scholarly journals FORGOTTEN NAMES OF POLISH LITERATURE – KAZIMEZH TRUKHANOVSKY

2019 ◽  
pp. 347-356
Author(s):  
T. Hajder
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Short Stories ◽  
Literary Criticism ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Global Level ◽  
Polish Literature ◽  
Literary Traditions ◽  
Time Space ◽  
Complicated Model

Polish literature is one of the leading positions not only in the Slavic world, but also well-presented at the global level. The article is devoted to the Polish writer of the middle of the twentieth century, whose name is unknown to the Ukrainian narratee, but his works are extremely interesting. The reasons why some writers do not fall into the field of wide-ranging research are different. In the case of the Kazimierz Trukhanovsky’s works, this is an insufficient research of the Polish literary criticism, the researchers are writing about it only now. Returning the names of interesting writers and attracting attention to their works is an actual and interesting task.The creative legacy of K. Trukhanovsky is quite extensive – it’s a romance cycle, story and short stories, individual novels. Philosophy, reflection and utopia are the most extensive characteristics of the writer’s works. The imagery and aesthetic background of the novels become clearer if we attract the work of artists, whose leading motive of creativity was the hell and the wandering of human souls in the search of divine light. The writer applied to mythologization and the magic properties of time-space measurements in the novel. Mythological and literary traditions are superimposed, as a result of which the author creates a complicated model of a labyrinthine novel.

ANNE BRONTË'S SHAMEFUL AGNES GREY

2013 ◽  
Vol 41 (2) ◽  
pp. 251-260 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katherine Hallemeier
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Literary Criticism ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Recent Scholarship ◽  
The Social ◽  
Agnes Grey ◽  
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak

For much of the twentieth century, literary criticism tended to be relatively dismissive of Anne Brontë's novels. While recent scholarship has argued for the complexity of gender and class dynamics in Agnes Grey (1847), there is little consensus as to what, precisely, those dynamics are. Elizabeth Hollis Berry suggests that Agnes “takes charge of her life” (58), and Maria H. Frawley argues that her narrative is a “significant statement of self-empowerment” (116). Maggie Berg and Dara Rossman Regaignon, however, highlight the continued subjugation of Agnes in the course of her narrative. These scholars’ divergent readings demonstrate how Agnes Grey and Agnes Grey can be read both as illustrative of what Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak has famously described as the nineteenth century “female individualist” (307), and as instructive of the social strictures that circumscribed this identity. In this essay, I outline how shame works in and through the novel to bridge these opposing readings.

scholarly journals INTELLECTUALS IN THE FACE OF HISTORIC TURMOIL: “THE REVENGE OF THE PRINTER” BY STANISLAV ROSOVETSKYJ AS ACADEMIC FICTION

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (93) ◽  
pp. 3-15
Author(s):  
О.В. Блашків
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Literary Criticism ◽  
Main Theme ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Literary Biography ◽  
Academic Novel ◽  
The Face ◽  
The Times ◽  
Renaissance Man ◽  
Academic Fiction

Since mid-twentieth century the academic novel has been treated in English literary criticism as a separate literary genre centered on the life of professors. Often the action takes place on and outside of campus, revealing the professors’ private concerns. Satire is a characteristic feature of academic novels, which usually drives the action. In these novels university appears as a “microcosm of society at large.” Even though the academic novel is an emerging genre in Ukrainian literature, there are texts which fall into this category. In the article the author analyzes “The Revenge of the Printer” by Stanislav Rosovetskyj as academic fiction. The novel has two plot lines, one of which is set in late 1580s in the times of Ivan Fedorov, another is set in the summer of 1991. The plot lines are joined by the setting, which is St. Onuphrius Monastery in Lviv, which in the twentieth century was turned into the museum of book-printing. The novel has the following features of the academic fiction: the main setting and the object of satire is theIvanFedorovMuseum, a cloistered institution like the university campus; the protagonist Shalva Bukviani is an academic and a professor of history facing the choice to leave the institution or to conform to the changing ideology. Collectively, these characteristics allow to define the main theme as the role of individual in the times of historical turmoil. Special attention is paid to the image of Fedorov, whose life in the novel is portrayed as a literary biography, based on research of contemporary Ukrainian historians alternative to the Soviet narrative. Due to the image of Fedorov as “Renaissance man” in the novel, the image of contemporary scholar appears as Sick Soul (M. Andryczyk), “a small Soviet man” unable to engage in protection of cultural heritage in the time of sociopolitical change.

Anthology

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ben Grant
Keyword(s):  
Literary Criticism ◽  
18Th Century ◽  
Close Association ◽  
Literary Texts ◽  
Modern Concept ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Politics Of Identity ◽  
Literary Traditions ◽  
Important Object ◽  
Written Word

Anthologies, in the broadest sense of collections of independent texts, have always played an important role in preserving and spreading the written word, and collections of short forms, such as proverbs, wise sayings, and epigraphs, have a long history. The literary anthology, however, is of comparatively recent provenance, having come to prominence only during the long 18th century, when the modern concept of “literature” itself emerged. Since that time, it has been a fundamental part of literary culture: not only have literary texts been published in anthologies, but also the genre of the anthology has done much to shape their form and content, and to influence the ways in which they are read and taught, particularly as literary criticism has developed in tandem with the rise of the anthology. The anthology has also stimulated innovation in many periods and places by providing a model for writers of different genres of literature to emulate, and it has been argued that the form of the novel is much indebted to the anthology. This is connected to its close association with the figure of the reader. Furthermore, anthologies have helped to define what literature is, and been crucial to the canonization of texts, authors, and genres, and the consolidation of literary traditions. It is therefore not surprising that they were at the heart of the theoretical and pedagogical debates within literary studies known as the canon wars, which raged during the 1980s and 1990s. In this role, they contributed much to discussions concerning the theories and politics of identity, and to such approaches as feminism and race studies. The connection between the anthology and literary theory extends beyond this, however: theory itself has been subject to widespread anthologization, which has affected its practice and reception; the form of theoretical writing can in certain respects be understood as anthological; and the anthology is an important object of theoretical attention. For instance, given the potential which the digital age holds to transform how texts are disseminated and consumed, and the importance of finding ways to classify and navigate the digital archive, anthology studies is likely to figure largely in the Digital Humanities.

scholarly journals Poets in Prose: Genre & History in the Arabic Novel

Daedalus ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 150 (01) ◽  
pp. 147-159
Author(s):  
Robyn Creswell
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Intellectual Life ◽  
Literary Traditions ◽  
The North ◽  
Art Form ◽  
Tayeb Salih ◽  
Contemporary Life

Novelists in many literary traditions have come to terms with the distinctiveness of their art form by thinking about poets and poetry. The need to differentiate the novel from poetry is especially pressing for Arab prose writers because of poetry's preeminent status in that literary corpus. Many twentieth-century Arab intellectuals have valorized the novel as the representative genre of modernity–whether conceived as an absent ideal or the epoch of consumerist capitalism–while situating poetry as a backward element of contemporary life. But poetry has also offered prose writers such as Muhammad al-Muwaylihi, in A Period of Time, and novelists such as Tayeb Salih, in Season of Migration to the North, a way to reflect on the ambivalences engendered by modernity and the experience of colonialism. This tradition of using the novel to meditate on historical rupture and the fate of poetry continues into the present, even as poetry's relation to political and intellectual life becomes increasingly tenuous.

scholarly journals Kristin Stapleton (2016). Fact in Fiction: 1920s China and Ba Jin’s Family.

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 156-160
Author(s):  
Ronald Torrance
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Literary Criticism ◽  
The Novel ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social And Economic Development ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Rich ◽  
Chinese Literary Criticism ◽  
The City

There are few resources amongst contemporary Chinese literary criticism that manage to weave such insightful literary readings and incisive historical research as Kristin Stapleton’s Fact in Fiction: 1920s China and Ba Jin’s Family. The book accomplishes three feats, as set out by Stapleton in her introductory chapter, simultaneously incorporating a history of twentieth-century Chengdu (and its relevance to the developments in China during this period, more broadly) alongside the author’s biography of Ba Jin’s formative years in the city and the historiographical context of his novel Family. Such an undertaking by a less skilled author would have, perhaps, produced a work which simplifies the rich historical underpinnings of Ba Jin’s Family to supplementary readings of the novel, coupled with incidental evidence of the political and social machinations of the city in which its author grew up. Not so under Stapleton’s careful guidance. By reading the social and economic development of early twentieth-century Chengdu as much as its fictional counterpart in Ba Jin’s Turbulent Stream trilogy, Stapleton provides a perceptive reading of Family which invites the reader to consider how fiction can enrich and enliven our understanding of history.

scholarly journals The Psycholinguistic Portrait of the Traitor in Ukrainian Artistic Military Prose of the Second Half of the XX Century

2020 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
pp. 113-136
Author(s):  
Roman Dubrovskyi
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Self Esteem ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Analysis Method ◽  
External Evaluation ◽  
Character Type ◽  
Time Space ◽  
Analysis Of The Images ◽  
In Fire ◽  
Different Levels

The purpose of the study in the article is to identify the components of the psycholinguistic portrayal of the traitor in the Ukrainian artistic prose of the second half of the twentieth century. Materials & Methods. Elements of component analysis, method of classification, discourse analysis, content analysis, as well as lexico-semantic, associative methods were applied in the article and on the basis of these methods it has been provided the analysis of the images of the movie story «Ukraine in Fire» by O. Dovzhenko, the novel «House over a torso» by I. Kachurovsky, the novel «Whirlwind» by Yu. Mushketyk, the novel «The ground under the hooves» by V. Drozd). Results. It is considered the place of traitor images in the structure of literary works. The emphasis is placed on the dynamics of their development within the artistic time space. The focus is also made on the psycholinguistic markers forming the hero’s/antihero’s portrait in the creative work. Comparison of the methods of designing the image of the traitor at different levels of organization of the artistic text in all the analyzed works is carried out. Conclusions. It has been found that the psycholinguistic content of the traitor character type is directly dependent on the author's self-esteem model. The external evaluation, as a rule, remains stable. The description of the traitor’s psychological portrait in all cases shows the displacement of the axiological vector, the change of the poles of the opposition “one’s own – another’s”. In general in the Ukrainian military prose of the second half of the twentieth century the linguistic-psychological portraits of the traitor-gadget, traitor-freak and traitor-punisher are most vividly presented. However, there are other models.

scholarly journals Het beeld van het gezin in Boerenpsalm van Felix Timmermans en Placówka (De voorpost) van Bolesław Prus

2021 ◽  
Vol 69 (5 Zeszyt specjalny) ◽  
pp. 171-185
Author(s):  
Joanna Włodarczyk-Kaziród
Keyword(s):  
Interpersonal Relationships ◽  
Basic Structure ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Polish Literature ◽  
Time Space ◽  
The Family ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Way

This article is an attempt to present the image of the family that is contained in two novels, Boerenpsalm (A Peasant’s Psalm) by Felix Timmermans and Placówka (The Outpost) by Bolesław Prus. The article begins with an introduction, explaining the phenomenon of regional prose which was present at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries in both Dutch and Polish literature. Following this, aspects such as time, space and the subject of the novel, as well as the way of presenting the family theme, are discussed. The article ends with a summary and discussion of the conclusions drawn. The family community is the eternal and basic structure of interpersonal relationships. The family presented in the novels analysed is a large, multi-generational community, based on relationships. However, it can be unequivocally stated that the manner of presenting this community is different in the two novels discussed.

scholarly journals SYMBIOSIS OF ARTISTIC TRENDS IN CONTEMPORARY LITERATURE OF THE ARAB COUNTRIES OF THE PERSIAN GULF

2021 ◽  
Vol 02 (09) ◽  
pp. 105-109
Author(s):  
Shakhlo Irgashbaevna Akhmedova ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Literary Criticism ◽  
Persian Gulf ◽  
Contemporary Literature ◽  
Arab Countries ◽  
Literary Traditions ◽  
Common Features ◽  
Cultural Life ◽  
The Persian Gulf ◽  
Short Time

The article deals with the accelerated development of fiction in the Arab countries of the Persian Gulf. It discusses questions fit into the “theory of accelerated development” of national literatures, received recognition in the contemporary literary criticism. The article notes that the fiction of these countries in their abrupt development has evolved from the medieval literary traditions to meet the taste of works of the modern reader for the short time. The development of modern prose in the Arab countries of the Persian Gulf is seen on the background of tremendous changes that took place in the socio-economic and cultural life of these countries in the second half of the twentieth century. It is also noted that the presence of common features of formation of modern prose in these countries, there are differences in the level of artistic works maturity and volume of the created writings.

scholarly journals Narrators and their position among other characters in the novel «Το διπλό βιβλί ο» and the whole work by D. Hatzis

2020 ◽  
pp. 42-50
Author(s):  
A. Satdarova
Keyword(s):  
Short Stories ◽  
Literary Criticism ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
The Status

D. Hatzis is known as the author of the novel «Το διπλό βιβλί ο» and also as the author of many short stories, so his whole work presents a wide range of various characters that have never been analyzed by literary criticism as a system. The article clarifi es the status of narrators in the novel «Το διπλό βιβλί ο» as main characters, considers them as a system, reveals connection between them and characters of earlier works by D. Hatzis.

O SAGRADO NA CONSTRUÇÃO NARRATIVA DE MIA COUTO "The sacred on Mia Couto’s narrative construction"

2014 ◽  
Vol 5 (10) ◽  
pp. 191
Author(s):  
Antonio Geraldo Cantarela
Keyword(s):  
Short Stories ◽  
Literary Criticism ◽  
Magical Realism ◽  
Religious Studies ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Narrative Construction ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Discursive Constructions ◽  
The Way

A obra do escritor moçambicano Mia Couto apresenta grande número de construções discursivas que podem ser associadas ao âmbito da religião e do sagrado. Tais marcas certamente poderiam ser abordadas por leituras teológicas ou das ciências da religião. Fugindo a esses vieses, o artigo propõe-se a destacar o modo como as referências ao sagrado “visitam” o texto do escritor, constituindo-o no literário. Metodologicamente, far-se-á a leitura de uma cena do romance O outro pé da sereia em diálogo com as categorias de Otto sobre o numinoso. Em vista de complementar tal perspectiva de leitura, serão lidos também dois contos, em correlação com o conceito de realismo maravilhoso: O embondeiro que sonhava pássaros e O dia em que explodiu Mabata-bata. Sob o foco da crítica literária, conclui-se que as sacralidades e hierofanias que transitam pelo texto de Couto se entendem como encenação e recriação literária do sagrado. Nas considerações finais afirma-se que o fazer literário que assume as vozes dos marginalizados, ainda que pelo caminho da ficção, pode ser acolhido como objeto de leitura teológica.Palavras-chave: Numinoso. Realismo maravilhoso. Teologia. Literatura.AbstractThe work by Mozambican writer Mia Couto shows a great number of discursive constructions that may be associated with the field of religion and the sacred. These features could certainly be addressed by theology or religious studies texts. In an attempt to run away from these perspectives, the goal of this paper is to highlight the way in which references to the sacred “visit” the writer’s text, making it a literary one. Methodologically speaking a scene from the novel The Mermaid’s Other Foot will be read in a dialogue with Otto’s categories on the numinous. In order to complement this point of view of the reading, two other short stories will also be read in relation to the magical realism concept: The bird-dreaming baobab and the The day Mabata-bata exploded. Using the literary criticism approach, the conclusion is that the sacralities and hierophanies present on Couto’s text are understood as the staging and the literary recreation of the sacred. The concluding remarks state that the literary doing in the marginalized voices, although it is done through fiction, can be seen as an object of theological reading.Keywords: Numinous. Magical Realism. Theology. Literature.

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