scholarly journals Vladimir Korolenko as Dickens Reader: Fiction and Metafiction

2019 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 33-40
Author(s):  
Yana V. Lakhina ◽  
Alexey E. Kozlov
Keyword(s):  
Short Story ◽  
Specific Activity ◽  
Daily Routine ◽  
Young Reader ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Main Character ◽  
Reading Experience ◽  
Detective Novels ◽  
First Time ◽  
The Ideal

The article is devoted to interpretation a figure of explicit reader in Vladimir Korolenko’s “Story of my Contemporary” (chapter “My first Acquaintance with Dickens”). Short story moderated the trajectory of reading at distinguishing between narrative and perception modes. Representing the world of the Zhytomyr province, the writer shows reading as a specific activity that is part of the daily routine for inhabitants. The story of reading a little hero – from the “colorful” and “spicy” reading adventurous and detective novels to meaningful reading of Dickens’ book – demonstrates specific changes in the psychology of the little hero (from Oliver Twist to David Copperfield). A specific feature of this text is the reflection of the young reader on everything what is happening in the book in particular and on the nature of one’s own reading in general. At the beginning of the story, the main feature of the reading of the hero is noted, his abruptness, episodic, covering only the surface of the plot. Central motive of the struggle of two brothers, having as a biographical and mythopoetic sense. That is closely connected with a qualitative transformation Reader becoming a Writer. In addition, the older brother was an authority for the youngest, including in reading, therefore, in addition to the “episodicity” of reading, it was also secondary and in his perception of certain works the young the reader relied on the experience of his older brother, who does not mark the image of the ideal the reader, dividing everything into so-called κῶμος and τράγεος. Despite the fact that the main character is experiencing the text of Dickens as Revelation, experience reading his novel practically did not differ from previous reading experience. So the novel was without a name, also remained an unread hero and was not even understood by him until the end. And it is the figure of the elder brother-authority that changes the main trajectory “Anonymity” of children's reading, the first time calling the last name of the writer Dickens. In conclusion hypothesis about the specific metatext character of the fragment under consideration is presented. That allows to consider it as an auto-commentary on other works of the author, in particular, his story “In a Bad Society”.

scholarly journals PLOT ELEMENTS AND MOTIVES OF THE NOVEL “CHEVENGUR” IN PLATONOV’S SHORT STORY “POTUDAN RIVER”

2021 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
pp. 44-55
Author(s):  
N. Mikhaylovna Malygina ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Short Story ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Love Story ◽  
Planetary Scale ◽  
The Family ◽  
Analytical Review ◽  
Eugene Onegin ◽  
Intertextual Connections ◽  
First Time

The relevance of the article is determined by the researcher of the semantic poetics of Platonov’s story “Potudan River”. We carry out an analytical review of the lifetime criticism and articles of modern researchers about the story, on the basis of which we formulate the purpose of the study, due to the need for a new approach to the interpretation of the work and the identification of the principles of its poetics. The novelty of the article is determined by the identification of the multilayered symbolism of the title of the story, which allows to establish the insufficiency of the conclusions that the content of the “Potudan River” is limited to the family theme. At the level of micropoetics we reveal symbolic details that connect the content of the story with the motive of love for the distant, medical and construction subjects and revealing the planetary scale of the author’s thinking. For the first time, it was established that Platonov’s story “Potudan River” was written based on part of the plot of the novel “Chevengur” – the love story of Alexander Dvanov and Sonya Mandrova. We show that the heroes of the story “Potudan River” Nikita Firsov, Lyuba Kuznetsova and Nikita’s father are doubles of the characters in the novel “Chevengur” by Sasha Dvanov, Sonya Mandrova, and Zakhar Pavlovich. The connection of the image of Lyuba with the archetype of the bride is considered. The paper reveals for the first time the intertextual connections of the story “Potudan River” with the poem “The Bronze Horseman” and the novel in verse “Eugene Onegin” by A. Pushkin, in the texts of which the writer found material for modeling the ordinary fate of the hero. Multi-level connections of the content of the story “Potudan River” with Platonov’s artistic world, which is a complete metatext, are found, which opens up new opportunities for determining the role of the editing technique and the principles of returning to the plots and motives of the works of the 1920s, as well as their transformation in the writer’s work of the 1930s.

scholarly journals The Concept of “Thrownness” in Algis Budrys's Short Story “Wall of Crystal, Eye of Night”

2021 ◽  
Vol 40 (45) ◽  
pp. 111-121
Author(s):  
Svetozar Poštič
Keyword(s):  
Science Fiction ◽  
Short Story ◽  
Meaning Of Life ◽  
Literary Analysis ◽  
Being And Time ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Main Character ◽  
Physical Frailty ◽  
New Horizons ◽  
German Philosopher

This paper analyses the concept of thrownness and the related notions of immediacy and actuality in a 1961 short science fiction story “Wall of Crystal, Eye of Night” by Algis Budrys. It first defines the concept of thrownness (Geworfenheit), created and coined by the German philosopher Martin Heidegger in his classic book Being and Time, and it explains how this notion can be employed in literary analysis in general and applied to this work in particular. The article then analyses how certain stylistic devices in the short story, namely similes, change of pace and the presentation of an inner conflict in the main character, contribute to the feeling of authenticity. In other words, it attempts to exhibit the means used in a prose work to make it seem more realistic and immediate. Finally, the work also argues that science fiction is in many ways more real than other fictional works. Although it belongs to the genre that has traditionally been denied serious literary merit, the novel view and interpretation of this story aims to disclose new horizons of artistic expression that illuminate human mental and physical frailty and stimulate a valuable inquiry into the meaning of life.

scholarly journals Eugene Onegin’s stages of evolution

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (4) ◽  
pp. 136-171
Author(s):  
Yuri M. Nikishov
Keyword(s):  
Old Age ◽  
Meaning Of Life ◽  
Self Determination ◽  
Complete Picture ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Main Character ◽  
Search For Self ◽  
Eugene Onegin ◽  
First Time

The article attempts to understand the author’s attitude to the main character of the novel “Eugene Onegin” by Alexander Pushkin. For the first time, a complete picture of Onegin’s evolution is given. The author proves that the rapture of secular life is just his prehistory; that the search for self-determination of Pushkin’s hero begins with a blues (premature old age of the soul). Communication with Vladimir Lensky makes Onegin reflect on the meaning of life. The highest point of his searches is freedom and peace (at the level of interests of the circus circle). Thoughts on the Onegin’s hypothetical fate are not attempts “to complete” the novel ending, but this is a way to understand the hero more deeply. The poet himself gave an example of such hypothetical thoughts. The “Fragments from Onegin’s Journey” that violate the plot sequence, placed after the notes (end sign), with their tone create a hint in determining Onegin’s hypothetical fate.

scholarly journals Siriusly Concerned: Animal Non-Belongingness in a Dichotomized Environment

2021 ◽  
pp. 69
Author(s):  
Jesús Fernández Caro
Keyword(s):  
Science Fiction ◽  
Animal Studies ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Main Character ◽  
Nonhuman Animals ◽  
Ideal Tool ◽  
Human Animal ◽  
The Many ◽  
Unique Species ◽  
The Ideal

This article approaches Sirius (1944), by Olaf Stapledon, from a perspective that brings together literary animal studies and ecocriticism. The eponymous main character of this science fiction novel is a genetically-modified dog who struggles between the human and the animal realms, being unable to belong to either urban or natural spaces. I argue this work of fiction carries out an exercise of blurring boundaries, thus proposing alternatives for harmful binaries such as human-animal, city-nature, or divine-mundane. Each of these binaries is explored in three trips of the many this character experiences throughout the novel. This allows the main character to reflect on his peculiar, unique species as the singularity he is. Sirius claims it is only empathy that can help in such a task; both human and nonhuman animals are then able to rejoice in biological, cultural, and spiritual differences. Sirius’s trips are analyzed in order to look closely at (1) the dog’s reflections on humankind while being in London, (2) his becoming a wolf, dog, and human at the same time in the woods, and (3) music as the ideal tool to articulate one’s spirituality based on a reconnection with an almost lost biodiversity.

scholarly journals Book Review of "Elgara"; Conflict Analysis Through A Literary Psychology Perspective Approach.

2022 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aidatul Fitriyah ◽  
Moses Glorino Rumambo Pandin
Keyword(s):  
Literature Review ◽  
Primary Source ◽  
Literary Work ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Main Character ◽  
Literary Works ◽  
Reading Experience ◽  
Source Data ◽  
Psychology Perspective

This research was conducted as a form of attention to modern literary work. The researcher is interested in analyzing the novel Elgara. This study aims to be information based on the author's reading experience about the contents of this book and describe the novel's structure and the conflicts experienced by the main character in Elgara's novel. This paper is addressed to someone who has a great interest in modern literature, such as novels. This research collects data through literature review methods developed through a theoretical framework based on the literary psychology approach. The primary source data of this research gets from modern literary work entitled Elgara, written by Lusiafriaa and first published in August 2021. Based on the analysis results, This study shows that the novel Elgara has mixed plots, and two types of conflicts are internal and external. This research can conclude that researchers study the conflicts that occur to the Kyara's character in the novel Elgara using a literary psychology approach. Through the review of this novel, the author expects to bridge the gap between readers and literary works, increase the reader's love for literary works, and appreciate literary works

scholarly journals BARCAROLE PRINCIPLE IN A GENRE-COMPOSITIONAL ORGANIZATION OF “BERESTECHKO” BY LINA KOSTENKO

2021 ◽  
pp. 21-37
Author(s):  
Valentyna Saіenko
Keyword(s):  
Creative Thinking ◽  
Historical Novel ◽  
Central Character ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Main Character ◽  
World Culture ◽  
Music And Literature ◽  
Time Flow ◽  
Musical Genres ◽  
First Time

The paper deals with a historical novel in verse by the celebrated modern Ukrainian writer Lina Kostenko, for the first time analyzing it totally in a synesthetic way — through the component of musicality (namely barcarole principle of poetic creativity). The folklore origins of barcarole in the world culture have been traced, as well as the peculiarities of the absorption of the genre by professional music and literature, especially Ukrainian. Formation of the genre in the creative work of the author of “Berestechko”, who is the poet of a special musical feeling, deserves special attention. Barcarole is one of the forms of modernity in the creative thinking of Lina Kostenko; it is a natural writer’s way of perceiving reality and transforming it into an aesthetic system of artistic work (both in poems and the novel in verse). Being inclined to poetically adopt chamber and solo musical genres, the poetess creates a special voice polyphony in “Berestechko”, where each sense construct of a modern unity, i. e. novel lyric epos and barcarole, sounds both separately and complementarily, and the part of a protagonist merges into “I” of a speaker. The compositional function of barcarole in “Berestechko” is the modeling of a central character of the text. It is hetman Bohdan Khmelnytskyi, spiritually undermined by the recent defeat. The barcarole elements are used for constructing the author’s version of this failure and its consequences, which spread around Ukraine as circles on water; absorbing a soothing rhythm of a song, which can cure the soul with love; shaping the architectonics of the text in the form of 'splashes'-'circles' with poly-functional titles and subtexts. In the genre structure of the novel, barcarole is essential both in the development of the theme and its stylistic implementation. In the unity of the work, one may notice “prelude”, the main part, and “postlude”, each part with its artistic sense. The images typical for a barcarole — water, boat, song, woman, love, etc. — are designed in accordance with the agrarian microcosm of the main character and its symbolic senses. Time flow, self-immersion, and love do not only spiritually heal hetman Bohdan Khmelnytskyi, but give his life a direction and endow his figure with grandeur. The neoromantic potential of barcarole and the novel in verse correspond well and join in the final coda about the unshakable courage and heroism of the Ukrainian warriors. 

scholarly journals THE STEREOTYPE TOWARDS WOMAN REFLECTED IN THE NOVEL “ON THE COME UP” BY ANGIE THOMAS

JURNAL BASIS ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 251
Author(s):  
Mutia Rafael ◽  
Tomi Arianto
Keyword(s):  
High Education ◽  
Qualitative Method ◽  
Ideal Type ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Main Character ◽  
The Ideal

Stereotypes created by society toward women still can be found around. Women could not be leaders, could not have a decent job, did not have to have high education, and their position only to please their family. In this research the researcher is discussing about stereotypes that happened towards women. By using Barbara Walter's theory, where it is portrayed how men find women should be under their position whether in work position or in general, this study is examined. The method used in this research is qualitative method, where the data taken from sentences or conversations from the novel On the Come Up by Angie Thomas. The results of this study indicate the main character is not following the stereotypes that society has created. It can be concluded that she is not the ideal type based on societal stereotypes.

scholarly journals OBJECTIVATION OF THE INTROVERT TYPE OF A PERSONALITY IN THE NOVEL"TICKET TO THE STARS" BY V. AKSYONOV

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (7) ◽  
Author(s):  
Liliya F. Bormusova ◽  
Dinara I. Rakhimov ◽  
Nailya N. Fattakhova
Keyword(s):  
Psychological Type ◽  
Professional Activity ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Main Character ◽  
Psychological Types ◽  
The Core ◽  
Individual Traits ◽  
Methods Of Synthesis ◽  
The Individual ◽  
First Time

The current research is executed in the mainstream of psycholinguistics within which the theory of psychological types has been developing in the last decades. The analysis of an introspective psychological type is carried out in the article on the basis of an art discourse viewing which we are guided by the theory of the identity of K.G. Jung. On the material of the story by V.P. Aksyonov "Ticket to the stars" the introspective type of the personality is being investigated for the first time; it is represented by the personage of the graduate student Victor, the elder brother of the main character of the story – of Dimka. In general, being stereotypic, the analyzed character has a number of the individual traits latently pointing to his professional activity. For the description of structure of the core of a psychological type the typified and individual signs are revealed; the share of these signs in the formation of the studied psychological type is defined. The analysis was carried out with the application of the methods of synthesis and generalization.

scholarly journals Impressionistic poetics of the short stories „Kew Gardens” by W. Woolf and „Intermezzo” by M. Kotsyubynsky

2021 ◽  
pp. 114-124
Author(s):  
S. V. Lenska ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Short Stories ◽  
Short Story ◽  
Virginia Woolf ◽  
Main Character ◽  
Stream Of Consciousness ◽  
Ukrainian Text ◽  
Literary Process ◽  
First Time ◽  
Psychological Mood ◽  
Internal Evolution

The article compares two examples of modernist short stories of the early twentieth century – „Kew Gardens” by the British writer W. Woolf and „Intermezzo” by the Ukrainian writer M. Kotsyubynsky. Such a comparative study has been carried out for the first time. Most researchers associate Woolfe with „stream of consciousness” literature, but in the short story „Kew Gardens” we see signs of impressionist poetics. “Intermezzo” by M. Kotsiubynsky is traditionally regarded as an example of impressionism. In both texts, the narration is in the first person, there are elements of the „stream of consciousness”; the opposition of social and natural worlds is shown. The narrators in both short stories enjoy the contemplation of nature. The English literary writing contains a fragmentary composition, combining disparate, unrelated episodes. In the Ukrainian text, we observe the internal evolution of the main character-narrator, who is internally reborn in the bosom of nature, filled with new forces. Differences between short stories: Virginia Woolf depicts several visitors to London’s Kew Gardens; Kotsyubinsky creates an autobiographical image of the writer, who is reborn under the influence of nature. In both literary writings, sound, visual, tactile images play an important role, in particular, images of flowers, a snail (W. Woolf), summer fields, the sun, larks, three white shepherd dogs (M. Kotsyubinsky). Both literary writings are examples of the psychological mood of the modernist novella. A comparative analysis of the two texts allows us to compare the Ukrainian literary process with world trends.

scholarly journals PAUL KALANITHI’S PSYCHE AS SEEN IN PAUL KALANITHI’S WHEN BREATH BECOMES AIR

2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Anicleta Yuliastuti ◽  
Nisfi Juli Imroatussolihah
Keyword(s):  
Sigmund Freud ◽  
Qualitative Method ◽  
Moral Principle ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Main Character ◽  
Causal Factors ◽  
First Time

The main goal of this research is to find out the psyche of the main character from When Breath Becomes Air novel using qualitative method. Psychoanalysis theory of Sigmund Freud (1856- 1939) is used to analyze the main character by the words and conversation in the novel. The result of this research shows that the psyche of the main character is balance. Id, Ego, and Superego are well played in Paul Kalanithi. In the first time, he is conquered by the Id and the ego tries to fulfill the id’s demand, shows from his passion in writing and studying Literature. By the following time, the superego appears and works as good as its moral principle, describes from his decision for being a doctor to help someone’s life. Furthermore, to make more understand about Paul Kalanithi’s psyche, the causal factors and the effects of his psyche are also analyzed in this research.Key Words: Novel, Character, Psychology, Psychoanalysis, id ego and superego

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