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Poetry in Times of War Slavonica Pub Date : 2024-01-30
Published in Slavonica (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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A Forum Presented by the Research Group of Luso-Slavonic Cultural Studies, Faculty of Arts, University of Lisbon Slavonica Pub Date : 2023-12-26 Zlatka Timenova
Published in Slavonica (Ahead of Print, 2023)
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Rodney Ackland’s Version of Crime Punishment on the Portuguese Stage and its Reception in the Portuguese Press Slavonica Pub Date : 2023-08-21 Jayanti Dutta
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
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Deep Boredom in the Underground Slavonica Pub Date : 2023-08-08 Jeff Love
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
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Celebrating Dostoevsky’s 200th Anniversary: The Eternal Clash of Angels and Demons Slavonica Pub Date : 2023-08-07 Gueorgui Hristovsky
Published in Slavonica (Vol. 28, No. 1, 2023)
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‘I Have a Vivid Memory of Pulling out Crime and Punishment’: Dostoevsky’ Phenomenology of the ‘Grotesque Mind’ in Barnes’s Before She Met Me Slavonica Pub Date : 2023-08-07 Elena Bollinger
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
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Some Notions of the Concepts of ‘Fear’ and ‘Laughter’ in Selected Works of Dostoevsky: Challenges and Evocations … Slavonica Pub Date : 2023-08-07 Igor Ruzhitsky
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
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A Budapest Interview with Tibor Fischer Slavonica Pub Date : 2022-11-11 Ákos Farkas
Published in Slavonica (Vol. 27, No. 2, 2022)
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The Motives of the Feminist #MeToo Movement in Václav Havel’s Plays Slavonica Pub Date : 2022-11-11 Jan Čulík
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
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The Presence of Selected Russian Fictional Characters in English Detective Fiction: A Brief Overview Slavonica Pub Date : 2022-11-11 Igor V. Boichuk, I. P. Turner
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
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Single Motherhood in Postwar Soviet Russia: Cultural Code and its Literary Implication Slavonica Pub Date : 2022-11-09 Dmitrii Sergeev
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
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Russia is Burning Slavonica Pub Date : 2022-07-28 Robert Chandler
Published in Slavonica (Vol. 27, No. 2, 2022)
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A Poet King Slavonica Pub Date : 2022-05-18 Mateja Rozman
ABSTRACT The following abridged and adapted newspaper article deals with the Slovenian Romantic poet France Prešeren who was supported by his friend the linguist, historian and literary critic Matija Čop. Prešeren proved that Slovenia was a nation because of its literature. According to the theory of the brothers Schlegel a nation exists only if its language can create high-brow poetry.
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Everyday Nationalism in Hungary (1789-1867) Slavonica Pub Date : 2022-05-06 Levente T. Szabó
(2022). Everyday Nationalism in Hungary (1789-1867) Slavonica: Vol. 27, No. 1, pp. 76-81.
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Gender Inversion of the Smurfette Principle ‘Eight Girls and One Me – Wherever They Go, I Go!’: How Many Girls Are Enough to Overpower One Boy? Slavonica Pub Date : 2022-04-28 Tetiana M. Brovarets
ABSTRACT A trope depicting a sole girl among many boys is widely known as the Smurfette principle. It is often used with the aim to emphasize the high-priority of male personages and the low-priority of the female ones. The only girl is stereotypical here, whereas all the boys are shown as individuals. Even more, this woman among the men is perceived as an appendage. But what will happen if we turn
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DIALOG Project: Materials for Teaching Russian to Portuguese Speaking Students in an Academic Context Slavonica Pub Date : 2022-04-28 Ana Prokopyshyn, Nailia Baldé, Jayanti Dutta, Gueorgui Hristovsky
ABSTRACT In this paper information is presented about a recent didactic project launched by the Faculty of Arts at the University of Lisbon, developed as a resource for teaching Russian. The authors are the lecturers of Russian Language and Culture at the Centre for Slavic Studies – a unit of the above-mentioned Faculty.
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Some Aspects of Teaching the Russian Language in Portugal Slavonica Pub Date : 2022-04-28 Jayanti Dutta
ABSTRACT This short article discusses some problems relating to the systemic-communicative method and culture- through-language studies (лингвострановедческих аспектов) aspects of teaching the Russian language outside the language environment, more specifically, in Portugal, and in accordance with this, the question of the perfect knowledge of the language of students and its use by the teacher in
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Re-Visiting 'Dead Souls': Translation from Russian to Portuguese. Some Very Personal Comments Slavonica Pub Date : 2022-04-26 Nailia Baldé
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
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Female Imagery in Bogomil Myth, Exegesis and Social Reality: An Overview Slavonica Pub Date : 2022-04-25 Bojana Radovanović
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
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Russian for All Occasions: A Polythematic Russian-English Dictionary of Collocations and Expressions. The Authors Reflect on the Idea Behind the Dictionary, the Problems Encountered and How They Were Solved Slavonica Pub Date : 2021-11-13 John Dunn, Shamil Khairov
ABSTRACT The authors discuss the problems of compiling a bilingual dictionary ‘for all occasions’. The first part of the article deals with the aims and the concept of the dictionary within a wider lexicographical tradition. Among the problems discussed are: what type of entries it should have, which topics to include and how to organise them to make the dictionary usable and useful, how best to divide
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Ukraine was Born Free and is Everywhere in Chains: Zakon bozhyi and Enlightenment Slavonica Pub Date : 2021-10-01 Sara Jo Powell
ABSTRACT This article examines the intellectual foundations of the Zakon bozhyi, an allegorical poem produced by the Brotherhood of Saints Cyril and Methodius in the mid-nineteenth century. The work is most often understood as a product of Romanticism. This article argues that it is rather a product of synergistic Enlightenment and Romantic thought. It focuses on the depiction of religion in the Zakon
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Political Culture and Participation in Russia and Kazakhstan: A New Civic Culture with Contestation? Slavonica Pub Date : 2021-09-29 Yerkebulan Sairambay
ABSTRACT This article offers a critical examination of various scholarly works that attempt to study political cultures of Russia and Kazakhstan in order to explain the ways in which participatory trends are taking place. The existing literature on political cultures of these two countries is impressionistic and somehow contradictory. Reviewing recent insights into the new types of political participation
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Dead Souls Symbology as Discursive Construction of Memory in Gogol and Barnes Slavonica Pub Date : 2021-10-27 Elena Bollinger
ABSTRACT Resting upon carefully depicted juxtaposition of unrelated phenomena, such as death and a living soul, Gogol’s Dead Souls incorporates a disturbing narrative ambivalence into stylistic representation of humanity. Such a disquieting plot line has been thoroughly revisited in Barnes’s The Noise of Time, in which the symbology of a dead soul is directly connected with one who lives and remembers
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Vowel-Zero Alternation in Root-Final Obstruent–Sonorant Clusters in Modern Bulgarian: Is [ə] an Epenthetic Vowel or a Vocalised Yer? Slavonica Pub Date : 2021-11-04 Gueorgui Hristovsky
ABSTRACT This article proposes two tests that allow us to determine, first, whether the root-final [ə] in obstruent–sonorant clusters is alternating or not and, second, if alternating, whether the surfacing [ə] is an epenthetic vowel or a vocalised yer. The correct underlying representations are necessary for any subsequent analysis of related forms with strings of alternating vowels and for the better
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This Eternal Present: The Wartime Diaries of a Persecuted Hungarian Intellectual Slavonica Pub Date : 2021-09-27 Ákos Farkas
(2021). This Eternal Present: The Wartime Diaries of a Persecuted Hungarian Intellectual. Slavonica: Vol. 26, No. 2, pp. 174-179.
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‘Guests of the British Crown’: White Russian Refugee Camps in Egypt, 1920–1922 Slavonica Pub Date : 2021-04-27 Tania Konn-Roberts
ABSTRACT During the closing stages of the Russian Civil War in south Russia Novorossiisk, a port on the Black Sea coast, provided an escape route to the Crimea for the defeated White Russian forces. During the early months of 1920 the port was also crowded with civilians desperate to escape the consequences of the imminent Bolshevik victory. British funded and crewed ships helped thousands to get away
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Window on Slavic Studies in Lisbon. Guide to Research and Teaching Slavonica Pub Date : 2021-04-30
(2021). Window on Slavic Studies in Lisbon. Guide to Research and Teaching. Slavonica: Vol. 26, No. 1, pp. 58-75.
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The matica and beyond: cultural associations and nationalism in Europe Slavonica Pub Date : 2021-04-26 Dušan J. Ljuboja
(2021). The matica and beyond: cultural associations and nationalism in Europe. Slavonica: Vol. 26, No. 1, pp. 80-83.
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Utopian Horizons: Ideology, Politics, Literature Slavonica Pub Date : 2021-03-09 Csaba Maczelka
(2021). Utopian Horizons: Ideology, Politics, Literature. Slavonica: Vol. 26, No. 1, pp. 76-80.
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Representations of Authenticity: Revealing Memorial Places of Hiding in Berlin and Budapest Slavonica Pub Date : 2021-03-05 Juli Székely, Júlia Vajda
ABSTRACT This paper examines the dynamic process through which two memorial places – the Museum Otto Weidt’s Workshop for the Blind in Berlin and the Memorial Room of the Glass House in Budapest – are reframed as ‘authentic’ memorial places of WWII. Revisiting the concept of authenticity, we study two kinds of reconstructions: (1) the exhibitions at the Museum and the Memorial Room, and (2) the life
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Correction Slavonica Pub Date : 2020-10-24
(2020). Correction. Slavonica: Vol. 25, No. 2, pp. iii-iii.
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Heart and Soul: Dickens and Dostoevsky Slavonica Pub Date : 2020-07-02 Tom Hubbard
ABSTRACT ‘Raskolnikoff himself, a typical Russian, a man of brains maddened by hunger and by the sight of others hungry, is the kind of character Dickens never attempted to portray; his motives, his reasonings, could not be comprehended by an Englishman of the lower middle class.’ (George Gissing, Charles Dickens, 1898) The present study documents both convergences and divergences in the works of Dickens
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The People Trafficking Princes: Slaves, Silver and State Formation in Poland Slavonica Pub Date : 2020-07-02 Andrew Roach
ABSTRACT The Piast princes were traders in slaves which was the foundation of their power. Conversion to Christianity was part of a wider project at stabilisation which can be compared to Coase's ‘firm’, whereby previously ‘ad hoc’ market arrangements between agents are formalised in return for regular remuneration. This proved timely as the establishment of the Piast state coincided with a decline
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Russian Artists and Patrons Slavonica Pub Date : 2020-07-02 Mario Relich
Rosalind P. Blakesley’s book works exceptionally well as a detailed and generously well-illustrated catalogue of the exhibition ‘Russia and the Arts: The Age of Tolstoy and Tchaikovsky’ at the Nati...
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The Munich Pinacotheca in the Private Collection of the Counts Stroganov as Both an Object and a Subject of Intercultural Transfer Slavonica Pub Date : 2020-07-02 Olga A. Dashevskaya, Irina A. Poplavskaya, Evgeniia V. Ablogina
ABSTRACT The paper aims to study The Munich Pinacotheca, a graphic collection from the library owned by the Stroganov family and now housed in The Research Library of Tomsk State University, as a universal communicative model of the culture of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Its engravings, made by Ferdinand Piloti and Joseph Löhle, demonstrate structural and thematic integrity. Firstly, it
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The Anthropocene on Planet Water. Competing Views on Rivers and Geography in Sergei Zalygin's Ekologicheskii roman Slavonica Pub Date : 2020-01-02 Mika Perkiömäki
ABSTRACT Sergei Zalygin's (1913–2000) autobiographical Ekologicheskii roman (‘An Environmental Novel’, 1993) tells the story of a Soviet water engineer and ecologist Nikolai Golubev between the Russian Civil War and the aftermath of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster. The protagonist is repeatedly confronted with state modernization efforts, especially on issues related to harnessing major rivers. My paper
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Gender and Political Dynamics: A Comparative Study of Joseph Stalin and Vladimir Putin’s Eras Slavonica Pub Date : 2020-01-02 Aleena Karim
ABSTRACT This paper questions the innateness associated with the gender roles and gender relations while providing the comparative analyses of the gender roles practised in the political eras of Joseph Stalin (1922–1953) and the most recent ruling time period of Vladimir Putin (2012–present). It is further emphasized that gender roles and gender relations are not static but variable in nature. This
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Edwin Morgan and Russian Poetry Slavonica Pub Date : 2020-01-02 Peter France
ABSTRACT Edwin Morgan (1920–2010), first poet laureate (makar) of Scotland, was a prolific translator of poetry from about twenty European languages into both Scots and English. Translations from Russian bulk large in his Collected Translations (1996). The most famous of these is Wi the Haill Voice, his vigorous and inventive transposition of Mayakovsky into Scots. This work is examined here, alongside
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Imagining Compromised Creativity: Art and Fear in Shostakovich Bio-Fiction Slavonica Pub Date : 2020-01-02 Helga Schwalm
ABSTRACT The life of the composer Dmitri Shostakovich features in several contemporary anglophone bio-fictions, both novels and film, raising the question of the larger implications of Shostakovich’s life in art today. In my paper, I aim to address how such Shostakovich bio-fictions reinvent the composer’s creative labour in the context of World War II, Stalinist and post-Stalinist politics. Shostakovich’s
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Reviews in dialogue Slavonica Pub Date : 2020-01-02 Zsuzsanna Varga, Kristína Čimová
‘Aki tot pap letere is magyar iro: Haan Lajos levelei es visszaemlekezesei’[A Slovak Priest Yet a Hungarian Writer: The Letters and Memoirs of Lajos Haan], edited by Jozsef Demmel and Csaba Katona, Bekescsaba-Budapest, MTA, 2017, 417 pp., ISBN: 9786155615696.
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Low Trust in a Time of Plague Slavonica Pub Date : 2020-01-02 Ian Turner
Belgorod, Russia 29th March 2020 The plague of 2020, as future historians may not call it, is a time for taking stock of our relationships, social, personal, and professional. When contact becomes ...
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In search of a shared expression: Karel Čapek’s travel writing and imaginative geography of Europe Slavonica Pub Date : 2020-01-02 Jan Wiendl
With the exception of Jiři Opelik, the laureate of Czech scholarship on Karel Capek (cf. Opelik 2008; 2006) and a few journal articles (in particular I would like to highlight works by Petr Malek, ...
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The Russian Writers I Have Known or A Slavist’s (Light-Hearted) Testimony Slavonica Pub Date : 2020-01-02 Robert Porter
I have been asked to tell some stories about the Russian writers I have known. In his famous work of 1927 Aspects of the Novel E.M. Forster tells us that the essential ingredient of a novel is that...
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Intellectual life and literature at Solovki 1923–1930: the Paris of the northern concentration camps / Solovki: Labirint preobrazhenii Slavonica Pub Date : 2019-07-03 Martin Dewhirst
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Distribution of gas and oil in Russia and Chechnya’s special position Slavonica Pub Date : 2019-07-03 Dmitry Shlapentokh
ABSTRACT Putin is hardly an overpowerful autocrat. He most likely resembles a late medieval kings, who balanced between various groups. Such kings dealt harshly with the powerless and those who created problems for them. At the same time, they tried to find compromise with powerful members of nobility. Putin acts in the same way, and his gas policy reflects this. On one hand, the Kremlin is relentless
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Eternal Russia … The USSR and the RUSSIAN People in the Vision and in the Writings of the Portuguese Jesuit Fr. Manuel Antunes, SJ. Slavonica Pub Date : 2019-07-03 José Eduardo Franco
ABSTRACT In this article we present a distillation of Fr. Manuel Antunes’s thought, visible in a series of texts that analyse the evolution of the Soviet Union and its ideological-political atheistic system, which kept a ‘discordant’ relationship with the millenary identity of the Russian people. Antunes’s critical view of Russia can be gleaned from many articles published in Brotéria magazine, some
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From Novorossiisk to Alexandria: British Involvement in the Evacuation of White Russian Refugees, 1920 Slavonica Pub Date : 2019-07-03 Tania Konn-Roberts
ABSTRACT Events during Russia’s Civil War (1918–1920) produced a serious refugee crisis focused on the port of Novorossiisk in south Russia towards the end of 1919 and the opening months of 1920. Lloyd George’s Coalition Government was persuaded to support a rescue mission of selected refugees with most to fear from a Bolshevik victory. The decision was taken against Admiralty advice and against Treasury
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Pragmatic Relations in the Communication of Public Groups in the Russian Social Network Vkontakte Slavonica Pub Date : 2019-07-03 Andrea Liebschner
ABSTRACT This research project deals with the analysis and classification of pragmatic relations with act-types in messages on the public message wall of three selected public groups in the Russian social network Vkontakte. The theories of Sinclair and Coulthard (1975), Korpimies (1978), Diekmannshenke (1999) and Tuor (2009) on exchange structures and act types served as a starting point for the development
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The city in Russian culture Slavonica Pub Date : 2019-07-03 Anna Hurina
members are anything but corrupt and degenerate). Do not be put off by words denoting hypothalamus and epithalamus on pp. 8 and 9 of Brodskii’s book and proceed to pp. 80–95 for an explanation of the huge significance of labyrinths in world history, culture and civilization and, in particular, for Solovki. Then read the chapter on one of the turning points in Russian history, perhaps as important as
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Life and Work in Russia … Some Personal Views Slavonica Pub Date : 2019-07-03 Ian Turner, Igor Boichuk, Anastasia Krivorutchenko
In the Autumn of 1994, I returned from working in various locations around the world, to my home in Liverpool, and then on to Glasgow University. Glasgow would be my home for the next eighteen years, though I didn’t know it at the time. In the fifteen months I had wandered the globe after being accepted at Glasgow to study Arabic, a concatenation of catastrophe in the Arabic Department had put paid
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Bolshevik Revolution and Disintegration of Soviet/Russian Historical Space in Central Asia Slavonica Pub Date : 2019-07-03 Dmitry Shlapentokh
ABSTRACT With disintegration of Soviet space, the historical narrative also changed. This could well be seen in Central Asia. Here, several narratives emerged.
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Post-Soviet Russian Nation-Building: ‘Purposefully Ambiguous’ or ‘Sufficiently Flexible’ with ‘a Russian Flavour’? Slavonica Pub Date : 2019-06-10 Yerkebulan Sairambay
ABSTRACT This article analyses post-Soviet Russian nation building through examining the contradictions of ‘ethnic’ and ‘civic’ nation building processes. In so doing, this paper argues Shevel’s (2011) characterization of post-Soviet Russia’s nation-building as ‘purposefully ambiguous’, further discussing the legal framework of Russia’s nation building and contemporary policies of the Russian government
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Translation and Transcreation: Scottish Perspectives Slavonica Pub Date : 2019-05-14 Tom Hubbard
ABSTRACT The role of both Scots and English as target languages for translation is discussed, together with consideration of the contrasting concepts of utilitarian ‘translation’ and literary ‘transcreation’. Aesthetic, linguistic and cultural challenges to the ‘transcreation’ process are set forth, followed by examples of the influence of one culture upon another.
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Rhetorical Devices in the Contemporary Orthodox Sermon: Case Study of Patriarch Kirill in His Own Words Slavonica Pub Date : 2019-04-24 Natalia Naydenova, Yulia Ebzeeva, Lyudmila Sorokina
ABSTRACT Today, religion and communication as aspects of public life are becoming more and more closely linked. While the contemporary sermon is developing as an independent speech genre within the framework of religious discourse, it does not only acquire attention and interest of believers but also becomes the object of research. This paper focuses on the main rhetorical devices and linguistic and
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Vladimir Nabokov’s lectures on literature: portraits of the artist as reader and teacher Slavonica Pub Date : 2018-07-03 Ákos Farkas
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Popular cinemas in East Central Europe: film cultures and histories Slavonica Pub Date : 2018-07-03 Kristina Cimova
make mistakes and their errors are portals of discovery’ (paraphrased in Lernout, 113). No doubt, Nabokov the writer is as ‘elusively present’ in his academic works as the subjects of his scholarly endeavour are ubiquitous in his fiction. But such subjectivity may be more of an asset than a liability here. Taken together, the various chapters in Vladimir Nabokov’s Lectures on Literature will convince
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Haunting and the Aesthetics of Trauma in A Woman in Berlin and For Those Who Can Tell No Tales: Redefining Cultural Memory Slavonica Pub Date : 2018-07-03 Mythili Rajiva, Agatha Schwartz
ABSTRACT This paper offers a comparative analysis of the aesthetics of trauma in the German film A Woman in Berlin and the Bosnian film For Those Who Can Tell No Tales, both of which address wartime rapes that happened in mid-to late twentieth century Europe. We use trauma studies as well as Avery Gordon's sociological theory of haunting to examine how two historical episodes of war-time rape (post-WWII
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Mystification as an Artistic Strategy in Milan Kundera's Work Slavonica Pub Date : 2018-07-03 Jan Čulík
ABSTRACT Using close reading of Kundera's texts, Jan Čulík argues that many arguments in Milan Kundera's literary works are deliberate provocations. Kundera's approach is undoubtedly related to post-modernism, although he used his mystification techniques long before the arrival of postmodernism, as early as in the Stalinist 1950s when he published fake quotes from Lenin in official Stalinist publications
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Introduction Slavonica Pub Date : 2018-07-03 Peter Taggart
As an undergraduate student of Central and East European Studies and Russian, I had the opportunity to spend a year studying in Tver State University, Russia and during that time I was also able to travel further afield. The experiences from these years have stayed with me and they also had a great impact on my academic and cultural interests. Indeed, they left such a resonance that I attended a summer
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The unwomanly face of war: an oral history of women in World War II Slavonica Pub Date : 2018-01-02 Helga Lenart-Cheng