Studies in Contemporary Arabic Literature

1933 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-22 ◽  
Author(s):  
H. A. R. Gibb
Keyword(s):  
Present Article ◽  
Historical Novel ◽  
Arabic Literature ◽  
The Novel ◽  
German Translation ◽  
Literary Movement ◽  
Literary Art ◽  
Long Time ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Conventional Models

The beginnings of the novel as a literary art in Egypt are so recent that the student of contemporary Arabic literature might well be excused for seeking to trace some genetic connection between its development and the earlier productions of the Syrian school of writers. But except for the possibility that the success of the Syrian novelists (whose works have been admirably described by Professor Kratchkowsky in the study frequently quoted in the previous articles of this series, and now available in a German translation) may have encouraged the Egyptian writers to produce a class of works which would appeal to the same public, the literary movement which forms the subject of the present article has remained in general entirely independent of the Syrian historical novel. Western influences, which are very marked in the later stages, have been exercised directly, but Egyptian recreational literature continued for a long time to lean rather on classical and conventional models. It is only very slowly and hesitatingly that it has emancipated itself, and its progress in this direction has been sporadic and individual rather than the result of a steady evolution.

scholarly journals Shaymaa Neamah Mohammed ALMKHELIF

2022 ◽  
Vol 04 (01) ◽  
pp. 192-200
Author(s):  
Sevsen Aziz HILAYIF
Keyword(s):  
Short Story ◽  
Historical Novel ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Detailed Explanation ◽  
Short Summary ◽  
The People ◽  
Turkish Literature ◽  
Turkish People ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Orhan Pamuk

Orhan Pamuk is considered one of the most important novelists and short story writers in Turkish Literature. The full name is Ferit Orhan Pamuk. He was born in Istanbul in 1952. He is now 69 year old and still alive. He is considered the first Turkish writer who wins Noble Prize for literature for the year 2006. He won several other prizes, one of which is Noble Prize because he has several short stories and novels. The White Castle is one of the most important novels for the author Orhan Pamuk who won the Noble Prize. It is considered a historical novel that belongs to the Ottoman Empire era in the 17th century. The novel revolves on one of the passengers who travels to Napoli through the sea. The Ottoman pirates captivate him and sell him to one of the Turkish people as slave. Both the master and the slave almost share the same features although they are from different geographic areas. The novel deals with the similarities and differences among the people of the and the people of the west in an accurate way. The concept of dream is to wish something favorable in the future. There were several types and ways of daydreams. This concept is different from one person to another. This term cannot be clearly defined because of its subjective nature. It appears in a very wide area, from the ability to maintain the thing dreamt to achieve to the world of dreams of the dreamer. Hence, the reality of daydreams is a wonderful art that is different from one person to another. We start the research by giving inclusive summary. In the Introduction, there is short summary for the life and literary personality of the Turkish author Orhan Pamuk as well as his works. The research introduces information about the novel which is the subject of the research paper. It introduces, through detailed study for the novel The White Castle, a detailed explanation about the art of dreams.

scholarly journals НОВЫЙ ПОВЕСТВОВАТЕЛЬНЫЙ МИР В ТВОРЧЕСТВЕ АКИ МОРЧИЛАДЗЕ

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (8(38)) ◽  
pp. 28-30
Author(s):  
Ната Бердзули
Keyword(s):  
Historical Novel ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Literary Texts ◽  
Postmodern Literature ◽  
Historical Information ◽  
Narrative Story ◽  
Long Time ◽  
Ancient Times ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Narrative Function

The narrative dates from a long time ago and the subject of its research was to study fundamental principles of narration.It is so old that the ideas of its structure have been developed in the ancient times. The etymology of the term "narrative", is derived from the Latin and its meaning is narration. This term was emerged in the literary studies as a result of novelist works by Roland Bart, Claude Bremann, Cvetan Todorov and others. In the twentieth century, many theories were created about the narrative, and in the same century, the main analytical components of narrative - story, sound, time, point of view, character, role were established.Narrative can be considered as a feature of postmodernism, because narrative sources take special significance in postmodernism.While researching modern literature a significant function is given to the variety of narrative usages. The aim of the theme is to research the narrative function on the basis of comparative analysis of Aka Morchiladze's creative works.Aka Morchiladze's novels are filled with familiar literary or historical motives, acting people, stories, but itcreates a different reality through narrative or literary plays.The author creates a narrative text based on literary texts and "historical information". Historical information that is used in the text does not correspond to reality, and we, the readers, think that we are about to learn “historical novel” and the narrator is a historian,-not a novelist. Finally, we realize that we deal with the "fake history", allusion of writer's fantasy and literary and historical facts. Therefore, with regards of the presented issues, it is necessary to take into consideration the specificity of postmodern literature and peculiarities of realization of this specificity in Georgian reality. Narrative sources are of particular importance in postmodernism, which is one of the most important elements of the study of the text to be analyzed.

scholarly journals “Own” and “alien” space in the novel “Dead Men Walking” by Steve Lyons

2021 ◽  
pp. 79-86
Author(s):  
Evgenii Vadimovich Vasil'ev
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Literary Text ◽  
Literary Studies ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Historical Method ◽  
Long Time ◽  
The Subject

The subject of this research is the peculiarities of organization of space in the novel “Dead Men Walking” by Steve Lyons from the perspective opposition “own – alien”. The research employs the cultural-historical method and comparative analysis. The article examines the peculiarities of perception of space in the novel. The basic conflict is association with intervention of the alien civilization on the planet of people. Emphasis is placed on the fact that the war erases the boundaries of “own” and “alien”, each of parties to the conflict has reason to believe that the planet is “their own”. The characters of the novel are divided into “living” and “dead”, which complicates the conflict and organization of space even more. Space in the literary text is the subject of multiple scientific articles. However, the works dedicated to examination of space in S. Lyons’ novel are not featured in modern literary studies, which defines the scientific novelty of this research. The conclusion is drawn that  for humanity and for alien civilization space is simultaneously “own” and “alien”, since other civilization existed on the planet for a long time prior to the arrival of humans. Moreover, the organization of space is complicated by the arrival of human forces of rom other planet, who were unfamiliar with the concept of “own” space at all, which affects the course of war and determines the fate of the characters in the novel. Such approach demonstrates that the concept of “own” and “alien” in the novel is vague due to the fact that it is impossible to unambiguously attribute the planet neither to “own” nor “alien” space.

scholarly journals NOVEL STUDY IN LEARNING HISTORY (Descriptive Analytical Study of the Ability of the History Education Department Students in Appreciating Novel)

2016 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 235
Author(s):  
Wildan Insan Fauzi
Keyword(s):  
Analytical Study ◽  
Historical Novel ◽  
History Education ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Education Department ◽  
Text Book ◽  
Learning History ◽  
History Learning ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Value Learning

The background of this study is the writer’s concern about history learning which only focus on rote learning and text book that makes the student drown into the sea of facts. Therefore, it is true what Tolstoy said that history is nothing but useless collection of stories which aimed is only for “entertainment”. In fact, the aim of Novel study can balance the intellectual side and the value learning, give a better chance to remind various history facts, and make history learning become more enjoyable. However, these purposes need to be supported by the history teacher’s ability in appreciating historical novel. The focus of this paper is “how good is the History Education Department students appreciating novel in history learning?” This research study used qualitative approach to find a complex and holistic picture about the subject being studied. Besides, the researcher also uses the phenomenology approach which is used in understanding how the students sense their experience when studying the novel and use to observe the perception, ideas, imagination, emotion, desire, willingness, and action they showed when they analyse the historical novel.

scholarly journals Image-creating features of an outstanding Cossack — the hero of the novel “Chase” by Y. Mushketyk

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Olha Fedorenko
Keyword(s):  
Fairy Tales ◽  
Historical Novel ◽  
Practical Significance ◽  
First Person ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Good Sense ◽  
Present Stage ◽  
Sense Of Humor ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Road Novel

The subject of the study is the interpretation of the folklore image of an outstanding Cossack character in the historical novel at the turn of the XX–XXI centuries. The appeal of this genre at the present stage to fictional sources and techniques, including myth, parables, fairy tales, fiction, games, compilations, violations of space-time linearity, etc., is a problematic field of wider research. The aim of the article is to determine functioning peculiarities of outstanding Cossack’s image in the artistic world of novel “Chase” by Y. Mushketyk. Results of the Study allowed to claim that in his novel “Chase” (1997) Y. Mushketyk modelled history in accordance to the modern tradition. The artist took the historical era of the Ruins as the basis of his story and led further narration on the principle of road, no wonder that at first sight the novel can be taken as an adventure novel. Pointing out the heredity of generations of outstanding Cossacks, the author prepares readers for perception of the hero, whose unusual abilities he reveals diversely throughout the work. Depicting a colorful portrait of Cossack Semen Belokobylka like a chimerical appearance of Cossack Mamai, Y. Mushketyk gives the novel “Chase” signs of a chimerical genre. According to the genre of road novel Y. Mushketyk reveals unusual abilities of the Cossack in lots of episodes of his journey. With the help of first person singular narration (“I-narration”), the artist transfers his feelings and emotions in extremely difficult conditions. Y. Mushketik gives the Cossack a good sense of humor as a part of his lifestyle. Liveliness gives the Cossack the power to continue the journey and complete the mission to rescue his brethren. In the reflections of outstanding Cossack, the author expresses the idea of the unity of Ukraine and Ukrainians, touches the problem of sense of living, giving the novel features of philosophical genre, significance and relevance of the present. The practical significance of the research results is the ability to form a model for the transformation of the folklore image into a literary one, extending the material of the study to other works of this genre and period.

scholarly journals Interrogating Strategies of Justice and Racial Politics: A Post-colonial Reading of Abir Mukherjee’s A Rising Man

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Febin Vijay ◽  
Priyanka Tripathi
Keyword(s):  
Present Article ◽  
Racial Politics ◽  
Crime Fiction ◽  
The Body ◽  
Subject Position ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Historical Account ◽  
Post Colonial ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Colonial Text

The present article begins with a brief historical account of the exclusionary politics of Western crime fiction, with most of the works representing the East as ‘exotic other’ while assuming the subject position themselves. A post-colonial analysis of Abir Mukherjee’s A Rising Man (2016) is conducted to study how the novel deals with questions of justice and racial politics, and further encompasses a brief inquiry into it can be positioned as an anti-colonial text which advocates a move towards decolonization. The text can be seen as representing the body of work by writers who give voice to the oppressed within colonial contexts and vehemently refuse the idea of being inferior.

scholarly journals DEPORTATION OF THE SOVIET GERMANS THROUGH THE EYES OF A CHILD IN THE NOVELETTE: EXPERIENCE OF REFLECTION AND AUTOREFLECTION

Keruen ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 66 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
E.I. Zeyfert ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Present Article ◽  
The Other ◽  
Central Character ◽  
The Novel ◽  
German Culture ◽  
International Union ◽  
Main Plot ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Russian Germans

Data for study in the present article is the anthology of literature of the Russian Germans «The rumble of sounds is in the air» having been issued following the anthology of the Russian Germans literature of the second half of the XX – early XXI century «Towards the mistrustful sun». A genre palette of the new edition is the following: a novel, a novelette, a story, a miniature and a schwank. The book has been prepared for printing by the Institute of Ethnocultural Education in cooperation with the International Union of the German Culture. Due to the announced subject, i.e. deportation of the Soviet Germans through the eyes of a child, such works as «Our Yard» by Gugo Vorsmbekher, «The Nonfictional Landscape» by Olegа Klingа, «The Nonwoven of Fate» by Nellie Kossko and «The Melting Boat. The Karaganda novelet» by Elena Zeyfert, giving the experience of an autoreflection, are analyzed. Deportation of the Russian Germans through the child's eyes is shown at the Russian Germans mainly in the novelette; the subject is the character or the story-teller character. «The Nonfictional Landscape» by O. Klinga flickers between the novel and the story. Its poetics gravitates toward the specific for the novelette historical sight and two spheres of «friend or for». The genre of the novelette is interesting to the authors not only with the tendency to one main plot, the central character which is easy for attaching to the child. Constant is the historical sight of the novelette. The child can’t realize the originality of the situation which he is in. He just lives, noticing singularity of adults’ behavior remaining at that in the children’s world. He experiences recurrence of time altogether with the cycles of his own life. Such is Sasha of Klinga, Fritz of Vormsbekher, Emma of Kossko and Mariyka of Zeyfert. The other reason lies in the sphere of the internal movement of the plot and chronotope: the hero leaves from one valuable (and an existential point) in another and then comes back.

scholarly journals BUNIN AND GOGOL: UKRAINIAN FACTOR, OR BETWEEN ORYOL REGION AND PROVENCE

2021 ◽  
pp. 3-22
Author(s):  
Yurii Barabash
Keyword(s):  
Analytical Approach ◽  
Negative Attitude ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Creative Imagination ◽  
Old World ◽  
Creative Methods ◽  
Literary Art ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Psychological Features ◽  
Scholarly Discourse

The gap as long as several decades between I. Bunin’s different opinions of Gogol’s personality and writings — from youthful admiration and feeling of emotional and spiritual proximity to the confession of ‘hatred’ in a diary note of emigrant times — has been considered both as historical-literary fact and psychological mysterious phenomenon. The key problem determining the angle of an analytical approach to the topic is the role and significance of the ‘Ukrainian factor’ in Bunin’s biography and literary art, his interest and affection towards Ukraine, its people, nature, history, traditions, and culture, which was testified by the writer’s confessions and became the subject of research in the Ukrainian scholarly discourse and journalism (E. Malaniuk). In that light, the stories by Bunin based on his traveling around Ukraine, the parts of the novel “Аrseniev’s life”, memoir and epistolary materials have been analyzed in the paper. Special attention has been paid to Bunin’s tender attitude towards T. Shevchenko, his creative works and his personality. It was Shevchenko’s poetry as well as “A Terrible Revenge” and “The Old-World Landowners” by Gogol that revealed Ukraine to young Bunin, entering his conscience and creative imagination. As to the later Bunin’s negative attitude towards Gogol, the decisive factors were dissimilarity of both writers’ personal and psychological features and difference of their creative methods and poetics, connected with the change of historical and literary paradigm. In particular, Gogol was the forerunner to modernism from which Bunin stayed away.

Temporalitatea internă a romanului românesc (1844-1932)

Transilvania ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 22-32 ◽  
Author(s):  
Radu Vancu ◽  
Alex Goldiș ◽  
Ovio Olaru ◽  
Vlad Pojoga ◽  
Teodora Susarenco ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Present Article ◽  
Historical Novel ◽  
Temporal Distribution ◽  
The Novel ◽  
World War ◽  
World War One ◽  
Contemporary Novel ◽  
The Past ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship

The present article follows the relationship of the Romanian novelistic output between 1901 and 1932 with time and temporal distribution. Its emphasis falls on the degree of correlation between the time of publication and the time during which the events unfold for each corresponding novel, expressed through a variable coined “distance”. By making use of this variable, the temporal distribution of the novelistic corpus in the article clearly shows that the novelists’ focus gradually shifts towards contemporary events; while during the period between 1900 up until the outbreak of World War One, novelists were inclined to place the events of their works in the past, the War seems to have triggered an acute preoccupation with the immediate present. Lastly, the text touches upon two distinct subgenres of the novel, arisen out of their relationship to time, namely the historical novel and the so-called ‘contemporary novel’.

Synthetic Rubber. Its Industrial Production in the U. S. S. R.

1935 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 430-436
Author(s):  
I. G. Akobzhanov
Keyword(s):  
Present Article ◽  
Industrial Production ◽  
Chemical Process ◽  
Technical Information ◽  
Raw Material ◽  
Synthetic Rubber ◽  
Industrial Synthesis ◽  
Long Time ◽  
Laboratory Procedures ◽  
The Subject

Abstract The subject of synthetic rubber has not been neglected in the literature. However, all the publications, including those of Harries or some of the work of Dubosc and Luttringer or even the less complete works such as articles by Jacobs and by Whitby and Katz, contain systematic discussions of the various possibilities of synthesizing rubber, but these deal only with established laboratory procedures, which are for the most part theoretical for the very reason that they have been merely abstract researches and have not been applied on an industrial scale. It should, however, be mentioned that the recent publications of Carothers and his collaborators are not of this character, and Gottlob, who described the great efforts in the Beyer and Co. plant at Leverkusen where 200 tons per month of synthetic rubber were produced during the war, should likewise not be overlooked. Nevertheless a description of this latter process is not of much practical value, because it deals with a process which was abandoned a long time ago. As far as any interest today in the industrial synthesis of rubber is concerned, there is only the work being carried out in U. S. S. R. The author would refer economists and rubber technologists who may be interested in the details to his earlier article, and the purpose of the present article is limited to a detailed survey of the chemical process as applied in the U. S. S. R., leaving out of consideration an analysis of the reasons why it has been considered necessary in the U. S. S. R. to carry out this undertaking, and why ethyl alcohol has been adopted as a raw material for the synthesis of the new rubber, and leaving out of consideration all the statistics of the development of this industry and also technical information for the use of this new substance in rubber factories.

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