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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.
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".
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".
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).
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.
Etymology plays a central role for Charles Olson's poetics. Based on the assumption that language precedes individual speakers and thereby always carries its long history and the traces of those who spoke it before with it, Olson's approach to it is archeological. At the same time, his work as a poet is directed towards to the future: he writes at the avant-gardist Black Mountain College and demands a new American poetry, designated as "projective verse". Conjoining these two temporal directions, Olson claims "I am an archeologist of morning". One way of paving the way for a 'poetry of morning' is uncovering the origins of words and going back to their etymological roots. Thereby, it is important to note that Olson's etymologies are mostly faulty or simplified. Often, they turn out to be quotes he found in other works. By integrating the fishy etymologies in his own writing and handling them creatively, Olson endows the words' supposed history with something new and readers who trace the wrong etymological tracks are encouraged to capture an immediate impetus of language in action. Thus, Olson's 'etymons' go hand in hand with the poetological implications of projective verse.
Der Leitfaden "Kein Asylantenheim in meiner Nachbarschaft" als Argumentationsmuster der Neonazis
(2019)
Bei dem im November 2015 online veröffentlichten Leitfaden "Kein Asylantenheim in meiner Nachbarschaft", handelt es sich um eine offizielle Publikation der politischen Partei "Der III. Weg". "Der III. Weg" ist eine Neonazi-Partei, die 2013 durch ehemalige Anhänger der rechtsextremistischen Organisation "Freies Netz Süd" gegründet wurde. Die Partei vertritt eine rechtsextremistische, fremdenfeindliche Einstellung, die sich im auf der offiziellen Webseite der Partei veröffentlichten Zehn-Punkte-Programm ausdrücklich zeigt. Der Leitfaden gehört zum öffentlich-politischen Diskurs der Partei und erfüllt eine appellative Textfunktion, für die die argumentative Themenentfaltung charakteristisch ist. Im vorliegenden Beitrag wird der Leitfaden als ein Argumentationsmuster der Neonazis angesehen, in dem sich vor allem die argumentative Themenentfaltung erkennen lässt.
'Inbuilt errans' points to the core of the concept, namely the semantic entanglement of errantry and error. Errans as the erroneous wandering or the drifting error complicates the celebration of movement, fluidity, flexibility, or even 'queering'. The rigid or stubborn aspect of errans, its erroneousness on the other hand not only accompanies but also enables its errancy. The 'rigidity' (as rigidity in flux) requires scare quotes in order to mark the ways in which these qualities might collapse when a question of 'to whom?' is posed. Through an eclectic errantry through a personal anecdote, a meme video, an ethnographic note, as well as medical history and queer theory, this text theorizes, with the help of the 'inbuild errans' of the human body, that is, its orifices, a 'radical indifference' that points to an unplanned, ambiguous, and weak while at the same time strategic, rigid, and powerful form of resistance.