scholarly journals Die Form übersetzen: Zur (De)konstruktion des literarischen Sinnes

2015 ◽  
Vol 69 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Mateusz Cwik von
Keyword(s):  
Japanese Literature ◽  
Literary Text ◽  
Semantic Relations ◽  
Historical Evolution ◽  
Literary Works ◽  
Systematic Exploration ◽  
Construction Of Meaning ◽  
Literary Meaning

AbstractThis contribution highlights the conditions of translating literature by way of exemplary samples from German and Japanese literature and theory. The problem of the (in)translatability of literature is discussed from three angles, with an emphasis on the aspect of language. The first part is concerned with the construction of meaning in literature. It considers the meaning of a literary text to be a composite construct built from different semantic forms. This interpretation of meaning as a construction integrating divergent semantic relations enables a systematic exploration of the problems encountered in the translation of literature in the dimension of language. The second and third part of the paper concern themselves with extralinguistic perspectives on the (in)translatability of literature. Literary meaning is in part also conditioned by the historical evolution of aesthetic norms, and by the norms of reception of literary works, both of which are culturally determined.

Elementy poetyki ludowej w powieści Rzeczy uprzyjemniające. Utopia T. Bołdak-Janowskiej

2020 ◽  
pp. 182-197
Author(s):  
Agnieszka Goral
Keyword(s):  
Fairy Tales ◽  
Text Analysis ◽  
Literary Text ◽  
Source Material ◽  
Human Existence ◽  
The Other ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Literary Works ◽  
The One ◽  
Cultural Features

The aim of the article is to analyse the elements of folk poetics in the novel Pleasant things. Utopia by T. Bołdak-Janowska. The category of folklore is understood in a rather narrow way, and at the same time it is most often used in critical and literary works as meaning a set of cultural features (customs and rituals, beliefs and rituals, symbols, beliefs and stereotypes) whose carrier is the rural folk. The analysis covers such elements of the work as place, plot, heroes, folk system of values, folk rituals, customs, and symbols. The description is conducted based on the analysis of source material as well as selected works in the field of literary text analysis and ethnolinguistics. The analysis shows that folk poetics was creatively associated with the elements of fairy tales and fantasy in the studied work, and its role consists of – on the one hand – presenting the folk world represented and – on the other – presenting a message about the meaning of human existence.

Behind the stage of a literary text. ‘Custom is despot among men’

2020 ◽  
pp. 63-83
Author(s):  
E. N. Tsimbaeva
Keyword(s):  
World War I ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Literary Text ◽  
Skeletal System ◽  
World War ◽  
Internal Organs ◽  
Literary Works ◽  
The Past ◽  
Fiction Writers

The article analyzes physical and physiological problems caused by fashionable clothing in the mid-18th to early 20th cc. that shaped people’s appearances and lifestyles in the past. Affecting the skeletal system and the functioning of internal organs and brain in particular and causing various illnesses, these problems went largely unrecognized by contemporaries, including writers, but would inevitably surface in literary works as part and parcel of everyday life. Without understanding their role, one may struggle to comprehend not only plot twists and characters’ motivations but also the mentality of the bygone era as portrayed in fiction. Chronologically, the research covers the period from the mid-18th c. to World War I. The author only focuses on so-called respectable society (a very tentative term that covers members of the aristocracy and other classes with comparable lifestyles), since it was this group which drew the most attention from fiction writers of the period. The scholar chose to concentrate on the kind of daily realia of ‘noble society’ that permeate works by Russian, English, French and, to some extent, German authors, considered most prominent in Europe at the time.

scholarly journals Developing Multi-Literacy Skills by Creating Graphic Story in Literature Class: A Project-Based Learning Approach

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 83-95
Author(s):  
Rahmad Hidayat ◽  
Fajar Susanto
Keyword(s):  
Action Plan ◽  
Literary Text ◽  
Literacy Skills ◽  
Project Based Learning ◽  
Literary Works ◽  
Literary Adaptation ◽  
Text Understanding ◽  
Literary Theories ◽  
Literature Class ◽  
Reader Response Criticism

The research aims to develop multi-literacy skills by creating a literary graphic story as a creative and innovative way for English Department students in learning literature. By creating an adaptation from text to picture, students are expected to improve their ability to understand literary works and express their creative and innovative skills. This is a qualitative study implementing the Project-based Learning (PBL) approach in literature class, which aims to produce graphic stories as the output of studying literature. Students do not only understand the literary theories but also make something out of their understanding. The scaffolding instruction method was employed to examine practices of improving multiliteracy skills. A detailed action research plan, including preliminary observation in the classroom, action plan, intervention, and guiding, is applied. The investigation related to the barriers in doing the project is going to be conducted as well. Reader Response criticism is introduced to students in the reading and analyzing stage as a useful method to develop their critical thinking in evaluating the literary works they read. We argue that the students improve their reading skills, writing skills and producing graphic story stories based on their own interpretation of the literary text, which is proven by the summary and conversation texts they produce in the graphic stories. They also develop their creativity by producing images and pictures as the result of the literary adaptation process. There are two significant outcomes of the project: developing literary text understanding as well as producing the original graphic story.

scholarly journals A Freudian Reading of Emily Bronte’s Wuthering Heights

2021 ◽  
pp. 466-475
Author(s):  
Shaima Abdullah Jassim ◽  
Alaa Muzahim Abdulrazaq
Keyword(s):  
Human Mind ◽  
Literary Text ◽  
The Unconscious ◽  
Literary Works ◽  
Wuthering Heights ◽  
Slips Of The Tongue ◽  
Human Psyche ◽  
The Impact

There are many theories that emerged in fields other than literature but influenced the literary works greatly. These theories are used by scholars and critics to analyses and study the literary text. Among these theories are Sigmund Freud’s psychoanalysis and the theory of interpretation of dreams. According to Freud, the human mind is divided into two parts: the conscious and the subconscious. Freud used this theory to treat his patients by making them lie down and talk about their dreams, childhood and other thoughts. It is an attempt to make the unconscious conscious. Additionally, the unconscious can be revealed through the slips of the tongue (paraphrases) and dreams. Moreover, Freud assumes that the human psyche consists of three parts: Id (a store of the human desires and needs); superego (the part of the psyche which represents the high ideals); ego (the part which tries to make a compromise between the id and the superego). He also emphasizes the effect of our childhood upon our lives. The present study is a Freudian reading to Emily Bronte’s Wuthering Heights with reference to the impact of the author’s life upon the flow of the events and the lives of the characters.

scholarly journals The Contributions of Systemic Functional Linguistics to Literary Text Analysis

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (9) ◽  
pp. 81-86
Author(s):  
Arsen Nahum Pasaribu ◽  
Erika Sinambela ◽  
Sondang Manik
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Text Analysis ◽  
Systemic Functional Linguistics ◽  
Literary Text ◽  
Literary Texts ◽  
Literary Language ◽  
Literary Works ◽  
Future Studies ◽  
Functional Linguistics

Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL) refers to some kind of text analysis, including an analysis of literary language. Some research has verified the study of the literary text using this linguistic apparatus; however the use of SFL in literary text analysis is relatively rare. Therefore, this study investigated the contributions of SFL to literary text analysis. The data of the study were 20 scientific articles focusing on literary text analysis using SFL. The analysis used content analysis to expose the segments of the story analyzed and the components of SFL to analyze them. The findings showed that the method of analysis using SFL on the literary text has brought new perspectives to the researchers, and provided some possible future studies in literary works. Moreover, the study of literary texts is regarded not merely as interpretative practices but as explanatory categories for each segment of a literary text.

scholarly journals From Receiving Meaning To Constructing Meaning: An Analytical Historical of the Reader's Role in the Literary Work

2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 5
Author(s):  
Noor Issa Al-Hendi
Keyword(s):  
Historical Development ◽  
Literary Work ◽  
Literary Text ◽  
Analytic Method ◽  
Negative Interaction ◽  
Positive Interaction ◽  
Variable Element ◽  
Construction Of Meaning ◽  
Constructing Meaning ◽  
Constant Element

The study of the connection between the reader and the meaning of the literary text developed throughout the ages, and critics went in different directions in their analysis of the nature of that connection as well as the reader’s role on the literary text. In this context, the proposed study traces this relationship’s development to analyze the following: (1) the role played by the German Constance School in transforming the reader’s role from being a consumer reader to become a participant in the construction of meaning, and to highlight the procedures used by the founders of this school to facilitate understanding the reader’s new role. (2) the study sheds light on the way in which the critic Murād Mabrūk in his theory about “the literary communication” conveyed the concepts of the Constance School about the reader’s role in producing meaning to open up a new horizon for studying the meaning of the literary text. The study concludes, through its use of the historical analytic method, that: (1) the historical development of the mechanism of interpretation of meaning is based on the idea of the shift in interaction with meaning from the negative interaction in which the meaning is a constant element discovered by the reader to the positive interaction in which the meaning is a variable element resulting from the interaction between the text, Author, and reader.

scholarly journals The Beauty of Evil” – On the Uniqueness of Arson in Literary Works

2021 ◽  
Vol 04 (08) ◽  
Author(s):  
Xu Xiaotong ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Strong Sense ◽  
Jane Eyre ◽  
Literary Works ◽  
Multiple Functions ◽  
Archetypal Criticism ◽  
Literary Meaning ◽  
Artistic Works

Fire is of great significance in the process of human civilization, carrying multiple functions such as hunting, sacrifice, cooking, and punishment. Arson, as one of the means of destroying objects, often appears in literary and artistic works. Why arson has become a means of evil favored by creators, and occasionally presents a strong sense of beauty in the text. This article will start with Bertha Mason’s arson in "Jane Eyre", linking classic texts with arson as an important plot, such as "Burn the Warehouse" and "Golden Pavilion", and explore the unique literary meaning of the dialectic of the beauty and evil of arson in combination with archetypal criticism.

scholarly journals Représentation des relations franco-maghrébines dans le roman Apocalypse bébé : apprendre la culture française-maghrébine à travers des textes littéraires

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 ◽  
pp. 00034
Author(s):  
Novi Kurniawati
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Literary Text ◽  
Real Image ◽  
Literary Works ◽  
Two Cultures ◽  
The Real ◽  
French Culture ◽  
The Two Cultures ◽  
The Relationship

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:0in">Learning a foreign language cannot be separated from literature and culture. One of the definitions of literature is a reflection of society; so through literature we can know the real image of society as well as the culture. Moreover, by knowing the foreign cultures of the countries from which we learn the language, we can not only read, but also understand the problems that appear in the texts studied. Similarly, French culture cannot be separated from Maghreb culture. The two cultures complement each other, later becoming the content of various literary, French literary and Francophone literary. The relationship between the two cultures is also part of the content of Virginie Despentes' novel <i>Apocalypse bébé</i>. Through this novel, we can see an image of the relationship between France and the Maghreb people in their social life. Thus, as a learner of French, we could know not only French culture through the textbooks published by French publishers, but also recognize the French culture associated with France both directly and indirectly. Therefore, the literary text entitled <i>Apocalypse bébé</i> can be an alternative source of learning French, not only in terms of language attached to vocabulary and grammar, but also to know French and Francophone culture so that students know the relationship for understanding and analyzing literary works.</p>

scholarly journals The main text-forming strategies in Robbe-Grillet's novel “Dans le labyrinthe”: Narrative and semiotic implications

Lege Artis ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 314-362
Author(s):  
Ruslana Savchuk
Keyword(s):  
Literary Text ◽  
Space Time ◽  
Methodological Principle ◽  
Literary Works ◽  
Narrative Strategy ◽  
Main Text ◽  
Text Production ◽  
Semiotic Approach

Abstract This paper presents a narrative-semiotic approach to the study of the processes and mechanisms of the 20th century French literary works. The complex methodology of the research is underpinned with the inter-paradigmatic methodological principle, according to which the narrative strategy of literary text production instantiates the author's individual narrative program of constructing narrative reality of a certain type, which is characterized by space-time continuity and stylistic figurativeness.

Teika

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul S. Atkins
Keyword(s):  
Japanese Literature ◽  
Literary Works ◽  
Conceptual Innovation ◽  
Early Success ◽  
Classical Chinese ◽  
History Of ◽  
Poetic Style

The medieval Japanese courtier, poet, compiler, copyist, critic, and diarist Fujiwara no Teika (1162–1241) is one of the most influential writers in the history of Japanese literature. Descended from a lineage of courtier poets, Teika achieved early success through linguistic and conceptual innovation and is acknowledged as a virtuoso master of the thirty-one syllable waka form. His patrons included members of the regental, shogunal, and imperial families. Teika’s talents were much in demand as a tutor, judge of poetry contests, and compiler of imperial anthologies of waka. Much of his diary, Meigetsuki, survives today in Teika’s own hand, and samples of his distinctive calligraphy are coveted by collectors. Teika, the first study of its kind in English, explores the most important and intriguing aspects of Teika’s life and literary works. Individual chapters examine his biography, early poetic style, poetics, understanding of classical Chinese and China, and a history of the reception of his life and works.

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