scholarly journals East in the Creative Mind of B. Volkov

2021 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 264-280
Author(s):  
E. N. Proskurina ◽  
Keyword(s):  
San Francisco ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Lao Tzu ◽  
Creative Mind ◽  
Life And Death ◽  
The World ◽  
Object Of Study

The article is devoted to the images and motives of the East in the poetry of the author of the Eastern emigration Boris Volkov (1894, Ekaterinburg – 1954, San Francisco). The work of this poet, writer, publicist is still unknown to the domestic reader, although during his lifetime he had a fairly wide publication geography: from Harbin to San Francisco. However, his works were never reprinted, and the manuscript of the novel “The Kingdom of the Golden Buddhas” is considered lost. The analysis involved Volkov’s book of poems “In the dust of foreign roads”, published in Berlin in 1934. Of its four parts, the oriental flavor is especially distinct in the first. Individual works of this part constituted the object of study of this article. The autobiographical substrate of Volkov’s poetry is revealed, the intersection of motives and imagery with the poetic world of Gumilyov is shown. The influence of the Eastern world, its philosophical teachings on the creative worldview of Volkov is investigated. In his poetic thinking, traces of Sufism, Islam, and the philosophy of Lao Tzu are palpable. Exotic images of China and Mongolia weave an intricate pattern in the first cycles of the book, integrating into the depicted biographical circumstances and expanding their semantic palette. “Alien” is trying hard to become “ours” at the level of a philosophical attitude to the world and the fate of the poet himself. He is close to the poetic attitude of the inhabitants of the East to life and death, based on ancient traditions and customs. The poems reflect the confusion of the experiences of the lyrical hero, warrior and wanderer, who has found a place in life as a result of an action-packed duel with fate.

scholarly journals Fairy tale — myth — logos in the poetics of G. Yakhina`s novel “Children of mine”

2021 ◽  
Vol 59 ◽  
pp. 237-247
Author(s):  
Nadezhda I. Pavlova
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Memory ◽  
Fairy Tale ◽  
Narrative Structure ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Main Character ◽  
Soviet History ◽  
Life And Death ◽  
The Past ◽  
The World ◽  
Different Levels

The article is to study a mythological subtext of the novel “Children of mine” by G. Yakhina, which appeared at different levels: composition, plot, construction of the system of characters ' images. Main character of the novel, Jacob Bach, and his beloved Clara are reunited into a single whole, not only as lovers, but also as representatives of two interrelated and complementary principles of German culture-folklore and literature. The interaction of this pair of heroes should be considered in this symbolic context. Thus, the novel develops a fundamentally significant for its conception motif of prophecy, which implies a subtext about the creation of the world-Logos, which is further developed in the narrative, when the image of the main character fulfills the function of guardian of the cultural memory of the Volga Germans. At the same time, the act of creativity is synonymous with creation, which allows us to grasp in a complex novel whole the repeatability of components of a closed cycle of “myth-life”, fully realized in its narrative structure. Mythological world surrounding Bach is in opposition to the space of Soviet history, embodied in the image of the agitator Hoffmann. There is an inverted picture of the world: historical world as dead and the world of culture as a living world. Thus, in the novel, the poles of life and death exchange places in relation to the present and the past. In view of this conception, one can read a deep intention of the writer representing the word of culture as giving immortality and life in eternity.

scholarly journals FACT AND FICTION IN JOSIP NOVAKOVICH'S APRIL FOOL'S DAY: AN OBITUARY TO A DEAD COUNTRY

2019 ◽  
pp. 49-63
Author(s):  
Nina Sirković
Keyword(s):  
20Th Century ◽  
Political Prisoner ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Main Character ◽  
Ghost Story ◽  
Life And Death ◽  
Political Situation ◽  
The Social ◽  
The World ◽  
Fictional Story

Even in the world of fiction, it would be unusual for a European country to experience the war at the end of 20th century, fall apart and disappear. This exactly happens in Josip Novakovich’s novel April Fool's Day. It is a Bildungsroman about life, death and the afterlife of Ivan Dolinar, a Croatian citizen of Yugoslavia, whose life undergoes unbelievable twists and changes as the social and political situation in the country deteriorates until it falls apart and a new homeland, Republic of Croatia, is formed. On the basis of historical facts, the author develops a story about a fictional hero, who himself is a personified disintegrated country: the instability of the main character shows the instability of the state. During his life, driven by the fate and historical forces, Ivan becomes a political prisoner, a murderer, a rapist, an adulterer, a thief and finally, a ghost. Only when considered dead, he can be a master of his life. Ivan Dolinar finds harmony in his afterlife: as a ghost he is liberated from all the living inherences, in his death he feels free, important and unique, what he did not succeed during his living days. The novel is simultaneously a war and a ghost story with strong satirical impulse and black humour targeted towards human vanity and imperfection, lust, hatred and absurdity of war in general. The aim of this paper is to explore the interconnection between the fact and fiction in the novel, which intended to be, according to Novakovich, “an obituary to Yugoslavia in a personal form“. This fictional story that describes details about life and death of Ivan Dolinar is a story of a war-torn country which can only live in the form of a ghost until it completely disappears from our minds.

scholarly journals Representation of the World in the Novels of Arzhan Adarov

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (4) ◽  
pp. 320-337
Author(s):  
Margarita S. Dedina
Keyword(s):  
Spatial Structure ◽  
The Other ◽  
Individual Choice ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Historical Reconstruction ◽  
Fictional World ◽  
Life And Death ◽  
Difficult Time ◽  
The World ◽  
Other World

The fictional world in A.O. Adarov’s novels corresponds to several levels of narration. First, there is the “real” time of the novel’s events; second, historical reconstruction given through subjective focalization; third, the realm of the unreal conveyed by visions and dreams. The novel shows the modeled reality from the perspective of a particular person, a survivor of political repressions. Through the categories of life and death, love and fate, honor and dignity, the novel speaks of the eternal ontological values and the importance of self-identification in a very difficult time, a time of re-evaluation of old values and the search for moral guidelines. According to the author’s concept, traditional folk constants play a crucial role in the worldview and perception of the world and turn out to be crucial for individual choice. The sacralization of space and the presence of a symbolically charged topos in the center of the fictional world, itself an infinite mosaic of various local territories, supports the idea of the spatial structure of the novel as a single cosmic whole. Conventional chronotopic boundaries as well as the theme of death as a pass to the other world present in all the novels of this author, together with the motif of the “eternal return,” support his conception of the soul’s immortality.

scholarly journals KAJIAN STILISTIKA DALAM NOVEL SANG PEMIMPI KARYA ANDREA HIRATA (THE STUDY OF STYLISTICS IN SANG PEMIMPI NOVEL WRITTEN BY ANDREA HIRATA)

2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 92
Author(s):  
Susiana Herliati
Keyword(s):  
Juvenile Delinquency ◽  
Visual Imagery ◽  
Figurative Language ◽  
Auditory Imagery ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Motion Imagery ◽  
The World ◽  
Figure Of Speech ◽  
Object Of Study ◽  
Descriptive Method

AbstractThe Study of Stylistics in Sang Pemimpi Novel Written by Andrea Hirata. The study of stylists in thenovel of Sang Pemimpi of Andrea Hirata presents an excellent story about young business to achievedreams but still adheres to traditions and religions with all the “juvenile delinquency of the world”, aswell as the hard work of achieving dreams that have been declared. How is the use of figurative languagein the novel Sang Pemimpi by Andrea Hirata which includes: (1) figurative speeches for comparison,(2) figurative speeches for conflicts, (3) figurative speeches for relationships, (4) figurative speeches forrepetition and how the imagery contained in the novel Sang Pemimpi Andrea Hirata which includes: (1)visual imagery, (2) auditory imagery, (3) kinesthetic imagery, (4) motion imagery, (5) olfactory imagery,(6) gustatory imagery, (7) experiences related to nature 8) the souls related to the senses. This research usesdescriptive method. The reason for using this method because based on its characteristics, this methodis oriented to the effort of obtaining information about certain phenomena systematically, factually andaccurately based on the facts obtained from the object of study. Descriptive method is a problem-solvingprocedure that is done by describing or describing the state of the object of research based on existingfacts. Thus, the results of the above research have two topics that have not been achieved because theresults are not there as in figurative language or style of language as in the case of contradictions that iseksimoron or style of language that use the word opposite the word is not found, as well as on the imageryof the novel The Dreamer also did not find the results of the data, while the other data has a number ofdifferent according to the results found in the novel text of the leader of Andrea Hirata’s work.Key words: stylistics, figure of speech, imageryAbstrakKajian Stilistika dalam Novel Sang Pemimpi Karya Andrea Hirata. Kajian stilistika dalam novel SangPemimpi Karya Andrea Hirata memaparkan cerita yang sangat baik tentang usaha muda untuk meraihmimpi tetapi tetap menaati tradisi dan agama dengan segala “kenakalan dunia remaja”, sekaligus kerjakeras meraih mimpi yang telah dicanangkan. Bagaimanakah penggunaan bahasa figuratif dalam novelSang Pemimpi karya Andrea Hirata yang meliputi: (1) majas perbandingan, (2) majas pertentangan, (3)majas pertautan, (4) majas perulangan dan Bagaimanakah citraan (imagery) yang terdapat dalam novelSang Pemimpi karya Andrea Hirata yang meliputi: (1) citraan penglihatan, (2) citraan pendengaran,(3) citraan rabaan, (4) citraan gerak, (5) citraan penciuman, (6) Pencecapan, (7) Pengalaman berkaitandengan alam, dan (8) jiwa berkaitan dengan indera. Penelitian ini menggunakan metode deskriptif.Adapun alasan menggunakan metode ini karena berdasarkan karakteristiknya, metode ini berorientasi93pada upaya pemerolehan informasi tentang fenomena-fenomena tertentu secara sistematis, faktual,dan akurat berdasarkan fakta yang didapat dari objek kajian. Metode deskriptif merupakan prosedurpemecahan masalah yang dilakukan dengan menggambarkan atau mendeskripsikan keadaan objekpenelitian berdasarkan fakta-fakta yang ada. Dengan demikian, hasil penelitian di atas tersebut adadua topik yang belum dicapai karena hasilnya tidak ada seperti pada bahasa figuratif atau gaya bahasaseperti pada majas pertentangan yaitu aksimoron atau gaya bahasa yang mempergunakan kata yangberlawanan kata tidak ditemukan, begitu pula pada pencitraan pencecapan pada novel Sang Pemimpijuga tidak ditemukan hasil data tersebut, sedangkan data yang lainnya memiliki jumlah yang berbedabedasesuai dengan hasil yang ditemukan pada teks novel Sang Pemimpin karya Andrea Hirata tersebut.Kata-kata kunci: stilistika, majas, citraan

scholarly journals Aldous Huxley’s Poetry of Silence

2012 ◽  
Vol 21 (26) ◽  
pp. 59-70
Author(s):  
Maxim Shadurski
Keyword(s):  
Technological Progress ◽  
Spiritual Awakening ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Social Reconstruction ◽  
Life And Death ◽  
Cultural Climate ◽  
The World ◽  
Utopian Thought ◽  
Specific Concept ◽  
The Universe

Utopian thought, conventionally seeking to harmonize the world, witnessed an essential revision in the 20th century. This period of grand political and social upheavals, world wars, an arms race, scientific and technological progress, ecological concerns, and globalization radically undermined mankind’s faith in the humanistic potential of utopian projects. However, in Aldous Huxley’s writings, the intention to summon up a utopian experiment superseded any agonies of doubt about programmes of social reconstruction. Huxley turned to utopia when mass distrust in the constructive impulse of the genre had become notable in the socio-cultural climate. In Huxley’s last novel, Island (1962), “the poetry of silence” can be seen to render an optimistic response to the unholy state of the world.This article examines the novel’s lyrical interspersions, which arguably create a specific concept of silence through a series of thematic explorations comprising the ideas of noiselessness, speechlessness, and peace. The idea of noiselessness endorses a form of overcoming the world’s invincible cacophony. This kind of omnipotent dissonance can be diminished only by a supernatural power which integrates man’s disparate relationships with the universe. Like Nature for Wordsworth, Huxley’s image of the noiseless movement of the world unveils an image of unity to those who bring with them “a heart that watches and receives.” The idea of speechlessness surfaces in the lyrical fragments of the novel that touch upon intuition. Intuitive discoveries lie at the heart of a religion unfettered from dogma, and allow access to the perennial wisdom which becomes “suddenly visible” through the act of elevation to the summit of the universe. The idea of peace is placed outside the conventional frame of existential discrepancies. For this reason, the image of Shiva is meant to transcend the opposition of life and death. As long as Shiva dances simultaneously in all the planes of reality, the Palanese can learn from him how to exist in non-attachment. The acceptance of the world’s entropic progression checked by the poetry of silence leads the protagonist to a spiritual awakening and stirs his empathy for the utopian order realized in Pala.The poetry of silence embraces the beauty of the world which comes into existence from what Huxley calls a “pregnant emptiness.” The mystery of this creation cannot be subjected to any scientific, philosophical, or even theological systems of reference. One may only sense this mystery without reasoning. Wisdom converges with the skyin emptiness, dubbed “the womb of love,” and creates a universe from the poetry of silence. In Island, utopian thought, traditionally focusing on the regular patterns of a perfect society and state, attains a mystical profile promoted by the poetry of silence.

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.

Comparative docking of SARS-CoV-2 receptors antagonists from repurposing drugs

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Micael Davi Lima de Oliveira ◽  
Kelson Mota Teixeira de Oliveira
Keyword(s):  
World Health Organisation ◽  
World Health ◽  
Lung Cells ◽  
The Novel ◽  
High Modulation ◽  
Main Protease ◽  
The World ◽  
Novel Coronavirus ◽  
Viral Receptors ◽  
Theoretical Results

According to the World Health Organisation, until 16 June, 2020, the number of confirmed and notified cases of COVID-19 has already exceeded 7.9 million with approximately 434 thousand deaths worldwide. This research aimed to find repurposing antagonists, that may inhibit the activity of the main protease (Mpro) of the SARS-CoV-2 virus, as well as partially modulate the ACE2 receptors largely found in lung cells, and reduce viral replication by inhibiting Nsp12 RNA polymerase. Docking molecular simulations were performed among a total of 60 structures, most of all, published in the literature against the novel coronavirus. The theoretical results indicated that, in comparative terms, paritaprevir, ivermectin, ledipasvir, and simeprevir, are among the most theoretical promising drugs in remission of symptoms from the disease. Furthermore, also corroborate indinavir to the high modulation in viral receptors. The second group of promising drugs includes remdesivir and azithromycin. The repurposing drugs HCQ and chloroquine were not effective in comparative terms to other drugs, as monotherapies, against SARS-CoV-2 infection.

Association and treatment of diabetes in patients affected by Covid-19

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (SPL1) ◽  
pp. 1198-1201
Author(s):  
Syed Yasir Afaque
Keyword(s):  
Diabetes Mellitus ◽  
Prognostic Value ◽  
Heart Diseases ◽  
The Novel ◽  
The World ◽  
Treatment Of Diabetes ◽  
Coronavirus Infection ◽  
Composite Outcomes ◽  
Novel Coronavirus ◽  
The Impact

In December 2019, a unique coronavirus infection, SARS-CoV-2, was first identified in the province of Wuhan in China. Since then, it spread rapidly all over the world and has been responsible for a large number of morbidity and mortality among humans. According to a latest study, Diabetes mellitus, heart diseases, Hypertension etc. are being considered important risk factors for the development of this infection and is also associated with unfavorable outcomes in these patients. There is little evidence concerning the trail back of these patients possibly because of a small number of participants and people who experienced primary composite outcomes (such as admission in the ICU, usage of machine-driven ventilation or even fatality of these patients). Until now, there are no academic findings that have proven independent prognostic value of diabetes on death in the novel Coronavirus patients. However, there are several conjectures linking Diabetes with the impact as well as progression of COVID-19 in these patients. The aim of this review is to acknowledge about the association amongst Diabetes and the novel Coronavirus and the result of the infection in such patients.

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