Masked Paradigms

The paper presents the results of a digital comparative text analysis of the Croatian original and the Burgenland editions of a children’s classic performed in combination with research methods of Translation Studies. The Croatian children’s novel of 1913, Čudnovate zgode šegrta Hlapića [The Strange Adventures of Hlapić the Apprentice] by Ivana Brlić-Mažuranić (1874–1938), appeared in Burgenland Croatian in 1960 and again, with minor alterations, in 2000. Burgenland Croatian is the language of the Croatian minority predominantly positioned in Austria, considered to be a regional variant of Croatian. These two languages are similar, but they still differ in structural and semantic elements as they have been separately developing since the 15th century. The similarities allowed for a digital comparative text analysis of the linguistic aspects of source and target texts, including their linguistic complexity. The results of the digital analysis demonstrate the applicability of digital lin...

Članak je zadržan u integralnom obliku i odstupa od standardnog načina citiranja i navođenja izvora koji se primjenjuje u [sic]-u.Među pojmovima i terminima koji određuju kulturnu samosvijest i kretanje humanističkih znanosti na kraju 20. stoljeća prvo mjesto ne pripada imenici ili pridjevu, već prefiksu „post-”. Postmodernizam, poststrukturalizam, posthistorizam, postutopizam, postkolonijalizam, postkomunizam i mnoštvo drugih post-ova lijepilo se uz razne pojave, s ciljem da što prije padnu u zaborav. Magija prefiksa „post-” u tome je što omogućuje da se pozdravimo i bacimo u ropotarnicu prošlosti sve što je do jučer bilo suvremeno i aktualno. Bilo bi jednostavnije raskrstiti s urbanizmom ili lirizmom, kršćanstvom ili liberalizmom kada bi se na njih prilijepila etiketa „post-” i kada bi se nova, progresivna pozicija predstavila kao posturbanizam, postlirizam, postkršćanstvo, postliberalizam…

This paper takes a relevance-theoretical approach to Douglas Adams’ The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy in the Polish (Banaszak) and Belarusian (Kaściukievič) translation. The study treats translation as aiming for the optimal balance between the processing effort required of the reader, and the positive cognitive effect achieved, or, put differently, as fulfilling Gutt’s communicability condition. In doing so, this paper indicates how vastly different outcomes are achieved depending on the translator’s attitude and the choices one makes. The analysis includes a discussion of various elements of the novel, such as proper nouns, names of elements of the fantastic world, and cultural elements. The study reveals that Kaściukievič embedded his translation in the target culture more than the original was in the source culture, and thus achieved the communicability condition; on the other hand, Banaszak retained most of the cultural features of the original, which made her translation less ...

forma papira koju sam odabrao (ali nisam je odabrao nije bilo druge) utjecat će možda na pjesmu koju pišem (ali nisam pjesmi odabrao ime nije bilo drugog) neće biti visokoparna ali su stihovi silno dugi boja tinte koju sam odabrao (ali nisam je odabrao nije bilo druge) debljina vrha kemijske koju sam odabrao (ali nisam je odabrao nije bilo druge) utjecat će možda na ulomak koji pišem (ovaj ulomak među ulomcima) posve zaboravljam sadržaj kao semafor moju žurbu a moj um ponire u formu ponavljam sutru srca forma je praznina i praznina je forma između forme i praznine nema razlike sve što je forma praznina je sve što je praznina forma je čemu ta želja za otkrivanjem velikih istina ako ljudi žele novac novac i ništa osim novca vježba tek još jedna ništa drugo ponizno držim se silno duge forme papira tek igra dok bliži se čas povratka poslu davati formu praznini vremena gubiti vrijeme ništa više možda tek reći da je jesen i da slušam kako susjed na violini izvodi dosadne prekrasne vježbe for...

The article examines the representation of Native American urban identity in Theodore Van Alst’s Sacred Smokes (2018) and Tommy Orange’s There There (2018). Drawing upon Stuart Hall’s and James Clifford’s theories of identity and diaspora and Robert Young’s distinction between the “organic” and the “diasporizing” modes of hybridity, it analyzes hybrid strategies through which these texts define their characters’ complex diasporic experience and extend the literary tradition of “survivance.” The paper argues that by exploring the concepts of history, community, and home and by emphasizing the narrative, imaginative, and relational aspects of their characters’ traveling identities, Van Alst’s and Orange’s texts remain strongly rooted in Native cultural perspective, in particular the “synecdochic” sense of self and the literary trope of “homing.” It also maintains that these characters’ precarious diasporic situation, albeit confining, allows them the freedom to (re)imagine themselves and...

The paper develops in a specific reading strategy of appropriation of Danilo Kiš’s story Slavno je za otadžbinu mreti in Péter Esterházy’s literary opus (first in the story Mily dicső a hazáért halni, published in Hungarian in 1986 with changes due to aspects of the text that are necessarily changed in translation, then in his Introduction to Literature and Celestial Harmonies), in order to offer possible answers to the following questions: What is the role of (in-)translation in the study of literature? What does the metaphor of elliptical refraction (Damrosch) mean as “the most convenient” description for world literature? If the stories of Kiš and Esterházy are the same, but written in different languages and received in different cultural, historical, and social contexts, can we refer to it as one literary work? If the author is different – is the literary work only seemingly the same? Who, in fact, is the author – if Esterházy read and used Kiš's story in translation? How does thi...