Leśmian’s dziwożonas and their Slavic contexts (literary and not only)

Tekstualia ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (52) ◽  
pp. 89-100
Author(s):  
Żaneta Nalewajk–Turecka
Keyword(s):  
20Th Century ◽  
Frame Of Reference ◽  
Literary Texts ◽  
Female Characters ◽  
Straight Hair

Among the literary female characters to be found in Bolesław Leśmian’s writing, there are dzwiożonas – swamp or forest demons from the Slavic mythology, known as malicious and dangerous creatures that kidnapped babies just after they were born and replaced them with her own children. They were often portrayed as wild women with long, straight hair and breasts so huge that they could use them to wash their clothes. A survey of selected literary texts from the 19th and the beginning of the 20th century by Polish (Seweryn Goszczyński, Michał Bałucki, Miron [Aleksander Michaux], Maria Konopnicka, Kazimierz Przerwa-Tetmajer, Wiktor Gomulicki), Czech (Karel Jaromír Erben) and Russian (Konstantin Balmont) writers, shows how the representation of such female demons evolved and provides a frame of reference for Bolesław Leśmian’s portrayal of analogous characters in his poem Dziwożona and in prose work Podlasiak from the volume entitled Klechdy polskie.

scholarly journals Evolución del concepto de discapacidad

2019 ◽  
pp. 7-12
Author(s):  
Karla Hernández-Ponce ◽  
Ulises Delgado-Sánchez ◽  
Fernanda Gabriela Martínez-Flores ◽  
María Araceli Ortiz-Rodríguez
Keyword(s):  
20Th Century ◽  
People With Disabilities ◽  
Frame Of Reference ◽  
Social Model ◽  
Bibliographic Information ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Sixties ◽  
Rehabilitation Model ◽  
Model Characteristic

This review aims to provide bibliographic information about the historical stages through which the concept of disability has gone through. Based on the investigations of the three most characteristic models, which throughout history have helped society as a frame of reference for the treatment of disability: the tragedy/charity model, characteristic of antiquity and the medieval era; the medical or rehabilitation model, typical of the first half of the 20th century; and the social model, which arises from the sixties of the last century and is currently trying to keep. This evolution has been presented as a consequence of the development that humanity has had, both in its ideas of perceiving people with disabilities, and in the interventions that have been substantially modified. Playing an important role traditions and beliefs, as well as the advancement of science in its different expressions.

scholarly journals SPIRITUAL VERSES ABOUT TSAREVICH JOASAPH: PLOTS AND METRICAL MODELS

2021 ◽  
Vol 17 (49) ◽  
pp. 88-131
Author(s):  
Alexander Petrov ◽  
Keyword(s):  
20Th Century ◽  
18Th Century ◽  
Literary Tradition ◽  
Literary Texts ◽  
Complex Nature ◽  
Folk Culture ◽  
History Of ◽  
Supplementary Material ◽  
The 19Th Century ◽  
Selection Of

The article considers the problem of the development of metrical forms of the cycle of folklore spiritual verses about Tsarevich Joasaph. Spiritual verses related to the literary tradition are used as supplementary material. The aim of the research is to trace the evolution of the metrics of folklore spiritual verses about Tsarevich Joasaph in the context of the history of Russian versification. The tasks of the research are the formation of a database of texts, differentiation of the texts into thematic groups, selection of method of work, and the analysis of folk and literary variants. The research methodology is determined by its complex nature, being at the intersection of folklore, linguistics, and literary studies. Taking into account the heterogeneity of the material, special methods are used for texts created within the framework of different systems of versification: syllabic, accentual, and syllabic-accentual. The entire corpus of texts consists of seven types of plots and can be divided into metrical groups depending on the time and the environment of their creation. The earliest known text dates from the 16th century; it is a free, non-rhymed accentual verse. A significant corpus of texts was created in the 17th century, in line with the literary syllabic system of versification; these are spiritual verses with 8 or 13 syllables per line. Some of these were assimilated by folk culture and subsequently lost their syllabic equality of lines, becoming close to the accentual system. Literary texts of the 18th–19th centuries are closer to the syllabic-accentual system; sometimes they include polymetric poetic forms. Folklore texts collected in the 19th–20th centuries are based mainly on the accentual system of versification (dolnik, taktovik, accentual verse); however, as we move towards the 20th century, syllabic-accentual tendencies also intensify in this area. In the 20th century, the tradition of spiritual poetry was based on syllabic-accentual models borrowed from the works of Russian classics. The long history of the existence of this poetic cycle is, in general, in line with the evolution of Russian versification. At the same time, if the syllabic-accentual verse has been formed since the 18th century in the literary tradition of spiritual poetry, then in folklore it spread relatively late. Reliable examples of syllabic-accentual versification are found in folklore spiritual verses about Tsarevich Joasaph from the second half of the 19th century.

scholarly journals Lik “jake žene” u srpskoj prozi prve polovine XX veka

2018 ◽  
pp. 343-352
Author(s):  
Marija Mitrović
Keyword(s):  
20Th Century ◽  
Psychological Characteristics ◽  
Female Characters ◽  
The Social

A series of female characters living in small provincial centres, aware of their beauty and spirit, are present in the Serbian prose of the first half of the 20th century to a degree that might be striking to the contemporary reader. This paper examine the social, historical, anthropological and psychological characteristics of the leading female characters created by Stevan Sremac (Zona Zamfirova, 1903), Svetozar Ćorović (Majčina sultanija, 1906), Borisav Stanković (Nečista krv, 1910), Ivo Andrić (Anikina vremena, 1931).

scholarly journals „Auf das Material kommt es an“ – Franz Friedrichs Roman Die Meisen von UUsimaa singen nicht mehr als Reflex auf den Umbruch ins digitale Zeitalter

2017 ◽  
Vol 141 ◽  
pp. 135-149
Author(s):  
Beate Sommerfeld
Keyword(s):  
Digital Media ◽  
20Th Century ◽  
Walter Benjamin ◽  
Roland Barthes ◽  
Literary Texts ◽  
Early 20Th Century ◽  
Media Discourse ◽  
The Novel ◽  
The Aesthetic ◽  
Analogue To Digital

Der Artikel behandelt den Roman Die Meisen von UUsimaa singen nicht mehr 2014 des Experimentalfilmers und Autors Franz Friedrich als Reflex auf den Umbruch vom analogen zum digitalen Zeitalter. Stark polarisierend bezieht der Roman zum Medienwandel Stellung und schlägt sich auf die Seite der Analogmedien Fotografie und Film, wobei er auf den Fotografie- und Filmdiskurs des 20. Jahrhunderts von Bela Balazs, Walter Benjamin bis hin zu Roland Barthes und Georges Didi-Huberman zurückgreift. Indem der Roman ein Gewebe aus photoästhetischen Topoi, Metaphern und Diskursen spinnt, modelliert er eine Ästhetik des Abdrucks und der Berührung, die auf Roland Barthes’ Modell des “vokalischen Schreibens” rekurriert. Das Unbehagen an der Repräsentation, das aus Friedrichs Roman spricht, geht mit einer nostalgisch gefärbten Sehnsucht nach dem Authentischen einher.“The material matters” — reflections on the upheaval from analogue to digital media in the novel The Tits of Uusimaa Don’t Sing Any More by Franz Friedrich The purpose of the article is to show how literary texts reflect upon the upheaval from analogue to digital media using the example of the novel The Tits of Uusimaa Don’t Sing Any More by the experimental filmmaker and author Franz Friedrich 2014. Friedrich approaches the technological shift from analogue to digital and the transforming landscape of media from a critical viewpoint by looking back at the early 20th-century scenario of intermedial exchange. Doing so, he refers to the 20th-century media discourse Béla Balázs, Walter Benjamin to Roland Barthes and Georges Didi-Huberman, scrutinizing and redefining analogue media by referring to various topoi, metaphors the analogue as a mental imprint of the real. Friedrich confronts the representation paradigm of literature to the aesthetic of contact and resonances, strongly related to Roland Barthes’ concept of “vocal writing”.

Performing Courtliness

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
E. Jane Burns
Keyword(s):  
Literary Texts ◽  
Female Characters ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Gender And Power

Medieval courts can be understood as performance spaces in which courtly players, both historical composer/performers and their fictive characters, enacted complex and contradictory configurations of gender and power. From this perspective, courtly literature's constant reiteration of the established rules of love or codes of chivalric behavior might suggest not that those conventions are firmly in place but, on the contrary, that courtly literary texts assert a message of idealized and codified conduct that was actively resisted, challenged, and altered. Those alternative courtly performances were often enacted by women, whether by historical singer-composers, authors, and patrons or by a wide range of inscribed female characters in courtly texts.

Seismische Erschütterungen und female empowerment: Erdbeben-Narrative und Gender vom 18. bis zum frühen 20. Jahrhundert

2019 ◽  
Vol 29 (3) ◽  
pp. 553-572
Author(s):  
GABY PAILER
Keyword(s):  
20Th Century ◽  
San Francisco ◽  
Literary Texts ◽  
Female Empowerment ◽  
Early 20Th Century ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Theoretical Considerations

Abstract Der Beitrag untersucht Erdbeben-Narrative, d. h. seismische Erschütterungen als Motiv, Metapher, Agens und Medium in literarischen Texten variabler Genres vom 18. bis zum frühen 20. Jahrhundert. Er konzentriert sich auf die historisch desaströsen Ereignisse von Lissabon 1755, Messina 1783, Guadeloupe 1843 und San Francisco 1906 und ihre Diskurs- und Mediengeschichte. Die Ausführungen basieren auf theoretischen Überlegungen zu Vorstellungen von Anthropozän, Aufklärung und gender.This article examines earthquake narratives, i.e. seismic upheavals as motif, metaphor, agent, and medium within literary texts of various genres, from the 18th to the early 20th century. It is focused on the historical disastrous events of Lisbon 1755, Messina 1783, Guadeloupe 1843, and San Francisco 1906, and their discourse and media histories. The argument is based on theoretical considerations regarding notions of anthropocene, enlightenment, and gender.

The Unquiet Dreams of Lesser Malaysian Writers

2021 ◽  
Vol 89 (2) ◽  
pp. 283-310
Author(s):  
Brandon K. Liew
Keyword(s):  
Southeast Asia ◽  
World Literature ◽  
Focal Point ◽  
Frame Of Reference ◽  
National Identities ◽  
Literary Texts ◽  
Literary Studies ◽  
Ad Hominem ◽  
Literary Markets ◽  
Historical Production

Using the ‘Global Malaysian Novel’ as a focal point, my paper demonstrates how the emergence of this critical conceptualization is a shift that problematizes traditional postmodern and postcolonial modes that have not yet transcended the nation as a frame of reference. When ‘Global Malaysian Novels’ are being written, marketed and sold outside Malaysian borders, to what extent do these texts retain their capacity for representation: Asian identities, national identities, regional and diasporic? While a critique of their complicity in Global Literary Markets centered in the U.K. and U.S. is often reduced to an ad hominem attack, there remains much to be said about the effects of their increasingly transnational material productions upon their more formally understood aesthetic and literary qualities. As such, I explore the discursive effects of the ‘Global Malaysian Novel’ as a transnational production in Southeast Asia, and how literary scholars have approached contemporary Asian literatures and attempted to situate them within realms of the national, within postcolonial Southeast Asia and within wider World Literature frameworks. In particular, I chart not only the historical production of literary texts written in English in Southeast Asia since 1945, but the current discourse of English Literary studies in the region.

Leśmian’s Dreaded Dryads and their Slavic contexts (literary and otherwise

Tekstualia ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (7) ◽  
pp. 15-30
Author(s):  
Żaneta Nalewajk
Keyword(s):  
Literary Texts ◽  
Female Characters ◽  
Literary Works ◽  
Over Time ◽  
Newborn Children

Amongst other female characters within the literary works of Bolesław Leśmian, we can fi nd the dziwożony (dreaded dryads) – demons from Slavic mythology inhabiting wetlands or forests, which are considered malicious and dangerous, because they kidnap newborn children and replace them with their own offspring. These characters were presented as wild women with long hair and breasts so saggy that they would use them as washing paddles. Analyzing literary texts from the 19th and early 20th centuries written by Polish authors (Seweryn Goszczyński, Michał Bałucki, Miron [Aleksander Michaux], Maria Konopnicka, Kazimierz Przerwa-Tetmajer, Wiktor Gomulicki), Czech (Karel Jaromír Erben) and Russian writers (Konstantin Balmont), I would like to show how the representations of these female demons have changed over time and how Bolesław Leśmian stylized them in the poem Dziwożona and in the prose fragment Podlasiak, from the volume Klechdy Polskie.

National Solidarity and Unity in the Works of Fra Rajmund Rudež, Fra Josip Vergilij Perić and Don Ilija Ujević

2021 ◽  
Vol 3/2021 (2) ◽  
pp. 31-40
Author(s):  
Ivana Čagalj
Keyword(s):  
20Th Century ◽  
19Th Century ◽  
Literary Texts ◽  
Pastoral Work ◽  
Political Activities ◽  
Artistic Value ◽  
Political Works ◽  
And Function ◽  
The 19Th Century ◽  
National Solidarity

The paper analyzes the cultural, literary, and political activities of three priests related to the area of Imotska Krajina in terms of their by origin, works and service. An analysis of selected political and literary texts written in the last two decades of the 19th century and at the beginning of the 20th century will show how (the)?priests’ discourse followed the development of Croatian intelligentsia in terms of balancing between spiritual and political Slavic unity and the vision of an independent and properly united Croatia. While in political works the priests expressed stronger rebellion, their literary works are a continuation of pastoral work, but without greater artistic value with a clear didactic message. The purpose of both types of texts is to continue the revival work, to enlighten the Zagora part of Dalmatia and to spread Croatian thought. They differ in their view of the solution to the Croatian question, political affinities, level of engagement, position and function, while what they have in common is the work on internal harmony, which among those more politically engaged included rebellion against Croatia's internal and external enemies.

Rhetorical unit analysis and Bakhtin’s chronotype

2010 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 29-70 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carmel Cloran
Keyword(s):  
20Th Century ◽  
Space Time ◽  
Literary Texts ◽  
Late 20Th Century ◽  
Social Time ◽  
Child Interaction ◽  
Mother Child Interaction ◽  
Time Space ◽  
Social Positioning ◽  
The Everyday

Bakhtin introduced the concept of chronotope (chronos = time; topos = space) to facilitate his exploration of the ways in which space-time intersections occur in literary texts. However, he also suggests that chronotopes characterise non-literary texts — indeed, that “every entry into the sphere of meaning is accomplished only through the gates of the chronotope” (1981: 258) — this historical, biographical and social time-space configuration. This formulation immediately suggests that these categories should be accessible via the categories of language and indeed, in English, they are most generally expressed via the Mood categories Subject and Finite. These same Mood categories of English are crucially involved in the identification of a unit of discourse — the rhetorical unit (Cloran 1994). Thus, this discourse unit provides a useful means of concretising, from a linguistic perspective, Bakhtin’s concept of chronotope and investigating the presence of such chronotopes in the everyday mundane discourse of mother-child interaction. Selections from such interaction are illustrations of authentic cultural chronotopes, and provide exempla of a (sub)cultural chronotopic motif within the broader culture, i.e. social positioning at a particular historical point in time (the late 20th century Australian culture).

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