scholarly journals Do retrato à caricatura: a figuração da personagem histórica em Saramago e Assis Brasil

Navegações ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 161
Author(s):  
Maria Regina Barcelos Bettiol
Keyword(s):  
Historical Novel ◽  
Historiographic Metafiction ◽  
History Of ◽  
Jose Saramago ◽  
Painting And Literature ◽  
The Aesthetic

O presente ensaio analisa, através de uma analogia entre a pintura e a literatura, a figuração da personagem histórica nos romances História do Cerco de Lisboa de José Saramago e A Margem Imóvel do Rio de Luiz Antonio de Assis Brasil, demonstrando que na passagem do romance histórico tradicional para a metaficcção historiográfica, essa categoria de personagem perde a sua força representativa ficando em segundo plano na narrativa. Se no romance histórico tradicional encontramos um retrato da personagem histórica, na metaficção historiográfica existe uma deformação sobre o plano estético isto é, a tendência em representá-la de forma caricatural.********************************************************************From portrait to caricature: the figuration of the historical characterin Saramago and Assis BrasilAbstract: This essay examines, through an analogy between painting and literature, the figuration of the historical character in two novels (José Saramago’s The History of the Siege of Lisbon and Luiz Antonio de Assis Brasil’s A Margem Imóvel do Rio). It shows that in the passage from the traditional historical novel to the “historiographic metafiction” this kind of character loses its representative force and it becomes less important in the narrative. If in the traditional historical novel we find a portrait of the historical character, in historiographic metafiction” there is a deformation on the aesthetic level, that is to say, a tendency to represent it in caricature form.Keywords: character; figuration; historical novel; metafiction. 

scholarly journals La de(con)strucción de la Historia de España o metaficción historiográfica a la española: "Fabulosas narraciones por historias", de Antonio Orejudo Utrillla

2011 ◽  
pp. 428
Author(s):  
Pilar Lozano Mijares
Keyword(s):  
Spanish Literature ◽  
Historical Novel ◽  
Historical Revisionism ◽  
Official History ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Aesthetic ◽  
Industrial Societies

El objetivo de la novela histórica española última (también denominada metaficción historiográfica) es “de(con)struir”, es decir, reinterpretar e incluso destruir la historia oficial, y no tanto reconstruirla. Este objetivo se relaciona directamente con el paradigma estético al que pertenece: el posmodernismo. Pero, al mismo tiempo, es realista en un sentido más amplio, puesto que mimetiza la ontología plural de las sociedades industriales avanzadas, en las que la realidad ha dejado de ser un concepto firme para identificarse con la ficción. Esto es lo que nos demuestra Fabulosas narraciones por historias de Antonio Orejudo Utrilla (1996), en la que el autor da la vuelta a la historia de la literatura española y se alista a las filas del revisionismo histórico posmoderno, ofreciéndonos una mirada al pasado profundamente crítica hacia Occidente.The goal of the latest historical novel (also called historiographical metafiction) in Spain is to “de(con)struct”, that is to say, to interpret again and even to destroy the official history, and not so much to reconstruct it. This goal is directly related to the aesthetic paradigm to which it belongs: the postmodernism. At the same time, it is realist in a broader sense, as it mimetises the plural ontology of the advanced industrial societies, in which reality is not a stable concept any more, but it is identified with fiction. This is what Fabulosas narraciones por historias, by Antonio Orejudo Utrilla (1996), shows: the author turns the history of Spanish literature upside down and rallies for the postmodern historical revisionism, at the same time as he offers us a very critical glance at Occident past.

scholarly journals Revisiting Official History in Evangel Athial’s Hitler and the Decline of Shah Dynasty

2020 ◽  
pp. 117-124
Author(s):  
Raj Kishor Singh
Keyword(s):  
Historical Novel ◽  
Main Idea ◽  
Personal History ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Historiographic Metafiction ◽  
Official History ◽  
History Of ◽  
Historical Writings ◽  
Historical Accounts

This article aims to analyze Athial’s Hitler and the Decline of Shah Dynasty to prove that the author reimagines and rewrites official history in his novel with combination and blurring of fact and fiction. It is studied from theoretical parameters of historiographic metafiction. Through an amalgamation of fact and fiction, the novel challenges the traditional version of the official history of Nepal and Germany. The subjectivity inherent in historiographic narratives is further explored through Athial’s representation of historical character Hitler in the novel. The presence of major characters creates confusion about the nature of the novel as a work of fiction or as historiographic account. Through the use of irony and supernatural elements, Hitler and the Decline of Shah Dynasty becomes a parody of historiographic narratives which claim to be objective. The blurring of the boundaries between fiction and history and constructedness of history through discourse is the main idea in this paper. The writer imitates the genre of the historical novel but reveals its limitations and corresponds to what Linda Hutcheon calls historiographic metafiction. The novel mines the elements of the then history of Hitler, Germany, and Nepalese Shah Dynasty with the personal history of the author to revise and redefine the official version of history. This revisiting of mainstream history helps to establish the notion of plurality of historical accounts and a rejection of objectivity in historical writings. This novel has metafictional mode of writing, and the author represents metafictional parody in which historical incidents are repeated with a difference to show that history is discourse and is always open to interpretation.

Migration and Modernities

2019 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Native Americans ◽  
Literary History ◽  
Historical Study ◽  
Racial Categories ◽  
Geographic Boundaries ◽  
The Us ◽  
Technological Developments ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Aesthetic ◽  
Eighteenth And Nineteenth Centuries

Migration and Modernities recovers a comparative literary history of migration by bringing together scholars from the US and Europe to explore the connections between migrant experiences and the uneven emergence of modernity. The collection initiates transnational, transcultural and interdisciplinary conversations about migration in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, demonstrating how mobility unsettles the geographic boundaries, temporal periodization, and racial categories we often use to organize literary and historical study. Migrants are by definition liminal, and many have existed historically in the spaces between nations, regions or ethnicities. In exploring these spaces, Migration and Modernities also investigates the origins of current debates about belonging, rights, and citizenship. Its chapters traverse the globe, revealing the experiences — real or imagined — of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century migrants, from dispossessed Native Americans to soldiers in South America, Turkish refugees to Scottish settlers. They explore the aesthetic and rhetorical frameworks used to represent migrant experiences during a time when imperial expansion and technological developments made the fortunes of some migrants and made exiles out of others. These frameworks continue to influence the narratives we tell ourselves about migration today and were crucial in producing a distinctively modern subjectivity in which mobility and rootlessness have become normative.

What's the Message of Architecture?

2014 ◽  
pp. 126-136
Author(s):  
Аndrey G. Velikanov
Keyword(s):  
Separate Entity ◽  
Aesthetic Value ◽  
Current State ◽  
Entire Complex ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Aesthetic

Considers the aspects of architecture as a language able to express the current state and to prophetically indicate the upcoming changes. The aesthetic value of a construction cannot be perceived just as a separate entity, but it can be cognized in the context and not only a visual one, in space. It is necessary to see the entire complex of the accompanying phenomena, all the flow of the unfolding metaphors and values. In the model in view the figure of the author-creator must be reconsidered as no longer conforming to today's reality. The development of the Stalinist Empire style, as well as its transformations, is considered as one of the specific phenomena in the history of well-known constructions

Idleness and Freedom in Michel de Montaigne’s “Essays”

2019 ◽  
Vol 29 (1) ◽  
pp. 189-202
Keyword(s):  
Intellectual History ◽  
Ancient Rome ◽  
Spiritual Quest ◽  
Guiding Principle ◽  
Sextus Empiricus ◽  
History Of ◽  
Self Knowledge ◽  
The Aesthetic ◽  
The Relationship

The article advances a hypothesis about the composition of Michel de Montaigne’s Essays. Specialists in the intellectual history of the Renaissance have long considered the relationship among Montaigne’s thematically heterogeneous thoughts, which unfold unpredictably and often seen to contradict each other. The waywardness of those reflections over the years was a way for Montaigne to construct a self-portrait. Spontaneity of thought is the essence of the person depicted and an experimental literary technique that was unprecedented in its time and has still not been surpassed. Montaigne often writes about freedom of reflection and regards it as an extremely important topic. There have been many attempts to interpret the haphazardness of the Essays as the guiding principle in their composition. According to one such interpretation, the spontaneous digressions and readiness to take up very different philosophical notions is a form of of varietas and distinguo, which Montaigne understood in the context of Renaissance philosophy. Another interpretation argues that the Essays employ the rhetorical techniques of Renaissance legal commentary. A third opinion regards the Essays as an example of sprezzatura, a calculated negligence that calls attention to the aesthetic character of Montaigne’s writing. The author of the article argues for a different interpretation that is based on the concept of idleness to which Montaigne assigned great significance. He had a keen appreciation of the role of otium in the culture of ancient Rome and regarded leisure as an inner spiritual quest for self-knowledge. According to Montaigne, idleness permits self-directedness, and it is an ideal form in which to practice the freedom of thought that brings about consistency in writing, living and reality, in all of which Montaigne finds one general property - complete inconstancy. Socratic self-knowledge, a skepticism derived from Pyrrho of Elis and Sextus Empiricus, and a rejection of the conventions of traditional rhetoric that was similar to Seneca’s critique of it were all brought to bear on the concept of idleness and made Montaigne’s intellectual and literary experimentation in the Essays possible.

History of Dorsum Conservative Techniques in Rhinoplasty: The Evolution of a Revived Technique

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Diego Arancibia Tagle ◽  
Jose Carlos Neves ◽  
Alwyn D'Souza
Keyword(s):  
Lateral Cartilage ◽  
Classic Problem ◽  
Alternative Option ◽  
History Of ◽  
Upper Lateral Cartilage ◽  
The Aesthetic

AbstractThe correction and management of the nasal hump has been a classic problem in rhinoplasty since the beginning of the aesthetic purpose of this surgery. For many years, the resective technique described by Joseph has been the battle horse to solve this problem but it has several drawbacks if not done properly. In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, a new dorsal conservative technique was born and for several years was an alternative option to treat the same problem without damaging the keystone area while preserving the dorsal connection between the upper lateral cartilage and the septum. The aim of this article is to review the history and evolution of this technique, which has been reborn after several years, and how it has evolved since then.

scholarly journals Remix in the age of ubiquitous remix

2021 ◽  
pp. 135485652199445
Author(s):  
Abby S. Waysdorf
Keyword(s):  
Point Of View ◽  
Archival Material ◽  
History Of ◽  
Accepted Part ◽  
The Media ◽  
Contemporary Media ◽  
The Aesthetic ◽  
The Way

What is remix today? No longer a controversy, no longer a buzzword, remix is both everywhere and nowhere in contemporary media. This article examines this situation, looking at what remix now means when it is, for the most part, just an accepted part of the media landscape. I argue that remix should be looked at from an ethnographic point of view, focused on how and why remixes are used. To that end, this article identifies three ways of conceptualizing remix, based on intention rather than content: the aesthetic, communicative, and conceptual forms. It explores the history of (talking about) remix, looking at the tension between seeing remix as a form of art and remix as a mode of ‘talking back’ to the media, and how those tensions can be resolved in looking at the different ways remix originated. Finally, it addresses what ubiquitous remix might mean for the way we think about archival material, and the challenges this brings for archives themselves. In this way, this article updates the study of remix for a time when remix is everywhere.

Fracturismul în câmpul literar românesc

Transilvania ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 1-18
Author(s):  
Mihnea Bâlici
Keyword(s):  
Social Reality ◽  
Literary Field ◽  
Cultural Expression ◽  
Literary Expression ◽  
History Of ◽  
A Priority ◽  
The Aesthetic ◽  
Revolutionary History ◽  
Contemporary Author

Fracturism proved to be the “spearhead” of the 2000 generation. The first and by far the most radical literary group formed after 1989, this promotion became the cultural expression of a difficult context in the post-revolutionary history of Romania. The aim of this study is to analyze the origin, the function and the effects of the Fracturist ideas proposed by Marius Ianuș and Dumitru Crudu in 1998. Most literary interpretations failed to capture the specificity of this promotion. This is due to the fact that the aesthetic program was never a priority for the Fracturists. It can be emphasized that Fracturism appeared in a specific set of historical, political, social, institutional and cultural circumstances. The present analysis aims to clarify the complex links between the difficult post-communist transition, the crisis of the Romanian literary field and the ostentatious literary expression of the new authors. In this regard, a certain performative dimension of fracturism can be theorized: the poets and prose writers of the new millennium will militate against a distressing social reality by changing the very role of the contemporary author.

COMPARATIVE LITERATURE: EAST AND WEST STUDIES

2021 ◽  
Vol 02 (09) ◽  
pp. 8-14
Author(s):  
Aziza Komilovna Akhmedova ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Literature ◽  
Professional Ethics ◽  
Research Work ◽  
Literary Studies ◽  
The Novel ◽  
World Science ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Aesthetic ◽  
Aesthetic Ideal ◽  
The Ideal

The article analyzes the results of the research on the representation of the aesthetic ideal through the image of the ideal hero in two national literatures. For research purposes, attention was paid to highlighting the category of the ideal hero as an expression of the author's aesthetic views. In Sinclair Lewis’s “Arrowsmith” and Pirimkul Kodirov's “The Three Roots”, the protagonists artistically reflect the authors' views on truth, virtue, and beauty. In these novels, professional ethics is described as a high noble value. The scientific novelty of the research work includes the following: in the evolution of western and eastern poetic thought, in the context of the novel genre, the skill, common and distinctive aspects of the creation of an ideal hero were revealed by synthesis of effective methods in world science with literary criteria in the history of eastern and western literary studies, in the example of Sinclair Lewis and Pirimkul Kodirov.

The Attraction of Literary Local Lore Material and Information from the Native Literature of Students in the Study of A.M. Gorky

2021 ◽  
pp. 137-141
Author(s):  
Zinaida Kh. Tedtoeva
Keyword(s):  
Russian Literature ◽  
Literary Work ◽  
Young Person ◽  
Native People ◽  
Culture History ◽  
Teacher Needs ◽  
Special Area ◽  
History Of ◽  
History Of Culture ◽  
The Aesthetic

The problem of perceiving fiction has aesthetic, sociological, historical and psychological aspects. In this regard, in the methodology of teaching Russian literature to the national audience, special attention is paid to the deep, faithful and subtle reproduction of the literary works of writers, the development of the reader’s talent. Fiction as a form of art is a special area of the aesthetic. In a truly fictional work, all its elements are subordinate to the expression of a certain content, expressive, figurative, therefore, the reader’s understanding of a literary work is not only aesthetic, but also evaluative in nature. There are three stages of students’ perception of the writer’s creation: 1) recreation and experience of images of the work, with the leading process of imagination; 2) understanding of the ideological content; V.G. Belinsky called this stage “true pleasure”; 3) the influence of fiction on the personality of the reader as a result of the perception of the work. Fiction affects the worldview, speech, moral behavior in society, aesthetic and artistic development, in general, the formation of a person’s personality. The teacher tries to ensure that students have the necessary knowledge, developed, recreational imagination, emotional sensitivity, a sense of the poetic word, observation, the ability to make comparisons, comparisons, generalizations, conclusions. Their perception of a work of art is a difficult process that directly depends on previous knowledge of literature, facts of the history of culture, history of society. The complexity of the spiritual world of a modern young person is due to the development of personality in the context of the rapid progress of society. All this poses a difficult task for methodological science - to diversify the means of analysis, its types and techniques, effective ways of influencing art on students. In the national audience, the main problem of studying Russian literature - the teacher needs to reveal Russian-national literary ties with specific examples, based on certain historical conditions, national specifics, use translations of the works of the Russian writer into the native language of students, literary local history material, highlight the attitude of cultural figures of the native people to the work of the Russian writer, to his personality.

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