memory of the past. It encourages the creation of personal history and evokes individual memories....
Historical narrative in the work of Kaliningrad poets during Perestroika: the experience of content analysis
... the history of its settlement, and the development by Soviet people. Historical themes became one of the leading motifs in the works of Kaliningrad poets. The aim of the article is to identify the “images of the past” that shaped the historical narrative in Kaliningrad poetry during the Perestroika period. The primary research method employed is content analysis conducted using the Max QDA 2020 software. The analysis is based on 126 poetic works by 47 authors published from 1985 to 1991. The ...
Origins and beginnings. The Livonian Rhymed Chronicle as a reference point for literature in the Teutonic Order
Almost all recent historical and literary studies agree that the Livonian Chronicle conveys an impression of a poetical work containing archaic elements. The affinity between the Chronicle and German heroic epic poetry is often stressed. The established perspective, which distorts the image of the Chronicle, requires adjustment. This literary study into the Chronicle’s text complements research on the development of corporate identity in the Teutonic Order.
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Prison topos as an anti-home in V.G. Korolenko’s short story Yashka
... the authorities, is contrasted with other prisoners and wardens. The goal of Yakov’s relentless spiritual struggle, in which he overcomes pain and suffering, is to obstruct all dark forces, which he perceives as servants of the Antichrist. In the narrator’s perception, Yashka appears as an ascetic figure, whose underdeveloped intellect masks a genuine striving to comprehend the structure of the world and a tireless determination to fight evil. Identifying the mortal semantics of the prison topos ...
The phenomenon of heterogeneity of the speech subject in German retrospective discourse
... highlights the features of self-presentation of the subject of retrospective mental and cognitive activity recorded in the texts of memoirs of German-speaking writers of the 19th and 20th centuries. The texts of fiction, which are fictional memories of the narrator and the main character of the narrative in one person, were also used as linguistic material. The novelty of the research is determined by the linguocognitive approach to the problem of interaction of the writer’s / hero’s reflexive personality ...
Digital poetry between the printed page and cinema: the difference in agency structures
..., disidentification is feasible. The evolution from literary text through digital cinema to interactive digital forms highlights the difference between the recipients of literary and digital texts. The recipient of a literary text brings to life the narrative or a lyrical 'self', actively engaging with the text through imagination. The recipient of a digital text identifies with an 'avatar' capable of making choices that influence plot development but is less effective at enriching unfolding ...
Visual text of medieval Vladimir: the analysis of the dominant image of cathedral exteriors
... the denotative (meaningful) and connotative (semantic) levels of coding and decoding of sacred visual texts of Vladimir cathedrals are defined. The basic references of the central image of the exterior plastics — the biblical David, as well as those narratives that are determined by these references are classified. The mechanism of localisation of universal religious narratives is shown through the distinction between text and subtext. Thus, the role of external temple decoration in constructing ...
“Čut’ živye, v noč’ osennjuju / My s ochoty vozvraščaemsja…” Secondary predicate in Nekrasov’s poetic texts
... predicative attribute and it constitutes one of the specific features of his style. Grammatically extended adjectival, participial and adverbial phrases, frequent in Nekrasov’s poetry, cause additional predication, which makes it possible to expand the narrative. The predicative attribute often combines the functions of an attribute with those of the adverbial modifiers of cause and consequence, which gives additional impetus to the narrative plot development. The analysis shows that Nekrasov’s style ...
Continuity of Texts. Metafiction in a Cortazar Short Story and its Swedish Translation
... of tension is weakened and works differently in the Swedish version of the story. By changing the title and other minor, but substantial, parts of the text, the translator transfers his interpretation of the text onto the Swedish translation. The narrative structure is altered and, as a result, the reader of the Swedish version does not have access to the same multiple interpretations afforded by Cortázar’s Spanish text.
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The concept of “memory wars” in contemporary studies of collective memory
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Synergy character of the category "author" as an object of linguistic interpretation
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The Buddhist concept of “Consciousness-Only” in Victor Pelevin’s novel “Omon Ra”
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