Spatial turn in the prose opus of Amir Brka - mnemotopes of the town of Tesanj

So far, recent literary criticism has paid attention exclusively to the poetry of Amir Brka. This work deals with prose creation, with constant emphasis on the compatibility of poetry and prose, and then prose and opinion journalism, for which the city of Tesanj is the motif backbone. The methodology of the work is based on mnemonics, under the hypothesis that Amir Brka, through a polyvalent opus, deconstructing the “dejected” space of the Bosnian town, reconstructed the timeless and all-spatial mnemotope of the city. In this way, Brka symbolically made a spatial turn in Bosnian literature, especially through the works Monograph of the City, Black Notebook and the book Jerej, which are, each in its own way, a fight against wrong ideologies and inputs that the text and book based on truth are the only credible mnemotopes.

F. M. Dostoevsky in the Feature Story of G. A. Vyatkin

Purpose. The purpose of the article is to find a suitable approach for the reconstruction of the creative biography of F. M. Dostoevsky presented in the opinion journalism of the Siberian poet, journalist, and publicist G. A. Vyatkin.Results. This article is the first noticeable contribution proposed in studying opinion journalism of the Siberian poet and journalist G. A. Vyatkin about F. M. Dostoevsky. It considers Vyatkin’s works in the context of tragic events in Russian history of the 1910–1920 years. This perspective is especially meaningful and beneficial in the light of the fact that Dostoevsky was almost unknown to the soviet society until the 1970s. His works were not a part of a school or university educational program.Conclusion. The article concludes by arguing that Vyatkin was one of the first to tell about Dostoevsky’s exile and hard life in the prison camp, about his compassion and worry for people. He recalled many forgotten facts of Dostoevsky’s biography, found and published quotes from official documents and literary critics.

Science of many names: Onomastic terms in the opinion journalism of the Czech National Corpus

The contribution focuses on the use and collocation analysis of basic notions linked to the field of onomastics, including those that are specialized (e.g., “proprium”, “anthroponym”, “toponym”, “chrematonym”, etc.) and the ones that are commonly used (e.g., “proper name/naming”). In the latter case, attention will be paid to whether these terms are connected to onomastic contexts. In general, the research analyses sources where the lemmata are used, including their typical surroundings. The goal of the paper is to show how the public perceives onomastics, whether it is familiar with its key terms. The analysis is based on the data of the Czech National Corpus, version 8, opinion-journalism texts.

Міжнародні новини на сторінках газети „Буковина” (1885–1887 рр.)

The article aims to examinate in what degree international events from 1885-1887 period were reflected in pages of national newspaper „Bukowina”. With the appearance of this periodical the new phase of development of Ukrainian press of this region was begun. The journal was published in Chernivtsi from January, 1-st 1885 till January, 13-th 1910, then – after break of several years – from January, 1-st till June, 10-th 1915. After this date, till May, 3-rd 1918, the title was issued in Vienna. May, 15-th 1918, with the withdrawal of Russian army, the editorial office was moved again to Chernivtsi. This lasted until December, 10-th when journal disappeared from the publishing market. At the end of 19-th century periodical was main source of information for people of North Bukovina (with the emphasis on Pridnestrovian Ukraine). In it there were dealt important political and social topics of that time. The title left significant mark in field of literature, criticism, opinion journalism and bookselling. Moreover it has contributed to popularisation of Western-Ukrainian periodical-press. During its existence „Bukowina” was consistently suffused with the various information, presented from many perspectives. Publishers and authors cooperating with journal have tried to present comprehensively the events not only from Ukraine but also from abroad. Among the 70 issues which were launched durring the firs years of journal`s history, 35 were extracted which reffers to international affairs – mainly from section entitled Що нового въсвƀтƀ (What`s new in the world?) Generally, in this section it is possible to find 178 news related with international subject. All of tchem have international background and reffers to following fields: – Bulgarian-Turkish relations; – Greek-Turkish relations; – Polish issue; – news from Europe and world; – international affairs from Russian perpective and political situation in Russia. As the Author shows, the year 1855 was not so rich in news reffered to international events, probably because of lack of permanent correspondent who would be able to provide proper information. However the most fruitful in terms of international news was the next year (1886). Then section Що нового въсвƀтƀ (What`s new in the world?) appeared in almost every issue of newspaper and materials were located into separate paragraphs, assigned to each country. It can therefore be ascertained, that in that time international events significantly cosolidated their position on „Bukowina” pages. Each succeeding issue contained several such minor information, started from the name of country, which they reffer to. In 1887 the section has been reconfigured – from short news into general rewiev of political situation, mainly in European countries. In article is presented in detail the substantial (problems and subject) and formal analysis of the section.

Works of Opinion Journalism by Veniamin (Blagonravov): Objectives, Themes and Importance

The article studies the works of opinion journalism by the bishop (after 1873 – the archbishop) Veniamin (Blagonravov). It is ascertained the number (five) of publications, list of their titles, time and venue of the first and following publications. The article analyzes and reconstructs the goals that the author tried to achieve, the main topics, and the impact of his works. As a result, it is found out that the thoughts of Veniamin were occupied by the struggle against the influence of Buddhism. The article concludes by arguing that the works of opinion journalism by Veniamin had a significant impact on public opinion and the position of state bodies.

President Václav Havel as an inspiration for Czech urbanonymy

The goal of the text is to summarise and analyse commemorative strategies and trends that were used in case of the Czechoslovak and Czech president Václav Havel (1936–2011; 1989–2003, in office) and that were especially expressed through proper names, mostly street names. The research is primarily based on selected archival sources and opinion journalism of the day. The research issue is presented against the broad background of place names commemorating Czechoslovak and Czech presidents over the course of the 20th century.