How Drawing can Support Writing Acquisition: Text Construction in Early Writing from a Vygotskian Perspective

2013 ◽  
Vol 38 (4) ◽  
pp. 22-29 ◽  
Author(s):  
Noella Mackenzie ◽  
Nikolai Veresov
Keyword(s):  
Early Writing ◽  
Writing Acquisition ◽  
Text Construction

Chekhov's Environmental Psychology: Medicine and the Early Stories

Slavic Review ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 79 (4) ◽  
pp. 709-730
Author(s):  
Matthew Mangold
Keyword(s):  
Medical Education ◽  
Clinical Medicine ◽  
Environmental Psychology ◽  
Medical Writing ◽  
Early Writing ◽  
Mental Life ◽  
Case Histories ◽  
Artistic Vision ◽  
Literary Writing ◽  
Core Issues

In light of the historical circumstances surrounding Anton Chekhov's early writing career and his own statements about the importance of medicine to it, there is surprisingly little scholarship on how medicine shaped his prose. What ideas was he introduced to in medical school and how did he apply them? Which of these drew his attention as he strove to articulate a new artistic vision? How did Chekhov draw on his experience with medicine to experiment with new themes and forms in his literary writing? This article addresses these questions by focusing on the aspects of medicine that had the most discernable influence on Chekhov as he developed his literary writing: hygiene, clinical medicine, and psychiatry. It argues that Chekhov engaged with core issues of medicine not only as a medical student who wrote case histories of his patients, but also as a groundbreaking writer. As he transcodes insights from the clinic into his prose, he creates a new conception of details that disclose relationships between settings and characters and an environmental psychology emerges across his medical writing and fiction. His stories envision relationships between physical and mental life with such originality that he becomes a new literary force not long after completing his medical education.

Seventh-Century Material Culture in Boiotia

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephanie Larson
Keyword(s):  
Material Culture ◽  
Seventh Century ◽  
Specific Reference ◽  
Early Writing ◽  
Vase Painting ◽  
Artistic Production

This chapter briefly discusses aspects of the material culture of seventh-century bce Boiotia in general and makes specific reference to sites and areas of relevance in studying Hesiod, in particular Askra, Thespiai, the Valley of the Muses, Thebes, Plataiai, and Akraiphnia. It pays special attention to the sanctuary of Apollo on the Ismenion hill and to the Herakleion in Thebes, the sanctuary of the hero Herakles, who was worshipped there as an epichoric figure, and discusses inscriptions and finds from these two sites. The chapter also offers a view of Boiotia and of the environs of Thebes in particular as an early Greek center for artistic production during the time of Hesiod, as shown through vase painting, figurines, early writing, sculpture, and an artist’s signature.

scholarly journals Influence of Letter Properties on Japanese Hiragana Reading and Writing Acquisition

2019 ◽  
Vol 60 (2) ◽  
pp. 113-120
Author(s):  
Hiroki Higuchi ◽  
Yuko Okumura ◽  
Tessei Kobayashi
Keyword(s):  
Reading And Writing ◽  
Writing Acquisition

scholarly journals «Z lupoyu literaturnoho detektyva» (Do problemy identyfikatsiyi utayemnychenykh tekstiv)

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 ◽  
pp. 212-225
Author(s):  
Mykola Krupach
Keyword(s):  
Literary Criticism ◽  
Interwar Period ◽  
Subject Matter ◽  
General Concept ◽  
The State ◽  
National Literature ◽  
Western Countries ◽  
The Status ◽  
Text Construction

The article “Contemporary Ukrainian Poetry” by Oleh Olzhych has been given the status of an authoritative source in domestic literary criticism in recent decades, in particular, in the study of the genesis of emigrant poetry of 1920-1930 and in general on the interpretation of the state of national literature in eastern and western countries, which in the interwar period were respectively under the rule of Russia and Poland. Only the “textual coincidences, general concept and intonation” of the article and Olzhych’s related texts were taken as the basis of identification. Such a technique contains elements of pre-programming of the final result and can lead to erroneous conclusions in identifying the author of the publication. It draws attention to the analogies of text construction, subject matter, lexical and stylistic coincidences, etc., but distracts from what is the main in the objective establishment of the publication of a particular person - the (internal) content of the text. The example of Olzhych’s attitude to the process of development of national literature in the interwar period and especially to the work of his father (Oleksandr Oles) shows that he can’t be the author of a politically quite controversial article “Contemporary Ukrainian Poetry”.

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