Produktive Fehler, konstruktive Missverständnisse = Erreurs productives, malentendus constructifs (Colloquium Helveticum ; 46.2017)
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Some errors are simply annoying, others are productive. Errors are productive when they function as triggers for processes that let the mistake appear as a chance to discover new perspectives or approaches to a solution. Productive errors suggest that the criteria for judging what seems right or wrong themselves should and have to be understood as mutable, since cultural processes of development cannot be thought in any other way. The article investigates what the productivity of errors can imply in the field of literature. Both literary examples discussed (Benjamin, Guggenmos) make recourse to the idea of a childhood of language: What might appear as an error to adults can indicate the beginning of a productive, linguistically sensitive engagement with the world for children (or for adults who can carry their minds back to that condition).
De la productivité de l'erreur en contexte pédagogique 'kairos', abduction et poétique du cours
(2017)
In this paper we shall examine how error can constitute an occasion of improving the context of learning. Taking error into account, trying to understand and follow the way that led the student to make it, the Professor betters his empathy. Hence, thanks to this mimicry, the Professor enters into the student's process of thinking and the poetics of the course becomes more inclusive. Turning error into "kairos", the course truly becomes a moment of collective individuation.
This article analyzes some cases of lack of understanding as well as of misunderstandings and errors, voluntary or otherwise, which punctuate the sessions of French- Russian Studio, an important place of intellectual and cultural exchanges between Russian émigrés and French intellectuals between the Wars. These errors and misunderstandings turn out to be rather productive ones, leading sometimes to lively discussions. Two notions, humanism and intellectualism, become a real stumbling block to debates: being regularly referred to at the sessions devoted to Gide, Valéry, Proust and Descartes, they are differently interpreted by Russian and French debators. This reflects not only the explicit difficulties in translation of philosophical and cultural notions but also some implicit discrepancies in production of meaning.
Experimentation with forgeries in art and literature as a deliberate renunciation of authenticity and originality was practiced long before postmodern times. The following article shows a network of literary forgers playing around with apocryphal constructs. It monitors a chain reaction from the pioneer Cervantes in his meta-fictional second part of 'Don Quixote' to Jorge Luis Borges' "Pierre Menard" rewriting one chapter of Cervantes' classic and Umberto Eco's postmodern construction of Borges' invented character Bustos Domecq ending up at Pablo Katchadjian's "Aleph gaining weight". Radical appropriation between artistic resource and informal practice contributes to dismantled orthodoxy, subverted values, and attacked conventions. Plagiarism loses its harming effect; instead, authors celebrate different types of forgeries by simulation, bluff, lies, manipulation, or camouflage. Ultimately, by these artistic devices, they shed light on the affinity to processes of fictionalization itself.
Des critiques et écrivains de nouvelles ont défendu l'idée que la brieveté et un unique moment de clarté sont les éléments essentiels du format court typique de la nouvelle. Cependant, la nouvelle postcoloniale est plurielle, polyphonique et versatile, et elle a tendance à s'appuyer sur le désaccord culturel, social, et linguistique. Ce chapitre examine la traduction et l'échec de celle-ci dans l'oeuvre de deux nouvellistes prolifiques qui viennent des deux différentes traditions postcoloniales : Nadine Gordimer et Anita Desai. La prémisse de mon argument est que les nouvelles de ces écrivains ont pour la plupart lieu dans des espaces périphériques, par exemple des villages et des avant-postes. Elles dramatisent une forme de processus postcolonial de désengagement des centres de pouvoir en explorant et en remettant en question des hiérarchies discursives. Cette renégociation implique la présence de perspectives multiples et de subjectivités plurielles, de même qu'elle insiste sur des traductions problématiques et des malentendus surgissant en leur sein. Par l'étude de textes de Gordimer et Desai, ce chapitre considère plusieurs formes de malentendus – fausses représentations, mécompréhension, traductions erronées et obstructions linguistiques – qui ses présentent dans deux nouvelles. Il ressort de cette analyse que les malentendus sont susceptibles de devenir les instruments de l'expression d'une résistance dans les sites hégémoniques de la langue et du pouvoir.
Le présent article est consacré à la controverse sur la composition des pantoufles dans le conte Cendrillon ou la petite pantoufle de verre de Charles Perrault. A l'origine de cette controverse, Balzac fait parler un de ses personnages (un pelletier) qui propose de remplacer "verre" par "vair " (petit-gris, écureuil) et qui pense ainsi corriger ce qui lui semble être une erreur. La présente contribution propose une lecture qui permet de déceler une logique de substitution dans le texte de Perrault, logique qui suit le long des deux chaînes sémantiques "mère (morte) – cendre – vair" et "verre – grâce – marraine".
Le miroir intermédial : "Sneewittchen" des Grimm et "Blancanieves" de Pablo Berger en comparaison
(2017)
Contemporary studies about film adaptations of literary texts face many obstacles when it comes to compare two different media. They either tend to establish how faithful the film adaptation is to its textual source or they consider the literary text as canonical, which as such cannot be transposed to any other form. This contribution aims to cross the borders of 'adaptation studies' and offers an intermedial comparison between the Grimms' tale 'Sneewittchen', first published in 1812, and 'Blancanieves', a black and white silent movie directed by Pablo Berger and released in 2012. Regarding 'Blancanieves' not only as an adaptation of the Grimms' text(s), but also and above all as a reconfiguration of numerous media forms (film, photography, opera, among others), reveals how the Spanish director differentiates himself from the German tale and creates a new story with renewed meanings which echo the current social, economical and political situation of Spain.
The erroneous translation of Aristotle's Poetics by the famous Andalusi philosopher Averroes seems to be one the fundamental reasons why an autochthon Arab theater appeared quite late, namely after the Napoleonic campaign of 1798 in Egypt which started an extensive process of acculturation between the Arab countries and the West. Our contribution will explore the first theatrical experience in the Arab world, that of the Lebanese Mārūn Naqqāš (1817-1855): as every initial experiment, his attempt is inevitably voted to errors and misunderstandings. The analysis of errors will allow us to reflect on the new readings and interpretations of Western theatrical heritage made by the first Arabic drama.
The notion of world literature is often understood as a global distribution of literary forms and structures from Europe to the rest of the globe. Under the premise that non- European literatures don't just reproduce European forms, but reinterpret and change them in the process of adaptation, world literature can be defined as a "productive misunderstanding". This article attempts to show that Orhan Pamuk's novel "Masumiyet Müzesi" ("Museum of Innocence") is in this sense a productive appropriation of European forms of the novel. Pamuk's novel is a narration about the modernization of Turkey in the 20th century, which is depicted as a chain of faulty imitation that nevertheless creates something new. Similarly, the "Museum of Innocence" is characterized by an abundance of intertextual relations to the tradition of European novel (e. g., to Proust's texts), which, however creates a "productive misunderstanding".
EINKANTER, un des derniers poèmes de Paul Celan, se penche sur Rembrandt et traduit sensiblement non seulement les traits visibles, mais également les effets et la signification de sa remarquable peinture. Les stratégies rhétoriques et poétiques de son poème répondent aux exigeances du genre de l'Ekphrasis, mais elles poursuivent en même temps le développement de sa poétique. Selon Celan, le but suprême de la poésie est de rendre possible le mystère d'une recontre avec autrui. En parlant simultanément de l'oeuvre du peintre et du poème lui-même, EINKANTER est la réalisation parfaite de cette rencontre, c'est-à-dire entre la peinture de Rembrandt et la poésie de Celan. L'article est une lecture précise du poème qui révèle les différentes procédures linguistiques de l'Ekphrasis et les conditions dans lesquelles le mystère de cette rencontre se produit.