scholarly journals Paradox and Tragedy in Dennis Lehane’s Shutter Island and Seneca’s Oedipus Rex: A Comparative Study

2021 ◽  
pp. 49-56
Author(s):  
Ms Sanjana Kundaliya ◽  
Dr M S Saritha

The stratagem of employing paradoxical scenario in any form of artistic expression has been a timeless creative scheme. A very famous example of paradox may be seen within Sophocles’ Oedipus Rex, with the titular character’s pursuit of truth and goodwill leading to his own tragic downfall. Similarly, tragic expression has been at the centre of humans’ outlet for cathartic release. Thus, both paradox and tragedy tend to emerge in different ways in works of literature. The present study is focussed on recognizing and exploring the traces of commonalities of paradox and tragic elements between Oedipus Rex and Shutter Island(2003),by the renowned crime and mystery novelist, Dennis Lehane by considering the heroes in both narratives and the situations that their character attributes incite. The authors in both cases assign character attributes of a traditional tragic hero which constantly inform their actions, thereby creating an inevitable journey of personal downfall. The moments of anagnorisis are imbued with intense guilt and grief as both the protagonists realize that they themselves are the cause for their problems.

1976 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 341-348
Author(s):  
Joseph Allard

The character, modes, and forms of artistic expression in any epoch are in many ways governed by prevailing intellectual and philosophical points of view. What is considered ‘ good taste ’ by the patron of painting, poetry or music will often seem quite incredible to future generations because intellectual bases of perception and appreciation change so inexorably and often so quickly. If the final judgment about what is satisfying (not to mention ‘ beautiful ’) in a work of art must finally be left to each individual to decide for whatever reasons he feels important, this in no way alters the fact that a work of any period can be seen to exhibit aspects that are characteristic of its creator and audience. By studying a selection of works from a historical period, we are able better to understand not only the works themselves, but at least some particular characteristics of those who produced them, and those for whom they were intended. In a comparative study of the arts we will most quickly reach productive ends using what Erwin Panofsky terms an Iconological approach, a search for ‘ intrinsic meaning and content ’. This angle of vision looks to underlying principles to reveal important generalizations about attitudes of nations, periods, classes, or religions, or philosophical persuasions ‘ unconsciously qualified by one personality and condensed into one work ’. The scholar's work becomes synthetic, rather than just analytic. In the search, one must recover and ponder the ‘ intrinsic meaning ’ of every document of civilization available which relates to the work under consideration. Panofsky mentions specifically the areas of politics, poetry, religion, philosophy, and social tendencies of personality, period and country.


Author(s):  
А.З. Хабибуллина

Статья посвящена сопоставительному исследованию жанра элегии и элегизма как самостоятельного модуса художественности в русской и татарской поэзии XIX-начала XX вв. в свете категории времени. Установлено, что элегия не вошла в круг канонических и неканонических жанров татарской литературы начала XX века, что значительно усложняет исходную ситуацию сопоставления национальных литератур. Сделан вывод о том, что исторически русская элегия существовала в художественном пространстве времени, в ее содержании особое звучание имел мотив переживания лирическим субъектом настоящего момента бытия в ценностном свете прошлого (В.И. Козлов, О.В. Зырянов, В.Э. Вацуро, М.Л. Гаспаров). Исследования ученых-востоковедов (Г.Э. Грюнебаум, Л. Масиньон, А.М. Шиммель) показали, что время в сознании восточного поэта как будто стремиться «оставаться на месте»; время здесь не линейное в своей протяженности, оно не определяется различиями границ прошлого, настоящего и будущего. Напротив, в нем особое место уделялось переживанию мгновений, причем не всегда расположенных в необратимой последовательности. Сделан вывод о том, что татарское художественное сознание, испытавшее воздействие традиций литератур Востока, имеет сходные черты мировосприятия, что в значительной мере обусловило уникальность пути становления элегического жанра в национальной литературе. Фактическую основу работы составил сопоставительный анализ элегии А.С. Пушкина «Прощанье» (1830) и стихотворения Дэрдменда «Әгәр барсаң, саба җил, безнең илгә» («Ветер утренний, если летишь в нашу сторону…»). Установлено, что произведение Дэрдменда отличается тонким элегическим звучанием. Последнее можно рассматривать как особый тип художественности, на основе которого возник диалог русской классики и татарской литературы в аспекте ценностной категории времени и ее важнейших художественных свойств. The article is devoted to the comparative study of the elegy genre and elegism as an independent mode of artistic expression in Russian and Tatar poetry of the XIX - early XX centuries in the aspect of tense. It is stated that elegy was not included in the field of canonical and non canonical genres of Tatar literature of the early XXth century and this causes some problems in the original situation of national literary comparison. It is concluded that historically Russian elegy existed in artistic sphere of tense and the motive of the lyric character’s experience of current moment in an aspect of value had a specific sound in its content (V.I. Kozlov, O.V. Zyryanov, V.E. Vatsuro, M.L. Gasparov). The orientalists’ studies (G.E. Griunebaum, L.Masinyon, A.M. Shimmel) showed that tense in the conscience of the oriental poet tends to “stop”; time here is not linear in its length, it is not marked by the differences of the past, present and future. In the contrary, special attention was paid to the experience of moments, not always arranged in an inversible sequence. The author comes to the conclusion that Tatar artistic mentality experienced the influence of oriental literature has similar features in worldview which determines the uniqueness of the way the elegiac genre formed in the national literature. The actual basis of the work is comparative analysis of A.S.Pushkin’s elegy “Farewell” (1830) and poems by Derdmend «Әgәr barsaң, saba җil, bezneң ilgә» (“If you go, morning wind, to our land”). It is stated that poem by Derdmend differs by its subtle elegiac sound. The latter can be viewed as a special type of artistry which serves as the basis for the dialogue of Russian classics and Tatar literature in the aspect of time value category and its most important artistic features.


2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bruno Oliveira Ferreira de Souza ◽  
Éve‐Marie Frigon ◽  
Robert Tremblay‐Laliberté ◽  
Christian Casanova ◽  
Denis Boire

2001 ◽  
Vol 268 (6) ◽  
pp. 1739-1748
Author(s):  
Aitor Hierro ◽  
Jesus M. Arizmendi ◽  
Javier De Las Rivas ◽  
M. Angeles Urbaneja ◽  
Adelina Prado ◽  
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