Pub Date : 2023-06-01DOI: 10.1515/arcadia-2023-2003
Marília Jöhnk
Abstract An innovative and dynamic way of practicing and thinking about translation emerged in 1950 s Brazil and became entangled with German literature. However, due to linguistic barriers, this constellation remains almost invisible today. The main protagonist of this translation discourse was Haroldo de Campos who, together with his brother Augusto de Campos, translated texts from world literature into Brazilian Portuguese. This article argues that in the translation and criticism of a poem by Christian Morgenstern, the work of Haroldo de Campos as a philologist and scholar of Comparative Literature becomes especially palpable. Beginning with an example from Morgenstern’s collection Galgenlieder, the article illustrates how Campos translated the German vanguard movement into the Brazilian context and reflected on the similarities of both literary currents. The translation also depicts Haroldo de Campos’ understanding of both Comparative Literature and criticism, in general, favoring translation, adaption, and reception over the praise of the ‘original’. In following the traces of the poem (“Ein ästhetisches Wiesel”) through Brazilian literary theory (also in the work of Roberto Schwarz and Anatol Rosenfeld), the article argues in favor of its relevance for the discipline of Comparative Literature.
{"title":"Übersetzungstheorie aus Brasilien: Haroldo de Campos im Dialog mit Christian Morgenstern","authors":"Marília Jöhnk","doi":"10.1515/arcadia-2023-2003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/arcadia-2023-2003","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract An innovative and dynamic way of practicing and thinking about translation emerged in 1950 s Brazil and became entangled with German literature. However, due to linguistic barriers, this constellation remains almost invisible today. The main protagonist of this translation discourse was Haroldo de Campos who, together with his brother Augusto de Campos, translated texts from world literature into Brazilian Portuguese. This article argues that in the translation and criticism of a poem by Christian Morgenstern, the work of Haroldo de Campos as a philologist and scholar of Comparative Literature becomes especially palpable. Beginning with an example from Morgenstern’s collection Galgenlieder, the article illustrates how Campos translated the German vanguard movement into the Brazilian context and reflected on the similarities of both literary currents. The translation also depicts Haroldo de Campos’ understanding of both Comparative Literature and criticism, in general, favoring translation, adaption, and reception over the praise of the ‘original’. In following the traces of the poem (“Ein ästhetisches Wiesel”) through Brazilian literary theory (also in the work of Roberto Schwarz and Anatol Rosenfeld), the article argues in favor of its relevance for the discipline of Comparative Literature.","PeriodicalId":43010,"journal":{"name":"ARCADIA","volume":"7 1","pages":"35 - 51"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89215015","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-06-01DOI: 10.1515/arcadia-2023-2002
Arne Klawitter
Abstract The article analyzes the ‘distant topography’ in the lyrical work of German poet Oskar Loerke (1884–1941) by referring to Deleuze and Guattari’s concept of deterritorialization. It takes as its starting point a reading of “China” in Loerke’s poems, which appears as an ultimate distance but at the same time as mediated by Chinoiserie and Orientalism. However, for Loerke, China not only implies a topos of longing, but also indicates a potential transformation, especially for the lyrical subject, as it will be shown in a close reading of “Das chinesische Puppentheater” (1911). In his later work Der Silberdistelwald (Silver Thistle Forest, 1934), Loerke refers to the unreadable Chinese characters, which, in this context, can be read as to leave distant China at a distance and to deterritorialize it poetically.
{"title":"Reisen ohne Bewegung: Oskar Loerkes lyrische Deterritorialisierungen","authors":"Arne Klawitter","doi":"10.1515/arcadia-2023-2002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/arcadia-2023-2002","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract The article analyzes the ‘distant topography’ in the lyrical work of German poet Oskar Loerke (1884–1941) by referring to Deleuze and Guattari’s concept of deterritorialization. It takes as its starting point a reading of “China” in Loerke’s poems, which appears as an ultimate distance but at the same time as mediated by Chinoiserie and Orientalism. However, for Loerke, China not only implies a topos of longing, but also indicates a potential transformation, especially for the lyrical subject, as it will be shown in a close reading of “Das chinesische Puppentheater” (1911). In his later work Der Silberdistelwald (Silver Thistle Forest, 1934), Loerke refers to the unreadable Chinese characters, which, in this context, can be read as to leave distant China at a distance and to deterritorialize it poetically.","PeriodicalId":43010,"journal":{"name":"ARCADIA","volume":"223 1","pages":"92 - 106"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86547635","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-06-01DOI: 10.1515/arcadia-2023-2004
Aparna Nandha, Sanra Reji
Abstract This article explores the spectral presence of the past in the form of skulls and emotional trauma in a story about a country ravaged by a protracted war. It analyzes Anil’s Ghost (2000), a novel by Michael Ondaatje, a Sri Lankan Canadian writer renowned for constructing revisionist and fictional historiographic narratives. The novel speaks about a phase of the ethno-nationalist civil war in contemporary Sri Lanka, and the article expounds on the deconstruction and understanding of war and history as represented in this piece of fiction. In deprecating a unilateral and cohesive representation of history, the novel presents multiple voices and subverts the notion of a single truth, thereby challenging the unity and logic of representing history in fiction. It also highlights the lingering effects of past violence and buried memories haunting the present for the purpose of closure in the form of splintered personal memories resurfacing at random moments.
{"title":"Haunted by the Past: Understanding History and the Aftermath of War in Michael Ondaatje’s Anil’s Ghost","authors":"Aparna Nandha, Sanra Reji","doi":"10.1515/arcadia-2023-2004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/arcadia-2023-2004","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This article explores the spectral presence of the past in the form of skulls and emotional trauma in a story about a country ravaged by a protracted war. It analyzes Anil’s Ghost (2000), a novel by Michael Ondaatje, a Sri Lankan Canadian writer renowned for constructing revisionist and fictional historiographic narratives. The novel speaks about a phase of the ethno-nationalist civil war in contemporary Sri Lanka, and the article expounds on the deconstruction and understanding of war and history as represented in this piece of fiction. In deprecating a unilateral and cohesive representation of history, the novel presents multiple voices and subverts the notion of a single truth, thereby challenging the unity and logic of representing history in fiction. It also highlights the lingering effects of past violence and buried memories haunting the present for the purpose of closure in the form of splintered personal memories resurfacing at random moments.","PeriodicalId":43010,"journal":{"name":"ARCADIA","volume":"18 1","pages":"1 - 15"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86163754","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-06-01DOI: 10.1515/arcadia-2023-2007
Kristina Mendicino
{"title":"Annie Pfeifer: To the Collector Belong the Spoils: Modernism and the Art of Appropriation. Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell UP, 2023. 347 pp.","authors":"Kristina Mendicino","doi":"10.1515/arcadia-2023-2007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/arcadia-2023-2007","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43010,"journal":{"name":"ARCADIA","volume":"36 1","pages":"135 - 138"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"72687077","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-11-01DOI: 10.1515/arcadia-2022-9054
A. Corbea-Hoișie
Abstract The reconstruction of the creation of Paul Celan’s posthumous poem “In meinem zerschossenen Knie” enables an examination of the complex network of elements of his own biography – the traces of formative readings, his identity questions projected in his positions towards Judaism and Zionism, the obsessional poetic motives etc. – from which the poet lets the lyrical text ‘coagulate.’ The relationship between the author’s genetically anticipated ‘message’ and the hermeneutic freedom in the interpretation of Celan’s poetry is also considered.
{"title":"Szene im Kirschgarten: Zu einem Gedicht von Paul Celan, mit einem methodologischen Exkurs","authors":"A. Corbea-Hoișie","doi":"10.1515/arcadia-2022-9054","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/arcadia-2022-9054","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract The reconstruction of the creation of Paul Celan’s posthumous poem “In meinem zerschossenen Knie” enables an examination of the complex network of elements of his own biography – the traces of formative readings, his identity questions projected in his positions towards Judaism and Zionism, the obsessional poetic motives etc. – from which the poet lets the lyrical text ‘coagulate.’ The relationship between the author’s genetically anticipated ‘message’ and the hermeneutic freedom in the interpretation of Celan’s poetry is also considered.","PeriodicalId":43010,"journal":{"name":"ARCADIA","volume":"25 1","pages":"267 - 281"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74932137","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-11-01DOI: 10.1515/arcadia-2022-9063
Alireza Safari QotbAbadi, M. Hashemi
Abstract Since its publication in 1955, Vladimir Nabokov’s contentious novel Lolita has stirred heated controversies that originated from Nabokov’s treatment of a thorny subject matter. What makes his achievement so stupendous is that he penned a book about a forbidden desire and succeeded in persuading his reader to feel for the deviant. The present study intends to fathom Nabokov’s success in his art of deception drawing on Søren Kierkegaard’s existentialist ideologies of aestheticism and despair in order to offer a new insight regarding the elements used in Humbert’s narration and character which bestow upon him the distinctive personality of the aesthete. Referring to Kierkegaard’s spheres of existence introduced in his “Either/Or,” it is suggested that Humbert, similar to Kierkegaard’s Johannes, aesthetically alienates himself from commitment and consequence while keeping an eye open for the interesting and relishing sensual immediacy. It is this shrewd aestheticizing of Humbert’s character that grants him his unique status that has elicited both attraction and aversion.
{"title":"An Aesthete in Despair: Reading Lolita through Kierkegaard’s Aesthetic Sphere of Existence","authors":"Alireza Safari QotbAbadi, M. Hashemi","doi":"10.1515/arcadia-2022-9063","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/arcadia-2022-9063","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Since its publication in 1955, Vladimir Nabokov’s contentious novel Lolita has stirred heated controversies that originated from Nabokov’s treatment of a thorny subject matter. What makes his achievement so stupendous is that he penned a book about a forbidden desire and succeeded in persuading his reader to feel for the deviant. The present study intends to fathom Nabokov’s success in his art of deception drawing on Søren Kierkegaard’s existentialist ideologies of aestheticism and despair in order to offer a new insight regarding the elements used in Humbert’s narration and character which bestow upon him the distinctive personality of the aesthete. Referring to Kierkegaard’s spheres of existence introduced in his “Either/Or,” it is suggested that Humbert, similar to Kierkegaard’s Johannes, aesthetically alienates himself from commitment and consequence while keeping an eye open for the interesting and relishing sensual immediacy. It is this shrewd aestheticizing of Humbert’s character that grants him his unique status that has elicited both attraction and aversion.","PeriodicalId":43010,"journal":{"name":"ARCADIA","volume":"71 1","pages":"301 - 318"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82215043","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-11-01DOI: 10.1515/arcadia-2022-9058
Cun Fang
{"title":"Hua Li: Chinese Science Fiction During the Post-Mao Cultural Thaw. Toronto: U of Toronto P, 2021. 248 pp.","authors":"Cun Fang","doi":"10.1515/arcadia-2022-9058","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/arcadia-2022-9058","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43010,"journal":{"name":"ARCADIA","volume":"59 1","pages":"372 - 376"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80515191","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-11-01DOI: 10.1515/arcadia-2022-9039
Olivia Gilbert
{"title":"Dominik Finkelde: Logiken der Inexistenz: Figurationen des Realen im Zeitalter der Immanenz. Deutsche Erstausgabe. Wien: Passagen Verlag, 2019. 170 pp.","authors":"Olivia Gilbert","doi":"10.1515/arcadia-2022-9039","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/arcadia-2022-9039","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43010,"journal":{"name":"ARCADIA","volume":"114 1","pages":"347 - 351"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77688879","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
京公网安备 11010802042870号
京ICP备2023020795号-1
扫码关注我们
求助内容：
应助结果提醒方式：