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Papers by Muhamet Hamiti
XLinguae, Apr 1, 2020
This paper shall examine the translation of the German modal particle (MP) wohl into English and ... more This paper shall examine the translation of the German modal particle (MP) wohl into English and Albanian, using a literary corpus, namely the first three chapters of Thomas Mann's The Magic Mountain; 80 occurrences of the MP wohl in German. This is of particular interest, as German is considered a language rich in particles, whereas English and Albanian are poor in this respect. MPs in German belong to the linguistic means that serve to express modality. Modality is a semantic category that expresses the speaker's attitude on the validity of the facts to which the statement relates. One could also conceive of modality as the expression of the speaker's attitude to a proposition. The object of this research paper, therefore, is to determine the equivalents in English and Albanian of German MP wohl. The paper establishes the palette of linguistic means available in English and Albanian, respectively, to transfer the meaning of the German MP wohl. The results of our corpus analysis, based on the English and Albanian translations of Mann's novel, prove that there are no direct equivalents of the German MP wohl in the two translating languages, but that there are varying degrees to which the speaker attitude is translated into English and Albanian.
International Journal of Cultural Studies, May 17, 2017
Kosovo declared its independence nine years ago, and, with more than 100 UN countries recognizing... more Kosovo declared its independence nine years ago, and, with more than 100 UN countries recognizing the new country already, it has emerged as a new nation on the political map of the world. The article discusses Kosovo's emergence as a nation and state and its ramifications for political discourse and indeed national or pan-national politics in Kosovo and Albania in the first place. How did writers and fighters-representatives of cultural enlightenment and militant struggle-create an autonomous Kosovar polity initially, before it became an independent country in its own right at the turn of the century and millennium? Will there soon be separate histories of Albanian and Kosovar national literature, culture, art, etc., against this backdrop? These and a range of other issues will be explored.
Kosovo declared its independence nine years ago, and, with more than 100 UN countries recognizing... more Kosovo declared its independence nine years ago, and, with more than 100 UN countries recognizing the new country already, it has emerged as a new nation on the political map of the world. The article discusses Kosovo's emergence as a nation and state and its ramifications for political discourse and indeed national or pan-national politics in Kosovo and Albania in the first place. How did writers and fighters-representatives of cultural enlightenment and militant struggle-create an autonomous Kosovar polity initially, before it became an independent country in its own right at the turn of the century and millennium? Will there soon be separate histories of Albanian and Kosovar national literature, culture, art, etc., against this backdrop? These and a range of other issues will be explored.
This article identifies the existence of narrative aspects in dramatic monologues chiefly by disc... more This article identifies the existence of narrative aspects in dramatic monologues chiefly by discerning commonalities between dramatic monologists and first-person narrators in prose. It establishes that narrative concepts such as fictional self-making, strategic techniques employed to construct fictional identity, dissonant/consonant self-narration, discursive choices, reliability and intentionality of the monologue, as well as temporal aspect (temporality of speech act, temporality of action, and frequency of narrated events) can be detected in this poetic form. The interdisciplinary approach this article proposes is tested out on a narrative reading of Browning's "Pictor Ignotus," "Porphyria's Lover," and Tennyson's "St. Simeon Stylites," followed by a comparative reading of Poe's short story "The Cask of Amontillado" and Browning's "My Last Duchess." Based on these analyses, we suggest that first-person narrators and dramatic monologists are engaged in projecting their identities through the narrative text, that they intentionally convey ideologies through the narrating act and control narrative aspects such as time, presentation of characters and scenes in order to claim ownership of the narrative. Keywords dramatic monologue; first-person narratives; fictional self-making; discursive choices; narrative strategies. Authors Arta Hallaçi is Teaching Assistant of English Literature and Ph.D. Candidate at the University of Prishtina "Hasan Prishtina." Her research is focused on first-person literary narratives, fictional identities and strategies used to control the outcome of narrative. She is a member of the editorial board of the literary journal "Jeta e Re" in Kosovo, and a translator of literary criticism. She has recently presented a section of her dissertation in the
Seminari Ndërkombëtar për Gjuhën, Letërsinë dhe Kulturën Shqiptare, 2017
Academic Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies, 2022
The relationship between literature and philosophy has led to the inflow of 'small' liter... more The relationship between literature and philosophy has led to the inflow of 'small' literature from 'big' literatures within the interaction between literary time and literary space with a propensity to emerge ‘big' again in another literary time and space. The most influential factor in ‘making it new' or 'from big to small, and big again' turns out to be time on account of the fact that the literary creator, namely the poet, is mortal. Since the existence of a poet as a creator turns out to be ‘temporal’, ‘making it new’ turns out to be vital for the next temporality. Therefore, this paper, using the document research method, examines Pound's poetry refracted through the time and literary space of his creative existence, as the urge for translation became an influential factor for Pound himself as a ‘new’ author. Thus, the paper analyses ‘temporal overlapping’ under the inspiring influence of Pound's poetic re-creation, either as a conversio...
Balkanistic Forum
This article focuses on stylistic choices in the novel Im atë donte Adolfin (My father loved Adol... more This article focuses on stylistic choices in the novel Im atë donte Adolfin (My father loved Adolph) by the Albanian author in Kosovo Mehmet Kraja (2005) as a strategy to generate a post-communist perspective of interpreting history. By blending first-person narration as confidentiality and third-person narration as conventionality (Barthes, 1978), the possessive construction ‘my father’ in this literary text serves both as referential label and deictic, generating dual focalization (Phelan, 2005). The heterodiegetic narrator is positioned simultaneously as a neutral eye witnessing narrator and as a signal of subjectivity. Even in cases of intradiegetic role the narrator remains detached interweaving his voice with the voice of the character. The synchronized overt and distant narratorial stances in this novel correspond with the demonstration of historical discourse as both subjective and factual narration. The relationship between fiction and truth has been widely treated in the p...
Balkanistic Forum
This article focuses on stylistic choices in the novel Im atë donte Adolfin (My father loved Adol... more This article focuses on stylistic choices in the novel Im atë donte Adolfin (My father loved Adolph) by the Albanian author in Kosovo Mehmet Kraja (2005) as a strategy to generate a post-communist perspective of interpreting history. By blending first-person narration as confidentiality and third-person narration as conventionality (Barthes, 1978), the possessive construction ‘my father’ in this literary text serves both as referential label and deictic, generating dual focalization (Phelan, 2005). The heterodiegetic narrator is positioned simultaneously as a neutral eye witnessing narrator and as a signal of subjectivity. Even in cases of intradiegetic role the narrator remains detached interweaving his voice with the voice of the character. The synchronized overt and distant narratorial stances in this novel correspond with the demonstration of historical discourse as both subjective and factual narration. The relationship between fiction and truth has been widely treated in the p...
International Journal of Cultural Studies
Kosovo declared its independence nine years ago, and, with more than 100 UN countries recognizing... more Kosovo declared its independence nine years ago, and, with more than 100 UN countries recognizing the new country already, it has emerged as a new nation on the political map of the world. The article discusses Kosovo’s emergence as a nation and state and its ramifications for political discourse and indeed national or pan-national politics in Kosovo and Albania in the first place. How did writers and fighters – representatives of cultural enlightenment and militant struggle – create an autonomous Kosovar polity initially, before it became an independent country in its own right at the turn of the century and millennium? Will there soon be separate histories of Albanian and Kosovar national literature, culture, art, etc., against this backdrop? These and a range of other issues will be explored.
XLinguae, Apr 1, 2020
This paper shall examine the translation of the German modal particle (MP) wohl into English and ... more This paper shall examine the translation of the German modal particle (MP) wohl into English and Albanian, using a literary corpus, namely the first three chapters of Thomas Mann's The Magic Mountain; 80 occurrences of the MP wohl in German. This is of particular interest, as German is considered a language rich in particles, whereas English and Albanian are poor in this respect. MPs in German belong to the linguistic means that serve to express modality. Modality is a semantic category that expresses the speaker's attitude on the validity of the facts to which the statement relates. One could also conceive of modality as the expression of the speaker's attitude to a proposition. The object of this research paper, therefore, is to determine the equivalents in English and Albanian of German MP wohl. The paper establishes the palette of linguistic means available in English and Albanian, respectively, to transfer the meaning of the German MP wohl. The results of our corpus analysis, based on the English and Albanian translations of Mann's novel, prove that there are no direct equivalents of the German MP wohl in the two translating languages, but that there are varying degrees to which the speaker attitude is translated into English and Albanian.
International Journal of Cultural Studies, May 17, 2017
Kosovo declared its independence nine years ago, and, with more than 100 UN countries recognizing... more Kosovo declared its independence nine years ago, and, with more than 100 UN countries recognizing the new country already, it has emerged as a new nation on the political map of the world. The article discusses Kosovo's emergence as a nation and state and its ramifications for political discourse and indeed national or pan-national politics in Kosovo and Albania in the first place. How did writers and fighters-representatives of cultural enlightenment and militant struggle-create an autonomous Kosovar polity initially, before it became an independent country in its own right at the turn of the century and millennium? Will there soon be separate histories of Albanian and Kosovar national literature, culture, art, etc., against this backdrop? These and a range of other issues will be explored.
Kosovo declared its independence nine years ago, and, with more than 100 UN countries recognizing... more Kosovo declared its independence nine years ago, and, with more than 100 UN countries recognizing the new country already, it has emerged as a new nation on the political map of the world. The article discusses Kosovo's emergence as a nation and state and its ramifications for political discourse and indeed national or pan-national politics in Kosovo and Albania in the first place. How did writers and fighters-representatives of cultural enlightenment and militant struggle-create an autonomous Kosovar polity initially, before it became an independent country in its own right at the turn of the century and millennium? Will there soon be separate histories of Albanian and Kosovar national literature, culture, art, etc., against this backdrop? These and a range of other issues will be explored.
This article identifies the existence of narrative aspects in dramatic monologues chiefly by disc... more This article identifies the existence of narrative aspects in dramatic monologues chiefly by discerning commonalities between dramatic monologists and first-person narrators in prose. It establishes that narrative concepts such as fictional self-making, strategic techniques employed to construct fictional identity, dissonant/consonant self-narration, discursive choices, reliability and intentionality of the monologue, as well as temporal aspect (temporality of speech act, temporality of action, and frequency of narrated events) can be detected in this poetic form. The interdisciplinary approach this article proposes is tested out on a narrative reading of Browning's "Pictor Ignotus," "Porphyria's Lover," and Tennyson's "St. Simeon Stylites," followed by a comparative reading of Poe's short story "The Cask of Amontillado" and Browning's "My Last Duchess." Based on these analyses, we suggest that first-person narrators and dramatic monologists are engaged in projecting their identities through the narrative text, that they intentionally convey ideologies through the narrating act and control narrative aspects such as time, presentation of characters and scenes in order to claim ownership of the narrative. Keywords dramatic monologue; first-person narratives; fictional self-making; discursive choices; narrative strategies. Authors Arta Hallaçi is Teaching Assistant of English Literature and Ph.D. Candidate at the University of Prishtina "Hasan Prishtina." Her research is focused on first-person literary narratives, fictional identities and strategies used to control the outcome of narrative. She is a member of the editorial board of the literary journal "Jeta e Re" in Kosovo, and a translator of literary criticism. She has recently presented a section of her dissertation in the
Seminari Ndërkombëtar për Gjuhën, Letërsinë dhe Kulturën Shqiptare, 2017
Academic Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies, 2022
The relationship between literature and philosophy has led to the inflow of 'small' liter... more The relationship between literature and philosophy has led to the inflow of 'small' literature from 'big' literatures within the interaction between literary time and literary space with a propensity to emerge ‘big' again in another literary time and space. The most influential factor in ‘making it new' or 'from big to small, and big again' turns out to be time on account of the fact that the literary creator, namely the poet, is mortal. Since the existence of a poet as a creator turns out to be ‘temporal’, ‘making it new’ turns out to be vital for the next temporality. Therefore, this paper, using the document research method, examines Pound's poetry refracted through the time and literary space of his creative existence, as the urge for translation became an influential factor for Pound himself as a ‘new’ author. Thus, the paper analyses ‘temporal overlapping’ under the inspiring influence of Pound's poetic re-creation, either as a conversio...
Balkanistic Forum
This article focuses on stylistic choices in the novel Im atë donte Adolfin (My father loved Adol... more This article focuses on stylistic choices in the novel Im atë donte Adolfin (My father loved Adolph) by the Albanian author in Kosovo Mehmet Kraja (2005) as a strategy to generate a post-communist perspective of interpreting history. By blending first-person narration as confidentiality and third-person narration as conventionality (Barthes, 1978), the possessive construction ‘my father’ in this literary text serves both as referential label and deictic, generating dual focalization (Phelan, 2005). The heterodiegetic narrator is positioned simultaneously as a neutral eye witnessing narrator and as a signal of subjectivity. Even in cases of intradiegetic role the narrator remains detached interweaving his voice with the voice of the character. The synchronized overt and distant narratorial stances in this novel correspond with the demonstration of historical discourse as both subjective and factual narration. The relationship between fiction and truth has been widely treated in the p...
Balkanistic Forum
This article focuses on stylistic choices in the novel Im atë donte Adolfin (My father loved Adol... more This article focuses on stylistic choices in the novel Im atë donte Adolfin (My father loved Adolph) by the Albanian author in Kosovo Mehmet Kraja (2005) as a strategy to generate a post-communist perspective of interpreting history. By blending first-person narration as confidentiality and third-person narration as conventionality (Barthes, 1978), the possessive construction ‘my father’ in this literary text serves both as referential label and deictic, generating dual focalization (Phelan, 2005). The heterodiegetic narrator is positioned simultaneously as a neutral eye witnessing narrator and as a signal of subjectivity. Even in cases of intradiegetic role the narrator remains detached interweaving his voice with the voice of the character. The synchronized overt and distant narratorial stances in this novel correspond with the demonstration of historical discourse as both subjective and factual narration. The relationship between fiction and truth has been widely treated in the p...
International Journal of Cultural Studies
Kosovo declared its independence nine years ago, and, with more than 100 UN countries recognizing... more Kosovo declared its independence nine years ago, and, with more than 100 UN countries recognizing the new country already, it has emerged as a new nation on the political map of the world. The article discusses Kosovo’s emergence as a nation and state and its ramifications for political discourse and indeed national or pan-national politics in Kosovo and Albania in the first place. How did writers and fighters – representatives of cultural enlightenment and militant struggle – create an autonomous Kosovar polity initially, before it became an independent country in its own right at the turn of the century and millennium? Will there soon be separate histories of Albanian and Kosovar national literature, culture, art, etc., against this backdrop? These and a range of other issues will be explored.