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The Curse and the Attempt to Protect from the Curse in the Short Story The Godfather's Curseby Janko Veselinović

In his rural themed short stories, Janko Veselinović gave snippets of life in the Serbian village of the XIX century that represent a valuable material for ethnological study. Folk meditations on sin, punishment, oath,…

Lexical Characteristics of Absolution of Sins in the Klimantović's Miscellany from 1512

This paper presents the lexical and linguistic characteristics of absolution of sins in the Croatian Church Slavonic Klimantović's Miscellany I, in which the patterns of release and absolution from sin are powerful oral…

The Performative Potential of Names in Miljenko Jergović's Collection of Stories Inšallah Madona, inšallah

The names play a main role in understanding of Miljenko Jergović's literary works and it is argued through analysis of collection of stories called Inšallah Madona, inšallah. The names have their history, they describe…

The Power of Women's Words in K.J. Erben's Ballads

The power of women's words in K.J. Erben's balladsdiscusses the author's literary texts (the collections Písně and Kytice), in which the woman is presented as a permanent character who is in the focus of significant con…

The Manuscript from Afterlife. Jakub Deml's The Castle of Death

In the story The Castle of Death(1912) Jakub Deml presents an esoteric text, which allows initiation, that is to say the revival and improvement of human spirit, because it points the way to the absolute hidden behind t…

Repetition, Parody or Disintegration of the Empty Plate of Magic Performatives in Croatian Contemporary Poetry

In the article, from different linguistic and literary theoretical perspectives, parodic function of anaphora is analyzed on samples of Croatian contemporary poetry. The aim is to present how a poem, especially one that…

Magical Word as an Action. A Few Thoughts about Bronisław Malinowski's Concepts

This article concerns Bronisław Malinowski's ethnographical theory of magical word. His theory was a revolutionary one for two reasons (1) he claimed that magical word is not an instrument of understanding of „primitive…

„The Text Was Considered Miraculous". Magic Words in Pasternak's „Doctor Zhivago"

In Doctor Zhivago, Pasternak brings scientific and political discourses into dialogue with magical ones. In an emblematic episode, two soldiers from opposing sides each wear a protective amulet containing the „miraculou…

The Elements of Verbal Magic in Russian Semi-Official Discourse

The article is dedicated to phenomena of verbal magic, which exploit in modern Russian semi-official discourse for the purpose of social consciousness' manipulation.

Teurgický element slova v estetickém systému Andreje Bělého

According to aesthetic theories of Russian symbolist A. Belyj every real art is in its deepest essence a symbolic one, it represents an organic connection of two orders - phenomena of the inner world and the living cons…

Word in Evolution. Lies, Sex, Gossips and... Friends on Facebook

The essay shows the main conceptions upon a biological power of a word: the macchiavellian theory/ theory of a lie, the mating mind theory, that means a theory of handicaps, and the social selection theory of S. Dunbar.…

Magic of Words in Momčilo Nastasijević's Narrative An Account of the Gifts of My Cousin Marija

Interpretation of Momčilo Nastasijević's narrative „An Account of the Gifts of my Cousin Marija" indicated the significance of the storyteller's belief in the magic of words and in calamitous effect of words on destiny…

Conjuring Life: Magic in the Poetics of Marina Tsvetaeva

This article discusses the notion of magic in the poetics of Marina Tsvetaeva (1892-1941) against the backdrop of romanticism and Russian modernism. Magic is related to the poet's explorations of folklore, and also to R…

Magical Power of Masks in Ivo Vojnović's Drama. Maškarate ispod kuplja as Paradigm of the Illusion of Reality

The present paper analyses Ivo Vojnović's drama Maškarate ispod kuplja by intending to emphasize the importance of carnival masks considered as instruments of liberation of individuals from social conformism. The protag…

In Search of a Perfect Form and Style: Turgenev andConrad's Emphasis on Visual Impression

The human face as a mask that can both hide and emphasise the main traits of human personality and thoughts was used by Turgenev and Conrad. In the society depicted in such novels as Under Western Eyes, Virgin Soil and…

Intermarriages - Crossing Political and Social Borders

This paper analyses Macedonian - Albanian intermarriages in Macedonia in the last fifteen years i.e. their frequency, routes and patterns set in correlation with the social and traditional relationship that existed and…

Putnička tekstualnost u postdisciplinarnom ozračju

Chorwacki dramat wojenny

Kulturna animalistika u obzoru hrvatske humanistike

Farewell to the Magic in the Translation of Witkacy

This article reveals theoretic aspects on literary translation through the analyses of the translation of the novel Farewell to the autumn by Polish writer Stanislaw Ignacy Witkiewicz. It concerns the competences and sk…

Profil wydawnictwa ciągłego „Przekłady Literatur Słowiańskich"

„Je to hra, v níž každý váš pohyb je v centru silového pole...". The Capillarity of Power in the Novel Lehni, bestie! of J. Kratochvil

This article is a critical analysis of the discourse of power represented in the postmodern narrative. In this perspective, the Czech writer's book creates a special study of the 'genealogy of power' (in relation to the…

Resistance of Material: Theoretical Mastery over the Literary Text

After a brief account of Derrida's notion of singularity as an irreducible, quasi-material layer of (literary) texts, this article attempts to delineate its effects on theoretical or scientific mastery over literature.…

„Titophany". Forms of Symbolic Presence of Josip Broz Tito in the Socialist Yugoslavia

Text is an analysis of symbolic strategies, serving creation of Josip Broz Tito's authority as the leader of the socialist Yugoslavia; it also reveals their cultural and political motivations. Author indicates three dom…

Princess Milica - the Sacralisation of Queenship, Official Sanctity and National Myth

This article is devoted to the one of the best known female rulers of medieval Serbia - princess Milica, wife of the prince Lazar Hrebeljanović, who had lost his live during the famous Battle of Kosovo Field in 1389. Af…