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...

Redovnici upitaše Blaženoga: „Zašto, Blaženi, Yaśodhara nije mogla biti zadovoljna? Kad si kao mladić dijelio nakit djevojkama, Yaśodhari si dao ogrlicu vrijednu sto tisuća novčića, a ona je rekla: 'Zar samo toliko vrijedim?' Dao si joj još i prsten vrijedan sto tisuća novčića, ali ni tad nije bila zadovoljna. Zašto je Yaśodhara bila nezadovoljna i oneraspoložena?”Blaženi odgovori: „Nije to, redovnici, prvi put da je Yaśodhara bila nezadovoljna. I prije je bila nezadovoljna.Nekoć davno, u gradu Benaresu pokrajine Kaśi, vladao je, redovnici, kralj Suprabha. Imao je sina Suteđasa, koji je bio obdaren mnogim vrlinama. Bio je vrlo snažan, miran, ugodan, nenametljiv i pristojan u razgovoru. Cijenili su ga i uvažavali ministri, zapovjednik vojske i seoski poglavari pa je kralj jednom pomislio: 'Sav narod cijeni vrline toga princa. Da me neće jednoga dana ubiti pa njega postaviti na prijestolje?' I tako je kralj odlučio izgnati princa.Na čistini kraj šumarka, negdje na Himalaji, prognani prin...

Lerner’s The Topeka School references “the twenty-four-hour news cycle, Twitter storms, algorithmic trading,” (24) as a version of the debate strategy of the spread in the post-truth United States. In a similar way, the incessant and supernumerary presence of suburban objects in the novel functions as a spread the characters continuously have to face. Linking the spread and the sublime, this essay examines how the novel intertwines the characters’ responses to their suburban home with their subsequent futures on their way into the Trumpian post-truth age. Informed by the Kantian sublime, it shows how the sublime of the spread denies negative pleasure as the denouement of the threat of the sublime. The essay develops the argument that Lerner’s novel frames the ability to linguistically respond to the paradoxically placing and displacing effect of the sublime of the spread as a tool that on the one hand can help them navigate their 1990s-suburban life, but on the other hand also foreshad...

The American Western is imbued with a particular elasticity, which allowed it to stay relevant for decades. One of the recent developments in the genre seems to be its focus on the aging frontiersman – a hero past its prime. A faithful adaptation of Cormac McCarthy’s 2005 novel, the Coen brothers’ eponymous film No Country for Old Men (2007), departs from the traditional Western by outlining an aging lawman, Sheriff Ed Tom Bell, struggling to live up to his role. Similarly, James Mangold’s Logan (2017) forces the titular pop-cultural superhero icon to endure the deconstruction of its archetypal alter ego, the Wolverine. The underlying themes of the two films intersect, representing their aging protagonists both as evocations of their own previous, abler selves, and as elderly frontiersmen in a world with hardly any space for aged (super)heroes. Their fluctuating identities challenge the traditional, idealistic representations of patriarchal Western heroes by introducing a more realisti...

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…

Most of the video games are known primarily through their development teams. Although the video game industry became a more lucrative and influential art form than all other forms of entertainment combined, there still exists a lack of identification of video game products with their authors, directors, and/or writers. For example, The Last of Us is a game people will more often associate with developer team Naughty Dog than with Jacob Minkoff; the video game company SEGA is labeled as the team behind Sonic the Hedgehog, while the question of original creators remains unclear and often on the fringe. This way, many individuals are ostracized from their work, with only their biggest fans caring for some video game director’s style, his/her narrative strategies, and composition. However, some video game creators are always clearly connected to their work, sometimes even being the main argument why a certain game is deserving of attention and praise. Hideo Kojima, for example, is one of t...