{"title":"A Sample of Folk Poetry of the Sui: “The Volume of Ancestor Worship”","authors":"Kamil Burkiewicz","doi":"10.12775/lc.2021.020","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.12775/lc.2021.020","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":34776,"journal":{"name":"Litteraria Copernicana","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45498127","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}
The present paper discusses Li Hongwei’s novel The King and Lyric Poetry (2017). The novel tells the story of the suicide of the last Nobel Prize laureate in the future history of literature, Chinese poet Yuwen Wanghu. Following the detective thread of the book, the essay reconstructs utopian and dystopian semi-virtual landscapes of the mid-21st century China which feed into two different models of lyricism: the poet as a knight errant who seeks inspiration far from modern civilization and the poet as a lonely warrior against (technological) tyranny. In the final scene, the two landscapes blur and the antithetical forces that infuse them: lyricism (Yuwen) and power/ knowledge (the King) merge into what may be seen as their dialectical synthesis to be fulfilled by the novel’s third protagonist – Yuwen’s young friend, Li Pulei. Mobilizing various contexts, including the suicides of famous mainland-Chinese poets, important poetry polemics, and intertexts ranging from classical Chinese literary theory through to Truman Show and Matrix, I argue that the novel mirrors the development of poetry discourse in the PRC with its various myths, conflicts, complexes, and ambitions. I also show how this discourse, shaped for a long time largely by the so-called Third Generation poets born in the 1950s and 1960s, translates into the * PhD, an assistant professor at Adam Mickiewicz University and a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Zurich. Her research focuses on literature and its interactions with other disciplines, especially the sciences. She is also an active translator of contemporary Chinese literature in prose and in verse into Polish. E-mail: joanna.krenz@amu.edu.pl | ORCID: 0000-0003-4689-6677. ** The paper is part of the research project The World Re-Versed: New Phenomena in Chinese Poetry as a Challenge and Inspiration to Literary Studies based at the University of Zurich within the Bekker Programme (Program im. Bekkera) fellowship funded by National Agency for Academic Exchange (Narodowa Agencja Wymiany Akademickiej). Project no. PPN/BEK/2019/1/00164.
{"title":"Living an Emperor’s Life, Dying a Nobel Death. Li Hongwei’s Novel “The King and Lyric Poetry” as a Journey Through the History of Chinese Poetry","authors":"J. Krenz","doi":"10.12775/lc.2021.015","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.12775/lc.2021.015","url":null,"abstract":"The present paper discusses Li Hongwei’s novel The King and Lyric Poetry (2017). The novel tells the story of the suicide of the last Nobel Prize laureate in the future history of literature, Chinese poet Yuwen Wanghu. Following the detective thread of the book, the essay reconstructs utopian and dystopian semi-virtual landscapes of the mid-21st century China which feed into two different models of lyricism: the poet as a knight errant who seeks inspiration far from modern civilization and the poet as a lonely warrior against (technological) tyranny. In the final scene, the two landscapes blur and the antithetical forces that infuse them: lyricism (Yuwen) and power/ knowledge (the King) merge into what may be seen as their dialectical synthesis to be fulfilled by the novel’s third protagonist – Yuwen’s young friend, Li Pulei. Mobilizing various contexts, including the suicides of famous mainland-Chinese poets, important poetry polemics, and intertexts ranging from classical Chinese literary theory through to Truman Show and Matrix, I argue that the novel mirrors the development of poetry discourse in the PRC with its various myths, conflicts, complexes, and ambitions. I also show how this discourse, shaped for a long time largely by the so-called Third Generation poets born in the 1950s and 1960s, translates into the * PhD, an assistant professor at Adam Mickiewicz University and a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Zurich. Her research focuses on literature and its interactions with other disciplines, especially the sciences. She is also an active translator of contemporary Chinese literature in prose and in verse into Polish. E-mail: joanna.krenz@amu.edu.pl | ORCID: 0000-0003-4689-6677. ** The paper is part of the research project The World Re-Versed: New Phenomena in Chinese Poetry as a Challenge and Inspiration to Literary Studies based at the University of Zurich within the Bekker Programme (Program im. Bekkera) fellowship funded by National Agency for Academic Exchange (Narodowa Agencja Wymiany Akademickiej). Project no. PPN/BEK/2019/1/00164.","PeriodicalId":34776,"journal":{"name":"Litteraria Copernicana","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45347590","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}
Tworczośc Eileen Chang zawiera przede wszystkim doglebne obserwacje szczegolow miejskiego zycia w obliczu upadku starego porządku i zniszczen przez wojenne katastrofy w Chinach lat 30. i 40. XX wieku. Jej proza czesto ukazuje rozdarcie miedzy pozostalościami tradycji chinskiej arystokracji a wplywami zachodnich panstw kolonialnych. Poczucie zawieszenia, niepewności przeklada sie w utworach Chang na zaburzenie jednorodności przestrzeni. W artykule Inne przestrzenie Michel Foucault twierdzil, ze „zyjemy w sieci relacji, wyznaczających miejsca ( emplacements ) wzajemnie do siebie nieredukowalne i absolutnie nie dające sie jedne na drugie nakladac”. Tak oto Szanghaj, Paryz i Edynburg opisane w opowiadaniu Czerwona roza, biala roza jawią sie jako ukonstytuowane przez gmatwanine szczegolow zbiory idei i skojarzen, istniejące w umyslach postaci jedynie w odniesieniu do siebie nawzajem, na zasadzie kontrastow lub analogii. Protagonista opowiadania moze funkcjonowac wylącznie na pograniczu roznych miejsc, szukając w nich na przemian ucieczki od ograniczających go tradycyjnych zasad moralności wyniesionych z rodzinnego Szanghaju i przestrzeni do realizacji tych zasad, starając sie utrzymac niepewną rownowage.
{"title":"Heterotopiczny charakter miasta w opowiadaniu Eileen Chang „Czerwona róża, biała róża”","authors":"Zofia Jakubów","doi":"10.12775/lc.2021.013","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.12775/lc.2021.013","url":null,"abstract":"Tworczośc Eileen Chang zawiera przede wszystkim doglebne obserwacje szczegolow miejskiego zycia w obliczu upadku starego porządku i zniszczen przez wojenne katastrofy w Chinach lat 30. i 40. XX wieku. Jej proza czesto ukazuje rozdarcie miedzy pozostalościami tradycji chinskiej arystokracji a wplywami zachodnich panstw kolonialnych. Poczucie zawieszenia, niepewności przeklada sie w utworach Chang na zaburzenie jednorodności przestrzeni. W artykule Inne przestrzenie Michel Foucault twierdzil, ze „zyjemy w sieci relacji, wyznaczających miejsca ( emplacements ) wzajemnie do siebie nieredukowalne i absolutnie nie dające sie jedne na drugie nakladac”. Tak oto Szanghaj, Paryz i Edynburg opisane w opowiadaniu Czerwona roza, biala roza jawią sie jako ukonstytuowane przez gmatwanine szczegolow zbiory idei i skojarzen, istniejące w umyslach postaci jedynie w odniesieniu do siebie nawzajem, na zasadzie kontrastow lub analogii. Protagonista opowiadania moze funkcjonowac wylącznie na pograniczu roznych miejsc, szukając w nich na przemian ucieczki od ograniczających go tradycyjnych zasad moralności wyniesionych z rodzinnego Szanghaju i przestrzeni do realizacji tych zasad, starając sie utrzymac niepewną rownowage.","PeriodicalId":34776,"journal":{"name":"Litteraria Copernicana","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42909990","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}
{"title":"Lenin z mongolską twarzą…? Chiny i komunizm chiński w polskiej literaturze fantastycznonaukowej","authors":"Dariusz Brzostek","doi":"10.12775/lc.2021.012","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.12775/lc.2021.012","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":34776,"journal":{"name":"Litteraria Copernicana","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45903740","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}
In The Battle of In The Battle of the Books (1704) Jonathan Swift satirised the current “quarrel of the Ancients and the Moderns” by dramatising it as quasi-military combat between books animated by the spirits of their authors, and fought on the premises of the venerated St James’s library. “In these books”, asserts the narrator, “is wonderfully instilled and preserved the spirit of each warrior, while he is alive; and after his death his soul transmigrates there to inform them” (1933: 545). Duncan White begins his book on literature from the time of the Cold War by invoking a similarly outlandish incident, which, however, was no literary fiction: in 1955 CIA agents penetrated the Iron Curtain by sending balloons loaded with copies of George Orwell’s Animal Farm from the territory of West Germany to Poland. However bizarre the idea may seem from the twentyfirst century vantage point, the episode effectively illustrates the tangible power that writers wielded, whether for good or ill, during several decades of twentieth-century history1. This was a phenomenon which, White claims, is unlikely to be repeated. As Giles Scott-Smith and Joes Segal write, “[t]he Cultural Cold War” is a “well established research area” (2012: 4). Duncan White contributes to it in his dual capacity as a historian and a literary scholar. Educated in England, he moved to the United States where he is currently Assistant Director in the History and Literature Department at Harvard University, his special interest being the Cold War. His first book-length study was devoted to the Russian émigré writer Nabokov, Nabokov and his Books: Between Late Modernism and the Literary Marketplace (2017). White’s most recent monumental work, Cold Warriors: Writers Who Waged the Literary Cold
{"title":"The Cold War and the battle of the books","authors":"B. Kucała","doi":"10.12775/lc.2020.044","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.12775/lc.2020.044","url":null,"abstract":"In The Battle of In The Battle of the Books (1704) Jonathan Swift satirised the current “quarrel of the Ancients and the Moderns” by dramatising it as quasi-military combat between books animated by the spirits of their authors, and fought on the premises of the venerated St James’s library. “In these books”, asserts the narrator, “is wonderfully instilled and preserved the spirit of each warrior, while he is alive; and after his death his soul transmigrates there to inform them” (1933: 545). Duncan White begins his book on literature from the time of the Cold War by invoking a similarly outlandish incident, which, however, was no literary fiction: in 1955 CIA agents penetrated the Iron Curtain by sending balloons loaded with copies of George Orwell’s Animal Farm from the territory of West Germany to Poland. However bizarre the idea may seem from the twentyfirst century vantage point, the episode effectively illustrates the tangible power that writers wielded, whether for good or ill, during several decades of twentieth-century history1. This was a phenomenon which, White claims, is unlikely to be repeated. As Giles Scott-Smith and Joes Segal write, “[t]he Cultural Cold War” is a “well established research area” (2012: 4). Duncan White contributes to it in his dual capacity as a historian and a literary scholar. Educated in England, he moved to the United States where he is currently Assistant Director in the History and Literature Department at Harvard University, his special interest being the Cold War. His first book-length study was devoted to the Russian émigré writer Nabokov, Nabokov and his Books: Between Late Modernism and the Literary Marketplace (2017). White’s most recent monumental work, Cold Warriors: Writers Who Waged the Literary Cold","PeriodicalId":34776,"journal":{"name":"Litteraria Copernicana","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-09-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42218462","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}
The article discusses Pat Barker’s latest novel, The Silence of the Girls (2018), which follows the events of the Iliad from the perspective of Briseis and other women abducted and reduced to sex-slaves during the Trojan conflict. The main focus of the analysis are the ways in which Barker challenges the ellipses of the Homeric original. By freeing the silenced voices of unwilling and powerless participants in the epic events, she deconstructs one of the key myths of the Western civilization, exposing its inglorious, misogynistic underpinnings. Additionally, what comes under scrutiny is Barker’s exploration of the immediacy of sensory experience as she describes the viscera of war, as well as the messy realities of life in a rat-infested army camp. Artykul omawia najnowszą powieśc Pat Barker, The Silence of the Girls (2018), ktora stanowi przepisanie wydarzen Iliady z perspektywy Bryzejdy i innych kobiet wzietych w niewole i sprowadzonych do roli naloznic w trakcie wojny trojanskiej. Glownym celem analizy jest prześledzenie sposobow, w jaki Barker rozprawia sie z przemilczeniami homeryckiej opowieści. Uwalniając stlumione glosy bezsilnych kobiet, wplątanych wbrew woli w przedstawione w eposie konflikty, pisarka dekonstruuje jeden z kluczowych mitow zachodniej cywilizacji, odslaniając jego niechlubne, mizoginiczne podstawy. Ponadto artykul zwraca uwage na wyeksponowanie bezpośredniości doznan zmyslowych podczas opisow okropności wojny, a takze w obrazach zycia w obozowisku wojskowym dotknietym przez plage szczurow.
{"title":"Of mice and women: Pat Barker’s retelling of the “Iliad”","authors":"Izabela Curyłło-Klag","doi":"10.12775/lc.2020.031","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.12775/lc.2020.031","url":null,"abstract":"The article discusses Pat Barker’s latest novel, The Silence of the Girls (2018), which follows the events of the Iliad from the perspective of Briseis and other women abducted and reduced to sex-slaves during the Trojan conflict. The main focus of the analysis are the ways in which Barker challenges the ellipses of the Homeric original. By freeing the silenced voices of unwilling and powerless participants in the epic events, she deconstructs one of the key myths of the Western civilization, exposing its inglorious, misogynistic underpinnings. Additionally, what comes under scrutiny is Barker’s exploration of the immediacy of sensory experience as she describes the viscera of war, as well as the messy realities of life in a rat-infested army camp. Artykul omawia najnowszą powieśc Pat Barker, The Silence of the Girls (2018), ktora stanowi przepisanie wydarzen Iliady z perspektywy Bryzejdy i innych kobiet wzietych w niewole i sprowadzonych do roli naloznic w trakcie wojny trojanskiej. Glownym celem analizy jest prześledzenie sposobow, w jaki Barker rozprawia sie z przemilczeniami homeryckiej opowieści. Uwalniając stlumione glosy bezsilnych kobiet, wplątanych wbrew woli w przedstawione w eposie konflikty, pisarka dekonstruuje jeden z kluczowych mitow zachodniej cywilizacji, odslaniając jego niechlubne, mizoginiczne podstawy. Ponadto artykul zwraca uwage na wyeksponowanie bezpośredniości doznan zmyslowych podczas opisow okropności wojny, a takze w obrazach zycia w obozowisku wojskowym dotknietym przez plage szczurow.","PeriodicalId":34776,"journal":{"name":"Litteraria Copernicana","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-09-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47251634","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}
: The article analyses the concept of the mind in Samuel Beckett’s The Unnamable to argue that the subject of the monologue may be interpreted either as a spirit describable in terms of Cartesian substance dualism or as a purely linguistic manifestation of consciousness that is fragmented and not fully articulated. The narrator appears as a “diminished mind” or a “virtually disembodied” voice (Kennedy 1989: 139) that obsessively and desperately searches for the lost or fragmented core of the self (Kennedy 1989: 140; cf. McDonald 2007: 103). The voice might come from a soul suspended in a limbo or in a Geulingian hell where the devil makes its inhabitants uncertain of anything and encourages them to continue their searches for meaning and sense despite the pointlessness of the endeavour (Uhlmann 2006: 104–105). However, the voice may also result from an undisciplined process of writing that produces an uncertain and underdeveloped identity of the narrator. The two interpretations may be treated as compatible with each other.
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