scholarly journals The role of linguistics in the development of modern literary criticism

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 18-35
Author(s):  
Imirana Seydou Maiga
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Literary Criticism ◽  
Ordinary Language ◽  
Human Sciences ◽  
And Linguistics ◽  
Creative Language

The nineteenth century is the age of linguistics, which opened the horizons for human sciences in this age, especially the monetary field, which is considered the first beneficiary of the fruits of linguistics, where both work on one material: language. However, linguistics was interested in the ordinary language, while the criticism in the creative language took criticism from the impressionist stage to rely on technical mechanisms to prevent the critic from falling into the trap of self-impression. And with the scientific breakthrough of criticism resulting from the exchange of criticism and linguistics we found several approaches from structural to deconstruction, stylistic, which wanted to contain the page rhetoric, and other approaches that continue to breed with the development of linguistics, and do not forget the analysis of speech, and the mechanisms of the reader and his response. These scientific observations, which will be discussed in this study in the following lines.

The Case of Literature

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Arne Höcker
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Legal Responsibility ◽  
Case Based Reasoning ◽  
Human Sciences ◽  
The Past ◽  
Psychological Knowledge ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Scientific Narratives

This book offers a radical reassessment of the modern European literary canon. The book's reinterpretations of Goethe, Schiller, Büchner, Döblin, Musil, and Kafka show how literary and scientific narratives have determined each other over the past three centuries, and it argues that modern literature not only contributed to the development of the human sciences but also established itself as the privileged medium for a modern style of case-based reasoning. The book traces the role of narrative fiction in relation to the scientific knowledge of the individual from eighteenth-century psychology and pedagogy to nineteenth-century sexology and criminology to twentieth-century psychoanalysis. The book demonstrates how modern authors consciously engaged casuistic forms of writing to arrive at new understandings of literary discourse that correspond to major historical transformations in the function of fiction. It argues for the centrality of literature to changes in the conceptions of psychological knowledge production around 1800; legal responsibility and institutionalized forms of decision-making throughout the nineteenth century; and literature's own realist demands in the early twentieth century.

scholarly journals Sottoboschi letterari. Sei "case studies" fra Otto e Novecento. Mara Antelling, Emma Boghen Conigliani, Evelyn, Anna Franchi, Jolanda, Flavia Steno

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ombretta Frau ◽  
Cristina Gragnani
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Literary Criticism ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
First World War ◽  
Modern Concept ◽  
World War ◽  
The First World War ◽  
The Family ◽  
First World

Sottoboschi letterari brings together essays about six female writers from the period between the last decade of the nineteenth century and the first world war: Mara Antelling, Emma Boghen Conigliani, Evelyn, Anna Franchi, Jolanda, and Flavia Steno. Through the metaphor of the undergrowth, which recalls certain features of Deleuze's rhizome, the book explores the way in which the chosen writers made headway in the literary scene of Italy at the end of the nineteenth century through contributions in the form of narrative, essays, sociology and literary criticism. Apparently conservative, and subscribing to the dominant vision of the role of women in society and in the family, these writers nevertheless made a decisive step towards the modern concept of the female intellectual.

Cutlets or Fish Curry?: Debating Indian Authenticity in Late Nineteenth-Century Bengal

2006 ◽  
Vol 40 (2) ◽  
pp. 257-272 ◽  
Author(s):  
ROSINKA CHAUDHURI
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Literary Criticism ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Literary Genres ◽  
Political Modernity ◽  
Aesthetic Form ◽  
Relative Neglect ◽  
Partha Chatterjee

Current discussions on the development of modern literary genres and aesthetic conventions in nineteenth-century colonial Bengal have tended, perhaps because of its relative neglect in the modern day, to ignore the seminal role of poetry in formulating the nationalist imagination. In academic discourse, the coming together of the birth of the novel, the concept of history and the idea of the nation-state under the sign of the modern has led to a collective blindness toward the forceful intervention of poetry and song in imagining the nation. Thus Dipesh Chakrabarty, in a chapter devoted to poetry in Provincializing Europe, ironically elides any mention of it at the crucial instance of the formulation of national modernity, when he takes his argument about the division between the prosaic and the poetic in Tagore further to say, without mentioning the seminal role of poetry, that: ‘The new prose of fiction—novels and short stories—was thus seen as intimately connected to questions of political modernity’. Partha Chatterjee discusses, in the introduction to The Nation and Its Fragments, the shaping of critical discourse in colonial Bengal in relation to drama, the novel, and even art, but ignores completely the fiercely contested and controversial processes by which modern Bengali poetry and literary criticism were formulated. ‘The desire to construct an aesthetic form that was modern and national’, to use his words, ‘was shown in its most exaggerated shape’ not, it is my contention, in the Bengal school of art in the 1920s as he says, but long before that in the poetry of Rangalal Banerjee, Hemchandra Bandyopadhyay, Madhusudan Dutt, and Nabinchandra Sen, and in the literary criticism and controversy surrounding their work.

scholarly journals The Role of Value-Semantic Oppositions in Revealing the Deep Literary and Psychological Characteristics of the Narrator’s Image in “Poor Liza” by N.M. Karamzin

2021 ◽  
pp. 178-184
Author(s):  
Olga Krasnova
Keyword(s):  
Literary Criticism ◽  
Interdisciplinary Approach ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Psychological Characteristics ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Textual Relationships ◽  
Psychological Attitude ◽  
Meaningful Text ◽  
And Linguistics

Value-semantic oppositions in the novel by N.M. Karamzin, seen as meaningful text dominants in situations of "existential fullness", are discussed in the article from the point of view of an interdisciplinary approach of literary criticism, text theory, psychology and linguistics. The article describes the process of literary and psychological meaning generation, coupled with the narrator’s inherent properties, as well as implicit literary and psychological textual relationships with inherent properties, it also singles out the contextual ways of these characteristics, reflecting motives, attitudes, generalized worldview judgments (generalizations). The author shows the dialog nature of the narrator’s literary and psychological attitude to the realities denoted by various parts of the opposition in the situation of “existential fullness”. The role of lexical markers corresponding to the depicted integral emotional state of the narrator in the privision of active reader's attention and attracting him to the deep literary and psychological characteristics is revealed.

scholarly journals Karl Marx as a philosopher of science. On the 200th anniversary of the birth

2019 ◽  
Vol 89 (1) ◽  
pp. 64-72
Author(s):  
F. N. Blukher
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Philosophy Of Science ◽  
Karl Marx ◽  
Philosophy Of History ◽  
Human Sciences ◽  
Historical Approach ◽  
Class Theory ◽  
200Th Anniversary ◽  
Methodological Approaches

This study discusses the primary components of the Karl Marx doctrine, including the dialectical method, concept of the materialist philosophy of history, and political and economic ideas, and analyses the reconstruction of the class theory. The author considers Marxism as a philosophy of science, on par with those that subjugated at the end of the nineteenth century, neo-Kantianism and positivism, traces the role of Marx in the development of the historical approach, and assesses the implication of his work for the development of subsequent methodological approaches in social and human sciences, especially systemic and activity-theoretic research. Furthermore, the study briefly describes the fate of Marx’s ideas after his death.

Illustrated Media, the Built Environment and Identity Politics in Fin-de-siècle Catalonia: Printing Images, Making the Nation

2015 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 113-135
Author(s):  
Lucila Mallart
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Built Environment ◽  
Identity Politics ◽  
Nation Building ◽  
Constitutive Relationship ◽  
Fin De Siecle ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
Fin De Siècle ◽  
Late Nineteenth

This article explores the role of visuality in the identity politics of fin-de-siècle Catalonia. It engages with the recent reevaluation of the visual, both as a source for the history of modern nation-building, and as a constitutive element in the emergence of civic identities in the liberal urban environment. In doing so, it offers a reading of the mutually constitutive relationship of the built environment and the print media in late-nineteenth century Catalonia, and explores the role of this relation as the mechanism by which the so-called ‘imagined communities’ come to exist. Engaging with debates on urban planning and educational policies, it challenges established views on the interplay between tradition and modernity in modern nation-building, and reveals long-term connections between late-nineteenth-century imaginaries and early-twentieth-century beliefs and practices.

Gender, Technology and the New Woman

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lena Wånggren
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
New Woman ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Gender And Sexuality ◽  
Literary Texts ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
Gender And Technology ◽  
The New Woman ◽  
Grant Allen

This book examines late nineteenth-century feminism in relation to technologies of the time, marking the crucial role of technology in social and literary struggles for equality. The New Woman, the fin de siècle cultural archetype of early feminism, became the focal figure for key nineteenth-century debates concerning issues such as gender and sexuality, evolution and degeneration, science, empire and modernity. While the New Woman is located in the debates concerning the ‘crisis in gender’ or ‘sexual anarchy’ of the time, the period also saw an upsurge of new technologies of communication, transport and medicine. This book explores the interlinking of gender and technology in writings by overlooked authors such as Grant Allen, Tom Gallon, H. G. Wells, Margaret Todd and Mathias McDonnell Bodkin. As the book demonstrates, literature of the time is inevitably caught up in a technological modernity: technologies such as the typewriter, the bicycle, and medical technologies, through literary texts come to work as freedom machines, as harbingers of female emancipation.

Disruptions of the Local, Eruptions of the Feminine: Local Reportage and National Anxieties in Egypt’s 1890s

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marilyn Booth
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Gender Roles ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
Female Images ◽  
The Feminine ◽  
Late Nineteenth ◽  
Advocacy Role ◽  
Representations Of Women ◽  
Gendered Expectations

This chapter demonstrates that inscriptions of female images in Cairo’s late nineteenth-century nationalist press were part of a discursive economy shaping debates on how gender roles and gendered expectations should shift as Egyptians struggled for independence. The chapter investigates content and placement of ‘news from the street’ in al-Mu’ayyad in the 1890s, examining how these terse local reports – equivalent to faits divers in the French press – contributed to the construction of an ideal national political trajectory with representations of women serving as the primary example in shaping a politics of newspaper intervention on the national scene. In this, an emerging advocacy role of newspaper correspondents makes the newspaper a mediator in the construction of activist reader-citizens.

Bad Dreams and Secret Artists: Translating Freud into Literature

2002 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 127-139 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ian Patterson
Keyword(s):  
Sigmund Freud ◽  
Ordinary Language ◽  
Close Reading ◽  
Careful Attention ◽  
Popular Approach ◽  
English Reader ◽  
Creative Writer ◽  
The Many ◽  
The Way

This article addresses the increasingly popular approach to Freud and his work which sees him primarily as a literary writer rather than a psychologist, and takes this as the context for an examination of Joyce Crick's recent translation of The Interpretation of Dreams. It claims that translation lies at the heart of psychoanalysis, and that the many interlocking and overlapping implications of the word need to be granted a greater degree of complexity. Those who argue that Freud is really a creative writer are themselves doing a work of translation, and one which fails to pay sufficiently careful attention to the role of translation in writing itself (including the notion of repression itself as a failure to translate). Lesley Chamberlain's The Secret Artist: A Close Reading of Sigmund Freud is taken as an example of the way Freud gets translated into a novelist or an artist, and her claims for his ‘bizarre poems' are criticized. The rest of the article looks closely at Crick's new translation and its claim to be restoring Freud the stylist, an ordinary language Freud, to the English reader. The experience of reading Crick's translation is compared with that of reading Strachey's, rather to the latter's advantage.

Andrew Lang and Scottish Historiography: Taking on Tradition

2015 ◽  
Vol 94 (2) ◽  
pp. 207-236 ◽  
Author(s):  
Catriona M. M. Macdonald
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Sir Walter Scott ◽  
Scientific Methods ◽  
European Context ◽  
The Reformation ◽  
Cast Doubt ◽  
Scottish History ◽  
University Setting ◽  
Andrew Lang

The career and posthumous reputation of Andrew Lang (1844–1912) call into question Scottish historiographical conventions of the era following the death of Sir Walter Scott which foreground the apparent triumph of scientific methods over Romance and the professionalisation of the discipline within a university setting. Taking issue with the premise of notions relating to the Strange Death of Scottish History in the mid-nineteenth century, it is proposed that perceptions of Scottish historiographical exceptionalism in a European context and presumptions of Scottish inferiorism stand in need of re-assessment. By offering alternative readings of the reformation, by uncoupling unionism from whiggism, by reaffirming the role of Romance in ‘serious’ Scottish history, and by disrupting distinctions between whig and Jacobite, the historical works and the surviving personal papers of Andrew Lang cast doubt on many conventional grand narratives and the paradigms conventionally used to make sense of Scottish historiography.

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