The Reflection of Leo Tolstoy and Ivan Turgenev Relations in the “Albert” Fabula and Motifs Organization

CLEaR ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 17-25
Author(s):  
Oxana A. Tolstonozhenko
Keyword(s):  
Short Story ◽  
Leo Tolstoy ◽  
Literary Field

Abstract The short story “Albert” is usually interpreted as a manifestation of Leo Tolstoy’s aesthetics. Thus, the narrative of the story is generally beyond the research scope. Tolstoy had been influenced by Turgenev when writing the story. Their relations were analysed through the sociocultural concept of the literary field. Tolstoy rejected the “patron - newcomer” type of relations. The conflict was explicitly depicted in the story narrative. This observation was confirmed by a comparison of three editions of the story. Albert represented Leo Tolstoy himself when he (the story protagonist) rejected Delesov’s patron intentions.

scholarly journals Leo Tolstoy's novella “The Prisoner of the Caucasus”: on the question of creative history

2021 ◽  
Vol 26 (4) ◽  
pp. 107-112
Author(s):  
Yevgeniya V. Nikolayeva
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Short Story ◽  
The State ◽  
Leo Tolstoy ◽  
The Caucasus ◽  
Minor Characters ◽  
Other Information ◽  
Children's Stories ◽  
Children's Reading ◽  
First Time

For the first time, the article presents a comparative analysis of Alexander. Pushkin's remarks about his poem “The Prisoner of the Caucasus” and Leo Tolstoy's short story of the same name, written for children's reading and placed in "The Alphabet Book". In the second half of the 1850s, Leo Tolstoy carefully and with numerous notes read the biography of Pushkin, published by Pavel Annenkov for the collected works of the great author. We can assume that from this time the writer begins a conscious study of Pushkin's prose, which previously had not attracted him. In this book, Leo Tolstoy marks out in pencil, among other information, the unsent Pushkin’s letter to Nikolay Gnedich, in which the author of the poem critically examines its shortcomings. In the late 1860s and the early 1870s, Leo Tolstoy was experiencing a serious creative crisis caused by dissatisfaction with the state of fiction, especially language, of that time. He begins to focus on the language of "folkish literature", for the first time applying new "writing techniques" when creating children's stories for "The Alphabet Book". Comparison of Pushkin's critical remarks about his work with the content, images of the main characters, minor characters and their storylines in Leo Tolstoy's story "The Prisoner of the Caucasus" convinces that the writer took into account Pushkin's remarks, having received from Puskin a genuine lesson in skill.

“Aleksei Alekseichi” of Bunin’s short stories: integration elements of an unassembled cycle

2021 ◽  
pp. 144-157
Author(s):  
Ya. V. Bazhenova ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Short Stories ◽  
Short Story ◽  
Central Element ◽  
Literary Field ◽  
Proper Name ◽  
Specific Theme ◽  
The One ◽  
Unique Ability ◽  
Experimental Attitude

The paper analyzes I. A. Bunin’s short story “Alexey Alekseich,” which is the central element of the unassembled cycle with a hero named Alexey Alekseevich. The cycle also includes short stories “The Archival File” and “Inscriptions.” A reconstruction of the writer’s strategy of composing the cycle expressed in Bunin’s metaposition towards literature as an aesthetic activity is carried out. Bunin actualizes the expressiveness of the authors’ proper noun (patronymic name) to hold a dialogue with his predecessors and intensify a debate with contemporaries in the literary field. On the one hand, in “Alexey Alekseich,” Bunin diminishes the role of a literary word in culture by parodying authoritative pretexts and polemics with them (L. N. Tolstoy). In this way, the writer invokes the specific theme of modernists – experimental attitude to the literary sign (Potekhin’s character). In addition, he introduces motifs of tomfoolery and oratorical behavior (with allusions to M. Gorky). On the other hand, comparing the different editions of “Alexey Alekseich” and its linkage with other two texts of the unassembled cycle shows that Bunin rehabilitates an artistic word and literary activity by applying onomatopoetic and narrative devices in the poetics of his short story. In this aspect, the role of the literary sign in culture is justified by its unique ability to confront death and oblivion. Thus, Bunin’s short story “Alexey Alekseich” reveals extensive use of the meaningforming possibilities of the proper name.

The Lessons that Tolstoy and Father Sergius Hold for Public Administration: Revisiting Three Root Questions

Public Voices ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 29
Author(s):  
Nondas Bellos
Keyword(s):  
Public Administration ◽  
Short Story ◽  
Leo Tolstoy ◽  
Public Administrators ◽  
Moral Principles

This essay revisits three root questions relevant to public administration: To whom or what does one owe loyalty? Do we need complex institutions? What moral  principles should guide public administration? The author draws inspiration from both the life of Leo Tolstoy and his short story titled Father Sergius. The two have many parallels with inherent lessons for individual public administrators. The essay comes to the conclusion that the principle of the good example can serve as a paradigm for the field of ethics.

scholarly journals Gaétane de Montreuil, conseillère, bibliothécaire, professeure, critique, éditrice, publicitaire

1969 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chantal Savoie
Keyword(s):  
Women Writers ◽  
Short Story ◽  
Social Space ◽  
French Canadian ◽  
Literary Field ◽  
Discursive Strategies ◽  
Canadian Context ◽  
Women's Magazine ◽  
Story Writer ◽  
Literary Practices

La trajectoire de la journaliste Gaétane de Montreuil (1867-1951), chroniqueuse à La Presse (1898-1903), romancière, poète, nouvelliste puis directrice du périodique féminin Pour vous mesdames (1913-1915), offre une perspective privilégiée sur l’évolution des stratégies discursives des femmes de lettres suivant les différentes tribunes médiatiques qu’elles occupent.  Au sein d’un champ littéraire canadien-français où la littérature ne se dégage pas encore de l’ensemble de l’espace social et où la critique littéraire est encore embryonnaire, Gaétane de Montreuil agit tour à tour comme conseillère, bibliothécaire, professeure, critique, éditrice et publicitaire. Ce cumul des rôles littéraires féminins, particulièrement denses, marque une étape significative dans l’émergence d’une expertise littéraire au féminin à la fin du XIXe siècle.AbstractAlternately columnist at La Presse (1898-1903), novelist, poet, short story writer, and as the director of women’s magazine Pour vous mesdames (1913-1915), the prolific career of Gaétane de Montreuil (1867-1951) offers a singular perspective on discursive strategies used by women writers, and their evolution according to the literary standpoint, at the turn of the twentieth century. In the context of a literary field still strongly linked to the more general social space, and when literary critique is still embryonic, Gaétane de Montreuil plays different roles: counsellor, librarian, teacher, critique, editor, advertising executive, etc. This plurality is important and significant, particularly in the context of women’s literary practices, at a moment when a feminine literary expertise emerges in the French Canadian context.

scholarly journals “MANARAGA” AND OTHER WRITINGS (Some Aspects of the Russian Literature Model Formation in the Russian Book Market)

2021 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
pp. 9-21
Author(s):  
Martin Lizon ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Short Story ◽  
World Literature ◽  
Russian Literature ◽  
Symbolic Capital ◽  
Literary Texts ◽  
Book Market ◽  
Literary Field ◽  
Two Systems ◽  
The Status ◽  
Model Formation

The article compares the functioning of Russian fiction works in the artistic narrative (“Manaraga”, the short story of Vladimir Sorokin) and in the space of the Slovak book market. It draws attention to the relationship between the works of fiction value and a certain literary space, that is, to the problem of a literary canon formation (pantheon) as an essential component of the literature system. The value in the text is understood as the cultural (symbolic) capital of a work of art, awarded to it by a certain institution, within which the work is functioning. To a certain extent, this perception is opposed by its identification in Sorokin’s short story with economic capital (the cost of individual publications) and the profit expectation from the sale of books by publishers, since these two antagonistic capitals – the cultural and the economic one – are, according to Pierre Bourdieu [Bourdieu 2010], an integral part of literature existence in the literary field. The value of works of fiction in these two systems is considered by the example of the Russian literature model and its hierarchy presented in “Manaraga” and on the basis of the Russian literature model that has developed over the past 30 years in the Slovak book market. The article reveals the parallels between these two systems, which indicate: firstly, Sorokin’s reflection on the Russian literature functioning in the space of world literature; secondly, the essential importance of the value attributed to individual literary texts (the status of a classical writer, or a representative of world literature), as an essential factor of the Russian literature model formation in the Slovak book market.

“DODOLITDODOLITDODOLIBRET” DAN “TIGA PERTAPA”: HIPOGRAM DAN TRANSFORMASI TEKS

2017 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 103
Author(s):  
Dessy Wahyuni
Keyword(s):  
Short Story ◽  
Descriptive Analysis ◽  
Leo Tolstoy ◽  
Analysis Methods

The short story "Dodolitdodolitdodolibret" by Seno Gumira Ajidarma and "Tiga Pertapa" by Leo Tolstoy have similarities. It attracts the attention of the writer to know each short story that is in the form of hypogram and transformation work. So , this paper is aimed at describing the short story that has the function as the background for the birth of the following stories and see how the interacting processes can reveal aspects of parallelism and variant texts. Through the comparison of the two works, it can be seen how these hypogram and transformation run continuously as far as the literature is alive. Then, it can be also seen how far the level of author’s creativity in transforming the work of his inspiration. Through descriptive analysis methods, it can be concluded that the short story "Tiga Pertapa" is the host for the birth of the short story "Dodolitdodolitdodolibret".AbstrakCerpen “Dodolitdodolitdodolibret” karya Seno Gumira Ajidarma dan “Tiga Pertapa” karya Leo Tolstoy memiliki kemiripan. Hal ini menarik perhatian penulis untuk mengetahui masing-masing cerpen yang menjadi karya hipogram dan transformasi. Maka tujuan penulisan ini adalah untuk mendapatkan gambaran cerpen yang menjadi latar kelahiran cerpen berikutnya dan melihat bagaimana proses saling pengaruh tersebut dapat mengungkap aspek paralelisme dan varian teks. Melalui perbandingan kedua karya tersebut akan terlihat bagaimana hipogram dan transformasi ini berjalan terus menerus sejauh proses sastra itu hidup. Kemudian terlihat pula seberapa jauh tingkat kreativitas pengarang dalam mentransformasi karya yang menjadi inspirasinya. Melalui metode deskriptif analitis dapat disimpulkan bahwa cerpen “Tiga Pertapa” merupakan induk bagi kelahiran cerpen “Dodolitdodolitdodolibret”.

Introduction: Contexts, Politics and Genre

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emma Young
Keyword(s):  
Short Story ◽  
Short Fiction ◽  
Gender And Sexuality ◽  
First Century ◽  
Literary Field ◽  
Feminist Politics ◽  
Critical Attention ◽  
Story Writing ◽  
New Perspective ◽  
The Moment

The contemporary moment appears to be the moment for women short story writers, who have received increased critical attention and popular acclaim. Indeed, in surveying this literary field and attending to the reoccurring tropes and discourses in this body of work, it seems reasonable to argue that this is an opportune moment for considering the ways in which shifting feminist sensibilities and gendered subjectivities are revealed through women’s short story writing. A prevailing tendency in the short stories of many contemporary British women writers is a preoccupation with issues of gender and sexuality that, in turn, signals a wider engagement with feminist politics. In such narratives, the short story is used as an intentionally feminist literary vehicle in which to explore the issues and debates at the heart of feminist politics today. By framing the discussion in this way, ‘the moment’ brings together the short story and feminist politics and offers a means of conceptualising their independent status in the twenty-first century; as well as offering a new perspective on their interrelationship in the context of British women’s short story writing. The focus on the moment, then, bridges the formal features of the short story, the momentary experience of reading short fiction, and the ‘of the moment’ nature of feminist politics....

The Relationship of Interrogative Suggestibility to Memory and Attention

2006 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 79-93 ◽  
Author(s):  
R.C. Howard ◽  
A. Chaiwutikornwanich
Keyword(s):  
Individual Differences ◽  
Short Story ◽  
Oddball Paradigm ◽  
Memory Processes ◽  
Memory And Attention ◽  
Irrelevant Distractors ◽  
Alternative Hypotheses ◽  
Visual Oddball Paradigm ◽  
Interrogative Suggestibility ◽  
Task Irrelevant

This study combined an individual differences approach to interrogative suggestibility (IS) with ERP recordings to examine two alternative hypotheses regarding the source of individual differences in IS: (1) differences in attention to task-relevant vis-à-vis task-irrelevant stimuli, and (2) differences in one or more memory processes, indexed by ERP old/new effects. Sixty-five female participants underwent an ERP recording during the 50 min interval between immediate and delayed recall of a short story. ERPs elicited by pictures that either related to the story (“old”), or did not relate to the story (“new”), were recorded using a three-stimulus visual oddball paradigm. ERP old/new effects were examined at selected scalp regions of interest at three post-stimulus intervals: early (250-350 ms), middle (350-700 ms), and late (700-1100 ms). In addition, attention-related ERP components (N1, P2, N2, and P3) evoked by story-relevant pictures, story-irrelevant pictures, and irrelevant distractors were measured from midline electrodes. Late (700-1100 ms) frontal ERP old/new differences reflected individual differences in IS, while early (250-350 ms) and middle latency (350-700 ms) ERP old/new differences distinguished good from poor performers in memory and oddball tasks, respectively. Differences in IS were not reflected in ERP indices of attention. Results supported an account of IS as reflecting individual differences in postretrieval memory processes.

МАРКЕТИНГОВІ АСПЕКТИ ФУНКЦІОНУВАННЯ ЛІТЕРАТУРНИХ КОНКУРСІВ ТА ПРЕМІЙ

2020 ◽  
pp. 90
Author(s):  
O. Bondar
Keyword(s):  
Publishing House ◽  
Target Audience ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Information Support ◽  
Literary Field ◽  
Non Profit ◽  
Functional Aspects ◽  
The Media ◽  
Literary Prizes ◽  
The Impact

<p><em>In this study, I have collected and summarized the functional aspects of a literary prize, contest, and rating, which indicate their affiliation with the marketing complex of the publishing house for the first time. For this purpose, I have analyzed and summarized the common concepts of the functioning of literary prizes and contests as advertising tools for publishing activity. Because the previous studies are only focused on the fact of the impact of the prize on the promotion of editions but do not explain it, these aspects have been considered and introduced by me from the book production’s point of view. I investigated that the prizes and the contests in the literary field are effective marketing tools, which meet many publisher’s needs at the same time and can be considered a non-profit form of capital. I have reviewed the works of other authors, who accept that the economic success of the book is rising if the author is a winner of the literary prize or contest. I have found out that the book prize activates the demand for the book, and the literary contest is a tool to track the reader’s reaction to a future publication. In this way, literary prizes and contests can be considered as a way of conducting a marketing dialogue with the target audience. I have focused on the information support of literary national and international prizes and contests by the media, which attracts attention to the book and forms the reader’s interest. The literary prizes and contests are also considered as a way of exploring trends and their changes, familiarization the popular genres among the target audience and fixation the current choice of modern readers. Literary prizes and contests motivate the authors to improve their literary excellence, are the source of new authors and works, and assist in increasing sales of books. However, further research is recommended.</em></p><strong><em>Key words:</em></strong><em> book prize, book rating, literary contest, literary prize, functions of the literary prizes.</em>

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