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Śródziemnomorskie kody polskości w twórczości Jana Parandowskiego
2020
One is used to regarding Jan Parandowski (1895–1978) as a great connoisseur of the ancient world and a kind of “Olympic” writer with a distance to his own time and space. A thorough exam-ination of his literary essays, short stories and novels hardly proves this opinion. Treating Polish his-tory and culture, especially of the Renaissance epoch, as originating from and inspired by the ancient Roman/Greek tradition (“Poland is situated in the Mediterranean”), he conceals at the same time an evidently emotional approach to national legacy. There are several modes in which he evokes unique Polish history in the 19th century, with the great but problematic heritage of Romanticism as well as the …
Translation als Mythos
2020
Abstract This paper investigates the reception history of the Danish Poet and fairytale writer Hans Christian Andersen in 19th-century Germany and its influence on his (auto)biographical depiction. Like many Scandinavian poets, Andersen discovered Germany’s literary potential and took advantage of it to further his career. In most cases, he was pictured as a genius who suffered systematic underestimation in Denmark. This narrative which determined his reception plays a central role in his German autobiography Märchen meines Lebens (Fairy Tale of my Life). Analyzing Andersen’s autobiographical discourse, I will reconstruct the process of the construction of Andersen’s (auto)biographical myth…
Clarice Lispector, Agua Viva: Autobiography, Exile, Violence
2019
Abstract Considered “the great witch of Brazilian literature”, acclaimed as the best woman-writer of Jewish origin and the perfect example of an exquisite reconfiguration of European modernist ideas, Clarice Lispector is a fascinating author. This is obvious since her first novel Perto do coração selvagem (Near to the Wild Heart, 1943), a book that was awarded several literary prizes in Brazil, even if afterwards the text would be often ignored within the critical studies dedicated to Lispector. Compared to Borges and Kafka and even to the narrative strategies used by Virginia Woolf (apparently influenced by James Joyce’s stream of consciousness, even if Lispector underlined that she had no…
Socrate e il mare. Il modello odissiaco nel Fedone
2015
Nel Fedone Platone traccia una biografia intellettuale di Socrate articolata in vari momenti. L’ultimo di essi (τὸν δεύτερον πλοῦν, la “seconda navigazione”) consiste nel passaggio dall’osservazione naturalistica ad una fi- losofia orientata in senso dialogico. La metafora della “seconda navigazione” rimanda al V libro dell’Odissea, in cui Odisseo rinuncia alla vita paradisiaca nell’isola di Calipso per tentare la traversata dell’abisso su una zattera e rag- giungere Itaca. In tutto il dialogo si trovano numerosi riferimenti all’Odissea: l’excursus autobiografico in cui Socrate definisce la propria filosofia può essere confrontato con i Discorsi di Odisseo alla corte del re Alcinoo. In …
Leonida Tonelli: A Biography
2011
This paper aims at going through the work by Leonida Tonelli, with a focus on the results he got in the fields of Real Analysis and Calculus of Variations, and put it within the socio-political context of his time. One of the most outstanding Italian analysts in the first half of twentieth century, first in Bologna and then in Pisa and Rome, Leonida Tonelli’s path combined elements of different, conflictual in some moment, relationships which featured at that time Italian mathematics and which linked the latter with Giovanni Gentile, the Fascism and the after-war “new”Italy.
ANALISIS LAGU NO WOMAN NO CRY OLEH BOB MARLEY MELALUI PENDEKATAN SOSIOLOGI SASTRA
2018
<p><em>‘No Woman, No Cry’ is one of Bob Marley’s popular songs besides ‘I Shot the Sherriff,’ ‘One Love,’ ‘Is This Love,</em><em>’ and ‘Three Little Birds.’ This song is worth studied since it often creates a sense of dualism and ambiguous in the meanin</em><em>g among fans especially the non-Jamaican audience. Despite the fact that the language of the lyric is clear but in o</em><em>r</em><em>de</em><em>r to have an in-depth understanding one needs to have a fit and proper approach. This is because of the locality of th</em><em>e context through language and cultural convention. Therefore in this research t…
Talis hominibus fuit oratio qualis vita. Nietzsche y la narración de sí
2015
Ecce Homo certainly is an unconventional autobiography. Both its structure and its contents are in fact quite different from that traditionally adopted. First, in Ecce Homo life and literary production basically coincide; second, in that book Nietzsche deals with an “I” which is not the traditional “subject” of Western philosophy. In this paper I shall argue that in Ecce Homo Nietzsche tries to develop a new kind of subjectivity. In particular, Nietzsche rejects the idea of an unchanging, absolute, substance subject, and sees it as a mobile construction, something that can be described only insofar as it “becomes what it is”, that is, as it consciously reacts to its unavoidable destiny.
“It was an awful mistake with that girl. Advise me what to do.” On Jaroslav Hašek’s bigamy
2020
In this article, Jaroslav Hašek’s bigamy will be discussed from two points of view – the biographical and legal ones. In almost every writer’s biography, the fact of his marrying two women is mentioned, but it is also quickly dismissed with only a few words of explanation. In the author’s opinion, after almost a hundred years following Hašek’s death, the case of his bigamy deserves proper interpretation.
Latvian Writers’ Strategies of Resistance during De-Stalinisation: The Case of Gunārs Priede
2017
This paper traces developments in the Soviet Latvian literary scene between the late 1950s and early 1970s. The first part examines aspects of social organisation as demonstrated by the daily routines of so-called creative unions characteristic for the overall pattern of the way in which social mechanisms worked under Soviet rule, even if there were constant attempts to overcome the limits set to expression by the communist system. The second part provides a case study of the biography and creative work of Latvian playwright Gunārs Priede 1928–2000, a leading representative of the young generation of authors of that period. The paper not only points towards the parallels in social and aesth…
A Northern “Ode on Melancholy”?: The Music of Joy Division
2018
Even decades after its sudden demise, Joy Division indisputably remains one of the most seminal proponents of post-punk. This chapter aims to examine Joy Division in relation to both Romanticism and the Gothic. The former manifests itself on two different, yet interrelated levels: first in terms of the Romantic “mythos of the doomed young artist” against the backdrop of industrial Manchester, and then as it is understood through the lenses of Ian Curtis’s persona and Anton Corbijn’s biopic Control, both of which are shown to establish Joy Divison’s music as Gothic texts.