scholarly journals Volición conservadora en las acciones violentas de La ciudad y los perros

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-24
Author(s):  
Jesús Miguel Delgado Del Aguila ◽  

This paper is ascribed to the conservative perception that Mario Vargas Llosa works for the discursive construction of The Time of the Hero. This political ideology characterized by its autonomy and impartiality will allow us to recognize the author’s purpose when addressing the mood of violence in the performance of the characters. For its effective fluctuation, this study will include three neuralgic and related treatments around this literary work: the extratextual contextualization, the epistemology of violence and the narratological analysis from the concomitant actants. This conventional taxonomy that is formulated will be useful to justify the extent to which violence acquires a core value for human development.

Author(s):  
María Josefa Hellín García

This article investigates the metaphorical conceptualization of terrorism by president José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, who came into power soon after the biggest terrorist attack in Spain on March 11th, 2004. Specifically, it examines how terrorism is conceptualized via metaphors through the notion of fight, and their conceptual implication in discourse. I will refer to these as Fight Metaphors. The research questions addressed are as follows: 1. What Fight Metaphors are used in the discursive construction of terrorism? 2. How do Fight Metaphors contribute to support Zapatero’s anti-terrorism political agenda? I follow a combination of a cognitive and a pragmatic approach from a corpus-based analysis perspective. The cognitive approach is based on Lakoff’s Conceptual Metaphor Theory (1993), and the pragmatic one is based on Charteris-Back’s Critical Metaphor Analysis (2004). The corpus of investigation comprises 58 Spanish political speeches over a three-year period (2004-2007). Findings reveal that Fight Metaphors constitute the pivotal node that simultaneously performs various functions at several levels: cognitive, rhetorical, and ideological in order to promote his anti-terrorism political ideology.


2017 ◽  
Vol 71 (6) ◽  
pp. 766-795 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mairi Maclean ◽  
Charles Harvey ◽  
Roy Suddaby ◽  
Kevin O’Gorman

How might political ideology help to shape an organizational field? We explore the discursive construction of the multinational hotel industry through analysis of one of its leading actors, Hilton International (HI), conceived by Conrad Hilton as a means of combatting communism by facilitating world peace through international trade and travel. While the politicized rhetoric employed at hotel openings reflected institutional diversity, it resonated in parallel with a strong anti-communist discourse. We show that through astute political sensemaking and sensegiving, macro-political discourse that is ideological and universalizing may be allied to micro-political practices in strategic action fields. Our study illuminates the processes of early-stage post-war globalization and its accompanying discourses, demonstrating that the foundation of a global industry may be ideologically inspired. Our primary contribution to theory is specific acknowledgement of the importance of political ideology as a particular ‘social skill’, helping to determine how international business has been ‘won’.


2019 ◽  
pp. 24-33

The main focus of this research work is to analyze the symbols and their role in interpreting the novel “The Kite Runner” by Afghan-born American writer Khaled Hosseini who has widely used artistic signs in his novel. With the help of symbols the essence of the work has been conveyed to the reader through the sensitivity of artistic principles. The symbols in the novel were analyzed being divided into categories as characters, places, things and complex symbols. The introduction of the symbols in the novel, as the secret information of the author to the reader, is a masterpiece of the artistic idea that has not been provided in the text but intended for it. Moreover, it is a figure of speech through which any author is able to express in an indirect way a certain mood, concept, a political ideology, a period or emotion in a work of literature using a physical object, character, event or word. Symbols in the literary work are of great importance to help readers visualize complex concepts and central themes, and track their development; afford writers the opportunity to communicate complex ideas efficiently and artfully; invite readers to interpret a text independently; add emotional value to a text; conceal themes that are too controversial to state openly; imply change or growth in characters or themes through shifts in the way that characters interact with particular symbols, or ways in which the symbols themselves change over time. The catastrophic events connected with the World Trade Center that occurred on September 11, 2001, caused a surge of interest in a little-known Central Asian country Afghanistan. Consequently, most people around the world discovered a new, yet soon stereotyped face of Afghan people as terrorists and their allies. Thus, Khaled Hosseini along with other compatriot authors endeavored to reshape the overlooked image of his nation and his native land once he abandoned, in different perspectives, social and moral angles.


2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (01) ◽  
pp. 41-50
Author(s):  
Rahmawati Ardila

 Leadership style in the novel of  Sang Guru by Kahlil Gibran as understanding about the character and development of the community or of the literary works of the critics and historians especially reveals about the author who is influenced by the status of society where it originated, and social, political ideology, economic conditions as well as its target audience. With sociology of literature, the researcher wants to see the extent to which the literary work has a style of leadership. Here some leadership style found (1) Supportive Leadership, for example: the behavior of the teacher figure who always motivate the student, being friendly to the student, being good example, making himself as role model. (2) Participate Leadership, the involvement of the teacher in pursuing the success of the student, solving problems faced by the pupil, not apathy in dealing with the student. Abstrak Gaya Kepemimpinan dalam Novel Sang Guru Karya Kahlil Gibran merupakan pengetahuan tentang sifat dan perkembangan masyarakat dari mengenai karya sastra  para kritikus dan sejarawan yang terutama mengungkapkan pengarang yang dipengaruhi oleh status lapisan masyarakat tempat ia berasal, ideologi politik dan sosialnya, kondisi ekonimi serta khalayak yang ditujunya. Dengan pendekatan sosiologi sastra, peneliti hendak melihat sejauh mana karya sastra itu memiliki Gaya kepemimpinan. Adapun kategori gaya kepemimpinan (1) Supportive Leadership, misalnya: perilaku tokoh sang guru yang selalu memberi motivasi kepada sang murid, bersikap ramah terhadap sang murid, memberi contoh yang baik, menjadikan dirinya sebagai teladan. (2)Participate Leadership.adanya keterlibatan sang guru secara aktif dalam mengupayakan kesuksesan sang murid, ikut memecahkan masalah yang dihadapi sang murid, tidak apatis dalam menyikapi respon balik sang murid.


2018 ◽  
Vol 24 ◽  
pp. 30-38
Author(s):  
Mario Cimini

Giovanni Verga’s tale Libertà has often been object of multifaceted – and frequently discording –critical interpretations, being the most common readings those of who saw in it a clear bias for the Italian Risorgimento (despite its violent development), and those who read it as an expression of resilient skepticism by the author towards the same historic event. Leonardo Sciascia, for example, uses the term “mystification” to describe Verga’s attitude towards Bronte’s insurrection, at a time – 1860 – when Garibaldi was carrying out his well-known Expedition of the Thousand. The essay goes through all the noteworthy moments of this critical tradition, eventually deducting that it is by no means possible to draw firm assertions about Verga’s political ideology with the sole literary work as a point of reference. It argues instead that the author’s literary eminence must be seen in his outstanding ability to raise such a vast array of multilayered interpretations in the readers.


2015 ◽  
Vol 74 (4) ◽  
pp. 158-196
Author(s):  
Kevin Absillis

In zijn proefschrift N-VA. Analyse van een politieke ideologie (2012) tracht Ico Maly aan te tonen dat het gedachtegoed van de in 2001 uit de puinhopen van de Volksunie ontstane Nieuw-Vlaamse Alliantie schatplichtig is aan een hoogst kwalijke antiverlichtingstraditie en tot overmaat van ramp de publieke ruimte tegenwoordig zo beheerst dat het niet eens meer als een ideologie wordt herkend. Deze bijdrage bespreekt eerst enkele tekortkomingen in het onderzoek van Maly. Deze blijken het gevolg van slordigheid, onvolkomen kennis van de geschiedenis van de Vlaamse beweging, gebrekkige vertrouwdheid met nationalismetheorie en bovenal het al te drieste gebruik van het aan een overspannen studie van Zeev Sternhell ontleende begrippenpaar verlichting-antiverlichting. Wie echter enige clementie aan de dag wil leggen zou de auteur van N-VA. Analyse van een politieke ideologie ook het slachtoffer van zijn eigen overtuigingen kunnen noemen. Of juister, zoals het tweede deel van deze bijdrage wil verduidelijken: het slachtoffer van een kwarteeuw oude, zich als een tegen-discours omschrijvende denktraditie die het publieke debat rond Vlaams-nationalisme heeft beïnvloed en heeft bijgedragen tot een ook in een breder artistiek en intellectueel milieu gedragen antinationalisme. Onderhavige bijdrage wil wel begrip opbrengen voor de weerstand tegen nationalisme, maar betoogt dat die in het wetenschappelijk onderzoek tot intellectuele selectiviteit heeft geleid en de publieke opinie heeft opgezadeld met enkele hardnekkige en zeer ‘homogeniserende’ clichés rond Vlaanderen en Vlaams-nationalisten – dat laatste mag ironisch heten, omdat het tegen-discours juist wil uitblinken in antihomogeneïsme. Om het een en ander te illustreren gaat onderhavige bijdrage in op de geschiedenis, politiek-culturele context en centrale ideeën van het vermelde tegen-discours zonder aanspraak te maken op exhaustiviteit. De nadruk ligt op enkele frequente motieven die geconfronteerd worden met patronen uit een andere publieke discussie die sterk met het nationalismedebat verweven blijkt: het zogenaamde migrantendebat.________The Flemish Nationalist as a Discursive Construction. Reflections on N-VA. Analyse van van een politieke ideologie (N-VA. Analysis of a Political Ideology) (I. Maly, 2012)In his doctoral thesis N-VA. Analyse van een politieke ideologie (2012), Ico Maly tries to demonstrate that the ideas of the Nieuw-Vlaamse Alliantie, which rose from the ashes of the Volksunie in 2001, are indebted to a nasty anti-enlightenment tradition. To make matters worse, these ideas dominate the public sphere so much that they are no longer recognized as an ideology. The first part of this article discusses a few shortcomings in Maly’s research. These seem to be the result of sloppiness, incomplete knowledge of the history of the Flemish Movement, spotty familiarity with nationalism theory, and above all the all-too-audacious use of the conceptual dyad ‘enlightenment/anti-enlightenment’, itself borrowed from an overwrought study by Zeev Sternhell. In a sense, the author of N-VA. Analyse van een politieke ideologie could also be seen as a victim of his own convictions. Or, more accurately, as the second part of this article will illustrate: the victim of a quarter-century old tradition of thought that defines itself as a counter-discourse, which has influenced the public debate around Flemish nationalism and which has also contributed to an antinationalism which is flaunted in a broader artistic and intellectual milieu.The present article argues that this antinationalism has led to an intellectual selectivity in scholarly research and has sadd-led public opinion with a few dogged and  ‘homogenizing’ clichés about Flanders and Flemish nationalists. In order to illustrate this, the current contribution goes into the history, politico-cultural context, and the central ideas of the aforementioned counter-discourse, without making a claim to exhaustivity. The emphasis is on a selection of recurring motifs that are contrasted with patterns fom another public discussion that is shown to be intertwined with the debate on nationalism: the so-calles ‘migrate debate’.


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Martha C. Nussbaum
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