MAGICAL REALISM: THE STORY OF MAGOMED-RASUL «THE EVIL FORCE»

2021 ◽  
pp. 34-40
Author(s):  
Zuleikhat Kadievna Magomedova
Keyword(s):  
Magical Realism ◽  
Evil Spirit ◽  
Human Soul ◽  
Buddhist Doctrine

The article considers the main characteristics of novel of mystical character. «Evil spirit» by People’s writer of Dagestan Rasulov Magomed-Rasul. The author reveals causal characteristics of behavior of the heroes of the story, converts them to the Buddhist doctrine of the reincarnation of the human soul.

scholarly journals «Kalechina-Malechina» cannot become a smart girl»: motive and plot parallels in the novels about teenage girls by Evgeniya Nekrasova and Huang Beijia

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (7) ◽  
pp. 44-61
Author(s):  
Kou Xiaohua ◽  
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Tatiana Z. Kalinina ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Chinese Text ◽  
Magical Realism ◽  
Russian Text ◽  
Human Soul ◽  
Image System ◽  
Teenage Girls ◽  
Russian Novel ◽  
The World ◽  
School Failures ◽  
The Impact

The article is devoted to comparative analysis of images and motifs in the novels KalechinaMalechina by Evgenia Nekrasova and I Will Be a Smart Girl by Huang Beijia, about teenage girls. These texts reveal similarities at the level of the image system, the archetypal motifs and the inner development of the mythological plot about the initiation of a child into adulthood. However, many similar motifs in the novels appear in contrasting functions: E. Nekrasova's novel shows the joyless world of an unloved child, while in Huang Beijia's novel we see the world of a wholesome and well-loved child, suffering from her own school failures. The artistic method of the novels is examined in relation to their mythological motifs. The Chinese text gravitates towards the traditions of socialist realism, performing one of its functions most characteristic of teenage literature – didacticism. Huang Beijia's novel can be described as a didactic auteur tale based on biographical material. The Russian text has been described by scholars as «magical» realism and is more than just an initiation novel or a didactic tale. It realises the eternal philosophical sense of the impact of love or its absence on human fate, the ontological abandonment of the human soul facing indifference or aggression from the world around it. It is not the protagonist's initiation but her ability to «survive» without losing herself that is central to the Russian novel.

Ivan Ozhienko about the role of religion in Ukrainian national life

2001 ◽  
pp. 54-61
Author(s):  
K. Nedzelsky
Keyword(s):  
Ethnic Identity ◽  
Spiritual Life ◽  
Human Soul ◽  
National Unity ◽  
Terrestrial Life ◽  
Dedicated Service ◽  
National Life ◽  
Role Of Religion ◽  
Spiritual Unity

Ivan Ogienko (1882-1972), also known as Metropolitan Hilarion, devoted much attention to the role and place of religion in the national life of Ukrainians and their ethnic identity in their scholarly and theological works. Without exaggeration it can be argued that the problem of national unity of the Ukrainian people is one of the key principles of all historiosophical considerations of the famous scholar and theologian. If the purpose of the spiritual life of a Ukrainian, according to his views, is to serve God, then the purpose of state or terrestrial life is the dedicated service to his people. The purpose of heaven and the purpose of the earthly paths, intersecting in the life of a certain group of people through the lives of its individual representatives, give rise to a unique alliance of spiritual unity, the name of which is "people" or "nation." Religion (faith) in the process of transforming the anarchist crowd into a spiritually integrated and orderly national integrity serves as the transformer of the imperfect nature of the human soul into perfect.

Is the Buddhist Doctrine of Non-Self Conceptually Coherent?

2012 ◽  
Vol 28 (2) ◽  
pp. 187-202 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul Bernier
Keyword(s):  
The Self ◽  
Bernard Williams ◽  
Buddhist Doctrine

Virtually all schools of Buddhism do not accept a permanent, substantial self, and see everything as non-self (anatta). In the first part of this article I recall some arguments traditionally given in support of this perspective. Descartes’ cogito argument contradicts this, by suggesting that we know infallibly that the self, understood as a substantial enduring entity, does exist. The German aphorist Lichtenberg has suggested that all Descartes could claim to have established was the impersonal ‘There is thinking’ (Es denkt), which would support the perspective of non-self. Bernard Williams has argued that Lichtenberg’s impersonal version of the cogito is conceptually incoherent, which would entail that the Buddhist perspective of non-self is also incoherent. I propose to defend the coherence of the Buddhist perspective of non-self against Williams’s argument.

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