Dickens and the Evolution of Caricature

PMLA ◽  
1940 ◽  
Vol 55 (1) ◽  
pp. 231-240
Author(s):  
Earle R. Davis
Keyword(s):  
Subject Matter ◽  
Narrative Development ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Prussic Acid ◽  
The Subject

Out of the pages of Pickwick step many of Dickens's funniest eccentrics. Characters with mannerisms and tags of speech parade through the novel, illustrating a distinctive style of characterization which is usually labelled caricature in every novel he writes later. How and why did he begin this style? Much light can be thrown upon his early narrative development by a study of Mr. Jingle, the character which has one of the most extreme of all Dickens's uses of eccentric mannerism—a rapid-fire, staccato habit of speech. Furthermore, an unbelievable anecdote usually constitutes the subject-matter of Mr. Jingle's remarks, as:Don Bolaro Fizzgig—Grandee—only daughter—Donna Christina—splendid creature—loved me to distraction—jealous father—high-souled creature—handsome Englishman—Donna Christina in despair—prussic acid—stomach pump in my portmanteau—operation performed—old Bolaro in ecstasies—consent to our union—join hands and floods of tears—romantic story—very.

scholarly journals ASPECTS OF NARRATIVE IN THE PROSE OF WRITER PETRO MARKO

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-4
Author(s):  
Antela Voulis
Keyword(s):  
Detailed Analysis ◽  
Narrative Analysis ◽  
Subject Matter ◽  
Creative Work ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Social Equality ◽  
Critical Studies ◽  
Prose Style ◽  
Poetic Expression ◽  
The Subject

Petro Marko is considered by critics as one of the founders of modern Albanian prose. Scientific assessments of Petro Markos’s creativity are mainly based on long and short prose, in the form of genuine critical studies, short predictions, comments and analysis. There are papers of this nature written by scholars such as: Floresha Dado, Adriatik Kallulli, Bashkim Kuçuku, Ali Aliu, Robert Elsie and many others. The subject matter of these articles varies from simple information to moments of writer’s life, to genuine studies and analysis regarding interpretation and explanation of different elements of the structure of his literary works. In this case, we would like to highlight an article written by the author Bashkim Kuçuku, namely the novel “A name on four streets”. In this particular paper, Kucuku discusses the symbolism of the novel’s title, that even in its metaphorical form didn’t escape the punishment of dictatorship censure, closely connected with the tragic fate that followed Petro Marko. And by doing so the researcher gives us a detailed insight of the connection between his work and a broader background of Marco’s biography. In this context, together with the detailed analysis of the novel’s title, we will find the key point that paves the way for penetrating the original metaphor and symbolism of the story. According to Kuçuku, Petro Marko is a dignified, idealist, as well a stoic writer for justice and social equality. It is precisely this book, “A name in four ways”, that distinctly portrays the aforementioned author as one of the leading writers of prose in Albania and this work is one of his most distinguished among all the others. It is the aim of this study to harmonize the internal narrative analysis of the prose style with the poetic expression of all Petro Mario’s creative work.

Spreading the standard:The nineteenth-century standardization of Icelandic and the first Icelandic novel

2018 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 149-176
Author(s):  
Haraldur Bernharðsson
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Children And Adolescents ◽  
Subject Matter ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Love Story ◽  
Institutional Infrastructure ◽  
Language And Literature ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Literary Innovation ◽  
Linguistic Models

AbstractA literary standard for Icelandic was created in the nineteenth century. The main architects of this standard were scholars of Old Norse-Icelandic language and literature who turned to the language of the medieval Icelandic literature for linguistic models. Consequently, the resulting standard included a number of features from earlier stages of the language. This standard was successfully implemented despite the relatively weak institutional infrastructure in nineteenth-century Iceland. It is argued in this paper that the first Icelandic novel, Piltur og stúlka, appearing in 1850 and again in a revised edition in 1867, played an important role in spreading the standard. The novel championed the main ideological tenets of the prevailing language policy, and at the same time it was a showcase for the new standard. A rural love story set in contemporary Iceland, the novel was a welcome literary innovation. Most importantly, the subject matter appealed to children and adolescents in their formative years, and the novel thus became a powerful and persuasive vehicle for the new linguistic standard.

scholarly journals LINGUPOETICS AND IMAGES IN FREE WORKS ERKIN A'ZAM

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (11) ◽  
pp. 56-58
Author(s):  
Gayratova Gulzoda
Keyword(s):  
Short Stories ◽  
Subject Matter ◽  
Character Traits ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Literary Critic ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Human Psyche

Erkin Azam is one of the artists who considers creativity as destiny. The author has won the hearts of readers mainly with his stories and short stories. But in recent years, the author's novel "Noise" was published. Several articles have been published about the work. The author's novel is based on symbolism and is one of the most unusual works. The novel seeks to portray a particular aspect of life in terms of its own style. Changes in the development of different genres can be seen in the genre of short stories in the works of the writer. Umarali Normatov, a literary critic who has written about short stories in recent years, writes: “When we look at our short stories today, first of all, the subject matter attracts attention in terms of problems, form, style; Among them are works on historical, modern, socio-political, family, romantic themes, both traditional romantic, realistic, modernist, serious and humorous, adventure-detective. no matter what the diversity. ” As noted, in this genre, a variety of thematic stories have been created, in which the human psyche, character traits are interpreted. Analysis of the artistic features of the author's novel "Noise", the demonstration of the writer's skill determines the relevance of the topic

scholarly journals On the finale of Y.I. Zamyatin’s novel “We”: an optimistic tragedy?

Neophilology ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 684-693
Author(s):  
Hongyuan Wang
Keyword(s):  
Subject Matter ◽  
Female Character ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Integral Image ◽  
Writer Identity ◽  
Spiral Path ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Intertextual Connections

We consider the ambiguity of Y.I. Zamyatin’s novel ending “We” on the basis of its synthetic feature and the author’s worldview ideas embodied in it. We note the key function of the heroine I-330 in the structure and novel theme, we draw attention to another female character, O-90, whose fate is a seemingly “secondary”, completed earlier, but no less important storyline of the novel. We analyze O-90’s intertextual connections with other characters, at the plot level; we also reveal some possible extratextual associations of this character with Zamyatin’s statements in his critical articles and essays. Thus, in this character we see a fairly clear “integral image” of mother-hood and writing, a realization of the “spiral” path of dialectical development, which is important for Zamyatin’s writer identity, and a hint of the vitality of the seemingly failed revolution as well. The combination of these features in one character makes us rethink the plotline of the novel and allows us to see a certain optimistic implication in its tragic ending. The symmetry of the two he-roines’ fate and their decisive alliance also prove the importance of this character in the composi-tion and the subject matter of the work.

JANE EYRE'S PURSE: WOMEN'S QUEER ECONOMIC DESIRE IN THE VICTORIAN NOVEL

2016 ◽  
Vol 44 (4) ◽  
pp. 741-759
Author(s):  
Meg Dobbins
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Subject Matter ◽  
Victorian Novel ◽  
Economic Thought ◽  
The Self ◽  
The Novel ◽  
The Core ◽  
Self Interest ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Political Economic

“Young ladies don't understandpolitical economy, you know,” asserts the casually misogynistic uncle of Dorothea Brooke in George Eliot'sMiddlemarch(1871) (17; bk. 1, ch 1). Although Eliot's heroine resents both her uncle's remark and “that never-explained science which was thrust as an extinguisher over all her lights,” her attempt to teach herself political economy in the novel only seems to confirm her uncle's assessment (18; bk. 1, ch. 1): Dorothea gathers a “little heap of books on political economy” and sets forth to learn “the best way of spending money so as not to injure one's neighbors, or – what comes to the same thing – so as to do them the most good” (805; bk. 5, ch. 48). Naively likening “spending money so as not to injure one's neighbors” to “do[ing] them the most good,” Dorothea fails to grasp the self-interest at the core of nineteenth-century political economic thought and so misunderstands the subject matter before her: “Unhappily her mind slipped off [the book] for a whole hour; and at the end she found herself reading sentences twice over with an intense consciousness of many things, but not of any one thing contained in the text. This was hopeless” (805; bk. 5, ch. 48).

‘Pushing the envelope’: The Representation of Jazz, Sex and Violence in Fred Khumalo’s Bitches’ Brew

2020 ◽  
Vol 47 (1) ◽  
pp. 69-95
Author(s):  
Jabulani Mkhize
Keyword(s):  
Subject Matter ◽  
Black Masculinity ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Narrative Strategy ◽  
Call And Response ◽  
The Subject ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Bitches Brew ◽  
Jazz Performance ◽  
The Relationship

This paper, primarily, explores the extent to which Fred Khumalo’s novel, Bitches’ Brew, can be considered a jazz novel by looking at both its subject matter and form. It argues that the transgressive power of Khumalo’s novel lies in its use of epistolary form as a narrative strategy that is akin to a jazz solo, marked as it is by a dialogical narrative that is similar to the call and response pattern that bears an affinity to a jazz performance. In terms of the subject matter, the central thrust of the argument is that the over-arching predominance of sex and violence in the text threatens to overshadow the musicality of the text, even as masculinity and misogyny are considered as the other side of the coin of jazz. In its exploration of the jazz and gender interface, this paper highlights how the phallocratic logic that informs and dominates the novel is indicative of the fact that Khumalo may have ‘pushed the envelope’ too far in his representation of masculinity and misogyny in jazz culture in his writing of this work. That Khumalo's novel fails to interrogate the relationship between jazz and black masculinity, but rather endorses and valorises it, serves to reinforce the stereotype of misogyny in jazz culture. Keywords: Fred Khumalo, Bitches’ Brew, jazz, musicality, masculinity, misogyny

scholarly journals Anaesthetic gardens. On Metaphysics by Lech Majewski

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 49-55
Author(s):  
Marta Baron
Keyword(s):  
Subject Matter ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Crucial Point ◽  
Hieronymus Bosch ◽  
The Subject

Interpretation of Metaphisics – the novel written by Lech Majewski, is the subject matter of theoretical, aesthetic and antropological considerations. Synthesis of arts: literature, film, painting and theatre, which occur in the novel, opens a perspective of intertextuality and provokes questions about ekphrasis, varied materials, ways of experience mediated by dispositives and reflections on humans among other problems. The crucial point in both: Majewski’s novel and this dissertation, is a triptych painted by Hieronymus Bosch – The Garden of Earthly Delight, which gradually annexes the featured world – becomes a basic figure in trying to show, how the aesthetization of reality brings Wolfgang Welsch’s cahegory of an(a)esthetics.

scholarly journals THE CONFLICTS IN THE DRAMA SCRIPT LOVE BEFORE BRAINZ ADAPTED FROM THE NOVEL ENTITLED WARM BODIES BY ISAAC MARION AS MATERIAL FOR TEACHING DRAMA CLASS

2018 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Anugrah Cahyo Hudi
Keyword(s):  
Subject Matter ◽  
English Language ◽  
Language Teaching ◽  
English Language Teaching ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Final Project ◽  
Library Research ◽  
The Subject

The main purposes of the final project are finding out the conflicts happen in the drama script “Love before Brainz” adapted  from the novel entitled Warm Bodies by Isaac Marion as material for teaching drama class, finding out the most dominant conflicts in the drama script and discusses the contributions of the final project in English language teaching. Library research is used in this final project. Library research points out not on the result, but on the process. The writer deals with some books that are available in the library. The information is obtained by reading books, searching internet and other references related to the subject matter. To analyze the conflicts in the drama script “Love before Brainz”, the writer reads the play script in order to understand the content of it many times. After analyzing the conflicts in the drama script, the writer finds the most dominant conflicts and the contributions of this study in English language teaching. From this drama script, the writer knows that the most dominant conflicts is man versus man. Because the conflicts happen between R (zombie) with Julie, Julie with her father (colonel Grigio), and R with Julie’s father

scholarly journals Narrative Genres and the Administration of Consciousness : The Case of Daisy Goodwill's Rebellion

2008 ◽  
Vol 5 ◽  
pp. 155
Author(s):  
María Jesús Hernáez Lerena
Keyword(s):  
Short Story ◽  
Subject Matter ◽  
Meaning In Life ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Carol Shields ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Way ◽  
Fictional Autobiography

The Stone Diaries (1993), a novel by Carol Shields, examines the strategies characters use to render their selves accountable: they turn life into an ensemble made up of historical, scientific, novelistic or biographical discourse. In contrast, Daisy Goodwill, who is the subject-matter of this fictional autobiography, remains close to the epistemology of the short story, whose potential has been described by critics as a challenge to knowledge or synthesis (Cortázar 1973; Bayley 1988; Leitch 1989, May 1994; Trussler 1996). There seems to be agreement that the only condition of coherence necessary for the short story is a pointing to the evasion of meaning in life, also that the genre allies itself to the way in which the past is attached to our memory (Kosinski 1978; Hallet 1998; Lohafer 1998; Wolff 2000). This essay will analyze the implications of its protagonist’s stance with a view to pinning down some of the ideological grounds of the novel and of the short story in their approach to the question of identity.

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