Toward a Realism of the World-System: John Lanchester’s Capital and the Global City

2021 ◽  
Vol 82 (4) ◽  
pp. 499-526
Author(s):  
Liam Lanigan
Keyword(s):  
World System ◽  
Global City ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Global Finance ◽  
The World ◽  
Social Totality ◽  
Classical Realism ◽  
Temporal And Spatial ◽  
The 2008 Financial Crisis ◽  
The City

Abstract This essay explores how John Lanchester’s Capital adapts classical realism to represent the contemporary global city; it pays particular attention to how London’s position in the world-system disrupts Lukácsian totality. Because the novel attends to the complexity and extensiveness of the world-system, it depicts the city not as a representative totality but as embedded in the global circuits of capital, shaped by the influences of inward migration and global finance. In this the novel has affinities with many fictions of the global periphery, for instance portraying the city as at once socially fragmented and structurally connected. Furthermore, the novel departs from classical realism in its closure; though the 2008 financial crisis is omitted from the novel, it overshadows the entire plot, and its absence emphasizes the lack of finality in the story of this phase of capitalism itself. In demonstrating the temporal and spatial unknowability of contemporary capital, Lanchester’s novel both affirms the capacity of realism to trace deep systemic connections and reveals the fragility of its construction of a social totality, positing a realism attendant to its own perspectival limits within the world-system.

scholarly journals The image of New York in the context of the criminal world in the novel „The Godfather” by M. Puzo

2020 ◽  
pp. 104-112
Author(s):  
D. Yu. Boklakh ◽  
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Twentieth Century ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Linguistic Context ◽  
Objective World ◽  
Local Areas ◽  
Temporal And Spatial ◽  
The City

The work identifies the features of the artistic worldview of urban reality by the author, which is associated with the reproduction of the criminal sphere of life in New York in the middle of the twentieth century. It was found that the compositional center and background of events in the work is the image of the city, which becomes a sensotvir dominant, forms a system of local areas mainly without detailed action in time. The image of the city is perceived in the imagination of the explicit recipient, obeys the author’s intention and consciously follows it, becoming a passive observer. The author’s assessment of the reproduction of the objective world of the city is absent. The construction of temporal and spatial elements occurs through the retrospection of the narrator. New York is becoming a certified reflection of the life of the mafia world, full of social vices and an idle lifestyle. The sensual sphere of the city is full of immorality, the prosperity of crime, and the mercantile interests of residents. The linguistic context of reproducing the image of the city is indicated by modeling a kind of chronicle with a lexically monotonous text, created through the use of newspaper and telegraph stylistics.

scholarly journals Uma voz profética ou «O segredo de olhar o sol de frente»: A Juventude na obra de Fernando Namora

2020 ◽  
pp. 11-12
Author(s):  
António Pedro Pita
Keyword(s):  
Young Adulthood ◽  
The Novel ◽  
The World ◽  
Fictional Representations ◽  
The City

This essay explores fictional representations of young adulthood in the novel As Sete Partidas do Mundo (Seven Departures from the World), set in the second half of the 1930s and the first years of the 1940s. These years coincide with the period of consolidation for the neo-realist generation from the city of Coimbra. “Youth”, as omnipresent theme and represented experience in the writing by Fernando Namora, becomes the metaphor for future cultural fissures between tradition and innovation.

Agonising Liminality: A Study Of Orhan Pamuk’s Snow

Think India ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 22 (3) ◽  
pp. 63-71
Author(s):  
A. Ezhugnayiru
Keyword(s):  
Ottoman Empire ◽  
The Novel ◽  
The West ◽  
The Social ◽  
The World ◽  
The Republic ◽  
Republic Of Turkey ◽  
The City ◽  
The Town ◽  
Unpleasant Experience

                      This article throws light on the distress a liminal experience could give for an individual or to a community who belong to a specific ethnicity, regarding the novel Snow written by the Turkish writer, Orhan Pamuk. Turkey located geographically in the edges of landscapes where the east and the west meet encounters this liminality over a couple of decades and stays as the setting of the novel Snow. In the liminal state, people fall in the breaks and crevices of the social structure which they think.The liminal stage individual encounters, a period of instability and vulnerability. Orhan Pamuk's Snow reflects the unpleasant experience of progress from the Islam arranged Ottoman Empire to the Republic of Turkey. The setting of the novel, the town of Kars, a periphery city fringe to Turkey stands as a representative of Turkey's minimization from the world. Pamuk supplements the fruitless condition of the city all through this novel.

City of Big Shoulders

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert G. Spinney
Keyword(s):  
Native Americans ◽  
Global City ◽  
First Century ◽  
Blue Collar ◽  
American Industry ◽  
The People ◽  
The World ◽  
Special Places ◽  
Key Events ◽  
The City

This book links key events in Chicago's development, from its marshy origins in the 1600s to today's robust metropolis. The book presents Chicago in terms of the people whose lives made the city–from the tycoons and the politicians to the hundreds of thousands of immigrants from all over the world. This revised and updated second edition brings Chicago's story into the twenty-first century, as it reviews the colorful and dramatic panorama of the city's explosive past. How did the pungent swamplands that the Native Americans called “the wild-garlic place” burgeon into one of the world's largest and most sophisticated cities? What is the real story behind the Great Chicago Fire? What aspects of American industry exploded with the bomb in Haymarket Square? Could the gritty blue-collar hometown of Al Capone become a visionary global city? A city of immigrants and entrepreneurs, Chicago is quintessentially American. The book brings it to life and highlights the key people, moments, and special places–from Fort Dearborn to Cabrini-Green, Marquette to Mayor Daley, the Union Stock Yards to the Chicago Bulls–that make this incredible city, the book claims, one of the best places in the world.

"THE PLAGUE" BY A. CAMUS AND THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC: HUMANITY IN THE FACE OF AN EXISTENTIAL THREAT

2021 ◽  
pp. 7-21
Author(s):  
Sergey V. Ryazantsev ◽  
◽  
Alexey V. Smirnov ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Albert Camus ◽  
Nobel Prize Winner ◽  
The Novel ◽  
The World ◽  
The Face ◽  
World Tourism Organization ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Tourism Organization ◽  
The City ◽  
Second World

The novel of the Nobel Prize winner in literature Albert Camus "The Plague" became one of the most widely read books in Europe during the Covid-19 coronavirus pandemic. A number of researchers consider Camus to be an existentialist writer. Existentialism arises, after two bloody wars, to give answers to questions that concern humanity. Since Albert Camus wrote the novel during the Second World War, he understands the plague not only as a disease, but also as German soldiers, whom the inhabitants of France called the "brown plague" because the invaders wore brown shirts. As the inhabitants of the city of Oran resisted the plague on the pages of the work, so the inhabitants of France fought against Nazism and fascism. A. Camus in the novel "The Plague" describes the quarantine measures that take place in the city of Oran in the 40s of the XX century. The consequences of the epidemic and the behavior of the residents described in the novel have much in common with modern coronavirus realities: the decline of the economy, the growth of the number of unemployed, protests against the quarantine measures introduced; the introduction of curfews, the creation of new medicines, etc. In Russia, as in the pages of the novel, there is a decline in the economy. Thus, during the pandemic in Russia, the number of registered unemployed increased from 1.3 million people to 4.8 million, and the appeal to employment centers for support measures increased from 20% to 80%. Camus in his novel writes about the creation of an anti-plague serum, in Russia, the first in the world, a vaccine against coronavirus infection "Sputnik V" was created. The director of the hotel, described in the work, said that due to the epidemic and quarantine, the tourist business disappeared. According to the World Tourism Organization — tourism at the end of 2020 it has decreased by 77% compared to 2019, which is equivalent to the tourist activity that was recorded in the late 80s. Stray animals were shot in Oran, because they believed that they could be carriers of infection. In China, during the Covid-19 pandemic, pets were thrown out of windows because people believed that they could be the source of Covid-19, and in Denmark, more than 11 million minks were exterminated for the same reasons. The authors of this article attempted to analyze the development of the epidemiological process in the novel and plot the mortality rate from the plague according to the data of the work.

scholarly journals Children of “Toxic Parents”: An Attempt of Interpretation of “The Unconsoled” by Kazuo Ishiguro

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 ◽  
pp. 281-301
Author(s):  
Barbara Myrdzik
Keyword(s):  
The Novel ◽  
Kazuo Ishiguro ◽  
Contemporary World ◽  
Professional Success ◽  
Life Problems ◽  
The World ◽  
Inner World ◽  
Professional Fulfillment ◽  
The City

The article constitutes an attempt to interpret the novel by Kazuo Ishiguro The Unconsoled – a work with a complex plot and a multi-threaded structure, typical for a composition stretched on the frame of the rhizome-like labyrinth and the motif of memory imperfections. The labyrinth is a space of strangeness, of being lost. It is a journey of the main character who wanders around various spaces of the city and hotel (which performs a variety of functions), meets many random people and listens to their accounts. The life problems of the city’s inhabitants indicate the eternal truth, according to which a man cannot live without understanding, without talking to someone kind who has the ability to listen. They were looking for someone who would listen and understand them, someone who would kindly respond to their problems. It may also be assumed that living in a world without the feeling of a lack of transcendence, the inhabitants were looking for an authority like a messiah who would indicate the direction of renewal in the world of chaos and who would answer the question: How to live? The novel describes a cultural crisis triggered by the feeling of a fundamental contradiction between the world of scientific truths and the inner world of every human being. Values such as faith, friendship, selflessness, truthfulness or family, to which Ishiguro pays a lot of attention, have been lost. “Toxic parents” are shown in multiple configurations: on the example of Ryder’s parents, or Ryder himself as the father of Boris and Stephan Hoffman. The author shows one of the major causes of the paternity crisis, namely the cult of professional success. Professional success and rivalry connected with it completely absorb Ryder’s life and activities. As a result of the pursuit of professional fulfillment, the role of emotional ties in his life becomes less significant, they almost disappear. It may be assumed that, using the example of the crisis in the described city, Ishiguro presents the contemporary world, which lost the sense of life; however, he did not limit it to the lost past. The world in which all attempts to search for a new form of expression and valorization end in failure. It is a labyrinthine, objectified world which is only given outside, a world of showing off and a “game” of pretending, without honesty and simplicity. It is a place dominated by a pose and culture of narcissism, full of inauthenticity, artificiality and appearance. In addition, The Unconsoled is a poignant novel about human loneliness.

scholarly journals Overview of therapeutic options in COVID-19

2021 ◽  
Vol 58 (2) ◽  
pp. 669-677
Author(s):  
Sarthak Katyal, Dr. Swarupa Chakole
Keyword(s):  
Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome ◽  
Respiratory Distress Syndrome ◽  
Respiratory Distress ◽  
Distress Syndrome ◽  
Preventive Measures ◽  
Respiratory Disorder ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Disease Avoidance ◽  
The World ◽  
The City

Coronavirus is essentially a respiratory sickness brought about by a newfound rSARS-CoV-2 infection and distinguished in the city of Wuhan, China in December 2019. The emerging outbreak of Covid disease 2019 (COVID-19) brought about because ofthe severe respiratory disorder Covid 2 (SARS-CoV-2) presents a phenomenal test for medical services frameworks around the world.WHO has proclaimed this illness as a pandemic, and cautioned different nations. Like other Covids, this may create respiratory plot contaminations in the patients range from gentle to lethal ailment like pneumonia and ARDS(acute respiratory distress syndrome).The features of coronavirus and the capacity to quickly make far reaching contamination has significant ramifications, justifying vivacious disease avoidance and the preventive measures. While the affirmed quantity of the cases have outperformed 10.3 million throughout the world and keeps on developing, as the possible seriousness related to infection along  with its destructive confusions needs critical advancement of the novel restorative specialists to both forestall and cure the COVID-19 illness . In spite of the fact that antibodies and explicit medication treatments presently can't seem to be found, progressing investigation and subjective preliminaries have led to the examination of viability of the  reused medications for curing COVID-19 illness .According to the current audit, some of the medication competitors have been recommended to cure  COVID-19 will be talked about. While these incorporate enemy of the viral specialists (remdesivir ,rebetol, lopinavir-ritonavir,choloroquine, favipiravir, hydroxychloroquine, umifenovir ,oseltamivir,), immunomodulating based specialists (interferons, plasma bondings , tocilizumab), (azithromycin, corticosteroids),  along with other random specialists. With components of activity and further pharmacology based property which should be investigated, within a specific spotlight on the proof  base wellbeing with viability of a every specialist.

The Conflict Of Nation And Partition In Amitav Ghosh’s The Shadow Lines

2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (4) ◽  
pp. 59-66
Author(s):  
P. Bhavani ◽  
Dr.M. Kannadhasan
Keyword(s):  
The Political ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Indian English ◽  
Amitav Ghosh ◽  
Cultural Milieu ◽  
The World ◽  
Social Anthropologist ◽  
Almost All ◽  
The City

Amitav Ghosh is a postmodernist writer. He is immensely influenced by the political and cultural milieu of post-independent India. Being a social anthropologist and having the opportunity of visiting alien lands, he comments on the present scenario, the world is passing through in his novels. Almost all the works of Amitav Ghosh reflected the theme of borders and boundaries among nations. The Shadow Lines is a highly innovative, complex and celebrated novel of Amitav Ghosh, published in 1988. The Shadow Lines is the novel deal exclusively with the consequences of the Partition and mainly concerned with the Partition on the Bengal border. It is important to note that Ghosh happens to be the only major Indian-English novelist who is preoccupied with the Bengal Partition. There was a collective expression of grief, a demonstration of all religions in which Muslims, Sikhs and Hindus alike to took part. In January 1964 Mu-I-Mubarak was recovered and the city of Srinagar erupted with joy. But soon after the recovery, riots broke out in Khulna and a few people were killed.

scholarly journals “Glorious uncertainty”: Business and Adultery in Charlotte Riddell’s Too Much Alone

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Silvana Colella
Keyword(s):  
Emotional Experience ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Commercial Society ◽  
Business People ◽  
The World ◽  
Sentimental Education ◽  
Point Of Intersection ◽  
City Of London ◽  
The City

In the 1860s and 1870s Charlotte Riddell was well-known as the “novelist of the City” of London. Too Much Alone (1860), her first narrative foray into the world of commerce and finance, is both a business novel and a novel of adultery. Focusing on how the text configures the emotional regimes of capitalism, this essay examines Riddell’s representation of irregular desires and capricious feelings in relation to what she sees as endemic in commercial society: not fraud, but insecurity and uncertainty, whether “glorious” or dreary. The experience of uncertainty, I argue, provides the point of intersection between the two narrative strands of business and adultery. Explicitly addressed to business people, the novel offers a lesson in sentimental education, a type of training in the ability to tolerate the uncertain, repackaged as an intense emotional experience.

scholarly journals A Review of Life Lessons Learnt Amidst Coronavirus Disease (Covid-19)

2021 ◽  
Vol 58 (2) ◽  
pp. 694-701
Author(s):  
Sheetal Motwani
Keyword(s):  
Social Consequences ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Lessons Learnt ◽  
The World ◽  
Life Lessons ◽  
The City ◽  
Actual Life ◽  
Different Levels

BACKGROUND: It is said that when things take a turn for the worse they try to teach us a lesson. What can be a better example than the ongoing series of events about SARS COV-2, the Novel Corona virus.History is observing a new lesson for Human lifetime, a very strange pandemic andits fight with a microscopic enemy. SUMMARY: The Coronavirus outbreak was first reported on 17 Nov 2019 in the city of Wuhan in china and was declared a pandemic by the WORLD HEATH ORGANIZATION on February 11, 2020. The response from countries have been different at different levels. The virus threw us into an introspective loop, coerced us to look at the things that really matter in life, a jolt that actual life isn’t all about 9-5 work and constant hustle where you are lost into the rat race. It has taught us to be prepared for the challenges in life. Like the saying goes “a lesson learned the hard way is the lesson learned for a lifetime”.  CONCLUSION:The COVID-19 pandemic has brought devastating health and social consequences. But it has delivered a chance to learn valuable moral lessons that could benefit all of humanity.

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