Representations of Evil in the Novels Miss Christina, The Snake and Isabel and the Devil’s Waters by Mircea Eliade

2021 ◽  
Vol 66 (1) ◽  
pp. 71-86
Author(s):  
Constantin Ivanov

"Representations of Evil in the Novels Miss Christina, The Snake and Isabel and the Devil’s Waters by Mircea Eliade. The present article analyzes some representations of evil in the novels Miss Christina, The Snake and Isabel and the Devil’s Waters by Mircea Eliade. In particular, we draw attention to the evil that directly refers to the mysterious dimension and, therefore, outlines a perception that exceeds the mundane experience of everyday life. In this sense, the emergence of unfathomable aspects and phenomena can only be explained in an imaginary approach. This type of representation of evil is perceived within the limits of a manifestation of the supernatural, in an unveiling of the evil through ill-fated, Mephistophelean characters or in the potentiation of “heresies” in the folkloric imaginary. The paper aims to examine how this evil, most often related to some almost occult experiences and fueled by local folklore, is capitalized in the fantastic prose of Mircea Eliade. Keywords: mysterious, fantastic, magical, imaginary, representation, evil, devil "

2021 ◽  
pp. 011719682098159
Author(s):  
Yali Chen

To understand the agency of Chinese marriage migrant women in Switzerland in their everyday life, the present article examines the reasons why Chinese women marry European men and their post-migratory life in Switzerland. Based on interviews with Chinese marriage migrant women, the article discusses their gendered representations before migration (as “leftover women” or “divorced women”) to being “foreign wives” after migration to Switzerland. Their migration from China to Switzerland also resulted to a change in their roles from “professional women” to “homemakers.” The gender-related discrimination the women encountered from China to their post-migration life in Switzerland demonstrates a continuum of gender discrimination in which they highly exert their agency that has also been enhanced by acts of resistance.


2014 ◽  
Vol 35 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-16 ◽  
Author(s):  
Liv Hausken

Abstract This essay investigates forensic fiction as a trend in televised crime fiction and argues that this trend or subgenre is particularly interesting if we are to understand how surveillance is portrayed in contemporary society. The essay looks particularly into an extremely popular example of forensic fiction, namely CSI and its two spin-offs CSI: NY and CSI: Miami. Through a discussion of the conceptions of knowledge, crime and power, which seem to come forth in the three CSI series, the present article argues that the particular blend of technological optimism, positivism and moralism that can be witnessed in forensic fiction in general, and in CSI in particular, is important to understanding how popular culture lends a certain normalization of surveillance to everyday life


2014 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jairo Hernández Sánchez ◽  
César Augusto Cruz Ramírez

El presente artículo es producto de una investigación desarrollada en el sector cooperativo adscrito al municipio de El Espinal, departamento del Tolima (Colombia). El objetivo del estudio consistió en determinar si las entidades del sector cooperativo cumplen efectivamente con la aplicación de los principios del cooperativismo. El tipo de estudio fue exploratorio y descriptivo; en tanto que el método de investigación utilizado fue cuanti-cualitativo, la técnica de investigación fue la encuesta, que se aplicó a los asociados de las diferentes cooperativas. Los resultados mostraron que pocos asociados reciben formación respecto a los principios del cooperativismo y a la gestión cooperativa, situación que dificulta su aplicación eficiente. En conclusión, el sector cooperativo de El Espinal-Tolima requiere fomentar la cultura de formación y apropiación de los principios cooperativos de sus asociados para que sean aprovechados en el quehacer diario. Esto exige a los directivos generar estrategias de divulgación oportunas, que fortalezcan la interiorización y aplicación de la filosofía y principios cooperativos, de manera que se produzca un crecimiento económico y social al interior de la empresa. ABSTRACTThe present article is the result of a research developed in the cooperative sector in the municipality of “El Espinal”, department of Tolima (Colombia). The aim of this study consisted of determining if the entities of the cooperative sector comply with the implementation of cooperative principles. The type of study was exploratory and descriptive; while the research method used was the quantitative-qualitative one; a survey was the research technique applied to the associates of the different co-operatives. The results showed that few associates receive formation with regard toco-operative principles and the co-operative management; this situation makes their application difficult. In conclusion, the co-operative sector in ”El Espinal”, Tolima, needs to promote the culture of formation and appropriation of co-operative principles of its associates for them to be used in everyday life. This demands managers to generate appropriate dissemination strategies, which strengthen the internalization and application of Philosophy and co-operative principles, so that an economic and social growth takes place within the company.


Author(s):  
С.Р. Повалишникова ◽  
О.В. Захарова

Основной массив современных отечественных исследований направлен на изучение положения русских военнопленных в годы Первой мировой войны. В настоящей статье сделана попытка проанализировать бытовые условия содержания военнопленных, находившихся на территории Российской империи. Эти условия во многом зависели от звания и национальности пленных. В статье делается акцент на источники личного происхождения. Особое внимание уделяется воспоминаниям немецкого генерала Э. Людендорфа, немецкого журналиста А. Курта и находившегося в Восточной Сибири немецкого военнопленного Э. Двингера. The vast majority of modern Russian research is aimed at the investigation of the position of Russian prisoners of war during World War I. The present article attempts to analyze the conditions of everyday life of German prisoners of war who lived in the Russian Empire during World War I. The conditions largely depended on the rank and nationality of prisoners of war. The article analyzes personal documents. It focuses on memoirs written by E. Ludensdorff (German general), A. Kurt (German journalist), who lived in Eastern Siberia, and E. Dwinger (German prisoner of war).


2015 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 51-60
Author(s):  
O.R. Busarova

The aim of the present article was to study the question of do special exercises for the formation of students-psychologists skills determine the causes of deviant behavior of adolescents, based on the provisions of the causal approach in psycho-diagnostics A. F. Anufrieva, the principle of objectivity. The study involved 30 future psychologists. After performing the exercises in the course "Psychodiagnostics" the students solved the task, which simulates diagnostic work of the psychologist with decriminalised teenager with deviant behavior. Students were asked to solve a problem in professional discourse – to put forward hypotheses about the causes of deviant behavior in everyday life is to point out the culprits of the situation. Additionally, students assessed their similarity with the hero of the diagnostic event. The results show that students who have managed to build up diagnostic skills to identify psychological causes of deviant behavior, both professionally and in everyday discourse grappled with the task model, regardless of the number of subjective similarities with her character. Students who have not sufficiently developed diagnostic skills, to avoid bias failed.


2021 ◽  
Vol 11 ◽  
pp. 223-234
Author(s):  
Klaudia Bracisiewicz

Usable texts should be extremely clear and functional. The present article focuses on instructions as a genre. Using French braid instructions as an example, the author presents how the form and layout of a text influence its usability. To this end an experiment was conducted on a sample of 32 individuals. The subjects received four versions of the same instructions — in the form of continuous text, in the form of continuous text with fragments in bold type, bullet point instructions and bullet point instructions with illustrations. The objective was to compare various forms of instructions (a form of text often used in everyday life, the clarity of which should consequently be as high as possible) in order to test their usability.


2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 39-56
Author(s):  
Michael L. Martínez, Jr

In the post-Fordist world, cities emerged as increasingly contested terrains upon which capital and ordinary citizens struggled to control the urban process. Henri Lefebvre discerned this contestatory dynamic early on and in response developed the ‘urban’, a concept that cleaves a critical pathway towards a host of material, cultural and ideological processes that attach to capitalist modernity. Around the same time, the Spanish novelist Gonzalo Torrente Ballester was working to sketch the contours of his magnus opus La saga/fuga de J.B. Torrente would eventually come to recognize the roles that the urban process and the socio-spatial dialectic play in mediating contemporary urban life. The present article thus carries out first a close reading of Torrente’s personal journals to detail the ascendency of the ‘urban dominant’ as a central structuring component of his fictional writings. Thereafter, the critical analysis of La saga/fuga de J.B. will reveal that the ‘urban dominant’ stands concealed at the heart of this notoriously complicated novel. This urban cultural studies reading of La saga/fuga de J.B. will argue that, like Lefebvre, Torrente denounces capital’s static conception of space at the same time that he draws upon historical movements of urban protest for textual inspiration. And what will eventually emerge is that, beyond a master of the metafictional novel, Torrente was also an astute observer of everyday life in the urban context.


2016 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 87-101
Author(s):  
Saeede Hosseinpour ◽  
Nahid Shahbazi Department of English Language and

Abstract Magical realism, as a narrative mode or genre in adults’ literature, has been in vogue since its revivifying with the publication of Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967). However, the depiction of the genre in children’s and juvenile literature is a new trend; the presence of its elements have been traced and proved feasibly applicable in the interpretation of recent children’s fiction such as David Almond’s Skelling (1998). In this regard, the main concern of the present article is to sift the characteristic features of magical realism within Neil Gaiman’s Coraline (2002) through the application of Wendy B. Faris’s theoretical framework of the genre therewith Tzvetan Todorov’s definition of the fantastic in order to introduce the novel as an exemplar of magical realism in the domain of children’s literature.


1986 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 15-28 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brenda Jo Bredemeier ◽  
David L. Shields

The designation of an act as aggressive involves an implicit or explicit moral judgment. Consequently, research on aggression must address the value issues involved. The present article suggests that Haan’s theory of interactional morality can be used to provide a framework for social scientific research into moral issues. Haan’s model, however, must be adapted to the unique context of sport. This study applies the concept of frame analysis as a procedure for clarifying the moral reasoning associated with athletic aggression. In contrast to similar acts in everyday life, moral ambiguity characterizes some sport acts intended to deliver minor noxious stimuli. The label of aggression must be used with caution when designating such acts.


Author(s):  
Nuria Sánchez Villadangos

Cuando la fantasía supera a la realidad o cuando la fantasía es tan real que parece que otros mundos son posibles surge lo fantástico contemporáneo dentro de lo que se denominado literatura posmoderna. La noción de lo fantástico ha de verse como un acuerdo al que todos nos adherimos, pues los límites entre lo real y lo fantástico se diluyen, desde el mismo momento en que se empiezan a cuestionar términos como “realidad extratextual”, “pacto ficcional”, etc., reflejando así que esos mundos alternativos que constituyen lo fantástico no son sino una trascendencia o una trasgresión de lo que entendemos por realidad. El objetivo primordial del presente artículo girará en torno a las reflexiones teóricas acerca de lo fantástico que se han venido produciendo, de forma especial y juiciosa en los últimos años, y su adaptación en las narraciones de Patricia Esteban Erlés, en concreto, en sus cuentos incluidos en Azul ruso (2010) y en Casa de muñecas (2012) donde lo fantástico y lo terriblemente real se difuminan y confunden. When fantasy beats reality or when fantasy is so real that it seems that other worlds are possible contemporary fantasy arises within what is called postmodern literature. The notion of fantastic is to be seen as an agreement that we all adhere, as the boundaries between reality and fantastic are diluted, from the moment we begin to question the terms “extra-textual reality”, “fictional pact”, etc., reflecting so these alternative worlds that constitute the fantastic thing are a transcendency or a transgression of what we understand for reality. The basic aim of the present article will focus on theoretical considerations about how great have been occurring in recent years, and their adaptation in the tales of Patricia Esteban Erlés, specifically in her tales included in Azul ruso (2010) and Casa de muñecas (2012) where the fantastic, the real and the terrible are blurred and confused.


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