scholarly journals Profesor Camilleri i pan Caravaggio. Multimodalne studium twórczości i psychozy

2019 ◽  
pp. 121-144
Author(s):  
Ksenia Olkusz
Keyword(s):  
Mental State ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Modal Frame ◽  
Alter Ego ◽  
Research Studies

Multimodal techniques (meaning the use of narrative modes signalised by various typographies etc.) enable a fuller presentation of Caravaggio’s mental dysfunction (in the novel the focalizing role is performed by, among others, the notes of the painter who is falling into obsession and madness – it is these that form his internal storyworld). Confrontation with the journalistic account, provided by the alter ego of the very author of the novel (so called sylleptic narrator) – that is the second level of narration – constitutes the modal frame for the presentation of the artist’s fate and contributes to showing the mental state of Caravaggio who is obsessed with “black sun” (this obsession might be the source of the chiaroscuro technique), and who sees in hallucinations his own severed head. This way, Camilleri creatively exploits the motif of decapitation, found in Caravaggio’s paintings, following many research studies showing that the heads found in the paintings could have been the painter’s self-portraits and expressions of his expiation. This context is supplemented by reproductions of Caravaggio’s paintings, which are embedded in the narration and “commented upon” in his fictional journal, thus constituting yet another layer registering (and illustrating) what takes place in the artist’s mind.

scholarly journals Acido, ergo sum: Holger Hydén – the neuroscientist in Cortázar's Hopscotch

2013 ◽  
Vol 71 (6) ◽  
pp. 408-410 ◽  
Author(s):  
Guillermo Delgado ◽  
Bruno Estanol
Keyword(s):  
San Francisco ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Chemical Theory ◽  
Italian Author ◽  
Alter Ego ◽  
The University

The fictional Italian author Morelli is throughout the novel “Hopscotch” (1963) Julio Cortázar's alter ego. This character proposes an unoriginal literary hypothesis in chapter 62. There is an allusion to a particular Swedish that ‘is working on a chemical theory of thought.’ The Swedish neuroscientist under analysis is Holger Hydén (1917-2000), by then professor and chairman of the Department of Histology at the University of Göteborg. Hydén, who was the first to work in neurobiological micromethods, is mentioned by Morelli due to his participation in a symposium held at the end of January 1961, in San Francisco. His pioneering work will never be completely forgotten, because Hydén's neuroscientific legacy lives and will live in Cortázar's “Hopscotch”.

scholarly journals FEMALE CHARACTER AS AUTHOR'S ALTER EGO IN IRENA KARPA'S NOVEL "GOOD NEWS FROM THE ARAL SEA"

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (11(79)) ◽  
pp. 163-165
Author(s):  
Myroslava Krupka
Keyword(s):  
Role Models ◽  
Life Story ◽  
Aral Sea ◽  
Good News ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Love Stories ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Alter Ego ◽  
Life Roles ◽  
Autobiographical Narrative

The study investigates the problem of representation of the female image in the autobiographical paradigm of Irena Karpa's novel “Good News from the Aral Sea” because the tendencies of subjectivism describe the writer's work as a manifestation of generational and gender identities. Thus, the modern cultural process is marked by the active presence of writers not only through their texts, but also through various public activities and social networks, which allows the reader to have an idea of the author's private history and accordingly correlate it with artistic narrative. Therewith, the form of the autobiographical narrative is considered as a way for the writer to articulate her experience as gender-marked and is a form of constructing the identity of the character – the author's alter ego. Irena Karpa's book simulates four types of modern heroines, united by common topos of birth and residence, but it is Rita's plot line that is considered as the embodiment of an autobiographical narrative. The figure of this heroine is shown at the junction of two cultures: Ukrainian and European. However, the drama of her life story is provoked by the self-identification of the mistress, who is always in a relationship with two men at the same time, which determines her identity. In the novel, it is love stories that unfold the dynamism of the heroine' s character: she mimics each subsequent man, changing role models from victim to muse. Other life roles: mother, wife, daughter are secondary, and are outside the priority zone. The correlation of the artistic world of the novel with the actual biography of the writer gives grounds to interpret the novel as an autofiction.

scholarly journals Tu rostro con la marea: una tragedia con máscaras pero sin héroe

2018 ◽  
pp. 87
Author(s):  
Emilio Ramón García
Keyword(s):  
The Novel ◽  
Main Character ◽  
Direct Relation ◽  
Russian People ◽  
History Of ◽  
History Of Europe ◽  
Alter Ego

<p>Tu rostro con la marea es una metaficción historiográfica a modo de novela de memoria cuyo personaje principal, Ángel Bigas, se construye una imagen de héroe decimonónico. Incapaz de lidiar con la realidad,forja su vida según los mundos de escritores como Galdós, Maupassant y Stendhal, y según el modelo de amor romántico platónico hacia una mujer rusa, Olga Rykova Anneski. Incapaz de entenderla también a ella, la encaja dentro de las tesis del marqués de Custine respecto al pueblo ruso y sus tradicionales ataduras. Ella, por su parte, es el alter ego de la poeta rusa Ajmátova, y oculta un espíritu bolchevique tras su máscara. El análisis de sus figuras revela la relación entre la historia y la ficción, el carácter de tragedia clásica de la novela, el papel de las expectativas en la percepción, y el correlato de ambos con la historia de Europa.</p><p> </p><p>Tu rostro con la marea is piece of historiographical metafiction following the model of a memory novel<br />around its main character. Incapable of facing reality, Ángel Bigas projects the image of a nineteenth<br />century hero according to the lives and works of Galdós, Maupassant and Stendhal while fueling his<br />aura with rumors and legends. His belief in the idiosyncrasy of the Russian people as understood by themarquis of Custine also makes him fail understanding his idealized love, Olga Rykova Anneski. She is also the alter ego of a very different kind of writer: the Russian Bolshevik poet Akhmatova. The analysisof the two figures as literary constructs reveals the relation between history and fiction, the natureof the novel as a classical tragedy, the role of expectations in perception and the direct relation of bothcharacters with the history of Europe.</p>

scholarly journals MORALITAS ASKETISME SYEKH SITI JENAR: STUDI TRILOGI SYEKH SITI JENAR KARYA AGUS SUNYOTO

2018 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 151
Author(s):  
Agus Sujadi
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Human Person ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Font Size ◽  
Daily Behavior ◽  
Text Unit ◽  
Research Studies

<p><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-ansi-language: IN; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;">Sheikh Siti Jenar is a sensational figure through his teachings that are monotheistic. It is not so when reading the novel trilogy by Agus Sunyoto. The spiritual aspects of religion, which are presented can be said to be logical when viewed through the angle of asceticism. Research studies conducted in the form of text with the approach of critical discourse analysis (CDA). The data collected from the text unit of the novel trilogy of Sheikh Siti Jenar by Agus Sunyoto. The result of this research is, asceticism as individual morale leads to social and political morale. And the ascetic ethos of Sheikh Siti Jenar as a human person provides the impetus and limitation to act in his daily behavior. So the ascetic morality of Sheikh Siti Jenar has a general and expansive character.</span><strong></strong></p><p><strong><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-ansi-language: IN; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;"><br /></span></strong></p><p><strong><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-ansi-language: IN; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;">Keywords: </span></strong><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-ansi-language: IN; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;">Moralitas, Asketisme, Syekh Siti Jenar, Islam, Novel</span></p>

scholarly journals Postcolonial vision of Yaroslav Pavlyuk’s novel “The Garden of Drunk Cherries”

2021 ◽  
Vol 27 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Volodymyr Danylenko
Keyword(s):  
Soviet Union ◽  
Literary Criticism ◽  
Postcolonial Theory ◽  
Russian Language ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Lost Generation ◽  
The Soviet Union ◽  
Postmodern Novel ◽  
Real Picture ◽  
Alter Ego

The relevance of the article lies in the study of the problem of the lost generation in modern Ukrainian literature, which remains insufficiently studied in literary criticism. The subject of the research is Yaroslav Pavlyuk’s postmodern novel “The Garden of Drunk Cherries”, to which the methods of postcolonial theory are applied. In the analysis, a literary character with a bifurcated consciousness stands out. This is the type of person in whom the traditional Ukrainian self-consciousness is combined with the Soviet one. The main result of the study is to identify the specifics of Ukrainian national identity in the Soviet Union, which was hidden and not exposed to the public, and Soviet identity became a social mask that people wore so as not to differ from generally accepted social standards. The novelty of the results of the study helps to reveal the social mask, which in Soviet-era Ukraine was the Russian language, which people had to use at the official level. The dramatic conflict between the novel main character, who is the author’s alter ego, and the librarian Oresta, is accompanied by letters from the artist Borys Zhdanyuk and famous directors Andriy Tarkovsky and Sergiy Parajanov, whose emotions and thoughts reveal the real picture of the absence of individual and national freedom in the USSR. Using the examples of people of art, it is shown how the Soviet system destroyed dissent and traumatized creative personalities. The bifurcation of the creative personality in Soviet-era Ukraine often led vulnerable people to their degradation. Censorship, control of dissent, the imposition of socialist realism in art, and the threat of arrest have forced writers, artists, and directors to adapt to the system or become dissidents. The novel depicts characters who do not accept the official ideology, trying to save their private world from state interference. The results of the study have the prospect for further analysis of the work of individual writers and generations who have become a lost force and have not used the creative potential inherent in them.

scholarly journals RE (VIEWING) THREE-DIMENSIONAL WORLD OF PAKISTAN’S FOLK THEATRE ARTIST IN SAEED’S FORGOTTEN FACES: A PSYCHOANALYTICAL CRITIQUE

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 671-678
Author(s):  
Amna Aziz ◽  
Aniqa Rashid ◽  
Aqsa Aslam ◽  
Iqra Nazish ◽  
Khadija Majeed
Keyword(s):  
Mental State ◽  
Theoretical Perspective ◽  
Three Dimensional ◽  
The Other ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Novel Concept

Purpose of the study: This study contextualizes within the border of psychoanalytical perspective specifically focusing on Freud's theory of personality and Lacan’s module of the psyche to evaluate an artist’s mental state that how his/her mental state fluctuates. Methodology: Bali Jatti is taken as an exemplary character to project the reality of being an artist. This analysis presents her three-dimensional world, real, theatrical, and psychological, to represent the challenges she faces as she opts to embrace the life of folk theatre. It explores her psychological life and the chaos in which she spends the rest of her life. It probes into social taboos and stigmas that are associated with her life that makes her a stereotypical icon. Main Findings: This research concludes that the psychological world of folk theatre Bali is under the hegemonic supremacy of the other two worlds, real and theatrical. This diligent inquiry leads the reader through a steady stream of events of Bali's life which is taken as an exemplary character to project the reality of being an artist. Applications of this study: This study provides guidelines to academia and probes into an exploration of the novel concept of Pakistan folk theatre and its artist's three-dimensional world. Novelty/Originality of this study: From a theoretical perspective, this study provides important insights into literature by exploring the most demanding skills in folk theatre artists and their three-dimensional world that formulates their destiny and takes their journey of life from glory to demise.

scholarly journals Istanbul as Palimpsest: The Black Book as a Postmodernist Representation of Turkish History and Culture

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 158-167
Author(s):  
Aneesa Ayanee
Keyword(s):  
The State ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Detective Novel ◽  
Black Book ◽  
True Self ◽  
The West ◽  
The Rich ◽  
True Knowledge ◽  
Alter Ego ◽  
Love Triangle

Orhan Pamuk’s novel, The Black Book is a postmodern chronicle of Turkey in which the author uses the structure of a detective novel to delineate the themes of identity, culture and hybridity. The paper aims to depict how Pamuk foregrounds that identities are never determinate but are forever eluding by presenting a love triangle which disappears underneath a mystical quest for one’s true self. Galip’s assuming the persona of his alter-ego, Celal; Prince Osman’s pursuit of true knowledge through reading diverse books and ultimately rejecting them; and Bedii Usta’s disillusion with the State for disapproving the mannequins, all represent the interlacing of cultures and interdependence of identities in contemporary Turkey. Moreover, in the novel, the rich Ottoman tradition and Islamic literature are also revisited in a postmodern light so as to present the allegorical and political connotations inherent in them. The paper also examines how the novel portrays the forced westernization and erasure of history and memories through the use of film ekphrasis to highlight how the Turkish citizens were lured by the Western cinema and indoctrinated about the superiority of the West so as to generate in them a sense of anxiety about their identities.

scholarly journals Imaginação poética e técnica neobarroca no romance A serviço del-Rei, de Autran Dourado / Poetic Imagination and Neo-Barroque Procedures in the Novel A serviço del-Rei, Written by Autran Dourado

2021 ◽  
Vol 30 (2) ◽  
pp. 76
Author(s):  
Thaís Seabra Leite
Keyword(s):  
The Novel ◽  
Critical Reading ◽  
Severo Sarduy ◽  
Gaston Bachelard ◽  
Western Literature ◽  
Ongoing Work ◽  
Poetic Imagination ◽  
Alter Ego

Resumo: O presente estudo consiste em uma leitura crítica de A serviço del-Rei, de Autran D/ourado, contemplando o caráter metaficcional da mediação narrativa e a formulação de um alter ego do autor. Além desses pontos, recebe destaque o diálogo que o volume estabelece com outras obras do escritor mineiro e da literatura ocidental a partir da composição de metáforas. A fim de cumprir a finalidade a que se propõe, a pesquisa tem como fundamento teórico os estudos sobre metáfora e imaginação poética de Philip Wheelwright (1968) e Gaston Bachelard (1990, 2001, 2002), e as reflexões sobre a ficção do século XX que Haroldo de Campos (1972) e Severo Sarduy (1972) denominam neobarroca.Palavras-chave: Autran Dourado; ficção brasileira; metáfora; imaginação; neobarroco.Abstract: The ongoing work aims at presenting a critical reading of A serviço del-Rei, written by Autran Dourado. Throughout the analysis, we focus on the metafictional characteristics of the narrative status as well as on some formulation of the author’s alter ego and on the dialogue established by the volume with other works also written by Dourado. Regarding the metaphorical construction, another relevant connection is with Western literature. In order to follow the purpose of this research on the topic, we rely on Philip Wheelwright’s studies and Gaston Bachelard’s thoughts about metaphor and poetic imagination. In addition, we consider Haroldo de Campos and Severo Sarduy’s reflections on Neo-Baroque tendencies of the twentieth century.Keywords: Autran Dourado; Brazilian fiction; metaphor; imagination; neo-barroque.

scholarly journals La saga/fuga de Margo Glantz

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vicente Cervera Salinas
Keyword(s):  
Short Stories ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Narrative Voice ◽  
Margo Glantz ◽  
Gonzalo Torrente Ballester ◽  
Alter Ego

This article looks at the collection of short stories Historia de una mujer que caminó por la vida con zapatos de diseñador (2005) by Mexican writer Margo Glantz with a view to relating them with topics and leitmotiven which the author used in some of her previous fictional work. The examination of her short stories is mainly conducted from the concept of saga/fugue, stemming from the mythic novel by Gonzalo Torrente Ballester. This concept is applied to Margo Glantz’ work, especially to show the lines of flight which connect the collection of short stories with previous work such as the novel, El rastro (2002), with which Glanz obtained international acclaim. Glantz’ alter ego, Norma García, is the narrative voice which weaves and combines this element, always in an organic and harmonious manner, according to different tones and scales, as is the case with Johann Sebastian Bach’s counterpoint work.

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