scholarly journals Postmodernist Play within Different Text Levels in There But For The by Ali Smith

2019 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 232-241
Author(s):  
G. I. Lushnikova ◽  
T. Iu. Osadchaia
Keyword(s):  
Literary Work ◽  
Literary Discourse ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Modern Fiction ◽  
Discourse Strategies ◽  
Narrative Temporality ◽  
Play Elements ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Internal Speech ◽  
Different Levels

Postmodern play is one of the important characteristics of modern fiction; it often acts as a text-forming element of the literary work. Literary play is manifested within different text levels and literary discourse strategies: the narrative, composition, imagery, diction, narrative temporality and modality, the technique of metanarrative. The present paper features the poetics of play within different text levels and literary discourse strategies in the novel by contemporary Scottish writer Ali Smith "There But For The". At the level of the novel’s narrative, the play manifests itself in the confusion of reality and fantasy, imagination and actual memory in the characters' internal speech. At the level of composition, the author plays with the readers, giving them an opportunity to find some "key" that will connect the four chapters of the novel and the prologue; the characters and connections between them are sometimes also a mystery. Within the literary strategy of temporality, the following play elements are presented: the contrast between serious reasoning about Time and humorous comments and thematically related pieces of poetry; nonlinear narration; description of events which take place in different time periods in a short context. Within the literary strategy of modality, we can trace the author’s play with the reader and the effect of defeated expectancy. The technique of metanarrative also contains elements of the play: the literary and stylistic means used in the novel are explained both in a serious and a joking manner. The diction of the novel is characterized by usage of stylistic devices of different language levels, their function being that of the play: oxymoron, zeugma, chiasm, holophrasis, different types of morphological repetition, and pun. The results of the study suggest that the introduction of elements of a play into the novel at its different levels makes a sharp contrast with the existential themes of the work. Such a contrast greatly enhances the impact of this novel on the reader and requires further study. 

scholarly journals Literary Discourse as a Cognitive Dialogue About «Language as the House of Spirit»

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 33-42
Author(s):  
Yu. V. Mironova ◽  
T. I. Sokolskaya
Keyword(s):  
Literary Work ◽  
Modern Human ◽  
Literary Discourse ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Textual Space ◽  
Level 3 ◽  
Spiritual Energy ◽  
Literary Work Of Art ◽  
Level 2 ◽  
Different Levels

The article is focused on the diversity of literary discourse which is viewed through the prism of “the internal life of the text” and is considered as a dialogue within “the life and power” of the language. As an object of interdisciplinary scientific research literary discourse is perceived as a complex metalinguistic phenomenon, which is inherently dialogic in its character and able to generate certain reality in which modern human beings live and act. In the triad “discourse – language – language personality” the median marker is viewed as “the house of being” (M. Heidegger), “the spirit of the nation” (W. Humboldt), which allows for the understanding of flickering ideas standing behind the creativity of a modern poet.This paper provides the interpretation of the linguistic dynamics of textual space as one of the possible methods of understanding “the life and power” of the text, which helps to objectively represent the notion of “language as the house of spirit” and the spirituality of modern poetry.The purpose of the article is to study the discourse of a literary work of art as a cognitive dialogue about “language as the house of spirit” and reveal the dynamics of “the spirit” within “the soul of the text”. It should be underlined that the multidimensional character of literary discourse provides for several levels in studying a literary text:Level 1: “the text and the reality”;Level 2: “the text and the language”;Level 3: “the author and the text”;Level 4: “the reader and the text”.The research is based on the analysis of the poetic essays by Tamara Sokolskaya – “The Honesuckle” and “Poetic Ariozo. G#HF#E”.The methods employed in the paper include modeling and interpretation of the linguistic dynamics of the textual space, contrastive and synergetic analysis of the “life and power” of the text and the method of conceptual analysis.The findings of the research comprise the following the results:1. Literary discourse is specific in its multidimensional character and the variety of expressed ideas, which sets it apart from other types of discourse;2. This multidimensional character of literary discourse reveals the complexity of the spiritual life of the author of the text.3. The synergy in the dynamics of textual units demonstrates spiritual content of modern poetry which exists at different levels of consciousness.4. Literary discourse serves as the material realization of the spiritual energy of a person.5. Literary discourse should be viewed as a cognitive dialogue about “language as the house of spirit” which reveals “the dialectic of the spirit” of the author and the dynamics of “the life and power” of the text as a multicultural language code representing the spiritual energy of the nation.

scholarly journals A meta-analysis of the impact of COVID-19 on liver dysfunction

2020 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Zeng-hong Wu ◽  
Dong‑liang Yang
Keyword(s):  
Liver Dysfunction ◽  
Meta Analysis ◽  
Elevated Serum ◽  
Clinical Severity ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
Novel Coronavirus ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Review Manager ◽  
Different Levels

Abstract Background The novel coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), which is caused by the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) is leading to a worldwide pandemic. Except representative manifestation of pneumonia and acute respiratory symptoms, COVID-19 patients have also shown different levels of liver injury or liver dysfunction. The aim of our study was to explore the probable clinical severity and mortality of COVID-19 patients and their liver dysfunction. Method A combination of computer and manual retrieval was used to search in Medline through PubMed, EMBASE and Web of Science. Review Manager 5.3 software was used to examine the heterogeneity among the studies and to calculate the combined effect value (OR, 95CI). Subgroup analysis, sensitivity analysis, and publication bias test were also performed. Results We found a significant connection between liver dysfunction and mortality of COVID-19 patients with a pooled OR of 1.98 (95% CI 1.39–2.82; P = 0.0002). There was a significant association between AST and severity of COVID-19 with a pooled OR of 4.48 (95% CI 3.24–7.21; P < 0.001), and a pooled WMD of 3.35 (95% CI, 2.07 to 4.64; P < 0.001). In addition, there was a significant difference between TBIL and severity of COVID-19, with a pooled OR of 1.91 (95% CI 1.40–2.60; P < 0.001), and with a pooled WMD of 1.18 (95% CI, 0.78 to 1.58; P < 0.001). Conclusion The mortality and severity of COVID-19 patients are significantly associated with liver dysfunction. The non-survivors and severe COVID-19 patients have elevated serum AST levels than the survivors and non-severe COVID-19 patients. The results of this study form a basis for better clinical liver management of patients with COVID-19.

scholarly journals THE WOMEN’S SUFFERING IN THE NOVEL THE HANDMAID’S TALE BY MARGARET ATWOOD

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 332-342
Author(s):  
Abbas Abbas
Keyword(s):  
Women Characters ◽  
Social Problem ◽  
Social Problems ◽  
Severe Depression ◽  
Literary Work ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Literary Research ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Republic ◽  
The Impact

The research discusses social problems experienced by women in a literary work entitled The Handmaid's by Magaret Atwood Magaret. The social problems in question are discussed the social problem of women that happened in the novel The Handmaid’s Tale and described the impact of social problem on women characters in the novel. The suffering that befell women handmaids such as Offred, Ofglen, Janine, and others occurs in a country called the Republic of Gilead. The research uses the Structuralism Approach, a literary research method that emphasizes structural aspects in the form of character, plot, setting, theme, and others. Gender study in literature becomes the perspective of this research which highlights social injustice towards female characters in the fictional story. The research data are then analyzed by using qualitative research methods and explained descriptively. The results of this study indicate that during the reign of the Gilead Republic, women experienced various social problems in the form of separation from family, not getting proper education, restrictions on freedom, forced childbirth for elite families, and the obligation to perform certain rituals. The social problems experienced by these women resulted in severe depression that almost claimed their lives.

Scripting Gabriel García Márquez’s Life

2021 ◽  
pp. 14-30
Author(s):  
Stephen M. Hart
Keyword(s):  
Short Fiction ◽  
Gabriel Garcia Marquez ◽  
Literary Work ◽  
Real Sequence ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Love Affair ◽  
The Real ◽  
Sequence Of Events ◽  
Significant Events ◽  
The Impact

Any biographical essay on the famous Colombian writer Gabriel García Márquez (1927–2014) must take into account biographies that have already been written—including, of course, Dasso Saldívar’s thoughtful García Márquez: El viaje a la semilla; La biografía (1997), Gerald Martin’s excellent Gabriel García Márquez: A Life (2008), and Stephen M. Hart’s Gabriel García Márquez (2010)—counterbalanced by García Márquez’s own autobiography, Vivir para contarla (2002). This article (1) sets out the intrinsically significant events of Gabo’s life and the impact they had on his development as a writer (journalist, film critic, cultural/political commentator, writer of short fiction and long fiction); (2) focuses on the osmosis between his life and his literary work, including an analysis of the first and only volume of his memoirs and how they overlap with his literary works and, indeed, are at times overwhelmed by them, as present in particular in El amor en los tiempos del cólera (1985), inspired by his parents’ love affair, in which the version of events provided by the novel supersedes the “real” sequence of events; and (3) uses the notion of doubleness—evident in his life via the opposition between his “real” family and his “false” family of illegitimate offspring, produced by his grandfather’s wanton ways, as well as the figure of the “double” in his fiction and particularly Cien años de soledad (1967)—as a structuring device of the article’s emplotment.

scholarly journals „Die Sprache hat also ihren Ort.“ Zur Mehrsprachigkeit von Maja Haderlaps Roman Engel des Vergessens

2021 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
pp. 155-172
Author(s):  
Dieter Neidlinger ◽  
Silke Pasewalck
Keyword(s):  
German Text ◽  
Literary Work ◽  
Specific Form ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Memory Politics ◽  
Cultural Codes ◽  
No Man's Land ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Different Levels

“Die Sprache hat also ihren Ort.” On Multilingualism in Maja Haderlap’s Novel Engel des Vergessens. Based on philological research on multilingualism and with regard to Maja Haderlap’s literary work in general this article deals with the specific form of multilingualism that can be observed in her novel Engel des Vergessens (2011). Maja Haderlap, born 1961 in Bad Eisenkappel/Železna Kapla, Carinthia (region in southern Austria), grew up with two languages, Slovenian and German. The authors of the article pursue the question to what degree her literary work and especially her novel can be characterised as multilingual and what kind of poetic multilingualism can be found there. They focus on the novel’s narrative and on the use of language(s), with a short historical excursus on the Slovenian minority in Carinthia as well as the difficult memory politics in Austria. Maja Haderlap not only writes about the territorial and historical preconditions of multilingualism in Carinthia but also inscribes these conditions in the text itself, characterising both the narrative and the language. Although the novel is the result of a shift from Slovenian to German, its multilingualism can be analysed on different levels: on the level of the relationship between discours and histoire – to refer to Genette’s narratological terms –, on the level of cultural codes of the Slovenian language within the novel’s German text, and in general with regard to the fact, that the text is written with the modes of expression of Slovenian and German or with the help of the ‘no man’s land’ between the languages. One can therefore – with respect to the terms of philological research – find both obvious and latent multilingualism and, thirdly, one can observe Mehr-Sprachlichkeit, a term that has been defined by Silke Pasewalck in previous articles.

scholarly journals TEXT-CREATIONAL FUNCTIONS OF TOPONYMS ІN THE MODERN LITERARY DISCOURSE (BASED ON THE NOVEL BY SOPHIA ANDRUKHOVYCH «AMADOKA»)

2021 ◽  
pp. 80-84
Author(s):  
N. LUKASH
Keyword(s):  
Dominant Role ◽  
Literary Discourse ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Proper Name ◽  
Modern Fiction ◽  
Basic Functions ◽  
Text Formation

The need to develop a holistic linguistic vision of the functionality of toponyms in the literary discourse dictates the study of these units on the basis of broad artistic materials texts of different genres. The article is devoted to characteristics of toponyms, noted in the novel of Sophia Andrukhovych «Amadoka». The study has revealed that modern fiction manifests an abundant toponym system. The system of toponyms in the novel «Amadoka» is formed by horonyms, oykonyms, urbanonyms, hydronyms, oronyms, and so on. The toponyms carry out the following basic functions: nominative-localized, ideological, and symbolic. First, toponyms in a text actualize their toponymic meaning, structuring a text space. However, toponyms often become ideological-conceptual elements that gain a dominant role in the implementation of the author’s intention, function in the text as symbols, which enables the output of functions of this proper name beyond the limits of the traditional nominative-localization one. They become the means of the indirect features of characters of the novel that are one of the elements of text formation.

scholarly journals Adressaadi dünaamikast Harriet Jacobsi orjanarratiivis "Incidents in a Life of a Slave Girl ja Eduard Vilde ajaloolises romaanis "Mahtra Sõda" / The Impact of Implied Reader on Harriet Jacobs' Slave Narrative Incidents in a Life of a Slave Girl and Eduard Vilde's Historical Novel Mahtra sõda

2017 ◽  
Vol 14 (17/18) ◽  
Author(s):  
Kadri Naanu
Keyword(s):  
White Women ◽  
Black People ◽  
Historical Novel ◽  
Literary Work ◽  
Slave Narrative ◽  
The Novel ◽  
The North ◽  
Narrative Device ◽  
Archival Documents ◽  
The Impact

Teesid: Orjust ja orjandust puudutavate kirjandusteoste kirjapanemise eesmärk ulatub sageli autori isiklikest kunstilistest taotlustest kaugemale ja on seotud sooviga teksti lugejat mõjutada, mistõttu on kirjutajate jaoks oluline võita nende publiku usaldus. Artikkel uurib, milliseid vahendeid eesti ja AafrikaAmeerika autorid kasutavad, et veenda lugejaid oma tekstide või minevikutõlgenduse tõeväärtuses. Analüüs toetub Harriet Jacobsi kanoonilisele orjanarratiivile „Incidents in a Life of a Slave Girl“ (1861) ja Eduard Vilde ajaloolisele romaanile „Mahtra sõda“ (1902). Kahte nõnda erinevasse kirjandustraditsiooni kuuluvate tekstide käsitlemine ühe artikli piirides aitas märgata huvitavat paralleeli – mõlemad analüüsitud autorid toetusid teostes dokumentaalsele abimaterjalile, et paigutada tekstis kirjeldatud sündmuseid tekstivälisesse maailma. Texts that depict slavery or serfdom, both autobiographical and fictional, are often written with a purpose that is not restricted to the artistic objectives of a particular author. Their purpose may be to find supporters for the abolitionist cause, to provide the readers with an understanding of the everyday conditions of slavery or serfdom, or to use the past in order to speak about the present, etc. In order to reach these objectives and not alienate their audience, the literary work has to take into account the reader’s expectations (i.e., regarding the genre) or their prejudice (i.e., regarding the author). This means that these supposed ideas or prejudices influence the ways in which authors tell the story. This article explores the dynamics of address in Harriet Jacobs’s autobiographical slave narrative Incidents in a Life of a Slave Girl (1861) and Eduard Vilde’s historical novel The War of Mahtra (1902) in order to outline the strategies the authors use to gain the reader’s trust and connect their work with the world outside the text. These strategies have also influenced the reception of the work. Harriet Ann Jacobs’ autobiographical slave narrative Incidents in a Life of a Slave Girl that was published under the pseudonym Linda Brent relies on many strategies used by slave narrators who sought to find supporters for the abolitionist cause. Jacobs addresses her text to the white women in the North. As a former slave she had to take her audience’s prejudice against black people into account and try to overturn them in her narrative. In order to gain her readers’ trust, she incorporates cover letters that attest to her reliability as a reader as well as other documents. Eduard Vilde’s novel The War of Mahtra is the first part of the author’s historical trilogy that focuses on the peasant insurrections that took place in the Estonian territory after the new peasant law of 1856. The central episode of the novel is the insurgency in the Mahtra manor where the peasants revolted against the soldiers sent to discipline them. The events of the insurrection were still in the memory of the novel’s readers when Vilde published the text. For this reason it was important for the author to align his view of the insurrection with the readers’ understanding of the events. Therefore, the author relies on historical records that he cites in his novel (a narrative device not used at the time by other authors) and incorporates evidence from archival documents into his text.

ON THE STRUCTURE OF LINKS IN A HYPERTEXTUAL LITERARY WORK

2020 ◽  
Vol 76 (4) ◽  
pp. 104-110
Author(s):  
ELENA S. MANCHENKO ◽  
◽  
ELENA M. TORBIK ◽  
GULFINUR S. KADYRBIRDIEVA ◽  
◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Literary Work ◽  
Written Communication ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Literary Works ◽  
Electronic Form ◽  
New Ideas ◽  
Printed Text ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Different Levels ◽  
Shelley Jackson

The article explains the relevance of the research that is determined by the interest of modern linguistics in the study of the author's composition of literary works, which differs from the usual forms of the printed text. The aim of the research is to study the lexical and grammatical features of hypertext by examining the autobiographical novel “My Body" by Shelley Jackson. The material for the research is the hypertext of the autobiographical novel “My Body” by Shelley Jackson, which represents a new electronic form of the novel and is considered to be a lexicographic hypertext. When considering hypertext as a special branching structure of written communication, the definition of "hypertext" is suggested, the main types of hyperlinks presented in the novel under study are considered and illustrated. The analysis of the structure of the hypertext links presentation based on the novel under consideration showed that there are four types of relations between determinative and determinant in external syntagmas: attributive, objective, relational and predicative ones. Syntagmas in hyperlinks are studied according to the types of word combinations: nuclear and non-nuclear word combinations. Hyperlinks in the form of sentences (sentences and quasi-sentences) can also be found in the hypertext. The article analyses lexical and grammatical features of fictional e-hypertext by examining the novel “My Body" by Shelley Jackson. It has been found that relations between language units of different levels within the framework of the hypertext novel are systemic in nature. By using hyperlinks, the author helps the reader generate new ideas, preserving coherence of a literary work.

scholarly journals Assessment of the Impacts of Pharmaceutical and Non-pharmaceutical Intervention on COVID-19 in South Africa Using Mathematical Model

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rabiu Musa ◽  
Absalom E. Ezugwu ◽  
Godwin C. E. Mbah
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Mathematical Model ◽  
Health Hazard ◽  
Control Measures ◽  
World Health ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Pharmaceutical Intervention ◽  
Social Distancing ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Different Levels

AbstractThe novel coronal virus has spread across more than 213 countries within the space of six months causing devastating public health hazard and monumental economic loss. In the absence of clinically approved pharmaceutical intervention, attentions are shifted to non-pharmaceutical controls to mitigate the burden of the novel pandemic. In this regard, a ten mutually exclusive compartmental mathematical model is developed to investigate possible effects of both pharmaceutical and non-pharmaceutical controls incorporating both private and government’s quarantine and treatments. Several reproduction numbers were calculated and used to determine the impact of both control measures as well as projected benefits of social distancing, treatments and vaccination. We investigate and compare the possible impact of social distancing incorporating different levels of vaccination, with vaccination programme incorporating different levels of treatment. Using the officially published South African COVID-19 data, the numerical simulation shows that the community reproduction threshold will be 30 when there is no social distancing but will drastically reduced to 5 (about 83% reduction) when social distancing is enforced. Furthermore, when there is vaccination with perfect efficacy, the community reproduction threshold will be 4 which increases to 12 (about 67% increment) with-out vaccination. We also established that the implementation of both interventions is enough to curtail the spread of COVID-19 pandemic in South Africa which is in confirmation with the recommendation of the world health organization.

scholarly journals Text-Transforms – the Communicative Paradigm Basis of a Literary Work

wisdom ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 56-67
Author(s):  
Lesia Syniavska ◽  
Viktoriia Kolkutina ◽  
Volodymyr Pohrebennyk
Keyword(s):  
20Th Century ◽  
Literary Work ◽  
Research Paper ◽  
Communication Strategy ◽  
Early 20Th Century ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Specific Process ◽  
Short Novel ◽  
Secondary Communication ◽  
Different Levels

The article introduces and investigates the concept of a "text-transform" based on the novel and short-novel plots of the drama works of the Ukrainian dramatists of the late 19th – early 20th centuries. The text-transform is defined as a message by a different author, with a different structure, different code, composition, and fable, sometimes, with a different system of images. This research paper also looks at the different levels of transformations: dramatization, adaptation, and a based-upon play. The early 20th century sees actualization of the secondary communication strategy, when in the process of transformation of the narrative elements, dramatists exploit the strategy of preservation, shortening, expanding, and changing text blocks. It is determined by the theatre-specific process and pragmatic orientation on the stage manifestation. Meanwhile, expanding and changes are aimed to explicate and intensify the current and preserved relationships between the characters in the text-transforms. 

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