scholarly journals The Literary Madness: Language as an Indicator of Insanity in the Fiction of the 20th Century (1920s)

2021 ◽  
Vol 39 (1) ◽  
pp. 316-338
Author(s):  
E. B. Kryukova ◽  
O. A. Koval
Keyword(s):  
Short Story ◽  
Virginia Woolf ◽  
Social Space ◽  
Linear Logic ◽  
Borderline Case ◽  
Stream Of Consciousness ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Gift ◽  
Disastrous Experience ◽  
The One

The article is devoted to the phenomenon of insanity in the artistic discourse of the 1920s. Such a literary reception is interesting because, on the one hand, it goes against the dominant clinical approaches at that time, which emphasized the medical aspect of the problem, and on the other hand, it anticipates the antipsychiatric philoophical theories, whereby the marginal figure of the madman was gradually included in the social space. Using the example of three iconic works of modernist literature, the article demonstrates how innovative techniques of working with language make the speech of a mentally ill person distinctly audible. Virginia Woolf in “Mrs Dalloway” conveys the disastrous experience of the First World War through the stream of consciousness of the mentally traumatized character Septimus Smith. Woolf puts an anti-militaristic appeal into the mouth of a madman and thus makes him the herald of a simple truth that reasonable people, however, prefer not to notice. Ryūnosuke Akutagawa’s short story “Cogwheels” reproduces the experiences of the author, who feels the approach of insanity. Madness opens up as a borderline case that reveals its deep kinship with the source of writing, understood as a lack of form, lack of meaning, lack of creation. William Faulkner in the novel “The Sound and the Fury” gives the gift of speech to the weak-minded Benji, who doesn’t talk. His im-possible narrative offers an alternative to the linear logic, which clarify Benji’s confusing narration but fail to rival it in conveying the directness of human suffering or happiness.

scholarly journals POETICS OF CYCLIZATION IN THE PROSE OF YURIY BUYDA

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 72-80
Author(s):  
Marina P. Abasheva ◽  
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Mariya V. Kurilenko ◽  
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Keyword(s):  
Short Story ◽  
Social Communication ◽  
Russian Literature ◽  
General Interest ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Text Generation ◽  
Semiotic Analysis ◽  
Literary Forms ◽  
The Social ◽  
The One

The article studies the poetics of the contemporary writer Yuriy Buyda in the context of the contemporary Russian short story. The analysis of historically specific forms of Buyda’s cyclization is considered as part of the general tasks of historical poetics in studying the evolution of literary forms. Structural and semiotic analysis of the writer’s works reveals that his prose forms peculiar cycles-clusters, ‘archipelagos’, where a cycle of stories appears to be related to novels. This connection is primarily determined by the setting, but also by recurring heroes and a specific – cumulative rather than cyclical – plot that traces its origin to myth. Through the example of one such cluster of texts – the cycles Zhungli, Gates of Zhungli (Vrata Zhungley) (2011), Lions and Lilies (L’vy i Lilii) (2013), the novel Blue Blood (Sinyaya krov’) and related works – the paper investigates the nature and logic of the depicted world, the mechanisms of its intra-textual connections, as well as the genesis due to both the nature of the author’s artistic thinking and the social, historical and literary, biographical context. Thus, we can observe a tendency of transcending the genre boundaries of a story or novel in favor of hypertext rhizomatic formations – based on mythologizing strategies. These features correlate with the general interest of contemporary Russian literature in collections of short stories, on the one hand, and the contemporary novel’s leaning to disintegration of a single narrative and fragmentation, on the other. It is possible that the tendencies toward hypertext strategies for text generation are determined by the general properties of modern thinking and social communication since today the social morphology of society is built in the form of networks.

scholarly journals Social Themes in Saudi Women Short Stories: Making the voice of Women Heard

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Abdulrahman Mokbel Mahyoub Hezam
Keyword(s):  
Women Writers ◽  
Short Stories ◽  
Short Story ◽  
Social Space ◽  
Literary Form ◽  
Transitional Period ◽  
Primary Sources ◽  
Saudi Women ◽  
Arabic Speakers ◽  
The Social

Few studies in English have been carried out to explore the realm of Saudi short stories in general and women writers' works in particular. The aim of this paper is to examine how Saudi women short story writers used a western literary form to depict the realities of their country. It also delineates the magnificent representation of social themes through storytelling and provides non-Arabic speakers with an insight into the writings of Saudi female writers. It tries to present a vivid picture of how these stories reflect the social reality in Saudi Arabia in the last few decades of the 20th century and the challenges facing women in this transitional period. Moreover, the study tries to examine how women writers participated in the contentious debates regarding women that dominated the Saudi society especially on questions like marriage, divorce and women education. The present study is basically a text-based research that involves an analysis of major primary sources chosen. Selected short stories written by Saudi women writers are examined from a thematic perspective to reveal the ways in which women writers incited social change by defining notions of gender and social space and how they give voice to the Saudi women.

scholarly journals A natureza (dos) nos fatos urbanos: produção do espaço e degradação ambiental

2001 ◽  
Vol 3 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gislene PEREIRA
Keyword(s):  
Urban Space ◽  
Environmental Degradation ◽  
Environmental Quality ◽  
Social Space ◽  
Public Policies ◽  
Social Scientists ◽  
Urban Policies ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Social ◽  
The One

Este trabalho pretende discutir a relação entre o processo de construção do espaço urbano, a segregação socioespacial e a degradação ambiental. A urbanização crescente da população no Brasil tem feito com que os problemas decorrentes desse processo (carência de infra-estrutura, densificação de áreas inadequadas, degradação ambiental, segregação socioespacial) centralizem nas últimas décadas as discussões de governantes, técnicos e cientistas sociais. Cabe, então, perguntar: por que nossas cidades não têm a qualidade que todos queremos, mesmo depois das inúmeras iniciativas preconizadas pelo poder público para reversão dessas tendências negativas? Nosso interesse aqui é discutir essas questões a partir do caso particular da cidade de Curitiba, a qual, apesar de vir se destacando por experiências bem sucedidas de planejamento, segue os padrões brasileiros no que se refere à segregação socioespacial. Entendemos que a discussão das questões urbanas deve ser centrada nos elementos que contribuem para a segregação socioespacial e nas possibilidades e limites das políticas públicas de controle do uso do solo respondendo de forma positiva para a sua superação. A partir do conhecimento da lógica da produção do espaço o trabalho pretende averiguar as possibilidades de integração das políticas urbanas, com o objetivo de promover a melhoria da qualidade ambiental. The nature (of) our urban facts: productions of space and environmental degradation Abstract This work intends to discuss the relation among the process of construction of the urban space, the social-spacial segregation and the environmental degradation. The growing urbanisation of the Brazilian population has led the problems which come from such process – lack of infrastructure, unsuitable densification of areas, environmental degradation, social-space segregation – to centralize the discussion of governmental rulings, technicians and social scientists. So, it’s worthy to ask: why our cities do not have the quality we want, even after several initiatives advocated by the public policies to revert these negative trends? Our interest here is to discuss such questions from the particular case of Curitiba city, the one which, despite of being standing out itself throughout well-succeded experiences of planning, follows the Brazilian patterns related to the social-spacial segregation. We understand that the discussion of urban questions must be focused on the elements which contribute to the social-spacial segregation and on the possibilities and limits of the public policies to answer in a positive way to their overcoming. From the knowledge of the production logic of the space, this work intends to check out the possibilities of integration of the urban policies, with the aim of promoting the increasing of the environmental quality.

Conceptual View on Career: Systemic and Substantive Analysis

10.12737/7295 ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 3 (6) ◽  
pp. 16-22
Author(s):  
Сотникова ◽  
Svetlana Sotnikova
Keyword(s):  
Career Development ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Social Space ◽  
Professional Career ◽  
The Social ◽  
Self Actualization ◽  
Present Context ◽  
Strategic Goals ◽  
Career Analysis ◽  
The One

In the present context of increasing appreciation and scarcity of labor career development becomes of ever growing importance for an organization to achieve its strategic goals, as ongoing changes in organizations’ business activities and structure require the correspondent changes in ways of positioning workers in the stream of social life. The paper provides rationale for conceptual basics of systemic and substantive analysis of a career. Within this approach professional career is considered to be the interplay of con icting and colliding aspects and tendencies despite their internal unity and interpenetration. On the one part, professional career is essentially a way for a worker to assert himself in the social space through resolving con icts between working life and personal life, between labor time and leisure time, between personal needs and public needs. On the other part, professional career can be seen as complete and consistent set of resources for a worker to achieve social sustainability, as he is aware of the con nes of freedom and responsibility he enjoys for self-actualization in formal, non-formal and informal aspects. Systemic and substantive career analysis allows to reveal the nature of its components’ internal unity, to identify the career type as well as sources, drivers and mechanisms of self-organization, self-development and self-destruction of a professional career. Based on implementing basics of systemic and substantive analysis of a career development the author has formulated proprietary de nitions for such notions, as «the system of career», ‘career space»; to reveal features of a career system components; to prove di erences between career position and job position and to identify several tiers of career space.

scholarly journals POLITIK HUKUM PERUNDANG-UNDANGAN : MEMPERTEGAS REFORMASI LEGISLASI YANG PROGRESIF

2013 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 375
Author(s):  
M. Ilham F. Putuhena
Keyword(s):  
Welfare State ◽  
House Of Representatives ◽  
Social Space ◽  
National Development ◽  
Welfare States ◽  
Program Review ◽  
The Social ◽  
State Welfare ◽  
The One

Sebagai negara yang berdasarkan hukum ( nomokracy ) dan demokrasi, Indonesia juga menerapkan peran negara sebagai negara kesejahteraan ( welfare states ), yang ternyata tidak mudah dalam pelaksanaannya. Undang-undang sebagai salah satu wajah hukum, ternyata tidak dapat berperan secara maksimal dalam ruang sosial, bahkan peraturan tertulis tersebut membawa masalah baru dalam penataan pembangunan nasional saat ini, sehingga perlu tindakan progresif dalam politik hukum perundang-undangan saat ini. Dengan pendekatan yuridis Normatif, penulis mencoba menempatkan politik hukum dengan cara mempertegas legislasi progresif, langkah-langkah yang harus dilakukan adalah segera melaksanakan Program review perundang-undang sebagai alat evaluasi perundang-undangan saat ini, dan kemudian merubah mekanisme pembahasan rancangan undang-undang di Dewan Perwakilan Rakyat, khususnya dengan mengganti mekanisme Daftar Infentaris Masalah (DIM) untuk meningkatkan efektivitas pembahasan, begitupun dengan penetapkan pembatasan masa berlaku tiap undang-undang untuk mendorong Undang-undang yang progresif.<p>As a state based on law (nomocracy) and democracy, Indonesia also implementing role of the state’s as a welfare state (welfare states) , which it was not easy in implementation. As the one face of law act was not able to play a role that contribute maximally in the social space, The written rules even bring new problems in the structuring of national development at this time , so it needs a progressive action in the legal politics of legislation at this time. With normative juridical approach , authors tried to put in the legal politics by clarifying progressive legislation, the steps that must be done are to immediately implement the legislation review program as a tools of evaluating the current legislation, And then alter the mechanism of Bill discussion in the House of Representatives, Specialy by changing the mechanism of List of Issues (DIM) to increase the effectiveness of the discussion, as well as setting the limitations on the duration of each act, to encourage progressive legislation.</p>

scholarly journals The imperative nature of gastronomic practices within social space of a modern person

2016 ◽  
pp. 10-15 ◽  
Author(s):  
I. Nabrusko
Keyword(s):  
Social Space ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
Social Adaptation ◽  
Cultural Norms ◽  
Food Practices ◽  
Specialized Production ◽  
The Social ◽  
The One ◽  
Almost All

This article analyzes the main approaches to the study of food practices in sociological tradition. The attention is paid to the imperative dimension of gastronomic practices, where they come out as the social way to influence people. Their creation, despite the existential nature, depends almost entirely on existing cultural norms. Some trends of modern gastronomic practices are considered, where their total character is focused on a set of almost all social positions, the growth of semantic-symbolic component when food gets extra meanings and values, diffuse essence and industrial nature, organized on the principles of rationality specialized production, are particularly evident. Such tendencies lead to new ways of social adaptation of modern society. The article is an attempt to provide the classification of main gastronomic practices of modern society, which offers four main discursive approaches: culinary, status, health and national discourse, in the framework of which food practices of modern man are formed. These modern practices on the one hand act as the need to ensure internal social harmony and identification, and on the other as an expression of social pressures external cultural norms.

scholarly journals UNIVERSAL CONDITIONS FOR DECONFLICTING OF SOCIAL SPACE: THE ETHICAL ABSOLUTISM’ POTENTIAL

2019 ◽  
pp. 12-17
Author(s):  
Yulia Brodetska
Keyword(s):  
Social Relations ◽  
Social Space ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Ethical Relativism ◽  
Ethical Values ◽  
Ethical Knowledge ◽  
The Social ◽  
Universal Values ◽  
The One ◽  
Spiritual Phenomena

The article’s analysis focuses on the ontological aspects of social existence harmonious. Ethical principles of good are the main de-confliction mechanisms, factors that are reproduced and responsible for solving the problem of social and individual order. Universal ethical values - freedom, love, responsibility, creativity is a preexisting knowledge that produces, translates and reproduces the coherence practices of co-existence at both individual and social levels. It is revealed that the functionality of the latter is reproduced in the space of productive communication experience, which acquires personality in the social interaction context. The "threat" to ethical knowledge, which is the ontological basis of the social being organization, is the problem of ethics relativity. This problem arises and spreads as a result of the ethical knowledge objectification, its transformation into a thing. In other words, it is the transformation of universal values, the goals of ethics as spiritual phenomena, into the means of achieving individual desire, personal well-being, the tools of satisfying my selfish desires, that transforms a person into a conformal consumer. From ancient hedonism to modern versions of transhumanism, ethical relativism theories continue to actively raise questions about the relevance of the ethical absolutism principles. It is noted that the dissonance that arises in connection with the actualization of the ethics relativism question indicates an aggravation of the formalization problem of spiritual knowledge. Consequently, ethical conformity is required to conform to the ontology of social being. This correspondence is based on the absoluteness of ethics as a condition for the functioning of harmonious social relations - on the one hand, and human development - on the other. Thus, the analysis of the consolidation mechanisms of human being, its integrity, harmony, should focus on the actualization of the ethical absolutism issue, which is particularly acute in today's conflict world. It is this perspective that explores the problems of integrating social and individual order and provides tools and solutions.

scholarly journals The “One-Line-Portraitˮ in to the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf: Freeing the Counter-Norms

2018 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-8
Author(s):  
Hélène Fau
Keyword(s):  
Virginia Woolf ◽  
Single Line ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Stream Of Consciousness ◽  
To The Lighthouse ◽  
The One ◽  
The Way

Abstract At the Ramsay’s Scottish summer home, where guests are promised an illusory trip to the lighthouse, Lily Briscoe, a post-impressionist painter, indulges into portraying Mrs Ramsay. Throughout the novel, the portrait changes forms, starting as a moving tree in the first section ‘The Window’ and ending, after Mrs Ramsay’s death, as a single line in the very last page of the novel where Lily Briscoe sees it as completed. The “passage into abstraction” satisfies her for she executes the vision she had. The plot follows the same scheme, unfolding through shifting perspectives and oscillating between the figurative and abstract stream of consciousness of each character. It thus reflects Lily’s unstable portrait and paves the way for a deterritorialised writing. This paper will analyse how the “actes graphiques” (the drawn as well as the written items) mutate into an abstract – and therefore non- or a-gendered – line in order to release the un-articulated and un-lived antimainstream love between Lily Briscoe and Mrs Ramsay.

Returning the Gift

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rebecca Colesworthy
Keyword(s):  
World War I ◽  
Virginia Woolf ◽  
Gertrude Stein ◽  
Free Market ◽  
Special Kind ◽  
Jean Rhys ◽  
Literary Modernism ◽  
Market Society ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Gift

The decades following World War I saw a widespread turn across disciplines to questions about the nature and role of gifts: What is a gift? What do gifts mean and do? Which individuals and institutions have the authority to give? Returning the Gift argues that these questions centrally shaped literary modernism. The book begins by revisiting the locus classicus of twentieth-century gift theory, Marcel Mauss’s The Gift: The Form and Reason for Exchange in Archaic Societies, to show that, his title notwithstanding, the gift Mauss envisions is a distinctively modern phenomenon. Subsequent chapters offer nuanced readings of novels and nonfiction by Virginia Woolf, Jean Rhys, Gertrude Stein, and H.D. from the 1920s to 1940s, drawing on developments in the social sciences, economics, and politics to illuminate their writing, while also making a case for their unique contributions to broader interdisciplinary debates. Not only do these writers insist that literature is a special kind of gift, but they also challenge the primitivist treatment of women as gifts in the work of their Victorian forebears and contemporary male theorists. Each of these writers uses tropes and narratives of giving to imagine more egalitarian social possibilities under the conditions of the capitalist present. The language of the gift is not, as we might expect, a mark of hostility to the market, but rather a means of giving form to the “society” in market society—of representing everyday experiences of exchange that the myth of the free market works, even now, to render unthinkable.

scholarly journals A view from Slovakia on the study of Russian philosophical narodism (P. L. Lavrov: the discourse of a study and the discourse of a street)

2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 153-166
Author(s):  
Ondrej Marchevsky ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Social Space ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
The Other ◽  
The Social ◽  
The One ◽  
Outstanding Representative

The paper analyzes Slovakian and Czech studies of the sociological a philosophical views of such Russian narodniks as P.L. Lavrov from a historic point of view and in their rela­tion to some contemporary interpretations. The first part of the paper provides an over­view of Czech and Slovakian works on narodism in Russia. In the second part of the pa­per, the author discusses P.L. Lavrov as an outstanding representative of narodism, whose ideas have not received sufficient attention in the Czech and Slovakian scholarship. The author shows that the study and the street as two places in which Lavrov’s thought devel­oped were two points in the social space within which the former represented theory and the latter represented practice. Lavrov’s discourse of the study is built on objectivity and scientific values, whereas his discourse of the street is characterized by radicalism and in­tolerance to different opinions. This duality in Lavrov’s perspective reflects the duality of his character: on the one hand, he was a scientist and a researcher and, on the other, he was a radical revolutionary.

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