scholarly journals The functionality of comic techniques in the novel “The Days of Savely” by Grigory Sluzhitel

Neophilology ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 467-474
Author(s):  
Marina M. Glazkova
Keyword(s):  
Main Idea ◽  
World Order ◽  
The Novel ◽  
The World ◽  
Child Perception ◽  
New Interpretation ◽  
Changing Role

We investigate the comic as a special artistry mode, which consists in identifying at the compositional level the structural functionality of comic techniques when depicting the “inconsis-tency of the world order” on the example of the novel by G.M. Sluzhitel “The Days of Savely” with the help of characters playing their roles and changing role masks to show the relativity of everything in the world, except for the absoluteness of love as the most important category of eternity. We show that in the novel “The Days of Savely” various types of comic are used: direct and hidden mockery, laughter symbolism of details, stylization and fusion of various vocabulary layers, intertextual inclusions, new interpretation of precedent phenomena, etc. We substantiate the concept that the functionality of comic techniques in the work of Grigory Sluzhitel is extensive. The most important functions of the comic are: the ubiquitous images characterization; identifying the main “core” of the protagonist character and other heroes of the novel; interpretation of the events taking place in the “The Days of Savely” through the prism of the “wise child” perception – Savva cat; determining or predicting the fate of characters; expression of the author’s worldview, formulation of the work main idea; determination of the relativity of earthly life by playing various images in comparison with them.

The Oxford History of the Novel in English

2018 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
English Language ◽  
Book History ◽  
World Order ◽  
The United States ◽  
The Novel ◽  
History Of The Novel ◽  
Post Colonial ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of

Volume Nine of this series traces the development of the ‘world novel’, that is, English-language novels written throughout the world, beyond Britain, Ireland, and the United States. Focusing on the period up to 1950, the volume contains survey chapters and chapters on major writers, as well as chapters on book history, publishing, and the critical contexts of the work discussed. The text covers periods from renaissance literary imaginings of exotic parts of the world like Oceania, through fiction embodying the ideology and conventions of empire, to the emergence of settler nationalist and Indigenous movements and, finally, the assimilations of modernism at the beginnings of the post-imperial world order. The book, then, contains chapters on the development of the non-metropolitan novel throughout the British world from the eighteenth to the mid twentieth centuries. This is the period of empire and resistance to empire, of settler confidence giving way to doubt, and of the rise of indigenous and post-colonial nationalisms that would shape the world after World War II.

scholarly journals Thinking in colors

2021 ◽  
pp. 12-38
Author(s):  
Nikolai Aleksandrovich Kormin
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Identity ◽  
Color Harmony ◽  
Color Determination ◽  
The World ◽  
New Interpretation ◽  
The Aesthetic ◽  
First Time ◽  
Philosophy Of Arithmetic

This article reveals the philosophical grounds of the aesthetics of color, analyzes the correlation between the structures of philosophical and artistic comprehension of coloristics. Interaction of philosophy and art as the forms of cultural identity manifests in the sphere of intellectual understanding of the perception of color and its semantics in painting. In the hidden logic of contemplation of color, can be traced the outlines of the problematic of transcendental and intelligible in art conditions for the aesthetic approach towards chromatic space. Color creates the visual beauty, thus it is apparent why the aesthetic knowledge seeks to clarify to which extent we can assess the experience of color – the result of coloration of light. The art itself creates the so-called color ontology of the world. First the first time, the beauty of color and its perception are analyzed in the context of correlation between art and transcendental traditions of philosophizing  (Descartes, Kant, early Husserl –  his work “The Philosophy of Arithmetic”) that allows matching the key to a new interpretation of the tradition of color. Determination of its meaning requires comparing history and structure of the philosophical and artistic metaphor of color. It is demonstrated that the phenomenon of color is of crucial significance for the aesthetics, as it implies not only comprehension of the problem of correlation between nature and art, but also cognition of the beauty of color, its universal value for all forms of art, profound structures of perception of coloristic phenomena, picturesque unveiling of the color harmony of the painting.

scholarly journals The Coronavirus Pandemic (COVID-19) and its Aftermath in Contemporary World Affairs

2020 ◽  
Vol 21 ◽  
pp. 1-12
Author(s):  
Sanjmyatav Bazar
Keyword(s):  
International Relations ◽  
World Order ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Contemporary World ◽  
Norms And Values ◽  
The World ◽  
Novel Coronavirus ◽  
Political Economic ◽  
New Phase ◽  
Economic And Social Impacts

As the conception of security consolidates our prosperity to evolve on this planet that revolutionises our social norms and values from time-to-time, it also encounters threats and challenges that could potentially deliver a massive impact to the world. For instance, such security dilemmas would result in transforming the world order, international relations or even the lives of billions. This is the Novel Coronavirus Pandemic of 2019 (COVID-19) and it has changed the world for an indefinite period. Thus, it has forced us into a new phase, new norms and a new world. This paper will examine how this coronavirus outbreak has political, economic and social impacts on the world order through the lens of international relations.

Maurice and Religion

2020 ◽  
pp. 154-174
Author(s):  
Krzysztof Fordoński
Keyword(s):  
First Century ◽  
British Society ◽  
Religious Institutions ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Ancient Greek ◽  
The World ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
Role Of Religion ◽  
Changing Role

This chapter explores the role and representation of religion in the text of Maurice and in critical readings of the novel. Concentrating primarily on the text itself, the chapter offers close readings of those parts of the novel where religion/religions play a part, stressing their importance in the structure of the novel. This analysis retraces the influence of religion (predominantly Christianity but also ancient Greek and pagan religious thought) on the main characters’ psychological development and behaviour, especially on the way they try to deal with irreconcilable demands of religion and their own psyche. The chapter thus reflects on Forster’s attitude towards religious institutions and the changing role religion played in early twentieth-century British society and among Edwardian writers. The chapter also considers the role of religion in the reception of the novel, both in scholarship and among twenty-first-century readers. The chapter concludes by considering questions of reception and the relevance of Maurice to twenty-first-century (queer) readers as concepts of homosexuality have undergone considerable changes in parts of the world.

scholarly journals Humans and animals in Bernard Werber’s novel «Tomorrow the Cats» (Demain les Chats)

2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (23) ◽  
pp. 99-105
Author(s):  
Alla Poltoratska ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Main Idea ◽  
Human Perception ◽  
Human Interaction ◽  
The Novel ◽  
As Species ◽  
French Writer ◽  
The World ◽  
Human Animal ◽  
Animal Interaction ◽  
New Perspective

Characters of animals have been present in the literature since its emergence up to present times. However, at the end of the XIX and the beginning of the XXI century they gained growing interest of literary critics, philosophers, historians, anthropologists, biologists and ecologists that gives scope for studying characters of animals as an interdisciplinary phenomenon. The purpose of the present paper is to study the position of animals in human culture, society, and the relationship between people and animals. It is worth noting that the contemporary authors tend to abandon the dominant position of a person and reveal one of the modern issues, namely, the vulnerability of all creatures before the cruelty of the world. One of such novels is “Tomorrow the Cats” written by the famous French writer, Bernard Werber. The main idea of the novel is to depict a person through lens of an animal. In his novel, Bernard Werber shows the world through cats’ eyes and predicts the proper evolution of humanity. A new perspective of human-animal interaction is the leveling differences between them. In the novel animals can understand language, read, perceive information, predict, behave like a person having a purpose to make friends with people. Bernard Werber points to the rights and protection of animals of humiliations they have been experiencing throughout human history. Contemporary human being has to understand: neither man should rule over nature, nor nature should rule over man. The writer’s vision of the future relationship between species and the conditional symbiosis of animals for their salvation is examined in the article. Besides, new transformations of human-animal relations are studied in the paper and the reasons for mentioned changes are outlined. After all, against the background of the war, the author depicts the contemporary problem of human interaction with the outside world, in which the threat to all creatures is not only looting, but also a plague of rats seeking domination in the city. For the common salvation of animals they are joining to humans. So the author interprets in such a way the image of animal as species closed to man. Thus, Bernard Werber represents changes in human perception of the animal, characterized by man’s desire to worry about the lives of other species. The author seeks to warn a man describing a number of situations in which a man is cruel to the world around him and to his own species. The writer seeks to warn people of the terrible consequences of their actions in order to protect them. Bernard Werber says that the mission of people on the earth is changing, they should worry not only about their existence, but also about existence of the world around them.

scholarly journals Theatricality in the postmodern novel “Quest” by B. Akunin

2019 ◽  
Vol 24 (3) ◽  
pp. 390-403
Author(s):  
Shi Tang
Keyword(s):  
World Order ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Detective Novel ◽  
The World ◽  
Postmodern Novel

The article examines postmodern properties of the detective novel “Quest” by B. Akunin such as “epistemological and ontological doubt” in the view of world and the openness of the narrative. The aspects of theatricalization in the text of the novel are analyzed: the world order of masquerade, the theatricality of episodes, theatrical allusions, etc. The article demonstrates functioning of the game between author and reader in this novel, which serves a great example of Akunin’s literary game strategy. It also confirms that the theatricalization in this novel is in association with postmodern aesthetics and a important aspect in the poetics of “Quest”.

scholarly journals SEMANTIC FILLING OF THE TREE MYTHOLOGEME IN NATURPHILOSOPHY OF P.S. BAKHLYKOV

2021 ◽  
Vol 31 (3) ◽  
pp. 608-613
Author(s):  
I.M. Kulikova
Keyword(s):  
Sacred Space ◽  
Natural Philosophy ◽  
World Order ◽  
Tree Of Life ◽  
Semantic Structure ◽  
Main Role ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Natural Objects ◽  
The World ◽  
Basic Parameters

The article deals with the semantic variants of the mythologeme "a tree" in the novel of the Ugra writer P. Bakhlykov "Bear's Pad". In the work, the mythologeme is one of the dominants of the formal and substantial organization of the artistic space. This mythologeme plays an important role in the natural philosophy of the author. It allows you to describe the basic parameters of life and reconstruct the universal mythopoetic concept of the world order. The semantic structure of the image of a tree in the novel goes back to the archetypal foundations of the worldview of the Russian and Khanty peoples inhabiting Siberia. The article analyzes the meaning and functions of real natural objects - cedar, birch, spruce, larch, pine, their role in mythology, in the formation of sacred space, in cult practice. These trees can serve as symbols of the World Tree and the Tree of Life. The main role in the novel is given to the image of a cedar, the cult of which was most developed in this territory.

scholarly journals «Crime and Punishment»: mystical novel about the birth of the Savior in the world of the evil Demiurge

2020 ◽  
pp. 140-156
Author(s):  
I.I. Evlampiev
Keyword(s):  
Detailed Analysis ◽  
Jesus Christ ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Main Character ◽  
Dual Nature ◽  
Crime And Punishment ◽  
Full Responsibility ◽  
Tragic Consequence ◽  
The World ◽  
New Interpretation

The article proposes a new interpretation of F.M. Dostoevsky's novel "Crime and Punishment”. It is shown that in addition to realistic and socio-psychological plans, the novel contains a symbolic and mystical plan, which is the main one. A detailed analysis of the text of the novel and the preparatory manuscripts for it suggests that Dostoevsky used as the basis of the novel the Gnostic myth of our world as the creation of the evil God the Demiurge and of the fallen Sophia (lower divine aeon), who was captured by matter and awaiting the Savior (Jesus Christ), who is to be born in the world itself, to realize his destiny and, having found Sophia, unite with her in an act of mystical love (syzygy). The mythological image of the Savior, Jesus Christ, expresses Raskolnikov, the main character of the novel. The article proves that the murder committed by a hero can be explained as an inevitable and tragic consequence of the dual nature of any person: he has not only a higher principle, arising from a connection with the good God the Father, but also a lower, dark beginning, created by the evil Demiurge. Therefore, in his action, man inevitably brings not only good, but also evil. Raskolnikov in his fate reveals the tragedy of a man who seeks to change the world of evil by his actions, and shows a universal way out of this tragedy - the acceptance of the full responsibility for what is happening in the world and the all suffering. In this sense, it exactly matches the image of Jesus Christ in its Gnostic understanding.

scholarly journals Migrant’s Semiotics in the novel “The 45th Parallel” by Polina Zherebtsova

2019 ◽  
Vol 69 ◽  
pp. 00078
Author(s):  
Alexandra Milostivaya ◽  
Ludmila Bronskaya ◽  
Irina Makhova ◽  
Olga Chudnov ◽  
Natalia Kizilova
Keyword(s):  
Interpersonal Relations ◽  
Linguistic Analysis ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Semiotic Analysis ◽  
North Caucasus ◽  
The Earth ◽  
The World ◽  
Behavior Based

The article is devoted to the socio-cultural and linguistic analysis of the characteristics of mutual penetration and mutual determination of Christian and Muslim semiotic culture codes in migration discourse of North Caucasus that creates the effect of syncretism of “ours” and “theirs” in speech behavior based on the novel “The 45th Parallel” by Polina Zherebtsova. The story takes place in Stavropol, on the 45th Parallel of the Earth. The documentary novel written in 2005 – 2006 is based on personal diaries of the author, a refugee from Grozny. The aim of this article is to analyze mentalities of Russian (Christian) refugees from the Chechen Republic in the fiction. The research makes it possible to conclude that secondary acculturation of migrants has modified their axiological picture of the world, psychology, lifestyle and sociocultural habits of migrants; together with attributes of their culture, they have preserved relics of the worldview of societies, which they have left. So it is possible to speak about a palimpsest of Christian and Muslim semiotic culture codes “Clothes”, “Food”, and “Interpersonal relations” in migration discourse of North Caucasus. The main methods of the research are the semiotic analysis and the hermeneutic interpretation of discourse.

scholarly journals The Ontology of Death in M. Shishkin’s Novel The Letter Book

2021 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
pp. 43-51
Author(s):  
Daria V. Krotova
Keyword(s):  
World Order ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Human Consciousness ◽  
The World ◽  
Aesthetic Characteristics

The purpose of the study is to characterize the understanding of the phenomenon of death in M. Shishkins novel The Letter Book . In this work, as well as in the literary world of Shishkin in general, the category of death appears as one of the most important objects of reflection. The opposite facets in comprehension of this phenomenona are revealed: death as unconditional evil and monstrous absurdity (which is emphasized by the numerous anti-aesthetic characteristics of the images of dying and death in the novel), but at the same time, the phenomenon of death and the evil that it carries in itself are overcome, and mortality in the literary sphere of the novel is regarded not only as a destructive beginning, but also as a necessary element of ontological balance and an expression of the wisdom of the world order hidden from imperfect human consciousness. The idea of the deep internal unity of the categories of death and love in the novel is argued. Shishkins paradoxical idea of the thanatological element as a sphere of life creation is understood. Conclusions about the neomodernism guidelines of the writers work are formulated.

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