scholarly journals Recalculating the White Page-GPS Love in Comme dans un film des frères Coen

2016 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 53-72
Author(s):  
Valerie Hastings
Keyword(s):  
The Novel ◽  
Main Character ◽  
Creative Activity ◽  
Moving Images ◽  
The Voice ◽  
The Way

Abstract Hastings reads the novel Comme dans un film des frères Coen (2010) by Bertrand Gervais as addressing both the midlife and the blank page crisis. Indeed, the main character of this novel is a writer in his fifties who still suffers from the failure of his last novel ignored by the critics. Disenchanted, he slowly enters a world of fantasy, and falls in love with the voice of his GPS he called Gwyneth “parle trop” (speaks too much) therefore recalling the name of the actress with the same name. He gradually loses contact with his wife and his son, a successful painter, and is transformed into “the man who was not there” another character from a movie by the Coen brothers entitled The Barber: the man who was not there. Hastings asks: How could one get lost with a GPS? After the main character had initially bought his GPS for a trip in Australia in order to find his way, it started to go beyond its role as a road guide and questioned where he was in his relationship with his wife, in his career as a writer, and in his skin as a mature man. Not only was the GPS not fulfilling its purpose but also it started to ruin a fragile relationship hoping to find its way back to love during a last minute trip in Australia. Even after destroying the annoying talkative GPS, it continued to disrupt the couple in the plane on the way back to Canada. As much as Gwyneth the GPS is synonymous with escape and freedom, it is also showing the main character the wrong way, the way out of his reality, out of his family and out of his life. His attempts to free himself from Gwyneth are worthless, her image is still there, haunting his thoughts like images from a movie. But the displacement happens at another level than just the diegetic one. The confrontation of the text with moving images has consequences on the shape of the text itself. The mapping of the text on the page is influenced by this amalgam. The white page becomes a space where words are rearranged in different ways, some of which suggest poetry, other cartoons or cinematic images. The displacement of literature in areas that were previously foreign to it is at the heart of creative activity, and determines its renewal. Hastings presents the consequences resulting from the confrontation with the GPS, both on the mapping of one’s identity as well as the mapping and the shaping of the text itself.

Recreating Experience in Nigerian Fiction: Camillus Ukah’s Sweet Things and the Politics of its Production

2021 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Solomon Awuzie
Keyword(s):  
Postcolonial Literature ◽  
Third Generation ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Creative Activity ◽  
Nigerian Literature ◽  
The Way

This article contends that, in the same way as some postcolonial literature, the latter third generation Nigerian literature is a product of the writer’s experience. When the writer does not reproduce his sociopolitical experience, he reshapes his expectations into literature. The writer manipulates his experience into creative activity that fulfils his innate desire – this is the same desire which he is ordinarily unable to achieve in reality. This article argues further that even though the literature is a product of the writer’s experience, it is harmless and beneficent. Using Camillus Ukah’s Sweet Things as a representative text of the fiction produced by a latter third generation Nigerian literature writer, emphasis is made on the way in which Camillus Ukah has recreated his experience. It concludes that through the novel, Ukah expresses his bitterness towards a certain matrimonial experience that is of his particular concern.

scholarly journals Stepping up Effort to Enlightenment in the Novel Graceland (2004) by Chris Abani

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ilma Fitriani ◽  
Leni Marlina
Keyword(s):  
Sigmund Freud ◽  
Self Awareness ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Main Character ◽  
Thinking Skill ◽  
The Way

This thesis is the analysis of a novel which written by Chris Abani entitled Graceland (2004). It explores the issue of step up efforts to enlightenment which reflected by the main character. It is also intended to find out the contribution of fictional devices such as character, plot (conflict), and setting in revealing the issue of efforts to enlightenment. This analysis is related to the concept of life instinct which self-awareness by Sigmund Freud that is supported by the text-based and context-based interpretation. The result of this analysis shows about the way the main character effort to enlightenment in dealing with any situation in his life by building self-awareness, gaining thinking skill and having vocational skill.  

scholarly journals ’n Teologie van teerheid - die alternatiewe kerk in Heinrich Böll se roman Gruppenbild mit Dame

Literator ◽  
1995 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 157-178
Author(s):  
C. Saayman
Keyword(s):  
Small Group ◽  
German Society ◽  
Western Civilization ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Main Character ◽  
Production And Consumption ◽  
African Context ◽  
Stark Contrast ◽  
The Way

A theology of tenderness - the counterchurch in Heinrich Böll's novel Gruppenbild mit DameHeinrich Böll's novel Gruppenbild mit Dame is a protest against a dehumanized German society - a society which, according to him, is solely committed to production and consumption. In the novel the way in which a certain group of people live is portrayed - a depiction forming a stark contrast with society and its corrupt values. In the novel this small group of people is positioned around the main character, Leni Pfeiffer. Boll could never rid himself of his Christian heritage - thus religious motifs are significant in this work, as they are in his whole oeuvre. In the novel it soon becomes evident that Leni has the qualities o f a new madonna and that the group surrounding her exhibits the characteristics o f a secret church or counterchurch. Not only does this church have its own madonna and its own messiah, it even has its own gospel - that of deliberate underachievement. This article attempts to analyse the above-mentioned aspects of the counterchurch in the novel and to examine the implications of such a subculture for Western civilization, not only in Germany, but also in our own African context.

scholarly journals POTRET TOKOH UTAMA DALAM NOVEL CINTA SUCI ZAHRANA KARYA HABIBURRAHMAN EL SHIRAZY (PORTRAIT OF THE MAIN CHARACTERS IN THE NOVEL OF CINTA SUCI ZAHRANA BY HABIBURRAHMAN EL SHIRAZY)

2018 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 302
Author(s):  
Hj. Laila Fitriani
Keyword(s):  
Life Style ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Main Character ◽  
Language Style ◽  
Way Of Thinking ◽  
The Right ◽  
And Behavior ◽  
The Way

AbstractPortrait of the Main Characters in the Novel of Cinta Suci Zahrana by HabiburrahmanEl Shirazy. Literate is never separated from the intrinsic elements which included theme,plot, characters, background/setting, language style, message and point of view. Oneof the intrinsic elements is the characteristic that could be seen from how the author’screativity expressed and implied the characters of the story. The expressed one couldbe seen from the way of thinking, life style, outlook on life and behavior which pictureout whom and how the character lives and develops in the story plot, just like thecharacter in novel Cinta Suci Zahrana which tell about the phenomenon of a successfulwoman in education and work involved in finding the right one for her romance life.Keywords: intrinsic elements, main character, sociopsychologyAbstrakPotret Tokoh Utama dalam Novel Cinta Suci Zahrana karya Habiburrahman El Shirazy.Sastra tidak pernah lepas dari unsur-unsur intrinsik yang meliputi tema, alur, karakter,latar belakang/setting, gaya bahasa, pesan (amanat), dan sudut pandang. Salah satuunsur intrinsik adalah karakteristik yang dapat dilihat dari bagaimana ekspresikreativitas penulis dan pengaruh karakter dari ceritanya. Salah satu ekspresi yangbisa dilihat dari cara berpikir, gaya hidup, pandangan hidup, dan perilaku yangmenggambarkan seseorang dan bagaimana kehidupan karakter dan pengembangannyadalam plot cerita, seperti karakter dalam novel Cinta Suci Zahrana yang menceritakantentang fenomena seorang wanita yang sukses dalam pendidikan dan pekerjaan terlibatdalam menemukan seseorang yang tepat bagi kehidupan asmaranya.Kata-kata kunci: unsur intrinsik, karakter utama, sosiopsikologi

scholarly journals Postmodern discrediting the figures of the Author and the Reader in the novel “Kys” by T. Tolstaya

2019 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Social Evolution ◽  
Literary Texts ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Stone Age ◽  
Main Character ◽  
Late Stone Age ◽  
Post Modernism ◽  
The Way

The article deals with the way the figures of Author and Reader are represented in the plot of the novel “Kys” by T. Tolstaya. The discreditation of the figures is proved to have the features of postmodernist literature. In the novel events which are narrated about, occurred after atomic Explosion, which thrown off humanity in cultural and social evolution to late Stone Age. In this future exists race named “golubchiki” – mutants who were born after Explosion and who are spiritual degraded. The main character is Benedict. He rewrites texts allegedly written by the chief of represented society – Fedor Kuzmich Kablukov. Benedict is trying to interpret the written in his own way, which brings to birth of Reader, turning according to post-modernism into new “Dieu cache”. However Benedict’s intellection as the most “golubchiks” is primitive. The character invariably compares what is read to his own experience, his associations are concretely ignorant and remain within the framework of native environment. But Benedict himself fully believes in post-modern way that he is Reader, standing above Author. Demonstrative is also Benedict’s perception of Pushkin : he does not see in Pushkin anything sacral or mythological. In his opinion the poet is nothing but a common wooden statuette, engraved therewith by himself. So, Benedict is not the admirer but ingenuous maker, the creator of Pushkin, in other words, a God for his creation. There is also another “author” in the novel – Fedor Kuzmich, who takes the advantage of the situation when Author dies (all true authors have died before or after an Explosion). Kablukov recopies somebody else’s text zealously. Thereby usurping Author’s role, being only the typical scripter indeed, who have replaced the author in post-modern study. Accordingly, in the novel “Kys” already on the plotline level is designed post-modern situation of author’s death: all literary texts are written very long ago, in the modernity of “golubchiks” is nothing new created; the only “author” – Fedor Kuzmich appears to be just a scripter, who recopies another’s compositions. Author’s figure in that way turns into figment and is almost completely leveled. In “Kys” is also disconsidered the meaning of born Reader, who imagined himself Dieu cache, though he is not capable making any adequate interpretation of a text.

scholarly journals Male-male relationships in J.M. Coetzee’s Disgrace

Literator ◽  
2006 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
pp. 21-38 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Crous
Keyword(s):  
South African ◽  
The Other ◽  
Literary Studies ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Main Character ◽  
Interesting Observation ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Way

Kochin (2002:8) makes the following interesting observation regarding the life of the main character, David Lurie, in Coetzee’s novel, “Disgrace” (1999), and his observation will be explored in detail when analysing the novel, and in particular the presentation of masculinities: “Lurie has no relationship of depth with men. His one effort is with Isaacs, Melanie’s father, and seems to be more of a quest for the sources of Melanie’s beauty than the expression of a desire for friendship with a man.” The focus of my investigation is on male-male relationships and the way in which they impact on the other characters in the novel. What contribution does the novel make to the debate on masculinity within the context of South African literary studies?

scholarly journals El Cine y la Villa Malaparte de Capri

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Oscar Canalís Hernández
Keyword(s):  
Similar Condition ◽  
The Other ◽  
Intermediate Step ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Singular Element ◽  
New Approaches ◽  
Moving Images ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Alberto Moravia ◽  
The Way

La Pelle, novel or autobiographical story by Curzio Malaparte and La Pelle, film by Liliana Cavani. Written hypotext and visual hypertext in terminology of literary and interartistic theory. On the other hand there are Il disprezzo, novel by Alberto Moravia and Le Mépris, film by Jean-Luc Godard, in a similar condition. There is always an intermediate step: it is the script, written but already prefiguring moving images. We can consider it both hypotexts of the novel and hypertext of the film. In Liliana Cavani’s film, the Malaparte house is necessarily the same as in the novel, where it appears and is explicitly described. However in the case of Le Mépris it is a choice of Godard, since the reference to the house in the novel only prefigures that the house is in Capri and has nice views to Punta Campanella. As we will see some of the locations, when adapting to the configuration of the Malaparte, extract from the house specific original possibilities of the film and in some way they bring new approaches of greater plasticity to the scenes while, however, the dialogues between the characters remain almost intact. One example is the way in which a singular element such as the upper terrace of the house replaces the beach where Molteni, the screenwriter, finds his wife Emilia. The same terrace appears as well as the set of the Odyssey version that begins to be shoot precisely at the end of Le Mépris.

scholarly journals RECONSIDERING WHITE LIBERALS IN NATIVE SON

2017 ◽  
Vol 5 ◽  
pp. 55-71
Author(s):  
Abdul-Razzak Al-Barhow
Keyword(s):  
Race Relations ◽  
Richard Wright ◽  
Black Belt ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Main Character ◽  
White People ◽  
Native Son ◽  
The Way

This paper examines the novel Native Son (1940) by Richard Wright (1908-1960). When the main character, Bigger Thomas, walks out of Chicago’s Black Belt to work as a chauffeur for the Daltons, a family of white liberals, and kills their daughter by accident, he interacts with numerous white characters. Bigger’s perspective dismisses the Daltons and other white people as particles of a huge mountain of hate. The only exceptions to this are Jan Erlone and Boris Max, the two communist characters who succeed in establishing their humanity to Bigger and win his trust. This article reconsiders white liberals beyond the way they are presented through Bigger’s dominant perspective and the way they are generally seen by critics. Keywords: white liberals, Richard Wright, Native Son, race relations

scholarly journals Jugar A La Dictadura: Infancia Y Trauma En La Casa De Los Conejos, De Laura Alcoba

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cristian Lagunas
Keyword(s):  
Literary Work ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Main Character ◽  
Children's Play ◽  
Children’S Play ◽  
The Voice

ResumenEn este trabajo, a partir de algunas teorí­as sobre la importancia de jugar para el desarrollo de la mentalidad infantil, realizo un análisis del uso de los juegos en La casa de los conejos (2008), novela de Laura Alcoba que tiene como personaje principal y narradora a una niña de nueve años. Hago un recorrido por los episodios de la obra que están relacionados con actividades lúdicas infantiles. Mi objetivo es demostrar que, debido a ellas, la voz que narra la obra puede asimilar un contexto traumático, consecuencia de la dictadura argentina.Palabras clave: Subversivo, Triple A, parapolicial, Doctrina de Seguridad Nacional. AbstractIn this paper, based on theories about the importance of playing for the developement of children’s mentality, I make an analysis of the use of games in Laura Alcoba’s La casa de los conejos (2008), a novel whose main character and narrator is a nine-year-old girl. I take a review of the episodes in the novel that are related to children’s play activities. My goal is to show that due to them the voice that narrates the literary work can assimilate a traumatic context, consequence of the Argentinian dictatorship.Keywords: Subversive, Triple A, Parapolice, National SecurityDoctrine.  [1] Licenciado en Letras Hispánicas por la Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, Unidad Iztapalapa. Sus intereses de investigación son: la narrativa sudamericana contemporánea, la literatura comparada, la construcción de la alteridad, los estudios sobre el libro y la edición.

scholarly journals SATU GENERASI, TETAPI BERBEDA VISI: PERSEPSI CINTA MENURUT SAFITRI DAN DIKA ONE GENERATION, BUT A DIFFERENT VISION: PERCEPTION OF LOVE ACCORDING SAFITRI AND DIKA

Pujangga ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 17
Author(s):  
Saksono - Prijanto
Keyword(s):  
Complete Picture ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Relationship Patterns ◽  
Literary Works ◽  
Semiotic Approach ◽  
Way Of Thinking ◽  
The Voice ◽  
The Way

<p> </p><p align="center"><strong><em>A</em></strong><strong><em>BSTRACT</em></strong></p><p align="center"><strong><em> </em></strong></p><p><em>Product types literary readings also increasingly spectacular. They now deliver "literature" is no longer bound by the need to obey the grip to reveal the "beauty" literal. World some resaults laden with poverty, contempt, and the impossibility of them express the voice of freedom. The article "One generation, but a different vision: Perceptions of Love According Safitri and Dika" is written with the intention to try to reconstruct the way of thinking of the leaders in addressing and and deal with various aspects of life they experience, especially about the romance that unfolds in the novel Kelir Slindet works Kedung Darma Romansha and Koala Kumal, Marmut Merah Jambu, dan Cinta Brontosaurus work Raditya Dika.In order to get a complete picture of the literary works of two writers will be disclosed meaning behind the actions of the characters, particularly in negotiating the turmoil of life. Efforts disclosure as well reconstruction their thinking in negotiating the various aspects of life that used semiotic approach. Through the paradigmatic relationship patterns, is patterns between characters relationships with other characters and patterns between characters relationship with the community is expected that work becomes clear legibility.</em></p><p><em> </em></p><p><strong><em>Keywords: </em></strong><strong><em>r</em></strong><strong><em>econstruction </em></strong><strong><em>,</em></strong><strong><em>semiotic</em></strong><strong><em>, </em></strong><strong><em>paradigmatic</em></strong><strong><em></em></strong></p><p align="center"><strong>A</strong><strong>BSTRAK</strong></p><p align="center"><strong> </strong></p><p>Produk bacaan jenis sastra sekarang semakin spektakuler. Mereka sekarang menyampaikan “sastra” tidak lagi terikat dengan keharusan untuk taat kepada pakem dengan mengungkapkan “keindahan” secara literer. Dunia jungkir balik yang sarat dengan kepapaan, kenistaan, dan kemustahilan mereka ungkapkan dengan suara kebebasan. Artikel “Satu Generasi, tetapi berbedavisi: Persepsi Cinta Menurut Safitri dan Dika” ditulis dengan maksud untuk mencoba merekonstruksi cara berpikir para tokoh dalam menyikapi dan dan menyiasati beragam aspek kehidupan yang mereka alami, khususnya tentang percintaan yang terungkap dalam novel <em>Kelir Slindet</em> karya Kedung Darma Romansha serta <em>Koala Kumal</em>, <em>Marmut Merah Jambu</em>, dan <em>Cinta Brontosaurus </em>karya Raditya Dika.Untuk dapat memperoleh gambaran utuh mengenai karya dua sastrawan itu akan diungkapan makna di balik tindakan para tokoh, khususnya dalam menyiasati gejolak kehidupan. Upaya pengungkapan sekaligus perekonstruksian cara berpikir mereka dalam menyiasati beragam aspek kehidupan itu digunakan melalui pendekatan semiotik. Melalui pola hubungan paradigmatik, yaitu pola hubungan antartokoh dengan tokoh lain dan pola hubungan antartokoh dengan masyarakat diharapkan keterbacaan karya tersebut menjadi jelas. </p><p> </p><p><strong>Kata kunci: </strong><strong>r</strong><strong>ekonstruksi</strong><strong>, </strong><strong>semiotic</strong><strong>, </strong><strong>paradigmatik</strong></p>

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