Verbum – Analecta Neolatina

Ilona Kristóf (ed.): Chapters from the history of Italian–Hungarian relations

Elena Ferrazzi — 2024-06-07

Ilona Kristóf (ed.): Chapters from the history of Italian–Hungarian relations. Eger: Eszterházy Károly Katolikus Egyetem Líceum Kiadó, 2023, 189 pp.

Shades of Love in Love in The Time of Cholera

Alberto Castelli — 2024-06-07

As lovers, we pretend perfect symmetry; the language of love is, however, essentially asymmetrical. Roland Barthes’ A Lover’s Discourse (1977) is a philosophical exploration of a lover’s inner monologue in which the chaotic flux of emotions that spring from a lover’s mind create the asymmetrical space of possibility. García Márquez’s Love in The Time of Cholera is the tale of a melancholy passion that never rises into oblivion. Florentino Ariza, the protagonist who suffers without adjustment, reenacts in fiction Barthes’s psychological mediation. By confronting his relation with time, in terms of eternity rather than future, and by encountering love with wait rather than possession, Florentino, transforms the classical Liebestod into a cathartic and transcendental experience.

The Orphans of Love

Alberto Castelli — 2024-06-07

The psychological tension between intimacy and distance, self-revelation, and estrangement accounts for much of the fascination and allure Marguerite Duras’ The Lover and Isabel Allende’s The Japanese Lover exert upon their readers. While both texts concern a knotty tangle of characters searching for love in the wreckage of the 20th Century, central to the narrative is the enigma of the absence. Love is a muted passion, a dialectical interplay between presence and absence, between creation and destruction, the “how much” the author reveals or conceals has to do with how much love can endure.

La imagen de la mujer en tres poesías de la escritora argentina Alfonsina Storni: una propuesta didáctica

Carla Victoria Fantoni — 2024-06-07

Within the framework of a doctoral research on the didactics of Spanish as a foreign language, with an emphasis on gender, I present a didactic proposal based on three poems by Alfonsina Storni (1892–1938), an Argentine writer consecrated by the literary canon. It consists of the sequencing of activities on the poems “Tú me quieres blanca”, “Qué diría” and “Bien Pudiera Ser”, with a focus on the deconstruction of crystallized female stereotypes. The poems present the vision of a woman who discovers herself in a poetic self that comprises the corporal dimension. For this purpose, I will review previous proposals on the same texts, applied to levels C1 and C2, to propose my own, which will present an approach from the female corporality, not focused merely on biographical aspects but on the deconstruction of gender stereotypes.

Judas Iscariote dans trois romans français contemporains

Zsófia Pavlovics — 2024-06-07

Even though the Bible was written two thousand years ago, it has always been represented in Arts. Biblical figures often appear in literary works but some of them are especially popular, that is the case of Judas Iscariot. In my paper, I will analyse three novels of contemporary French literature (Stéphane Arfi: Trois jours à Jérusalem, Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt: L’Évangile selon Pilate, Gérald Messadié: Judas le bien-aimé) and my aim will be to highlight how this biblical figure appears in contemporary French literature, what similarities and differences there are between the biblical texts and the novels, to what extent these representations are different from one another.

L’accueil critique de Jules Verne en Hongrie, 1945–1989

Ádám László Kiss — 2024-06-07

The works of Jules Verne have been incredibly popular among Hungarian readers since their first publications in translation in the 1860s. Despite (or due to) this popularity, Hungarian literary criticism did not show any particular interest in his works apart from some sporadic essays published in the 1930s. Following World War II, from the late 1940s, the communist-socialist cultural politics excluded the authors of Western (i.e. capitalist) countries from Hungary, however, the novels of Verne started to be published again from 1952, reaching 2.5 million copies by 1969. This abundance of texts published led to more extensive, still not too numerous critical responses. In this paper, we examine the critical reception of Verne in Hungary during the period from 1945 to 1989 through articles and essays published in the daily press, journals, magazines and volumes.

Un objet bouleversant de Paul Nougé et de René Magritte : Le catalogue Samuel

Bence Matuz — 2024-06-07

This paper intends to treat a poetic experimentation of Paul Nougé and René Magritte, entitled Catalogue Samuel (1926). Our analyses consider this artefact trough the concept surrealist of object (objet boueleversant) and the contradiction between this concept and the conditions of cultural industry. As Theodor Adorno or Pierre Bourdieu considered it, this industry subsumes the particularities of artworks and literary texts, thus the creation of surrealist objects becomes problematic. Indeed, these objects are supposed to have particularities capable to overwhelm perceptive or cognitive habitudes of the addressee, which is not possible in conditions of industrialised cultural production, because this conditions include a schematic logic classifying and generalising artworks. In this study, we try to reveal the manner in which Le catalogue Samuel, as a surrealist object, can perform its subversive and overwhelming effects even in the environment of cultural industry.

“Mio primo scopo è far cosa utile al paese […].” L’evoluzione del tema dell’unità d’Italia nell’opera di Massimo d’Azeglio

Mónika Kitti Farkas — 2024-06-07

Through his works, d’Azeglio (1798–1866) contributed to the formation of Italian national identity in the Risorgimento. This paper aims to examine d’Azeglio’s changing perspectives on Unification in the different stages of his career. Between 1829–30 and 1844–45, he wrote historical novels (Ettore Fieramosca (1833), Niccolò de’ Lapi (1841)) in which he portrayed the value of brotherhood. From 1845, he dealt with the institutional, political and social problems of the Risorgimento in many pamphlets: Degli ultimi casi della Romagna (1846), I lutti di Lombardia (1848), Questioni urgenti (1861). These works show that the author arrived at increasingly negative considerations towards unification. His last work, the incomplete autobiography I miei ricordi (1867), represents that he felt that unification had only caused the degradation of Italy. The evolution of the author’s opinion highlights the complexity of the period and also shows why his reception underwent various changes in the last 150 years.

L’interdisciplinarité au service de la presse clandestine de la Résistance française dans l’exemple de Combat, Défense de la France et Libération-Sud (1941–1944)

Alessia Della Rocca — 2024-06-07

The aim of this contribution is to illustrate the interdisciplinarity necessary to approach the linguistic analysis of an atypical media such as the clandestine press of the French Resistance. Between the Nazi and collaborationist press and the obscurantism established by the occupation, this press was one of the main means of expression of a clandestine social movement. It is therefore fundamental to place it within the framework of the analysis of press discourse and many others, to discover the strategies by which this press managed to act on and for the community with manifest results. Nevertheless, before embarking on the important studies of its discourse, and to fully understand its linguistic, rhetorical, and argumentative strategies, it is necessary to frame the clandestine press in a context of interdisciplinary studies, which encompasses historical, sociological, and press studies. Only in this way is it possible to fully understand its invaluable contribution.

Économie linguistique dans le français contemporain : approche lexicologique et orthographique

Laura Szabados — 2024-06-07

The aim of our work is to regroup and analyse several lexical and orthographic phenomena in contemporary French in a theoretical way, from the perspective of linguistic economy, one of the basic elements of language universals. As Zipf (1949) discovered, there is a natural correlation between a word’s frequent use and its brevity or simplicity, which depends on human nature and by which language can be better adapted to speakers’ needs for speed and simplicity in communication (cf. the principle of least effort). This tendency can be noted in contemporary French as well: in certain types of word formation, such as truncation or some neologisms; or in orthography, like Internet language, for example. However, it is always present simultaneously with other partially linguistic phenomena where economy is obviously not a priority, such as inclusive writing or politically correct language.

Les dérivés du nom propre Trump dans la presse française (2020–2021) : une analyse comparative des néologismes

Veronika Nekudová — 2024-06-07

Donald Trump is still attracting a great deal of media attention: even after his term as president has ended, a large number of derivatives of his name are (re)appearing in the press. Three French daily newspapers were analysed to gain a better understanding of their structure and significance: Le Monde, Libération and Le Figaro. The studied corpus consists of a selection of articles published between March 2020 and February 2021 containing occurrences of derivatives of the proper name Trump. These data, collected during the year in which the presidential election and the assault on the Capitol took place, are used to compare the occurrences of neologisms formed from the proper noun Trump in the three newspapers, and attest to the semantic shifts in these new lexemes. They can therefore illustrate the underway trends and the mechanisms underlying all neologism creation.

Le mouvement #MeToo des deux côtés des Alpes à l’aune des discours Twitter : une analyse socio-discursive outillée de #BalanceTonPorc et #quellavoltache

Elena Margherita Vercelli — 2024-06-07

The research aims to contribute to the understanding of cultural differences between France and Italy. In particular, the main objective is to observe how the #MeToo phenomenon took shape through the textual expressions of two different languages and cultures, in order to highlight that the different national articulations of the movement and the diverse responses to the issue of violence against women are shaped by the culture and social reality of Internet users. To achieve this, two comparable corpora of tweets were created, one in Italian and the other in French, which were then analysed to identify the dominant opinions contained in them and to trace from these the cultural specificities of the debate on gender-based forms of violence and harassment.

Proposition des activités de correction phonétique des voyelles nasales chez les étudiants serbophones de FLE à la Faculté de Philosophie et Lettres de Novi Sad – vers une approche éclectique

Ana Lazarević — 2024-06-07

The purpose of this paper is to complete existing phonological correction exercises for French nasal vowels for students speaking Serbian as L1, who attended the Faculty of Philosophy in Novi Sad in 2019–2020. Our approach is eclectic, and the exercises are based on a system of mistakes that was developed by examining how participants produced these vowels in prior study (Lazarević, 2023). Oral production activities in context are given particular focus because they do not appear to be covered in detail in workbooks on FSL phonetics. Our goal is to examine current nasal vowel pronunciation teaching strategies and contrast them with the ones we will present. The evaluation of our phonetic correction exercises confirmed that the production improves more easily when it comes to isolated words and phrases, while mistakes frequently recur during semi-spontaneous oral output.