scholarly journals "Id", "ego" i deficyt superego w obrazie psychologicznym bohaterów powieści "Zazdrość i medycyna" Michała Choromańskiego

2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (10) ◽  
pp. 133-148
Author(s):  
Wiesław Setlak
Keyword(s):  
Interwar Period ◽  
Creative Process ◽  
Interdisciplinary Research ◽  
Psychological Research ◽  
Literary Studies ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Freudian Psychoanalysis ◽  
Psychological Realism ◽  
The World

Id, ego and superego deficit in a psychological image of the protagonists of ″Jealousy and Medicine″ by Michał Choromański Jealousy and Medicine – a novel by Michał Choromański, published in 1933, evidently breaks out of the convention of psychological realism thriving on the achievements of behavioural psychology, dominant in the interwar period. Choromański’s work is an innovatory experiment on composition and thought; the world shown in the novel resembles a psychotic maligna or oneiric vision. The whole novel prompts interdisciplinary research using psychoanalysis of Sigismund Freud, Charles Mauron’s psychocritical method, being a transformation of classical Freudian psychoanalysis (with Otto Rank’s modifications), contemporary psychology of a creative process and the methodologies of psychological research which are accepted and occasionally used by contemporary literary studies. Choromański’s novel is deemed the most discerning studium of jealousy in interwar literature.

“Ndom heaved”: Imagining Igbo women in the Ogu Umunwanyi (1929 Women’s War) in Echewa’s I Saw the Sky Catch Fire

2018 ◽  
Vol 55 (2) ◽  
pp. 246-258
Author(s):  
James Hodapp
Keyword(s):  
Literary Studies ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Foreign Culture ◽  
Time Space ◽  
The World ◽  
Scant Attention ◽  
British Colonial ◽  
And Gender

The power of women to carry out explicit acts of resistance against colonialism has traditionally been of great interest within African literary studies. It is surprising therefore that within the field representations of Ogu Umunwanyi (1929 Women’s War) in Nigeria, patronizingly referred to as “riots” in British colonial reports, have received scant attention. This article, in part, compensates for this oversight and asserts the value of one representation of the Ogu Umunwanyi: T. Obinkaram Echewa’s 1992 novel I Saw the Sky Catch Fire. This article argues that the novel mobilizes a particularly Igbo women’s solidarity, Ndom, to fill out traditional histories and ethnographies of the Ogu. Echewa “Igbofies” the war story at various textual levels to alienate Anglophone readers with seemingly untranslatable words, sayings, and concepts with the ultimate goal of communicating an Igbo women’s way of being in the world. Ndom in the novel problematizes conventional Western understandings of time, space, and gender to at once endear non-Igbo readers to a foreign culture while foregrounding the novel’s unwillingness to offer the concept as a totalizing project.

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.

scholarly journals At the Origins of Modern Lithuanian Literary Studies. Phenomenon of Juozas Eretas

2019 ◽  
pp. 155-168
Author(s):  
Silvestras Gaižiūnas
Keyword(s):  
German Literature ◽  
Literary Analysis ◽  
Literary Studies ◽  
Critical Survey ◽  
The Novel ◽  
The World ◽  
Philosophical Criticism ◽  
Germanic Studies ◽  
History Of ◽  
Universal Nature

The article under studies is a critical survey of the activities of a Swiss scholar Juozas Eretas (1896–1984), one of the founders of Lithuanian Literary Studies, whose origin is closely related to the revival of the Lithuanian State (1918 р). Raised on the principles of the so-called Fribourg School, J. Eretas may be regarded as a vivid example of a catholic scientist. He emphasized the importance of the connection between research and thinking. In the 20-30s, having mastered the Lithuanian language, under the influence of the first translations of the world literary works into Lithuanian, Eretas laid the foundation of analytical criticism. He also took up the translation and, at the same time, became the founder of Lithuanian Germanic Studies, paying most of his attention to the Medieval German Literature, the heritage of mystics, the literature of “storm and drive”, particularly the works by Goethe and Schiller. In addition, Eretas made a considerable contribution to Lithuanian Theory of Literature: “Creating Philosophical Criticism in Literature” (lecture, 1922), “Philosophy and Poetry” (1924), “Methods of Literary Analysis” (1929). Eretas’ approach to German Literature was purely conceptual and rested on the idea of its universal nature (especially concerning Goethe): monographs “Young Goethe” (1932) and “Goethe Hundred Years Later” (1933). It is worth mentioning Eretas’ attitude to Goethe’s “Faust”. He interprets the main character typologically, as an eternal image of the world culture, pointing hereby to the increased attention to this image during the epoch of “storm and drive”. Eretas’ interpretation of the images of Faust and Mephistopheles, which present the idea of “dual world” that is so peculiar for Romanticism, seems very interesting and promising. Besides, Eretas was first in Lithuanian Literary Studies to refer to Goethe’s “Wilhelm Meister’s Apprenticeship” as to the novel of upbringing. Another significant subject of Eretas’ research was the History of World Mystics (the work “From the History of Mystics”, as well as the monographs on Tauler, Eckhart and Suso).

scholarly journals Symbolics of the book and the space of cultural memory in the «final book» of Boris Pasternak “Doctor Zhivago”

2021 ◽  
Vol 27 (3) ◽  
pp. 135-147
Author(s):  
Elena M. Bondarchuk
Keyword(s):  
Creative Process ◽  
Cultural Memory ◽  
World Order ◽  
Phenomenological Reduction ◽  
Philosophical Tradition ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Boris Pasternak ◽  
Self Reflection ◽  
The World ◽  
Integrity Of Life

This article examines one of the symbolic components of the «objective world» of the novel about the writer – the image of the «book». It is noted that its use in the poetics of «Doctor Zhivago» is multifunctional. In addition to the characteristics of the artistic space, the «book» acts as a «finished object» that implements «universal and all-encompassing semantic segments» in the plot associated with cultural memory, the integrity of life and the world order. Special attention is paid to the content of the genre designation of «final book», which is applied to a number of «polymorphic» novels of the late 19th – 20th centuries and is considered in the context of «genre generalisations» in literature. The meaning of lexical components used within this genre designation is clarified. The occasional meaning «target», contained in the word «final», allows one to see in the intense self-reflection of the writer, which has a significant impact on the creative process, aspiration to cognise the «hidden essence» of things. The appeal to the goals inherent in the «ontological construction» of beings is defined in the philosophical tradition as «phenomenological reduction» (EGA Husserl), «transcending the spirit beyond its limits» (RM Garrigou-Lagrange). These processes are responsible for the retardation of the phase of the formation of the concept of the work – a phenomenon that has not yet been fully explained.

SI PARASIT LAJANG: POTRET PEREMPUAN METROPOLITAN

2017 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 27
Author(s):  
Saksono Prijanto
Keyword(s):  
Creative Process ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Domestic Life ◽  
Love Story ◽  
The World

The presence of novel Saman by Ayu Utami surprised the world of Indonesian literature. Response to readers and literary critics of Saman diverse, both those in favor, cursing and not be silent. Ayu Utami is a productive female novelist because she continuously has been published novel Saman and Larung (dualogy), Serial Numbers Fu (Manjali and Cakrabirawa and Lalita), and the trilogy (Parasit Lajang, Enrico Love Story, Parasit Lajang—Ex Parasit Lajang). Ayu Utami‟s achievement in writing, among others are "Mastera Young Writers Award 2009" in 2009. The purpose of this article is to express the position and idea of young metropolitan woman, their restless in seeing the domestic life. I figure (women) in the novel The Parasit Lajang (SPL) minds that women should have equality to men legally in many ways, especially on marriage. SPL novel deserves to be read and studied intensively, both as evidence of freedom in the creative process of a writer (female) as well as the Indonesian literary enrichment effort for the reader of literature, literary observers, as well as researchers in Indonesian literature.AbstrakKehadiran Ayu Utami melalui novel Saman mengagetkan dunia sastra Indonesia. Tanggapan pembaca serta kritikus sastra terhadap Saman beragam, baik mereka yang memihak, memaki, maupun yang diam tidak bersikap. Novelis perempuan ini termasuk produktif karena berturut-turut telah menerbitkan novel Saman dan Larung (dwilogi), Seri Bilangan Fu (Manjali dan Cakrabirawa serta Lalita), dan trilogi (Si Parasit Lajang, Cerita Cinta Enrico, dan Pengakuan Eks Si Parasit Lajang). Prestasi Ayu Utami dalam tulis menulis, antara lain memperoleh "Penghargaan Sastrawan Muda Mastera 2009" pada tahun 2009. Tujuan penulisan artikel ini adalah mengungkapkan sikap dan pandangan hidup perempuan muda metropolitan tersebut, sekaligus kegelisahannya dalam menyikapi suatu kehidupan rumah tangga. Tokoh saya (perempuan) dalam novel Si Parasit Lajang (SPL) berpegang teguh pada sikapnya, yaitu perempuan harus memiliki kesetaraan terhadap laki-laki secara hukum dalam berbagai hal, khususnya tentang perkawinan. Novel SPL layak dibaca dan diteliti secara intensif, baik sebagai bukti kebebasan dalam proses kreatif dari seorang pengarang (perempuan) Indonesia maupun sebagai upaya pengayaan literer bagi pembaca sastra, pengamat sastra, serta peneliti sastra di Indonesia.

scholarly journals THE CONCEPT “NOSE AND KNEE” AS A SYMBOL OF MAGICAL ABILITIES OF MIDNIGHT’S CHILDREN IN SALMAN RUSHDIE’S NOVEL “MIDNIGHT’S CHILDREN”

2020 ◽  
Vol 72 (2) ◽  
pp. 363-368
Author(s):  
E. Sartbayeva ◽  
◽  
G. Tokshylykova ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Linguistics ◽  
Literary Studies ◽  
The Novel ◽  
The World ◽  
Close Relationship ◽  
Midnight's Children ◽  
The Moment

The article is devoted to the research of the concept “Nose and Knee” on the basis of Salman Rushdie’s novel “Midnight’s children”from the perspective of cognitive linguistics and literary studies. In the article the concept “Nose and Knee” is described as a symbol of magical abilities of midnight’s children, it has a close relationship to the characters of the novel.“Nose and Knee” just like “Saleem and Shiva”represents the sign of creation and destruction, victim and victor, union and negation, faith and humility – are inextricably related in the novel.The huge conflict between Saleem and Shiva reflects the ancient, mythological battle between the creative and destructive forces in the world. The hostility and anxiety between the two begin at the moment of their simultaneous births.

scholarly journals Peggotty’s Work-Box: Victorian Souvenirs and Material Memory

2009 ◽  
pp. 0
Author(s):  
Clare Pettitt
Keyword(s):  
Literary Studies ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Thing Theory ◽  
The World ◽  
David Copperfield

AbstractThis article considers what we can and cannot learn from objects in texts. As its chief example, it takes Peggotty’s workbox in Charles Dickens’sDavid Copperfieldand, through this particular object in a particular text, thinks about how far it is legitimate to “read” cultural-social-historical meanings back into a text, and how far objects in texts operate differently than objects in the world. It then reads the workbox as a marker of memory in the novel, challenging Nicholas Dames’s “associationist” reading ofDavid Copperfieldin hisAmensiac Selves. The essay ends by considering some of the problems and potentials of “thing theory” in literary studies.

Coda: The Rosetta Stone

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jesse Schotter
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
New Media ◽  
Digital Media ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Digital Code ◽  
Media Technologies ◽  
Rosetta Stone ◽  
The World ◽  
Western Imagination ◽  
Origin Point

Hieroglyphs have persisted for so long in the Western imagination because of the malleability of their metaphorical meanings. Emblems of readability and unreadability, universality and difference, writing and film, writing and digital media, hieroglyphs serve to encompass many of the central tensions in understandings of race, nation, language and media in the twentieth century. For Pound and Lindsay, they served as inspirations for a more direct and universal form of writing; for Woolf, as a way of treating the new medium of film and our perceptions of the world as a kind of language. For Conrad and Welles, they embodied the hybridity of writing or the images of film; for al-Hakim and Mahfouz, the persistence of links between ancient Pharaonic civilisation and a newly independent Egypt. For Joyce, hieroglyphs symbolised the origin point for the world’s cultures and nations; for Pynchon, the connection between digital code and the novel. In their modernist interpretations and applications, hieroglyphs bring together writing and new media technologies, language and the material world, and all the nations and languages of the globe....

Basic Andragogy-Oriented Strategies and Communication in Online Education

2020 ◽  
Vol 26 (2) ◽  
pp. 350-356
Author(s):  
Anca Sîrbu
Keyword(s):  
Adult Learners ◽  
Online Education ◽  
Social Status ◽  
Rapid Onset ◽  
Learning Goals ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Academic Education ◽  
Online Instructors ◽  
New Methods ◽  
The World

AbstractWith the rapid onset of an unprecedented lifestyle due to the new coronavirus COVID-19 the world academic scene was forced to reform and adapt to the novel circumstances. Although online education cannot be regarded as a groundbreaking endeavour anymore in the21st century, its current character of exclusivity calls for deeper understanding of, and a sharper focus on the “end-consumer” thereof as well as more cautious procedures to be exercised while teaching. While millennials are no longer thought of as being born with a silver spoon in their mouth but with an iPad or any sort of device in their hand (irrespective of their social status), adults are more hesitant when coerced to alter course unexpectedly and turn to new methods of attaining their learning goals. This is why proper communicative approaches need to be thoroughly considered by online instructors. This article aims at presenting teachers with a set of strategies to employ when the beneficiaries of online academic education are adult learners.

A Compact Embodiment of Pluralities and Denial of Origins: Atwood’s The Year of The Flood

2016 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
pp. 141
Author(s):  
Rana Sağıroğlu
Keyword(s):  
Science Fiction ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Social Order ◽  
Margaret Atwood ◽  
Rapid Change ◽  
The Novel ◽  
The World ◽  
Narrative Techniques ◽  
Why Questions ◽  
Near Future

Margaret Atwood, one of the most spectacular authors of postmodern movement, achieved to unite debatable and in demand critical points of 21st century such as science fiction, postmodernism and ecocriticism in the novel The Year of The Flood written in 2009. The novel could be regarded as an ecocritical manifesto and a dystopic mirror against today’s degenerated world, tending to a superficial base to keep the already order in use, by moving away from the fundamental solution of all humanity: nature. Although Atwood does not want her works to be called science fiction, it is obvious that science fiction plays an introductory role and gives the novel a ground explaining all ‘why’ questions of the novel. However, Atwood is not unjust while claiming that her works are not science fiction because of the inevitable rapid change of 21st century world becoming addicted to technology, especially Internet. It is easily observed by the reader that what she fictionalises throughout the novel is quite close to possibility, and the world may witness in the near future what she creates in the novel as science fiction. Additionally, postmodernism serves to the novel as the answerer of ‘how’ questions: How the world embraces pluralities, how heterogeneous social order is needed, and how impossible to run the world by dichotomies of patriarchal social order anymore. And lastly, ecocriticism gives the answers of ‘why’ questions of the novel: Why humanity is in chaos, why humanity has organized the world according to its own needs as if there were no living creatures apart from humanity. Therefore, The Year of The Flood meets the reader as a compact embodiment of science fiction, postmodernism and ecocriticism not only with its theme, but also with its narrative techniques.

Sign in / Sign up

Export Citation Format

Share Document