scholarly journals The poetics of historical novels of B. Rafikov

2021 ◽  
pp. 31-39
Author(s):  
З.А. АЛИБАЕВ
Keyword(s):  
Historical Novels

Аннотация. В современных литературоведческих исследованиях насущная необходимость анализа и постижения литературного процесса ХХ столетия, который всецело завершился, неопровержимо превратилась в очевидность. Актуальность исследования определяется особым качественным подъемом жанра романа в башкирской литературе. Безусловно, необходимость исследования поэтики башкирского романа, анализ его художественно-эстетической, духовно-нравственной, патриотической и др. ценностей вызвана современной реальностью. В процессе развития национальных литератур Российской Федерации вызывает теоретический интерес исследование поэтики и эволюции башкирской прозы с точки зрения типологии. Изучение в эстетическом аспекте исторических путей развития башкирской литературы, относящейся к тюркоязычным литературам, в частности прозы, ориентируясь не только на русско-европейские традиции, но и не упуская из виду восточные традиции, синтез поэтики фольклора, национальную специфику, генетические корни, обеспечивает актуальность данной работы. Актуальность научной работы, прежде всего, обусловлена выявлением насущных проблем, позиционированием идей, принципов, точек зрений, убеждений и др., составляющих неразрывный литературный процесс. Исторический роман последних двух десятилетий обнаруживает много общего с произведениями на современную тему в стилевых тенденциях развития, принципах, приемах и средствах типизации характера. В то же время анализ многогранного художественного мира исторического романа является фактом, способствующим воссозданию картины современной литературы в ее единстве. Автор, придерживаясь цели и задач исследования, дает представление о степени изученности обозначенной проблематики, формулирует и подробно рассматривает необходимые направления исследовательской работы. Целью данной статьи является исследование проблем поэтики исторических романов Б. Рафикова, что приводит к созданию более полной картины современной башкирской прозы в русле выявления основных ее стилевых направлений. В соответствии с поставленной целью закономерно решение следующих конкретных задач: исследование природы (эпической, риторической, художественно-смысловой и т. д.) исторического романа и анализ творческого мастерства создателя художественного произведения. В статье применяется метод библиографического, биографического, мотивного, сюжетного анализа; сравнительно-типологического и сравнительно-исторического литературоведения. Результатом работы выступает, в первую очередь, впервые проведенное всестороннее исследование и совокупный анализ исторического романа на принципе формирования поэтики башкирского романа. Намечается совершенно иной подход в изучении поэтики современного башкирского романа и выявляются новые направления, перспективы развития жанра и национальной литературы ХХI столетия.

Imagining Mary Magdalene

2014 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-25
Author(s):  
Jodie Eichler-Levine
Keyword(s):  
Comic Books ◽  
Historical Novels ◽  
Religion And Spirituality ◽  
Mary Magdalene ◽  
The Past ◽  
Scholarly Discourse ◽  
Do So

In this article I analyze how Americans draw upon the authority of both ancient, so-called “hidden” texts and the authority of scholarly discourse, even overtly fictional scholarly discourse, in their imaginings of the “re-discovered” figure of Mary Magdalene. Reading recent treatments of Mary Magdalene provides me with an entrance onto three topics: how Americans see and use the past, how Americans understand knowledge itself, and how Americans construct “religion” and “spirituality.” I do so through close studies of contemporary websites of communities that focus on Mary Magdalene, as well as examinations of relevant books, historical novels, reader reviews, and comic books. Focusing on Mary Magdalene alongside tropes of wisdom also uncovers the gendered dynamics at play in constructions of antiquity, knowledge, and religious accessibility.

Revolution Rekindled

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Polly Jones
Keyword(s):  
Historical Novels ◽  
Soviet Culture ◽  
Complex Processes ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
New Meanings ◽  
Soviet Literature ◽  
Late Socialism ◽  
Revolutionary History ◽  
Gorbachev Era ◽  
Depth Interviews

A major late Soviet initiative, the ‘Fiery Revolutionaries’ (Plamennye revoliutsionery) series, was launched to rekindle popular enthusiasm for the revolution, eventually giving rise to over 150 biographies and historical novels authored by many key post-Stalinist writers. What new meanings did revolution take on as it was reimagined by writers including dissidents, leading historians, and popular historical novelists? How did their millions of readers engage with these highly varied texts? To what extent does this Brezhnev-era publishing phenomenon challenge the notion of late socialism as a time of ‘stagnation’, and how does it confirm it? Through exploring the complex processes of writing, editing, censorship, and reading of late Soviet literature, Revolution Rekindled highlights the dynamic negotiations that continued within Soviet culture well past the apparent turning point of 1968 through to the late Gorbachev era. It also complicates the opposition between ‘official’ and underground post-Stalinist culture by showing how Soviet writers and readers engaged with both, as they sought answers to key questions of revolutionary history, ethics, and ideology: it thus reveals the enormous breadth and vitality of the ‘historical turn’ amongst the late Soviet population. Revolution Rekindled is the first archival, oral history, and literary study of this unique late socialist publishing experiment, from its beginnings in the early 1960s to its collapse in the early 1990s. It draws on a wide range of previously untapped archives, uses in-depth interviews with Brezhnev-era writers, editors, and publishers, and assesses the generic and stylistic innovations within the series’ biographies and novels.

Parnicki a Rosja. Rekonesans

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 325-338
Author(s):  
Piotr Gorliński-Kucik
Keyword(s):  
Literary Criticism ◽  
Interwar Period ◽  
Cultural Policy ◽  
Historical Novels ◽  
Russian Culture ◽  
Current State ◽  
The Subject ◽  
State Of Research ◽  
Critical Project

The article considers issue of the connections between Teodor Parnicki, the Polish author of historical novels, and Russia. His attitude has its origins in biographical experiences. Knowledge of Russian culture is evident especially in the early work of Parnicki, and above all – in literary criticism of the interwar period. Careful reading shows that the sketches and reviews are a conservative critical project, the subject of which is Soviet social and cultural policy and communism in general. This article also complements the current state of research (who did not address this issue), while being a contribution to further research.

Iraq

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Haytham Bahoora
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Short Story ◽  
Social Issues ◽  
Social Realism ◽  
Self Awareness ◽  
Historical Novels ◽  
The Novel ◽  
War In Iraq ◽  
Critical Social

This chapter examines the development of the novel in Iraq. It first considers the beginnings of prose narrative in Iraq, using the intermingling of the short story and the novel, particularly in the first half of the twentieth century, as a framework for reassessing the formal qualities of the Arabic novel. It then turns to romantic and historical novels published in the 1920s, as well as novels dealing with social issues like poverty and the condition of peasants in the countryside. It discusses the narrative emergence of the bourgeois intellectual’s self-awareness and interiority in Iraqi fiction, especially the novella; works that continued the expression of a critical social realism in the Iraqi novelistic tradition and the appearance of modernist aesthetics; and narratives that addressed dictatorship and war in Iraq. The chapter concludes with an overview of the novel genre in Iraq after 2003.

scholarly journals A new myth regarding the Great Trek: Reinvention of identity in Die pad na skuilhoek [The path toSkuilhoek] by Hans du Plessis.

Literator ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 34 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Marlies Taljard
Keyword(s):  
Social Issues ◽  
National Identities ◽  
Historical Novels ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Historical Interpretation ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Myth ◽  
The Way

This article aims to illustrate how Hans du Plessis, in his novel Die pad na Skuilhoek [The path to Skuilhoek] (a place of shelter), subverts the way in which history had been presented in historical novels in the past by addressing social issues that contemporary readers find relevant. The first part of the article deals with the social codes that shape the identities of the main characters and how these identities are relevant in terms of the social framework within which the novel is received. In the second place the focus will shift towards Du Plessis’s representation of cultural and national identities. The question: ‘Who were the Afrikaners at the time of the Great Trek?’ will be answered with reference to these identities. In conclusion it will be pointed out how Du Plessis avoids dated practices of historical interpretation by choosing ecocrticism as the ideological framework for his novel and is, in this way, constructing a new social myth about the Great Trek.

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