“[T]he wildest of adventurers, or one at the relation of whose crimes the world must shudder”: The Venetian Bravo as a Literary Character in Zschokke, Lewis, and Cooper

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Enno Ruge
Keyword(s):  
Literary Character ◽  
The World

scholarly journals Two Sisters: the Sculptor Hanna Nałkowska in the Light of Zofia Nałkowska’s Novel Węże i Róże

2019 ◽  
Vol 67 (4 SELECTED PAPERS IN ENGLISH) ◽  
pp. 125-150
Author(s):  
Magdalena Kasa
Keyword(s):  
Main Character ◽  
Literary Character ◽  
Polish Version ◽  
The World ◽  
Real Person

The Polish version of the article was published in Roczniki Humanistyczne vol. 65, issue 4 (2017). The article focuses on Ernestyna Śniadowiczówna, the main character in a novel by Zofia Nałkowska, Węże i róże [Snakes and Roses] (1913). The main purpose of the work is to show that the character had its real counterpart in Zofia’s younger sister, the sculptor Hanna Nałkowska. The words of Zofia herself were crucial, who in her Diary confessed that all her novels were autobiographical to some extent. Still, researchers have not paid sufficient attention to the significant similarities between Ernestyna and Hanna Nałkowska. Węże i róże is the only piece in the writer’s output in which she analyzed the issues related to art and pointed out some characteristics of the artist. Zofia was writing her novel when Hanna was entering the world of art. A comparison between Ernestyna Śniadowiczówna and Hanna Nałkowska, as well as the information from Zofia’s Dziennik and reminiscences of their friends show that the literary character is likely to be based on a real person.

scholarly journals Οι νεοελληνικές τύχες του Αλκιβιάδη ως το τέλος του 19ου αιώνα

2016 ◽  
Vol 25 ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Στέση Αθήνη
Keyword(s):  
Greek Literature ◽  
Historical Drama ◽  
Greek Culture ◽  
Modern Greek ◽  
Literary Character ◽  
The World ◽  
European Family

 The beginning of the closer acquaintance of Modern Greek literature with Alcibiades’ forceful personality is located during the years of Greek Enlightenment, with the discovery of the world of History and the “return to the antiquity” through foreign texts, translated into Greek. Nevertheless, Alcibiades’ appearance as a literary character was delayed compared with his reach European literary fortunes. Alcibiades appears in 1837 through Alcibiades byAugustusGottliebMeissner, a translated “bildungsroman” from German, and half a century later through a second translation, from Italian this time, the homonymous FelicioCavallotti’s historical drama (1889). Examining closely these two texts and considering their presence in the source literatures as well as the terms of their reception in Greek it is concluded that Socrates’ disciple array with literary raiment served the ideological schema aiming at the strengthening of the relations between Modern Greek culture and antiquity and simultaneously the European family.

Marketing Soviet Nostalgia: The Many Faces of Buratino

2017 ◽  
Vol 17 (4) ◽  
pp. 88-101
Author(s):  
Laura Goering
Keyword(s):  
Marketing Strategy ◽  
Soft Drink ◽  
Food Studies ◽  
Literary Text ◽  
Consumer Perceptions ◽  
Film Adaptation ◽  
Trademark Law ◽  
Literary Character ◽  
The World ◽  
The Many

Nostalgia for the foods consumed in childhood is a phenomenon extensively documented by food studies scholars and exploited by marketers around the world. This article traces the evolution of the Soviet children's soft drink Buratino from its origins in the Brezhnev era through a variety of post-Soviet incarnations. The character featured on the label, drawn from A. N. Tolstoy's 1935 book based on Carlo Collodi's Adventures of Pinocchio, is both instantly recognizable and remarkably protean in nature, combining the archetype of the trickster from the original literary text with a more benign representative of Soviet values depicted in a 1975 film adaptation. Using Douglas Holt's premises in his book How Brands Become Icons (2004), I argue that what would seem like an easy transition from literary character to advertising icon is complicated by the limitations of nostalgia-based marketing, changing consumer perceptions, and lack of clarity in trademark law. The article concludes with an analysis of the marketing strategy of the Kazakh company Caspian Beverage Holding, which has been singularly successful in recognizing the potential power of the brand and adapting it to a new, post-Soviet market.

scholarly journals John Banville’s „Ghosts”: “A different way of being alive”

2017 ◽  
Vol 55 ◽  
pp. 69-82
Author(s):  
Bożena Kucała
Keyword(s):  
The Novel ◽  
Ontological Status ◽  
Empirical Reality ◽  
Fictional World ◽  
Work In Progress ◽  
Literary Character ◽  
The World ◽  
The Status

This article analyses the ontological status of the characters who inhabit the world of John Banville’s novel Ghosts. While the problem of volatile selfhood recurs in Banville’s fiction, in this novel the very existence of the characters within the fictional world remains doubtful. It is argued here that the numerous metafictional elements in the text are central to its interpretation. The novel itself should be treated as a work in progress or a design for a novel rather than a completed project. The narrative initiates and ultimately resists familiar patterns; the characters’ peculiar way of being alive seems to stem from an intersection of empirical reality and an obscure realm of fantasy, imagination as well as textual and artistic allusions. Correspondingly, the narrator’s status as a literary character is ambiguous. The article suggests that the narrator is the most likely creator of the characters within the fictional world and is himself a playful author-substitute in the novel. In conclusion, a reading that treats Ghosts as a postmodern artefact appears to provide a viable framework for resolving the apparent contradictions and ambiguities in the status of the characters.

"The Hero of This Little History"

2010 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-23
Author(s):  
Hyson Cooper
Keyword(s):  
Young Women ◽  
Gender Ideology ◽  
Young Men ◽  
The Other ◽  
Character Trait ◽  
Victorian Women ◽  
Literary Character ◽  
The World ◽  
The Face ◽  
Similar Restriction

Using Anthony Trollope’s character Tom Tringle ofAyala’s Angel, I argue that in his portrayal of the hobbledehoy, Trollope is imposing on Victorian boys and young men a code of behavior every bit as restrictive and every bit as unnatural as the “suffer and be still” doctrine imposed on girls and young women. Using critical tools from the fields of Masculinity Studies and studies of literary character, I discuss Trollope’s portrayal of Tom Tringle as emblematic of the restrictions Victorian gender ideology placed on women. What emerges is a new dimension to Victorian gender studies. The admonition addressed to Victorian women of all ages and classes that they should “suffer and be still” in the face of any adversity is well known, and is often accompanied by the assumption that no similar restriction is placed on boys and men. In the world of Anthony Trollope’s novels, however, unlike that of many other Victorian novelists, women seldom need much taming, as obedience is a strong character trait in the majority of his heroines. His young men, on the other hand, tend to be far less morally evolved, and in Trollope’s love plots, if anyone has to undergo profound changes of character before being fit for marriage, it is usually the man. I argue that Trollope’s stern but gentle treatment of the misfit Tom provides further answers to the often debated question of Trollopes relative conservatism.

Ties: Elizabeth Bowen

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vike Martina Plock
Keyword(s):  
Elizabeth Bowen ◽  
Literary Aesthetics ◽  
Commodity Culture ◽  
The North ◽  
Modern Capitalism ◽  
Literary Character ◽  
The World ◽  
Outright Rejection

This chapter shows that Elizabeth Bowen’s most cosmopolitan novel, To the North (1932), strategically uses references to clothes and other sartorial items in the construction of literary character. Far from being simply the markers of characters’ socio-economic constellations, clothes, it argues, function as agents of intersubjectivity in the text. Because they are associated with the velocity and the verve of modern capitalism, clothes in To the North connect people and are responsible for the development of interpersonal energies. Although she acknowledges fashion’s tendency to promote standardized images of modern femininity, Bowen’s assessment of fashion and commodity culture therefore moves beyond outright rejection and criticism. By the same token, she developed idiosyncratic literary aesthetics that, paradoxically, represent the materiality of the world without returning to the use of realist literary conventions criticized by Woolf and other modernist writers.

scholarly journals „Szekspir uważał, że należałoby ich wszystkich powiesić…” — czyli o tym, jak wielka sztuka służy morderstwu. Cykl powieściowy Alana Bradleya wobec twórczości Williama Szekspira

2021 ◽  
Vol 26 ◽  
pp. 77-92
Author(s):  
Alicja Mazan-Mazurkiewicz
Keyword(s):  
William Shakespeare ◽  
Significant Part ◽  
Literary Character ◽  
The World ◽  
Cultural Markers

The series of crime novels by the Canadian writer Alan Bradley can be perceived as a series about England and Englishness. William Shakespeare and his works constitute an extremely significant part among the cultural markers of Englishness. Thus, it is not surprising that in the world of literature there is a great number of references to the texts of the great playwright; and these references serve various functions and appear on different textual levels. The aim of this article is a thorough and multifaceted presentation of these references, as well as a demonstration of the literary character of the series about Flavia de Luce in the light of these references.

Pierced with Passion: Brains, Bodies and Worlds in Early Modern Texts

2019 ◽  
pp. 229-249
Author(s):  
Daniel T. Lochman
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
The Body ◽  
Medical Texts ◽  
Literary Forms ◽  
Literary Character ◽  
The World

This chapter explores early modern theories and representations of the cognitive connectedness of brain and body – a connectedness effected by fluid processes of emotion, sensation, and intellection that found coherent expression in disparate early modern literary forms and disciplines, from imaginative narratives by Spenser to theological/philosophical and medical texts by Melanchthon, Lemnius, and Thomas Wright. Rooted in versions of Galenism, wherein conceptual ‘piercings’ afforded perceptions of embodiment as extended and in dynamic, enactive engagement with others – including imagined characters and readers. The metaphor facilitated models of reciprocal exchanges of emotion from one literary character to another, from imaginative texts to readers, from the deity to its creatures, and from the world to the body and brain. An idea of affective penetration that early moderns represented by the pierced body helped shape systemic versions of what we today call embodied, enactive and extended affectivity.

scholarly journals A poet on the other bank: processual writing in the prose by Bohdan Ihor Antonych

2021 ◽  
pp. 56-71
Author(s):  
Olena Haleta
Keyword(s):  
Interwar Period ◽  
Interpersonal Relations ◽  
The Body ◽  
The Other ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Genetic Criticism ◽  
Transpersonal Experience ◽  
Literary Character ◽  
The World ◽  
The Voice

The study examines the ‘unwritten novel’ “On the Other Bank” by Bohdan Ihor Antonych, a notable Western Ukrainian writer of the interwar period. Known primarily for his poetry, Antonych did not finish this novel-in-progress, leaving behind only draft notes, which offer a glimpse into the very process of his writing. Analyzed from the perspective of genetic criticism, Antonych’s manuscripts are treated as an avant-text, demonstrating a ‘scenario of writing’ in the transition from the novel of action to the novel of state. In contrast to his image-based poetry, Antonych’s prose is based on the technique of description. Depicting nature or the urban environment, the author conveys a certain emotional and psychological condition; and paying special attention to qualitative adjectives, he appeals to the sensory experience of the reader. Despite the fact that the plan of the novel indicates the main events of the plot, the author mainly captures the emotions of the characters. Dialogues also play an unusual role in the text as their function is an expressive rather than a communicative one. Since the dynamics of the text are based on emotional and psychological movement, and not on the succession of events or judgments, it is considered to be an example of affective poetics in Ukrainian modern literature. The affect appears in Antonych’s text as a force and tension. It shapes the human personality and at the same time challenges it. The affect goes beyond discursiveness and captures the body while its intensity is expressed through the voice and speed. Antonych’s characters share a common transpersonal experience in their childhood and a common object of desire after becoming adults. Moreover, the transfer of emotions into the sphere of interpersonal relations gives to the affect not only a psychological but also an ethical dimension. The researcher analyzes Antonych’s manuscript focusing on the dynamics of writing and not on the dynamics of the plot, and this approach gives reason for the conclusion about the affective nature of Antonych’s prose. It is evident that in the ‘unwritten novel’ “On the Other Bank” Antonych depicts the modernist type of literary character as ‘homo sentiens’, who perceives the world in a subtle way and experiences it deeply.

The Efforts for International Protection of Scientific Property

1929 ◽  
Vol 23 (3) ◽  
pp. 552-569 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen B. Ladas
Keyword(s):  
Intellectual Property ◽  
World War ◽  
International Protection ◽  
New Class ◽  
Literary Character ◽  
The World

Until the World War the rights of intellectual property were generallydivided into two classes: industrial and artistic or literary property, corresponding to two separate kinds of creations: those aiming at industrial results and those possessing an aesthetic or literary character. This classification, accepted as a matter of course, produced, as will be seen, some difficulties and led to unsatisfactory results in certain cases. Soon after the end of the war a new class of intellectual property began to be discussed: the scientific property. Its claim to existence and protection was not primarily due to theoretical speculation and developments of doctrine, but to practical causes.

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