scholarly journals JOYCEOV FINNEGANS WAKE I MCCARTHYJEV REMAINDER: KODIRANJE I JEZIČKO RASLOJAVANJE

2020 ◽  
Vol 63 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 51-76
Author(s):  
Lamija Milišić
Keyword(s):  
Literary Text ◽  
The State ◽  
Fictional Characters ◽  
Literary Language ◽  
Literary Works ◽  
Finnegans Wake ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
The Way

JOYCE’S FINNEGANS WAKE AND MCCARTHY’S REMAINDER: CODING AND LANGUAGE STRATIFICATION The purpose of this paper is to consider the terms “code” and “language stratification” by analysing James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake and Tom McCarthy’s Remainder. A code is considered to be a transition from mimesis to meaning. The starting point of the analysis is the genre of Finnegans Wake and Remainder, and the state of fictional characters in these literary works. The paper argues that the fictional characters have a “rhetorically encrypted identity”, and furthermore considers methods with which this identity develops, and their consequences. The paper also shows how the technique of bricolage is used in Finnegans Wake and Remainder, and explains the connection between bricolage and encryption. The last part of the analyses explains the way in which Joyce’s and McCarthy’s texts use their literary language to self-reflect about the code the texts are written in. The code thus stays within the area of mimesis (and does not proceed to the area of meaning). This text also proposes the idea of a literary text as performative, which consequently changes the ontology of fictional characters in their respective literary works.

scholarly journals The Fragility of Identity and the Imagination of Otherness in Bai Hua’s novel The Remote Country of Women

2020 ◽  
pp. 72-91
Author(s):  
Tânia Ganito ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Revolution ◽  
Western Culture ◽  
The State ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Literary Works ◽  
Chinese Author ◽  
The Way ◽  
The Cultural Revolution

Drawing on The Remote Kingdom of Women (1988), the novel written by Chinese author Bai Hua (1930-2019), this essay examines how post-Mao China articulated the notions of memory and identity, as well as of belonging and othering, as an attempt to overcome the state of fragility caused by the trauma of the Cultural Revolution and the post-revolutionary growing influence of Western culture. It proposes to explore the way some of the literary works produced during this period were to promote an encounter between a fragmented yet hegemonic culture and the cultures of the internal ethnic Other, and how this encounter between majority and minority subjects was to highlight precisely the condition of fragility that underlies the very concept of identity. Keywords: China; Literature; Bai Hua; Identity; Majority; Minorities.

scholarly journals The Contributions of Systemic Functional Linguistics to Literary Text Analysis

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (9) ◽  
pp. 81-86
Author(s):  
Arsen Nahum Pasaribu ◽  
Erika Sinambela ◽  
Sondang Manik
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Text Analysis ◽  
Systemic Functional Linguistics ◽  
Literary Text ◽  
Literary Texts ◽  
Literary Language ◽  
Literary Works ◽  
Future Studies ◽  
Functional Linguistics

Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL) refers to some kind of text analysis, including an analysis of literary language. Some research has verified the study of the literary text using this linguistic apparatus; however the use of SFL in literary text analysis is relatively rare. Therefore, this study investigated the contributions of SFL to literary text analysis. The data of the study were 20 scientific articles focusing on literary text analysis using SFL. The analysis used content analysis to expose the segments of the story analyzed and the components of SFL to analyze them. The findings showed that the method of analysis using SFL on the literary text has brought new perspectives to the researchers, and provided some possible future studies in literary works. Moreover, the study of literary texts is regarded not merely as interpretative practices but as explanatory categories for each segment of a literary text.

scholarly journals Modelos de espacialidade na obra de Rafael Courtoisie

2015 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 43-50
Author(s):  
Luis Alberto Brandão Santos
Keyword(s):  
American Literature ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Contemporary Literature ◽  
Latin American Literature ◽  
Literary Text ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Contrary Direction ◽  
The Way

Resumo: A obra do escritor uruguaio Rafael Courtoisie é tomada como ponto de partida para uma reflexão sobre alguns modelos por meio dos quais a literatura contemporânea exercita o que se pode designar, genericamente, de “espacialidade”. Esse termo não diz respeito ao modo como o texto literário representa espaços extratextuais. Na verdade, atua na direção contrária, tornando viável que, no âmbito da literatura, se problematize o que é entendido como espaço. Os três modelos de espacialidade que abordamos são: a visão, o tato e o movimento. Da obra de Courtoisie, foram selecionados os seguintes livros: Estado sólido (1996), Umbría (1999) e Música para sordos (2002).Palavras-chave: espaço; espacialidade; Rafael Courtoisie; literatura contemporânea; literatura latino-americana.Abstract: The work of the uruguayan writer Rafael Courtoisie is taken as starting point for a reflection on some models by which contemporary literature exercises what we consider to assign, generically, as “spatiality”. This term does not concern to the way that literary text represents extraliterary spaces. Actually, it goes on the contrary direction, making possible that, in the scope of literature, one might deeply question what is understood as space. The three models of spatiality that we approach are: sight, touch and movement. The following books of Courtoisie have been selected: Estado sólido (1996), Umbría (1999) and Música para sordos (2002).Keywords: space; spatiality; Rafael Courtoisie; contemporary literature; Latin American literature.

La novela corta en conflicto: Cinco ensayos alrededor de la incertidumbre

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Raquel Velasco
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Juan Rulfo ◽  
Literary Works ◽  
Literary Genres ◽  
Short Novel ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Pass Through ◽  
Novela Corta ◽  
Roberto Bolano ◽  
The Way

Literary genres are elusive; we cannot pretend to pass through them, attributing one classification or another to literary works; but they are useful, especially now that we are beyond the rigid conceptions of gender inherited from traditional studies. The reader has in his hands a serious analysis, documented, that approaches literary works from the category of the short novel without imposing absolute visions, precisely because its starting point is that it is the genre of uncertainty. Mariano Azuela, Juan Rulfo, Rodolfo Walsh, Julio Cortázar, Roberto Bolaño, Juan Pablo Villalobos, are some of the memorable writers of short novels that have given a particular profile and destiny to the genre in Latin America. Raquel Velasco studies these authors to cast a new light on the way these works exist in a convulsive and chaotic world.

scholarly journals The Professionalization of Philosophy and the Criteria of Philosophical Knowledge

2016 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 216-230
Author(s):  
Vera Tripodi
Keyword(s):  
Social Identity ◽  
State Of The Art ◽  
Continental Philosophy ◽  
The State ◽  
Philosophical Practice ◽  
Knowledge Practices ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Italian Philosophy ◽  
The Way

In this paper, I investigate the issue of the professionalization of philosophy, taking as my starting point the debate triggered by the publication of Diego Marconi’s monograph, Il mestiere di pensare (Thinking as a Trade, 2014). This debate about the state of the art of Italian philosophy and the increased tendency towards specialization in philosophy is still on-going. It raises the issue of how to understand the putative split between analytic and continental philosophy, and how to establish standards or criteria for evaluating the quality of philosophical research. I conclude by posing the question about what needs to change in our knowledge practices and suggest that what is needed is an overhauling of our conceptions of trust, reliance, testimony, and justice, with a view to re-defining how social identity affects the way we operate in philosophical practice and how we establish our credibility.

scholarly journals Iconic Note as Principle of Motivation in Tonni Morrison's Sula

2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (4) ◽  
pp. 15-19
Author(s):  
Mehdi Abbass Mohsin ◽  
Mohammad Muzhafar Bin Idrus
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
American Literature ◽  
African American Literature ◽  
Literary Text ◽  
Poetic Language ◽  
Literary Language ◽  
Literary Works ◽  
Salient Characteristic ◽  
Metaphor And Metonymy

The current study proposes to give an insight about iconic note as a concept of motivation in literary language applied on one of the prominent novels in African- American literature which is Morrison's Sula. Iconic property is considered as one of the prominent principles in motivation of language in which there is a similarity between form and concept. The  study of the iconic note in literary works has become significant after the emergence of modernist in arts and literature whereas prior to that, Iconic note as a source of motivation was considered as  salient characteristic of primitive language and poetic language only. The problem of the study will explain how Morrison's text constructed to decline from the concept of arbitrariness and to meet the concept of motivation. By achieving the objective of the research, the study will focus on two important tropes which are metaphor and metonymy  and how they co-occur in literary text to serve as ingredients of iconic perspective of motivated language.

scholarly journals A paisagem sonora como elemento constitutivo no conto “O poncho”, de Charles Kiefer / The Soundscape as a Constitutive Element in the Short Story “O poncho”, by Charles Kiefer

2020 ◽  
Vol 29 (1) ◽  
pp. 255
Author(s):  
Viviane Aparecida Pandolfo Debortolli ◽  
Gérson Luís Werlang
Keyword(s):  
Short Story ◽  
Decisive Role ◽  
Literary Text ◽  
The State ◽  
Main Character ◽  
State Of Affairs ◽  
Constitutive Element ◽  
The Way

Resumo: Este artigo se propõe a verificar os elementos constitutivos da paisagem sonora do conto “O poncho”, de Charles Kiefer. A presença da música, dos ventos, de sons naturais e não naturais se alinham ao clima da narrativa e compõe o cerne em que se desenvolve a narrativa. Neste conto, a paisagem sonora tem papel determinante no desenvolver do enredo, visto que influencia as ações do personagem. Levando-se em consideração as diferentes possibilidades de eixos de análise que o texto literário permite, pretende-se evidenciar a paisagem sonora como um elemento da narrativa por meio da presença dos sons na obra selecionada, e, através disso, demonstrar de que forma eles são relevantes na construção do enredo.Palavras-chave: paisagem sonora; clima; narrativa.Abstract: This paper aims to verifying the constitutive elements of the soundscape of Charles Kiefer’s short story “O poncho”. The presence of music, winds, natural and unnatural sounds align to the state of affairs and form the essence in which the narrative is developed. In this tale, the soundscape plays a decisive role in the development of the plot, since it influences the actions of the main character. Considering the different possibilities of analysis that the literary text allows, we intend to highlight the soundscape as an element of the narrative through the presence of the sounds in the selected work, and consequently to demonstrate the way they are relevant in the construction of the plot.Keywords: soundscape; state of affairs; narrative.

scholarly journals Dictionaries and ideologies: some remarks of the EFL lexicography

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 26-39
Author(s):  
Anna Włodarczyk-Stachurska
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Studies ◽  
Language Ideology ◽  
State Of The Art ◽  
The State ◽  
Linguistic Ideologies ◽  
Linguistic Ideology ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
The World ◽  
Semantic Values ◽  
The Way

The term ideology itself has recently gained a lot of attention in anthropology, sociolinguistics and cultural studies. As a starting point it seems crucial to form an area of inquiry, that is the sense of language ideology. Here Alan Rumsay’s (1990, p. 346) definition is a useful starting point: „[…] linguistic ideologies are shared bodies of commonsense notions about the nature of language in the world”. The article aims to look at the way EFL dictionaries cope with the task to present the standardization of certain words and usages. In other words, we will attempt to find out if/how lexicographers cope with the job of being legislators, if their products advise about the proper usage as well as meanings of the words available in the standard forms of English. In order to achieve this goal, the number of issues of paramount importance will be investigated: The term of linguistic ideology, The concept of standardization The dictionaries and ideology of standard – the state of the art   Our method is making comparisons between different lexicographic sources (dictionaries) in relation to selected entries, and generalising from the way the latter are presented (in the sense of formal and semantic values).

“I'd make thee eat the mischief thou hast vented”: Discourse of Law in Ben Jonson's Catiline His Conspiracy

2017 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 22-45
Author(s):  
Akihiko Shimizu
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Political Discourse ◽  
Legal Discourse ◽  
The State ◽  
The Political ◽  
State Of Emergency ◽  
Gunpowder Plot ◽  
Effective Use ◽  
Legal Procedures ◽  
The Way

This essay explores the discourse of law that constitutes the controversial apprehension of Cicero's issuing of the ultimate decree of the Senate (senatus consultum ultimum) in Catiline. The play juxtaposes the struggle of Cicero, whose moral character and legitimacy are at stake in regards to the extra-legal uses of espionage, with the supposedly mischievous Catilinarians who appear to observe legal procedures more carefully throughout their plot. To mitigate this ambivalence, the play defends Cicero's actions by depicting the way in which Cicero establishes the rhetoric of public counsel to convince the citizens of his legitimacy in his unprecedented dealing with Catiline. To understand the contemporaneousness of Catiline, I will explore the way the play integrates the early modern discourses of counsel and the legal maxim of ‘better to suffer an inconvenience than mischief,’ suggesting Jonson's subtle sensibility towards King James's legal reformation which aimed to establish and deploy monarchical authority in the state of emergency (such as the Gunpowder Plot of 1605). The play's climactic trial scene highlights the display of the collected evidence, such as hand-written letters and the testimonies obtained through Cicero's spies, the Allbroges, as proof of Catiline's mischievous character. I argue that the tactical negotiating skills of the virtuous and vicious characters rely heavily on the effective use of rhetoric exemplified by both the political discourse of classical Rome and the legal discourse of Tudor and Jacobean England.

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