The deeper role of gender conflict in Willa Cather's The professor's house

1989 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 68
Author(s):  
Stephen L. Tanner
Keyword(s):  
Willa Cather ◽  
Final Decision ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Main Character ◽  
Gender Conflict ◽  
The Cost ◽  
Professor's House

Increasing feminist attention to Willa Cather's The Professor’s House has resulted in interpretations that view the novels main character, professor Godfrey St. Peter, negatively. An extreme example of this tendency is Doris Grumbach’s portrait of his as a frustrated homosexual misogynist. While gender conflict is an important element of the novel, an exaggerated and distorting emphasis on it trivializes the cost of the professor’s struggle and the significance of his final decision. O romance The Professor's House de Willa Cather despertou a atenção crescente dos interessados na teoria do feminino, suscitando, muitas vezes, interpretações negativas a respeito do personagem principal, professor Godfrey St. Peter. O trabalho de Doris Grumbach, que o retrata como um homossexual misógeno frustrado, é exemplo extremo dessa tendência. Embora o conflito dos gêneros seja elemento essencial no romance, a distorção desse conflito banaliza o significado da decisão final tomada pelo professor.

scholarly journals STUDYING THE ARTISTIC DETAIL (based on Donna Tartt’s novel «The Goldfinch»)

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (192) ◽  
pp. 80-84
Author(s):  
Olha Kozii ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Adult Male ◽  
Defense Mechanisms ◽  
The Other ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Main Character ◽  
Time And Space ◽  
Part D ◽  
Life And Death ◽  
Critical Situation

«The Goldfinch» is a story of a boy and later an adult male Theodore Decker who accidentally obtains a masterpiece. The writer, as a surgeon, separates one second of expectation from the other, detail from detail. The reader is presented not just a frightened child but deep sorrow of the loss of the whole world. In the second chapter of the first part D. Tartt reveals herself as a skillful psychologist, skillfully accustoms herself to the inner state of the main character, with him she travels through the memories, tracks associative relationships he makes. The writer brilliantly follows all defense mechanisms of a man who is faced with the inevitability. The author uses gradation way of describing while stringing visual and auditory details, retards artistic time. The writing of D. Tartt is characterized by the unique skill in the detail describing. The role of artistic detail in the process of inner state depicting is investigated. The author touches upon the problem of the depicting of critical situation in the novel. The attention is paid to the writer’s skills in showing main character’s feelings, memoirs, thoughts, associative relations and human nocifensor in critical situations. It is admitted that in case of such temporal and space detail the most suitable way of analysis is «in succession to the author». Thus, in the novel The Goldfinch D.Tartt declares herself a talented master of words, subtle psychologist and philosopher. As a surgeon, the writer separates one second of expectation from the other, detail from detail. Therefore, the reader can observe not just a frightened child but deep sorrow of the loss of the whole world. This is achieved by the skillful combination of visual and auditory details that create convex emotionally saturated images filled with heartbeat of life. The author dowers the main character – both a teenager and an adult man – with the ability to see deep philosophical maxims in small details, to decipher the message from the artist, to understand the dialectical interpenetration of life and death. Because of such careful author's treatment to the artistic time and space the most appropriate way to study seems to be the analysis «in succession to the author».

scholarly journals Issues of Gay Community on the Novel of Simon VS the Homo Sapiens Agenda

e-LinguaTera ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 6
Author(s):  
Dewi Wijaya ◽  
Irpan Ali Rahman
Keyword(s):  
Sigmund Freud ◽  
Homo Sapiens ◽  
Shopping Behavior ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Main Character ◽  
Social Community ◽  
Know How ◽  
Gay Community ◽  
The Cost ◽  
Shopping Addiction

The study aims to know how social community on gay’s life through the novel of Simon vs the Homo sapiens agenda written by Becky Albertalli. The title of this research is “ The Analysis of Main Character on Confessions of A Shopaholic Novel through Freudian Theory written by Sophie Kinsella”. Confessions of A Shopaholic novel is tells about a women named Rebecca Bloomwood who has bad behavior that are shopping addiction to fulfill her desire but she gets anxiety because of her debts and it disturbs her psychological. This research will focuses on Rebecca’s anxiety.The data are taken from the novel in the form of dialog and monolog. The writer using psychoanalysis theory from Sigmund Freud that related with anxiety theory. Sigmund Freud theory has 3 kinds of anxiety, there are realistic anxiety, neurotic anxiety and moral anxiety. This theory is used to analyze the cause and effect of Rebecca Bloomwood’s anxiety.Last, the writer found the proved from Rebecca experiences three kinds of anxiety. First is neurotic anxiety caused by her mom character and it might be related to Rebecca childhood, Rebecca can’t to be honest to her mom about the cost of her skirt or clothes, she always tells if they are cheap because she knows her mom will shocked and angry if she now the truth, that can related if Rebecca can’t fulfill her desire when she was child because of her mom character. Second is realistic anxiety caused by her bad habit in shopping, that makes Rebecca has a lot of debts and that makes she becomes panic everytime met her debt collector. And the last moral anxiety caused by she felt guilty of her shopping behavior. And she becomes a liar to defense herself

scholarly journals Population heterogeneity is a critical factor of the kinetics of the COVID-19 epidemics

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dalkhat M. Ediev
Keyword(s):  
Compartmental Model ◽  
Critical Factor ◽  
Social Consequences ◽  
Population Heterogeneity ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Homogeneous Population ◽  
Novel Coronavirus ◽  
The Cost ◽  
Kinetics Of

The novel coronavirus pandemic generates extensive attention in political and scholarly domains 1–4. Its potentially lasting prospects, economic and social consequences call for a better understanding of its nature. The widespread expectations of large portions of the population to be infected or vaccinated before containing the COVID-19 epidemics rely on assuming a homogeneous population. In reality, people differ in the propensity to catch the infection and spread it further. Here, we incorporate population heterogeneity into the Kermack-McKendrick SIR compartmental model 5 and show the cost of the pandemic may be much lower than usually assumed. We also indicate the crucial role of correctly planning lockdown interventions. We found that an efficient lockdown strategy may reduce the cost of the epidemic to as low as several percents in a heterogeneous population. That level is comparable to prevalences found in serological surveys 6. We expect that our study will be followed by more extensive data-driven research on epidemiological dynamics in heterogeneous populations.

scholarly journals Main Character’s Resistance Against Traumatic Experience in Frances Hudgson Burnett’s The Secret Garden: Freud’s Tripartite Model Analysis

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 13
Author(s):  
Brian Cesar
Keyword(s):  
Sigmund Freud ◽  
Model Analysis ◽  
The Other ◽  
Traumatic Experience ◽  
Tripartite Model ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Main Character ◽  
Minor Characters ◽  
The Secret Garden

This thesis discusses about the effect caused by parent’s neglect towards children’s development as seen in the novel The Secret Garden by Francis Hudgson Burnett. The main character, Mary Lennox, has life without love and attention from her parents. This situation has a great impact towards Mary’s development, mentally and physically. The role of “the secret garden” along with several characters that appears in the story have a big contribution in help Mary to change to a better person, based on the theory by Sigmund Freud about “id, ego and superego” or famous with the term “tripartite theory”. The result of this research is how the contribution from the secret garden to help Mary changes to a better child. The secret garden has a role to helps Mary understands about her own intention, helped with the other minor characters that drives the “id” and “superego” of the main character.

scholarly journals Tu rostro con la marea: una tragedia con máscaras pero sin héroe

2018 ◽  
pp. 87
Author(s):  
Emilio Ramón García
Keyword(s):  
The Novel ◽  
Main Character ◽  
Direct Relation ◽  
Russian People ◽  
History Of ◽  
History Of Europe ◽  
Alter Ego

<p>Tu rostro con la marea es una metaficción historiográfica a modo de novela de memoria cuyo personaje principal, Ángel Bigas, se construye una imagen de héroe decimonónico. Incapaz de lidiar con la realidad,forja su vida según los mundos de escritores como Galdós, Maupassant y Stendhal, y según el modelo de amor romántico platónico hacia una mujer rusa, Olga Rykova Anneski. Incapaz de entenderla también a ella, la encaja dentro de las tesis del marqués de Custine respecto al pueblo ruso y sus tradicionales ataduras. Ella, por su parte, es el alter ego de la poeta rusa Ajmátova, y oculta un espíritu bolchevique tras su máscara. El análisis de sus figuras revela la relación entre la historia y la ficción, el carácter de tragedia clásica de la novela, el papel de las expectativas en la percepción, y el correlato de ambos con la historia de Europa.</p><p> </p><p>Tu rostro con la marea is piece of historiographical metafiction following the model of a memory novel<br />around its main character. Incapable of facing reality, Ángel Bigas projects the image of a nineteenth<br />century hero according to the lives and works of Galdós, Maupassant and Stendhal while fueling his<br />aura with rumors and legends. His belief in the idiosyncrasy of the Russian people as understood by themarquis of Custine also makes him fail understanding his idealized love, Olga Rykova Anneski. She is also the alter ego of a very different kind of writer: the Russian Bolshevik poet Akhmatova. The analysisof the two figures as literary constructs reveals the relation between history and fiction, the natureof the novel as a classical tragedy, the role of expectations in perception and the direct relation of bothcharacters with the history of Europe.</p>

scholarly journals The Motifs of Searching for a Sense of Being in the Plot of the Novel by Ivan A. Bunin “The Life of Arseniev”

2020 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 276-293
Author(s):  
Tat’yana N. Kovalyova
Keyword(s):  
Spiritual Formation ◽  
Significant Role ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Main Character ◽  
Human Soul ◽  
True Path ◽  
Conscious Choice ◽  
Iconic Images ◽  
The Right

<p>The article focuses on the study of the role of the motifs in the development of the plot of Ivan A.&nbsp;Bunin&rsquo;s novel &ldquo;The Life of Arseniev&rdquo;. Investigating the early stages of spiritual formation of the main character of the novel, the author of the article highlights the motifs of loneliness, the feeling of senseless of an imperfect existence, the aspiration to understand the meaning of all things, the highest sense of being, to find the source and sense of an existential despondency&nbsp;&mdash; longing for God. The aspiration to find unshakable and eternal values brings Arseniev about to take the unusual road, that is why the motifs of wanderings, encircling and pilgrimage have a&nbsp;significant role in the plot of the novel. The aimless wandering of Arseniev is a&nbsp;reflection of the fact that he has not yet found the highest sense of being, and is opposed to the motif of wandering as a conscious choice of the person, who establishes a certain truth by his own conscious way, that is why the meaning of the pilgrimage and such Christian images as a temple, church, cathedral, monastery, pilgrim, saints attests to the hero&rsquo;s search for God and for the way to Him. Arseniev&rsquo;s searches are conditioned by his strivings for an inmost soul that a human soul always imagines, that is by his longing for God, his desire to find the highest sense of being, a true path as the path to God. This conclusion is confirmed by the path of life of the main character which includes the interrelation of motifs of search of a sense and purpose of life, the right path, wanderings, encircling, pilgrimage and also the main iconic images (temple, monastery).</p>

scholarly journals Politik dan Kaum Muda dalam Novel Namaku Subardjo Karya Hapsari Hanggarini

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 205-216
Author(s):  
Dea Harumi Urbaningrum
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Political Ideology ◽  
Research Method ◽  
Theoretical Foundation ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Main Character ◽  
Sociology Of Literature ◽  
The Relationship

AbstractThis study aims to describe the problem of young people’s failure in politics found in Hapsari Hanggarini’s novel “Namaku Subardjo”. From the novel, data and object of the research was obtained. The data are in the forms of sentences or dialogues and story units that lead to the correlation between politics and youth. The theoretical foundation is Terry Eagleton's sociology of literature which emphasizes on political ideology. Steps of the research method are: 1) reading Hapsari Hanggarini’s novel “Namaku Subardjo” as a whole, 2) colleting data, 3) classifying the data, 4) analyzing and interpreting the data. The importance of the research is to show that young people must be able to play a role and understand politics in order to advance the Indonesian nation. The result of the research is the role of young people in politics for the sake of advancing the Indonesian nation. Therefore, the relationship between youth and politics is very close, as in the novel “Namaku Subardjo” of which, the main character as a young people began to move to build Indonesian politics. AbstrakPenelitian ini bertujuan untuk mendeskripsikan permasalahan kaum muda yang masih gagal dalam berpolitik yang terkandung dalam novel Namaku Subardjo karya Hapsari Hanggarini. Objek penelitian atau sumber data ialah novel Namaku Subardjo karya Hapsari Hanggarini. Data diperoleh dari kalimat atau dialog, dan satuan cerita yang mengarah pada korelasi politik dan kaum muda. Landasan teori yang diacu ialah sosiologi sastra Terry Eagleton yang menekankan pada ideologi politik. Metode penelitian yang digunakan yaitu: 1) membaca novel Namaku Subardjo karya Hapsari Hanggarini secara keseluruhan, 2) menginventarisasi data, 3) mengklasifikasikan data, 4) menganalisis data dan menginterprestasikan data. Pentingnya penelitian ialah untuk menunjukkan bahwa kaum muda harus mampu berperan dan memahami politik demi memajukan bangsa Indonesia. Hasil penelitian ialah peran kaum muda dalam berpolitik sangat dibutuhkan oleh negara.  Oleh karena itu, hubungan antara kaum muda dan politik sangat erat, sama halnya dalam novel Namaku Subardjo, tokoh utama sebagai kaum muda mulai bergerak untuk membangun politik Indonesia.

scholarly journals Kołysanka jak terapia w relacji matki z córką. O powieści „Widziane z drugiej strony” Ken Bugul

2021 ◽  
Vol 53 (4) ◽  
pp. 225-237
Author(s):  
Edyta Sacharewicz
Keyword(s):  
Intimate Relationship ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Main Character ◽  
Short Introduction ◽  
Therapeutic Role ◽  
Ken Bugul ◽  
Artistic Works ◽  
The Relationship

The aim of this article is to present the lullaby as a special song based on the intimate relationship between a mother and a daughter in the artistic works of a Senegalese writer, Ken Bugul. An analysis of the novel De l’autre côté du regard is preceded by a short introduction that explains the concept of a lullaby and presents its functions. The author of this article attempts to show how the lullaby can influence the relationship between the main character and her mother, showing the therapeutic role of the song. 

scholarly journals Anatomia uczuć w przekładzie. Strategie tłumacza w oddawaniu warstwy emocjonalnej tekstu literackiego na przykładzie powieści Partygirl Marlene Streeruwitz

2019 ◽  
Vol 39 ◽  
pp. 15-30
Author(s):  
Joanna Bukowska
Keyword(s):  
Emotional States ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Main Character ◽  
Source Text ◽  
Translation Process

The focus of this article is an examination of translator’s dilemmas related to the rendering of emotions in the translation process. he relationship between emotions and the translation process is analyzed on the example of the novel Partygirl Marlene Streeruwitz and its Polish translation by Emilia Bielicka. The study focuses on the problem of translating emotional elements that are present in the source text and sheds light on how emotions can be translated. The article provides an introduction to the author's context which is of significance in understanding the role of emotions in the source text. The study shows how the Austrian writer conceives language and uses stylistic means and writing techniques to incorporate emotions into language structures. The analytical part consists of fragments of the novel that emphasize the emotional states of the main character and is devoted to the exploration of the lexical, syntactic and stylistic features. The undertaken analysis reveals the translator’s strategies and examines his decisions. 

scholarly journals Political Reading of Dangarembga’s Nervous Conditions

2020 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 156-162
Author(s):  
Majed Alenezi
Keyword(s):  
Historical Perspective ◽  
African Women ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Colonial Power ◽  
Social Hierarchies ◽  
Gender Conflict ◽  
Male Characters ◽  
Close Analysis ◽  
Political Perspective

This paper explores Tsitsi Dangarembga’s debut novel, Nervous Conditions, from a political perspective. It has been read as portraying of gender relationships, social hierarchies and oppression of African women. This paper takes a different route as it analyses the role of masculinities through a political perspective. The conflict and struggle between genders in the text can be read through a political and historical perspective. This particular reading is permitted through a close analysis of the male characters in the novel. The research argues that male characters resemble or behave in away similar to white colonizers in their treatment of African women. Reading the novel through a political perspective provides the reader with the benefit of understanding the changes that occur in the characters and the role of gender conflict in the text. The triumph of Tambu and Nyasha at the end underscores the failure of colonial power to colonize Zimbabwe.

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