scholarly journals THE STRUCTURE OF ARTISTIC SPACE IN PAVEL VEZHINOV’S NOVELLA “THE BARRIER” AND “A GENTLE CREATURE” BY FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY

2019 ◽  
pp. 149-161
Author(s):  
Inna GAZHEVA ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Fyodor Dostoyevsky ◽  
Spiritual Transformation ◽  
Female Character ◽  
Spatial Representations ◽  
National Cultures ◽  
Point Space ◽  
Social Conditioning ◽  
Plane Space ◽  
Intertextual Connections ◽  
Open Plane

Background: The article deals with the intertextual analysis of two novellas: The Barrier by Pavel Vezhinov and A Gentle Creature by Fyodor Dostoyevsky. The methodological basis of the study is the interpretation of intertextuality as a product of reading (not the phenomenon of “writing”), according to which Vezhinov and Dostoevsky – writers belonging to different national cultures and historical eras – in some sense become contemporaries. Accordingly, A Gentle Creature, written earlier, is enriched by the meaning as a result of its comparison with The Barrier, as well as the latter by comparison with the story of Dostoevsky. Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to identify the intertextual connections of Pavel Vezhinov’s novella The Barrier and A Gentle Creature by Fyodor Dostoyevsky and to show how they deepen the content of both works in the reader’s perception. The analysis of texts is carried out within one level – the artistic space, which is “an author’s model of the world, expressed in the language of his spatial representations”. Results: Comparative analysis of the elements of spatial code and analysis of the characters’ behavior through the type of artistic space corresponding to each of them allows to understand the in-depth content of each of the two works. The storyline of both stories is based on one type of rite de passage – the transition from life “to another life”. The expected result of this transition is a radical spiritual transformation of the character and a new identity acquired by them. The events that make up the plot, in the two stories largely coincide and the last in their series is the suicide of the female character. The main character of The Barrier is a person who has gone astray and wanders within an open plane space. Meeting him with Doroteya, the character of the “vertically directed path” within the “open, voluminous space”, provokes the beginning of the “spiritual transformation” in him. However, the suicide of the female character again throw Antoni over the "barrier" of social conditioning that he managed to overcome with the help of Doroteya, and makes it impossible for him to acquire a “new identity”. The pawnbroker from A Gentle Creature is a “character of the point space” who has never been able to “expand the space” throughout the story. However, the suicide of the female character is reported as such an event, from which a real rite de passage can begin for the character, culminating in his acquisition of a way up and a radical spiritual transformation. Key words: intertextuality, artistic space, rite de passage, spiritual transformation, transfiguration.

scholarly journals “A Gentle Creature” by Fyodor Dostoevsky and “The Barrier” by Pavel Vezhinov: Systematic and Comparative Reading

2020 ◽  
pp. 180-217
Author(s):  
Inna Gazheva
Keyword(s):  
Spatial Organization ◽  
Fyodor Dostoyevsky ◽  
Spiritual Transformation ◽  
National Cultures ◽  
Fyodor Dostoevsky ◽  
Methodological Basis ◽  
Temporal And Spatial ◽  
Intertextual Connections

The article attempts to identify systemic intertextual connections between novellas “The Barrier” by Pavel Vezhinov and “A Gentle Creature” by Fyodor Dostoyevsky (as well as individual intertextual connections between “The Barrier” and “The Dream of a Ridiculous Man”) and show how their explication contributes to the comprehension of the artistic concept of each of the works. The methodological basis of the study is the interpretation of intertextuality as a product of reading (not as a phenomenon of “writing”), according to which Vezhinov and Dostoevsky – writers belonging to different national cultures and historical eras – in some sense become contemporaries. Accordingly, “A Gentle Creature”, written earlier, is enriched in meaning as a result of its comparison with “The Barrier”, as well as the latter by comparison with the story of Dostoevsky. The basis for comparing the stories is the similarity at the level of the storylines, the narrative type, the system of the characters. At the same time, the ways of transforming the storyline into a plot, such as: external composition, focalisation, organization of modal-temporal and spatial plans, are deeply different. The spatial organization of the works plays a particularly important role in this sense, since the storyline of both stories is based on one type of rite de passage – the transition from life “to another life”. This article is devoted to the question of whether this transition took place and whether, as a result, the spiritual transformation of the main characters took place.

scholarly journals On the finale of Y.I. Zamyatin’s novel “We”: an optimistic tragedy?

Neophilology ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 684-693
Author(s):  
Hongyuan Wang
Keyword(s):  
Subject Matter ◽  
Female Character ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Integral Image ◽  
Writer Identity ◽  
Spiral Path ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Intertextual Connections

We consider the ambiguity of Y.I. Zamyatin’s novel ending “We” on the basis of its synthetic feature and the author’s worldview ideas embodied in it. We note the key function of the heroine I-330 in the structure and novel theme, we draw attention to another female character, O-90, whose fate is a seemingly “secondary”, completed earlier, but no less important storyline of the novel. We analyze O-90’s intertextual connections with other characters, at the plot level; we also reveal some possible extratextual associations of this character with Zamyatin’s statements in his critical articles and essays. Thus, in this character we see a fairly clear “integral image” of mother-hood and writing, a realization of the “spiral” path of dialectical development, which is important for Zamyatin’s writer identity, and a hint of the vitality of the seemingly failed revolution as well. The combination of these features in one character makes us rethink the plotline of the novel and allows us to see a certain optimistic implication in its tragic ending. The symmetry of the two he-roines’ fate and their decisive alliance also prove the importance of this character in the composi-tion and the subject matter of the work.

scholarly journals Art as a Way of Knowledge

Ethnologies ◽  
2003 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 87-107 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brenda Cantelo
Keyword(s):  
Spiritual Development ◽  
Spiritual Transformation ◽  
The Self ◽  
Female Character ◽  
Male And Female ◽  
Male Characters

Abstract “Art as a way of knowledge” examines ways in which themes of spiritual development and ultimate transformation can be expressed through movement. The discussion follows the artist through the phases of creation of a dance video, Animus, and offers a Jungian interpretation of the piece. Animus looks at one woman’s journey of spiritual transformation. It shows a central female character (the anima), moving in and out of relationship with three male characters, two human and one animal, who represent her masculine side, or animus. Moving through a dreamscape of her own unconscious, she begins to interact more consciously with her masculine side and eventually comes to terms with it. Ultimately, she overcomes fragmentation and integrates male and female, spirit and body in the composite symbol of the Self at the end.

Enhancing Spatial Ability Through Sport Practice

2012 ◽  
Vol 33 (2) ◽  
pp. 83-88 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Moreau ◽  
Jérome Clerc ◽  
Annie Mansy-Dannay ◽  
Alain Guerrien
Keyword(s):  
Mental Rotation ◽  
Spatial Representations ◽  
Mental Rotation Test ◽  
Sport Training ◽  
Sport Practice ◽  
Undergraduate University Students ◽  
Before And After ◽  
Cognitive Plasticity ◽  
Reported Data ◽  
The Relationship

This experiment investigated the relationship between mental rotation and sport training. Undergraduate university students (n = 62) completed the Mental Rotation Test ( Vandenberg & Kuse, 1978 ), before and after a 10-month training in two different sports, which either involved extensive mental rotation ability (wrestling group) or did not (running group). Both groups showed comparable results in the pretest, but the wrestling group outperformed the running group in the posttest. As expected from previous studies, males outperformed women in the pretest and the posttest. Besides, self-reported data gathered after both sessions indicated an increase in adaptive strategies following training in wrestling, but not subsequent to training in running. These findings demonstrate the significant effect of training in particular sports on mental rotation performance, thus showing consistency with the notion of cognitive plasticity induced from motor training involving manipulation of spatial representations. They are discussed within an embodied cognition framework.

Spiritual transformation and character strength development

2008 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sarah A. Schnitker ◽  
Justin L. Barrett ◽  
Robert A. Emmons
Keyword(s):  
Spiritual Transformation ◽  
Strength Development ◽  
Character Strength

Intertextual connections between Thomas More’s Utopia and Cicero’s De finibus bonorum et malorum

Moreana ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 51 (Number 195- (1-2) ◽  
pp. 63-84
Author(s):  
Ana Cláudia Romano Ribeiro
Keyword(s):  
Special Interest ◽  
Latin Literature ◽  
Specific Study ◽  
Intertextual Connections

In 1516, More wrote to Erasmus, putting him in charge of the publication of Utopia. In his study about the “sources, parallels and influences” of More’s libellus, Edward Surtz points out that “the most evident influences are classical” and in 1965, in the introduction of his edition of Utopia, he noted that in the composition of this fiction, Plato and Plutarch are as essential as Cicero and Seneca. He also noted that these philosophers are “the source for the tenets and arguments of the two schools discussed by the Utopians, the Epicurean and the Stoic” and that “Cicero’s De finibus is of special interest here, but detailed studies of Ciceronian and Senecan influences have still to be made.” (p.cliv, clxi). From 1965 until today we haven’t found a specific study on this problem in the bibliography about Utopia and classical Latin literature, that’s why in this paper we will examine some of the connections that link More’s libellus to De finibus.

THE COMMON THREADS OF NATIONAL CULTURES

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sunil Venaik ◽  
◽  
Paul Brewer
Keyword(s):  
National Cultures ◽  
The Common

Through the Lens of Gurdjieff

2016 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 36-52
Author(s):  
Michael Pittman
Keyword(s):  
Participant Observation ◽  
Field Research ◽  
Spiritual Transformation ◽  
Spiritual Practice ◽  
Asia Minor ◽  
Eastern Asia ◽  
The Caucasus ◽  
Successive Generations ◽  
Spiritual Conversation

G. I. Gurdjieff (c.1866–1949) was born in Gyumri, Armenia and raised in the Caucasus and eastern Asia Minor. He also traveled extensively throughout Turkey to places of pilgrimage and in search of Sufi teachers. Through the lens of Gurdjieff’s notion of legominism, or the means by which spiritual teachings are transmitted from successive generations, this article explores the continuing significance of spiritual practice and tradition and the ways that these forms remain relevant in shaping contemporary trends in spirituality. Beginning with Gurdjieff’s use of legominism, the article provides reflection on some early findings done in field research in Turkey— through site visits, interviews and participant-observation—conducted in the summers of 2014 and 2015. The aim of the project is both to meet individuals and groups, particularly connected to Sufism, that may have some contact with the influences that Gurdjieff would have been familiar with, and to visit some of the sites that were part of Gurdjieff’s early background and which served to inform his work. Considerations of contemporary practices include the view of spiritual transmission, and practices of pilgrimage, prayer and sohbet, or spiritual conversation, in an ongoing discourse about spiritual transformation.

Mahasweta Devi’s Mother of 1084 as a Journey of an Apolitical Mother

Think India ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. 277-281
Author(s):  
Sadhana Rengaswamy. R ◽  
S. Ambika
Keyword(s):  
Female Character ◽  
Mahasweta Devi ◽  
The Awakening ◽  
The People

Mahasweta Devi is one of the most important writers writing in India today. she stands with few equals among today's Asian writers in the dedication and directness with which she has turned writing into a form of service to the people. Her writing is disturbing because it shows the reader her or his own true face. Her Mother of 1084 analyzes the occurrences of failed Naxalite insurgency in Bengal in the 1970s. It shows the larger problem of the nation’s suppression of any authentic form of subaltern insurgency. It’s a saga of the Naxalite resistance in Bengal through the characters of Sujata and Nandini, her powerful exploration of subjectivity voiced through the female character. It’s a tragedy of an apolitical mother. This paper explores how the Naxalite movement brings two subaltern mothers together instead of their class barriers which in turn lead to the awakening of Sujata.

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