SLAVONICAPub Date : 2024-08-07DOI: 10.1080/13617427.2024.2387517
Evita Badina
{"title":"Literary Translation for New Soviet People: Anglophone Literature in Soviet Latvia of the 1950s−1960s","authors":"Evita Badina","doi":"10.1080/13617427.2024.2387517","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13617427.2024.2387517","url":null,"abstract":"The Soviet regime tended to play a crucial and decisive role in the transformation of people’s values. Latvia was subjected to different types of oppression, restriction and control and, as regards...","PeriodicalId":41490,"journal":{"name":"SLAVONICA","volume":"18 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2024-08-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141948520","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
SLAVONICAPub Date : 2024-04-18DOI: 10.1080/13617427.2024.2342605
Artis Ostups
{"title":"Progress, Trauma and Narrative Possibilities in Nora Ikstena’s Soviet Milk","authors":"Artis Ostups","doi":"10.1080/13617427.2024.2342605","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13617427.2024.2342605","url":null,"abstract":"This article discusses the tension between the temporality of progress, characteristic of the modern time regime and totalitarian politics of time, and the nature of traumatic memory, as they are e...","PeriodicalId":41490,"journal":{"name":"SLAVONICA","volume":"95 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2024-04-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140626543","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
SLAVONICAPub Date : 2024-01-30DOI: 10.1080/13617427.2024.2304440
{"title":"Poetry in Times of War","authors":"","doi":"10.1080/13617427.2024.2304440","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13617427.2024.2304440","url":null,"abstract":"Published in Slavonica (Ahead of Print, 2024)","PeriodicalId":41490,"journal":{"name":"SLAVONICA","volume":"2 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2024-01-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139678066","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
SLAVONICAPub Date : 2023-12-26DOI: 10.1080/13617427.2023.2294226
Zlatka Timenova
{"title":"A Forum Presented by the Research Group of Luso-Slavonic Cultural Studies, Faculty of Arts, University of Lisbon","authors":"Zlatka Timenova","doi":"10.1080/13617427.2023.2294226","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13617427.2023.2294226","url":null,"abstract":"Published in Slavonica (Ahead of Print, 2023)","PeriodicalId":41490,"journal":{"name":"SLAVONICA","volume":"22 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-12-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139053039","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
SLAVONICAPub Date : 2023-01-02DOI: 10.1080/13617427.2023.2244321
Gueorgui Hristovsky
{"title":"Celebrating Dostoevsky’s 200th Anniversary: The Eternal Clash of Angels and Demons","authors":"Gueorgui Hristovsky","doi":"10.1080/13617427.2023.2244321","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13617427.2023.2244321","url":null,"abstract":"This Special Issue of the journal ‘Slavonica’ features a selection of articles presented at the Dostoevsky 200th Anniversary Conference: Between Angels and Demons, which took place in November 2021 at the School of Arts and Humanities of the University of Lisbon. Hosted by the Centre for Slavic Languages and Cultures of the Department of General and Romance Linguistics, this event brought together scholars and researchers from various institutions, including the School of Arts and Humanities of the University of Lisbon, the Portuguese Catholic University, Universities from the United Kingdom, Spain, the Russian Federation, Brazil, the United States of America, and Mexico. The Conference, which took place via zoom allowed participants from around the world to engage in discussions. These days included the presentation of students’ research, as well as presentations by attendees. In his address to the Conference, Professor Doctor Miguel Tamen, the Dean of the School of Arts and Humanities at the University of Lisbon, emphasized the significance of cultural exchanges between the Slavic countries and Portugal. He highlighted the importance of the research carried out on these exchanges, including intellectual contacts, the circulation of literary texts, and cultural mediators. This special commemorative occasion also featured an Exhibition in the Faculty’s Library. The Exhibition showcased a curated collection of books sourced from the Faculty Library’s extensive holdings, alongside a selection of posters of famous actors portraying characters from films based on works by Dostoevsky provided by Mr. Vladimir Yaroshevskii, a representative of the Rossotrudnithcestvo Agency. Turning our attention to the Iberian side, particularly to Portuguese Slavic Studies, it is noteworthy that we can proudly assert the existence of Slavic Studies in Lisbon in 2023, a statement that would not have been possible some 15 years ago! The field has evolved and expanded over time, with activities and regular production in four main areas: (i) teaching and the development of didactic materials, (ii) scientific research and scholarly articles, (iii) scientific and cultural encounters, and (iv) mobility and exchange programmes. As the number of researchers engaged in Slavic Studies continues to grow, these areas have fostered an increasing need for international collaboration and communication.","PeriodicalId":41490,"journal":{"name":"SLAVONICA","volume":"28 1","pages":"1 - 5"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43740860","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
SLAVONICAPub Date : 2023-01-02DOI: 10.1080/13617427.2023.2244323
J. Dutta
{"title":"Rodney Ackland’s Version of Crime Punishment on the Portuguese Stage and its Reception in the Portuguese Press","authors":"J. Dutta","doi":"10.1080/13617427.2023.2244323","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13617427.2023.2244323","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT In 1951, during times of strict censorship which had a highly negative impact on Portuguese culture, the Theatre Company of Amélia Rey Colaço and Robles Monteiro brought Dostoyevsky’s Crime and Punishment, in a version dramatised by Rodney Ackland, to the Portuguese stage. This short article focuses primarily on the reception of the play in the Portuguese Press of that era and looks critically at this production as an unusual theatrical phenomenon of that era in Portugal.","PeriodicalId":41490,"journal":{"name":"SLAVONICA","volume":"28 1","pages":"32 - 41"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48611561","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
SLAVONICAPub Date : 2023-01-02DOI: 10.1080/13617427.2023.2244320
Elena Bollinger
{"title":"‘I Have a Vivid Memory of Pulling out Crime and Punishment’: Dostoevsky’ Phenomenology of the ‘Grotesque Mind’ in Barnes’s Before She Met Me","authors":"Elena Bollinger","doi":"10.1080/13617427.2023.2244320","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13617427.2023.2244320","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Well, I’ve always been a word’s man myself. I would be, wouldn’t I? It’s always been words that have most affected me,’ conveys Graham Hendrick in Before She Met Me (1982). Considering Bakhtin’s concept of dialogism, this paper examines, comparatively, the relation between a constitutive, discursive framing of reality and a self-reflexive perception of being in time which reflects the life of the obscure, observable in Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment and Barnes’s Before She Met Me. Following the notion of a conflict between the outer narrative level, producing ‘discourse’ and the inner narrative level, vocalizing hesitation and discursive struggle, both novels provide a critical approach to taken-for-granted knowledge, destabilizing the characters’ conviction that mental states do possess a set of fixed and authentic patterns of meaning. As the narratives unfold, the predominantly external dimension of their characters thoughts and considerations gives path to new combinations of discourse which reveal the presence of the ‘grotesque’, unable to separate fact from fiction, or past from present.","PeriodicalId":41490,"journal":{"name":"SLAVONICA","volume":"28 1","pages":"6 - 17"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42126556","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
SLAVONICAPub Date : 2023-01-02DOI: 10.1080/13617427.2023.2244324
J. Love
{"title":"Deep Boredom in the Underground","authors":"J. Love","doi":"10.1080/13617427.2023.2244324","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13617427.2023.2244324","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This article examines the problem of boredom articulated in Fyodor Dostoevsky’s Notes from Underground. Boredom has two principal types: (1) the boredom that results from being unable to commit oneself to any final position; and (2) the boredom that results from complete commitment to a final position, thereby foreclosing consideration of other possibilities for thought and action. Both kinds of boredom prove to be ways of illusion insofar as they imply a freedom that human beings, gripped by the humiliating necessity of nature, likely do not and cannot have. Boredom ends up as a palliative call to action and suffering.","PeriodicalId":41490,"journal":{"name":"SLAVONICA","volume":"28 1","pages":"42 - 51"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44499849","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}