scholarly journals THE CHARACTER CONFRONTING THE AUTOR: TOWARD THE ISSUE OF AN UNDESCRIBDED METALITERARY PLOT

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 96-113
Author(s):  
Olga N. Turysheva
Keyword(s):  
Miguel De Unamuno ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Modernist Literature ◽  
Equal Rights ◽  
Fictional World ◽  
Contemporary Novels ◽  
Mass Literature ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Aesthetic ◽  
The Relationship

The article examines a specific metaliterary motif of the confrontation between ‘the author’ and the character. In this motif, both ‘the author’ and the character are portrayed as characters of the plot of the fictional world. The article analyses the emergence of the motif in modernist literature which subverts the realist poetics of the author’s omniscience. The author of the article employs the term ruman to refer to the novel genre where the author and the character enjoy equal rights. The term was first introduced by Miguel de Unamuno whose Mist (1914) was the first example of this version of metareflexive narrative. The article traces the development of the motif in modernist, postmodernist, and recently published contemporary novels. The differences in depicting of the relationship between the author and the character are explicated by reconstruction of the aesthetic and philosophical context of the time and the polemics with the dominating concepts of the Subject. Additionally, the article examines variations of the motif both in highbrow and mass literature focusing on such rumanistic pieces as novels by K. Vaginov, J. Fowles, V. Pelevin, L. Binet.

The Coptic Church in Popular Fiction on the Eve of the Arab Spring:Youssef Ziedan’s Azazeel

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nichole Perera
Keyword(s):  
Popular Fiction ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Academic Scholarship ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Coptic Church ◽  
Significant Addition ◽  
Theological Controversy ◽  
The Arab Spring ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The Voice

The 5th century CE was a period of intense theological controversy concerning the relationship between the human and divine in Christ. This dispute led to the permanent separation of the Egyptian Coptic church from Imperial Orthodoxy. The events of the 5th century, previously confined to academic scholarship, have recently become the subject of popularizing works like Agora (2009), The Jesus Wars (2010), and 428 AD (2009). The Arabic novel Azazeel (2009), written by the Egyptian Islamic scholar Youseff Ziedan, is a significant addition to these other works. Like The Da Vinci Code in its use of “actual” historical evidence, Azazeel purports to be a compilation of newly discovered Syriac scrolls written by the Coptic monk Hypa, which detail his spiritual trials between 411 and 437 CE. The novel sparked great controversy in Egypt among Coptic Christians for creating a misleading picture of important figures and events in their early history. Copts felt that a Muslim scholar was appropriating the voice of a Coptic monk without clearly signalling it was a work of fiction in order to produce a false account of Coptic origins. Though published before the Arab Spring, it soon became further evidence of the oppressive intentions of the Muslim majority against a Coptic minority in Egypt. Azazeel is different from other similar works in English because the events of the 5th century are still part of the living identity of Copts.

scholarly journals Intraspecific structural signs of curly silver fir (Abies alba Mill.) growing in the Ukrainian Carpathians

2020 ◽  
Vol 66 (No. 7) ◽  
pp. 299-308
Author(s):  
Ivan Sopushynskyy ◽  
Ruslan Maksymchuk ◽  
Yaroslav Kopolovets ◽  
Sezgin Ayan
Keyword(s):  
Wood Density ◽  
Abies Alba ◽  
Subject Area ◽  
Wood Products ◽  
Silver Fir ◽  
Annual Rings ◽  
Stem Wood ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Aesthetic ◽  
The Relationship

The aim of this paper is to present the intraspecific differentiation of the curly silver fir (Abies alba Mill.) by the wood structure growing in the Ukrainian Carpathians. To find the morphological distinctions by using the silvicultural and biometric methods, 50 silver fir trees with anomalous wavy-relief stemwood formations were investigated. The trees aged from 94 to 132 years were characterised by the diameter at breast height of 32–59 cm. The length of the wave-grained stemwood varied from 6 to 11.5 m. The amplitude of the wood fibre waves varied from 4.4 to 24.1 mm. The smallest values of the amplitude of the wave-grained wood corresponded to the smaller wavelengths. The significant differences in the wood density and annual growth between the silver fir trees with the straight-grained and wave-grained stem wood were determined. The number of annual rings in 1 cm of the curly silver fir was 27.1% lower and 22.7% higher than the same characteristics for the straight-grained stem wood. The obtained linear equation described the relationship between the number of annual rings in 1 cm and the basic wood density of the silver fir with the straight-grained wood. The aesthetic features of the curly silver fir stem wood were discussed in the subject area of a new niche of exclusive wood products.

An equal music, an alien world: postcolonial literature and the representation of European culture

2005 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 103-113
Author(s):  
SILVIA ALBERTAZZI
Keyword(s):  
Classical Music ◽  
Postcolonial Literature ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Fictional World ◽  
European Literature ◽  
Cultural Myths ◽  
European Culture ◽  
The Relationship

The Postcolonial representation of European culture can alter our (European) perspectives on Western arts. The case of the novel An Equal Music by the Indian writer Vikram Seth is particularly interesting. Although set in Europe (between London, Vienna and Venice) and dealing with European characters, situations, landscapes, and cultural myths, the book offers a peculiarly Postcolonial reading of our classical music. Therefore, by applying Said's contrapuntal analysis to Postcolonial writing, I deal with ‘What the Postcolonial means for us’, taking into account, besides European Literature and Postcolonialism, also the relationship between European music and the Postcolonial sensibility, using Said's and Kundera's essays as keys to Seth's musical and fictional world.

Psychopathology, Inner Space and the Automotive Death Drive: J.G. Ballard

2002 ◽  
Vol 32 (2) ◽  
pp. 55-60 ◽  
Author(s):  
James Sey
Keyword(s):  
Science Fiction ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Death Drive ◽  
Aesthetic Form ◽  
The Aesthetic ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Aesthetic Expression

This paper uses a detailed reading of the 1973 novel Crash!, a work of dystopian science fiction by British author J.G. Ballard, to outline a new theory of psychopathology in a thoroughly technologised culture. The paper proposes that, in the light of the evidence of the novel, it may be possible to reconceptualise both trauma and the somatic relationship to pathology, through the mediation of a saturated technoculture, at least in the sense of a closer investigation of the relationship between perversity and aesthetic expression. The argument concludes that there is a privileged relationship between such extreme forms of pathological symptom as are presented in the novel, and the aesthetic form itself, which leads to a more productive understanding of psychopathology.

scholarly journals Journalism or Writing? (On the Syncretism of the Documentary and Fiction in Russian Writers Creative Works)

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 421-432
Author(s):  
Olga Skibina
Keyword(s):  
Turn Of The Century ◽  
Ethical Aspect ◽  
Grammatical Structure ◽  
Aesthetic Value ◽  
Nonfiction Text ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Aesthetic ◽  
Artistic Image ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Selection Of

The article continues the discussion of the “phenomenon of journalism” in the creative heritage of Russian writers of the early twentieth century. The diary as a genre has always been at the center of research interests, but so far the criteria for “diary” have not been defined either by literary critics, or by theorists of journalism. At the turn of the century, diaries were kept by many artists of the word, it was the only genre that allowed expressing thoughts on pressing issues, which made it possible to attribute this genre definitely to journalism. At the same time, there is a tendency in the works of scientists to note the “informational possibilities of this type of ego-document for the study of the humdrum of a particular topos” (E.M. Krivolapovа), thus relating it to documentary prose. The subject of the analysis is the genre of diary prose by Ivan Bunin and Mikhail Prishvin. Written at the same time, the diaries of these writers reflect — each in its own way — one era — the bloody revolutionary present. The article poses the problem of the relationship between documentary and fiction in the diary genre. By comparing the diaries of Bunin and Prishvin, the author proves that a nonfiction text may well have a certain aesthetic value, but not the aesthetic, but rather the ethical aspect becomes dominant in nonfiction. This is manifested in the topical, socially significant problems of the work, and in the author’s striving to reduce the distance between his consciousness and the consciousness of the reader, and in the special lexical and grammatical structure of the phrase (Bunin's Cursed Days). Prishvin's diaries on the selection of vital material suggest that his position is artistic when the artistic image becomes the only true one in the presentation and perception of the world.

scholarly journals An exploration of place and its representations: an intertextual/ dialogical reading of the photographs of AB Ovenstone and the novel Gillespie by John MacDougall Hay.

2016 ◽  
Vol 41 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lindsay Fiona Blair
Keyword(s):  
Literary Text ◽  
Landscape Painting ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Work Of Art ◽  
Shipping Company ◽  
Private Collection ◽  
Semiotic Approach ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Common ◽  
The Relationship

“An intertextual/ dialogical reading of place through photography and fiction” The article is an exploration of place and its representations based on the intertextual reading of a series of photographs (1880-82) of Tarbert, Loch Fyne by Andrew Begbie Ovenstone (1851-1935) and the dialogical reading of a novel, Gillespie (1914), by John MacDougall Hay (1881-1919) which is set in Tarbert. The proposed article is inspired by a sense that a semiotic approach to the subject will reveal far more than has been discovered within the tradition of hermeneutics and patrimony and that much will be gained by a study of the contrast between written and visual signifiers. The article raises questions about the (unexamined) coded readings of place especially in relation to the photograph, and the lack of an adequately theorized tradition for the novel. The literary text is well known - if not well understood - but the images are from a rare, unpublished, private collection of photographs from Scotland, India and the furthest reaches of Empire (Ovenstone was the Atlantic Freight Manager of Anchor Line Ltd, the Glasgow shipping company). The paper emphasizes the need for the use of codes to decipher the texts. When we “read” the photographs we need to be aware of the intertextual relationship between the photograph and the landscape painting tradition as well as the common practice of the created tableau – there is then overlaid upon the image the sense of a set of conventions, a system which operates much like a language. We are able to discover through the notion of the “long quotation from appearances” the potential for more complex “synchronic” readings. Likewise, in the case of Gillespie, the novel operates within a genre which determines a “reading”. When we are aware of a code, we become aware of the way that Hay manoeuvres adroitly to thwart the reader’s best efforts to settle upon a preferred reading – especially one shaped by an authoritative narrator - which thereby allows for the genuine experience of “heteroglossia” to emerge. The notion of truth in Gillespie is interrogated in the light of Heidegger’s essay “The Origins of a Work of Art” in order that the relationship between representation and reality be clarified.

scholarly journals SPACE OF DEATH IN THE STRUCTURE OF THE NOVEL “SUN OF THE DEAD” BY I.S. SHMELEV

2020 ◽  
Vol 30 (5) ◽  
pp. 887-891
Author(s):  
Xue Chen
Keyword(s):  
Narrative Structure ◽  
The Sun ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Spatial Features ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Temporal And Spatial ◽  
The Dead ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Over Time

The subject of analysis is the space of death in the “Sun of the Dead,” considered as an existential reality opposite to the vital intentions of a person, a manifestation of social voluntarism, a being category that does not intersect with the space of life. Conclusions are drawn about the relationship between temporal and spatial features in the narrative structure. The parameters of the space of death are presented as characteristics of the discreteness of the artistic space of the story. The boundaries of the space of death, its dominance over time, the influence on the tempo-rhythmic features of the text, the types of character consciousness are described.

scholarly journals IRONY AND FANTASY

2020 ◽  
pp. 116-126
Author(s):  
D. Ajdačić
Keyword(s):  
Real World ◽  
Literary Fiction ◽  
Ontological Status ◽  
Fictional World ◽  
The Real ◽  
What Is Said ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
The World ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Relationship

The absence of a typology of irony in the theory of fiction stems from the fact that irony and fiction differently form and transform reality – fiction is a kind of fictional depiction of amazing worlds or phenomena. On the contrary, irony does not create worlds; in it, the subject comments on reality, adding another vision, a vision with a reassessment and deviation from what is said or presented. Irony can comment on the realities of different ontological status, that is, irony can relate to the real world and the fictional world, whether it is real or amazing. Fantasy transforms the world – it distorts, destroys or completes, or builds new worlds, and irony already adds a different vision to the ideas and views presented, regardless of whether they are real or fictional. The terminological and literary-theoretical aspects of the use of irony in works of literary fiction are discussed in the text. Dragan Stojanović’s book “Irony and Meaning” and the author’s terms “Ironical Focus” and “Meaning Pressure” are used as a theoretical starting point. After highlighting the touchpoints of irony and fiction and their special qualities and roles, is proposed a typology of the use of irony in fiction that separates ironic actions concerning the real world, the marvelous world and problematizing the relationship between the real and the marvelous world.

scholarly journals THE AESTHETICS OF PLACE IN THE ALCHEMIST'S NOVEL FOR PAULO COELHO

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 40-51
Author(s):  
Salwa Gerges SALMAN
Keyword(s):  
Open Space ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Third Place ◽  
Human Community ◽  
The Third ◽  
Real Place ◽  
The Aesthetic ◽  
Aesthetic Characteristics ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship

This paper aims to identify the aesthetic characteristics of the element of place in the novel (The Alchemist) through the process of influence, being affected, and revealing contradictions that existing in the human community. The plan involves an introduction and two chapters. The introduction came in two axes: the first: the place, linguistically and idiomatically, and the second axis: the summary of the novel. Whereas the first chapter, which is labeled (types of place), is based on four topics: - The first: the domesticated place - the non-domesticated place. - The second: the open space - the closed place - Third: Place of residence - place of relocation - Fourth: the real place - the imaginary place Moreover, the second chapter entitled (Description), it included three sections: - The first: the relationship of place to the character. - The second: the relationship of the place to the event. - The third: the relationship of the character to the event. At the end we conclude the conclusion of the paper with the most important results.

TROPISMS – A PERSONAL HISTORY OF THE GENESIS OF A COMPOSITION, STRING QUARTET NO. 5, DANCERS ON A PLANE

Tempo ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 76 (299) ◽  
pp. 67-78
Author(s):  
Kevin Volans
Keyword(s):  
String Quartet ◽  
Personal History ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Aesthetic ◽  
The Relationship

AbstractThis article considers the nature of the relationship between composers and musicologists and explores the aesthetic roots and ideas of my 5th String Quartet, Dancers on a Plane, which has recently been the subject of a musicological study.

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