SLAVONICAPub Date : 2023-01-02DOI: 10.1080/13617427.2023.2244322
I. Ruzhitsky
{"title":"Some Notions of the Concepts of ‘Fear’ and ‘Laughter’ in Selected Works of Dostoevsky: Challenges and Evocations … ","authors":"I. Ruzhitsky","doi":"10.1080/13617427.2023.2244322","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13617427.2023.2244322","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Dostoevsky is often perceived as being both gloomy and unsociable, and, indeed, there are many justifiable reasons for this view of the writer. For example, many deaths occur throughout his works but there are also many other events described which may make Dostoevsky’s readers experience fear – namely the actual discovery of fear itself. This present article attempts to challenge such a view of Dostoevsky and his creative works, by using some lexicographical data, including experimental ones, and thereby to show that the concept of ‘laughter’ in Dostoevsky's thesaurus occupies no less an important place than does the concept of ‘fear’. Moreover, these notions are often interrelated as will be shown by the overlapping of the corresponding semantic fields in the textual space of two of Dostoevsky's major novels, namely in Crime and Punishment and in The Demons.","PeriodicalId":41490,"journal":{"name":"SLAVONICA","volume":"28 1","pages":"18 - 31"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42228482","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 : 2022-07-03DOI: 10.1080/13617427.2022.2144454
Ákos Farkas
{"title":"A Budapest Interview with Tibor Fischer","authors":"Ákos Farkas","doi":"10.1080/13617427.2022.2144454","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13617427.2022.2144454","url":null,"abstract":"This is a lightly edited transcript of an interview with Tibor Fischer made when the British novelist of Hungarian descent and writer of Under the Frog, a novel short-listed for the Man-Booker Prize, delivered a lecture on his work at the English studies programme of Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE), Budapest, Hungary. Fischer, the son of Hungarian émigré parents who fl ed Hungary in 1956 and settled down in Britain seeking to live out their lives in a free western country, has acquired working knowledge of his parents ’ native tongue but has written all of his seven novels and two volumes of short stories in English. His work has earned him international acclaim highlighted by the translation of his novels into several European languages including Russian and Hungarian as well as prestigious awards in Britain with the Betty Trask Award and being listed as one of Granta ’ s best young British writers among them. As an academic, who earned his degree in French and Latin in Cambridge, Fischer has taught courses in creative writing and literary studies at various universities in Britain and abroad. The conversation recorded here took place on 18 May 2022 between Fischer and one of his Hungarian translators Dr Ákos Farkas of ELTE ’ s Department of English Studies. An abridged version in Hungarian translation of this interview appeared in the 23 Sep. 2022 issue of the Hungarian literary magazine Országút.","PeriodicalId":41490,"journal":{"name":"SLAVONICA","volume":"27 1","pages":"114 - 127"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46205658","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 : 2022-07-03DOI: 10.1080/13617427.2022.2144155
I. Boichuk, Ian L Turner
{"title":"The Presence of Selected Russian Fictional Characters in English Detective Fiction: A Brief Overview","authors":"I. Boichuk, Ian L Turner","doi":"10.1080/13617427.2022.2144155","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13617427.2022.2144155","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The article deals with the stereotypical portrayal of certain Russian fictional characters in English literature from the mid-nineteenth century up to post-1991 fiction. An attempt is made to highlight particular popular tropes that recur in the characterisation of Russians or associated caricatures. Passing reference is made to other literary traditions in Western Europe, in order to establish peculiarities extant in English language cultural traditions as distinct from other contemporaneous European cultures. It is argued that during this period Russian fictional characters were mainly to be found in detective fiction, and that these would have had a more significant cultural impact, primarily due to the popularity of those authors at the time. The most representative authors in this genre – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Dame Agatha Christie – both write Russian characters into their work. Their depictions were influential due to their broad readership, and drew, it is argued, from cultural stereotypes popular in their day. The repetition and re-depiction of familiar characters in crime fiction bring about tropes that are drawn on in the production of theatre and film. A selection of these tropes is apparent in nearly all significant works of English language fiction. Many of them are perceived as negative, while few, if any, are on the positive side. Cultural peculiarities are exploited as plot devices. One enduring feature of the works analysed here, is the phenomenon of ‘fake’ Russians. The implications of the stereotypes depicted here go far beyond detective fiction.","PeriodicalId":41490,"journal":{"name":"SLAVONICA","volume":"27 1","pages":"134 - 150"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44300050","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 : 2022-07-03DOI: 10.1080/13617427.2022.2144010
D. Sergeev
{"title":"Single Motherhood in Postwar Soviet Russia: Cultural Code and its Literary Implication","authors":"D. Sergeev","doi":"10.1080/13617427.2022.2144010","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13617427.2022.2144010","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The purpose of the paper is to reveal the development of cultural code of single motherhood in postwar Russia through the analysis of fiction. The research turns on the assumption that cultural codes might be deciphered only through a process of semiosis. The cultural code of single motherhood has been forged in a contradictory environment. Though officially accepted by way of 1944 law, Soviet single mothers found themselves in an ambiguous context: urged by the state to give birth to children and under pressure from traditional family values. Using the result of content analysis of 12 short stories, novels and novellas written by female Soviet authors between 1959 and 1984 I reconstruct the cultural code of post-war Soviet single motherhood. The analysis identifies 11 meaningful facets around which the code was centred. Putting stories in a chronological order contributes to unravelling the evolving, functioning and principles of code.","PeriodicalId":41490,"journal":{"name":"SLAVONICA","volume":"27 1","pages":"100 - 113"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48126882","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 : 2022-07-03DOI: 10.1080/13617427.2022.2144008
Jan Čulík
{"title":"The Motives of the Feminist #MeToo Movement in Václav Havel’s Plays","authors":"Jan Čulík","doi":"10.1080/13617427.2022.2144008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13617427.2022.2144008","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Václav Havel (1936–2011) was for many people in the Czech Republic the most significant and certainly the most revered cultural and political figure of the past half a century. In the 1960s, Havel became the most important representative of East European absurd drama. His work was banned after the 1968 Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia. Gradually, throughout the 1970s and 1980s, Havel emerged as one of the most important Czechoslovak dissidents and after the fall of communism in 1989, he was elected President of Czechoslovakia and then of the Czech Republic. In all, Havel wrote 13 plays. In them, he criticizes the shameless and arrogant quest for power, which is usually conducted by the abuse of language. This article, however, is the first in the history of criticism of Havel’s plays which points out that from as early as the 1960s, Havel systematically included scenes of sexual manipulation of young women by ageing men, in his plays, thus anticipating the #MeToo movement by many decades.","PeriodicalId":41490,"journal":{"name":"SLAVONICA","volume":"27 1","pages":"83 - 99"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48840850","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 : 2022-01-02DOI: 10.1080/13617427.2022.2065778
Nailia Baldé
{"title":"Re-Visiting 'Dead Souls': Translation from Russian to Portuguese. Some Very Personal Comments","authors":"Nailia Baldé","doi":"10.1080/13617427.2022.2065778","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13617427.2022.2065778","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This short work presents some translator’s personal comments, strategies and advice regarding translating Nikolai Gogol’s masterpiece ‘Dead Souls’ into Portuguese! Gogol uses complex stylistic devices which, on many occasions make this work almost impossible to translate! Thus, this article presents some examples of and observations about elements that are sometimes considered untranslatable – allusions, changes in register and style (oral vs. formal speech), realia, syntactic organization and what strategies were used to translate such features into Portuguese … ","PeriodicalId":41490,"journal":{"name":"SLAVONICA","volume":"27 1","pages":"53 - 58"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41880089","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 : 2022-01-02DOI: 10.1080/13617427.2022.2066428
B. Radovanović
{"title":"Female Imagery in Bogomil Myth, Exegesis and Social Reality: An Overview","authors":"B. Radovanović","doi":"10.1080/13617427.2022.2066428","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13617427.2022.2066428","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This paper will examine the role of women and, more broadly, the female imagery presented in Bogomil doctrine and practice, as reflected in the Bogomil myth, Biblical exegesis and social reality. The paper explores the relationship between the Bogomil mythological accounts and exegetical practice on the one hand, and the society on the other, in order to clarify whether these Bogomil literary techniques were disconnected from society, or not, and to what extent. Bogomil exegesis mirrored the underlying situational contexts, or vice versa. This analysis will also contribute to the wider topic of re-assessing the Bogomil religious identity, as shaped by the elements of the apostolic Christian tradition, but also by extra-canonical and heterodox textual strands.","PeriodicalId":41490,"journal":{"name":"SLAVONICA","volume":"27 1","pages":"1 - 25"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48578126","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}