scholarly journals CATEGORIES OF “OWN” AND “ALIEN” IN PETER HøeG’S NOVEL MISS SMILLA'S FEELING FOR SNOW

2021 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 38-42
Author(s):  
NATALIA SHARAPENKOVA ◽  
IOLANTA SUKHOTSKAYA
Keyword(s):  
Research Methods ◽  
Text Analysis ◽  
Component Analysis ◽  
Literary Text ◽  
Modern World ◽  
Main Character ◽  
Main Research ◽  
Scandinavian Society ◽  
Descriptive Method

The article examines the categories of “own” and “alien” using Peter Høeg’s bestselling novel Miss Smilla’s Feeling for Snow (1992), which addresses compelling issues of modern Scandinavian society. The main character Smilla, half Danish, half Greenlander, tries to find out who is responsible for the tragic death of her neighbors’ small boy. She was born in Greenland, spent her childhood there and grew up in Denmark, so the investigation helps Smilla to understand her place in the modern world. The categories of “own” and “alien” are closely intertwined both in Smilla’s mind and in the surrounding reality. The authors analyzed which components constituted the picture of the heroine’s world and determined the etymology of the categories of “own” and “alien”. Various methods of culturological and literary text analysis, the method of selective commenting, the descriptive method, and component analysis were chosen as the main research methods. The results showed that Smilla still calls herself a Greenlander, but does not deny the influence of life in Denmark on her personality.

Onomastic reflection in works of V. P. Krapivin

2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 6-19
Author(s):  
Natalia V. Labunets ◽  
Natalia S. Kochneva
Keyword(s):  
Research Methods ◽  
Fairy Tale ◽  
Language Game ◽  
Component Analysis ◽  
Component Composition ◽  
Main Research ◽  
Proper Name ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Descriptive Method

The subject under research is the relevant, but insufficiently studied phenomenon of onomastic reflection. The aim is to identify the specifics of onomastic reflexives in the space of fairy-tale texts of V.P. Krapivin in the aspect of language game. The works of V.P.  Krapivin (which he himself denoted as Krapivin’s tales) served as the source. Onomastic constructions (more than 1,500 units), included in the reflexive context of the author’s vision of the proper name, became the material of the research. Contextual and component analysis, as well as the techniques of the descriptive method (observation, interpretation, and systematization) are the main research methods. Based on the material of Krapivin’s texts, the heuristic nominativeness, onomastic loading of texts were first examined from the standpoint of the presentation of the estimated information contained in the metalinguistic statements-reflections on the proper name. The specificity of the studied reflexives is that they can be either explicitly or implicitly expressed estimations, coupled with different textual parameters — from the word-onym (quasi-reflexive) through the onomastic phrase to the detailed evaluative characteristic of the onomastic construction. A special feature of Krapivin’s onym is to be found in the author’s desire to show various functional facets of a proper name: onym-nominative — onym-characterizer. The manifestation of the reflective beginning in the text is carried out in various ways: by directly commenting on the proper name using special lexical means, syntactic constructions, as well as through its graphic (orthofraphic), phonetic design, structuring of the component composition. Associative links of the name, manifested through onomastic reflexives, create the effect of onomastic games.

scholarly journals The human concept in Russian Neomodernist prose of the 21st Century

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (43) ◽  
pp. 9-19
Author(s):  
Alexey Tatarinov ◽  
Marina Bezrukavaya
Keyword(s):  
Text Analysis ◽  
Russian Literature ◽  
Literary Text ◽  
Literary Analysis ◽  
Modern World ◽  
Cultural Tradition ◽  
Research Subject ◽  
Harold Bloom ◽  
Strong State ◽  
General Existence

Research subject is grounding efficiency and topicality of Russian literature (and its studies) as a cultural project, that could be apologia of a traditional individual. Methodological basis is anthropocentric literature of Erich Auerbach, Dmitry Likhachev, Sergey Averintsev, Harold Bloom, in which literary text analysis, assessment of genre structures lead to the conclusions on the individual’s state under the established cultural tradition. Analysis of contemporary Russian novels outlines authors’ worlds. Reading them evokes various images: of a passionate individual, often with certain intent, but always affected by the interaction with crises and voids (Yury Buida), an individual characterized by various anti-totalitarian acts, by aspiration to exercise the freedom of thought in everyday life (Ludmila Ulitskaya), an egocentric individual, believing that the most significant victories come in the representation of the own self (Edward Limonov), an individual prone to interaction with totalitarian principles, synthesizing non-canonic metaphysical forms and attributes of strong state under ambivalent relations of utopia and anti-utopia (Vladimir Sorokin), an individual actively exploring modern world and general existence in motions, related by the author to Oriental cognition principles and spiritual practices (Victor Pelevin). Our focused literary analysis aims at combining all text moves in plot and language that represent evolvement of a person as one of the central problems of any novel.

scholarly journals The Influence of Nature toward the Main Character’s Self-Realization in David Malouf’s An Imaginary Life: an Eco-Critical Reading

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 8
Author(s):  
Faridz Al-Anshari ◽  
Marliza Yeni
Keyword(s):  
Research Methods ◽  
Secondary Data ◽  
Primary Data ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Main Character ◽  
Critical Reading ◽  
Critical Perspective ◽  
Library Research ◽  
Past Life ◽  
Descriptive Method

This article discusses David Malouf’s novel entitled An Imaginary Life from an eco-critical perspective. It examines certain symbols from nature that appear in the novel during the journey of Ovid, the main character, in the exile. The data is collected by applying library research methods. Primary data are all symbols from nature related to Ovid’s journey and the formation of his new identity in the exile. Meanwhile, the secondary data are all information from books and articles related with archetypal symbols and criticism. The result of analysis is presented by the descriptive method. The analysis results in two conclusions. Firstly, nature that is presented as wild at the beginning of the story turns into a home for the main character at the end of the story. Secondly, nature, represented by some symbols, evidently plays an important role in making Ovid embrace his new life and forms new identity apart from his past life as a famous poet back in Rome.

scholarly journals Ethical Hedonism in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s the Great Gatsby

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yoanita Yuselvira Br Sitepu
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Modern World ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Main Character ◽  
Great Gatsby ◽  
Library Research ◽  
The Great Gatsby ◽  
Qualitative Descriptive ◽  
Many Sources ◽  
Descriptive Method

This aims of this study reflect about etchical hedonism in Jay Gatsby as main character in the novel which take place in New York 1920’s after First War.The researcher uses William Lillie’s ethical hedonism theory. Ethical hedonism is the way of thinking to achieve happiness in the middle of troublesome modern world. The purpose of ethical hedonism teory is to make everyone as happy as possible. The data are used in this novel are quotation between the characters. The ethical hedonism theory consists of egoistic hedonism and universalistic hedonism. The source of the data is the novel The Great Gatsby written by F. Scott Fitzgerald. This research is library research, with the data in the form of words, dialogues, and expression showed in the novel. The writer uses qualitative descriptive method, the writer collects data from so many sources included The Great Gatsby novel, journals, and books. The results of this study show that there are some impact that influenced by ethical hedonism, they are: (1) egoistic hedonism (2) universalistic hedonism (3) lifestyle (4) materialism, its reflected by the character quotation.

scholarly journals Nominations of berries in the dialects of the Khanty language

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 6-11 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fedosia M. Lelkhova
Keyword(s):  
Research Methods ◽  
Comparative Method ◽  
Component Analysis ◽  
Semantic Group ◽  
Main Research ◽  
Cultural Life ◽  
First Time

Introduction. The article describes the names of berries and berry bushes in the dialects of the Khanty language. The aim of the paper is to systematize and describe the semantics of this lexical and semantic group of words and to identify dialectal features. Materials and Methods. The study is mainly based on the fieldwork materials collected by the author during the expeditions to the places of compact residence of the Synsky Khanty, as well as the materials from lexicographic sources. The main research methods are descriptive, component analysis, and elements of comparative method. Research and Discussion. In Khanty linguistics there is no research on the nomination of the plans, only a few random works. In the Khanty language there is a developed dialect synonymy with several names used to refer to the same plant. For the first time this research gives some names of berries, specifies translation, identifiesa and describes sacred names of berries. Conclusion. The presented material of this lexical and semantic group shows the richness and vastness of the vocabulary of the plants, which relates to the economic and cultural life of the taiga people, allows a better understanding of their linguistics.

Borders, Conflicts and Bargaining in Federations and Communities of Governments

2009 ◽  
pp. 83-99
Author(s):  
A. Libman
Keyword(s):  
Economic Policy ◽  
Public Authority ◽  
Modern World ◽  
Main Research ◽  
Research Areas ◽  
Nation States ◽  
Distribution Of Power

Economic policy in the modern world can be treated as an outcome of interaction of multiple territorial centers of public authority: nation-states, subnational and supranational jurisdictions. In the last decades economics has increased its attention to the factors which influence the distribution of power among jurisdictions. The paper surveys two main research areas in this literature: economics of conflicts and theory of endogenous decentralization. It discusses the basic models of both approaches and their modifications applied in the literature as well as factors of conflict formation and bargaining over devolution.

Artistic-professional strategies in the music sector. The case of the jazz scene in Barcelona

2020 ◽  
pp. 145-163
Author(s):  
Marta Casals Balaguer
Keyword(s):  
Research Methods ◽  
Social Dimension ◽  
Artistic Identity ◽  
Professional Musicians ◽  
Main Research ◽  
Works Of Art ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Creation

This article aims to analyse the strategies that jazz musicians in Barcelona adopt to develop their artistic careers. It focuses on studying three main areas that influ-ence the construction of their artistic-professional strategies: a) the administrative dimension, characterized mainly by management and promotion tasks; b) the artistic-creative dimension, which includes the construction of artistic identity and the creation of works of art; and c) the social dimension within the collective, which groups together strategies related to the dynamics of cooperation and col-laboration between the circle of musicians. The applied methodology came from a qualitative perspective, and the main research methods were semi-structured inter-views conducted with active professional musicians in Barcelona and from partic-ipant observation.

Neography and Word of the Year

2018 ◽  
Vol 79 (8) ◽  
pp. 66-71
Author(s):  
T. N. Butseva ◽  
Yu. S. Ridetskaya
Keyword(s):  
Research Methods ◽  
Russian Language ◽  
Social Aspects ◽  
Main Research ◽  
Linguistic Data ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The Russian Language

The article deals with the relationship between the terms «word of the year» and «neologism of the year», and the examples are the words, annually nominating as «word of the year», and neologisms of the last few years. The main research methods are statistical, comparative, and lexicographic description. Usually nomination «Word of the year» presents words, long-existing in the Russian language, borrowings, as well as author’s occasionalisms. The cultural and social aspects prevail in this campaign, while linguistic aspects are not involved. It seems that the verbal image of the year is a more complex and mosaic phenomenon. It can be reconstructed with the help of representative linguistic data scrupulously collected by lexicographers.

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.

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