scholarly journals Queer Music in the Queen’s Hall: Teleny and Decadent Musical Geographies at the Fin de Siècle

2020 ◽  
Vol 25 (4) ◽  
pp. 593-608
Author(s):  
Fraser Riddell
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Exchange ◽  
Franz Schubert ◽  
English Text ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Musical Performances ◽  
Historical Material ◽  
Form Part ◽  
Musical Response ◽  
Queer Phenomenology ◽  
Musical Listening

Abstract This article examines the significance of music and musical performance in Teleny, or the Reverse of the Medal (1893), an anonymous pornographic novel attributed by some scholars to Oscar Wilde. It draws upon historical material on late-Victorian concert venues, queer literary sub-cultures and sexology to illuminate the representation of musical spaces in the text. Teleny exists in two different versions: an English text, which is set in Paris, and a French text, which is set in London. The opening section of the article suggests that Teleny’s dynamic engagement with cosmopolitan cultural exchange between Paris and London is brought into sharper focus by situating the musical performances in the novel in the precise built environment of London’s Queen Hall. The second section explores the novel’s concern with queer geographies (the Orient, Eastern Europe) in the context of other texts that address music and homosexual identity in the period. The third section examines the significance of space in the novel’s presentation of musical listening, arguing that its focus on the materiality of sound and the haptic transmission of desire responds to sexological conceptions of embodied musical response by homosexual subjects. The significance of this sensory experience of listening is understood in the light of Sara Ahmed’s theorization of ‘queer phenomenology’. Finally, the article traces the significance of musical allusions to songs by Franz Schubert to show how they form part of the novel’s broader concerns with the spatial articulation of same-sex desire and the representation of queer urban geographies.

scholarly journals Ivan Vahylevych’s mystified biography in Yurii Vynnychuk’s novel “Liutetsiia”

2020 ◽  
pp. 6-11
Author(s):  
Halyna Bokshan
Keyword(s):  
19Th Century ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Main Character ◽  
Don Juan ◽  
Material Characteristic ◽  
Public Figure ◽  
Historical Aspects ◽  
Historical Material ◽  
The 19Th Century ◽  
Historical Epoch

The study examines the features of the strategies of mythologization and mystification used by Yurii Vynnychuk in creating his literary version of Ivan Vahylevych’s biography in the novel “Liutetsiia”. First of all the paper emphasizes the writer’s inclination to play with historic material characteristic of postmodernism, manifesting itself in most of his works and in the novel under study, in particular. The research pays special attention to the original interaction of mythological and cultural-historical aspects in the fictionalized biography of the renowned public figure of the 19th century, famous for his activity in Ruska Triitsia. It considers the specific features of the literary visualization of Ivan Vahylevych character in the relation to Ivan Franko’s essay representing the epistolary of the figures of the historical epoch depicted in the novel. The study determines the correlation between the personages in “Liutetsiia” and the characters and motives of the Celtic mythology. It identifies the specificity of the reminiscent relations of the main character with the archetypal figure of Don Juan. The conclusions highlight the use of irony, grotesque and comic modus by Yurii Vynnychuk as the manifestation of the neo-mythological device of deheroization. It also accentuates that the strategies of mythologization and mystification in “Liutetsiia” reflect the manner of interpreting cultural-historical material characteristic of the author.

scholarly journals Romanhistorie og topik: Kvinde-vogn-mand

2007 ◽  
Vol 35 (103) ◽  
pp. 138-153
Author(s):  
Carsten Henrik Meiner
Keyword(s):  
Fixed Points ◽  
17Th Century ◽  
The Novel ◽  
History Of The Novel ◽  
Historical Material ◽  
History Of

History of the novel and topica: Woman-carriage-manThe aim of the article is to analyse the function of the carriage in the European novel in the 17th and 18th centuries. The article is divided into three parts: the first one describes the historical, material, juridical and sociological conditions determining the carriage in the 17th century as a bourgeois object. The second part analyses the specific literary function of the carriage. Whereas »normal« carriages have the function of transferring people between two geographically fixed points, the function of the literary carriage is that of making this very transfer break down accidentally. In a very homogenous way passages from Furetière, Marivaux, Defoe, Diderot and Goethe all demonstrate the functioning of such a chance principle. As these passages also have the conventional function of bringing a couple together in the carriage, a new idea of love as a fundamentally contingent category is in fact the cultural offspring of these chance encounters in carriages.

scholarly journals History as a discourse in Jeanette Winterson's "The passion" : the politics of alterity

2000 ◽  
Vol 2 ◽  
pp. 7
Author(s):  
María del Mar Asensio Aróstegui
Keyword(s):  
French Revolution ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
Napoleonic Wars ◽  
Historical Novels ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Political Choice ◽  
Historiographic Metafiction ◽  
Historical Material ◽  
The Fantastic ◽  
The French Revolution

Set in the historical context of the French Revolution and the Napoleonic wars, Jeanette Winterson's The Passion is an outstanding example of the kind of fiction that Elizabeth Wesseling (1991: vii) calls postmodernist historical novels, that is, "novelistic adaptations of historical material". Besides, being profoundly self-reflexive, the novel also falls under Linda Hutcheon's (1988) category of historiographic metafiction. The present paper focuses on Winterson's political choice of two representatives of historically silenced groups, a soldier and a woman, who use two apparently opposed narrative modes, the historical and the fantastic, to tell a story that both exposes history as a discursive construct and provides an alternative fantastic discourse for the representation of feminine desire.

scholarly journals The philosophical problems in modern fiction: The concept of being in E. Schmitt’s "Noah’s child"

2019 ◽  
Vol 72 ◽  
pp. 03012
Author(s):  
Elena Ivanova ◽  
Ekaterina Ivanova
Keyword(s):  
Human Perception ◽  
Literary Text ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Moral Choice ◽  
Historical Material ◽  
The World ◽  
Modern Fiction ◽  
The Given

The article is devoted to the analysis of the novel by a contemporary writer, E.E. Schmitt “Noah‟s child” in terms of the realization of the important philosophical problems, updated with the time. The novelty of the given material is due primarily to the choice of the author, whose work is still to be reflected. This article examines the philosophical issues of existence implemented at various levels of the literary text: from the title to its symbolism. Drawing on biblical and historical material, in a novelistic genre E. Schmitt managed to present his vision of the problems of faith and disbelief, identity of the nation, the moral choice, etc. While not denying the value of the God in human perception of the world, the writer asserts the idea that the man himself is responsible for all what is happening on the ground and in the society, so the novel “Noah‟s child” can be seen as a passionate appeal to contemporaries to strive for the harmony of coexistence.

Negation in discourse: a text world approach to Joseph Heller’s Catch-22

2000 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 215-239 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laura Hidalgo-Downing
Keyword(s):  
Common Ground ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Fictional World ◽  
Discourse Function ◽  
Joseph Heller ◽  
Form Part ◽  
The Common ◽  
Catch 22 ◽  
Flow Of Information ◽  
The Way

This article presents a discourse-based approach to negation by applying text world theory to the analysis of negation in the novel Catch-22, by Joseph Heller (1986 [1961]), The model developed for the analysis of negation is based on Werth’s (1999) notion of negation as a subworld which modifies information which is present in the common ground of the discourse. By so doing, negation contributes to the general discourse function of updating information in the text world. Additionally, negation may form part of contradictory structures which, being self-contained units, do not contribute to the updating discourse function but, rather, seem to block the flow of information. The analysis of the functions of negation is framed within a broader framework of stylistic analysis, where the objective is to discuss how the foregrounded nature of negation as a recursive feature in Catch-22 may have a defamiliarizing effect. The argument put forward in this article is that negation plays a crucial role in the expression of a conflict between what is presented as real and what is presented as not real in the fictional world; this conflict, in its turn, has important consequences for the way the story develops and the way major themes of the novel are treated.

scholarly journals Design and Implementation of ASCII based Method for Author Attribution

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (9) ◽  
pp. 1963-1967
Keyword(s):  
Virtual World ◽  
Authorship Attribution ◽  
English Text ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Real World Data ◽  
Data Set ◽  
Design And Implementation ◽  
Novel Approach ◽  
Criminal Personality ◽  
The Web

With the presence of computer and internet, a developing variety of hoodlums are utilizing the web to spread a wide extend of illicit materials and wrong information universally in mysterious manner, making criminal personality following troublesome in the cybercrime examination handle. The virtual world provides criminals with an anonymous environment to conduct malicious activities such as malware, sending random messages, spamming, stealing intellectual property and sending ransom e-mails. All of these activities are text in somehow. Therefore, there is a need for a tool in order to identify the author or creator of this criminality by analyzing the text. Text-based Authorship Attribution techniques are used to identify the most possible author from a bunch of potential suspects of text. In this paper, the novel approach is presented for authorship attribution in English text using ASCII based processing approach Using this ASCII based method for authorship attribution help us to obtain better result in terms of accuracy and computational efficiency. The result is based on the text which is posted on social media considering real world data set.

scholarly journals On Mediation and Fragmentation: The Translator in Valeria Luiselli’s Los ingrávidos

2017 ◽  
Vol 41 (2) ◽  
pp. 273-295
Author(s):  
Sarah K. Booker
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Exchange ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Palabras Clave ◽  
Multiple Levels ◽  
Narrative Voices

Teniendo en cuenta las voces narrativas que traducen, la estructura y la geografía, el presente artículo examina la función de la traducción en la novela Los ingrávidos (2011) de Valeria Luiselli. Luiselli representa a los traductores de la novela como personajes liminales y efímeros que median el intercambio cultural; en el proceso de la traducción, el lector puede ver que la identidad de los tres narradores se fractura al incorporarse a las vidas y los espacios geográficos de otros personajes. Las múltiples capas de traducción representadas en Los ingrávidos, destacan, pues, la fragmentación y transformación de identidad experimentadas por estas figuras intermediarias.  Palabras clave: traducción, identidad, geografía, intertextualidad, fragmentación In consideration of narrative voices that translate, structure, and geography, this article examines the function of translation within Valeria Luiselli’s novel Los ingrávidos (2011). Luiselli represents translators in the novel as liminal and ephemeral characters that mediate cultural exchange; in the process of translation, the reader can see that the identity of the three narrators fractures as they are incorporated into the lives and spaces of others. The multiple levels of translation represented in Los ingrávidos, then, highlights the fragmentation and transformation of identity that is experienced by these intermediary figures.  Keywords: translation, identity, geography, intertextuality, fragmentation

Allegory of the Global Anglophone: Interconnectedness and Sublimity in Cloud Atlas

2018 ◽  
Vol 51 (3) ◽  
pp. 399-416
Author(s):  
Philip Tsang
Keyword(s):  
Historical Development ◽  
English Text ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Global English ◽  
Representational System ◽  
Privileged Position ◽  
Literary Education ◽  
The World ◽  
Global Connections ◽  
Cloud Atlas

Abstract The article situates David Mitchell's imagination of planetary interconnectedness in the historical development of global English. It argues that Cloud Atlas projects a denationalized, centrifugal vision of the world, only to entrench it in a cohesive, centripetal anglophone network through fictionalized scenes of reading. The novel assigns the English text a privileged position in fostering global connections and renders its cultural other unrepresentable in order to maintain a coherent representational system over a heterolingual world. Mitchell's imagination of a textually embedded connectivity descends from an older ideology of literature-as-mediation that originated from colonial literary education.

Reading, Listening, and Performing in Wilhelm Heinse’s Hildegard von Hohenthal (1796)

2013 ◽  
Vol 30 (4) ◽  
pp. 502-529
Author(s):  
Thomas Irvine
Keyword(s):  
Immanuel Kant ◽  
Aesthetic Judgment ◽  
The Body ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Musical Meaning ◽  
Key Characteristics ◽  
The Senses ◽  
To Come ◽  
The One ◽  
Musical Listening

Early in Wilhelm Heinse’s eccentric novel Hildegard von Hohenthal (1796) his characters confront the problem of how music works on the senses. The novel’s hero, Kapellmeister Lockmann, tunes a piano—to an idiosyncratic temperament of his own invention—as he proposes an intensely physical model for musical listening. He uses this demonstration, while simultaneously trying to start a love affair with the novel’s heroine, Hildegard von Hohenthal, to reclaim older ideas about natural temperaments and key characteristics in an era of heightened interest in the anatomy of cognition. But Heinse’s own opinions are not always the same as those of his characters. Drawing on his notebooks, I trace how Heinse struggled to come to terms with opposing views of his friend and colleague, the anatomist Samuel Thomas Soemmering, and of the philosopher Immanuel Kant of how sound affects the body. Soemmering’s Über das Organ der Seele (1796) and Kant’s Critique of Aesthetic Judgment (1790) both act as intertexts and paratexts to the novel, and Heinse more than once splits his own opinions about both books between his characters. The tuning scene addresses important questions about the hierarchy of the senses, the creation of musical meaning, and the freedom of performers and listeners to form their own interpretations of music. Heinse’s naturalist ideas about musical agency rub against the grain of a narrative—still current today—dominated by a transaction between heroic composers on the one side and awe-struck listeners on the other. To re-assess these ideas is to re-imagine a crucial hinge in music history.

scholarly journals Historicising “containment and delay”: COVID-19, the NHS and high-risk patients

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 ◽  
pp. 130 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martin D. Moore
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
National Health Service ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Current Crisis ◽  
Policy Responses ◽  
First Case ◽  
Form Part ◽  
The Face ◽  
Risk Patients ◽  
Novel Coronavirus

Despite the first case of the novel coronavirus only being reported to the WHO at the end of December 2019, humanities and social science scholars have been quick to subject local, national and international responses to COVID-19 to critique. Through television and radio, blogs, social media and other outlets, historians in particular have situated the ongoing outbreak in relation to previous epidemics and historicised cultural and political responses. This paper furthers these historical considerations of the current pandemic by examining the way the National Health Service (NHS) and discourses of risk have figured in public and policy responses. It suggests that appeals to protect the NHS are based on longer-term anxieties about the service’s capacity to care and endure in the face of growing demand, as well as building on the attachment that has developed as a result of this persistence in the face of existential threats. Similarly, the position of elderly, vulnerable and “at risk” patients relates to complex histories in which their place in social and medical hierarchies have been ambiguous. It thus argues that the ways in which time appears as both a threat and a possibility of management in the current crisis form part of a longer trajectory of political and cultural thinking.

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