scholarly journals Andrey Zvyagintsev’s Loveless as the remediation of Mikhail Bulgakov’s The heart of a dog. Towards the question of cultural memory

2021 ◽  
Vol 30 (39) ◽  
pp. 183-199
Author(s):  
Beata Waligórska-Olejniczak
Keyword(s):  
Short Stories ◽  
Cultural Memory ◽  
Russian Literature ◽  
Feature Films ◽  
The Relationship

The article aims to examine the relationship between two texts: Loveless (Нелюбовь, 2017), the latest of Andrey Zvyagintsev’s feature films, and The Heart of a Dog (Собачье сердце, 1925), one of Mikhail Bulgakov’s most popular short stories. The studies are focused on finding the parallels showing the work of cultural memory, which is understood – following Aleida Assmann’s and Astrid Erll’s findings – as the process of continuous remediation, retranscription and negotiation of essential ideas in the space of culture. Consequently, the author is not interested in treating Zvyagintsev’s text as the illustration of Bulgakov’s plot, but rather in discussing certain topics which are deposited in Russian literature and constantly reused and reinterpreted, creating the framework for communication across ‘the abyss of time’. The analogies between the selected texts are sought in the area of their structure, some thematic overlapping, the authors’ approach to the issue of the authoritarian ideology and the role of technology as well as in exploring the function of space as one of the narrative mechanisms, in particular in the context of the category of home and anti-home.

Faith and Science in Russian Literature

2019 ◽  
pp. 59-72
Author(s):  
Teresa Obolevitch
Keyword(s):  
Natural Science ◽  
Scientific Explanation ◽  
Russian Literature ◽  
Faith And Reason ◽  
The Absolute ◽  
Lev Tolstoy ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Spiritual Unity

Chapter 6 shows the presence of the topic of the relationship between faith and science in the thought of the most influential literature figures, such as Fedor Dostoevsky and Lev Tolstoy. Although Dostoevsky stressed the role of faith, his account by no means was a mere fideism. Dostoevsky respected natural science, even if he definitively marked the limits of the scientific explanation. Hence, he strove for an integral attitude embracing faith and reason in a single spiritual unity. By contrast, Lev Tolstoy was concerned about the absolute comprehensibility and rational obviousness of Christian truths, yet denied the significance of natural science.

10Affect Theory

2019 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 181-200
Author(s):  
Karen Simecek
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Cultural Memory ◽  
Affect Theory ◽  
The Relationship

Abstract This chapter reviews works in affect theory published in 2018. The chapter is divided into the following sections: 1. Introduction; 2. The Interplay of Feeling and Thinking, which focuses on Rick Furtak’s Knowing Emotions and Antonio Damasio’s The Strange Order of Things; 3. Narrative of Affect and Affective Narratives, which focuses on Erica L. Johnson’s Cultural Memory, Memorials, and Reparative Writing and Duncan A. Lucas’s Affect Theory, Genre, and the Example of Tragedy; 4. Digital Affect, which focuses on Tero Karppi’s Disconnect: Facebook’s Affective Bonds and Affect and Social Media: Emotion, Mediation, Anxiety and Contagion, edited by Tony D. Sampson, Stephen Maddison and Darren Ellis; 5. Reflections. In publications this year, old themes have been given renewed attention; for instance, the relationship between knowledge and emotion, and narrative and affect, but there have also been new lines of enquiry that have emerged in the sub-field of digital affect, which extends understanding of the role of technology in enhancing and shaping, as well as limiting, felt experience.

scholarly journals SPECIFICITY OF CONTRAST IN VICTORIA TOKAREVA'S NOVEL "FRACTURE"

2019 ◽  
Vol 29 (6) ◽  
pp. 969-975
Author(s):  
G.S. Golovanova
Keyword(s):  
Short Stories ◽  
Functional Significance ◽  
The Novel ◽  
The Relationship

The purpose of the article is to analyze the functional significance of contrast in the text of the novel “Fracture”. The tasks are to describe the image of contrast in different language ways and means, to show the relationship between contrast and pointe as a specific feature of the novel genre, to characterize contrast as an effective method of actualizing textual meanings and identifying the author’s intention. The novelty of the study is determined by the involvement of a new language material to deepen the idea of the specificity and artistic role of contrast in the genre of short stories.

The New Prose of Tatyana Tolstaya

2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (4) ◽  
pp. 87-97
Author(s):  
Maria D. Bryzgalova
Keyword(s):  
Short Stories ◽  
Real World ◽  
Russian Literature ◽  
Main Role ◽  
Many Worlds ◽  
The Third ◽  
Non Fiction ◽  
Third Person ◽  
The Third Person

This article studies the characteristics of Tatyana Tolstaya’s prose of the 2010s, that was compiled with her essays and previous works into a tetralogy: “The Imperceptible Worlds” (2014), “The Girl in Blossom” (2015), “The Invisible Maiden” (2015), “The Century Made of Felt” (2015). This study aims to identify the creative strategies used by the writer, as well as to trace how Tolstaya describes her particular topics in different genres. Hopefully, this will fill in the lacuna in the contemporary Russian literature studies, as Tolstaya’s works have received little academic attention despite their popularity among contemporary readers. To achieve this goal, the author of this article has applied structural-semantic and textological methods. The main feature of Tolstaya’s “new prose” is the transition from the third person narrative to the first. These changes are closely related to Tatyana Tolstaya’s creative roles, such as a teacher, a journalist, a TV-presenter, and a blogger. The role of an author is the main role as it affects the rest. The topics and motifs, present in Tolstaya’s previous fiction and non-fiction works though quite indirectly and detached, come to the fore in 2010s. The main themes include time, memory, and folk mentality. New novels and short stories can also be characterized by the motive of many worlds: the real world is surrounded by other worlds — the “aetherial” ones. Tolstaya’s “new prose” is undoubtedly intertextual, which is necessary for her style. It combines documentary and artistry, autobiographical features and a certain measure of detachment, which allow seeing an autobiographical heroine in the text.

scholarly journals Cultural memory and the heritagisation of a music consumption community

2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 174-190 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daragh O’Reilly ◽  
Kathy Doherty ◽  
Elizabeth Carnegie ◽  
Gretchen Larsen
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Memory ◽  
Single Case ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Music Consumption ◽  
Interpretive Inquiry ◽  
Consumption Community ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Practical Implications

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore how music consumption communities remember their past. Specifically, the paper reports on the role of heritage in constructing the cultural memory of a consumption community and on the implications for its identity and membership. Design/methodology/approach Drawing upon insights from theories of cultural memory, heritage, and collective consumption, this interpretive inquiry makes use of interview, documentary, and artefactual analysis, as well as visual and observational data, to analyse an exhibition of the community’s popular music heritage entitled One Family – One Tribe: The Art & Artefacts of New Model Army. Findings The analysis shows how the community creates a sense of its own past and reflects this in memories, imagination, and the creative work of the band. Research limitations/implications This is a single case study, but one whose exploratory character provides fruitful insights into the relationship between cultural memory, imagination, heritage, and consumption communities. Practical implications The paper shows how consumption communities can do the work of social remembering and re-imagining of their own past, thus strengthening their identity through time. Social implications The study shows clearly how a consumption community can engage, through memory and imagination, with its own past, and indeed the past in general, and can draw upon material and other resources to heritagise its own particular sense of community and help to strengthen its identity and membership. Originality/value The paper offers a theoretical framework for the process by which music consumption communities construct their own past, and shows how theories of cultural memory and heritage can help to understand this important process. It also illustrates the importance of imagination, as well as memory, in this process.

Cultures of Commemoration

2012 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Memory ◽  
Ancient Greece ◽  
Comparative Approach ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Usa ◽  
War Dead ◽  
Set Up ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Key Questions

This book offers a comparative approach to the study of the commemoration of war. It draws together a set of contributions that combine to produce a considered approach to the changes and continuities that marked the ways in which war, and in particular the war dead, were commemorated and remembered. Chapters explore the commemorative practices of Ancient Greece and Rome, and investigate how those practices have been reflected, adapted and abandoned in more recent Western cultures, from eighteenth-century France to twentieth-century Britain, Germany and the USA. The book concentrates on monuments set up by communities, from local communities to the state, but it also considers the role of ‘private’ memorials, since the interaction between private or more personalised monuments and the commemoration of the war dead by the community often lies at the heart of commemorative practices. It furthermore explores the relationship between memory and forgetting, in the context of the longer-term idea of cultural memory. Key questions addressed by the book include: What importance does such commemoration have for the cultures that continue to live with the legacies of the commemorative actions of the recent and distant past? How is the commemoration of the war dead of the past not only used but reused? The book demonstrates that our own understanding of the treatment of the war dead has absorbed and reinterpreted the treatments already developed by past societies.

scholarly journals The Concept of A. I. Solzhenitsyn’s Historical Process: Cultural and Philosophical Context

2001 ◽  
Vol 14 (8) ◽  
pp. 1251-1262
Author(s):  
Ivan Yu. Makarchuk ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Russian Literature ◽  
Literary Works ◽  
Historical Process ◽  
Historical Processes ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Philosophical Understanding

Expressing his opinion on a particular occasion, event or problem in numerous interviews, public statements, letters, and articles A. I. Solzhenitsyn at the same time transmitted his conceptual considerations about the patterns and features of the course of historical process and the role of relevant actors (including individuals, nations, parties, and political figures) in it. A tendency towards cultural and philosophical understanding of historical processes and events, as well as interpretation of the latter in literary works and works of fiction, many of which are recognised as classic works of Russian literature, is typical for the Russian authors of the 19th‑20th centuries. Based on the publicist works by A. I. Solzhenitsyn, the author in a cultural and philosophical context consistently reveals the concept of the writer’s historical process which is constituted by the following aspects: the role of rulers in history, the relationship between history and God, the value of truth in history, unpredictability of history, and the need to treat history carefully

scholarly journals THE PROBLEM OF THE CORRELATION BETWEEN SPIRIT AND REALITY IN T. MANN’S NOVEL “TRISTAN”

2021 ◽  
pp. 25-30
Author(s):  
T. KONIEVA
Keyword(s):  
Short Stories ◽  
Short Story ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Personal Attitude ◽  
Scientific Investigations ◽  
Review Analysis ◽  
Literary Process ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Cutting Problem

Short stories are an integral part of T. Mann’s creative heritage, which are distinguished by ideological, thematic and artistic richness, they give an idea of the evolution of the creative method and style of the writer. And although nowadays there is already a number of scientific investigations devoted to the review analysis of T. Mann’s creative path, there is a need to study the problem of culture “end of time” (in T. Mann’s terminology) in the novelistic work of the writer who went to political and social activities through art. The purpose of the article is to reveal the nuances of the relationship between spirit and reality in T. Mann’s short story “Tristan”.The article proves that within the cross-cutting problem of the relationship between art and life, which never ceased to bother the German writer, also the novel “Tristan” clearly distinguishes the related ones: art and beauty, art and morality, aesthetics and life, beauty and death, decadence and a disease of the spirit, the artist and reality, which allowed to clarify both the ideological concepts of creative individuality and the essence of its art. At the same time, the divergence between the views of the hero of the novel and T. Mann’s personal attitude to reality and art is shown. Enough attention is paid to identifying the role of the comic and the means of its formation in the novel. “Tristan” is interpreted in the context of the development of T. Mann’s work and the European literary process at the turn of the XIX - early XX centuries.The article identifies the place of the short story “Tristan” in the work of the German master of the word and outlines the ways of its further analysis.

Choosing a Markov blanket

2020 ◽  
Vol 43 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas Parr
Keyword(s):  
Markov Blanket ◽  
Target Article ◽  
The Relationship

Abstract This commentary focuses upon the relationship between two themes in the target article: the ways in which a Markov blanket may be defined and the role of precision and salience in mediating the interactions between what is internal and external to a system. These each rest upon the different perspectives we might take while “choosing” a Markov blanket.

Staring Down Death

Crisis ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 37 (3) ◽  
pp. 212-217 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas E. Joiner ◽  
Melanie A. Hom ◽  
Megan L. Rogers ◽  
Carol Chu ◽  
Ian H. Stanley ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Suicide Risk ◽  
Clinical Utility ◽  
Blink Rate ◽  
Specific Task ◽  
Careful Planning ◽  
Eye Blink ◽  
Eye Blinks ◽  
Potential Clinical Utility ◽  
The Relationship

Abstract. Background: Lowered eye blink rate may be a clinically useful indicator of acute, imminent, and severe suicide risk. Diminished eye blink rates are often seen among individuals engaged in heightened concentration on a specific task that requires careful planning and attention. Indeed, overcoming one’s biological instinct for survival through suicide necessitates premeditation and concentration; thus, a diminished eye blink rate may signal imminent suicidality. Aims: This article aims to spur research and clinical inquiry into the role of eye blinks as an indicator of acute suicide risk. Method: Literature relevant to the potential connection between eye blink rate and suicidality was reviewed and synthesized. Results: Anecdotal, cognitive, neurological, and conceptual support for the relationship between decreased blink rate and suicide risk is outlined. Conclusion: Given that eye blinks are a highly observable behavior, the potential clinical utility of using eye blink rate as a marker of suicide risk is immense. Research is warranted to explore the association between eye blink rate and acute suicide risk.

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