BMA Narrative Archetypes

2021 ◽  
pp. 165-182
Author(s):  
Brent Auerbach
Keyword(s):  
Literary Theory ◽  
The Other ◽  
Musical Narrative ◽  
Musical Semiotics

Chapter 5.5 serves as the first of two Interludes addressing musical narrative. Following from the original proposition that motives must move and move readers, narrative is established as a necessary mechanism for structuring complete, meaningful analyses. The chapter first rehearses the argument that untexted music implicitly possesses narrative qualities. Evidentiary support is taken from seminal works both from literary theory (Propp, Frye, Liszka) and from the fields of musical semiotics and narrative (Nattiez, Hatten, McClary, Guck, Newcomb, Maus, Schmalfeldt, Almén, and Klein). The interlude continues by presenting four “archetypes” for organizing and animating (ascribing motion to) motivic findings. The first archetype, called BMA-1, communicates the progress of a single motive. The other three archetypes, all forms of BMA-2, model multiple motives or motivic elements in dialogue. The possible interactions are “Non-Engagement,” “Synthesis,” and “Triumph.” The BMA archetypes are demonstrated through discussion of works by Beethoven and Chopin.

scholarly journals A MARXIST READING OF LITTLE FIRES EVERYWHERE (2017) BY CELESTE NG

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Dwi Mayang Sagita ◽  
Delvi Wahyuni
Keyword(s):  
Literary Theory ◽  
Human Body ◽  
Karl Marx ◽  
The Other ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Surrogate Mother ◽  
Female Protagonists ◽  
Species Being

This thesis is an analysis of a novel written by Celeste Ng entitled Little Fires Everywhere (2017). This analysis looks at the commodification and alienation that is experienced by women who involved in surrogacy and adoption. This analysis employes Marxist literary theory to explain the phenomena in the novel. The analysis focuses on two issues of commodification and alienation that are proposed by Karl Marx as seen through two female protagonists which are Mia Warren and Bebe Chow. This analysis also depends a lot on the narrator to determine which parts of the novel are used as the data. The result of the study shows that Mia Warren experienced commodification of the human body and four kinds of alienation such as alienation from the product of labor, alienation from the act of production, alienation from the species being, and alienation from other people bacause she becomes a surrogate mother. The other protagonist, Bebe Chow, also experienced four kinds of alienation because her child is adopted.

Ivanov, Viacheslav Ivanovich (1866–1949)

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert Bird
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Soviet Union ◽  
Literary Theory ◽  
Roman Catholic ◽  
The Other ◽  
Religious Thought ◽  
Classical Scholar ◽  
Literary Movement ◽  
The Soviet Union ◽  
Aleksandr Blok

Viacheslav Ivanov was a leading theoretician of the symbolist literary movement and a prominent figure in the renaissance of religious thought in Russia at the turn of the twentieth century. A classical scholar by training, and erudite poet by vocation, Ivanov became known as an acolyte of Nietzsche. Later, along with the other ‘younger’ symbolists Aleksandr Blok and Andrei Belyi, Ivanov presented himself as a disciple of Vladimir Solov’ëv’s idealistic metaphysics and theurgic aesthetics. In the 1910s Ivanov achieved a proto-hermeneutic conception of art, which was the basis of his groundbreaking writings on Dostoevskii. After emigrating from the Soviet Union in 1924 Ivanov became a Roman Catholic and achieved some notoriety in Catholic intellectual circles between the wars. His powerful influence is evident in many contemporary and later thinkers in fields ranging from aesthetics and literary theory to philosophy and theology.

Social Dimensions of Epistemological Disputes: The Case of Literary Theory

1997 ◽  
Vol 40 (2) ◽  
pp. 243-263
Author(s):  
Mark A. Schneider
Keyword(s):  
Literary Theory ◽  
Fine Arts ◽  
The Other ◽  
Organizational Forms ◽  
Human Sciences ◽  
Social Dimensions ◽  
The Arts ◽  
A Current ◽  
Academic Study

Epistemological reflection has been a major source of innovation in the human sciences while having very little influence on the arts or sciences. This variation is explained using a sociological framework emphasizing the organizational forms that underpin or are implicit in epistemological positions. The fine arts and the harder sciences are, respectively, too weakly and too strongly organized to be open to epistemological influence. By contrast, the human sciences might plausibly be organized either more loosely or more tightly, and epistemological argument is used in part to urge movement in one or the other direction. This perspective is applied to the academic study of literature both historically and in relation to a current epistemological dispute between realist and relativist scholars. The argument is unresolvable in practice, it is argued, because of constraints on scholarly interpretation set by consumers. Parallels are drawn with circumstances in sociology.

scholarly journals Bazaar, merchandise and decadence: Antonio José Ponte and Julián del Casal

Anclajes ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 71-86
Author(s):  
Rocío Fernández ◽  
Keyword(s):  
American Literature ◽  
19Th Century ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Literary Theory ◽  
Latin American Literature ◽  
The Other ◽  
American Modernism ◽  
Julian Del Casal ◽  
The Gaze ◽  
The 19Th Century

The fascination of Latin American modernism for 19th century French fashion merchandise has been widely addressed in literary theory. Texts filled with diverse cultural materials, textures and objects configured a poetics of the bazaar that became part of a series of strategies through which Latin American literature defined and linked itself to hegemonic aesthetics of the 19th century. The poems and chronicles of Cuban writer Julián del Casal (1863-1893) are no exception; this proliferation of merchandise reveals how the gaze and the images become configured as empty fictions, filled by a cosmopolitan desire. This feature, tied to the function and configuration of images in Cuban modernism, makes possible an anachronical reading of the presence of State merchandise at the other end of the century: Antonio José Ponte’s decadent reality in post-Soviet Cuba.

scholarly journals RELASI ANTARTEKS DALAM PENGKAJIAN SASTRA

2016 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Sumiyadi Sumiyadi
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Literature ◽  
Literary Theory ◽  
The Other ◽  
Literary Studies ◽  
Literary Study ◽  
Textual Studies ◽  
Literary Works ◽  
The Difference

Abstrak Relasi Antarteks dalam Pengkajian Sastra. Relasi antarteks terdapat dalam karya sastra yang di dalamnya membayangkan teks lain. Dalam mengkaji teks demikian, kita biasanya langsung mengkaitkannya dengan konsep intertekstual, padahal konsep tersebut berkaitan dengan teori pascastruktural sehingga dalam pengkajiannya, kita harus mengikuti prinsip-prinsip pascastrukturalisme. Relasi teks juga mensyaratkan kita untuk melakukan kajian bandingan, yang dalam kajian sastra dapat menggunakan konsep sastra bandingan. Kajian sastra bandingan tidak berkaitan dengan salah satu teori. Bahkan, teori apapum dapat dimanfaatkan untuk kepentingan sastra bandingan. Sehubungan dengan relasi teks dalam dunia sastra merupakan fenomena menarik, kemungkinan banyak pihak atau peneliti yang tertarik untuk mengkajinya. Oleh sebab itu, diperlukan landasan teori sastra yang kukuh dan relevan sehingga menghsilkan kajian sastra yang bermakna dengan kadar ilmiah yang dapat dipertanggungjawabkan. Penegasan ciri pembeda antara prinsip kajian sastra bandingan dan prinsip kajian intertekstual dalam tulisan ini merupakan upaya ke arah pengkajian sastra yang demikian.Kata kunci: teks, intertekstual, pascastruktural, sastra bandingan   Abstract Inter-textual Relation in Literary Studies. Inter-texts relation exista in literary works; one work shadows the other. In studying such texts we often immediately link them with the concept of intertextuality that belongs to post-structuralism. Texts relation also requires us to compare literary works using comparative literary study concepts. Comparative literary studies are not related with one specific theory. Any theory can be employed. Texts relation is an iteresting phenomenon that invites many to investigate. For this reason we need a grounded and relevant literary theory that will facilitate insightful and reliable literary studies. The difference between comparative literature principles and inter-textual studies principles are discussed in the article. Keywords: texts, intertextuality, post-structuralism, comparative literature.

scholarly journals On the Fragmentation in Literature

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 32-51
Author(s):  
Natalia N. Smirnova
Keyword(s):  
Literary Theory ◽  
The Other ◽  
Historical Period ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Historical Periods

The aim of this article is to outline the ways to research fragmentation in literature. It raises the following problems, relevant for literary theory: a) each period has different understanding of what is a whole and what is a fragment; b) ideas about the essence and the meaning of fragmentary forms (including the views on increasing / decreasing complexity in literature) are also different; c) the special logic of fragmentation as a technique emerges only in the era of authorship (as opposed to traditionalism), i.e. the individual vision, or the author’s view that destroys the canon. The problem of fragmentation is fundamental for our understanding of the perception and construction of the text, since in different historical periods, the concept of the fragment being contingent on tradition, reread and reinvented in different ways, is in continuous dialogue with its time. The essay concludes that what is considered to be the whole in one historical period turns out to be a fragment in the other, and vice versa.

scholarly journals Analisis Buku Matematika Sekolah Menengah Atas Pada Topik Turunan

2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 1049-1058
Author(s):  
Muhammad Taqiyuddin
Keyword(s):  
Literary Theory ◽  
Narrative Analysis ◽  
Textbook Analysis ◽  
The Other ◽  
Mathematics Textbooks ◽  
Crucial Aspect ◽  
Education Development ◽  
Mathematics Textbook ◽  
Story Theory ◽  
Derivative Concept

This study is a textbook analysis based on the view that textbook is a crucial aspect which should be recognized in the process of education development. Derivative topic covered on Indonesian eleventh grade’s mathematics textbook from 2008 to 2017 was chosen to be anlyzed. Furthermore, this study attempted to provide a picture of how the mathematics textbooks covered the topics. The analysis of four textbooks: 2017, 2014, 2009, and 2008 textbooks, was carried out by applying conceptual framework and “mathematical story” theory derived from literary theory. The result showed that the 2008 book had the widest range of contexts involved in derivative concept explanation. Meanwhile, all of the books were lack of discussion on derivative as a function within graph, verbal, and physics contexts. Furthermore, the narrative analysis showed that the 2017 and 2014 textbooks provide the most promising “mathematical story” for fostering reader’s curiosity. In addition, the 2017 and 2014 book also offered more multifaceted lesson in comparison with the other textbooks.

scholarly journals Memory of Water: Boundaries of Political Geography and World Literature

2020 ◽  
Vol 28 (3) ◽  
pp. 425-434
Author(s):  
Katarina Leppänen
Keyword(s):  
Literary Theory ◽  
World Literature ◽  
Political Geography ◽  
The Other ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Contemporary Theory ◽  
Alternative Futures ◽  
Dystopian Literature ◽  
Slow Violence ◽  
The One

The fact that dystopian literature has a great potential for envisioning alternative futures is elaborated in this article in relation to the Finnish/British author Emmi Itäranta’s Memory of Water (2013). Itäranta’s gloomy low-fi novel is read alongside contemporary ecocritical theory with a focus on issues of vernacular cultures and knowledges versus ideas of cosmopolitan planetary citizenship. Reflections are made about the profound nature of the concept of borders: cultural, temporal, informational, geographical, political, in the event of massive catastrophes. The article investigates how Rob Nixon’s concept of ‘slow violence’ and Ursula Heise’s ‘eco-cosmopolitanism’ are played out in a novel, and how the novel in turn poses important questions for ecocritical theory. Thus, the interplay between ecocritical literary theory, on the one hand, and literature, on the other, is highlighted. What can dystopia make visible in contemporary theory?

Rethinking “Normative Conscience”

2019 ◽  
Vol 25 (1-3) ◽  
pp. 192-199
Author(s):  
Julia Kristeva
Keyword(s):  
Literary Theory ◽  
Common Knowledge ◽  
Modern Human ◽  
The Other ◽  
Human Sciences ◽  
Human Species ◽  
Political Rationality ◽  
Modern Thought ◽  
The One ◽  
Technological Management

Written originally as part of a Common Knowledge symposium (2007) responding to Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger’s homily against relativism, which was delivered immediately before his election as pope, this essay describes a reactionary German intellectual current that includes not only Ratzinger and the conservative jurist E.-W. Böckenförde but also the more liberal philosopher Jürgen Habermas. What the three share, according to Kristeva, is their assessment of “rationalist humanism” as incapable of sustaining constitutional democracies, which by nature “need ‘normative presuppositions’ [on which] to found rational law.” In an effort to “counterbalance this hypothesis,” she argues that “we are already confronted with . . . experiences that render obsolete any appeal for a normative conscience.” These experiences comprise discoveries of the modern human sciences above all psychoanalysis and literary theory, which “are likely to found the ‘unifying bond’ that secular, political rationality has until now lacked.” Thus, she concludes, “modern thought, which is neither hostile nor indulgent toward religion, may be our one good option as we face, on the one hand, mounting obscurantism and, on the other, the technological management of the human species.”

Rhythm

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laura Marcus
Keyword(s):  
Literary Theory ◽  
Ancient Greece ◽  
Natural Sciences ◽  
The Other ◽  
World War ◽  
World War 2 ◽  
Classical Greece ◽  
Central Focus ◽  
Indian Thought ◽  
Classical Models

The topic of rhythm in literary theory draws both on discussions of poetry and prose and on much broader currents of thought in the natural sciences and philosophy. In Western thought, rhythm was a central focus of attention in ancient Greece, in the 19th and early 20th centuries, when theorists and practitioners of literature and the other arts often referred back to classical models. This is also the case in more recent theorizing of rhythm in the context of everyday life in advanced modern or, as some would say, postmodern societies. Nietzsche, who constantly circled around the term and with frequent direct and metaphorical references to dance, is in many ways the central figure in these discussions. He was massively influential after his death in 1900, both in Germany and more widely, for example, in Britain and North America, and he was taken up again, along with Heidegger, in much French thought after World War 2. Contemporary debates around rhythm and its relation to meter continue to refer to classical Greece, and in Chinese and Indian thought there is a similar continuity of attention to issues of rhythm.

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