scholarly journals La estética del secreto en una novela de espionaje : La deuxième mort de Ramón Mercader de Jorge Semprún

2015 ◽  
Vol 20 ◽  
pp. 41-50
Author(s):  
Simon Kroll
Keyword(s):  
Temporal Structure ◽  
Interesting Case ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Formal Principle ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Jorge Semprun

This paper examines a specific characteristic of spy novels, the aesthetics of secrecy, on the example of Jorge Semprún's La deuxième mort de Ramón Mercader. An important aspect in the creation of an aesthetic of secrecy in the novel in question is the variation of the famous figure of the double. Ramón Mercader, the protagonist of the novel presents an interesting case of this, which will be analysed in the first part of this paper. The second part of the article points out the overruling organisation principle of the novel: the secret. The complex narratological and temporal structure of the novel obeys to the secret, which makes it the major formal principle of this text. The story does not only narrate secrets but the secret as a formal principle creates a text with plenty of voices and a complex temporal structure, contributing to the creation of an aesthetic of secrecy.

The Short Story: A Very Short Introduction

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew Kahn
Keyword(s):  
19Th Century ◽  
Short Story ◽  
Popular Fiction ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Short Introduction ◽  
The Press ◽  
Character Study ◽  
The Creation ◽  
The 19Th Century ◽  
Plot Design

The Short Story: A Very Short Introduction charts the rise of the short story from its original appearance in magazines and newspapers. For much of the 19th century, tales were written for the press, and the form’s history is marked by engagement with popular fiction. The short story then earned a reputation for its skilful use of plot design and character study distinct from the novel. This VSI considers the continuity and variation in key structures and techniques such as the beginning, the creation of voice, the ironic turn or plot twist, and how writers manage endings. Throughout, it draws on examples from an international and flourishing corpus of work.

Violence, Memory, and History: Geoffrey of Monmouth and Kazuo Ishiguro’s The Buried Giant

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 323-344
Author(s):  
Jonathan Brent
Keyword(s):  
Middle Ages ◽  
Geoffrey Of Monmouth ◽  
King Arthur ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Kazuo Ishiguro ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Creation

Kazuo Ishiguro has suggested that his work of medieval fantasy, The Buried Giant (2015), draws on a “quasi-historical” King Arthur, in contrast to the Arthur of legend. This article reads Ishiguro’s novel against the medieval work that codified the notion of an historical King Arthur, Geoffrey of Monmouth’s History of the Kings of Britain (c. 1139). Geoffrey’s History offered a largely fictive account of the British past that became the most successful historiographical phenomenon of the English Middle Ages. The Buried Giant offers an interrogation of memory that calls such “useful” constructions of history into question. The novel deploys material deriving from Geoffrey’s work while laying bear its methodology; the two texts speak to each other in ways sometimes complementary, sometimes deconstructive. That Ishiguro’s critique can be applied to Geoffrey’s History points to recurrent strategies of history-making, past and present, whereby violence serves as a mechanism for the creation of historical form.

Homosexualité, Islam et désacralisation du pouvoir royal dans Le jour du Roi d'Abdellah Taïa

2021 ◽  
pp. 127-143
Author(s):  
Taïeb Berrada
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Identification Process ◽  
Male Characters ◽  
Oedipal Complex ◽  
The Creation

In his novel Le jour du Roi Abdellah Taïa explores the theme of alterity in its relation to two political and symbolic forces: expressing one’s self in the language of the Other and narrating homo-erotic and homosexual relationships in Morocco under the dictatorship of Hassan II. It is the translation of these two aspects that leads to the creation of a new narrative about homosexual Franco-Moroccan identity. This narrative, in turn, reveals the instability of a model of identification subjected to a normalizing sexual apparatus controlling bodies and minds in a place where homosexuality is still punishable by law. This renders the identification process for the two main characters of the novel particularly problematic as they can no longer sustain it without going back to the sources of foundational myths and more particularly to the original murder in Islam. This article argues that the killing of one character by the other goes back to the original murder of Abel by Cain, a model which becomes emancipated from the Western Oedipal complex, translating a new conception of a love relation between two male characters. By so doing, it calls for a reevaluation of the normativity imposed by the king who is using his power based on a patriarchal interpretation of religious legitimacy in view of political gain.

scholarly journals Forgotten Books: On the Making of Jane Porter’s "Thaddeus of Warsaw"

2020 ◽  
Vol 47 (2) ◽  
pp. 309-328
Author(s):  
Joel J. Janicki
Keyword(s):  
Great Britain ◽  
18Th Century ◽  
Political Engagement ◽  
Moral Reform ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Cautionary Tale ◽  
National Hero ◽  
The Creation

This article attempts to identify and examine some of the factors and sources that led to the creation of a largely forgotten prose work of English fiction titled Thaddeus of Warsaw (1803) which became an immediate and extraordinary success. Jane Porter’s novel deals with a fictitious Polish patriot Thaddeus Sobieski, who is modelled on the Polish national hero Tadeusz Kosciuszko. The novel presents an excellent illustration of the cultural links between Great Britain and Poland towards the end of the 18th century and constitutes a cautionary tale for Porter’s English readers, one that creates a basis for moral reform and political engagement.

scholarly journals Interpretation of an Epoch in the Novel "the Big Green Tent" by L. Ulitskaya: Linguistic-Cultural Analysis of Verbal Lexicon

2017 ◽  
Vol 6 (5) ◽  
pp. 116
Author(s):  
Ildar Ch. Safin ◽  
Elena I. Kolosova ◽  
Tatyana A. Gimranova
Keyword(s):  
Careful Analysis ◽  
Literary Text ◽  
Cultural Analysis ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Emotional Experiences ◽  
Russian Verb ◽  
The Creation ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Emotional Style ◽  
Illustrative Material

<p> This article is the verbal lexicon analysis based on the text of the novel "The Big Green Tent" by L. Ulitskaya. The creative manner of the contemporary writer attracts the attention of researchers, her writings describe the emotional experiences of the heroes and also give a generalized image of time full of historical details and features. The language of her stories and short stories is characterized by a special style in the description of time realities. A verb in the text allows the author to express the events and the circumstances that characterize an action in its dynamics due to the fact that verbal categories reflect the real reality in our consciousness. The method of linguistic cultural analysis of verbal lexicon in the novel "The Big Green Tent" made it possible to single out exactly those language units that the writer carefully selects for the creation and interpretation of the era. A special emphasis in the study is made on the creation of an expressive-emotional style of narration using the stylistic capabilities of the Russian verb. The individual author's methods of narration expressiveness creation are singled out: synonymous series, euphemisms, colloquial lexicon, etc. The conducted study and a careful analysis of the selected factual material testifies that, recreating an epoch, the master of the word invariably uses that language arsenal that brightly and fully conveys the color of time. L. Ulitskaya is able to be not only an indifferent witness of the epoch, but also her tenacious observer and interpreter. The analyzed factual material and the main points of this research can be used in the courses on stylistics and linguistic culturology, and also as an illustrative material during the classes on the linguistic analysis of a literary text.</p>

scholarly journals Kino, czytelnik i czytający. O Geniuszu Michaela Grandage’a

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Piotr Zwierzchowski
Keyword(s):  
Publishing House ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Ulterior Motive ◽  
Thomas Wolfe ◽  
The Creation ◽  
House Building ◽  
Adam Mickiewicz

Zwierzchowski Piotr, Kino, czytelnik i czytający. O Geniuszu Michaela Grandage’a [The Cinema and Two Types of Readers. About Michael Grandage’s Genius]. „Przestrzenie Teorii” 32. Poznań 2019, Adam Mickiewicz University Press, pp. 371–381. ISSN 1644-6763. DOI 10.14746/pt.2019.32.20. In Genius (2016) by Michael Grandage books are present in many ways. The main characters are William ‘Max’ Perkins, an editor of the Charles Scribner’s Sons publishing house and Thomas Wolfe, a writer starting out at the time. The film is concerned with their relationship and the creation of the novel. The book functions as both a work and an artefact (also as typescript). Literature is a conversation topic and a way of living. One of the most important spaces is the publishing house building. Piotr Zwierzchowski, however, analyses Genius primarily as a contribution to reflections on the act of reading and its film visualization, referring to the distinction introduced by Alberto Manguel(modelled on Barthes’ écrivain and écrivant) between the reader as someone who reads “with no ulterior motive” and one “for whom the text is a vehicle towards another function”.

scholarly journals City image as a personification of female nature in “The Dead [City of] Bruges” by Georges Raymond Constantin Rodenbach

2021 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 106-109
Author(s):  
Marina A. Kozlova
Keyword(s):  
Literary Tradition ◽  
The Novel ◽  
City Image ◽  
Image System ◽  
The Creation ◽  
The Dead ◽  
The City

The paper is devoted to the peculiarities of the creation of the personified image of the city in the novel “The Dead [City of] Bruges” by Georges Raymond Constantin Rodenbach, which, according to the author himself, represents not only the protagonist, but also its organising force. The Belgian author draws on an earlier literary tradition, according to which the city appears to the poet's mind in the form of a woman. The image of the city is built on the combination and interaction of different elements, among which those that are considered in the article: the theme of duality, the motif of reflection, which becomes the main constructional principle of the image system of the novel, as well as references to mythological and literary archetypes. The theme of duplicity is directly connected with the category of correspondence or analogy, which is central to Rodenbach's oeuvre and forms a peculiar poetics of reflection and determines the choice of expressive means. Dualism is associated with a hostile, dark and demonic force, contrasted with the "holy" and infallible feminine ideal, embodied in the image of the perished beloved, who is also a prototype of the city. The poeticised image of the city is related to archetypical figures that are typical of European symbolism – first of all, Ophelia, but also Orpheus and Narcissus, all this through an appeal to the symbolism of water and the otherworld, then through the main character's attempt to overcome the border between worlds and create a new myth about love that defeats death.

scholarly journals SARS CoV-2 Might Exploit Cells of the Innate Immune System to Induce the Novel Acute Immune Dysrhythmic Syndrome (n-AIDS) and Para COVID-19 Syndrome.

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mina Kelleni
Keyword(s):  
Immune Response ◽  
Innate Immune System ◽  
Langerhans Cells ◽  
Interesting Case ◽  
Innate Immune ◽  
Delayed Type Hypersensitivity ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Cytokine Storm ◽  
Humoral Immune ◽  
Cytokines And Chemokines

In this manuscript, we combine our insights towards COVID-19 to present a hypothesis that might explain its pathogenesis and complications while presenting an interesting case report of post COVID-19 allergic cell mediated (dysregulated) delayed type hypersensitivity. Moreover, we confirm our call to reclassify it as novel acute immune dysrhythmic syndrome (n-AIDS) to include both cytokine storm and we suggest to describe post or long COVID and other autoimmune complications as para COVID-19 syndrome. We suggest that SARS CoV-2 might exploit monocytes, macrophages and tissue resident macrophages including skin Langerhans cells to induce dysregulated cellular and humoral immune response through known and yet to be discovered cytokines and chemokines to ultimately induce the cytokine storm and/or autoimmune responses.

Temporal Structure and the Sacred in Woolf’s To the Lighthouse

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katie Gemmill
Keyword(s):  
Linear Time ◽  
Temporal Structure ◽  
Narrative Structure ◽  
Dimensional Structure ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Everyday Experience ◽  
To The Lighthouse ◽  
Complex Theory ◽  
Novel Reading

Critics frequently agree that in the “Time Passes” section of To the Lighthouse, Woolf transcends linear  time. In his article “History, Time and the Novel: reading Woolf’s To the Lighthouse”, however, Dominick LaCapra proposes a more complex theory of temporality, arguing that time has a two­  dimensional structure made up of a horizontal diachronic dimension, and a vertical synchronic dimension. The diachronic dimension comprises discrete “epochmaking events”, while the synchronic dimension  seemingly immobilizes a particular moment in defiance of linear time. Woolf’s narrative focuses on the synchronic dimension of time, thus subverting the traditional narrative structure that focuses on plot­  driving events that occur on the diachronic temporal plane. I believe that the thematic prominence of time and the sacred in “Time Passes” is not arbitrary; in fact, I argue that it is Woolf’s innovative conception of temporal structure that allows her to engage so profoundly with themes of the sacred. The synchronic dimension of time provides an escape from the limitations that linear time imposes on our experience of the sacred; in other words, the synchronic dimension is what allows Woolf seemingly to immobilize an  experience, to meditate on it in depth, and to convey more effectively the sacred nature of that experience. Throughout this section of To the Lighthouse Woolf suggests that by reframing how we exist in time, we can more readily feel the sacred that permeates everyday experience, and thus connect more intensely with  existence

THE HISTORY OF THE CREATION OF THE BALLET "THE WHITE-HAIRED GIRL"

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (4) ◽  
pp. 85-91
Author(s):  
Chen Xinheng ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Revolution ◽  
Class Struggle ◽  
Folk Songs ◽  
Folk Dance ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Chinese Opera ◽  
Chinese Leadership ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Classical Ballet

The article is devoted to the history of the creation of the ballet "The White-Haired Girl", which was included among the "exemplary productions" during the Chinese Cultural Revolution. The plot of the ballet, based on class contradictions between landowners and peasants, has folklore origins: first it appeared in the novel, then the first national Chinese opera was created, later adapted for cinema and became the basis for the ballet. The ballet "The White-Haired Girl" was commissioned by Chinese leadership. It includes the historical facts of the class struggle and shows the formation of a personality ready to resist exploitation and fight for freedom for all. The ballet's music, composed by Yan Jinxuan, also includes revolutionary folk songs and numbers taken from the opera of the same name. Compared to the opera, the ballet enhances revolutionary features in the characters. The choreography harmoniously combines classical ballet pas with the characteristics of Chinese folk dance and martial arts. The ballet "The White-Haired Girl" is performed with ongoing success since its inception in 1965 to the present day and is rightly considered a "red classic" with a high ideology and artistry.

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