“Reading Faulkner from a Writer’s Point of View”

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kenzaburo Oe
Keyword(s):  
William Faulkner ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
The Other ◽  
Female Characters ◽  
Male And Female ◽  
Narrative Techniques ◽  
The Mansion ◽  
The Hamlet

In this chapter, the author offers a reading of William Faulkner from his point of view of as a writer. He begins by discussing one of Faulkner's unique narrative techniques, “reticence,” and explaining that when he reads Faulkner's novels, he always puts the translations beside the originals, whenever they are available. He claims that he experiences Faulkner through a triangular circuit for the transmission of verbal symbols—Faulkner; the translator, who is a specialist; and himself, a reader of the words of the other two. He also reflects on his response to Faulkner's attitude toward writing novels and to his way of activating the imagination. Finally, he considers Faulkner's way of manipulating his male and female characters by focusing on his novels The Hamlet, The Mansion, The Wild Palms, and Absalom, Absalom!.

scholarly journals Woman as the Other—Interpretations of the Gender Wars in “A Woman on a Roof” from the Perspective of Existential Feminism

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 63
Author(s):  
Junying Song
Keyword(s):  
Short Story ◽  
Nobel Prize ◽  
Doris Lessing ◽  
The Other ◽  
Female Characters ◽  
Male And Female ◽  
Patriarchal Society ◽  
Male Power ◽  
Lower Status ◽  
The Subject

Doris Lessing is one of the Nobel Prize winners and “A Woman on a Roof” is such a famous short story of hers. In the patriarchal society, women are in the lower status, but the woman in the story struggles bravely to fight against the male power. During her fighting, the woman has doubts and hesitation, but she finally forces the three males to put off their prejudice. This paper focuses on how the woman strives for her own rights, and talks from the perspective of Existential Feminism, taking the main male and female characters in “A Woman on a Roof” as examples, so as to explore women’s self-survival in the dualistic society. Through studying her feminist thinking in the short story, the paper points out that the woman finally transforms her role from the Other to the Subject and then she is in an equal position with the three males. Though the two genders does not reconcile with each other as it seems to be with the purification of rainwater in “A Woman on a Roof”, the woman has made a big progress in the pursuit of her own transcendence.

Male-Female Characters’ Tenor of Discourse in Akachi Ezeigbo’s The Last of the Strong Ones

2015 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 167
Author(s):  
Innocent Sourou Koutchade ◽  
Severin Mehouenou
Keyword(s):  
Social Role ◽  
The Other ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Female Characters ◽  
Male And Female ◽  
The Social ◽  
Class 1 ◽  
Role Relationships ◽  
The One

<p class="1"><span lang="X-NONE">This article attempts to explore male-female characters’ tenor of discourse in the novel entitled: <em>The Last of the Strong Ones</em> by Akachi Ezeigbo. According to Halliday’s (1978), the tenor of the discourse is the social role relationships played by interactants. It is associated with the grammar of interpersonal meanings which is, in turn, realized through the mood patterns of the grammar. The paper, through the analysis of mood system, modality and vocatives, reveals how male and female characters establish relationships between each other. The tenor of their discourse unveils how women are oppressed by patriarchy on the one hand, as well as how they fight against the system, on the other. From these linguistic choices, the work concludes that there exists an atmosphere of tension, distance, aggression and dominance between some characters of the novel. </span></p>

scholarly journals Maternal Bodies in the Biblical Books of Samuel and Kings: Notes on the Representation of Maternity in Crisis Contexts

2021 ◽  
Vol 24 ◽  
pp. 9-19
Author(s):  
Claudia Andreina D’Amico Monascal
Keyword(s):  
Hebrew Bible ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
The Other ◽  
Biblical Text ◽  
Female Characters ◽  
Maternal Body ◽  
Biblical Narrative ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Books Of Samuel ◽  
The One

Although motherhood is the female destiny par excellence in the biblical narrative, it is an experience only accessible through a male point of view. In order to reflect on the problems of representation of the maternal body in the Hebrew Bible, I propose an analysis of different maternal characters present in the books of Samuel and Kings. My reading aims, on the one hand, to identify the features that define the maternal in the biblical text and, on the other hand, to offer an approach that allows to point to the implications that the crisis context the texts reflect have on the picture of the actions and the destinies of these female characters.

Female Saviors in Adolescent Film Adaptations

2020 ◽  
pp. 61-86
Author(s):  
Meghann Meeusen
Keyword(s):  
Point Of View ◽  
Film Adaptations ◽  
Female Empowerment ◽  
Male Gaze ◽  
Female Characters ◽  
Male And Female ◽  
Hunger Games ◽  
The Hunger Games

Chapter three identifies a key ideological ramification of polarized binaries, suggesting that a widened divide between concepts of male and female consistently shifts depictions of female characters to position them as the emotional and spiritual saviors of their male counterparts. The chapter draws on Mike Cadden’s analysis of single and double-voiced discourse and Laura Mulvey’s theory of the male gaze to explore Warm Bodies, The 5th Wave, The Hunger Games, Paper Towns, and The Spectacular Now and explains how a greater emphasis on romantic elements in the film leads to constructions of male and female defined as more starkly different. The chapter posits three reasons that polarization of binaries leads to ideologies surrounding the female savior, concluding that shifts in point of view, attempts at female empowerment, and traps of the male gaze and Manic Pixie Dream Girl produce a film that is far more single-voiced than its textual predecessor.

Ideological Representation of Women's Oppression in Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (138) ◽  
pp. 15-22
Author(s):  
Huda Aziz Muhi Al-shammari ◽  
Nidaa Hussain Fahmi Al-Khazraji
Keyword(s):  
Research Paper ◽  
The Self ◽  
The Other ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Female Characters ◽  
Self Presentation ◽  
Male And Female ◽  
Global Issue ◽  
The World ◽  
Abuse Of Women

The abuse of women is an issue that persists throughout the ages till the present time because people are still living in a world of a dominated idea which is known as man is the self and woman is the other. So the objective of this research paper is to argue this global issue using Van Dijk's Ideological Square (1998) as a framework so as to examine the ideologies that underline the use of language in The Handmaid’s Tale. It is hypothesized that the ideology of oppression is exposed in the novel throughout using the ideological strategies of positive- self presentation and negative-other presentation. Ultimately, it concludes that the novelist employs both, male and female, characters to consistently ridicule and offer negative coverage about women and to increasingly align and offer favorable comments about men to present the world of patriarchy from a different perspective.

scholarly journals PANDANGAN EMPAT TOKOH PEREMPUAN TERHADAP VIRGINITAS DALAM NOVEL GARIS PEREMPUAN KARYA SANIE B. KUNCORO: PERSPEKTIF FEMINIS RADIKAL

Kandai ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 281
Author(s):  
Ery Agus Kurnianto
Keyword(s):  
Feminist Theory ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
The Other ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Female Characters ◽  
Radical Feminist ◽  
Descriptive Research ◽  
Pull Out ◽  
Patriarchal Society ◽  
Good Woman

In a patriarchal society, virginity is a symbol of personality for a woman. If a woman is able to keep herself virgin and serve it later to her husband after marriage, then she is valued as a “good” woman. On the other side, if a woman lost her virginity before marriage she will be labeled as “bad” woman. Furthermore how the opinions about virginity be seen through the four female characters glasses contained in the novel by Sanie B. Kuncoro? This article will discuss women’s point of view interpreted from four female characters in Garis Perempuan novel by Sanie B. Kuncoro. This research is a descriptive research. Therefore, this article is aimed to describe the different views of four female characters regarding virginity issue. Radical feminist theory is being applied to interpret the views of four female characters as identifying the character as the first step. The result shows that the virginity is a negotiable commodity to pull out women from the issue of life. Virginity is also seen as a dignity which is priceless. Virginity is a born treasure. Therefore, a woman has a right to give her virginity to whoever she wants without any interferences from patriarchal society.  

Taxonomy of the Neotropical leafhopper genus Exogonia with description of seven new Brazilian species (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Cicadellini)

Zootaxa ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 2046 (1) ◽  
pp. 43-68 ◽  
Author(s):  
T. T. MAURO-BARR ◽  
R. A. CARVALHO ◽  
M. FELIX ◽  
G. MEJDALANI
Keyword(s):  
Geographical Distribution ◽  
Identification Key ◽  
The Other ◽  
Female Characters ◽  
Santa Catarina ◽  
Mato Grosso ◽  
Male And Female ◽  
Genital Apparatus ◽  
Brazilian Species ◽  
Male Genital

Seven new Brazilian species of Exogonia Melichar are described from Mato Grosso, Bahia, Espírito Santo, Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo, Paraná, and Santa Catarina states. The other four known species of the genus, E. assimilis (Signoret), E. hyalinosparsa (Melichar), E. leucampix (Signoret), and E. semivitta (Walker), are redescribed. An identification key with male and female characters and maps with the geographical distribution of the species are given. Taxonomic notes comparing the species are also provided. This genus is apparently closely related to Hanshumba Young, specially due to similarities in the male genital apparatus.

A narratological approach to literary journalism: how an interplay between voice and point of view may create empathy with the Other

Tekstualia ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 4 (47) ◽  
pp. 5-28 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cecilia Aare
Keyword(s):  
Point Of View ◽  
The Other ◽  
Special Role ◽  
Literary Journalism ◽  
Implied Author ◽  
Third Person ◽  
Classical Narratology ◽  
Narrative Techniques ◽  
The One

The aim of this article is to present a model for analyzing the interplay between voice and point of view in literary journalism/reportage. The model can be used to nuance previous researchers’ discussions about „subjective” and „objective” journalism. It also problematizes the reporter’s special role as an eyewitness by highlighting how narrative techniques can create empathy with the Other and move the reader’s gaze away from the reporter, away from the one who is witnessing. Using tools from classical narratology, I focus on the form of the texts. The tools help me investigate the narrator’s as well as the characters’ subjectivity and interpret the narrative’s construction as an expression of a journalistic mission. I systematize variables such as the narrator’s visibility, the relation between an experiencing reporter and a narrating reporter, the interplay between the experiencing reporter and other characters in the text, and in what way a level with a director (an implied author) can facilitate a comparison between various kinds of literary journalism. I also examine whether it might be time to abandon the theory that a fi rst-person reportage is more subjective in general than a third-person reportage. I explore whether it is instead the narrator’s visibility that determines the position of the text on a scale between „subjective” and „objective” forms.

scholarly journals Deconstruction of Male and Female Characters’ Qualities in Zootopia

K ta Kita ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 195-202
Author(s):  
William Teddy
Keyword(s):  
Gender Roles ◽  
Gender Stereotypes ◽  
The Other ◽  
Female Characters ◽  
Binary Opposition ◽  
Male And Female ◽  
Feminine Gender

This research aims to analyze the representation of male and female characters’ qualities that are portrayed in  Zootopia. The research also aims to show how the qualities are deconstructed as well as how to deconstruct the deconstruction in the movie as a method of analysis. Through the analysis the writer finds that the representation of qualities in Zootopia follows the traditional gender stereotypes, where men are considered superior than women. However, as the story progresses, the writer finds that the qualities in the movie are gradually deconstructed, showing that women are superior than men. After deconstructing the deconstruction in the movie, the writer finds that meaning can “disseminate” or can be perceived in different ways. Furthermore, from the analysis, the writer finds that both oppositions are actually interdependent to each other and complement as a whole. This means neither of the oppositions is stronger or weaker than the other. Keywords: Gender roles, Masculine and Feminine Gender Stereotypes, Deconstruction, Binary Opposition, Violent Hierarchy

scholarly journals MASKULINITAS DAN FEMININITAS DALAM ANIME KIMI NO NA WA KAJIAN RESPON PEMIRSA

KIRYOKU ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 1 (4) ◽  
pp. 10
Author(s):  
Fajria Noviana ◽  
Retno Wulandari
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
English Department ◽  
Young Generation ◽  
Sex And Gender ◽  
Female Characters ◽  
Male And Female ◽  
Masculinity And Femininity ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Response Method

Masculinity and femininity are never-ending subjects. This research aims at observing young generation’s perception on masculinity and femininity in Japanese animee Kimi no Na wa. In addition this research also brings input on how young generation reacts on masculinity and femininity. By using viewer’s response method, this research is conducted among 15 (fifteen) Japanese Department students and 15 (fifteen) Engish Department students of Universitas Diponegoro.The finding shows that young generation generally view that there is no significant differences between sex and gender role. Meanwhile, in the relation with the movie, responden assert their agreement on the description of masculinity and femininity through the male and female characters, although generally respondents from English Department prefer East masculinity and West femininity. This view can be used as the basic how older people build relation with young people due to differences in age and point of view.

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