The limits of literature as liberation: Colonialism, governmentality, and the humanist subject

2020 ◽  
pp. 135050762097897
Author(s):  
M Greedharry
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Structures ◽  
Literary Text ◽  
Literary Study ◽  
The People ◽  
History Of ◽  
History Of Literature ◽  
Forms Of Knowledge ◽  
Colonial Governmentality

Scholars in both the humanities and management remain attached to the idea that literature will set us free. Whether this is because literary text seems unconstrained by our epistemes or reading literature offers a practice through which we will be able to shape ourselves into the people we want to be, many of us understand literature as something that offers us a chance to emancipate ourselves from the regime of knowledge we have now. Nevertheless, as the history of literature as colonial governmentality suggests, literature and literary study have been crucial forms of knowledge-power for creating and maintaining organizational structures as well as producing the willing subjects that make those structures work. This being so, how is it that are we still interested in using literature to make “better” people, whether the people in question are ”better” managers or their subordinates, rather than reorganizing literary study in the contemporary university?

Mythological Subtext as a Specificity of the Writer’s Idiostyle (Based on the Example of Yuri Polyakov’s Novel “The Mushroom Tsar”)

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (3-2) ◽  
pp. 337-347
Author(s):  
Larisa Zakhidova ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Deep Understanding ◽  
Literary Text ◽  
Cultural Traditions ◽  
Literary Process ◽  
Associative Connection ◽  
Deep Layers ◽  
History Of ◽  
Almost All ◽  
History Of Literature ◽  
The 19Th Century

The best works of modern literature often have mythological overtones that allow us to raise the deep layers of human experience. Mythologism of the XX - XXI centuries is a wide, complex and contradictory phenomenon, requiring also serious penetration into the linguistics of the text of the studied work. The analysis of the literary process, from the 19th century to the 21st century, clearly shows that it is traditional to have vocabulary referring the reader to various cultural subtexts, which we call mythopoetic paradigms that have an associative connection with mythological images and are a means of creating mythological subtext, as well as a means of enriching a literary text with additional meanings. Mythopoetic paradigms help in creating the subtext of a work by their ability to evoke certain models, images, whole cultural traditions in the reader’s mind. A.A. Potebnya believes that the doctrine of ‘mythological devices’ of thought should be given a place in the history of literature: if the previous content of our thought is not a subjective means of cognition, but its source, and the image (being recognized as ‘objective’) is completely transferred into meaning, then in this the case the researcher comes across myth-making. Many myths are generated by the external and especially the internal form of the word. The research of Yu. M. Polyakov’s texts convincingly shows a mythopoetic type of thinking of this writer, since mythopoetic paradigms are cross-cutting and cover almost all of the author’s texts. In this regard a novel “The Mushroom Tsar” by Yu. M. Polyakov is especially specific. Yu. M. Polyakov’s works are rich in mythologemes of various types that allows us to talk about his texts within the framework of the neo-mythological tradition, which provides a deep understanding of the writer’s texts and the system of his idiostyle as a whole.

scholarly journals NATIONALISM IN VIETNAM AND KOREAN LITERATURE IN THE LATE 19TH AND EARLY 20TH CENTURIES: CASES OF PHAN BOI CHAU AND SHIN CHAE-HO

2021 ◽  
Vol 37 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Tran Tung Ngoc ◽  
Nguyen Le Thu
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
East Asian ◽  
Social Situation ◽  
National Consciousness ◽  
Korean Literature ◽  
Early Twentieth Century ◽  
The People ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Common ◽  
History Of Literature

East Asian literature in the early twentieth century witnessed the emergence of many great authors who gathered all personality of a patriot - writer - historian - revolutionary activist. They emphasized literature does not serve artistic purposes, but social purposes, which touch the heart. Literature at this time conveyed the stream of national consciousness, nationalism, independence and freedom to all of the people and promoted their patriotism and the spirit of fighting for the nation and the people. This paper focuses on analyzing the nationalist ideology in the works of Phan Boi Chau and Shin Chae-ho in the history of literature of Vietnam and Korea in the early twentieth century. Thereby, the research provides an overview of the common characteristics of the nationalist literature in East Asia. In the research content, this paper recognizes the nationalist ideology of Korean and Vietnamese intellectuals in the transformation of the historical, political and social situation in the early twentieth century. On that basis, this paper identifies the characteristics of nationalism in Shin Chae-ho’s and Phan Boi Chau's works.

POETICS OF MYTH IN N. IZHENDEY’S POEM “THE VOICE OF THE UNBORN CHILD”

2021 ◽  
pp. 134-141
Author(s):  
Ирина Владимировна Софронова ◽  
Юрий Михайлович Артемьев ◽  
Юрий Николаевич Исаев
Keyword(s):  
Semantic Space ◽  
Literary Text ◽  
Transitional Period ◽  
Generation Gap ◽  
Unborn Child ◽  
Semantic Meaning ◽  
The People ◽  
History Of ◽  
Good And Evil ◽  
The Voice

В научной статье рассматриваются мифологические образы, мотивы, детали, используемые в творчестве чувашского поэта Николая Ижендея (Петрова). Целью работы является определение роли и значения поэтики мифа в поэме «Суралман ача сасси» («Голос нерожденного ребенка»). Посредством поэтики мифа поэт создает новый вариант мифа о происхождении Ардури (Лешего), применяет для этого представление народа о добром и злом началах, загробном мире, духах предков, описание обрядов, связанных с рождением ребенка. Нестабильное положение в обществе приводит к разрушению связи между поколениями. На этом фоне автор рассматривает проблему судьбы чувашского языка, будущего нации. Предупреждает нас о возможных трагических последствиях, изображая смерть нерожденного ребенка. Мифологические образы и детали позволили поэту передать специфику смутного, переходного периода развития истории страны и народа. Мифологизм способствует углублению семантического пространства художественного текста, придает трагизм сказанному. Смысловое значение используемых поэтом мифологических образов типично и для других авторов чувашской литературы. В завершение статьи делается вывод о том, что поэт использует поэтику мифа для создания своеобразного художественного мира, для описания актуальных проблем современности. The article considers mythological images, motives, details employed in the works of the Chuvash poet Nikolay Izhendey (Petrov). The aim of the work is to determine the role and significance of the poetics of myth in the poem “Shuralmanachasassi” (“The voice of the unborn child”). Through the poetics of the myth, the poet creates a new version of the myth of the origin of Arshuri (wood spirit), bases on the idea of the people of good and evil principles, the afterlife, the spirits of ancestors, the description of the rituals associated with the birth of a child. The unstable situation in society leads to the generation gap. Against this background, the author examines the problem of the fate of the Chuvash language, the future of the nation; warns us against possible tragic consequences by depicting the death of an unborn child. Mythological images and details allowed the poet to convey the specifics of the vague, transitional period in the development of the history of the country and the people. Mythologism contributes to the deepening of the semantic space of the literary text, adds tragedy to what was said. The semantic meaning of the mythological images used by the poet is typical for other authors of the Chuvash literature. At the end of the article, the author concludes that the poet uses the poetics of myth to create a kind of artistic world, to describe the pressing problems of our time.

scholarly journals “Aixo era y no era”: The Ontological Paradox of Metaphoric Reference

2020 ◽  
pp. 30-46
Author(s):  
Galyna Dranenko
Keyword(s):  
Literary Text ◽  
New Criticism ◽  
Semantic Approach ◽  
Current Period ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
History Of ◽  
Everyday Reality ◽  
Linguistic Approach ◽  
History Of Literature ◽  
Metaphorical Process

A quick look on the history of criticism and literary theory of the current period shows curious reversals and strange returns. Indeed one can see the slow and unrelenting disappearance of rhetoric, justly qualified as restricted, since it has been all too often limited to identifying and classifying of the various figures. It has been replaced by a new criticism, a fundamentally formalist one, the assumptions of which are akin to those of the “text sciences”; if the structure, the “poetical function” of the texts were underlined, it was to the detriment of their functional reference and their meaning to put it simply. There is no doubt that today this approach is running out of steam and is meeting some decline. For that reason, the history of literature is coming back in force and finds a new youth with the developments of the theories of perception. But there reappears also a new interest in a semantic approach of the texts, which is concerned with their references. This approach, which comes from logistics (G. Frege), undoubtedly opens a philosophical horizon, particularly on some kind of ontology. Thus it is not surprising to find that a great many studies question the metaphorical process again from that perspective given the paradoxical nature of its reference and thus of its ontology which could be summed up through the usual exordium of the Majorcan storytellers: “Aixo era y no era” (it was and was not). Paul Ricœur insists on the paradoxical nature of the metaphorical reference since “the metaphor is a way of working on the language which consists in giving the logical subjects predicates that are incompatible with the first ones” (From Text to Action). In his book The Living Metaphor, the French philosopher analyses the concept of the “ontological metaphor” from the idea of the “divided reference”. Ricœur moves away from a purely stylistic or linguistic approach, centred on the word (a deviant denomination) to describe the metaphorical process on the level of the phrase and of the discourse (a non-pertinent predication): “Then there is a metaphor, since we can discern <…> the resistance of words <…> their incompatibility on the level of a literal interpretation of a sentence” (From Text to Action). But that non-pertinence and the abolition of the reference in the everyday reality are not a purely gratuitous verbal game, for they liberate “another kind of reference to other dimensions of reality” (The Living Metaphor). It is that way of tension of the metaphor which we intend to present in our study for it expresses some kind of „ontological vehemence” as Ricœur puts it so well? Let us add that the metaphor seen as a new description of reality, can be conceived, so to speak, as a “model”, in the sense of a prototype which accounts of the way a literary text functions when it is a “opening on the world”, when it places itself “in the service of things that want to be expressed” and when it responds “to the need of a discourse that comes from all forms of experience” (Mimesis, Reference and new figuration in “Time and Narrative”).

scholarly journals Reaffirmation of the methods and spirit of literary criticism: Contribution to the interpretation of The history of Serbian literature by Jovan Deretić

Bastina ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 55-80
Author(s):  
Ana Mumović
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Literary Criticism ◽  
Literary History ◽  
Critical Evaluation ◽  
The People ◽  
History Of ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
History Of Literature ◽  
Comprehensive History

The paper discusses five monographs by Jovan Deretić, which the author considers "accompanying books" of his History of Serbian Literature. These are: Marko Kraljević's riddle - about the nature of historicity in Serbian folk epics, The path of Serbian literature - identity, borders, aspirations, Poetics of Serbian literature, Serbian folk epics and Etudes from old Serbian literature. In this paper, we analyze them as a contribution to the interpretation of the History of Serbian Literature, the most comprehensive history of literature in Serbian science to the extent that they are important as proof of Deretić's great synthesis and consideration of the function of literary criticism in Serbian culture. An important definition of the "accompanying books" is provided by the author in their prefaces and notes. It is summarized in the theoretical and applied level in the process of considering important issues of Serbian literary history: periodization and classification of literature, poetic or historical determinants and the significance of particular epochs, writers, or genres. A review of the critical evaluation of Serbian literature and historical and cultural heritage in the accompanying books shows that Deretić pragmatized his scientific thought and reaffirmed literary criticism, directing it "for the benefit of the people". This means that he gave it a practical and social function and intended it "for a distant generation".

scholarly journals ON THE IMPORTANCE OF ADVENTURE INTERPRETATION OF THE LITERARY TEXT DURING TEACHING HISTORY OF LITERATURE

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 141-151
Author(s):  
Peter Ziak ◽  
Valbona Gashi-Berisha
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Literary Text ◽  
Motivational Factor ◽  
Teaching Techniques ◽  
Innovative Teaching ◽  
Teaching History ◽  
Language Interpretation ◽  
History Of ◽  
History Of Literature ◽  
The Way

This study examines the phenomenon of interpretation as part of the study of the history of literature, especially in the case of teaching a foreign language. Interpretation can be about examining the immanent structures of a text, but also about reflecting the reader's relationship to the text and the way he approaches it. With regard to didactic goals, which include, in addition to professional interpretation, also a motivational factor (to teach students to like literature), we offer several innovative teaching techniques aimed at supporting adventure reading.

scholarly journals Peculiarities of national cultural adaptation of Grimm's Fairy Tales when translated into Russian

Litera ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 111-120
Author(s):  
Lola Bobodzhanova
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Identity ◽  
Fairy Tales ◽  
Cultural Adaptation ◽  
Fairy Tale ◽  
Brothers Grimm ◽  
The People ◽  
History Of ◽  
Cultural Traits ◽  
History Of Literature ◽  
Different Cultures

This article is dedicated to the analysis of fairy tales as a special genre of children's fiction literature with unique features and a long history. In the course of this work, the author gives definitions to the key concepts; examines correlation between the literary fairly tale and folk fairy tale, evolution of fairy tale genre, namely the works of Brothers Grimm. The article the stages of establishment of fairy tales as an independent genre in the history of literature. An attempt is made to determine the genre similarities that make fairy tales comprehensible within the framework of other linguocultures. Special attention is turned to the specificities of national cultural adaptation in translation of fairy tales from German into Russia, taking into account the peculiarities of translation transformations. The conducted analysis allows concluding that children&rsquo;s fairy tale literature is a reflection of the national linguistic worldview, and largely depends on the existing in the society national cultural traits, mentality and perception of the world. These facts indicate that translation and adaptation of fairy tale literature requires the translator to understand the uniqueness of worldview of the people affiliating to different cultures, as well as convey the national cultural identity and specificities of foreign perception and mentality of the representatives of various linguocultures.

Kafka’s Strindberg

2020 ◽  
pp. 163-188
Author(s):  
David Trotter
Keyword(s):  
International Trade ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Sarah Orne Jewett ◽  
The People ◽  
Open Sea ◽  
History Of ◽  
Stockholm Archipelago ◽  
The Moment ◽  
History Of Literature

This chapter, the first of three case studies designed to carry the story of representations of connectivity forward from the moment in the history of literature in English at which Chapter 5 left off, develops its own version of island theory in order to revalue the two novels Strindberg wrote about islands in the Stockholm archipelago, The People of Hemsö (1887) and By the Open Sea (1890). Islands insulate and isolate. They insulate the connectivity which sustains both empire and international trade from social and political circumstance; and, in doing so, isolate their inhabitants. The popularity of local colour writing offers a context for stories of isolation by Strindberg, Lawrence, and Sarah Orne Jewett, as well as for Kafka’s rewriting of aspects of By the Open Sea, a novel he knew well, in The Castle. The chapter concludes by analysing the distribution of the term Verbindung (connection) in The Castle.

scholarly journals Los arquitectos conservadores de zona = The conservative architects of zone

2017 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 41
Author(s):  
Jose Luis Javier Pérez Martín ◽  
Antonio Rodríguez Sánchez ◽  
Silvia Arbaiza Blanco-Soler
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Structures ◽  
The Political ◽  
Normative Development ◽  
Built Heritage ◽  
The People ◽  
Legislative Framework ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Law

El conocimiento de la historia de la conservación de nuestro Patrimonio Construido, precisa del estudio del marco político y social de cada periodo, la integración de las corrientes internacionales, su adaptación, desarrollo normativo, estructuras organizativas, etc., para finalmente prestar atención a las personas que llevaron a cabo las intervenciones, entendiendo su propio debate intelectual y crítico. Entre las distintas respuestas estructuradas, encontramos un grupo de Arquitectos dotados de entidad propia, respaldados por un amplio marco legislativo, al que no se ha prestado una atención específica como grupo, aunque si a sus componentes, dada su notoriedad individual. Nos referimos a los denominados Arquitectos de Zona o Arquitectos Conservadores de Zona, cuya figura es fijada por la Ley de 1933, o mejor dicho por su Reglamento de 1936, aunque su existencia es anterior, permaneciendo hasta los albores de la Democracia.AbstractThe knowledge of the history of the conservation of our Built Heritage, requires the study of the political and social framework of each period, the integration of international currents, their adaptation, normative development, organizational structures, etc., to finally pay attention to the people who carried out the interventions understanding their own intellectual and critical debate. Among the different structured responses, we find a group of architects endowed with their own entity, backed by a broad legislative framework, which has not been given specific attention as a group, although its components, given its individual notoriety. We refer to the so-called Zone Architects or Area Conservation Architects, whose figure is set by the Law of 1933, or rather by its Regulations of 1936, although its existence is earlier, remaining until the dawn of Democracy.

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