scholarly journals Το νεοελληνικό διήγημα την περίοδο του μεσοπολέμου (1918-1940)

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Αθηνά Κορούλη

The shift of the short story from the center to the periphery of the Modern Greek literary canon is part of the complex literary and cultural revisions that occurred in Greece during the Interwar years. The thesis, based on the theoretical, historical and critical approach of the study material (literary works, critical essays, articles and literary reviews), explores the following issues: the context of the “short story - novel” juxtaposition, the problems and the intentions that were related to the hierarchical downgrading of the short story, the critical opinions on short story poetics, the impact that the broader intellectual and literary pursuits of the period had on the Greek short story, those features that the literary criticism of the period perceived and commented on as a manifestation of change in the field of the Greek short story; furthermore, literary works that follow the directions recognized as signs of the renewal of the genre poetics are examined. With regard to the last issue, it should be noted that in parallel with the recurrent severe criticism of the short story and the turn towards the novel, there were signs that the Modern Greek short story of the Interwar period had also made a turn whose direction can be detected through a new critical commentary that was being frequently repeated, describing features of an interesting thematic and formal renewal that was recognized as the “new impetus” of the genre.

GERAM ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 81-89
Author(s):  
Noni Andriyani ◽  
Wilda Srihastuty Handayani Piliang

Environmental literary works appear as a form of literary sensitivity to society and the environment which has specific environmental tendencies. Studies using the theory of ecological literature began in around 2008 and above with a very limited number. Therefore, the development of studies of literary works with this theory is very necessary. The creation of public opinion about the importance of protecting the environment to reduce the impact of global warming is very necessary. Later, through several novels, authors have done it. However, not all messages in the novel are clearly conveyed so that they still need ecological literary criticism to understand them. Based on this, the problem raised in this study is "What is the ecological literary criticism of Indonesia's latest novels?". Data collection and data analysis is done by descriptive and content analysis methods. Data are classified and analyzed with ecological literary concepts according to Garrard including (1) pollution; (2) wilderness; (3) disaster; (4) housing / residence; (5) animals; and (6) earth. The research findings and discussion show that Indonesia's latest novels are friendly with their environment, want to describe as much detail as possible about the universe, worship nature, and are always interested in natural changes. Ecological literary concepts are contained in Indonesia's latest novels to describe the natural situation as well as to criticize human treatment of nature. Indonesia's latest novels teach that an attitude of compassion for nature gives rise to desire and behavior to protect and preserve nature as well as possible.


Author(s):  
Maria S. Sloistova ◽  

The paper focuses on complex research and description of creative reception theory and typology. There are provided definitions of such terms as reception, creative reception, creative reception strategies, and others. The author builds the typology of creative reception on the basis of works by E. V. Abramovskikh, S. Ye. Trunin, M. V. Zagidullina, V. I. Tyupa, and M. Naumann. This typology includes two types (or levels) of creative reception, defined as classic and postmodernist. Each of the types is characterized by a number of strategies, i. e. ways of representing an artistically received text in one’s own work. The classic type strategies (formal, authentic, neutral and antithetical) focus primarily on plot transformation. As for the postmodernist level, the author singles out two strategies: congenial and play. The theory and typology of creative reception is substantiated with some examples of reminiscences and allusions to English and world poetry. The examples under analysis are taken from the following prose works by the outstanding English postmodernist writer John Robert Fowles (1926–2005): the novel The French Lieutenant’s Woman (1969), the collection of long short stories The Ebony Tower (1974), the philosophic book The Aristos (1964), and also the lyric collection Selected Poems, published posthumously in 2012. The collection has not been translated into Russian yet. Therefore, the poem under analysis (Islanders) has been translated into Russian by the author of the present paper. The paper also deals with indirect Biblical reception which is found in the allusion to the ivory tower. The allusion gave the title The Ebony Tower both to Fowles’ long short story and collection as a whole. The author of the paper draws a conclusion about the dominant creative reception strategies in the literary works under analysis and also about the possible use of the presented creative reception typology in analyzing works by other writers.


Lire Journal ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 147-164
Author(s):  
M Afifulloh

This paper aims to describe the female characters in the novel Kabar Bunga by Marsiraji Thahir, the conflicts and its causes, and the impact of the conflicts experienced by women in the novel Kabar Bunga by Marsiraji Thahir. This novel is examined by a psychological approach in literature, a literary approach that emphasizes the psychological aspects of the types and laws of psychology that can be applied to literary works. The data is qualitative since the purpose of this research is to explain or describe the phenomena of the researches deeply. The data were obtained by categorizing all the related dialogues in the story, then psychologically analyzed. Triangulation was used to validate the data.  After finishing all the steps of analyzing data, the interpretations were made based on the data and the theory. The results of the research were, psychologically, the main character in this novel is described as a person who often feels worried, frightened, keeping the reality up, and she is burdened by the problems faced. This portrayal is the representation of Wulan as a woman and woman emotionally and mentally is depicted as a weakness persona without having the ability to solve the problems.


2019 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 139-146
Author(s):  
Rakib Farooq Matta

The Kite Runner is a novel by Khaled Hosseini and one of the literary works that presents the social life of Afghan people in each political era of Afghanistan. The aim of this paper is to discuss the impact of the Afghan conflict since the end of 1970’s until the 2000’s, the author describes the impact of the conflict of Afghanistan since the time of Daoud Khan’s coup, the Soviet Invasion, the Civil War Afghanistan, and the Taliban regime. This study used a mimetic approach that compares the actual occurrence with what is found in the novel. In analyzing this novel, the author uses sociological theory of literature by Alan Swingewood, first perspective regard literature as historical documentation and the time of the literary works made. Then the author uses qualitative methods, where the research described in a descriptive form of words or experts from novel and other sources related to the Afghan conflict. This paper focuses on the condition of Afghan society’s life during the Afghan conflicts and the impact of Afghan conflicts as reflected in the novel, The Kite Runner.  


Author(s):  
Liam Harte

This chapter provides a detailed introduction to this Handbook’s central concern: the major lines of development of Irish fiction during the nineteenth, twentieth, and early twenty-first centuries. It sets out the book’s aims and objectives and provides cogent summaries of each of its chapters. In the process, it considers the significance of certain influential novelists and their works; highlights some of the distinctive thematic preoccupations of Ireland’s novelists and short story writers; discusses prominent literary trends and genres; and guides the reader through salient critical commentary. The analysis suggests that, in the hands of successive generations of Irish writers, the novel, the literary genre with newness at its etymological core, continually renews itself by absorbing, dethroning, and transforming precedent.


2016 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
pp. 5290
Author(s):  
Ayvaz Morkoç

Mevlüt Süleymanli, born in 1943, is one of the significant living representatives of the contemporary Azerbaijan novelism. He is a bright person who combines talents of a novelist,  short story writer, scriptwriter, radio and television producer. He entered Azerbaijan literature in 1964 with his poem “Ellerim” (“My Hands”) which was published in the newspaper “Azerbaycan Gençleri” (“Azerbaijan Youth”). Süleymanli who was living in a village, enriched his literary works with his observations of those years. He successfully used elements of folk literature and folklore. In his works he masterfully showed his love to Azerbaijan people, language, culture and literature. In his works he mostly criticized social and ethic aspects and Soviet system.In this work, the novel “Armenian Named Letters” which expresses the view of Süleymanlı on Armenians in the form of novel, was crticised, analysed and evaluated. Özet1943 yılında dünyaya gelen Mevlüt Süleymanlı, çağdaş Azerbaycan romancılığının yaşayan önemli temsilcilerindendir. Romancı, hikâyeci, senaryo yazarı, radyo ve televizyon yapımcısı gibi çok sayıda niteliği bünyesinde barındıran bir aydındır. Edebiyat dünyasına 1964 yılında Azerbaycan Gençleri gazetesinde yayımlanan “Ellerim” şiiri ile adım atmıştır. Köyde yaşayan Süleymanlı, bu yıllara ait gözlemlerini edebi eserlerinde zengin malzeme halinde sunmuştur. Halk edebiyatı ve folklora ait unsurları başarıyla kullandığı görülür. Azerbaycan halkına, diline, kültür ve edebiyatına olan sevgisini eserlerinde ustaca dile getirmiştir. Kaleme aldığı ürünlerinde toplumsal ve ahlaki tenkitlere ağırlık vermiş, Sovyet sistemine eleştiriler yöneltmiştir. Pek çok ünlü roman ve hikâyenin yazarı olan Süleymanlı, son eseri Ermeni Adındaki Harfler adlı romanıyla edebiyat dünyasında adından çokça söz ettirmektedir. Türklerle Ermenilerin kaotik ilişkilerinin gündemden düşmediği günümüzde Ermeni Adındaki Harfler romanı üzerinde çok yönlü yorumlar yapılmaktadır.Çalışmamızda Mevlüt Süleymanlı’nın Ermenilere bakışını roman formu içinde dile getiren Ermeni Adındaki Harfler romanı incelenmiş, üzerinde tahlil, yorum, açıklama ve değerlendirmeler yapılmıştır.


2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 83
Author(s):  
I Wayan Juliana

Buduh Ngelawang's short story collection is one of the literary works that was born from the hands of a teacher named IBW. Widiasa Keniten. Apart from being a teacher, he is also active in writing literary works in both Balinese and Indonesian. His works should be appreciated and given comments in order to add to the repertoire of literary criticism in the field of modern Balinese literature itself. In Buduh Ngelawang's short story collection, the author builds a new world in modern Balinese literature that has never been done before. The author offers a new model in structuring the modern Balinese literary form, namely the surreal form. On this occasion, Buduh Ngelawang's short story collection will be analyzed based on Tzevetan Todorov's narratological structure theory. In the narratological analysis, the semantics (in absensia) aspect will be discussed. The semantic aspect relates to the involvement of denotative meaning and connotative meaning as a way to express meaning.


Author(s):  
Suzana Rahman ◽  
Ratna Muntiningsih

The  THE  IMPACT  OF  SURROUNDINGS  ON  THE  CHARACTERS  INTHOMAS HARDY’S NOVELS” is to apply the writers’ knowledge on literature and toshow    their  interest  in    reading  novels.  The  writers transfered not  only    their limitedknowledge in analysing novels as literary works but also building the awareness of theimportance of reading habit  to their students of Unswagati because all of them take thesubject  of  Introduction  to English  Literature.    Reading  and  analyzing  novel  is  reallybeneficial  for  students that    both  can  improve  the  students  reading  skill  but  also  theirEnglish  ability,  moreover,  they  will  have  the  ability  in  criticizing  the  novel  fromdifferent  views.  In  brief,  it  will  also  improve  their  critical  thinking. Afterwards,  bydescribing the  characters  and  their  attitudes  toward  each  other  and  how  thesurroundings influence them, we also learn about their culture. The theory that is usedin analysing those novels is from Harvey, Murphy, Klarer, and Lodge. The method thatis applied in analysing the characters and the surroundings is descriptive qualiative inwhich the writers take the data by reading the three novels, explain in details about thecharacters  and  the  surroundings  involved  in  the  story and  some  other  elementssupported the completeness of the story.


2018 ◽  
Vol 51 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 103-116
Author(s):  
Irena Samide

The present paper addresses the novel Hanka written by Slovene writer Zofka Kveder, published in Croatian in 1917 and translated into Slovene in 1938. The paper shows that this little-known war novel differs substantially from other war narratives and that it can be ranked among the eminent pacifistic literary works of the first two decades of the 20th century. At the same time, the paper questions the role of the texts of Slovenian authors written in a foreign language, and stands up for the view that the national literary sciences should consider the more appropriate placement of these texts in the literary canon.


Slavic Review ◽  
1972 ◽  
Vol 31 (3) ◽  
pp. 574-582
Author(s):  
Zbigniew Folejewski

In discussing the contribution of the Polish “Formal” or “Integral” School to the development of literary research, one of the difficulties is whether to view it mainly as an echo of Russian Formalism or as a scholarly movement in its own right. There is no doubt that the often strikingly suggestive theoretical slogans and undeniable practical achievements of the Russian Formalists—such as Shklovsky's insights on the theory of the novel, V. I. Propp's Morphology of the Folktale, M. A. Petrovsky's Morphology of the Short Story, and the research of Boris Tomashevsky, Viktor Zhirmunsky, and Roman Jakobson in the field of poetry—all greatly attracted those Polish scholars who were looking for a coherent, strictly literary set of criteria, discouraged as they were by the inflation of biographism and psychologism in literary research. Yet the impact of Russian Formalism was limited in scope and in many respects rather indirect. On the one hand, the reaction against the one-sidedness of the psychological school came in Poland independently, and in some ways even earlier than in Russia. For this the Polish scholars did not need to go to Russia—they had both ancient (Aristotle) and more modern sources (German, Italian, French, and others). On the other hand, many of the Polish scholars did not even know the Russian language, though they knew some Western languages very well. (The scholar who was to become the foremost promoter of Formalism, Manfred Kridl, knew very little Russian when he came to teach at the University of Wilno. It was under the influence and with the help of a group of students that he became familiar with the writings of the Formalists.)


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