scholarly journals Portrety ludzi i zwierząt w powieści detektywistycznej Marty Matyszczak Tajemnicza śmierć Marianny Biel

2020 ◽  
pp. 91-106
Author(s):  
Tatiana Szulik -Opala
Keyword(s):  
Human Nature ◽  
Animal Studies ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Detective Novel ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Detective Stories ◽  
The Relationship

The article points to the advantages of utilizing books chosen and read by students during lessons of Polish. As illustrative example here serves Tajemnicza śmierć Marianny Biel written by Marta Matyszczak, a contemporary detective novel, published in 2017, partially narrated from the perspective small invalid mongrel. The novel’s structure is conducive to discussion of detective stories in didactic work, showing the “Silesian” features of the novel’s characters, and analyzing their seemingly superficial characters. On the basis of the novel, the subject of animal studies may be raised: the animality of the relationship between humans and animals. The article draws attention to the importance of the animal issues in humanities, going beyond the understanding thereof as “the animality of human nature.” It emphasizes the essence of giving voice to the animals and empowering them, without trying to “humanize” them.

The Coptic Church in Popular Fiction on the Eve of the Arab Spring:Youssef Ziedan’s Azazeel

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nichole Perera
Keyword(s):  
Popular Fiction ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Academic Scholarship ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Coptic Church ◽  
Significant Addition ◽  
Theological Controversy ◽  
The Arab Spring ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The Voice

The 5th century CE was a period of intense theological controversy concerning the relationship between the human and divine in Christ. This dispute led to the permanent separation of the Egyptian Coptic church from Imperial Orthodoxy. The events of the 5th century, previously confined to academic scholarship, have recently become the subject of popularizing works like Agora (2009), The Jesus Wars (2010), and 428 AD (2009). The Arabic novel Azazeel (2009), written by the Egyptian Islamic scholar Youseff Ziedan, is a significant addition to these other works. Like The Da Vinci Code in its use of “actual” historical evidence, Azazeel purports to be a compilation of newly discovered Syriac scrolls written by the Coptic monk Hypa, which detail his spiritual trials between 411 and 437 CE. The novel sparked great controversy in Egypt among Coptic Christians for creating a misleading picture of important figures and events in their early history. Copts felt that a Muslim scholar was appropriating the voice of a Coptic monk without clearly signalling it was a work of fiction in order to produce a false account of Coptic origins. Though published before the Arab Spring, it soon became further evidence of the oppressive intentions of the Muslim majority against a Coptic minority in Egypt. Azazeel is different from other similar works in English because the events of the 5th century are still part of the living identity of Copts.

God's presence through grace as the theme of Cynewulf's Christ II and the relationship of this theme to Christ I and Christ III

1974 ◽  
Vol 3 ◽  
pp. 87-101 ◽  
Author(s):  
Colin Chase
Keyword(s):  
Human Nature ◽  
Subject Matter ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship

Cynewulf's dependence on Gregory the Great's Ascension Day homily for the structure and much of the subject matter of Christ II has been acknowledged since 1853. After commenting in some detail on the gospel text for the day (Mark xvi. 14–20) Gregory devotes the final third of his homily to more general reflections – ‘ut aliquid de ipsa tantae solemnitatis consideratione dicamus’ – on the theme of the elevation of human nature in the Lord's ascension: ‘Ascendente vero Domino, est humanitas exaltata.’ Though Cynewulf takes his lead from these general reflections of Gregory at every point, a comparison of poem and homily shows that in doing so he substitutes his own theme of God's continuing presence with man since the ascension in his gifts of grace. This article concerns this thematic change and its implications for the relationship of Christ II to Christ I and Christ III.

scholarly journals An exploration of place and its representations: an intertextual/ dialogical reading of the photographs of AB Ovenstone and the novel Gillespie by John MacDougall Hay.

2016 ◽  
Vol 41 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lindsay Fiona Blair
Keyword(s):  
Literary Text ◽  
Landscape Painting ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Work Of Art ◽  
Shipping Company ◽  
Private Collection ◽  
Semiotic Approach ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Common ◽  
The Relationship

“An intertextual/ dialogical reading of place through photography and fiction” The article is an exploration of place and its representations based on the intertextual reading of a series of photographs (1880-82) of Tarbert, Loch Fyne by Andrew Begbie Ovenstone (1851-1935) and the dialogical reading of a novel, Gillespie (1914), by John MacDougall Hay (1881-1919) which is set in Tarbert. The proposed article is inspired by a sense that a semiotic approach to the subject will reveal far more than has been discovered within the tradition of hermeneutics and patrimony and that much will be gained by a study of the contrast between written and visual signifiers. The article raises questions about the (unexamined) coded readings of place especially in relation to the photograph, and the lack of an adequately theorized tradition for the novel. The literary text is well known - if not well understood - but the images are from a rare, unpublished, private collection of photographs from Scotland, India and the furthest reaches of Empire (Ovenstone was the Atlantic Freight Manager of Anchor Line Ltd, the Glasgow shipping company). The paper emphasizes the need for the use of codes to decipher the texts. When we “read” the photographs we need to be aware of the intertextual relationship between the photograph and the landscape painting tradition as well as the common practice of the created tableau – there is then overlaid upon the image the sense of a set of conventions, a system which operates much like a language. We are able to discover through the notion of the “long quotation from appearances” the potential for more complex “synchronic” readings. Likewise, in the case of Gillespie, the novel operates within a genre which determines a “reading”. When we are aware of a code, we become aware of the way that Hay manoeuvres adroitly to thwart the reader’s best efforts to settle upon a preferred reading – especially one shaped by an authoritative narrator - which thereby allows for the genuine experience of “heteroglossia” to emerge. The notion of truth in Gillespie is interrogated in the light of Heidegger’s essay “The Origins of a Work of Art” in order that the relationship between representation and reality be clarified.

scholarly journals SPACE OF DEATH IN THE STRUCTURE OF THE NOVEL “SUN OF THE DEAD” BY I.S. SHMELEV

2020 ◽  
Vol 30 (5) ◽  
pp. 887-891
Author(s):  
Xue Chen
Keyword(s):  
Narrative Structure ◽  
The Sun ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Spatial Features ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Temporal And Spatial ◽  
The Dead ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Over Time

The subject of analysis is the space of death in the “Sun of the Dead,” considered as an existential reality opposite to the vital intentions of a person, a manifestation of social voluntarism, a being category that does not intersect with the space of life. Conclusions are drawn about the relationship between temporal and spatial features in the narrative structure. The parameters of the space of death are presented as characteristics of the discreteness of the artistic space of the story. The boundaries of the space of death, its dominance over time, the influence on the tempo-rhythmic features of the text, the types of character consciousness are described.

scholarly journals Saving the Environment: Environmental Lessons in Colin Thiele’s February Dragon

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (6) ◽  
pp. 935-941
Author(s):  
Burhanuddin Arafah ◽  
Herawaty Abbas ◽  
Nurul Hikmah
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Education ◽  
Human Nature ◽  
The Novel ◽  
The Relationship

This article explores the relationship between humans and nature in February Dragon and elaborates on the environmental lessons conveyed in Colin Thiele's February Dragon. This article utilizes the concept of ecocriticism by Glotfelty. Ecocriticism explains human-nature interconnectedness. The portrayal of human-nature relation reveals several values of environmental education that readers, both children, and adults, could learn. Three environmental lessons such as respect, responsibility, and empathy towards other living beings were found in the story. Based on the elaborations, the characters in the novel show their respect, responsibility, and empathy towards other species by protecting the animal and the environment from bushfire’s dangers.

‘Pushing the envelope’: The Representation of Jazz, Sex and Violence in Fred Khumalo’s Bitches’ Brew

2020 ◽  
Vol 47 (1) ◽  
pp. 69-95
Author(s):  
Jabulani Mkhize
Keyword(s):  
Subject Matter ◽  
Black Masculinity ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Narrative Strategy ◽  
Call And Response ◽  
The Subject ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Bitches Brew ◽  
Jazz Performance ◽  
The Relationship

This paper, primarily, explores the extent to which Fred Khumalo’s novel, Bitches’ Brew, can be considered a jazz novel by looking at both its subject matter and form. It argues that the transgressive power of Khumalo’s novel lies in its use of epistolary form as a narrative strategy that is akin to a jazz solo, marked as it is by a dialogical narrative that is similar to the call and response pattern that bears an affinity to a jazz performance. In terms of the subject matter, the central thrust of the argument is that the over-arching predominance of sex and violence in the text threatens to overshadow the musicality of the text, even as masculinity and misogyny are considered as the other side of the coin of jazz. In its exploration of the jazz and gender interface, this paper highlights how the phallocratic logic that informs and dominates the novel is indicative of the fact that Khumalo may have ‘pushed the envelope’ too far in his representation of masculinity and misogyny in jazz culture in his writing of this work. That Khumalo's novel fails to interrogate the relationship between jazz and black masculinity, but rather endorses and valorises it, serves to reinforce the stereotype of misogyny in jazz culture. Keywords: Fred Khumalo, Bitches’ Brew, jazz, musicality, masculinity, misogyny

The genealogy of the boukoloi: how Greek literature appropriated an Egyptian narrative-motif

2000 ◽  
Vol 120 ◽  
pp. 106-121 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ian Rutherford
Keyword(s):  
Narrative Fiction ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Greek Literature ◽  
Single Motif ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Egyptian Literature ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Greek Novel

The subject of this paper is the relationship between the Demotic Egyptian Inaros-Petubastis Cycle and the Greek novel. I will not argue that the Greek novel as a whole arose from Egyptian literature; that theory has been rightly laid to rest by scholars working in the area, most recently by Susan Stephens and the late Jack Winkler in their edition of the fragments of the novel. What I want to do, rather, is to draw attention to a single motif that might have made its way from Egyptian narrative fiction to the Greek novel; to explore the background of this motif in Egyptian literature; and to discuss the mode through which this motif was appropriated by the Greek novelists. This motif concerns the boukoloi, outlaw shepherds who inhabit the Egyptian Delta and oppose central Egyptian authority.

scholarly journals Escrever a alteridade, inscrever o animal: entre Jacques Derrida e Clarice Lispector / Write the Otherness, Inscribe the Animal: Between Jacques Derrida and Clarice Lispector

2020 ◽  
Vol 29 (1) ◽  
pp. 7
Author(s):  
Fernando Sepe Gimbo
Keyword(s):  
Short Story ◽  
Jacques Derrida ◽  
Animal Studies ◽  
Ethical Question ◽  
Clarice Lispector ◽  
De Re ◽  
Philosophy And Literature ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Political Question

Resumo: Trata-se de apresentar a questão ético-política que o problema da alteridade animal coloca através de uma articulação entre filosofia e literatura. Para tanto, primeiramente exponho uma leitura parcial sobre as diversas conferências dadas por Jacques Derrida em torno do assunto. Conferências essas reunidas sobre o título “O animal que logo sou”, verdadeiro ensaio para uma filosofia futura capaz de (re)escrever a animalidade a partir da tradição filosófica. Nesta releitura, proponho que o principal resultado do texto derridiano é uma recolocação da questão ética da violência sobre o outro, assim como uma reflexão política sobre o caráter antropocêntrico da modernidade. Feito isso, passo para uma análise de um conto de Clarice Lispector intitulado “O crime do professor de matemática”. Conto que compõe a coletânea Laços de Família e que consiste em um agudo relato sobre a relação entre o homem e o animal. Mais do que um simples exercício de exemplificação, trata-se de pensar com a literatura um tema que, historicamente, fora enclausurado pelo discurso filosófico no dualismo próprio ao que Derrida chama de “tradição do cogito”.Palavras-chaves: Derrida; Lispector; animal studies; humanismo; desconstrução.Abstract: It is a matter of presenting, through an articulation between philosophy and literature, the ethical-political question that the problem of animal alterity poses. For this, I first present a partial reading on the various lectures given by Jacques Derrida on the subject. Conferences that have been assembled on the title “The Animal that therefore I am “, a true essay for a future philosophy capable of (re) writing animality from its own tradition. In this rereading, I propose that the main result of the Derridian text is a replacement of the ethical question of violence over the other, as well as a political reflection on the anthropocentric character of modernity. Having done that, I turn to an analysis of a short story by Clarice Lispector entitled “O crime do professor de matemática”. Short story which consists of an acute report on the relationship between man and animal. More than a simple exercise of exemplification, it is a matter of thinking with literature a theme that has historically been cloistered by philosophical discourse in the binarism proper to what Derrida calls the “cogito tradition.”Keywords: Derrida; Lispector; animal studies; humanism; desconstruction.

scholarly journals Research on the “Double” Motive in the Novel Blueprint

2019 ◽  
Vol 64 ◽  
pp. 323-333
Author(s):  
Wei WANG
Keyword(s):  
Human Nature ◽  
Science And Technology ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Dialectical Philosophy ◽  
The Aesthetic ◽  
The Relationship

The German female writer Charlotte Kerner has created a series of works on the theme of science and technology to explore the relationship between people and technology and nature. One of the most striking features of his work is the frequent appearance of the "double" motive. This phenomenon is most evident in the book Blueprint. This article explores the "double" motive in the novel Blueprint from the perspectives of "mother-daughter doubles" and "person-painting doubles". This paper analyzes the aesthetic effect of its performance, and then studies the relationship among the motive, the author's aesthetic strategy and the theme of the work. In addition, it is concluded that "double" is full of dialectical philosophy of opposition and unity. It not only highlights the author's aesthetic strategy of paying attention to the dual combination of character and dialectical movement in character shaping, which makes the character of the character more full and contradictory conflict more intense, but also endues the work with the depth of human nature.

scholarly journals Uncovering Cinematic Adaptations of James Joyce’s The Dead

2017 ◽  
Vol 5 (4) ◽  
pp. 38
Author(s):  
Pegah Marandi ◽  
Alireza Anushiravani
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Literature ◽  
General Framework ◽  
Literary Work ◽  
The Novel ◽  
The Subject ◽  
John Huston ◽  
The Dead ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Literature And Film ◽  
Culture And Language

The relationship between literature and film is the subject of plentiful analyses and reflections within the general framework of Comparative Literature. A comparison between a literary work and its adaptations shows how filmmakers adhere to the principles of intertextuality. Exploring various adaptations of James Joyce’s The Dead (1914) and comparing them against each other are the main objectives of this research. This study examines how John Huston (1987), Travis Mills and William Ivey Long (2013) adapted James Joyce’s The Dead (1914) culturally, geopolitically, and sociologically. This study demonstrated that Huston’s adaptation was faithful to Joyce’s text in terms of character, costume, culture, and language, whereas Mills and Long’s adaptation was not fully loyal to Joyce especially in terms of character and culture. However, Mills and Long have attempted to create a language similar to Joyce’s. Further, consciousness and interior thoughts as subtle issues precisely shown in the novel were not illustrated wholly in both adaptations. Huston’s creativity was maintained in the last scene, picturing Gabriel’s monologue, whereas Mills and Long’s creativity was shown in creating new postmodern characters and culture. 

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