scholarly journals Europa Środkowa – wspólnota tekstów. Intertekstualność jako przestrzeń funkcjonowania i podtrzymywania mitu środkowoeuropejskiego

2016 ◽  
pp. 160-181
Author(s):  
Ilija Upalevski
Keyword(s):  
20Th Century ◽  
Central Europe ◽  
Literary Theory ◽  
Roland Barthes ◽  
Discourse Community ◽  
Structural Element ◽  
Cultural Texts ◽  
Do So

Central Europe – a community of texts. Intertextuality as a  plane of functioning and maintaining the myth of Central EuropeIn this article I examine two primary (sets of) questions:1. How, why and by whom the concept of Central Europe has been (re)constructed, (re)defined and (re)imagined within the field of literature in the course of the 20th century(?); and2. Through what transformations this concept has gone during the major social and political shifts in the region(?). In order to do so I am employing Roland Barthes’ semiological approach on myth in the analysis of the texts in which concept and the myth of Central Europe is constituted. I argue that these texts, creating the myth of Central Europe, use/adopt/resemantize texts/signs which previously functioned in other semiological systems. While the so called Habsburg Myth is its core structural element, the myth of Central Europe adopts/reinterprets even such cultural texts in relation to which it stands in ideological opposition – for example the myth of national tragedy. Referring to the concept of discourse community, introduced and developed in the linguistics and literary theory by John Swales, as well as to the concept of intertextuality, I argue that Central Europe can be approached as a community of texts within which the notion of the Central-Europeanness is (re)evaluated, (re)imagined and thus historically maintained. Europa Środkowa – wspólnota tekstów. Intertekstualność jako przestrzeń funkcjonowania i podtrzymywania mitu środkowoeuropejskiegoW niniejszym artykule zajmuję się pytaniami: jak, dlaczego i przez kogo pojęcie Europy Środkowej zostało społecznie zrekonstruowane w literaturze regionu na przestrzeni XX wieku oraz jak przybiegała jego transmisja/dystrybucja w zmieniających się kontekstach społeczno-politycznych. By odpowiedzieć na te pytania, semiologiczne podejście do mitu Rolanda Barthesa zostanie zastosowane w analizie tekstów budujących pojęcia, ale także mit Europy Środkowej. Analiza ta ma pokazać, że myślenie w kategoriach Europy Środkowej aktywizuje się w chwili dodatkowej semantyzacji znaków/tekstów istniejących już wcześniej w innych systemach semiologicznych. Podczas gdy tzw. mit habsburski jest jego podstawowym elementem strukturalnym, mit Europy Środkowej nawiązuje także do takich tekstów kultury, w stosunku do których stoi w opozycji – na przykład mit tragedii narodowej. Odwołując się do koncepcji wspólnoty dyskursywnej, wprowadzonej do językoznawstwa i teorii literatury przez Johna Swalesa, jak również do pojęcia intertekstualności, zakładam, że Europa Środkowa istnieje w postaci pewnej wspólnoty tekstów, w której pojęcie środkowoeuropejskości jest negocjowane, oceniane i wyobrażane na nowo.

Intertextuality

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Graham Allen
Keyword(s):  
Literary Criticism ◽  
20Th Century ◽  
Literary Theory ◽  
Julia Kristeva ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Roland Barthes ◽  
Infinite Field ◽  
Human Subjectivity ◽  
Vast Network ◽  
Models Of Reading

Intertextuality is a concept first outlined in the work of poststructuralist theorists Julia Kristeva and Roland Barthes and refers to the emergence of and understanding of any individual text out of the vast network of discourses and languages that make up culture. No text, in the light of intertextuality, stands alone; all texts have their existence and their meaning in relation to a practically infinite field of prior texts and prior significations. Such a vision of textuality emerges from 20th-century developments in our understanding of what it means to use and to be in language. No speaker creates their language from scratch; all linguistic utterances depend upon the employment and redeployment of already existent utterances. Intertextuality is part, then, of a radical rethinking of human subjectivity and human expression, a rethinking that at its most extreme argues it is language rather than human intention that generates meaning. Having found expression in the radical texts of early poststructuralism, intertextuality became a popular concept within literary criticism, often reimagined in ways that appear far less skeptical about authorial intentionality. A survey of literary theory and practice from the 1970s onward will show a host of critics and theorists employing the term to foreground formalist, political, psychoanalytical, feminist, postcolonial, postmodernist, and other modes of interpretation and commentary. At times these approaches bring the concept much closer to ideas centered in the humanistic subject, such as influence, allusion, citation, and appropriation, while at other times they continue and extend the deconstruction of traditional models of intention. What all theories and practices of intertextuality seem to share, however, is a need to reimagine the act of reading, given that reading can no longer be confined to the reader’s encounter with a single, stable, inviolable text. Taken together, intertextual theories and practices have demonstrated in a myriad of ways the need to move beyond the Author—Text—Reader model to models of reading which, by treating all texts as intertexts, confront the limits of interpretation itself.

scholarly journals Walter Benjamin e Roland Barthes às margens da escritura

2019 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 87
Author(s):  
Derick Davidson Santos Teixeira
Keyword(s):  
Literary Criticism ◽  
Lived Experience ◽  
20Th Century ◽  
Literary Theory ◽  
Jacques Derrida ◽  
Walter Benjamin ◽  
Roland Barthes ◽  
Maurice Blanchot ◽  
Literary Works ◽  
The Common

Resumo: A noção de escritura, desenvolvida por teóricos como Roland Barthes,Jacques Derrida e Maurice Blanchot, no século XX, possui um lugar medular nateoria da literatura e na crítica literária. O presente trabalho propõe um cotejamento entre a teoria de Walter Benjamin e de Roland Barthes no que concerne à escritura. Tomando alguns traços principais da escritura, analisados por Barthes, em conjunto com o pensamento de Benjamin acerca da narração, do declínio da experiencia e de algumas obras da literatura moderna – como a obra de Proust– é possível elucidar de que forma a escritura, operando como um limiar (Schwelle), escapa à rigidez das fronteiras que separam o pessoal e o histórico, a ordem comum do individualismo, a experiência da vivência.Palavras-chave: Roland Barthes; Walter Benjamin; escritura; limiar.Abstract: The notion of writing, developed by theorists such as Roland Barthes, Jacques Derrida and Maurice Blanchot, in the 20th century, has a fundamental place when it comes to literary theory and literary criticism. This work proposes a collating between Walter Benjamin’s and Roland Barthes’ theory concerning writing. Taking some main features of writing, analyzed by Barthes, together with Benjamin’s thought about narration, the decline of experience and some modern literary works – such as Proust’s oeuvre – it is possible to elucidate how writing, working as a threshold (Schwelle), escapes from the rigidity of the borders that separate the personal and the historical, the common order and individualism, experience and “inner lived experience”.Keywords: Roland Barthes; Walter Benjamin; writing; threshold.

‘Wheels have been set in motion’: Geocentrism and Relativity in Tom Stoppard’s Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Liliane Campos
Keyword(s):  
20Th Century ◽  
Film Adaptation ◽  
Frames Of Reference ◽  
Quantum Uncertainty ◽  
Galilean Relativity ◽  
Modern Physics ◽  
20Th Century Physics ◽  
Time Specific ◽  
Do So

By decentring our reading of Hamlet, Stoppard’s tragicomedy questions the legitimacy of centres and of stable frames of reference. So Liliane Campos examines how Stoppard plays with the physical and cosmological models he finds in Hamlet, particularly those of the wheel and the compass, and gives a new scientific depth to the fear that time is ‘out of joint’. In both his play and his own film adaptation, Stoppard’s rewriting gives a 20th-century twist to these metaphors, through references to relativity, indeterminacy, and the role of the observer. When they refer to the uncontrollable wheels of their fate, his characters no longer describe the destruction of order, but uncertainty about which order is at work, whether heliocentric or geocentric, random or tragic. When they express their loss of bearings, they do so through the thought experiments of modern physics, from Galilean relativity to quantum uncertainty, drawing our attention to shifting frames of reference. Much like Schrödinger’s cat, Stoppard’s Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are both dead and alive. As we observe their predicament, Campos argues, we are placed in the paradoxical position of the observer in 20th-century physics, and constantly reminded that our time-specific relation to the canon inevitably determines our interpretation.

Die charismatische Lehrerpersönlichkeit und ihre phänomenologischen Fundamente

2019 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
pp. 292-301
Author(s):  
Norbert Groeben
Keyword(s):  
Effective Teaching ◽  
20Th Century ◽  
Literary Theory ◽  
Teaching Methods ◽  
Essential Role ◽  
Teaching Literature ◽  
Education Theory ◽  
Emotional Aspects ◽  
History Of

Abstract Even though it is widely agreed in education theory and psychology that the teacher’s charisma plays an essential role in teaching literature in school, the concept of charisma as a factor of effective teaching is usually applied only in the widest and most abstract sense. In scrutinizing the history of teaching methods, psychology, and literary theory in the second half of the 20th century, this paper identifies the cognitive and emotional aspects of reading literature that are prerequisite to charismatic teaching. Finally, it suggests that these aspects can be explained by drawing on phenomenological literary theory, i.e. that the notion of the teacher’s charisma can be founded in phenomenology.

The Body in Theory

1998 ◽  
Vol 16 (4) ◽  
pp. 387-400 ◽  
Author(s):  
Felicity J Callard
Keyword(s):  
Queer Theory ◽  
20Th Century ◽  
The Body ◽  
The Other ◽  
Industrial Capitalism ◽  
Late 20Th Century ◽  
The Social ◽  
Theoretical Investigations ◽  
The One ◽  
Do So

Geographers are now taking the problematic of corporeality seriously. ‘The body’ is becoming a preoccupation in the geographical literature, and is a central figure around which to base political demands, social analyses, and theoretical investigations. In this paper I describe some of the trajectories through which the body has been installed in academia and claim that this installation has necessitated the uptake of certain theoretical legacies and the disavowal or forgetting of others. In particular, I trace two related developments. First, I point to the sometimes haphazard agglomeration of disparate theoretical interventions that lie under the name of postmodernism and observe how this has led to the foregrounding of bodily tropes of fragmentation, fluidity, and ‘the cyborg‘. Second, I examine the treatment of the body as a conduit which enables political agency to be thought of in terms of transgression and resistance. I stage my argument by looking at how on the one hand Marxist and on the other queer theory have commonly conceived of the body, and propose that the legacies of materialist modes of analysis have much to offer current work focusing on how bodies are shaped by their encapsulation within the sphere of the social. I conclude by examining the presentation of corporeality that appears in the first volume of Marx's Capital. I do so to suggest that geographers working on questions of subjectivity could profit from thinking further about the relation between so-called ‘new’ and ‘fluid’ configurations of bodies, technologies, and subjectivities in the late 20th-century world, and the corporeal configurations of industrial capitalism lying behind and before them.

scholarly journals L’imaginaire d’images: une réflexion sur la photographie chez Barthes, Duras et Guibert

Çédille ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 565-591
Author(s):  
Antonella Lipscomb
Keyword(s):  
20Th Century ◽  
Marguerite Duras ◽  
Roland Barthes ◽  
The Self ◽  
Visual Images ◽  
Complex Relationship ◽  
Fine Line ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Selection Of ◽  
Herve Guibert

The aim of this paper is to analyse the relationship between autobiography, pho-tography and autofiction in a selection of 20th century French autobiographies, such as Roland Barthes par Roland Barthes by Roland Barthes, L’Amant by Marguerite Duras, L´Image fantôme by Hervé Guibert. I will examine the complex relationship these auto-biographers maintain with the photographic portraits they choose to integrate or simply allude to in their autobiographies and show how the conflict between textual and visual images of the self reinforce the fine line between autobiography and autofiction.

Melanism in Biston betularius from north-west Europe (Lepidoptera: Geometridae)

1976 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 261-266 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Air Pollution ◽  
20Th Century ◽  
Central Europe ◽  
Clinal Variation ◽  
North West ◽  
South West ◽  
Random Samples ◽  
Melanic Form ◽  
The 19Th Century ◽  
Nw Europe

AbstractRandom samples of B. betularius males show a clinal variation in the degree of melanism: from high melanic frequencies in Denmark and south-west Sweden to almost no melanism in south Finland. Old samples from Denmark dating back to the end of the 19th century have strikingly lower melanic frequencies than recent samples showing an increase in melanism during the 20th century in NW Europe. Levels of air pollution and melanic frequency coincide fairly well indicating that the spread of melanism is a response to increased air pollution as also is demonstrated elsewhere. In Britain, in central Europe, and in USA a black morph has evolved whereas in NW Europe the grey morph (insularius) is the predominating melanic form indicating that evolution of melanism in B. betularius has followed its own course in NW Europe.

Ein preußischer Postbeamter oder ein postmoderner Provokateur?

2021 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 189-210
Author(s):  
Katerina Kroucheva
Keyword(s):  
Literary Theory ◽  
Jacques Derrida ◽  
Roland Barthes ◽  
Literary Studies ◽  
Literary Study ◽  
Rhetorical Construction ◽  
Specific Tension

Abstract This article concerns itself with Gérard Genette’s reception in Germanophone literary study. Through an analysis of the rhetorical substrate from which Genette’s terminology draws its specific tension, the article determines that Genette is not only an excessive systematist, but also and simultaneously an author who battles received attempts at order and who foregrounds doubts about the idea of order. In this way, he displays a kinship with such theorists as Roland Barthes and Jacques Derrida. The receptions of the rhetorical construction of Genette’s texts and of the particular strategies of structuralism to which that construction refers did not occur synchronously in French, American, Russian, and German literary studies. The article demonstrates that, while German literary theory occasionally discusses Genette’s positioning within the field, there remains a general absence of the recognition that practically all of his books display a definite proximity to deconstruction, and that this proximity plays a central role in Genette’s enire theoretical edifice. This text is, last but not least, a call to read literary-theoretical texts in their aesthetic contexts.

Elizabeth Bowen and the Pleasure of the Text

2019 ◽  
pp. 48-61
Author(s):  
Jessica Gildersleeve
Keyword(s):  
Critical Theory ◽  
Literary Theory ◽  
Roland Barthes ◽  
Elizabeth Bowen ◽  
Reading And Writing ◽  
Memory Work ◽  
Mutual Engagement ◽  
Poststructuralist Theory ◽  
Theory Of Reading ◽  
The Impact

This chapter recognises that while several authors in the extant criticism have used various lenses of critical theory through which to analyse Bowen’s work, a case for Bowen as a theorist herself has not yet been made. Through an analysis of Bowen’s critical essays, reviews, and depictions of reading and writing in her fiction, this chapter proposes a logic of literary theory as it emerges in her work. Bowen’s theory of reading does anticipate, in some ways, poststructuralist theory as it appears in the work of Roland Barthes, particularly in terms of her syntactical evocations of trauma. Where her work differs (or defers) from theirs, however, is in her insistence upon a kind of mindless and spontaneous memory-work which describes the impact of the reader and the text upon each other and the production of pleasure engendered through this relationship. It is in the process of this mutual engagement, Bowen’s work suggests, that each comes into being. This essay will thus argue for the innovation present in Bowen’s understanding of reading and writing as an anticipation and an inflection of later poststructuralist theory.

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