2021

The Location of Utopia

eds. Péter Hajdu – Róbert Gáfrik

The geographical and temporal orientation of European and non-European utopias seem to differ in many politico-cultural aspects. The articles collected in this issue demonstrate that national and cultural determination can still be perceived, and they confirm the attention paid to the issues of nationalism, colonialism, or religious imperialism in utopia studies. Moreover, some of the authors show that an interplay between the culture of origin and the local/cultural otherness of the imagined elsewhere allows for an imagological approach to utopias.

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OBSAH / CONTENTS
editoriál / editorial
PÉTER HAJDU – RÓBERT GÁFRIK
The location of utopia ■ 2 (go to article)(WLS2_2021_editorial)
štúdie / articles
JOHANNES D. KAMINSKI
Leaving Gaia behind: The ethics of space migration in Cixin Liu’s and Neal Stephenson’s science fiction ■ 3 (go to article)
YIPING WANG – PING ZHU
Shanghai and the Chinese utopia in the early 20th century as presented in “The New Story of the Stone” ■ 19 (go to article)
XIANGCHUN MENG – LIRONG ZHANG
Chinese utopia: Its evolution, poetic anchorage and modern transformation ■ 33 (go to article)
SEVAL ŞAHİN – DİDEM ARDALI BÜYÜKARMAN
The Islamist version of utopia: The politics of redesigning space ■ 43 (go to article)
PÉTER HAJDU
Mór Jókai’s Asian utopia(s) ■ 56 (go to article)
SÁNDOR HITES
National internationalism in late 19th-century utopias by Mór Jókai, Edward Bellamy, and William Morris ■ 69 (go to article)
LIBOR MAREK
Three undiscovered utopias in German-language literature from the Czech periphery: Moravian Wallachia and Zlín ■ 81 (go to article)
recenzie / book reviews
Norbert Bachleitner – Achim Hölter – John A. McCarthy (eds.): Taking Stock – Twenty-Five Years of Comparative Literary Research (Igor Tyšš) ■ 99 (go to article)
Ágnes Györke – Imola Bülgözdi (eds.): Geographies of Affect in Contemporary Literature and Visual Culture: Central Europe and the West (Rana Yürüker) ■ 101 (go to article)
Csongor Lőrincz – Péter L. Varga (eds.): Herausforderung der Literatur: Péter Esterházy [The Challenge of Literature: Péter Esterházy], András Kányádi (ed.): Péter Esterházy et le postmodernisme [Péter Esterházy and Postmodernism] (Stephan Krause) ■ 105 (go to article)
Katarína Bešková: Súčasná egyptská literatúra: Dystópia, cenzúra a Arabská jar [Contemporary Egyptian Literature: Dystopia, Censorship and the Arab Spring] (Danuša Čižmíková) ■ 107 (go to article)
Vladimír Papoušek a kol.: Pokušení neviditelného. Myšlení moderny [The Temptation of the Invisible: The Thinking of Modernism] (Zuzana Kopecká) ■ 110 (go to article)

Historiography and Translation

eds. Katarína Bednárová – Isabelle Poulin – Igor Tyšš

Even though the first major and thorough synthetic works on translation in the European cultural space were published only at the beginning of the 21st century, their conceptions and principal ideas had been developed and discussed much earlier. Translation historiography has since become of the most recurrent topics in translation studies in Europe and throughout the world. This interest is due to the still relevant sociological turn in translation studies and attempts to closely study the work of individual figures of translators. It only follows that such issues call for historical contextualization and explanation. The current issue contributes to this discourse in the form of partial analyses and reports about ways of writing translation history.

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OBSAH / CONTENTS
editoriál / editorial
KATARÍNA BEDNÁROVÁ – IGOR TYŠŠ
Historiography and translation ■ 3 (go to article)
ISABELLE POULIN
Historiographie et traduction ou l’histoire en plus d’une langue ■ 4 (go to article)

štúdie / articles
JUDITH WOODSWORTH
The translator as historian ■ 7 (go to article)
LUDOVICA MAGGI
La traduction des classiques comme historiographie : herméneutique, temporalité, « poiesis » ■ 19 (go to article)
IVANA KUPKOVÁ
The place of the 1958 edition of Andrei Fedorov’s “Introduction to Translation Theory” in the history of translation studies ■ 31 (go to article)
WILKEN ENGELBRECHT
Literature translated from Dutch in the Czech publishing house Družstevní práce during the Nazi occupation ■ 42 (go to article)
GAËTAN REGNIERS
War, peace and Franco-Russian relations: French translations of Tolstoy’s “Sebastopol Sketches” in periodicals (1855–1885) ■ 56 (go to article)
MARIÁN ANDRIČÍK
The long journey of Milton’s “Paradise Lost” into the Slavic world ■ 68 (go to article)
JÖRN ALBRECHT
Les « taches blanches » dans la cartographie de la traduction : ouvres jamais ou peu traduites, traductions sans succes d’ ouvres prestigieuses ■ 81 (go to article)
OLGA SIDOROVA
Lost, found, and omitted: Remarks on Russian translations of West European literature ■ 93 (go to article)
LAURA FÓLICA
Digital humanities and big translation history in the Global South: A Latin American perspective ■ 104 (go to article)
ŞTEFAN BAGHIU
Quantitative translationscapes and chronological constellations: French, Soviet, and American novels in communist Romania ■ 117 (go to article)

Diskusia / Discussion
YVES CHEVREL
A propos d’une récente histoire européenne de la traduction ■ 130 (go to article)

recenzie / book reviews
Theo D’Haen (ed.): Dutch and Flemish Literature as World Literature (Adam Bžoch) ■ 137 (go to article)
Jiankai Wang: 中国当代文学作品英译的出版与传播 [Zhōngguó dāngdài wénxué zuòpǐn yīng yì de chūbǎn yǔ chuánbō – A history of publication and traveling of English-translated contemporary Chinese literature] (Qiang Pi – Jiyong Geng) ■ 142 (go to article)
Edita Gromová – Natália Rondziková – Igor Tyšš (eds.): Archívny výskum (textov) v interdisciplinárnych súvislostiach [Archival research (of texts) in between disciplines] (Matej Martinkovič)
■ 145 (go to article)
Mária Kusá – Natália Rondziková (eds.): Preklad vo vedách o človeku a dialóg kultúr
[Translation of humanities texts and cultural dialogue] (Silvia Rybárová) ■ 147 (go to article)

Interdiscursive Constructions of Literature

ed. Roman Mikuláš

This issue deals with questions pertaining to interdiscursive constructions of literature. What happens if knowledge crosses the boundaries of the system in which it originated, how is knowledge concentrated in special expert discourses related to their literary communication, and what forms of literarization can be observed? The integration of scientific knowledge into the literary system and its reflection in the spectrum of literary devices reveals a research perspective based on Foucault’s dictum that scientific knowledge will always be brought into contexts that are inaccessible or unacceptable for the given special discourse.

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OBSAH / CONTENTS
editoriál / editorial
ROMAN MIKULÁŠ
Interdiskurzívne konštruovanie literatúry ■ 3 (go to article)

štúdie / articles
IVAN JANČOVIČ
Medzi historickým faktom a fikciou: interdiskurzívne konštruovanie fikčných svetov v súčasnej slovenskej próze s historickou tematikou ■ 5 (go to article)
ALEŠ URVÁLEK
Zur Rolle der Geologie im interdiskursiven „crossing“ der Kulturen der deutschsprachigen Literatur zwischen 1960 und 1980: Botho Strauß und Hans Lebert ■ 16 (go to article)
JÁN JAMBOR
Der historiographische Spezialdiskurs der Ereignisse aus der NS-Zeit in Eva Umlaufs interdiskursiver Autobiographie ■ 29 (go to article)
NADEŽDA ZEMANÍKOVÁ
Interdiskurzivita spomínania v literárnom diele Christy Wolf ■ 44 (go to article)
EUGENIA KELBERT
Entropy as a trope: Yuri Lotman’ s general theory of communication as a case study in interdisciplinarity ■ 55 (go to article)
PETER GETLÍK
Literatúra omylu: O interdiskurzívnej analýze negatívneho a liminálneho poznania (s príkladmi z fikcie Teda Chianga) ■ 71 (go to article)
MAXIM SHADURSKI
From science to literature: The limits of Aldous Huxley’s interdiscursive utopia ■ 83 (go to article)
WALENTYNA KRUPOWIES
Literary characters and interdiscursivity in the novel “The Books of Jacob” by Olga Tokarczuk ■ 94 (go to article)
ALINA BAKO
Blended spaces in Mircea Cărtărescu’ s novel “Blinding. The Left Wing” ■ 106 (go to article)
ROMAN MIKULÁŠ
Zur poietischen Funktion von Analogien und Metaphern im interdiskursiven Blickpunkt der Transplantationsmedizin ■ 117 (go to article)
MILAN KENDRA
Od diskurzívneho konštruovania literárneho realizmu k realistickému interdiskurzívnemu konštruovaniu reality ■ 131 (go to article)

materiály / materials
ZUZANA KOPECKÁ
K filozofickému diskurzu literárnej moderny ■ 142 (go to article)

recenzie / book reviews
Martin C. Putna: Obrazy z kulturních dějin Střední Evropy [Scenes from the cultural history of Central Europe] (Libuša Vajdová) ■ 150 (go to article)
Roman Mikuláš (ed.): Metaphernforschung in interdisziplinären und interdiskursiven Perspektiven [Metaphor research in interdisciplinary and interdiscursive perspectives] (Johannes D. Kaminski) ■ 154 (go to article)
Peter Žiak: Estetika naratívnych textov [Aesthetics of narrative texts] (Silvia Rybárová) ■ 156 (go to article)
Helena Ulbrechtová: Fenomén Krym: bájná Taurida, nebo sovětský ráj? Po stopách historické a literární paměti poloostrova [The Crimea phenomenon: Mythical Taurida or Soviet paradise? Following the traces of a peninsula’ s historical and literary memory] (Soňa Pašteková) ■ 159 (go to article)