scholarly journals Deconstruction of Ethical Predicament in J. M. Coetzee’s Waiting for the Barbarians

2018 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
pp. 136-143
Author(s):  
Huang Hui
Keyword(s):  
Literary Criticism ◽  
Cognitive Process ◽  
Social Problems ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Main Character ◽  
Binary Opposition ◽  
Ethical Discourse ◽  
Ethical Choices ◽  
Civilization And Barbarism ◽  
Waiting For The Barbarians

Waiting for the Barbarians is an allegorical novel by J. M. Coetzee, which tells a story of the confrontation of civilization and barbarism. The old Magistrate, as the main character of the novel is called, is a defender of the civilization of the Empire at the very beginning. He falls into the dilemma of the binary opposition between civilization and barbarism through the cruel torture of the Empire and the contact with the barbarians; he breaks completely with the civilization of the Empire, and achieves the salvation of his soul ultimately, after witnessing the torture of the Empire by himself. This paper, with the approaches of Ethical Literary Criticism, throws light on the construction of ethical discourse and metaphor in the novel, and analyzes how the old Magistrate falls into the ethical predicament and comes out of it through ethical choices, thus deconstructing the old Magistrate’s psychological cognitive process of civilization and barbarism, and revealing the ethical callings and moral reflections of this work in relation to realistic social problems.

scholarly journals Alif’s Adolescence Crises in Ahmad Fuadi’s The Land of Five Towers

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (01) ◽  
pp. 31-40
Author(s):  
Muhammad Bayu Aji Putra Harianto
Keyword(s):  
Literary Criticism ◽  
Psychosocial Development ◽  
Literary Work ◽  
Self Esteem ◽  
Identity Crisis ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Main Character ◽  
Environmental Situation ◽  
Literary Theories ◽  
Role Confusion

This study aims to describe the crisis of adolescents in the main character in Ahmad Fuadi's The Land of Five Towers. This research shows the adolescence crises that occurred on the main character in the novel The Land of Five Towers and the efforts made by the main character to overcome the adolescence crises. This research is categorized into literary criticism. The objective is to analyze a literary work using literary theories. The object of this study is novel The Land of Five Towers by Ahmad Fuadi. This research focuses on adolescence crises that occur in the main character psychosocially. The researcher uses the theory of psychosocial development by Erik H. Erikson but focus only on the adolescence stage. The data in this study are taken from quotes in the novel in the form of author's explanation of the main character and dialogue between characters. The results showed the following things. First, the form of adolescent crisis experienced by the main character, Alif, in the form of an identity crisis and role confusion. The identity crisis experienced by Alif is shown by finding a different personality with others, the emergence of feelings of doubt and worry, and the emergence of feelings of jealousy and envy. While role confusion experienced by Alif was shown by low self-esteem when dealing with people who were different from him, feeling confusion to adjust to be accepted by society or community, and feeling confused when he wanted to determine or give his role in a society. or community. Second, the efforts made by Alif in overcoming the adolescent crisis are diverse. In overcoming his identity crisis, Alif motivated himself, being optimistic, and showing his identity. Then Alif's efforts in overcoming role confusion are by accepting his identity and the environmental situation, accepting the role given by others, and accepting messages or advice of others. These efforts are obtained from within themselves and the support of others.

scholarly journals JOURNEY «BEYOND THE BODY» IN THE NOVEL OF H. MURAKAMI «KAFKA ON THE BEACH»

ASJ. ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (55) ◽  
pp. 39-42
Author(s):  
A. Matviyenko
Keyword(s):  
Literary Criticism ◽  
Personal Identity ◽  
Phenomenological Theory ◽  
The Body ◽  
Hero's Journey ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Main Character

The article examines the phenomenon of traveling «beyond the corporeality» of the characters of Haruki Murakami's novel Kafka on the Beach. Special attention is paid to the bodily transformations of the characters, going beyond the limits of physicality, as signs of the loss of personal identity. The article also compares the «bodily journeys» of the main character of the novel with the passage of the labyrinth, which also symbolizes the rite of initiation. The relevance of the research is due to the need to fill in the existing gaps in modern literary criticism on the problems of bodily metamorphoses considered in the designated context, as well as on the study of the creative heritage of H. Murakami in general. The novelty of the research is seen in the fact that the novel by H. Murakami, chosen as the object of research, is analyzed through the prism of the phenomenological theory of corporeality by V. Podorogi, special attention is paid to the concept of «the body outside the norm». The work also reflects the ideas about the physicality and identity of J. Baudrillard, F. Nietzsche, M. Yampolsky et al. It is proved that in the novel the phenomenon of the hero's journey inside his own body is both a sign of the loss of personal identity and a way of acquiring this identity.

scholarly journals CITRA PEREMPUAN DALAM NOVEL CERITA TENTANG RANI KARYA HERRY SANTOSO; TINJAUAN KRITIK SASTRA FEMINIS* (The Image of Women in the Novel Entitled Cerita Tentang Rani by Herry Santosa: A Feminist Literary Criticism)

ALAYASASTRA ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 71
Author(s):  
Choerul Anam
Keyword(s):  
Literary Criticism ◽  
Qualitative Method ◽  
Feminist Criticism ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Main Character ◽  
Descriptive Research ◽  
Feminist Literary Criticism ◽  
History Of ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Research Types

This study aims to describe the image of women in Herry Santoso's novel: Cerita Tentang Rani in the perspective of feminist literary criticism. The method applied in the research is a qualitative one. The purpose of the qualitative method leads the writer being able to get to know the in-depth history of the research environment by applying descriptive research types. Feminist criticism theory of Rosemarie Putnam Tong and gender theory of Judith P. Butler were applied in this research. The results of this study prove that the image of the main character, Maharani, is a strong and tough woman. The images of the woman cover 1) the image of women in her relation with Allah Swt (God); 2) the image of women in her relation with herself; and 3) the image of women in her relationship with others. Keywords: female image, feminist literary criticism, Novel Cerita Tentang Rani.

The homeland and the city: Rural and urban decolonization in Patricia Grace’s Potiki

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 25-42 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pia Brückner
Keyword(s):  
Literary Criticism ◽  
Academic Disciplines ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Binary Opposition ◽  
Aotearoa New Zealand ◽  
Rural And Urban ◽  
Binary Oppositions ◽  
Urban Rural ◽  
The City

Over the last decade, studies from multiple academic disciplines have started to examine the city’s role as a place of decolonization for Māori people in Aotearoa New Zealand. This article uses those multidisciplinary findings as a basis for literary criticism by re-examining the role of the city in Patricia Grace’s second novel Potiki (1986). Indigenous urbanites are generally deemed impossible and ‘unnatural’ within the inherited colonial ideology. And even though the novel foregrounds a Māori family’s return to their ancestral land, this article argues that the very success of this return is based on the interrelation between ‘rural’ and ‘urban’ strategies of decolonization. While the colonial urban–rural binary often seems reinforced, the novel inverts the power positions between colonizer and colonized, thereby promoting decolonization. At the same time, some characters become unconsciously entrapped in a romanticized pre-migration idyll, which the harsh reality of agricultural working life cannot satisfy. In order to assess the effectiveness of the different decolonizing strategies employed by the characters, my analysis utilizes the postcolonial key concepts of binary opposition, the liminal, the interstice, ambivalence, double consciousness and cultural appropriation, and examines the degree to which inherited binary oppositions are either maintained or defied by Pākehā and Māori within the novel.

How Shall We Let This Text, or Anything, Teach Us?

2021 ◽  
Vol 73 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-22
Author(s):  
Yi-Ping Ong
Keyword(s):  
Literary Criticism ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Basic Assumptions ◽  
Ethical Discourse ◽  
The Status ◽  
The Difference

Abstract How do we come to share an ethical outlook with others? Is it possible to teach ethics? What does it mean to live with others when we do not (always) inhabit the same world? J. M. Coetzee’s Elizabeth Costello engages these profound ethical questions in its very form. Whereas critics argue that the novel either takes up or evades the task of ethical instruction, this article shows that the text disputes the basic assumptions of ethical literary criticism. Elizabeth Costello makes a powerful case for the difference of the novel vis-à-vis other forms of ethical discourse. What is at stake in Coetzee’s choice of the novel qua fiction is an attempt to engage the status of fiction in relation to the status of ethical discourse in our time. Contemporary ethical discourse unfolds within a context in which it is considered to be no more than a necessary fiction. Coetzee’s text places this stance within the framework of fiction—not primarily to demonstrate its falsity but to stage an alternate or rival fiction, one that challenges our fundamental assumptions about fiction, ethics, and existence.

scholarly journals Elements of expressionism in the story of A. Green «Gray Car»

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 26-32
Author(s):  
Konstantin S. Pozdnyakov
Keyword(s):  
Literary Criticism ◽  
Speech Acts ◽  
Semantic Analysis ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Main Character ◽  
New Approach ◽  
Hidden Order ◽  
Soviet Literature ◽  
Russian Literary ◽  
Empirical Material

The topic of the work is relevant, since at present the Russian literary criticism is rediscovering the features of the artistic expression of Soviet literature of the 1920s. The aim of the study was to discover the features of the poetics of Greens text that allow us to identify the novel under consideration as expressionist. Research methods used in the article: comparative-historical and semantic analysis of texts. At the beginning of the article, the research of the novella Gray Car by A.V. Polupanova and L.U. Zvonareva is considered, inaccuracies and obvious factual errors are noted, indicating a lack of understanding of the text, a mixture of such forms of expression of the authors position (according to B.O. Korman) as hero-narrator and author-narrator. As an empirical material, in addition to the novel by A. Green, the works of G. Mayrink, F. Kafka and L. Perutz were used. As a result of consideration of the novels the Golem, Castle, the Cossack and the Nightingale, the Wizard of judgment was allocated with the following features art in the world of the expressionist literary works: a) the problem of identity associated, as a rule, the main character; 2) semema madness, which became a constant for expressionist texts; 3) mysterious (hidden) order of a seemingly chaotic world; 4) the lack of success of speech acts. All these features were found in the story of A. Green, so it seems that the new approach to the work of the writer as a representative of Russian expressionism, demonstrates its consistency and can be contrasted with the more traditional consideration of the authors prose as a super-textual unity.

scholarly journals Алгоритм шахидки по роману Марины Ахмедовой Дневник cмертницы. Хадижа

2018 ◽  
Vol 167 ◽  
pp. 511-521
Author(s):  
Joanna Kula
Keyword(s):  
Social Problems ◽  
Psychological Process ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Main Character ◽  
The Caucasus ◽  
Love Story ◽  
Caucasian Girl

The algorithm of Shahida Khadijah. Notes of a Death Girl by Marina AkhmedovaThe author of the article aims to identify facts in the biography of the main character of the book Khadijah. Notes of a Death Girl by Marina Akhmedova, which influenced her decision to commit a terrorist act. Khadijah seems to be a typical contemporary Caucasian girl. The author presents various cultural and customs aspects specific to the Caucasus, which could influence her future. There are considered elements such as the patriarchal arrangement of the Dagestan community, the influence of Islam on education, shaping the girl’s identity, etc. The author also draws attention to social problems such as corruption. A separate, very important issue is the love story in the novel. The article attempts to reconstruct the psychological process of Khadijah on the basis of her notes. Algorytm szahidyMusiałam umrzeć Mariny AchmedowejСelem artykułu jest określenie faktów w biografii głównej bohaterki powieści Mariny Achmedowej Musiałam umrzeć, które wpłynęły na jej decyzję o dokonaniu aktu terrorystycznego. Chadiża, główna bohaterka powieści, zdaje się typową współczesną kaukaską dziewczyną. Autorka artykułu przedstawia różne kulturowe i obyczajowe aspekty charakterystyczne dla Kaukazu, które mogły wpłynąć na jej dalsze losy. Rozpatrzono między innymi takie elementy, jak układ patriarchalny społeczności dagestańskiej, wpływ islamu na wychowanie czy kształtowanie tożsamości bohaterki. Zwrócono także uwagę na problemy społeczne, takie jak korupcja. Osobną kwestię stanowi w powieści wątek miłosny. W artykule dokonano próby rekonstrukcji procesu psychologicznego bohaterki na podstawie jej notatek.

scholarly journals THE ENCHANTED WANDERER BY LEONID YUZEFOVICH

2021 ◽  
Vol 31 (3) ◽  
pp. 620-627
Author(s):  
G.M. Rebel
Keyword(s):  
Literary Criticism ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Main Character ◽  
Main Attention ◽  
Fictional Character ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Almost All ◽  
Xix Century

The article analyzes the novel “Philellin” by L.A. Yuzefovich, the main attention is paid to the method of narration, the system of characters, the typological characteristics of the main character and the genre features of the work. The novel is a collection of documents of different genres, which together form a story about the events of the liberation war in Greece in the 20s of the XIX century. Almost all of Yuzefovich's characters act simultaneously as subjects of the narrative and participants in the events. The exception is Alexander I, because he is “silent” (his point of view is broadcast by his secretary Yelovsky) and "inactive". Despite the importance of the figure of the Russian emperor in the plot of the novel, for these reasons, Alexander “gives way” to the place of the main character to a fictional character - Grigory Mossepanov, whose fate forms the plot outline of the novel. Mossepanov is not only an important participant in the events, but also one of the main subjects and objects of the narrative. In literary criticism, the hero is given typological definitions of Don Quixote, Petrushka, “a little man”. This article offers a more appropriate definition of the character and fate of Mossepanov - “enchanted wanderer”, which is confirmed by the comparison of the characters of L. Yuzefovich and N. Leskov. The key plot role of the Russian philhellene, the peculiarities of his character and fate largely determine the genre nature of the work as a historical and mythological novel.

scholarly journals THE DECONSTRUCTION OF MAIN CHARACTER IN IN GURU AINI NOVEL BY ANDREA HIRATA: DERRIDA PERSPECTIVE

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 24-30
Author(s):  
Nia Kurniawati ◽  
Zuriyati Zuriyati ◽  
Saifurrohman Saifurrohman
Keyword(s):  
Data Collection ◽  
Qualitative Approach ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Main Character ◽  
Binary Opposition ◽  
Data Collection Methods ◽  
Data Source ◽  
Collection Methods

Abstract: Guru Aini is a prequel to Andrea Hirata's Orang Biasa novel. This study aims to describe the forms of thought of the Guru Desi's main character and the reversal of the binary opposition hierarchy using Derrida's deconstruction theory. The data in this study were the texts taken from the novel Guru Aini which outlines the forms of thought and the reversal of the binary opposition hierarchy. Employing qualitative approach, the data source in this research is the novel of Guru Aini. Data collection methods used were reading, recording and interpretation techniques. Guru Desi as the main character in the novel Guru Aini is a bad-tempered, intolerant and apathetic person. After a reversal of the binary opposition hierarchy, Desi actually has a patient character, and she basically also has positive characters such as tolerance, and optimism within herself. Keywords: Deconstruction, binary opposition, novel, Guru Aini.

KONSEP DIRI “ I “ DAN “ME” TOKOH HIROKO DALAM NOVEL NAMAKU HIROKO KARYA NH.DINI

2012 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 109
Author(s):  
Besin Gaspar
Keyword(s):  
Point Of View ◽  
The Other ◽  
Self Concept ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Main Character ◽  
Fictional Character ◽  
Social Customs ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Village ◽  
The City

This research deals with the development of  self concept of Hiroko as the main character in Namaku Hiroko by Nh. Dini and tries to identify how Hiroko is portrayed in the story, how she interacts with other characters and whether she is portrayed as a character dominated by ”I” element or  ”Me”  element seen  from sociological and cultural point of view. As a qualitative research in nature, the source of data in this research is the novel Namaku Hiroko (1967) and the data ara analyzed and presented deductively. The result of this analysis shows that in the novel, Hiroko as a fictional character is  portrayed as a girl whose personality  develops and changes drastically from ”Me”  to ”I”. When she was still in the village  l iving with her parents, she was portrayed as a obedient girl who was loyal to the parents, polite and acted in accordance with the social customs. In short, her personality was dominated by ”Me”  self concept. On the other hand, when she moved to the city (Kyoto), she was portrayed as a wild girl  no longer controlled by the social customs. She was  firm and determined totake decisions of  her won  for her future without considering what other people would say about her. She did not want to be treated as object. To put it in another way, her personality is more dominated by the ”I” self concept.

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