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Foreign literature as poison: (self-)censorship in the translation of German popular fiction in Italy during the 1930s
2018
Between the 1920s and 1930s, the translation of foreign contemporary novels into Italian was encouraged by publishers, meeting the needs of a new readership, which was larger and more heterogeneous than before the war. However, the sharp rise in the number of imported novels provoked strong disapproval. In a context of heightened nationalism and cultural autocracy, translation was considered a polluting, anti-patriotic and servile practice. The censorship that took place, however, was mostly implemented via a tacit compromise between the publishers and the regime, rather than by repressive institutional actions. In order to protect themselves from sanctions and requisitions, publishers and …
The Soviet Spy Thriller. Writers, Power, and the Masses, 1938-2002
2022
It is commonly held among scholars that in the Stalin years no specific mass literature existed in the Soviet Union; what do we do, then, with Lev Ovalov’s Major Pronin or with Lev Sheinin’s stories, which began to appear since the mid-Thirties? What about Nikolai Shpanov’s post-war million-sellers? The Soviet authorities did not like to admit that they published low-quality literature aimed at the uncultured masses; they valued, however, its propa- ganda potential, hence this contradictory situation. Spy narratives, moreover, connected as they are with conspiracy theories, were of course welcomed in the atmosphere of the great purges. These works are no continuation of the “Red Pinkerton” …
Playing with Time in Digital Fiction
2015
The exceptional quality of digital fictions lies in their inherently dynamic nature, how they may be flexibly programmed to generate new content and alter the already existing contents. This adds a new temporal level, compared to traditional fictions. Digital games, especially, incorporate aspects of simulation and narration in their structure. As interactive and dynamic media form, games are specifically temporal in nature. They offer us the flexibility and preciseness of digital simulations, with the potential of psychologically engaging narrative qualities, which together open up a whole new field of experimenting with temporally dynamic media. Much of the new media fictions partake in a…
“The drops which fell from Shakespear’s Pen”: Hamlet in Contemporary Fiction
2012
Questions of gender, ethnicity and sexuality have all been raised by novelists intent on rewriting Shakespeare from the position of what have been seen as cultural margins. While discussions of such rewritings are ongoing, few concerted efforts have been made to trace a pattern in the treatment of Shakespearean allusion and adaptation at the hands of British and American writers of the literary mainstream. The present essay sets out to investigate the way in which three such writers —Ian McEwan, Graham Swift, and John Updike— employ allusion to/adaptations of Hamlet in their novels and what their respective stances reveal about their understanding of their role as canonical writers.
Alcohol, tobacco and drug use among young people: a study of recent Spanish teen series (2015-2021)
2022
El presente trabajo analiza la representación de los adolescentes y el consumo de alcohol, tabaco y otras drogas en las teen series españolas recientes (2015-2021) creadas para la televisión convencional y las plataformas de video on demand (VOD). Resulta esencial estudiar el discurso que la ficción televisiva ofrece sobre el consumo de sustancias en la adolescencia para conocer los modelos identitarios y las representaciones sociales que se presentan, puesto que las personas jóvenes suelen recurrir a las series de televisión como fuente de información sobre temas en los que son más inexpertos, como pueden ser algunas cuestiones y problemáticas específicas en torno al consumo de sustancias …
LA FÍSICA TEÓRICA BAJO EL FOCO DE LO FANTÁSTICO: UNA REFLEXIÓN SOBRE LO REAL Y SUS FRACTURAS EN EL DISCURSO CIENTÍFICO
2018
Quite often fantastic literature has been studied using ideas from theoretical physics in order to verify how the development of the latter modifies the reader's perception of the former. Instead, this article proposes the opposite: this article will explore theoretical physics using the ideas from the fantastic. The core principle here is that both reflect on the reality and fracture it, changing the reader's reality paradigm. While physics changes it from reality, using to it the principles of the mathematics, the fantastic does this using (and fracturing) a fictional space.
A Dominant Global Translation Strategy in Thai Translated Novels : The Translations of Religious Markers in Dan Brown’s Thriller Novels
2020
When translation is considered as an integral part of larger social systems (Even-Zohar 1990), the ways in which translations are produced to serve readers’ specificity could be affected. This paper examines whether there is a preference for a specific global translation strategy due to a readership that is specialized in terms of education level. Adopting Venuti’s (1995/2008) division of global translation strategies into exoticizing and domesticating translation, it examines the frequency of local translation strategies, which are part of a global translation strategy, used in translating English-Thai religious markers in Dan Brown’s Angels and Demons, The Da Vinci Code, The Lost Symbol, …
SULLA FIABA E SULLA LETTERATURA PER L'INFANZIA A PROPOSITO DI ALCUNI LIBRI
2023
L’articolo riflette su alcune proposte critiche contenute nel recente volume Di cosa parlano i libri per bambini. La letteratura per l’infanzia come critica radicale di Giorgia Grilli, studiosa di letteratura per l’infanzia da molti anni e traduttrice di classici della critica e della narrativa per ragazzi. Attingendo alle scienze cognitive, agli studi di antropologia, di psicologia degli archetipi, di filosofia e alla tradizione critica di settore, Grilli si interroga sul vero significato delle storie per bambini, sulla dimensione profondamente filosofica che alcuni classici per l’infanzia possiedono per dimostrare la complessità letteraria e antropologica di un ambito letterario ingiustam…
Filipa K.Dika romānu interpretācija feministiskā skatījumā ("Vai androīdi sapņo par elektriskām aitām?" un "Cilvēks augstajā pilī")
2020
Filips K. Diks ir slavens zinātniskās fantastikas rakstnieks. Zinātniskās fantastikas žanrs bieži tiek mērķēts uz vīriešu auditoriju. Šekojošā pētījuma mērķis ir dzimuma attēlojums romānā “Vai androīdi sapņo par elektriskām aitām?”. Pētījuma galvenā empīriskā metode ir teksta analīze. Galvenā analīzes forma ir feministiskā literatūras kritika, kas vērsta uz zinātnisko fantastiku. Tas ietver dzimuma izpēti kā analīzes veidu, galveno uzmanību pievēršot dzimumu lomām, tā attēlojumam un seksualitātei. Pētījuma rezultātā tika atklāts, ka sieviešu personāžiem bija mazāk daudzveidīgi stāsti, salīdzinot ar vīriešu varoņiem, un to personāži tika attēloti daudz empātiskāki nekā vīrieši, neatkarīgi no…
Šerloks Holmss kā neoromantisks tēls romānā un 2010. gada ekranizācijā
2020
Šis maģistra darbs ir veltīts Šerloka Holmsa attēlojumam Artūra Konana Doila romānos, detektīvstāstos un vienā ekranizācijā. Pētījuma mērķis ir noteikt vai šis tēls satur visus neoromantisma tēlam raksturīgus elementus un atbilst neoromantisma tēla aprakstam. Tika analizēti sekojoši Artura Konana Doila darbi, “Edīte purpura toņos” (1887), “Četru zīme” (1890), “Šerloka Holmsa piedzīvojumi” (1892), “Bāskervilu suns” (1902), kā arī viena ekranizācija ‘Šerloks” (2010). Pielietotā pētījuma metode ir salīdzinošā analīze, teksta analīze un teksta interpretācija. Apkopotie dati ļauj secināt, ka gan romānos, gan detektīvstāstos, gan ekranizācijā Šerloka Holmsa tēls satur visus neo-romantisma varonim…