THE HERO OF THE NOVEL BY I. MALYSHEV “NOMAKH” AND THE YEGOR LETOV’S POETICS

2021 ◽  
pp. 92-101
Author(s):  
Denis L. Karpov ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Civil War ◽  
Consumer Culture ◽  
Contemporary Literature ◽  
Literary Tradition ◽  
Cultural Discourse ◽  
The Novel ◽  
The West ◽  
Difficult Situation ◽  
Literary Life ◽  
Civil War Era

Contemporary literature is being formed in a difficult situation of polyphony of the modern consumer culture. Mainstream discourses are mixed with subcultural ones, the authors are influenced not only by the literary tradition itself, but also, for example, by rock culture. Thus, the countercultural, subcultural experience, which until recently was considered as peripheral, is actively being introduced into the socio-cultural discourse of modern Russia through the assimilation by authors claiming a place in the center of the country’s literary life. The novel by I. Malyshev “Nomakh” may be considered as an example of such influence. It became a finalist of the literary prize contest “Big Book” in 2017. The novel is clearly influenced by countercultural ideology, in particular by E. Letov, one of the most popular and reputable representatives of the West Siberian counterculture. At the same time, there are no direct references or quotations from the poetry of the Omsk musician in the novel. Rather, one can see some stylistic likenesses, similar figurative complexes. The reception of a historical character from the civil war era is based on the learned principles of poetics and Letov’s worldview. In addition, adopting the intellectual experience of the counterculture, I. Malyshev’s novel not only relays a certain ideology, but also, with the help of artistic means, recreates or completes the images of its hero, historical character, and cultural heroes, which he focuses on.

scholarly journals Representação e performance na literatura contemporânea

2007 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 80-93
Author(s):  
Luciene Azevedo
Keyword(s):  
Contemporary Literature ◽  
Literary Tradition ◽  
The Other ◽  
Clarice Lispector ◽  
The Novel ◽  
A Performance

Resumo: Identificando no romance A hora da estrela, de Clarice Lispector, a problematização da questão da representação do Outro, marca importante da tradição literária brasileira, o ensaio levanta a hipótese de a literatura contemporânea deslocar- se do paradigma da representação para o da performance construída sobre um precário equilíbrio entre a crítica e a reiteração de muitos preconceitos e estereótipos, desestabilização para a qual já acena o romance publicado em 1977. A ambigüidade da performance desdobra a questão da representação do Outro e abre um capítulo novo nos embates sobre o papel do escritor e da literatura.Palavras-chave: performance; representação; literatura contemporânea.Abstract: Identifying in Clarice Lispector’s novel A Hora da Estrela the discussion about the representation of the other, an important mark in the Brazilian literary tradition, the essay raises the hypothesis that contemporary literature dislocates the paradigm of representation to that of a performance constructed on a precarious balance between criticism and the reiteration of many preconceptions, to which the novel published in 1977 points. The ambiguity of the performance unfolds the question of the representation of the other and opens a new chapter by addressing the role of the writer and of literature.Keywords: performance; representation; contemporary literature.

“Ontological and Epistemological” Discourse of Cultural Identity: Making an Orientalist in V. S. Naipaul's Half a Life

2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (6) ◽  
pp. 1200
Author(s):  
Fazel Asadi Amjad ◽  
Ghamereddin Badirdast
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Identity ◽  
Educational System ◽  
Postcolonial Studies ◽  
Cultural Discourse ◽  
The Novel ◽  
The West ◽  
The Impact

The impact of colonial educational system or colonial cultural discourse on the cultural identity of the colonized is a prominent theme of postcolonial studies. According to Said Orientalism as a discourse recognizes an "ontological and epistemological" distinction between the East and the West. Consequently, for Said anyone who thinks, works and acts based on the existence of such a distinction is an orientalist. This paper argues that V. S. Naipaul’s Half a life illustrates the workings of this imaginary distinction that European cultural discourse finds between the Orient and the Occident on the formation of the cultural identity of the colonized people as they become subject to colonial cultural discourse. In Half a Life we observe Willie, the anti-hero of the novel, gradually losing his faith in the ingredients of his own cultural identity replacing them with the material served in the menu of colonial educational system to adopt himself with the requirements of being a colonial individual living on scholarship in the metropolitan London.

scholarly journals Analysis of Metaphor Translation from the Perspective of Relevance Theory—A Case Study of the Translation of Metaphor in Fortress Besieged

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 194
Author(s):  
Mengzhu Xia
Keyword(s):  
Contemporary Literature ◽  
Relevance Theory ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Research Subject ◽  
The West ◽  
Cultural Exchanges ◽  
History Of ◽  
Chinese Contemporary Literature ◽  
Fortress Besieged

Fortress Besieged is a unique satirical novel in the history of Chinese contemporary literature. It is deeply loved by readers at home and abroad for its humorous and refined language. There are abundant Chinese metaphors in the novel, so it is of certain significance to explore the translation of metaphors for the cultural exchanges between China and the West. Taking the English translation of Fortress Besieged as the research subject, this paper explores how to translate metaphor in novel from the perspective of relevance theory. It is found that the translator adopts the following methods in dealing with metaphor translation: retaining the original metaphor image, transforming the original metaphor image, retaining the original metaphor image and annotating it, explaining or omitting the original metaphor image.

Long Shadows

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark A. Lause
Keyword(s):  
Civil War ◽  
West Coast ◽  
Republican Party ◽  
Democratic Party ◽  
Abraham Lincoln ◽  
The West ◽  
Christopher Lasch ◽  
Social Empathy ◽  
Civil War Era ◽  
Free Democratic Party

This epilogue considers the legacies left by spiritualism of the Civil War era. It begins with a discussion of the spiritualist movement's early links to the Free Democratic Party, the Republican Party, and Abraham Lincoln and what happened after the war to some of the prominent spiritualists such as Isabelle Laurie Miller, the Fox sisters, and Nettie Colburn. It then examines the spiritualists' involvement in Reconstruction; how spiritualism and its legacy found their fit in what Christopher Lasch later called “the culture of narcissism” on the West Coast; and how the experience of the antislavery movement and the war imbued spiritualism with a radical new kind of social empathy. It also cites some of the reasons why spiritualism declined after the war, when the issues of secession and Union receded, and looks at three of the organizations established by the spiritualists after the war.

Satire and Realism in Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice: an Interpretative Analysis

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Jane Austen ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Pride And Prejudice ◽  
Rigorous Analysis ◽  
Literary Life ◽  
Interpretative Analysis

Jane Austen is acknowledged for the application of realism and satire in her novels. This paper focuses on the analysis of realism and satire in Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice; however, her entire oeuvre spotlights the features (of satire and realism) alongside robust feminism: typical of her literary taste and temperament, not necessarily of the Romantic Age which she lived in. Rigorous analysis and realistic observation reveals that the employment of realism and satire in Pride and Prejudice, are quite obvious, in all sorts of aspects including narrative, settings, themes and characters. Analysis of the novel under study leads to the observation that satire and realism go hand in hand in the said novel—intermittently—and thoughtfully. Conclusively, it is observed that Jane Austen’s literary life had a tremendous influence on how to subsume realism (primarily through matrimonies) of age and satire on a romantic society (whereby ideals collapse headlong), in Pride and Prejudice.

The Pornographer and McGahern's Allusive Practice

2017 ◽  
Vol 47 (2) ◽  
pp. 281-297
Author(s):  
Tom Walker
Keyword(s):  
Social Practice ◽  
Literary Tradition ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Present Value ◽  
The Past

Allusions to other texts abound in John McGahern's fiction. His works repeatedly, though diffidently, refer to literary tradition. Yet the nature of such allusiveness is still unclear. This article focuses on how allusion in The Pornographer (1979) is depicted as an intellectual and social practice, embodying particular attitudes towards the function of texts and the knowledge they represent. Moreover, the critique of the practice of allusion that the novel undertakes is shown to have broader significance in terms of McGahern's whole oeuvre and its evolving attempts to salvage something of present value from the literature of the past.

Presidents and the Dissolution of the Union

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fred I. Greenstein ◽  
Dale Anderson
Keyword(s):  
Civil War ◽  
Organizational Capacity ◽  
The United States ◽  
Abraham Lincoln ◽  
George Washington ◽  
Personal Strengths ◽  
History Of ◽  
Civil War Era ◽  
American Leader ◽  
Policy Vision

The United States witnessed an unprecedented failure of its political system in the mid-nineteenth century, resulting in a disastrous civil war that claimed the lives of an estimated 750,000 Americans. This book assesses the personal strengths and weaknesses of presidents from George Washington to Barack Obama. The book evaluates the leadership styles of the Civil War-era presidents. The book looks at the presidential qualities of James K. Polk, Zachary Taylor, Millard Fillmore, Franklin Pierce, James Buchanan, and Abraham Lincoln. For each president, the book provides a concise history of the man's life and presidency, and evaluates him in the areas of public communication, organizational capacity, political skill, policy vision, cognitive style, and emotional intelligence. The book sheds light on why Buchanan is justly ranked as perhaps the worst president in the nation's history, how Pierce helped set the stage for the collapse of the Union and the bloodiest war America had ever experienced, and why Lincoln is still considered the consummate American leader to this day. The book reveals what enabled some of these presidents, like Lincoln and Polk, to meet the challenges of their times—and what caused others to fail.

Rethinking the Civil War Era: Directions for Research

2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Kolchin
Keyword(s):  
Civil War ◽  
Civil War Era

Rethinking the Civil War Era: Directions for Research

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