The Noble Nest by I. S. Turgenev: Poetics of Costume

2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 8-15
Author(s):  
Galina P. Kozubovskaya ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Point Of View ◽  
Literary Texts ◽  
Complex Nature ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Cultural Approach ◽  
Scientific Disciplines ◽  
Semiotic Approach ◽  
Split Point ◽  
Points Of View ◽  
The One

The costume which has recently become the focus of many scientific disciplines has hardly attracted literary critics: the methodology of its research in fiction is just beginning to take shape. The historical and cultural approach, which essentially boils down to a commentary has been replaced by a very productive structural and semiotic approach that deciphers the semantics and functions of the costume. The methodology of our research is of a complex nature, combining the structural-semiotic, mythopoetic, and motivic aspects of the analysis of literary texts. The narratological aspect in the study of costume poetics is emphasized, which, as a rule, remains outside the scope of research.The narratological aspect is aimed at identifying “flickering” meanings in the structure of the whole – “prose as poetry” (V. Schmid).The dynamics of costume descriptions, their functionality in the structure of the whole and the specifics in the organization of the narrative (taking into account the “point of view”, the motive given by costume details and based on semantic nodes that connect polar meanings, etc.) are at the center of our research.Thanks to costume inclusions, the text of the novel The Noble Nest becomes multidimensional. Thus, the characterological detail of Panshin – a screw-shaped Golden ring is situational and at the same time conceptual: it connects the “beginnings” and “ends” of his story, symbolically programming fate. Laconic sketches of Lavretsky’s clothing, scattered throughout the text, formalizing the opposition of one’s own/ another’s, prepare a motif of loneliness and homelessness. In layered narrative created by the play of the author’s and character’s points of view, Lavretsky’s point of view “migrates” to the author’s one replacing it (“poetic” sign of the optics of the hero) and then separates from it. The content of the method of crushing, which replaced the silhouette image, is an expression of the confusion of the soul, deforming the female image. The details in Lavretsky’s “split” point of view are ambiguous: on the one hand, there is alienation, on the other hand, there is a subconscious attraction to the beloved woman in the primary, unreflexed sense of a person losing happiness. The novel’s flickering meaning is created by semantic nodes that match polarities. “White” is the symbolic color of the national, rooted in the soil (the white caps of Marfa Timofeevna and Nastasya Karpovna), and at the same time the ghostly, impossible realization of happiness (the rhyming white dress of Lisa and the white dress on the portrait of Lavretsky’s mother). “Black” is also ambivalent: the elegant black silk dress of Varvara Pavlovna and the unnamed color of Lisa’s monastic clothes in the Epilogue. The scarf that Marfa Timofeevna knits is a mythologeme that encodes the story of love and failed happiness and at the same time the semantic core of the poetics of incompleteness. Keywords: costume, costume poetics, mythologeme, narrative, semantics, point of view

scholarly journals To write or not to write: censorship in "The Woman in the Photo" by Tia Șerbănescu and "A Censor’s Notebook" by Liliana Corobca

2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 8-27
Author(s):  
Monica Manolachi
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Literary Texts ◽  
Psychological Process ◽  
Production Of Knowledge ◽  
Mise En Abyme ◽  
Points Of View ◽  
The One ◽  
The Mind ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Compare And Contrast

Censorship as a literary subject has sometimes been necessary in times of change, as it may show how the flaws in power relations influence, sometimes very dramatically, the access to and the production of knowledge. The Woman in the Photo: a Diary, 1987-1989 by Tia Șerbănescu and A Censor’s Notebook by Liliana Corobca are two books that deal with the issue of censorship in the 1980s (the former) and the 1970s (the latter). Both writers tackle the problem from inside the ruling system, aiming at authenticity in different ways. On the one hand, instead of writing a novel, Tia Șerbănescu kept a diary in which she contemplated the oppression and the corruption of the time and their consequences on the freedom of thought, of expression and of speech. She thoroughly described what she felt and thought about her relatives, friends and other people she met, about books and their authors, in a time when keeping a diary was hard and often perilous. On the other hand, using the technique of the mise en abyme, Liliana Corobca begins from a fictitious exchange of emails to eventually enter and explore the mind of a censor and reveal what she thought and felt about the system, her co-workers, her boss, the books she proofread, their authors and her own identity. Detailed examinations and performances of the relationship between writing and censorship, the two novels provide engaging, often tragi-comical, insights into the psychological process of producing literary texts. The intention of this article is to compare and contrast the two author’s perspectives on the act of writing and some of its functions from four points of view: literary, cultural, social and political.

scholarly journals Gauss law, minimal coupling and fermionic PEPS for lattice gauge theories

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patrick Emonts ◽  
Erez Zohar
Keyword(s):  
Gauge Theories ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Lattice Gauge ◽  
Hamiltonian Lattice ◽  
Tensor Network ◽  
Network Methods ◽  
Matter Theory ◽  
Lattice Gauge Theories ◽  
Points Of View ◽  
The One

In these lecture notes, we review some recent works on Hamiltonian lattice gauge theories, that involve, in particular, tensor network methods. The results reviewed here are tailored together in a slightly different way from the one used in the contexts where they were first introduced. We look at the Gauss law from two different points of view: for the gauge field, it is a differential equation, while from the matter point of view, on the other hand, it is a simple, explicit algebraic equation. We will review and discuss what these two points of view allow and do not allow us to do, in terms of unitarily gauging a pure-matter theory and eliminating the matter from a gauge theory, and relate that to the construction of PEPS (Projected Entangled Pair States) for lattice gauge theories.

scholarly journals The corporeal meaning of language: A semiotic approach to musical glossolalia

Semiotica ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 2019 (229) ◽  
pp. 69-85
Author(s):  
Simona Stano
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Semiotic Analysis ◽  
Philosophical Discussion ◽  
Semiotic Approach ◽  
Relevant Case ◽  
Points Of View ◽  
Linguistic Approach

AbstractA number of studies have investigated glossolalia from different points of view, dealing with its various occurrences in the religious, psychopathological, and – more recently – also poetic and musical domains. The impossibility of fully understanding such a phenomenon through a purely linguistic approach has then increasingly emerged, pointing out the need to adopt a broader perspective. However, no extensive research has been developed on musical glossolalia – and especially on its non-religious forms – from such a point of view. The present paper aims precisely at filling this gap: philosophical discussion of existing literature and the semiotic analysis of particularly relevant case studies of glossolalia in the musical domain help us shed new light on the functioning mechanisms of such a phenomenon, hence suggesting effective tools for understanding how it acquires meaning and produces sense.

scholarly journals ’n Kerkregtelike verkenning van die belewing van kerklike eenheid in en oor volks- en taalgrense

1990 ◽  
Vol 24 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Le R. Du Plooy
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Jesus Christ ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Language And Culture ◽  
Church Unity ◽  
Points Of View ◽  
The One

This article investigates the problem of church unity, paying special attention to unity within and across boundaries of language and culture. The problem is approached from a church canonical point of view. A synopsis is given of the resolutions and viewpoints of the three Afrikaans Churches in South Africa. The reasoning behind the different points of view of these Churches which all adhere to reformational traditions and which all function and work in the same country, is discussed critically. Finally an attempt is made to indicate a few canonical parameters which may be regarded as guidelines to address the problem of unity and diversity in the one Church of Jesus Christ our Lord.

scholarly journals A relational theory of effects and coeffects

2022 ◽  
Vol 6 (POPL) ◽  
pp. 1-28 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ugo Dal Lago ◽  
Francesco Gavazzo
Keyword(s):  
General Theory ◽  
Denotational Semantics ◽  
Relational Theory ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Relational Reasoning ◽  
Combined Effects ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Relational Calculus ◽  
Standard Formalism ◽  
The One

Graded modal types systems and coeffects are becoming a standard formalism to deal with context-dependent, usage-sensitive computations, especially when combined with computational effects. From a semantic perspective, effectful and coeffectful languages have been studied mostly by means of denotational semantics and almost nothing has been done from the point of view of relational reasoning. This gap in the literature is quite surprising, since many cornerstone results — such as non-interference , metric preservation , and proof irrelevance — on concrete coeffects are inherently relational. In this paper, we fill this gap by developing a general theory and calculus of program relations for higher-order languages with combined effects and coeffects. The relational calculus builds upon the novel notion of a corelator (or comonadic lax extension ) to handle coeffects relationally. Inside such a calculus, we define three notions of effectful and coeffectful program refinements: contextual approximation , logical preorder , and applicative similarity . These are the first operationally-based notions of program refinement (and, consequently, equivalence) for languages with combined effects and coeffects appearing in the literature. We show that the axiomatics of a corelator (together with the one of a relator) is precisely what is needed to prove all the aforementioned program refinements to be precongruences, this way obtaining compositional relational techniques for reasoning about combined effects and coeffects.

scholarly journals Recursos genéricos de la novela de ciencia ficción de Pedro Salinas

2011 ◽  
pp. 531
Author(s):  
Fernando Angel Moreno Serrano
Keyword(s):  
Science Fiction ◽  
Spanish Literature ◽  
The Other ◽  
Literary Texts ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Main Subject ◽  
The Future ◽  
Points Of View ◽  
Poetic Visions ◽  
Pedro Salinas

Un análisis sobre La bomba increíble, de Pedro Salinas, es interesante porque nos permite disfrutarla desde diferentes líneas. En primer lugar, no ha sido estudiada como el resto de sus textos literarios, aunque los valores de esta pequeña obra maestra merezcan una especial atención que no ha tenido. Por otra parte, es uno de los extraños casos de novela de ciencia ficción escrita por un autor canónico español. Por último, es sorprendente cómo el poeta mostró todas sus obsesiones, miedos y visiones poéticas con una novela con el futuro como tema. Un análisis de los mecanismos de construcción empleados por Salinas –especialmente ficcionales, pero también lingüísticos y simbólicos– nos permitirá entender y, por consiguiente, disfrutar mejor la novela, así como ponerla en el lugar que le corresponde.An analysis about Pedro Salinas’ La bomba increíble: una fabulación is interesting because we can enjoy it from different points of view. In the first place, it has not been studied as the rest of his literary texts, although the values of this little masterpiece deserve a special attention that has not taken place. On the other hand, it is a strange case of the science fiction novels in Spanish literature written by a Spanish canonic author. Finally, it is amazing how the poet showed all his obsessions, fears and poetic visions with a novel with the future as its main subject. An analysis of the mechanisms of construction used by Salinas –specially the fictional ones, but also the linguistic and symbolic ones– will allow us to understand the novel and consequently enjoy it more. Thus we will be able to put it in the place where it should be.

scholarly journals “NEXT TO GENIOUS”: G. FLAUBERT IN M.M. BAKHTIN’S THINKING

2021 ◽  
pp. 131-142
Author(s):  
Vitaliy Makhlin
Keyword(s):  
19Th Century ◽  
Critical Realism ◽  
World View ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Literary Texts ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Artistic Vision ◽  
The 19Th Century ◽  
Methodological Difficulties

The article analyzes Bakhtin’s 1944 notes on Flaubert. Under discussion is, first, some general background of Bakhtin’s philosophical and scientific methodology as expressed in the notes, secondly, the notes themselves. Bakhtin’s views on Flaubert and the novel of the 19th century are re-presented in connection with the Russian thinker’s theories of the “grotesque realism” and “novelization”as opposed to the “ideological culture of the new times”. The article discusses some principal methodological difficulties of Bakhtinian approach to literary texts as expressed in his notes on Flaubert. In contrast to most philosophical approaches to literature, Bakhtin always treats any text, in his own expression, “in the liminal spheres” of different disciplines, that is, as both a philosopher and literary critic, a theorist and a historian of literature and culture. In these notes this specificity of the Bakhtinian methodology is expressed drastically, but in principal it is quite typical to his thinking “on the borders”. In the subsequent parts of the article Bakhtin’s approach to Flaubert’s “realism” is commented on, from the point of view of those elements of his artistic vision and his world view, which, according to Bakhtin, are not congruous with the concept of the so-called “critical realism”. These elements, Bakhtin implies, belong not so much to the classical novel of the 19th century, but, rather, to what he calls “grotesque realism” before the new times and in the 20th century. These elements are: mutual reversal of “short” and “long” (or “great” time in the images of the day, Flaubert’s artistic opposition to the “straightforwardness” of the idea of “progress” typical for the European Enlightenment and the modernity at large., the artist’s interest in the “elemental life” of human beings and animals. These and some other elements characteristic of Flaubert’s art and ideology, Bakhtin treats as if from within “creative consciousness” of the author.

scholarly journals NILAI-NILAI KEHIDUPAN PADA NOVEL MOGA BUNDA DISAYANG ALLAH KARYA TERE LIYE

2017 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 89-100
Author(s):  
Lozi Septiana ◽  
Yayah Chanafiah ◽  
Amril Canrhas
Keyword(s):  
Research Problem ◽  
Value Of Life ◽  
Research Data ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Research Approach ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Main Character ◽  
Story Line ◽  
Story Character ◽  
The One

This study aims to determine the values of life contained in the novel Moga Bunda Disayang Allah by Tere Liye. The formulation of this research problem is how the value of life contained in the novel Moga Bunda Disukai Allah by Tere Liye. The method used is descriptive. The research approach used in this study is an objective approach, focusing on intrinsic analysis. The source of this research data is the novel Moga Bunda Disayang Allah Tere Liye's work with data taken in the form of texts from the story line, theme and story, character and characterization , Point of view, the novel style of Moga Mother Dear Mother God by Tere Liye.Research Results Values of life contained in the novel Moga Mother Dear God is, judging from the main character of Bunda HK who is very fond of his disabled son and he endlessly fight against the disease Melati. Rough corals in caring for Jasmine, ugly physical but noble heart. Mr. HK is rich but inhuman, misjudging someone from his physical appearance, it turns out HK is wrong. The reef that was ostracized because of his appearance turned out to be the one who saved his daughter. Judging from the depressed Melati characters, the prestation with its limitations, suddenly can pray for Mother "met bobo Mother. Moga Mother Dear God".

scholarly journals 'Aku Terbakar Amarah Sendirian': Pena Pram di Bawah Regim Soeharto

2018 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 25
Author(s):  
Dina Dyah Kusumayanti
Keyword(s):  
Historical Background ◽  
Literary Texts ◽  
The Political ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Sociology Of Literature ◽  
Political Issues ◽  
Political Events ◽  
Pramoedya Ananta Toer ◽  
Points Of View ◽  
Political Decisions

This article aims at examining Pramudya Ananta Toer’s Buru Tetralogy. Many literary scholars have studied this tetralogy from the points of view of nationalism, posctolonialism, and feminism. However, this article presupposes that this tetralogy is conscpicuous especially regarding the political nuance of the ruling regime and some political issues encountered by the protagonist, Minke. Sosiology of literature is the approach underpinning the scrutiny of four novels incorporated in the tetralogy. Swingewood’s sociology of literature helps this current research to find any relation between the political and historical background of the novels and detils on the political issues found in them. Results show that some political agendas in the novel have proven equal to some political agendas under the Soeharto regim. Oligopoly and oligarchy in the novels which are practiced by the regim is an instance to this. This paper elucidated the regim’s political decisions and the political events confronted by Minke. Constraint of this research is on its textual examination of Pram’s tetralogy Buru. In order to investigate these literary texts and the historical political moments under Soeharto’s regime, further research on the historical and political events of the regime need to be elucidated and have to refer to the historical and political documents and medias.      Key words: Tetralogy Buru, sociology of literature, historical and political issues, Pramoedya Ananta Toer.

scholarly journals THE PECULIARITIES OF CONVEYING THE SOCIAL STATUS OF FICTION CHARACTERS IN TRANSLATION (BASED ON J. FOWLES’ NOVEL «THE COLLECTOR»)

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (11(79)) ◽  
pp. 12-15
Author(s):  
Anna Pidhorna ◽  
Olha Moiseienko
Keyword(s):  
Social Status ◽  
Literary Text ◽  
Education Level ◽  
Literary Texts ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Main Character ◽  
Linguistic Features ◽  
Constituent Element ◽  
The Social ◽  
Points Of View

The article is devoted to the sociolinguistic aspects of studying the social status and its reflection in literary texts through the speech of fiction characters. Particular attention is paid to the description of the key concept «social status» as a constituent element of the literary character’s image as well as to the research of the ways the character and his/her linguistic peculiarities are represented in the literary text. It was hypothesized that the character’s social status, education level, and worldview in general must be explicitly seen through the speech the author ascribes to the character. The article deals with the novel «The Collector» by J. Fowles and focuses on analyzing the speech peculiarities of its main character, Miranda. Her language is full of various stylistic devices and expressive means, which also testifies how open-minded this personality is, proves her ability to listen and accept different points of view. Miranda’s speech can be described as extremely poetic and emotional. Concerning key linguistic features of her speech, both lexical and grammatical ones can play a role in defining the character’s social status. The article also studies and analyzes the ways of reproducing the stylistic features in the Ukrainian translation of the novel made by G. Yanovska.

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