The absence of the rose: Emily, Faulckner and the reader

1988 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 18
Author(s):  
Maria de Fátima Marçal dos Santos

The objective of this paper is to analyze some aspects of William Faulkner's short story "A rose for Emily" using as basic theoretical reference some of the concepts developed by C. S. Peirce in his theory of signs and also some of the ideas found in the psychoanalytical work of J. Lacan. As theoretical instruments of analysis they will be used with the specific purpose of elucidating the process of reading and interpreting the literary text. O objetivo deste trabalho consiste em analisar alguns aspectos do conto A rose for Emily de William Faulkner usando como referência teórica básica alguns dos conceitos desenvolvidos por C. S. Peirce em sua teoria dos signos, assim como algumas das idéias encontradas no trabalho psicanalítico de J. Lacan. Enquanto instrumentos teóricos de análise tais conceitos serão utilizados com o propósito especifico de elucidar aspectos do processo de leitura e interpretação do texto literário.

2019 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 202
Author(s):  
Yan HUANG

A Rose for Emily is the first published short story of William Faulkner, which talks about a tragic life of an elderly Southern woman Emily Grierson. In the whole story, the none rose does not appear, the only use of the word is an adjective for two times. The “Rose” in the title “A Rose for Emily” attracted a lot of attention. This paper will analyze the rose on two main aspects: the symbolic meaning of rose and who give rose to Emily.


Author(s):  
Н.Г. Сичинава

Статья посвящена рассмотрению проблемы формирования основ филологического анализа и интерпретации художественного текста на материале новеллы И.А. Бунина «Ворон». Автор обосновывает необходимость интеграции лингвистического, лингвострановедческого и литературоведческого анализа для обеспечения максимально полного восприятия художественного дискурса инофонами. Зависимость понимания художественного текста и получаемого при его чтении эстетического эффекта от глубины восприятия словесно-художественных образов автор продемонстрирует на материале новеллы И.А. Бунина «Ворон». Средствами создания образов в рассказе являются символика имени; прямая или косвенная характеристики; портрет героя; действия и поступки героя; образы-детали; описание психологического состояния героя; изображение внутреннего мира героя через воспоминания; речь. Как показал анализ, в тексте бунинского рассказа значительный лексический пласт образуется за счет прецедентных феноменов. Процесс их декодирования можно рассматривать как важное средство экспликации текстовой информации. Прежде всего, в исследовательский объектив попадают прецедентные имена. Именно через них можно установить ассоциативные связи с теми понятиями-образами, которые были характерны для российского общества описываемой эпохи или русского лингвокультурного сообщества в целом. В раскрытии образов важную роль играют имплицирующие детали, актуализация которых в ряде случаев происходит через комментарии, заранее подготовленные преподавателем. Особый интерес вызывает проблема смыслового восприятия и понимания имени героини новеллы. Декодирование символики имени героини происходит на основе прецедентных текстов. Данная стратегия формирует у студентов способность узнавать, понимать и адекватно интерпретировать смысл художественного теста с интертекстуальными включениями. Кодирование культурной информации, которая впоследствии должна быть разгадана читателем, имеет место при введении в контекст новеллы определенных лексических единиц. Ключевые слова: художественный текст, интерпретация, прецедентный феномен, образ, язык, И.А. Бунин. The article is devoted to the problem of forming the foundations of philological analysis and interpretation of a fiction text based on the material of I. A. Bunin's short story “The Raven”. The author justifies the need to integrate linguistic, linguistic-cultural and literary analysis in order to ensure the fullest possible perception of fiction discourse by foreign speakers. The author demonstrates the dependence of the understanding of a literary text and the aesthetic effect obtained when reading it on the depth of perception of verbal and artistic images based on the material of I. A. Bunin's Novella "the Raven". The means of creating images in the story are: symbolism of the name; direct or indirect characteristics; portrait of the hero; actions and actions of the hero; images-details; description of the psychological state of the hero; image of the inner world of the hero through memories; speech. Explication of the information contained in the text can proceed along the path of decoding precedent phenomena. When using a precedent name, the author appeals to certain concepts-images that were well known to him and his contemporaries, but do not mean anything to the modern reader. Thus, decoding hidden information requires knowledge accumulated in a given linguistic and cultural community or by humanity as a whole. Implying details play an important role in the disclosure of images, which in some cases are updated through comments prepared in advance by the teacher. Of particular interest is the problem of semantic perception and understanding of the name of the heroine of the novel, which contains references to precedent texts. Decoding the symbolism of the heroine's name gives students the ability to recognize, understand and adequately interpret the meaning of an artistic test with intertextual inclusions. The encoding of cultural information, which must later be unraveled by the reader, takes place when certain lexical units are introduced into the context of the novel.


2012 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 25-36 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maja Djikic ◽  
Keith Oatley ◽  
Matthew Carland

We tested whether the genre of a literary text (essay as compared with short story) or its artistic merit would be primarily responsible for the variability in the self-perceived personality traits that individuals experience when they read. One hundred participants were randomly assigned to read either one of eight essays or one of eight short stories, matched for length, reading difficulty, and interest. The Big-Five personality traits were measured before and after reading. Genre did not affect variability in personality. Rather, participants who judged the text they read to be more artistic reported a greater variability in their personality trait profile after reading, independently of whether the text was an essay or a short story. Artistic merit appears to be associated with literature’s transformative effects through the instability in the self-perceived experience of the reader’s personality.


1983 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 51
Author(s):  
Thomas Nordanberg
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2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 523-526
Author(s):  
R. Mansurov

One of the major issues in contemporary text linguistics is the analysis of the cognitive principles of distributing information in a literary text. Literary text unlike other types of the texts holds subtextual and conceptual information which could be encoded by the readers when they identify foregrounded parts of the text. Foregrounding is the type of cognitive principles of distributing information in the text and its main function is guiding the readers in interpretation of hidden and conceptual message of the text by showing some signals (important extracts) to the readers. In this article, the types and techniques of foregrounding are discussed, and their usages are observed in the short story The Luncheon by S. Maugham.


Author(s):  
Wellington Marçal Carvalho

The present work approaches the way Odete Semedo, in her literary text and specifically in the short story Naquela Noite, uses strategies which can be considered as a possible symbolization of “sites of memory”. Such strategies reinforce resistance mechanisms and indicate ways of survival to go through difficult periods in the troubled space of Guinea-Bissau.  The discussion that is now underway intends to endorse part of the thought of Amílcar Cabral, the most expressive revolutionary leader on the Guinean ground, in which the greater meaning of his people’s struggle for independence is clarified. Cabral’s lucid perception seems to be the same that can be seen in the work carried out by Semedo when he enacts, in his literary project, possibilities for the Guinean people to assume, even with great difficulties, the direction of their destiny. The strategies assumed by the writer configure a literary project of a politicized nature. This work, fueled by these reflections, can verticalize the discussion by focusing on the symbolization of “sites of memory” in Semedo’s text, emphasizing, in the enunciation of it, its performativity as a beacon of resistance and an input for survival to overcome the harshness of current times of Guinea-Bissau. In Naquela Noite, Semedo’s dexterity is proven by her skill of handling the concomitance of divergent times and spaces, as well as the remains of traditions threatened with extinction due to the acceleration of history. (Image Recanto do Poeta)


2011 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Andreas Akun

A literary text is open to signification process by any readers and it is just possible that the text has contesting forces that are at the same time contradictory each other even within the same text. This study attempts to deconstructively read a short story Nasib Seorang Pendengar Setia by Jujur Prananto to reveal the contradiction, inconsistency and unreliability of the text that evidently constitute the warring forces inside the story. This is a library research by applying deconstructive reading method as proposed by Jacques Derrida to show the verbal, textual and linguistic ambiguity and unreliability of the text. The result of the study shows that the short story in the light of deconstructive reading is undoubtedly containing quite many contradictions and inconsistencies that climax in the fact that the content of the story betrays its intended main idea and the title.


Adaptation ◽  
2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gonzalo Montero

Abstract In this article, I analyze the representation of the Frontier in the short story ‘El Sur’ by the Argentine Jorge Luis Borges and the movie Dead Man by American director Jim Jarmusch. Going beyond explicit plot similarities, I argue that Jarmusch’s movie carries out an implicit form of adaptation of Borges’s literary text. Both works not only narrate the violent encounter of urban subjects with an unknown and threatening space, but also underscore how the ‘civilized’ subjectivity experiences a crisis that challenges foundational cultural assumptions. Due to its relevance in the process of nation formation, the Frontier served as a source for symbolic discourses, literary representations, and cultural imaginaries. In the case of Argentina and the United States, specific artistic genres fictionalized the life on the Frontier. Stylistically, both Borges and Jarmusch use tropes and narrative devices from these seemingly outdated genres—gauchesca literature and Western movies—but the use of these devices is highly experimental and installs a much more complex depiction of the symbolic space of the Frontier, thus challenging hegemonic accounts of processes of territorial expansion and racial superiority.


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