scholarly journals Deconstruction of metanarrative in postcolonial text: interpretation of Christian code in Keri Hulme’s novel “The Bone People”

Litera ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 11-19
Author(s):  
Yuliya Yur'evna Kravinskaya ◽  
Nataliya Aleksandrovna Khlybova
Keyword(s):  
Literary Studies ◽  
Text Interpretation ◽  
Discursive Strategies ◽  
European Culture ◽  
Literary Process ◽  
Practical Analysis ◽  
Keri Hulme ◽  
Discursive Field

This article examines the projection of the European metanarrative in postcolonial text on the example of deconstruction of the Christian metanarrative in Keri Hulme’s novel “The Bone People” (1985). The concept of “metanarrative” is described through the prism of literary studies as a criterion for analyzing the evolution of literary process in the era of postmodernism. In postcolonial research, metanarrative has vast theoretical potential and manifests as a dominant code dictated by the European culture as a dominant one, culture of colonized nations, which makes the authors of postcolonial period refer to the method of deconstruction of metanarratives of the former colonialists. Practical analysis is conducted on the postcolonial novel that interpreted such components and the storyline, imagery of the heroes, and paratextual level. The scientific novelty of this study consists in the fact that the literary process in New Zeland as a whole, and works of the representatives of Maori Renaissance in particular, are insufficiently studied by the contemporary scholars. The analysis of deconstruction of the Christian metanarrative in postcolonial text allows making the following conclusions: uniqueness of deconstruction of metanarrative in a postcolonial text is based on application of the counter-discursive strategies, which include reference to the elements of metanarrative, presentation as a part of colonial discursive field, and authorial transformation for inscribing them into postcolonial space.

Creative communication of artistic systems M. Tsvetaeva and B. Pasternak

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 74-82
Author(s):  
Anastasia Valerievna Sebeleva
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Comparative Studies ◽  
Mutual Influence ◽  
Integrated Approach ◽  
Literary Studies ◽  
Textual Information ◽  
Priority Direction ◽  
Literary Process ◽  
History Of ◽  
Mutual Communication

This article proceeds from the fact that the problem of interaction and mutual influence is quite acute in literary studies. In this regard, the relevance of the research is due, firstly, to the correspondence to the priority direction of modern literary studies associated with the comparative analysis of the text, and secondly, to the need to disclose the deep theoretical and artistic content of creative communication of such artistic personalities of the XX century as M. Tsvetaeva and B. Pasternak, whose legacy still contains many lacunae. The methodological basis of the research is an integrated approach, including comparative-historical, historical-literary, comparative-typological, system-analytical and biographical methods, as well as the method of comparative studies, which allows to study literary analogies and connections of different national literatures, their refraction in the texts of the authors studied. Hermeneutics contributed to the mental comprehension of the analyzed texts, the mental processing of textual information. An important episode in the history of world poetry was the correspondence-dialogue of iconic poets for their time: M. Tsvetaeva and B. Pasternak. Correspondence is valuable not only because it shows us the life of poets in relation to time. The creative aspect of correspondence is very important. The rapprochement manifested in it and at the same time the repulsion was deeply creative and left deep traces in the legacy of all its participants. Poets, albeit to varying degrees, concentrated and passionately, sought to define for themselves the essence of life and poetry. In the course of the research, the author of the article comes to the conclusion that, firstly, the literary process is characterized by a systematic nature in which authors and their works are in certain relationships to each other. Secondly, the thirteen-year correspondence of M. Tsvetaeva with B. Pasternak was very significant for literature. Thanks to mutual communication, creative interaction, the poets created unique, emotionally deep works.

scholarly journals On the Monograph by E.A. Zachevskij “The Man who Lied while telling the Truth. Life and Work of Wolfgang Koeppen” (St. Petersburg, Kriega, 2019. 752 p.)

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (4) ◽  
pp. 518-527
Author(s):  
Tamara V. Kudryavtseva ◽  
Alla A. Strelnikova
Keyword(s):  
20Th Century ◽  
German Literature ◽  
Literary Studies ◽  
Fictional World ◽  
Detailed Survey ◽  
Literary Process ◽  
History Of ◽  
First Time

E.A. Zachevsky’s book is the first study about the Western German author Wolfgang Koeppen (1906–1996). For the first time in the national and international literary studies, the monograph offers a detailed survey of the writer’s life and work as well as defines his place and role in the 20th century German literature. The author analyzes philosophic views as well as the properties of his fictional world and highlights the key moments of his peculiar poetic manner. The book touches upon the main issues of the German literary process and integrates Koeppen’s work into this process which allows us to read the volume as a mini-history of 20th century German literature.

Whether or not to be afraid of demons? The theory at the time of posttheory

Tekstualia ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 4 (35) ◽  
pp. 135-148
Author(s):  
Tomasz Dalisiński
Keyword(s):  
Present Form ◽  
Literary Studies ◽  
Text Interpretation ◽  
General Consensus ◽  
Theoretical Assumptions ◽  
The Status

The article shows an attempt to answer the elementary question: the status of the theory of text interpretation in contemporary literary studies. This problem has already been analyzed from many perspectives, but today the most important issue seems to be theory remaining in its present form (which resembles a demon within the meaning of A. Compagnon – a kind of fi ction). According to the author, a solution is the general consensus about the fi ctional nature of theoretical assumptions, but the condition of consciousness, that the fi ctional nature of theory is – on constructivistic way – operative.

scholarly journals Literaire dynamiek, anders bekeken. De heropstanding van de poëzie in Vlaanderen na de Tweede Wereldoorlog

2021 ◽  
Vol 32 ◽  
pp. 105-121
Author(s):  
Dirk De Geest
Keyword(s):  
Second World War ◽  
Literary Studies ◽  
World War ◽  
New Era ◽  
Discursive Strategies ◽  
Literary Evolution ◽  
Literary Histories ◽  
Literary Practices ◽  
Functionalist Approach ◽  
Second World

This article discusses the ongoing crisis in the field of literary studies, relating these problems and challenges to the problem of writing literary histories. It advocates a functionalist approach to literary phenomena, taking into account institutional frames and discursive strategies which are developed in order to structure and legitimize literary practices and literary evolution. These theoretical and methodological premises are applied to the very complex years immediately after the Second World War in Flanders (the Dutch-speaking part of Belgium). In particular, it is demonstrated how the very notion of ‘classicist poetry’ as a defensive practice clearly reveals an intricate variety of conceptions aimed at tackling the problems poets are confronted with in a new era.

scholarly journals BOHDAN LEPKY`S LITERARY CRITICISM IN “SLOVANSKÝ PŘEHLED” JOURNALLITERARY CRITICISM IN “SLOVANSKÝ PŘEHLED” JOURNAL

2019 ◽  
pp. 162-174
Author(s):  
Vasyl BUDNYI ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Literary Criticism ◽  
Literary Critic ◽  
Critical Writing ◽  
Artistic Value ◽  
Cultural Concepts ◽  
Early Twentieth Century ◽  
European Culture ◽  
Literary Process ◽  
Group B

Abstract Background: A famous literary critic and writer, representative of the “Moloda Muza” group, B. Lepky was published in numerous Ukrainian and foreign journals in the early twentieth century. Today, his cooperation with Polish and German editions has been partially explored, but the Czech direction remains almost unclear. There are only individual references to B. Lepky's cultural publications in the “Slovanský přehled” journal in the works of V. Doroshenko, V. Lev, B. Rubchak. Purpose: The purpose of the study is to analyze the interpretative bases of B. Lepky's publications in “Slovanský přehled”, namely, five annual reviews of Ukrainian literature (1901, 1902, 1903, 1905, 1906) and three cultural pieces of knowledge: about the composer M. Lysenko, about the translation of short stories by M. Kotsiubynsky into Polish, and the scientific works of M. Hrushevsky, B. Barvinsky and V. Shchurat. Results: B. Lepky followed I. Franko in editing “Slovanský přehled” journal. I. Franko prepared the ground for the Czechs to familiarize them with Ukrainian literature. In a series of annual reviews, B. Lepky considered Ukrainian literature in the pan-European context, translating the realities of national culture into the language of universal cultural concepts. Not contradicting realism and modernism, the critic appraised the high artistic value of the works by Lesya Ukrainka, V. Stefanyk, M. Kotsyubynsky, O. Kobylyanska, which were marked by modern stylistic trends. Trying to convey the original content to the foreign reader, B. Lepky approached his critical speech to the poetic one, painting it with impressionistic strokes and symbolic imagery. The author concluded that the importance of B. Lepky’s Czech publications was important for understanding the ways in which Ukrainian writing was modernized and contextualized in Slavic and pan-European culture in the early twentieth century. Key words: Modernism period, literary process, critical writing, literary review, review, contextualization, impressionism, symbolism.

Literary chronicle: on the problem of the institutional description of the activity of a literary organization

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (6) ◽  
pp. 127-133
Author(s):  
Olga V. Bystrova ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Literary Studies ◽  
Creative People ◽  
Literary Institution ◽  
Analytical Work ◽  
Structural Association ◽  
Literary Process ◽  
History Of ◽  
History Of Literature ◽  
Communicative Space

The article explores the boundaries of the term “literary chronicle”. The scientific community is beginning to take a more detailed interest in such a concept as a literary institution. Throughout the twentieth century, literary studies studied and described only individual periods in the history of literature. This development of individual periods of the century helped to create the necessary theoretical tools for analytical work on the study of the socio-cultural process in society. For many years, the very attempt to understand the literary process as a phenomenon encountered terminological blurring. The accumulated knowledge of historical literary studies allows us to raise as a problem of scientific research a chronicle description of the life of a literary organization, which is understood as a structural association of creative people (on the example of individual facts of the existence of All-Russian Association of Proletarian Writers). It is the socio-institutional description of the life of the literary community of Russia in the 1920s that allows us to feel the communicative space of the country in which cultural processes take place. Another important aspect in the study of the chronicle of a literary institution is its existence in everyday life, that is, its existence in everyday life. With the frequency of meetings of members of the structural association. In this case, the scattered facts of everyday life become a historical stream of events.

Open for change but closed for transformation: A communicative analysis of managerial corporate social responsibility discourse on the issue of labor

Organization ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 27 (6) ◽  
pp. 900-923
Author(s):  
Zhuo Ban
Keyword(s):  
Corporate Social Responsibility ◽  
Supply Chain ◽  
Social Responsibility ◽  
Social Issues ◽  
Labor Policy ◽  
Discursive Strategies ◽  
Distorted Communication ◽  
Corporate Social ◽  
Discursive Field ◽  
Alternative Discourses

Why do some researchers observe that managerial corporate social responsibility discourse contributes to increased awareness of and commitment to solving global environmental and social issues, while others reveal that the same discourse works to obfuscate and sidetrack positive social transformation? This article tries to bring together these procedural and structural perspectives on corporate social responsibility discourse by introducing a communicative approach, which embeds the critical study of corporate social responsibility discourse in a complex and emerging discursive field. The discursive strategies of managerial corporate social responsibility are therefore as shifting as the discourses it competes with are varied. This article, grounded in Deetz’s theoretical framework of systematically distorted communication and discursive closure, explores the US garment industry’s corporate social responsibility communication on labor-related issues in the global supply chain. I position garment industry corporate social responsibility discourse within broad labor policy debates at the operational, institutional, and structural levels. I find that corporate-initiated corporate social responsibility communication operates through several internally coherent frames: establishing ethical standards, providing essential services, and innovating labor management systems. Each frame responds to alternative discourses about supply chain labor with discursive closure and non-closure strategies, that is, corporations choose to acknowledge, engage, or agree with some alternative discourses, while ignoring, suppressing, or eliding over others. I argue that the pattern of choosing discursive strategies for different types of alternative discourses is important in understanding systematically distorted communication in the context of a complex, fragmented discursive field.

scholarly journals THE IMAGE OF A WOMAN IN ZH.NAZHIMEDENOV'S STORY «АЗАМАТ АУЫЛЫ» AND «ӘЙЕЛДЕР»

2020 ◽  
Vol 74 (4) ◽  
pp. 230-236
Author(s):  
R. Zhetibay ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Language Use ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Literary Studies ◽  
Advantages And Disadvantages ◽  
Virgin Land ◽  
Female Image ◽  
Literary Process ◽  
History Of

This article analyzes in detail the stories of Zhumeken Nazhimedenov "Azamat auyly" and"Ayelder". The author analyzes the stories from the point of view of the author's concept, from the point of view of the artistic structure. The article analyzes the image of a" woman " created by artistic means. The article also examines the manifestations of elements of modernism in the modern literary process. The article contains links to the 6th volume of Zhumken Nazhimedenov's works and to the works of K. Zhanuzakova " introduction to literary studies» The significance of the article lies in the analysis of the artistic structure of Zhumeken's stories, which were not analyzed in the prose of past eras. We identified ways to create a female image by comparing the advantages and disadvantages of the history of that period. Everyone knows that W. Nazhimedenov built a virgin land in poetry, and his prose works moved away from the literary arena. From this point of view, in our article we have made every effort to show the power of the author in a prose work and emphasize the skill in creating a female image. At the end of the article, we showed the unity of the image of the lyrical hero and the hero in prose, the specifics of the author's method of description, and the originality of language use.

scholarly journals TURGENEV AND DOSTOEVSKY: THE MILESTONE CHANGE IN CRITICISM AND LITERARY STUDIES OF THE SILVER AGE

2020 ◽  
Vol 30 (3) ◽  
pp. 503-510
Author(s):  
G.M. Rebel
Keyword(s):  
Literary Criticism ◽  
Literary Studies ◽  
Religious Philosophy ◽  
Silver Age ◽  
Fyodor Dostoevsky ◽  
Philosophical Criticism ◽  
Literary Process ◽  
Artistic Vision ◽  
The One ◽  
The University

The article analyzes the reasons and character of historical and literary milestone change, which was fulfilled within the framework of Russian religious philosophy and literary studies of the 1920s. Literary and philosophical criticism of the Silver age made the creative works of Fyodor Dostoevsky the main subject of its interest and it predetermined the content of the literary criticism concepts of B.Engelhardt and M.Bakhtin, who influenced the following literary criticism to great extent. It brought some misrepresentation to the literary process interpretation of the second part of the 19 century, which still influences the university and school literature courses of the period. In particular the religious and philosophical studies and works of the 1910-1920s based on them broke the ideological and aesthetic connection between the creative works of Dostoevsky and Turgenev, the polemical character of Dostoevsky’s works concerning Turgenev was ignored. The article rebuilds the second half of the 19th century’s literary process logic, the consequence of Turgenev’s ideological novel and only after it, in connection with it and mainly in polemic with it - the ideological novel by Dostoevsky. The presumed comparison of the two genre modifications of the ideological novel allows to depict their common features on the one hand and on the other - the principal differences, aesthetic specificity, predetermined by the particular features of the artistic vision and strategies of Turgenev and Dostoevsky.

Battlefield EU

2019 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 184-206
Author(s):  
Aleksandar Takovski
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Political Crisis ◽  
Social Democrats ◽  
Discursive Strategies ◽  
The Social ◽  
Multiple Meanings ◽  
Discursive Field ◽  
Linguistic Means

Abstract EU is a discursive field where multiple meanings and representations are created, negotiated and contested. Research has shown that the concept possess an interpretive power often used as an instrument of political confrontation. Such is the case, this study argues, with the two largest Macedonian parties – VMRO-DPMNE and the Social Democrats – who in a pursuit of changing or maintaining the power structuration in the society have produced a discourse on EU that best fits their political agendas. In a situation of a prolonged political crisis, and a significant involvement of EU, the two parties have commodified the discourse on EU into an instrument of self-promotion and/or criticism of the other. Demonstrating the instrumental use of the representations of EU by analysing the discursive strategies and the linguistic means deployed are the general aims of this study.

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