scholarly journals The Cassandra Motif in Szymborska and Miłosz

2018 ◽  
Vol 21 ◽  
pp. 1-14
Author(s):  
Per-Arne Bodin
Keyword(s):  
Cultural History ◽  
Close Reading ◽  
Eastern European ◽  
European Literature ◽  
The Common ◽  
Eastern European Literature

The article presents a close reading of Wisława Szymborska’s poem “Monolog dla Kasandry”, "Soliloquy for Cassandra". The view of Cassandra as expressed by the poet is compared with the corresponding motifs in Miłosz and more generally with examples from Polish and Eastern European literature and cultural history. It is argued that Szymborska does not agree with the common and traditional Polish image of Cassandra, but instead polemizes against it in a complex and contradictory manner.

The experience of mystifi cation and subordination in Middle Eastern European works written under pseudonym

Tekstualia ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 2 (41) ◽  
pp. 29-38
Author(s):  
Zoltán Németh
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Differences ◽  
Middle Eastern ◽  
Eastern European ◽  
Social Differences ◽  
European Literature ◽  
Eastern European Literature

The aim of this article is to analyse intertextual relativities in postmodern novels written by Czech, Slovakian and Hungarian authors. Postmodern mystifi cation in Middle Eastern European literature shows up the naivety of one’s interpretation, as well as social differences. The writers use multiple pseudonyms and undermine the border between work and its interpretation to present cultural differences.

“Non-strategic” Eastern Europe and the Fate of the Humanities

2015 ◽  
Vol 29 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-9 ◽  
Author(s):  
Clare Cavanagh
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Eastern Europe ◽  
Educational Policy ◽  
First Century ◽  
Eastern European ◽  
European Studies ◽  
Policy And Practice ◽  
European Literature ◽  
Educational Policy And Practice ◽  
Eastern European Literature

Until recent events intervened, Eastern European Studies found themselves under attack at my home university and other institutions for being, among other things, “non-strategic.” We see the same notion, if not the same terminology, applied increasingly to the humanities and non-quantitative social sciences, which lose ground daily to the so-called STEM disciplines in both educational policy and practice. How do we defend the study of Eastern European literature and culture in the current academic climate? This essay defends the centrality both of literary and Eastern European studies in the twenty-first-century curriculum.

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