Pub Date : 2023-01-01DOI: 10.15452/ojoep.2022.14.0008
Parisa Changizi
Cormac McCarthy’s summoned gothic realm of terrorizing darkness and bestial hunger in his Pulitzer Prize winning novel The Road (2006) is a spectacle defined by a sweeping sense of loss and a charred landscape. The interplay of the human, the nonhuman, and the inhuman molds the contours of the lived experience in this grey world of dwindling resources. Although this harrowing hell plays quite nicely into our fears of ecological apocalypse, manifesting our anxiety about our total dependency on the natural environment, The Road seems to be mainly preoccupied with the human, good and bad, taking the insolvent earth almost as a donnée. Ultimately, with almost no convincing sign of environmental rejuvenation, humanity’s sole saving grace seems to be the divinity within us; this manifests itself most clearly in the character of the boy, whose status as an archetypal savior figure in the story ties him very closely with the central issues of food and the subsequent moral choice.
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Pub Date : 2023-01-01DOI: 10.15452/ojoep.2022.14.0011
Tomáš Jajtner
The article analyses the nature of the interest of English authors in Slavic (and specifically Czech) culture between the end of the 18th century to 1850. This period saw the publication of two translated anthologies of Czech poetry: Bowring’s Cheskian Anthology (1832) and Wratislaw’s Lyra Czecho‑slovanská. Bohemian Poems, Ancient and Modern (1849). The structure, form of translation and the reception of both anthologies demonstrate not only the mystification nature of the ‘Czech canon’ presented in them, but also reflect the deep internal instability of the values of Czech culture in the heyday of the Czech National Revival and in the period soon after.
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Pub Date : 2023-01-01DOI: 10.15452/ojoep.2022.14.0010
A. Zaidi
Besides discussing such seminal images in the poetry of Daud Kamal as Gandhara art, the bridge, and bird migration, this essay explores solitude as a necessary accompaniment to Kamal’s creativity, as he sought, in “the translunar paradise of art”, “a cure for the cancer of loneliness”. This essay also examines the undiscerning critical reception of Kamal’s poetry, which notwithstanding belongs to the finest tradition of Islamic mystical poetry and is therefore destined to last.
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Pub Date : 2022-08-01DOI: 10.15452/ojoep.2022.14.0003
G. Riboni
This article discusses (pre-)adoption narratives by investigating a selection of children’s picture books featuring multi-ethnic families. The research examines both textual and pictorial resources, focusing specifically on the use of metaphors as a tool of cognition which may help an audience of young readers understand and become acquainted with unfamiliar notions connected to the process of interracial adoption. Attention is also devoted to the identification, interpretation, and explanation of recurring metaphors in the books as a means of framing (pre-)adoption experiences, i.e. foregrounding certain aspects of the target domains and backgrounding others. The analysis has revealed an almost ubiquitous presence of the journey metaphor in the sample of books.
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Pub Date : 2022-08-01DOI: 10.15452/ojoep.2022.14.0002
J. Pelclová
Framed with Halliday’s (1994) systemic functional grammar and Kress and van Leeuwen’s (2006) visual grammar, the paper studies verbal and visual transitivity in the construction of characters in Maurice Sendak’s Where the Wild Things Are (1963). While the verbal transitivity is determined by the semantic property of a lexical verb, the visual transitivity is realized by vectors, by the shapes dominating the characters’ appearance, and by the positioning of the character on a page. The paper concludes that the dynamic relation between visual and verbal transitivity functions as an effective means of characterization that results in the formation of Max’s personality.
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Pub Date : 2022-08-01DOI: 10.15452/ojoep.2022.14.0006
Réka Kormos
The study presents an analysis of Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland regarding its possibilities considering the function of imagination, mainly drawing on the literature exploring possible world theories. Based on the assumption that a similar yet different world exists, Western and Eastern fantasies meet in one similar concept: isekai (Japanese, meaning ‘different world’ or ‘otherworld’). Isekai is a Japanese subgenre which can also be interpreted alongside possible world theories, and this article aims to show differences and similarities by interpreting Carroll’s work. It highlights the presence of alienation, fantasy, focusing on Alice’s process of becoming familiar with the new world and on her struggle to understand the phenomena of Wonderland. Moving away from the novel towards isekai, special attention is paid to the position of the reader and the protagonist
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Pub Date : 2022-08-01DOI: 10.15452/ojoep.2022.14.0004
Éva Antal
In her works, Mary Wollstonecraft was greatly concerned with women’s education. Highlighting the importance of exemplary storytelling, she laid special emphasis on the importance of reading in young girls’ lifelong learning; she even co-edited a collection of texts specifically designed for female readers. In addition to her novels, political treatises and translations, she also wrote two pieces on education, Thoughts on the Education of Daughters (1787) and Original Stories from Real Life (1788), and an unfinished tale titled “The Cave of Fancy” (1787). I will discuss the unique features of her self-trained storytelling in general, while also exploring disturbing content imagined by a “fanciful” woman’s spirit in one particular tale. Mary Wollstonecraft’s fantastic tale not only provides a framework for the creative development of the female mind; it also includes several images that would later appear in Romantic philosophical narratives, as exemplified by Mary Shelley’s “The Fields of Fancy”.
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Pub Date : 2022-08-01DOI: 10.15452/ojoep.2022.14.0001
O. Dotsenko
This article presents a detailed analysis of the structure of five confixal word-formation rows with the suffix -ment from the synchronous point of view and with the help of the applicative generative model. The confixal word-formation rows are studied in terms of their homogeneity and heterogeneity, complexity and depth. Some theoretical notions such as “word-formation row”, “confix”, “circumfix”, “derivational suffix” and “applicative generative model” are discussed. The paper outlines different interpretations of the origin of the suffix -ment. The article is mainly aimed at analyzing the structure of confixal word-formation rows rather than describing their semantic features.
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Pub Date : 2022-08-01DOI: 10.15452/ojoep.2022.14.0005
Matt Somerville
Approaching Alfonso Gomez-Rejon’s 2015 film, Me and Earl and the Dying Girl through an evolutionary literary perspective draws attention to the adaptive advantages of fictional storytelling with respect to the film’s treatment of three key universals of human evolution: the propensity toward social integration; overcoming one’s fear of death and dealing with grief; and transcending the emotional anxiety that accompanies the incomprehensible meaninglessness of a life that ends, inevitably, in death.
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Pub Date : 2022-02-01DOI: 10.15452/ojoep.2021.13.0013
Tomáš Kačer
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