scholarly journals Re-looking at Robert Frost’s “Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening” through an Islamic Prism

2019 ◽  
Vol 6 (10) ◽  
pp. 331-339
Author(s):  
Md Alam
Keyword(s):  
Literary Theory ◽  
Critical Analysis ◽  
Literary Work ◽  
Roles And Responsibilities ◽  
Reluctant Readers ◽  
Religious Significance ◽  
Multiple Meanings ◽  
Religious Meaning ◽  
Ways Of Life

This paper presents a possible new religious meaning of Robert Frost’s well-known poem “Stopping by Woods on Snowy Evening”. This new meaning exploration is carried through an Islamic reading of the text. The study investigated how much correspondence the poem shares with Islam and what representation of Islamic themes and teachings is possible to exist in the text. To this end, a critical analysis was done to ferret out religious essence contained in the poem. The analysis was based on the post-structuralism literary theory which expostulates that a text has no fixed meaning; in a text, there can be multiple meanings. Based on this theory, the analysis shows that the poem exhibits a drawing of Islamic inspiration for search for Allah, articulates philosophy about Islamic ways of life, presents justification of the good and bad of life, Allah’s prohibitions and commandments, and Muslim roles and responsibilities. The poem is thus infinitely of more value as a piece of literary work and reluctant readers of Muslim tradition might consider reading the poem with new greater religious significance. This study, thus, adds a new value to the poem.  

Les héritages chrétiens: quel avenir?

Moreana ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 46 (Number 176) (1) ◽  
pp. 175-190
Author(s):  
Bernard Bourdin
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
Human Rights ◽  
Middle Ages ◽  
Critical Analysis ◽  
Religious Affiliation ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Modern Times ◽  
The Past ◽  
Religious Significance ◽  
Politics And Religion

The legacy from Christianity unquestionably lies at the root of Europe, even if not exclusively. It has taken many aspects from the Middle Ages to modern times. If the Christian heritage is diversely understood and accepted within the European Union, the reason is essentially due to its political and religious significance. However, its impact in politics and religion has often been far from negative, if we will consider what secular societies have derived from Christianity: human rights, for example, and a religious affiliation which has been part and parcel of national identity. The Christian legacy has to be acknowledged through a critical analysis which does not deny the truth of the past but should support a European project built around common values.

Phenomenolological review v. cierer of reading proceedings in the context of its «litery anthropology»

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (100) ◽  
pp. 64-70
Author(s):  
O.D. Lauta ◽  
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S.M. Geiko ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Literary Theory ◽  
Literary Work ◽  
Philosophical Analysis ◽  
Reading Process ◽  
Aesthetic Object ◽  
Semantic Definition ◽  
Reception Aesthetics

The phenomenological review of V. Izer's reading process in the context of «literary anthropology» is analyzed. The philosopher makes a distinction between interpretation and reception. The first, in his opinion, gives the imagination a «semantic definition», and the second – a sense of aesthetic, object. The first passes within the limits of the «semantic orientations» of the literary theory, and the second – within the limits of the cultural and anthropological context. The article deals with the philosophical analysis of the reception aesthetics. For the supporters of this theoretical direction, there is an inherent shift of attention from the problems of creativity and literary work to the problem of its reception or, in other words, from the level of psychological, sociological or anthropological interpretation of the creative biography, to the level of perceived consciousness. Receptive aesthetics gives the reader privilege in the «text/reader» paradigm and gives him the cognitive and affective ability to create his own text from this text.

Representasi Tokoh Cakraningrat dalam Sajarah Proza Begin Brawijaya

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 113
Author(s):  
Novarina Novarina ◽  
Mamlahatun Buduroh
Keyword(s):  
Structural Study ◽  
Literary Theory ◽  
Literary Work ◽  
Structural Theory ◽  
Content Structure ◽  
Philosophy Of Life ◽  
Historical Text ◽  
History Of ◽  
Main Figure ◽  
Theory Framework

This paper is the result of a study of the Nusantara manuscripts using the historical text sources of Madura. The object of this research is the transliteration of a manuscript from the collection of the Central Library of Indonesia entitled Sajarah Proza Begin Brawijaya (SPBB) code SJ.230 Novarina edition (2020). In examining the manuscript, the philological method and literary theory framework were used. From the field of literature, Jan van Luxemburg's structural theory, Julia Kristeva's intertextuality, and Teeuw's concept of literary representation are used. From the structural study, it can be seen that the SPBB text framework is composed of literary structures and content structures (history), which as a whole serve to legitimize the power of the 17-18 century Madurese king. Meanwhile, the results of the intertextual analysis showed that the elements built into the content structure (history) of the SPBB text were connected with M.C. Ricklefs and H.J. De Graaf in representing Cakraningrat as the main figure in the history of Java, Madura, and VOC based on the author's life view to raise one of the values of the Javanese philosophy of life in this text. This linkage results in the conclusion that as a traditional Javanese historical literary work, the SPBB text is representative of its creator's culture, one of which is as a representation of the philosophy of mikul dhuwur mendhem jero in the Javanese view of life.

De Man, Paul (1919–83

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Timothy Bahti
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Literary Theory ◽  
Literary Work ◽  
Literary Language ◽  
French Philosophy ◽  
Literature And Philosophy ◽  
Philosophic Texts ◽  
De Man ◽  
Rhetorical Reading

De Man’s work is among the most renowned and influential in American literary theory of the latter twentieth century, especially regarding literary theory’s emergence as an interdisciplinary and philosophically ambitious discourse. Always emphasizing the linguistic aspects of a literary work over thematic, semantic or evaluative ones, de Man specifically focuses on the figurative features of literary language and their consequences for the undecidability of meaning. His extension of his mode of ‘rhetorical reading’ to philosophic texts also participates in the blurring of generic and institutional distinctions between literature and philosophy, a tendency pronounced in French philosophy of the latter twentieth century.

Taking Herod to Task: Source Critical and New Historical Methods of Reading Herod’s Trial

2019 ◽  
Vol 50 (3) ◽  
pp. 403-422
Author(s):  
Ari Finkelstein
Keyword(s):  
Intellectual History ◽  
Critical Analysis ◽  
Jewish History ◽  
Literary Work ◽  
First Century ◽  
History Of ◽  
Jewish Historian ◽  
Historical Methods

AbstractFor nearly three decades scholars of the first-century Jewish historian, Flavius Josephus, have debated this author’s methodologies and goals in writing his Jewish Antiquities. While source-critics view Josephus as a compiler, new historians have chosen to read Antiquities as primarily a literary work which reveals social, political, and intellectual history. A series of recent publications place these methodologies side by side but rarely coordinate them, which leaves out important insights of each group. At stake is how we moderns read Jewish history of the first century CE. I explore how parallel accounts of Herod’s trial while he was Tetrarch of the Galilee in Jewish War and in Antiquities can be justified by employing source-critical analysis as a first step to explain the changes made to the text of Antiquities before turning to new historians’ methodologies. We can better understand the function of Herod’s trial in Antiquities through this process.

scholarly journals ¿Es la ópera un género literario?

2011 ◽  
pp. 609
Author(s):  
Juan Carlos Pueo
Keyword(s):  
Literary Theory ◽  
Literary Work ◽  
Genre Theory ◽  
Specific Form ◽  
Literary Genre ◽  
Literary Genres ◽  
Semiotic Systems ◽  
Physical Presence ◽  
Language And Music

La ópera se considera comúnmente un género musical, pero su estatuto literario parece ser más bien dudoso. La intención de este artículo es poner en claro esta cuestión, tomando como referencia la teoría de los géneros literarios, la teoría teatral y la semiótica musical. La teoría literaria debe tener en cuenta la especificidad de ciertos géneros literarios cuya recepción ha sido destinada a ser acompañada por la música. Los géneros teatrales se definen por la presencia física de uno o más actores que representan sus personajes ante un público, de forma que dichos géneros pueden clasificarse por emplear o no el lenguaje y/o la música: esto significa que la ópera ocupa un lugar en la clasificación de los géneros literarios por su conjunción de lenguaje y música. Esta conjunción no es mera yuxtaposición, ha de ser pensada como simbiosis entre dos sistemas semióticos que colaboran para producir una forma específica de obra literario-musical que ha de considerarse un género literario y teatral con características especiales. Opera is generally considered a musical genre, but its literary statute seems to be rather uncertain. The aim of this article is to clarify this subject, taking as reference literary genre theory, theatrical theory and musical semiotics. Literary theory must take into consideration the specificity of certain literary genres whose reception is intended to be accompanied by music. Theatrical genres defines themselves by the physical presence of one o more actors that impersonate some characters for an audience, so this genres can be classified by the use or the disuse of language and/or music: this means that opera occupies a place in the classification of literary genres because of its conjunction of language and music. This conjunction is not mere yuxtaposition, it has to be thought as a symbiosis between two semiotic systems that collaborate to produce an specific form of musical-literary work that must be considered a literary and theatrical genre with special characteristics.

Phenomenology

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Horst Ruthrof
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Literary Criticism ◽  
Literary Theory ◽  
Literary Work ◽  
The United States ◽  
Work Of Art ◽  
Jean Paul ◽  
Literary Work Of Art ◽  
Wolfgang Iser ◽  
Reception Aesthetics

Phenomenological literary theory has its roots in Edmund Husserl’s studies of the directional acts of consciousness in the first half of the 20th century and Roman Ingarden’s The Literary Work of Art and The Cognition of the Literary Work of Art, arguing that literary works can come into existence only in the act of reading. Under the influence of Martin Heidegger, phenomenology absorbed hermeneutic insights from Dilthey, Gadamer, and Ricoeur, as well as existentialist features, foremost from Jean-Paul Sartre, with Merleau-Ponty contributing a corporeal accent by reiterating Husserl’s distinction between the biophysical body (Körper) and the animate body (Leib). George Poulet of the Geneva school and the early Yale critics added an author-oriented form of literary criticism, while Ingarden’s work was taken up by the Konstanz school theorists Wolfgang Iser and Hans Robert Jauss, the latter challenging ontological approaches by a historically anchored form of reception aesthetics. In the United States, the idea of phenomenology in literature has been prominently pursued by Maurice Natanson. At the same time, phenomenological literary theory is undergoing a revival in the wake of the neo-phenomenology of Hermann Schmitz, notably in such writings as Rita Felski’s Uses of Literature.

Liquid Meaning in Sanskrit Poetics

2021 ◽  
pp. 37-44
Author(s):  
E. H. Rick Jarow
Keyword(s):  
Literary Theory ◽  
Silent Reading ◽  
Literary Work ◽  
Work Of Art ◽  
Sanskrit Poetics ◽  
Indian Aesthetics ◽  
Literary Work Of Art ◽  
Poetic Work

Chapter three surveys classical Indian literary theory and looks at how rasa (liquid meaning) became considered to be the goal of the literary work of art. The chapter considers a vision of the poetic work of art that is radically different from the models of private, silent reading that most Westerners have been brought up with. The text discusses how rasa is achieved through resonant suggestion, and how the meaning of a poem is understood in terms of its taste. The production of rasa is viewed through classical Indian aesthetics as well as though works of Western literary critics who have put forth resonant ideas. The Meghadūta is seen as an exemplary work in this regard.

“Crafty Advertisers”: Literary versus Literal Deceptiveness

1992 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 72-81 ◽  
Author(s):  
Barbara B. Stern
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Literary Theory ◽  
Artistic Creativity ◽  
The Public ◽  
Literary Forms ◽  
Multiple Meanings ◽  
Message Claims ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Verbal Meaning

The purpose of this paper is to use literary theory to extend prior categorizations of message claims that are likely to result in deception by implication from the level of the individual claim to that of the advertisement's overall meaning. The paper will first summarize three literary forms that advertising has adapted—metonymy, irony, and absurdity—and discuss each in terms of how form and content interact to yield the whole verbal meaning of a text. These forms can be used to structure an ad so that the totality misleads the consumer by perverting meaning in three different ways. Metonymy can mislead by adding multiple meanings; irony, by hiding doubled meanings; and absurdism, by conveying subjectively ambiguous meanings. Advertising examples will be presented in the discussion. The paper will conclude with research suggestions for gaining greater understanding of how artistic creativity can be balanced with the public policy need to protect the consumer from deception by innuendo.

scholarly journals The Study of Semantic Change and its Effect on Linguistic and Literary Comprehension of ESL Learners

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 43-54
Author(s):  
Azka Khalid
Keyword(s):  
Second Language ◽  
Significant Proportion ◽  
Literary Work ◽  
Literal Meaning ◽  
Semantic Change ◽  
Educational Backgrounds ◽  
Negative Attribute ◽  
Multiple Meanings ◽  
Esl Learners ◽  
Over Time

Language is continuously changing. Words change their meaning over time and this process is known as semantic change. Change can occur both in the literal meaning and in the pragmatic use of words. In this research, semantic change is studied from a different perspective. Words that go through rapid semantic changes are the focus of this study. Users of English as a second language are also the focus of this study. The study observes whether these users are able to keep up with semantic change. It also gives us an idea regarding how much the users know about the multiple meanings of the same words. Another aspect of this study is to find out whether semantic change affects the comprehension of literature containing the words which went through semantic change. This research was conducted through a close-ended questionnaire designed by selecting fifteen words which changed their meaning over time. The respondents were fifty in number and were all females who had different educational backgrounds. The results were analyzed through pie charts. The results showed that the majority of ESL learners are able to keep up with semantic change, although a significant proportion is still struggling to understand the process. The results also showed that the learners of English as a second language have little knowledge of the previous meanings of words. If a word which has changed its meaning over time occurs in any literary work, ESL learners are not able to comprehend its meaning as it is intended to be understood. This can be considered as a negative attribute of semantic change. So, it was concluded that ESL learners are able to keep up with the change but most of them are unable to comprehend literature as it is intended to be understood.

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