Some General Ideas & the Novel

Worldview ◽  
1981 ◽  
Vol 24 (4) ◽  
pp. 5-6
Author(s):  
Samuel Hux
Keyword(s):  
Herman Melville ◽  
Vladimir Nabokov ◽  
Public Deliberation ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Mary Mccarthy ◽  
Royal Decree ◽  
The Public ◽  
Points Of View ◽  
The Right ◽  
Pius Ix

Granted the great Spanish reactionary thinker Juan Donoso'Cortes was defending the absoluteness of royal decree when he characterized “discussion” as “the universal dissolvent” that “has destroyed your adversaries, and will destroy yourself” and announced, “As to me, I am resolved not to tolerate it.” But since a politics without public deliberation makes the sense of a religion without prayer or a literature deficient in the rhythms of thought, and since he was writing in 1851 (ironically about the same time that Herman Melville was discussing practically everything in Moby Dick), his words have been intruding on my reading the last few weeks. Donoso-Cortes's fame, if he has any, rests in part on Pius IX having borrowed some of his points of view in writing the Syllabus of Errors. Were Vladimir Nabokov, quirky genuis, to compile a syllabus, one error would be the discussion of “general ideas” by literary critics, another the discussion of Big Topics by characters in a novel. Mary McCarthy is resolved not to tolerate the intolerance, pushy mensch that she is, and claims the right “granted to the Jewish novel” and “never conceded to us goys“—that is, “to juggle ideas in full view of the public.”

The Priority of Public Reasons and Religious Forms of Life in Constitutional Democracies

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 45
Author(s):  
Cristina Lafont
Keyword(s):  
Public Sphere ◽  
Religious Beliefs ◽  
Public Deliberation ◽  
The Public ◽  
Difficult Question ◽  
Political Deliberation ◽  
Forms Of Life ◽  
The Public Sphere ◽  
The Right ◽  
Mutual Accountability

In this essay I address the difficult question of how citizens with conflicting religious and secular views can fulfill the democratic obligation of justifying the imposition of coercive policies to others with reasons that they can also accept. After discussing the difficulties of proposals that either exclude religious beliefs from public deliberation or include them without any restrictions, I argue instead for a policy of mutual accountability that imposes the same deliberative rights and obligations on all democratic citizens. The main advantage of this proposal is that it recognizes the right of all democratic citizens to adopt their own cognitive stance (whether religious or secular) in political deliberation in the public sphere without giving up on the democratic obligation to provide reasons acceptable to everyone to justify coercive policies with which all citizens must comply.

scholarly journals De l’utilité des théories linguistiques et littéraires lors d’un procès d’écrivain : L’exemple du procès intenté à la romancière française Christine Angot

2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 11
Author(s):  
Nathalie Hauksson-Tresch
Keyword(s):  
Real Life ◽  
Private Life ◽  
The Novel ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Right

Christine Angot claims the right to feed her novelistic universe mainly with facts from her real life. This radicalism earned her a conviction in court, on May 27, 2013, for violation of private life in the novel Les petits. She was convicted for turning a real recognizable person of her entourage, into an unflattering novel character. The Parisian Court found that Les petits, could not be described as a "novel", despite the assertions of the author and her publisher, and despite the fact that it is presented to the public with the qualification “novel” in the paratext. This position seems extreme in so far as the magistrates choose to ignore the notion of genre, a notion still fundamental today. One can, as a matter of fact, argue that the genre should be considered constitutive of the meaning, and accept that the interpretation depends on the genre, that it is genre-bound. To that extent, to simply discard the notion of genre seems unacceptable. To counter the reasoning of the Court, Angot develops a certain number of arguments that will be addressed using the theories of Genette, Searle and Cohn. We will come to the conclusion that by taking into account literary and linguistic theories, and therefore the manner in which an eventual breach in privacy occurred, the Court could have made a fairer and more readily accepted decision, or at least one more in accordance with the rule of proportionality expected in every democracy.  

Don’t Just Widen One Lens; Instead Use Many

2011 ◽  
Vol 17 (12) ◽  
pp. 1549-1558
Author(s):  
Robert Walker ◽  
James J. Clark
Keyword(s):  
Ethical Issues ◽  
Reflective Equilibrium ◽  
Ethical Question ◽  
End Effects ◽  
Wide Reflective Equilibrium ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
The Public ◽  
Rule Compliance ◽  
Points Of View ◽  
The Right

This paper responds to the commentaries offered by Mulla and Hlavka, Conte, Cerulli, and Cromer and Newman. We reflect on their differing points of view, attempt clarifications, and then re-state our central concern in regard to research ethics in studies of violence against women. We think that IRB-oriented approaches suffer from too much rule adherence, too much focus on doing things the right way and too little attention to the larger ethical question of to how figure out the right things to do. We continue to raise concern about inept research as potentially damaging to a class of persons, not to the specific subjects of any particular study. Thus, we see not just a matter of poor design, mishandling of analyses, or even of clumsy inferences from the data in some research; these errors are correctible by better training and review. But these errors also have the potential for misleading the public and policy makers and thus suggest ethical dimensions to clumsy work. We conclude by proposing use of wide reflective equilibrium as a way of entering into deeper dialogue about the complex ethical issues surrounding this field of research. Hopefully, we can move beyond mere rule compliance to seriously considering the end effects of our science.

scholarly journals Nabokow w masy: Obrona Łużyna na dużym ekranie

2019 ◽  
pp. 113-128
Author(s):  
Natalia Popovich
Keyword(s):  
Vladimir Nabokov ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Female Character ◽  
Chess Player ◽  
Original Text ◽  
The Novel ◽  
The Public ◽  
Love Story ◽  
New Interpretation ◽  
Love Triangle

The intellectual prose of Vladimir Nabokov is not easy to be filmed. Thus, filmmakers have made a lot of changes in the original text. The goal of The Luzhin Defence creators’ was to show a completely new interpretation of Nabokov’s novel and present it to the public. This is why they simplified the plot, added some dynamism, made it more epic and attractive (love triangle, Luzhin’s mother’ suicide, erotic scenes, conspiracy, kidnapping, failed wedding). Luzhin’s childhood has been presented as a series of flashbacks. The hierarchy of characters has been changed: two equivalent characters are in the center (Luzhin and Natalia). All other characters have been given their first names and their biography. The film is spiced with feminism: the female character is stronger than in the novel and the story of a chess player (Luzhin) is presented from the feminist director’s point of view. Love story is placed in the center of the plot and it covers the topic of the game of chess. The motif of chess is connected with an extra independent character providing comments about chess to a viewer. Nabokov’s idea about the transcendental nature of arts, madness as the price for being a genius, is not presented in the film. The conflict in the film is not about metaphysics, but about intrigues and envy. Additionally, the plot has been complemented with an epilog to Nabokov’s story. After Luzhin’s suicide Natalia finishes the championship chess match by following his notes about the game and takes a revenge.

scholarly journals PERJUANGAN KESETARAAN GENDER TOKOH INTAN DALAM NOVEL ALUN SAMUDRA RASA KARYA ARDINI PANGASTUTI BN (Struggle of Intan Character for Gender Equality in Novel Alun Samudra Rasa by Ardini Pangastuti Bn)

Kandai ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 261
Author(s):  
Sa'adatun Nuril Hidayah ◽  
Slamet Subiyantoro ◽  
Nugraheni Eko Wardani
Keyword(s):  
Gender Equality ◽  
Descriptive Analysis ◽  
Research Data ◽  
The Novel ◽  
The Public ◽  
Life Problems ◽  
Making Choices ◽  
Qualitative Descriptive ◽  
The Public Sphere ◽  
The Right

Permasalahan kaum perempuan disebabkan oleh berbagai hal seperti hak dalam pengambilan keputusan, menunjukkan eksistensinya di ruang publik, hak memperoleh kesempatan bekerja, hak memperoleh pendidikan, serta masih banyak hal-hal yang membatasi ruang gerak perempuan untuk menunjukkan eksistensi dirinya. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengungkapkan Perjuangan kesetaraan gender yang dialami oleh perempuan tergambar dalam karya sastra, Novel Alun Samudra Rasa mengangkat tentang perjuangan kesetaraan gender antara tokoh perempuan dan laki-laki. Penelitian ini menggunakan teori Feminisme. Teori Feminisme digunakan untuk mengkaji bagaimana bentuk perjuangan kesetaraan gender tokoh utama perempuan dalam novel tersebut. Metode yang digunakan dalam penelitian ini adalah kualitatif deskriptif analisis. Sumber data penelitain berupa novel Alun Samudra Rasa karya Ardini Pangastuti Bn. Data penelitian berupa kata, frasa, kalimat dan wacana. Hasil penelitian ini menunjukkan bahwa bentuk perjuangan kesetaraan gender yang ditemukan dalam novel yaitu peran publik dan produktif, kebebasan bagi perempuan dalam menentukan pilihan, ketegaran dalam menghadapi permasalahan hidup, dan perjuangan dalam menuntut keadilan hak-hak perempuan.(Women's problems are caused by various things such as rights in decision making, showing their existence in the public sphere, the right to get the opportunity to work, the right to education, and many things that limit women's movement to show their existence. This study aims to reveal the struggle for gender equality experienced by women illustrated in literary works, Novel Alun Samudra Rasa about the struggle for gender equality between female and male leaders. This research uses the theory of feminism. The theory of feminism is used to examine the form of the struggle for gender equality of the main female characters in the novel. The method used in this study is qualitative descriptive analysis. The research data source was Alun Samudra Rasa novel by Ardini Pangastuti Bn. Research data in the form of words, phrases, sentences and discourses. The results of this study indicate that the form of gender equality struggle found in the novel is the role of public and productive, freedom for women in making choices, determination in facing life problems, and struggle in demanding justice for women's rights.)

scholarly journals Buffoonery in the Speech of the Character and the Issue of Historical Form in the Novel The Winter of Our Discontent by J. Steinbeck

2021 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
pp. 60-70
Author(s):  
Kapitalina V. Sinegubova ◽  
Anastasia A. Aksenova
Keyword(s):  
High Intensity ◽  
Literary Work ◽  
First Person ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Picaresque Novel ◽  
General Thesis ◽  
Household Environment ◽  
Points Of View ◽  
The Right

The intention is to explain some aspects of hybridization of language consciousness in this literary work. The aim of the study is to clarify the issue of a word in the novel, which was updated by M.M. Bakhtin. The general thesis is that the tendency to hybridization explains the juxtaposition of serious and funny within the characters utterance: the border between prosaic reality and the characters own world is found precisely when he turns to jokes. The speech of the character indicates a tendency to aestheticize the household environment. This trend leads to a high-intensity hybridization of everyday words and Holy Scripture . The novel The Winter of Our Discontent is more than a didactic literary work and reveals some features of the picaresque novel, but the necessary feature of the picaresque novel is the first-person narrative. Instead of this form of narration the character and the narrators points of view are brought closer together in the novel by J. Steinbeck. The literary work with the features of the picaresque novel remains multidimensional and does not reduce only to one of the existing novel forms, and typologically is rather anti-picaresque. The characters buffoonery gives him the right to detachment, due to which the skewed nature of other characters in the novel is overcome. The language hybridization in this work plays a key role in understanding of the novel.

William S. Burroughs's Cities of the Red Night Trilogy: Writing Outer Space

2006 ◽  
Vol 40 (3) ◽  
pp. 523-549 ◽  
Author(s):  
ALEX HOUEN
Keyword(s):  
Outer Space ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Norman Mailer ◽  
Mary Mccarthy ◽  
Henry Miller ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Future ◽  
Space Age ◽  
The Way

In August 1962 the American novelist Mary McCarthy surprised everyone by extolling the virtues of William S. Burroughs's Naked Lunch (1959), thereby raising the public profile of both the novel and novelist. The occasion was an Edinburgh conference on writing and censorship organized by the publisher John Calder, and attended by literary luminaries such as Norman Mailer and Henry Miller. For McCarthy the virtue of Naked Lunch was its timeliness, the way it appeared “sort of speeded up like jet travel”; “it has that somewhat supersonic quality.” Addressing the conference audience, Burroughs went a step further, heralding a new epoch of space writing: I feel that a new mythology is now possible in the space age and that we can again have heroes and villains, with respect to the planet, and in closing I would say that the future of writing is in space and not in time.

Promosi Dan Informasi Media Audio Visual Berbentuk Video Profile Pada SMK PGRI 11 Ciledug Kota Tangerang

CICES ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 35-47
Author(s):  
Faisal Rudiansyah Hamzah ◽  
Panji Wira Soma ◽  
Indri Rahmawati
Keyword(s):  
Information Technology ◽  
Print Media ◽  
Visual Media ◽  
Message Delivery ◽  
The Public ◽  
Existing Problems ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Right

With the development of information technology in particular in the field of multimedia in such rapid and the longer forms of media information more diverse so that more education institutions boast. Media information and promotion is currently used by SMK PGRI 11 Ciledug Tangerang. The purpose of this research audio visual media into the media information and proper promotion, by controlling hearing and vision in the form of audio visual in order to convey messages can be understood by the public at large. Existing problems, namely the medium used by the SMK PGRI 11 Ciledug Tangerang still use print media such as banners, posters and pamplet are considered less effective and efficient to use while simultaneously promoting the institutions with the best possible audio visual media so that it is selected into a medium of information and promotion of the right, by controlling hearing and vision in the form of audio visual. Because therein lies the message delivery process or how to visualize. At the same time listening and showing the contents of the message to the recipient with information through media menunjangnya, so the design of video media profile that displays the entire scope, advantages and facilities belonging to SMK PGRI 11 Ciledug Tangerang, can be a solution in solving problems in media promotion and information. With this study the author makes with the title "promotion and INFORMATION AUDIO VISUAL MEDIA SHAPED VIDEO PROFILE on SMK PGRI 11 APPLICATIONS TANGERANG CITY ".

Analytical Study of Violence Theme in Victoria Schwab’s This Savage Song

2019 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Analytical Study ◽  
Research Paper ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Vicious Cycle ◽  
Aggressive Approach ◽  
Research Article ◽  
The People ◽  
The Social ◽  
Different Dimensions ◽  
The Right

This research article focuses on the theme of violence and its representation by the characters of the novel “This Savage Song” by Victoria Schwab. How violence is transmitted through genes to next generations and to what extent socio- psycho factors are involved in it, has also been discussed. Similarly, in what manner violent events and deeds by the parents affect the psychology of children and how it inculcates aggressive behaviour in their minds has been studied. What role is played by the parents in grooming the personality of children and ultimately their decisions to choose the right or wrong way has been argued. In the light of the theory of Judith Harris, this research paper highlights all the phenomena involved: How the social hierarchy controls the behaviour. In addition, the aggressive approach of the people in their lives has been analyzed in the light of the study of second theorist Thomas W Blume. As the novel is a unique representation of supernatural characters, the monsters, which are the products of some cruel deeds, this research paper brings out different dimensions of human sufferings with respect to these supernatural beings. Moreover, the researcher also discusses that, in what manner the curse of violence creates an inevitable vicious cycle of cruel monsters that makes the life of the characters turbulent and miserable.

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