scholarly journals Binary Opposition as the Manifestation of the Spirit of Meiji in Natsume Sōseki’s Kokoro

2019 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 78
Author(s):  
Richard Ahadi Christanda Christanda ◽  
Ni Luh Putu Rosiandani
Keyword(s):  
Primary Source ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Digital Form ◽  
Binary Opposition ◽  
Secondary Sources ◽  
Meiji Period ◽  
Library Research ◽  
Unique Identity ◽  
Binary Oppositions ◽  
Research Problems

<p><em>Every period in history has its own unique identity. Meiji period in historical Japan is no exception to this, having its own identity called the spirit of Meiji. This research attempts to reveal this identity, which present in the story of Kokoro, by using binary opposition. Binary opposition allows comparing and examining contradicting elements. Since the spirit of Meiji is defined as having “two contradictory elements”, therefore, binary opposition is suitable for revealing the spirit of Meiji.</em></p><p><em></em><em>The goal of this research is to show how binary opposition constitutes as a crucial element to the unique identity of Meiji period, which is the spirit of Meiji. In order to achieve this, two research problems are used as guides. One is how story of Kokoro presents the binary oppositions and two is how the spirit of Meiji manifests in the binary oppositions.</em></p><p><em>In this research, library research was conducted in order to collect the relevant data. It uses texts in both printed form and digital form. The primary source for the research is the novel Kokoro by NatsumeSōseki while the secondary sources are taken from various books and articles.</em></p><p><em></em><em>The first step in explaining the spirit of Meiji is to examine the binary oppositions within in the story. The binary oppositions itself are revealed through the characters and the setting of the story. Through these two elements, five binary oppositions are revealed. They are past against present, old against young, rural against urban, community against privacy, and family against individual. These binary oppositions are then compared to the situation in real-world Meiji period in order to validate whether they really are the spirit of Meiji or not. It is then, through this direct comparison, the binary oppositions are found mirroring the situation in the real Meiji period. Therefore, it can be concluded that binary opposition is the manifestation of the identity of Meiji period, which is the spirit of Meiji.</em></p><p><strong><em>Keywords:</em></strong> binary opposition, Meiji period, spirit of Meiji.</p><p>_________________________________________</p><p>DOI &gt; <a href="https://search.crossref.org/?q=10.24071%2Fjoll.2019.190208">https://doi.org/10.24071/joll.2019.190208</a></p>

scholarly journals Oposisi Biner dalam “Lettres de Mon Moulin” Karya Alphonse Daudet

2022 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 105-116
Author(s):  
Rifqi Ayu Everina
Keyword(s):  
Narrative Analysis ◽  
Industrial Revolution ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Binary Opposition ◽  
Modern Life ◽  
Human Reason ◽  
Binary Oppositions ◽  
Alphonse Daudet ◽  
Exclusive Category ◽  
Clear Line

Binary opposition is the most important aspect that can reveal how humans think, how humans produce meaning and understand reality (Culler, 1976). Therefore, the discovery of binary oppositions is useful in providing clues to the workings of human reason. In the context of narrative analysis, binary opposition can reveal how the logic behind a narrative is made. Based on this, this study highlights how the formation of binary opposition contained in the novel "Lettres de Mon Moulin" by Alphonse Daudet uses Lévi Strauss's theory of binary opposition (1955) and structural analysis using Freytag's plot theory (1863). The corpus of the research consists of six stories contained in the novel forming a binary opposition. After doing the analysis, it was found that a pair of words with binary opposition were included in the exclusive category and two pairs of words that were included in the non-exclusive binary opposition category. From these findings, it was found that the author of the novel, Daudet, gave directions on what was good and bad by giving a clear line of separation. This is in line with the context of making stories during the industrial revolution, which mapped the world into two things, namely traditional and modern life.

Patterns of Binary Oppositions in Yousef Al-Mohaimeed’s Wolves of the Crescent Moon

2017 ◽  
Vol 8 (5) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Laila M. Al-Sharqi
Keyword(s):  
Saudi Arabia ◽  
Driving Force ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Contemporary Society ◽  
Narrative Strategies ◽  
Binary Opposition ◽  
Cultural Changes ◽  
Contemporary Novel ◽  
Binary Oppositions

Yousef Al-Mohaimeed’s Wolves of the Crescent Moon is a rich contemporary novel that deploys several effective narrative strategies and themes. Binary oppositions provide the novel’s most unifying thread. This paper examines how binary opposition is used as a structural device in the novel to explore the interplay between modernity and culture in Saudi Arabia by challenging previously unquestioned aspects of life in the contemporary society. The paper focuses on the manner in which binary oppositions inform the novel’s rhetoric of displacement, which becomes a driving force determining variation in values and notions within the privileged elite. Corresponding cultural changes emerge from this elite set, whose members pursue modernity in an exclusionary manner in their rapid assimilation into modernization. They appear incapable of understanding indigenous members of Saudi society who adjust less rapidly and who perceive changes in norms and traditions as evidence that the elite regard them as inferior ‘Others’.

scholarly journals RACIAL DISCRIMINATION AS SEEN IN STOCKETT’S THE HELP

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Nilia R. Menggalomo ◽  
Elizabeth Z. Oroh ◽  
Agustine C. Mamentu
Keyword(s):  
Racial Discrimination ◽  
Jim Crow ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Primary Source ◽  
Equal Treatment ◽  
The Novel ◽  
White Race ◽  
Black Race ◽  
Black And White ◽  
Secondary Sources

ABSTRACT:  This study aims to reveal about racial discrimination from White race to Black race as seen in Kathryn Stockett’s The Help,  by applying qualitative research in which the data are gathered in the form of words and quotation from the novel, internet and other books to substantiate the research.  The writers collect the data using two kind of sources, primary and the secondary sources. Primary source is taken from the novel itself and the secondary sources are taken from books internet and other relevant data.  In analyzing the data, the writers are using mimetic apporoach which is an imitation, reflection, or representation of Human life. The result of this research shows how the  racial discrimination occurs in South America particularly in Jackson, Mississipi.  This novel represents how the situation back then in the era of jim crow law, where all of the aspect and accomodation  in both black and white are separated for equality but it does not shows the equal treatment for black race. Instead the long preception of black race is inferior and dirty, it costs  trauma, poverty, death, for black race.  They are still receives all of those bad treats even after all of those suffers and hard-working.  Also even when they have to serve the white race and fight for they own freedom. They have to fight against the rules that stand to torture them back then. Keywords: The Help, Discrimination, Black race, White race

scholarly journals AN ANALYSIS OF ROMANTIC ASPECT AS PORTRAYED IN ‘THE REVOLT IN PARADISE” BY K’TUT TANTRI

2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 73
Author(s):  
Shokhikhatul Khasanah
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Literary Criticism ◽  
Primary Source ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Literary Works ◽  
Secondary Sources ◽  
The Past ◽  
And Behavior ◽  
Descriptive Qualitative

This study was aimed to analyze the aspects of Romanticism manifested in the novel “The Revolt in Paradise” and behavior of character reflects Romanticism in “The Revolt in Paradise”. This study was based on the descriptive-qualitative research since the findings were going to be presented in a descriptive form. The data to be analyzed are gathered from two sources. The primary source is the novel itself; The Revolt in Paradise and the secondary sources includes many appropriate documents in the form of literary works, previous thesis, biography, theories and literary criticism, dictionaries and etc. Related to the instrument, the researcher employed herself as the human instrument. The data were analyzed through underlying and labeling. The result of the study found that there four aspects of Romanticism manifested in the novel; The Revolt in Paradise, they were: the love of nature, the memories of the past, the horror /gothic setting and the emotion; included; love, anger and hatred. This study also found that The Revolt in Paradise gave the vivid depiction of the Nationalism as the major behavior reflects Romanticism.

scholarly journals Manajemen Organisasi tanpa Korupsi Perspektif QS. Al-‘Ashr (103): 1-3

2018 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 195-213
Author(s):  
Nur Zazin ◽  
Galuh Nashrulloh Kartika MR
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Work Ethic ◽  
Primary Source ◽  
The Other ◽  
Alternative Solution ◽  
Secondary Sources ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Library Research ◽  
Organizing Process

This study tries to reveal on how The Qur’an Surah al-'Asr could be interpreted to describe the principles of behaviors required in managing organizations without corruption, what causes failure in organizing process, and an alternative solution for managing the organization to avoid corruption. This is a library research with the primary source taken from the Qur’an Surah Al-Ashr: 1-3, the secondary sources were taken from other verses that is related in the Qur'an, related hadith of the Prophet Muhammad and the books of tafsir, while the tertiary sources are taken from books or writings that have relevance to the problem of research. This qualitative research uses Tahlili interpretation approach with inductive and interpretative method. The results of this study shows that the success of an organization without corruption built on three principles of behaviors, they are to build a work ethic commitment to organize effectively and efficiently based on faith, to run the organization professionally, open to accept and provide truth-based criticism and patience. On the other hand, the cause of the failure to organize is not carrying out their obligations, unfairness that resulting in cheating, corruption and dishonest/hypocritical.

scholarly journals UNSUR-UNSUR LOKALITAS DALAM NOVEL GALUH HATI KARYA RANDU ALAMSYAH (Locality Elements in Galuh Hati, Novel by Randu Alamsyah)

Kandai ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 61
Author(s):  
Agus Yulianto
Keyword(s):  
Social Criticism ◽  
Literary Work ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Sociology Of Literature ◽  
Local Color ◽  
Diamond Mining ◽  
Library Research ◽  
Research Problems ◽  
Physical Background ◽  
Descriptive Method

Galuh Hati, novel written by Randu Alamsyah is one of novels that its background is in South Kalimantan area, especially the diamond mining at Cempaka. Therefore, it’s not surprising that this novel contains local color or people locality. Locality is actually an effort to make literary work down to earth. It makes a reader truly feels-not only physical background-but also a kind of culture system and social portrait from both explicit and implicit texts. The approach used in this research is sociology of literature. The aim of this study is to find out the elements of locality and social criticism in the story. Research problems are how the locality depicted in the novel Galuh Hati and what kind of social criticism found in the story. This study uses descriptive method with a library research. Based on the research, it is found that the locality in the novel includes the title, names of character and the using of local vocabulary in both narrative and dialogue. In addition, locality is also found in place and socio cultural setting. 

The homeland and the city: Rural and urban decolonization in Patricia Grace’s Potiki

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 25-42 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pia Brückner
Keyword(s):  
Literary Criticism ◽  
Academic Disciplines ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Binary Opposition ◽  
Aotearoa New Zealand ◽  
Rural And Urban ◽  
Binary Oppositions ◽  
Urban Rural ◽  
The City

Over the last decade, studies from multiple academic disciplines have started to examine the city’s role as a place of decolonization for Māori people in Aotearoa New Zealand. This article uses those multidisciplinary findings as a basis for literary criticism by re-examining the role of the city in Patricia Grace’s second novel Potiki (1986). Indigenous urbanites are generally deemed impossible and ‘unnatural’ within the inherited colonial ideology. And even though the novel foregrounds a Māori family’s return to their ancestral land, this article argues that the very success of this return is based on the interrelation between ‘rural’ and ‘urban’ strategies of decolonization. While the colonial urban–rural binary often seems reinforced, the novel inverts the power positions between colonizer and colonized, thereby promoting decolonization. At the same time, some characters become unconsciously entrapped in a romanticized pre-migration idyll, which the harsh reality of agricultural working life cannot satisfy. In order to assess the effectiveness of the different decolonizing strategies employed by the characters, my analysis utilizes the postcolonial key concepts of binary opposition, the liminal, the interstice, ambivalence, double consciousness and cultural appropriation, and examines the degree to which inherited binary oppositions are either maintained or defied by Pākehā and Māori within the novel.

scholarly journals The Contribution of al-Sya'rawi to the Development of Tafsir: Study on the Book of Tafsir al-Sya’rawi

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 138
Author(s):  
Mhd. Idris
Keyword(s):  
Direct Contact ◽  
Primary Source ◽  
Reference Source ◽  
Secondary Sources ◽  
Library Research ◽  
Simple Language ◽  
General Profile

<p>This research discusses the contribution of Imam al-Sya’rawi in the field of interpretation with his phenomenal work <em>Tafsir al-Sya’rawi</em>. This article aims to find out about the general profile of the author of the <em>Tafsir al-Sya’rawi</em>, the background of the tafsir, the method, and style of interpretation as well as the strengths and weaknesses<strong> </strong>of this Sya'rawi's interpretation. This research is library research that is descriptive-analytical. The primary source used is the book of Tafsir al-Sya'rawi and literature related to this discussion as secondary sources. The results showed that the book of <em>Tafsir al-Sya’rawi</em> was the work of a prominent scholar from Egypt named Sheikh Muhammad Mutawally al-Sya`râwi, born in 1911 in Egypt. The name of <em>Tafsir al-Sya’rawi</em> is taken from the original name of the writer. This interpretation uses the <em>tahlili</em> method and is characterized by <em>al-adab al-ijtima’i</em>. This interpretation is presented with nuances that are in direct contact with social themes, through a fairly simple language technique. But the drawback is that there is no reference source when quoting the opinions of other scholars and there is no assessment of the quality of the hadiths quoted.</p><p><em>Penelitian ini membahas tentang kontribusi Imam Sya’rawi di bidang tafsir dengan karya fenomenalnya </em>Tafsir al-Sya`rawi<em>. Tulisan ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui tentang profil umum penulis </em>Tafsir Sya'rawi<em>, latar belakang tafsir, cara dan gaya tafsir, serta kekuatan dan kelemahan </em>Tafsir al-Sya’rawi<em> ini. Penelitian ini merupakan penelitian pustaka yang bersifat deskriptif-analitik. Sumber primer yang digunakan adalah kitab </em>Tafsir al-Sya’rawi<em> dan literatur terkait pembahasan ini sebagai sumber sekunder. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa kitab </em>Tafsir al-Sya’rawi<em> merupakan karya seorang ulama terkemuka dari Mesir bernama Syekh Muhammad Mutawally al-Sya`râwi, lahir pada tahun 1911 di Mesir. Nama </em>Tafsir al-Sya’rawi<em> diambil dari nama asli penulisnya. Tafsir ini menggunakan metode </em>tahlili<em> dan bercirikan </em>al-adab al-ijtima’i<em>. Interpretasi ini dihadirkan dengan nuansa yang bersentuhan langsung dengan tema sosial, melalui teknik bahasa yang cukup sederhana. Tetapi kekurangannya adalah tidak ada sumber referensi ketika mengutip pendapat ulama lain dan tidak ada penilaian kualitas hadits yang dikutip.</em></p>

scholarly journals Pemikiran Pendidikan Karakter Ibn Miskawaih (Telaah Filosofis)

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 232-247
Author(s):  
Ahmad Ihwani ◽  
Muhammad Noupal ◽  
Ari Sandi
Keyword(s):  
Character Education ◽  
Research Method ◽  
Primary Source ◽  
Data Interpretation ◽  
Primary Sources ◽  
Secondary Source ◽  
Philosophical Perspective ◽  
Secondary Sources ◽  
Library Research ◽  
Unit Processing

This study aims to analyze the concept of character education according to Ibn Miskawaih in a philosophical perspective with a focus on studies from the side of ontology, epistemology, and axiology. The research method used is the library research method. Sources of literature in this study consist of primary sources and secondary sources. The primary source of literature is the book of tahzib al-Akhlak, and the secondary source is references related to character education such as other books from Ibn Miskawaih's essays, journals, or proceedings. Data analysis begins with unit processing, categorization, and ends with data interpretation. The results showed that ontologically, character education is an effort to curb the three forces that exist in the human soul, so that all body activities become good and spontaneous without the need for prior consideration. Epistemologically, the character education method includes willpower, self-introspection, thariqun thabi'iyyah and opposition methods. Axiologically, character education boils down to the middle path (al-wasath), with main virtues such as al-hikmah (wisdom), al-'iffah (maintaining self-purity), as-Saja'ah (courage) and al-'adalah ( justice).

scholarly journals Hope and Fear in Stephen King's "The Mist"

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-14
Author(s):  
Robi Syarip ◽  
Fatma Hetami
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Human Mind ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Binary Opposition ◽  
God's Will ◽  
Wrong Thing ◽  
Library Research ◽  
Hard Times ◽  
Human Psyche ◽  
The One

Hope and Fear are something that lies in the deep of the human mind that affect how people act. This research is conducted to reveal fear and hope in society as part of human psyche that build its very foundation. The topic of this research is hope and fear in Stephen King’s The Mist. The research instrument uses observation sheets, while the data collection is based on the library research. This is a descriptive qualitative research that used structuralism theory by Levi-Strauss. By using the structuralism theory, the analysis of the study was conducted through binary opposition found in the novel. This research results in several findings as follows: 1) People lose themselves as human when fear constantly breaks them, while hope is the one that can keep them as human even in the hard times. 2) In religion aspect, fear has changed the way people think about God. The disaster, the death, and the monster are said to be God’s will. It shows that the fundamental of belief is changed from blessing life to cursing life. Furthermore, society’s moral has degenerated that they justify the wrong thing as right, and otherwise because they only think about their safety. Keywords: Binary Opposition, Fear, Hope, Society, Structuralism

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