Sterne

Kinesic Humor ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 51-62
Author(s):  
Guillemette Bolens
Keyword(s):  
Nonverbal Communication ◽  
Mental States ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Tristram Shandy ◽  
Long Time ◽  
The Moment ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Dynamic Transitions

Laurence Sterne’s masterpiece Tristram Shandy experiments with dynamics in nonverbal communication. Tonic shifts and variations in pace are systematically narrated in the interactions between characters. This chapter focuses on the moment when Walter Shandy, emotionally shocked, throws himself across his bed and lies on his stomach for a long time, Uncle Toby patiently waiting next to him. The kinesic dialogue taking place between the two men is echoed by the relationship Sterne establishes with his readers through his work. In both instances, the novel shows that making inferences about the mental states of others is practiced on the basis of unstable kinesic data. In this section of Tristram Shandy, Sterne theorizes that the meaning of movements and gestures comes from the transitions between attitudes, rather than from fixed facial or postural representations. The text prompts perceptual simulations of such dynamic transitions, leading to humorous effects involving readers.

The role and relationship of mindreading and social attunement in HRI – position statements of interdisciplinary researchers. Workshop HRI'20

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Agnieszka Wykowska ◽  
Jairo Pérez-Osorio ◽  
Stefan Kopp
Keyword(s):  
Mental States ◽  
Human Robot Interaction ◽  
Human Interaction ◽  
Artificial Agents ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Robot Interaction ◽  
Novel Coronavirus ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship

This booklet is a collection of the position statements accepted for the HRI’20 conference workshop “Social Cognition for HRI: Exploring the relationship between mindreading and social attunement in human-robot interaction” (Wykowska, Perez-Osorio & Kopp, 2020). Unfortunately, due to the rapid unfolding of the novel coronavirus at the beginning of the present year, the conference and consequently our workshop, were canceled. On the light of these events, we decided to put together the positions statements accepted for the workshop. The contributions collected in these pages highlight the role of attribution of mental states to artificial agents in human-robot interaction, and precisely the quality and presence of social attunement mechanisms that are known to make human interaction smooth, efficient, and robust. These papers also accentuate the importance of the multidisciplinary approach to advance the understanding of the factors and the consequences of social interactions with artificial agents.

Are Puns Mere? Christine Brooke-Rose's Amalgamemnon

2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (4) ◽  
pp. 529-545
Author(s):  
Julia Jordan
Keyword(s):  
The Novel ◽  
Late Modernism ◽  
Distinctive Character ◽  
Avant Garde ◽  
Jacques Ranciere ◽  
Jacques Rancière ◽  
The Face ◽  
The Moment ◽  
Secret Knowledge ◽  
The Relationship

This article will explore the relationship between linguistic puns and knowledge, in particular puns in Christine Brooke-Rose's work, and what they tell us about knowledge: secret knowledge; encoded knowledge; latent knowledge that remains latent; and the refusal of knowledge. My title is an allusion to Frank Kermode's 1967 essay ‘Objects, Jokes, and Art’, where he puzzles away at his own difficulty with distinguishing avant garde writing and art, especially what he calls the ‘neo-avant garde’ of the 60s, from jokes. ‘I myself believe’, he writes anxiously, ‘that there is a difference between art and a joke’, admitting that ‘it has sometimes been difficult to tell.’ Brooke-Rose, whose work Kermode admired, is a perfect example of this. Her texts revolve around the pun, the surprise juxtaposition between semantic poles, the unexpected yoking together of disparate elements. Puns, for Brooke-Rose, sit at the juncture between the accidental and the overdetermined. So what is funny about the pun? Not much, I propose, or rather, it provokes a particular sort of ambivalent laughter which becomes folded into the distinctive character and affective potency of late modernism itself: its deadpan silliness; its proclivity to collision and violence; its excitability and its melancholy. Brooke-Rose's humour is thus of the difficult sort, that is, humour that reveals itself at the moment of its operation to be not all that funny. The unsettling laughter, I propose, that exposes literature's own incommensurability with itself. For Jacques Rancière, the novel must illuminate somehow the ‘punctuation of the encounter with the inconceivable’, in the face of which all is reduced to passivity. The pun, in particular, forces the readers’ passivity, and exposes us to limits of what can be known.

scholarly journals MEMORIES AND STORIES OF RETURNING HOME IN KHALED HOSSEINI'S NOVELS THE KITE RUNNER, AND THE MOUNTAINS ECHOED, A THOUSAND SPLENDID SUNS

2020 ◽  
Vol XI (31) ◽  
pp. 27-37 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elena Spirovska
Keyword(s):  
Civil War ◽  
Life Stories ◽  
Sibling Relationships ◽  
Home Country ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Leaving Home ◽  
Returning Home ◽  
The Moment ◽  
Afghan Civil War ◽  
The Relationship

The aim of this paper is to analyze the acts of returning home, thinking about home and the significance of home and returning home in Khaled Hosseini’s novels The Kite Runner, A Thousand Splendid Suns, and in the novel And the Mountains Echoed. As an American writer of Afghan origin, who left his home country as a child and moved to USA, Khaled Hosseini addresses the concepts of leaving home, immigration, and returning home in all of his published novels. In 2003, Khaled Hosseini published his first novel The Kite Runner. This story depicts the friendship between two Afghan boys, whose relationship is broken by the Afghan civil war and the violence before and in the aftermath of the war. In this novel, returning home is an act of redemption on behalf of Amir, for the betrayal of his best friend Hassan. Hosseini’s second novel, A Thousand Splendid Suns, describes the relationship between two women and their lives under the Taliban regime. Mariam’s and Laila’s life stories are intertwined the moment Laila, forced by the circumstances in Kabul during the civil war and the loss of her parents and her home, accepts Rasheed’s marriage proposal, becoming his second wife. The strained relationship between her and Mariam develops into close friendship, which ends the day Mariam kills Rasheed to protect Laila. Laila returns to Afghanistan and visits Mariam’s home. For her, this is an act of paying respect, of visiting a place where she can sense Mariam’s soul and her presence. And the Mountains Echoed presents the life stories of a number of characters, mutually connected in different ways. One of the sibling relationships described is the relationship between Pari and Abdullah who are separated as children. Pari, who leaves her home and is adopted, always feels the strange sensation of being homesick and missing somebody or something in her life. For Pari, who plans to travel to Afghanistan in attempt to find the answers to her questions, the act of returning home is exploring her own personality and heritage.

scholarly journals L’influence du genre à la transmission de la mémoire : Cas de Dora Bruder de Patrick Modiano

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 ◽  
pp. 00022
Author(s):  
Fauzan Hanif
Keyword(s):  
Point Of View ◽  
First Person ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Patrick Modiano ◽  
Cultural Experiences ◽  
The Moment ◽  
The Relationship

<p class="Abstract">Such cultural experiences have a possibility to be embedded in a memory of one generation. But there are mostly in form of traumatic experiences. And then, we learn that these memories could be transferred onto their children, or we could say it as “post generation”. In the novel <i>Dora Bruder</i>, such things happen when the author, Patrick Modiano, plays his attribute in composing genres to arrange and transfer his message. The story mainly concerns as the narrator try to find a missing girl named Dora Bruder. She was gone in 1941, or in the moment when Nazi was occupying France. This research aims to discover the relationship between the role of genre on emerging the message, particularly the traumatic ones by using the concept of genre and postmemory. From the analysis we conclude that Modiano use genres to transfer his message traumatic. It exists in form of the impression of absence. From the sensation of absence, he continues to transmit consecutively another impression of hollow, doubt, and also hope. For transferring his message and memory, Modiano mixes real documents and his fiction. He manifest them by constructing a story of another person and narrating it from the first-person point of view. He uses this technique to identify himself, because the “shared idea” of one’s could be related with another’s.</p>

scholarly journals Van kind tot jong volwassene: Die ontwikkeling van die hoofkarakter in De koperen tuin van Simon Vestdijk

Literator ◽  
2001 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 203-219
Author(s):  
B. Van der Westhuizen
Keyword(s):  
Young Adult ◽  
Narrative Form ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Main Character ◽  
Philosophical Text ◽  
Brass Band ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Moment ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Point Of Departure

From child to young adult: The development of the main character in De koperen tuin (The garden where the brass band played) by Simon Vestdijk From an intertextual study it emerges that the postulated view of reality in the psychological-philosophical text De toekomst der religie (The future of religion) (1947) is transposed in narrative form in the text-internal vision of reality in the novel De koperen tuin (The garden where the brass band played) (1950). In both these texts the religious point of departure of the meaning of existence is reflected upon. Existential aspects especially highlighted, include the following: the I, the relationship with others, being involved in the situation, freedom, responsibility, guilt, angst, death, that which is “too-late”. Furthermore the extension of the moment, the directedness at a personal passion, and the individual’s courage to be and to keep “becoming” are also highlighted. All these aspects emphasizing existentialism are portrayed in the development of the main character, Nol Rieske, from little boy to young adult.

scholarly journals Devotion and Commitment in A Contradictory Conditionsas Seen in The Notebook by Nicholas Spark

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 17-31
Author(s):  
Helmita Helmita ◽  
Elsa Mayora Putri
Keyword(s):  
Alzheimer’S Disease ◽  
Alzheimer's Disease ◽  
Qualitative Method ◽  
Descriptive Analysis ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Analysis Method ◽  
Personality Psychology ◽  
Long Time ◽  
First Time ◽  
The Relationship

The problem in this thesis is Devotion and commitment in a contradictory conditions in the relationship between Noah and Allie who have differences in social status. Until their relationship was opposed by Allie's mother, even so Allie remained devotion to choose Noahh. Devotion and commitment to the contradictory conditions between Noah and Allie also occur when they are old. Noah remained loyal to Allie when she suffered from Alzheimer's disease. The object of this study was The Notebook novel by Nicholas Sparks. This research uses Sigmund Freud's theory of personality psychology. The results of this study are the figures Noah and Alli have personality aspects that refer to Sigmund Freud's theory of id, ego, superego. The writer uses descriptive analysis method and qualitative method. The author carries out a systematic procedure with an understanding of the novel, figures Noah and Allie, and also structural theory. This research aims : (1) to analyze the importance of loyalty and commitment in contradictory conditions. (2) to describe the loyalty and commitment contained in the Novel The notebook. (3) to explain the loyalty and commitment shown by Noah and Allie after marriage. Based on the results of this analysis it can be concluded that the problem faced by the main character is his deep love and loyalty to his wife, Noah did everything for Allie, including writing to him for two years even though his letter was never responded by Allie. But when they met for the first time after being separated for quite a long time their love for each other was still there. Until they married and aged together and Allie contracted Alzheimer's disease, but Noah remained faithful with her.

Post-communist Interpretation of History in the Albanian Literature in Kosovo

2020 ◽  
Vol 29 (3) ◽  
pp. 91-107
Author(s):  
Lindita Tahiri ◽  
Muhamet Hamiti
Keyword(s):  
Literary Text ◽  
Literary Texts ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Modernist Literature ◽  
Historical Discourse ◽  
Third Person ◽  
The Moment ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The Voice ◽  
Fictional Truth

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 post-modern intellectual thought, and as Borg (2010) points out in his study on Beckett and Joyce, the radical narrative innovations are “examples of a peculiarly modernist engagement with the nature of factual and fictional truth” (p. 179), suggesting that in modern literary texts “every event exists factually and fictionally at the same time” (p. 187). As a resonance to Borg’s analysis of modernist literature, in Kraja’s novel the knowledge about history consists of both factual and imaginative elements, bringing “the moment of truth in all its potential” (p. 191).

NORTH AND SOUTH, EAST AND WEST

2005 ◽  
Vol 59 (4) ◽  
pp. 463-493 ◽  
Author(s):  
STEFANIE MARKOVITS
Keyword(s):  
Civil Wars ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Crimean War ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Thin Red Line ◽  
Florence Nightingale ◽  
The Crimea ◽  
The Moment ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
North And South

Elizabeth Gaskell's North and South was composed from the Nightingale family residence even as the war being fought in the Crimea (from 1854 to 1856) was making Florence Nightingale into a national heroine. Reading the novel in the context of the Crimean War and of Gaskell's involvement with Nightingale helps both to historicize the book more precisely and to illuminate the moment of its production. North and South occludes the foreign con�ict even as it takes advantage of aspects of that con�ict in order to tell its story of the "civil wars" at home: those between North and South, masters and men, past and present, and men and women. The reading culminates in an analysis of the relationship between Margaret Hale and Florence Nightingale. To consider the "thread of dark-red blood" that trickles down Margaret's face in the climactic riot scene of North and South as a replacement for the "thin red line" made famous as a symbol of heroism at Balaclava is to recognize the Crimean War as a part of the Condition of England.

scholarly journals NONLINEARITIES IN THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN DEBT AND GROWTH: (NO) EVIDENCE FROM OVER TWO CENTURIES

2017 ◽  
Vol 23 (4) ◽  
pp. 1563-1585 ◽  
Author(s):  
Markus Eberhardt
Keyword(s):  
Economic Theory ◽  
Time Series ◽  
Public Debt ◽  
Time Series Data ◽  
Empirical Approach ◽  
Series Data ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Long Run ◽  
Long Time ◽  
The Relationship

I revisit the popular concern over a nonlinearity or threshold in the relationship between public debt and growth employing long time series data from up to 27 countries. My empirical approach recognizes that standard time series arguments for long-run equilibrium relations between integrated variables (cointegration) break down in nonlinear specifications such as those predominantly applied in the existing debt–growth literature. Adopting the novel cosummability approach, my analysis overcomes these difficulties to find no evidence for a systematic long-run relationship between debt and growth in the bivariate and economic theory-based multivariate specifications popular in this literature.

scholarly journals A relação entre texto literário e peritextos: uma análise do romance O meu amante de domingo, de Alexandra Lucas Coelho / The Relationship Between Literary Text and Peritexts: An Analysis of the Novel O meu amante de domingo, by Alexandra Lucas Coelho

2021 ◽  
Vol 41 (65) ◽  
pp. 83
Author(s):  
Thadyanara Wanessa Martinelli Oliveira
Keyword(s):  
Home Environment ◽  
Literary Text ◽  
Private Life ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Theoretical Contribution ◽  
Artistic Process ◽  
De Se ◽  
Long Time ◽  
Political Act ◽  
The Relationship

Resumo: Por muito tempo, o trabalho intelectual, público e artístico foi feito majoritariamente por homens. É sabido que, às mulheres, foi relegado o ambiente doméstico e a vida privada. No entanto, o mundo está em processo de mudança – ainda que lenta e gradual. Atualmente, não só a nossa sociedade, mas também os estudos literários estão atentos às produções de outras vozes que foram silenciadas durante grande parte da História e que agora se levantam com uma força arrebatadora e irrefreável: vozes de mulheres, negros, indígenas, homossexuais, transexuais, dentre outros corpos que foram alijados da possibilidade de se ins(es)creverem no processo histórico, político, social e artístico. Nessa esteira, contemporaneamente, é, sobretudo, um ato político estudar textos não só escritos, mas também protagonizados por sujeitos que foram historicamente subalternizados. Concebendo o trabalho acadêmico como uma prática política, este artigo tem como objetivo realizar uma análise de alguns elementos peritextuais presentes no livro O meu amante de domingo (2014), da portuguesa Alexandra Lucas Coelho, enfocando nas suas relações com o texto literário. Para isso, utilizaremos, principalmente, como aporte teórico, a obra Paratextos editoriais, de Genette (2009).Palavras-chave: Alexandra Lucas Coelho; O meu amante de domingo; paratexto; peritexto.Abstract: For a long time, intellectual, public and artistic work was done mostly by men. It is known that women have been left out of the home environment and private life. However, the world is in the process of changing – albeit slow and gradual. Nowadays, not only our society, but also literary studies, are attentive to the productions of other voices that have been silenced during much of History and that now arise with an overwhelming and unstoppable force: voices of women, blacks, indigenous people, homosexuals, transsexuals, among other bodies that were excluded from the possibility of write in the historical, political, social and artistic process. At the same time, it is, above all, a political act to study texts not only written, but also carried out by subjects who have historically been subordinated. Conceiving academic work also as a political practice, this article aims to carry out an analysis of some peritextual elements present in the book O meu amante de domingo (2014), by portuguese Alexandra Lucas Coelho, focusing on their relations with the literary text. For this, we will use, mainly, as a theoretical contribution, the work of Genette (2009).Keywords: Alexandra Lucas Coelho; O meu amante de domingo; paratext; peritext.

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