scholarly journals The Myth of Sisyphus in Richard Wright’s Native Son

SAGE Open ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 215824402110061
Author(s):  
Friday Romanus Okpo
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Structural Analysis ◽  
Literary Criticism ◽  
Literary Theory ◽  
Qualitative Approach ◽  
Literary Texts ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Native Son ◽  
Crime And Punishment

The identification of archetypes in literary texts follows the path of deep structural analysis, as surface reading will dwell ordinarily at the level of incidents. This research is driven by the configuration of the myth of Sisyphus in Richard Wright’s Native Son. Our claim is that the myth figures in the text as a shade of the crime and punishment sequence, with an absurdist twist. This claim is substantiated following the archetypal literary theory, which employs to a great extent the methods of discourse analysis. The novel has often been read along the ideological questions that racism raises and attempts to answer. This essay marks a deviation from that seemingly jaundiced view of literature. What this essay foregrounds is the eternal regeneration of narratives, an eternalness that bears the nature of the archetype in its repetitiveness. This necessitates the choice of archetypal literary criticism as the theory for this research. To reach its conclusions, this article adopts a qualitative approach, taking its data from the events in the novel, and investigating the mythic orientations at work in the novel, with the view that at the forefront of this is the myth of Sisyphus, a shade of the myth of crime and punishment. This article does not account for the sociocultural frame of racism as a material but understands it in the wider conception of myth, as a figuration of the Sisyphean myth which shares with the racism in the text the quality of perpetuity or seeming endlessness. We show that racism is in this akin to the sufferings and struggles of Sisyphus, that it is Sisyphean.

Anthology

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ben Grant
Keyword(s):  
Literary Criticism ◽  
18Th Century ◽  
Close Association ◽  
Literary Texts ◽  
Modern Concept ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Politics Of Identity ◽  
Literary Traditions ◽  
Important Object ◽  
Written Word

Anthologies, in the broadest sense of collections of independent texts, have always played an important role in preserving and spreading the written word, and collections of short forms, such as proverbs, wise sayings, and epigraphs, have a long history. The literary anthology, however, is of comparatively recent provenance, having come to prominence only during the long 18th century, when the modern concept of “literature” itself emerged. Since that time, it has been a fundamental part of literary culture: not only have literary texts been published in anthologies, but also the genre of the anthology has done much to shape their form and content, and to influence the ways in which they are read and taught, particularly as literary criticism has developed in tandem with the rise of the anthology. The anthology has also stimulated innovation in many periods and places by providing a model for writers of different genres of literature to emulate, and it has been argued that the form of the novel is much indebted to the anthology. This is connected to its close association with the figure of the reader. Furthermore, anthologies have helped to define what literature is, and been crucial to the canonization of texts, authors, and genres, and the consolidation of literary traditions. It is therefore not surprising that they were at the heart of the theoretical and pedagogical debates within literary studies known as the canon wars, which raged during the 1980s and 1990s. In this role, they contributed much to discussions concerning the theories and politics of identity, and to such approaches as feminism and race studies. The connection between the anthology and literary theory extends beyond this, however: theory itself has been subject to widespread anthologization, which has affected its practice and reception; the form of theoretical writing can in certain respects be understood as anthological; and the anthology is an important object of theoretical attention. For instance, given the potential which the digital age holds to transform how texts are disseminated and consumed, and the importance of finding ways to classify and navigate the digital archive, anthology studies is likely to figure largely in the Digital Humanities.

scholarly journals Visualizing Theatrical and Novelistic Discourse with Bakhtin

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 12-31
Author(s):  
Susan Petrilli
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
Literary Criticism ◽  
Philosophy Of Language ◽  
Close Relation ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Central Focus ◽  
Political Events ◽  
Moscow Art Theatre ◽  
The Ideal

A constant vision in Mikhail Bakhtin's works: polyphonic dialogue, this above all in the novel, but his love for theatre should not be neglected. Consequently, a central focus in Bakhtin's reflections is the polyphonic novel which he first identifies in Dostoevsky's novels. Bakhtin establishes a close relation between the novel, popular culture and carnival, evidencing the carnival component of novelistic discourse, therefore of life. Moreover, as he recounts in his 1973 conversations with Victor Duvakin, his interest in the novel overlapped with theatre, in particular the Moscow Art Theatre. In Bakhtin and Theatre, Dick McCaw relates Bakhtin's vision of art and life to theatre as visualized by Stanislavksy, Meyerhold and Grotowski, each of whom operated a “revolution” in their own original terms comparable to the so-called “Bakhtinian revolution” in philosophy of language and literary criticism. With the difficult socio-political events of the time on the background, this essay explores important aspects of the real dialogue between these three masters of the theatre and of the ideal dialogue established between the latter and Bakhtin, thereby creating a special perspective on theatre with special reference to the Bakhtinian concepts of “polyphony” and “dramatization”. Overall are evidenced, for the quality of life, the importance of such values as dialogism, otherness, participative unindifference, creativity which also emerge as characteristics that specify the artwork, whether novelistic or theatrical, thereby showing how art and life are vitally interrelated and capable of enhancing each other.

STEREOTIP TERHADAP PEREMPUAN DALAM NOVEL-NOVEL KARYA ABIDAH EL KHALIEQY: TINJAUAN SASTRA FEMINIS

2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 29-42
Author(s):  
Yenny Puspita
Keyword(s):  
Data Analysis ◽  
Deep Understanding ◽  
Qualitative Approach ◽  
Analysis Procedure ◽  
Data Sources ◽  
Literary Texts ◽  
Primary Data ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Data Analysis Procedure

This study aims to obtain an overview and deep understanding of the role of women in society, especially the stereotypes of women in the novel Perempuan Berkalung Sorban and Geni Jora by Abidah El Khalieqy. This study uses a descriptive qualitative approach. Primary data sources in this study are novels by Abidah El Khalieqy including: Women Berkalung Sorban (2001) and Geni Jora (2004). Data collection techniques are in the form of document searches. In this case, the form of awareness and flow of feminist thought contained in Indonesian literary texts is understood to mean the use of feminism studies. The data analysis procedure used in this study is content analysis.

scholarly journals Teknik dan Kualitas Penerjemahan Frasa Washfi pada Novel Zeina Karya Nawal El Sadawi

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 66-98
Author(s):  
Aditya Prayogo ◽  
Fitria Sari Yunianti
Keyword(s):  
Quality Assessment ◽  
Descriptive Analysis ◽  
Qualitative Approach ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Analysis Method ◽  
Translation Quality ◽  
Literal Translation ◽  
Translation Technique ◽  
Translation Techniques

This research explain the techniques and quality assessment of the translation of washfi phrases in the novel Zeina's translation by Nawal El Saadawi. This research is a part of translation criticism by using the descriptive analysis method. This research uses a qualitative approach in analyzing translation techniques by applying Newmark's theory of translation techniques. In addition, a quantitative approach is also used in assessing the quality of translation by applying the theory of translation quality assessment by Nababan. The results of this research indicate that there are 348 data on washfi phrases in the novel Zeina and 40 data on washfi phrases in this study. The techniques used in translation are 10 of 16 Newmark translation techniques. The ten techniques are literal translation technique, transference, reduction, expansion, transposition, synonymy, modulation, naturalization, paraphrasing, and recognized translation technique. As for the assessment of translation quality, the most acceptable translation qualities were literal translation techniques and synonymy techniques (77%). Meanwhile, the lowest acceptance quality was naturalization technique, which was 62%. Then, the quality of easy / high readability is in the paraphrasing technique, which is 76%. While the quality of the lowest readability is naturalization technique, which is 46%.

scholarly journals TRIANGLING BELLOW’S SEIZE THE DAY

2015 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 228
Author(s):  
Nita Novianti
Keyword(s):  
Literary Criticism ◽  
Family Systems ◽  
Literary Theory ◽  
Family Systems Theory ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Saul Bellow ◽  
Family Systems Therapy ◽  
The Matrix ◽  
American Author ◽  
The Many

AbstractOver the years, new theories of literary criticism have invariably emerged as a response, critique to, and development of the earlier criticisms. This paper introduces a relatively new literary theory that can enrich the repertoire of literary criticism in Indonesian context, namely family systems therapy or FST, through a critical analysis of Seize the Day by Saul Bellow, an American author whose works mainly deal with the theme of family and the issues revolving it. Partly a critique to Freud’s psychoanalysis and its variants, family systems therapy holds that one’s identity is a part of a matrix of identity, thereby requiring the analysis of one’s interrelatedness with the others involved in the matrix in order to understand one’s self. The analysis shows that the protagonist of the novel, Wilhelm, is involved in a triangle in his effort to cope with his anxiety. Triangling is also found to be merely one of the many outlets for the protagonist’s anxiety. The paper concludes that family systems theory is appropriate to critically analyze literary works dealing with family matters, such as Seize the Day. This theory offers new insights not only into the practice of literary criticism but also into seeing problems in life. Keywords: Family systems therapy, triangle, anxiety  AbstrakTeori-teori kritik sastra terus bermunculan, baik sebagai tanggapan, kritik, atau perkembangan dari teori-teori sebelumnya. Makalah ini memperkenalkan sebuah teori yang cukup baru yang bisa memperkaya khasanah kritik sastra di Indonesia, yaitu terapi sistem keluarga, melalui sebuah analisis terhadap novel berjudul Seize the Day karangan Saul Bellow, seorang penulis Amerika yang karya-karyanya terutama mengangkat tema keluarga dan permasalahan yang melingkupinya. Sebagai kritik terhadap teori Psikoanalisis oleh Freud dan variasi-variasinya, terapi sistem keluarga percaya bahwa identitas seseorang adalah bagian dari matriks identitas, sehingga analisis terhadap keterhubungan seseorang dengan orang lain yang terlibat dalam matriks tersebut diperlukan jika ingin memahami diri seseorang. Analisis menunjukkan bahwa protagonis novel tersebut, Wilhelm, terlibat dalam sebuah hubungan segitiga atau triangling dalam usahanya untuk menghadapi kegelisahan hidupnya; selain itu, hubungan segitiga hanyalah satu dari sekian jalan keluar untuk kegelisahan yang dihadapi protagonis. Makalah ini menyimpulkan bahwa teori psikoterapi keluarga cocok untuk menganalisis secara kritis karya-karya sastra yang berkenaan dengan masalah keluarga, seperti Seize the Day. Teori ini menawarkan sudut pandang baru, tidak hanya terhadap praktik dalam kritik sastra, tapi juga terhadap cara melihat permasalahan dalam hidup. Kata kunci: Terapi sistem keluarga, segitiga, kegelisahan.

scholarly journals REPRESENTASI TKW DALAM NOVEL DIARY BURUH MIGRAN DAN XIE XIE NI DE AI: KAJIANWACANA KRITIS

EDU-KATA ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 93-102
Author(s):  
Taufiq Zen
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Data Analysis ◽  
Migrant Workers ◽  
Research Data ◽  
Qualitative Approach ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Analysis Method ◽  
Dominant Discourse ◽  
Descriptive Qualitative

The purpose of this study is to describe (1) Subject-Object and (2) position of writer-reader in the novel Migrant Workers' Diary and Xie Xie Ni De Ai. This study uses a descriptive qualitative approach with the Sara Mills discourse analysis method. This research data is in the form of words, sentences or texts whose source of data is in the novel of Migrant Workers' Diary and Xie Xie Ne De Ai. At the data analysis stage, steps are taken: selecting, classifying, analyzing, interpreting the data, and summarizing it. The results of this study indicate that through the relationships that occur between migrant workers and capitalism, migrant workers and employers, and between fellow migrant workers are still positioned as marginal people. TKW is described as having no power. Regarding the author-reader structure, the writer positions the reader with direct and indirect greetings. This greeting serves to place the reader as part of the text, so that they will be concerned about the problems of the migrant workers. The conclusion is that the two novels still represent TKW discourse in line with the dominant discourse.

scholarly journals IDEOLOGICAL SHIFT OF TEXT AND THE INFLUENCE OF TRANSLATION IDEOLOGY IN THE NOVEL “HALF OF YELLOW SUN”

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 109
Author(s):  
Husnawati . . ◽  
Amrin . Saragih ◽  
Zainuddin . .
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Literary Work ◽  
Research Paper ◽  
Qualitative Approach ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Causal Factor ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Data Source ◽  
Significant Change ◽  
Descriptive Qualitative

ABSTRACTThis research paper concerned with the analysis of factor affecting ideological shift of text in the translation of literary work. As the data source, a novel entitled 'half of yellow sun' a work of Chimamanda Adichie was analyzed. The analysis was specified to clauses taken from the English and Indonesian version of the novel, as the data. Further, the researcher applied descriptive qualitative approach in collecting and analyzing the data. Halliday’s theory of metafunction, specified on the analysis of transitivity system was used as main theory. Moreover, the theory of ideology in translation was adopted in the analysis, as causal factor to see how translation ideology cause the ideological shift of text in translation. Then, the result of the analysis revealed that the intermetafunctional shift is the most significant category found in the text (90.24%), while the intra-metafunctional shift was only found once (9.75%).   It proved that there were significant change of ideology of text showed by the changing of the process of transitivity system. Morever, the result of analysis releaved that, the ideological shifts of text were mostly affected by domestication ideology with percentages 78.05%, and foreignization ideology by percentages 21.95% or equal to a quarter of the whole clauses. It means that the translator produced the translation based on her goal and point of view and ideology of target language's culture and trying to make the text as closely as possible to the target readers’ language. It means the ideological shift of text were affected by translation ideology in which the translator produced the translation based on her goal and point of view and ideology of target language's culture and trying to make the text as closely as possible to the target readers’ language.Keywords: Systemic Functonal Linguistics, Translation, Discourse Analysis, Ideological Shift, literary work

scholarly journals STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS IN RICHARD WRIGHT’S NATIVE SON

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ike Anisa ◽  
Suhud Eko Yuwono
Keyword(s):  
Structural Analysis ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Structural Elements ◽  
Real Condition ◽  
Native Son ◽  
The Real ◽  
Internal Coherence

A novel is proved of the real condition of the person. Sometimes it reflects the background from the author of the novel. By the novel, an author can express the idea or feeling that derives from his life. In short, the story in a novel can be portrait of the real condition in a certain time. Here, Richard Wright as the author of the Native Son expressed his idea and his feeling through the writing of the novel. His novel full the message that could be represented his real life condition. This study tries to explore the structural analysis of the character, setting, plot, point of view and style. Here, the writer tries to analyze the characters including the characterization of the major character and the minor character, setting of time and place, plot of the story, point of view, style and theme. This analysis of the structural elements of Native Son is meant to reveal the internal coherence that explains the author’s worldview.

scholarly journals The Concept of Ideology in Marxist Literary Criticism

2017 ◽  
Vol 13 (20) ◽  
pp. 154
Author(s):  
Lutfi Hamadi
Keyword(s):  
Literary Criticism ◽  
Significant Role ◽  
Literary Theory ◽  
Literary Texts ◽  
Historical Overview

This paper attempts an exploration of the development of the Marxist literary theory in general and the concept of ideology in particular. Showing the significant role this theory plays in the field of literary criticism, the paper focuses on remarkable Marxist figures, explores their most notable works, and sheds light on their contributions to the theory and the field of literary criticism. For this purpose, the paper starts with basic Marxist principles of reading literature set by Marx and Engels and examines the changes that occurred with other critics, mainly Althusser, Jameson, and Eagleton in their attempts to show the importance of ideology in explaining literature and understanding its backgrounds, goals, and methods. Thus, the methodology will include an historical overview, shedding light on early Marxist perspectives, comparing and contrasting the contributions and adjustments added by remarkable Marxist thinkers, and illustrating by examples of literary texts and how they are seen and analyzed by these Marxist scholars.

scholarly journals CRIME AND PUNISHMENT IN THE CHAPTER “REBELLION”, IN THE NOVEL “THE BROTHERS KARAMAZOV” OF F. M. DOSTOEVSKY (Problems of the suffering of the innocent)

2021 ◽  
Vol XII (38) ◽  
pp. 147-160
Author(s):  
Marina Koprivica
Keyword(s):  
Literary Criticism ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Literary Work ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Moral Norms ◽  
Unconditional Love ◽  
Crime And Punishment ◽  
The Brothers Karamazov ◽  
The World ◽  
Brothers Karamazov

F. M. Dostoevsky is one of the world's great writers who, while preserving the autonomy of a literary work, incorporated into his works issues of an ethical-philosophical and religious character. He permeated his works with echoes of these topics, but, in addition to the literary stamp, in some chapters he concretized ethical-philosophical and religious issues, for example, in the novel "The Brothers Karamazov", in the chapters "Rebellion" and "The Grand Inquisitor”. Concerning his spirituality and his perspective on life and society, Dostoevsky belongs to writers whose moral norms are the foundation and imperative of their poetics. He paid special attention to those who were "insulted and humiliated, ", the so-called "little people", especially children who suffer in the world of adults. In this light, we can also say that the title of the chapter "Rebellion" is a seal of Dostoevsky's work, and our work focuses on the central theme of "Rebellion" - the relationship of adult characters to the suffering of children in the world, and the very purpose of punishment for crimes which cannot adequately be redeemed. By analyzing this key chapter of the novel, through concrete images of the suffering of children and the attitudes of Ivan Karamazov, we emphasize the motif of crime and punishment in "The Brothers Karamazov": the question of freedom, that is, free will, but also love towards people who are close, which Dostoevsky problematizes, especially in the parent-child relationship. We also point out the creative task of this Russian writer; his effort to solve the eternal enigma of man as a being, through which the writer wants to solve the riddle of God. Ivan's rebellion against such an arrangement of God is also shown, in which the suffering of the innocent is allowed, with the hero's rejections of future harmony at the expense of the suffering of the innocent and powerless. In this chapter, which has so far received little attention in literary criticism, Dostoevsky also questioned the eternal questions of man through the experience of lived truth, with the view that there is no goal worthy of a single human life or a child's tears. In his complex task, synthesizing in the sphere of literature, ethical-philosophical and religious attitudes, Dostoevsky determines the essence of man and his moral values, opposing the postulates of the notion of unconditional love to rational will, determined by social, generally accepted factors. Based on a wider range of contrasts and contradictory attitudes of Dostoevsky's heroes, especially Ivan Karamazov in "Rebellion", from atheism, faith and agnosticism, to rebellion and preaching, we conclude that these categories are strongly intertwined in the rich literary amplitude of Dostoevsky - writer and ethicist, philosopher, and preacher in literature - and not only permeate, but always end with the apotheosis of a love for man, especially for the so-called "little man", and for unprotected children, indicating the author’s strong compassion for the suffering of the innocent.

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