Pub Date : 2023-09-30DOI: 10.31577/wls.2023.15.3.14
Ivana Hostová
World Literature Studies 3 vol. 15 2023 cultural understanding in translation and suggests that the translator must strive to find a shared space for communication. The translator should use imaginative translational spaces to penetrate linguistic and cultural complexity, and create an exotic space that resonates with cross-cultural audiences. He also discusses the concept of translational poetics, which considers the artistic and creative aspects of translation. The translator must not only focus on linguistic accuracy but also create a space that allows for emotional engagement and cultural resonance. Overall, Translational Spaces by Yifeng Sun is a valuable and insightful contribution to the field of translation studies. The book’s focus on the spatial dimensions of translation offers a fresh perspective on the complexities of translation theory and practice. Sun’s use of practical examples, combined with a theoretical approach, provides a comprehensive and integrated understanding of translation in its many forms. The book’s coherence and structure, combined with its dialogical character and global-local perspective, make it an important resource for scholars and practitioners alike. The book’s writing style is rigorous and at times witty, making it an enjoyable and thought-provoking read. In summary, Translational Spaces offers a rich and inspiring exploration of the infinite and innumerable nature of translation in terms of spaces, leaving readers with a sense of the vast potential for future research in this field.
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Pub Date : 2023-09-30DOI: 10.31577/wls.2023.15.3.1
Péter Hajdu
The Greek and Roman classics seem to be naturally included in any concept of world literature, be it a supranational canon, the sum of works circulating outside their context of origin, or a global economy of publishing literary texts. Although this usage is obviously Eurocentric, the central role they play in the Western literary system can be paralleled by that of the respective classics in other systems.1 In his conversation with Johann Peter Eckermann on January 31, 1827, Goethe emphasized the special importance of the Classics: the epoch of world literature might have been at hand, and people might have looked about themselves in foreign literary works, but the Greeks were to continue to function as the only universal and eternal standard of evaluation (Goethe 2013, 19–20). If literary value depends on a comparison with the Classics, then they also function as a language of comparison between various national literatures.
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Pub Date : 2023-09-30DOI: 10.31577/wls.2023.15.3.3
Simão Valente
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Pub Date : 2023-06-29DOI: 10.31577/wls.2023.15.2.8
Martina Horáková
In recent decades, the concept of resilience has gained currency in various scientific disciplines (MacKinnon and Derickson 2012, 254), including the social sciences and humanities, which have also contributed to problematizing and critiquing sometimes reductive perceptions of the concept.*Critical analyses of various cultural narratives within literary scholarship pointed to the complexity and double-edged nature of resilience, echoing recent critiques of resilience as having been co-opted by the neoliberal, late capitalist regime (Bracke 2016, 851) due to its capacity to move away from collective accountability for social injustices by placing emphasis on “individual responsibility, adaptability and preparedness” (Joseph 2013, 40). Such complexity is visible, among other groups of literary narratives, in contemporary Indigenous cultural production.1 On the one hand, resilience is used to evoke the positive connotations of adaptation and persistence, highlighting survival, resistance and continuance of Indigenous peoples and their cultures – in Gerald Vizenor’s terms “survivance”2 – despite settler-colonial policies of extermination and persisting pressure to assimilate. On the other hand, Indigenous narratives also started to communicate a sustained critique of resilience as perpetuating settler-colonial dominance and cultural hegemony – for example, through endorsing or even appropriating selective traditional Indigenous knowledges and principles (particularly those related to ecological awareness and land management) by environmental and eco-critical discourses, while simultaneously denying Indigenous people their political, cultural, and land sovereignty.3 Contemporary Indigenous narratives originating in settler colonies, such as Canada, the USA, Australia, and Aotearoa/New Zealand, often tell intricate stories of resistance, reclaiming, and healing, but also stories which simultaneously foreground the precarity, vulnerability, and marginalization of Indigenous lives which are still disempowered in the current settler-colonial project4 and governed by dominant neoliberal regimes. In his introduction to Why Indigenous Literatures Matter, Daniel Heath Justice explains that Indigenous stories have the power to “heal the spirit
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Pub Date : 2023-06-29DOI: 10.31577/wls.2023.15.2.2
Marisol Morales-ladrón
The classical Cartesian dualism*body/mind has informed much of Western thought since the 17th century and it has also served to validate unbalanced dichotomies, especially those associated with gender roles, which placed women closer to the body or to emotions, and men closer to reason. In their refusal to endorse this reductionism, feminist scholars have been at pains to redefine biased ideological positions and have articulated discourses that delved into the blurring of boundaries of such artificial categories. Besides, recent discoveries in neuroscience have confirmed the linkage of body and mind, suggesting that emotions and feelings, even more than reason, shape our decision-making processes, our consciousness and, therefore, our daily lives. In Colm Tóibín’s The Testament of Mary ([2012] 2013b), a subversive revision of one of the most emblematic symbols of Catholicism, the Passion of Christ, a grieving Mary recollects the last days of her son’s life more than twenty years after his death. Questioning the validity of the Gospels as given truths and refusing to collaborate with the apostles to confirm their version, she vindicates her authority to testify as a witness and give voice to her own experience after years of resisting silence and exile. In so doing, she does not accept to endorse the received image of herself as an atemporal, iconic symbol of a sacrificing mother and defends the authority of her narrative, her Testament to the world. The cult of the Virgin Mary, the Mariology, and its ideological implications for the cultural construction of female silence and motherly sacrifice, are the main targets of Tóibín’s criticism. Engaged in the rendering of a more human version of a flesh and blood woman, he challenges centuries of appropriation and recreation. In her reverie, an agentive and gendered Mary gives shape to her consciousness by means of an unorthodox account that relies on the emotions felt by her body,
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Pub Date : 2023-06-29DOI: 10.31577/wls.2023.15.2.5
Peter Arnds
{"title":"From defeat to resilience: The human cockroach in world literature after Kafka","authors":"Peter Arnds","doi":"10.31577/wls.2023.15.2.5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31577/wls.2023.15.2.5","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41525,"journal":{"name":"World Literature Studies","volume":"59 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-06-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84898668","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-06-29DOI: 10.31577/wls.2023.15.2.13
Jana Kuzmíková
{"title":"PETER GETLÍK: Pohyb ku kognitívnym adaptačným štúdiám. Adaptácia ako hra [Moving towards cognitive adaptation studies: Adaptation as play]","authors":"Jana Kuzmíková","doi":"10.31577/wls.2023.15.2.13","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31577/wls.2023.15.2.13","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41525,"journal":{"name":"World Literature Studies","volume":"20 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-06-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86593913","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-06-29DOI: 10.31577/wls.2023.15.2.4
Lucía López-serrano
{"title":"Subverting resilience in the psychiatric ward: Finding the good death in Miriam Toews’s All My Puny Sorrows","authors":"Lucía López-serrano","doi":"10.31577/wls.2023.15.2.4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31577/wls.2023.15.2.4","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41525,"journal":{"name":"World Literature Studies","volume":"25 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-06-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87263665","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-06-29DOI: 10.31577/wls.2023.15.2.15
Adriana Amir
{"title":"MILOSLAV SZABÓ: Kráska a zvrhlík: Rasa a rod v literatúre 19. a 20. storočia [The Belle and the Pervert: Race and gender in 19th- and 20th-century literature]","authors":"Adriana Amir","doi":"10.31577/wls.2023.15.2.15","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31577/wls.2023.15.2.15","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41525,"journal":{"name":"World Literature Studies","volume":"122 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-06-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87692661","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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