‘The sacred gang’. The discourse of the ‘metaphysical macho guy culture (patsanstvo)’ in Russian song lyrics

2021 ◽  
pp. 95-109
Author(s):  
A. A. Azarenkov
Keyword(s):  
Visual Arts ◽  
Literary Tradition ◽  
Human Experience ◽  
Identity Creation ◽  
Song Lyrics ◽  
Key Features ◽  
Low Culture

The article considers one of the methods of identity creation in a song used by lyricists in the early 21st c.: it involves a combination of profane language typical of an urban outcast (patsan, gopnik) and metaphysical, i. e. sacred, themes. Enjoying numerous representations in contemporary Russian visual arts, the discourse of the ‘metaphysical macho guy culture (patsanstvo)’ is also inseparable from the country’s literary tradition, which, however, is trying to marginalise it yet again and confine it to a song format. Analysing the poetic output of several Russian-speaking musicians (E. Limonov, P. Korolenko, Branimir, M. Elizarov, etc.), the author identifies the key features of the discourse: its faux-playfulness, emblematic quality, and adherence to low culture. The article also proposes a genre typology of the discourse in question, noting its critical, humoristic and paradoxographical varieties. In the end, the author discovers that the image of a macho guy / urban outcast (patsan) confronted with a supernatural experience is heavily influenced by the sacral archetype, which absorbs the most extreme — the lowest and the loftiest — aspects of human experience.

scholarly journals Inculturation and the Guadalupana

Lumen et Vita ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Henry Shea SJ
Keyword(s):  
Potential Model ◽  
Human Experience ◽  
Our Lady Of Guadalupe ◽  
Cultural Symbols ◽  
Pope Francis ◽  
Popular Piety ◽  
Key Features ◽  
Point Of Departure

In his recent Apostolic Exhortation Evangelii Gaudium, Pope Francis emphasizes “the importance of understanding evangelization as inculturation.  Grace supposes culture,” he writes, “and God’s gift becomes flesh in the culture of those who receive it” (EG 115).  Expressing themes that have recurred throughout his life and ministry, Francis proceeds to lauds the role of popular piety in the life of a people, maintaining that its accessible, incarnate features exemplify the embodiment of an evangelical faith in culture.  Echoing Aparecida, Francis describes popular piety as a “spirituality incarnated in the culture of the lowly” and “the people’s mysticism” (EG 124).It would be difficult to find a more significant example of the convergence of these themes than the celebrated image of Our Lady of Guadalupe, to which Francis himself expresses devotion.  What is it about this symbol that has captivated the hearts of so many?  Using Francis’ words in Evangelii Gaudium as a point of departure, this paper analyzes the Guadalupan image and event as a potential model for inculturation.  It focuses upon three key features of the image from which can be gleaned broader principles for inculturation, namely: (1) its interlacing of cultural and revelational symbols in such a way that the cultural symbols are affirmed as well as transformed, (2) the use of inculturated symbol as a way of maximizing what Rahner refers to as “the overplus of meaning” communicated through “primordial” words and symbols that evoke deeper, transcendental aspects of human experience, and (3) finally the use of inculturated symbol to mediate interpersonal faith-encounters that can be  shared through the renewed culture and the bonds of community.

Rewriting Flaubert in the 1960s

2011 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 329-336
Author(s):  
Steen Bille Jørgensen
Keyword(s):  
Historical Context ◽  
Literary Tradition ◽  
Human Experience ◽  
Main Theme ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Georges Perec ◽  
Louis Aragon ◽  
New Novel ◽  
Tel Quel ◽  
The 1960S

In French 1960s’ literature, the strategy of re-writing is associated with the New Novel and the ideological Tel Quel movement. However, a more ironical poetics of the novel can be found in Blanche ou l'oubli (1967) by Louis Aragon1 and Les Choses (1967) by Georges Perec.2 Both novels are rewritings of Gustave Flaubert's L'Education sentimentale, with particular attention to that novel's main theme of ‘illusion’. The interesting question then is how literary tradition becomes a part of the meta-fictional interrogation of human experience in a particular historical context. Perec uses the rhythm of Flaubert's sentences to draw attention to the story as a construction and to his characters’ lack of significance. Aragon foregrounds the novel's capacity of holding on to experience as such, with autobiography (Flaubert's as well as his own) linked to materialistic-historical conditions. Ultimately, in following the writer's reading of the historical work, the reader must seek what literature offers him or her the opportunity to apprehend his/her own conditions for experience.

Multimodal figuration of product stories

2015 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 113-130
Author(s):  
Ming-Yu Tseng
Keyword(s):  
Personal Narrative ◽  
New Product ◽  
Human Experience ◽  
Creative Industries ◽  
The Past ◽  
Word And Image ◽  
Key Features

The product story, an emerging genre increasingly used in creative industries, introduces the product by means of storytelling. Unlike a typical personal narrative, which reports events, the product story, which usually includes one or more pictures showing the item for sale, uses the past as a resource to tell a story about a new product pertaining to human experience. This study uses the notion of multimodal figuration to characterize the co-presence of narrativity and visuality in product stories. The notion simultaneously refers to three key features of product stories which are co-produced by word and image: participants (i.e. product and human), the generation of plots, and emotionality. In the interactions between participants exists a tension between objectifying and animating forces. Two other phenomena result from the interconnections among the three senses or layers of multimodal figuration: crossing experience and creating empathy, in both of which metaphor plays a central role.

THOUGHTS ON BOUNDARIES IN THE RUSSIAN LINGUISTIC CONSCIOUSNESS: BACKGROUND AND TRADITIONS

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maria Milovanova ◽  
Alexandra Matrusova
Keyword(s):  
Mental Imagery ◽  
Native Speakers ◽  
Russian Language ◽  
Song Lyrics ◽  
Key Features ◽  
Russian Linguistic ◽  
The Russian Language

The article raises issues of understanding the boundaries in the Russian linguistic worldview, comparing mental imagery of boundaries in the native speakers of the Russian language and of other languages. Based on song lyrics and an extensive associative survey, the authors draw conclusions about the key features of the perception of boundary in the Russian language native speakers, communication boundary and dialogue as surmounting of boundary

William Blake and the Myth of America

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Linda Freedman
Keyword(s):  
New World ◽  
William Blake ◽  
Literary Tradition ◽  
Symbolic Meaning ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Left Wing ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Low Culture ◽  
American Society ◽  
The Relationship

This book tells the story of William Blake’s literary reception in America and suggests that ideas about Blake’s poetry and personality helped shape mythopoeic visions of America from the abolitionists to the counterculture. It links high and low culture and covers poetry, music, theology, and the novel. American writers have turned to Blake in times of cataclysmic change, terror, and hope to rediscover the symbolic meaning of their country. Blake entered American society when slavery was rife and civil war threatened the fragile experiment of democracy. He found his moment in the mid-twentieth-century counterculture as left-wing Americans took refuge in the arts at a time of increasingly reactionary conservatism, vicious racism, pervasive sexism, dangerous nuclear competition, and an increasingly unpopular war in Vietnam, the fires of Orc raging against the systems of Urizen. Blake’s America, as a symbol of cyclical hope and despair, influenced many Americans who saw themselves as continuing the task of prophecy and vision. Blakean forms of bardic song, aphorism, prophecy, and lament became particularly relevant to a literary tradition which centralized the relationship between aspiration and experience. His interrogations of power and privilege, freedom and form resonated with Americans who repeatedly wrestled with the deep ironies of new world symbolism and sought to renew a Whitmanesque ideal of democracy through affection and openness towards alterity.

The Baroque as a Literary Concept

2019 ◽  
pp. 539-559
Author(s):  
Katherine Ibbett ◽  
Anna More
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Early Modern ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Visual Arts ◽  
Literary Tradition ◽  
Early Modern Period ◽  
Literary Scholarship ◽  
Modern Period

The usefulness of the label “baroque” as a literary concept has been fiercely contested ever since Wölfflin first applied a term usually imagined in terms of the visual arts to literature. We will question how different traditions of literary scholarship have imagined and redrawn that relation between form and ideology, and how they have embraced, rejected, or hybridized the baroque as a label. How has the concept enabled or thwarted a comparative work thinking beyond national literary tradition? We turn to two case studies in order to find out what the concept of the literary baroque has allowed in different traditions: in France, where the early modern period has often been defined in terms of a particularly French classicism; and in Latin America, where the style became a proxy for American innovation within European traditions.

scholarly journals The Representation of Literary Motifs in Visual Arts (in Connection with the Magic Belts of Job and His Daughters)

Scrinium ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 328-333
Author(s):  
Lyubov Osinkina
Keyword(s):  
Visual Arts ◽  
Visual Art ◽  
Literary Tradition ◽  
Medieval Literature ◽  
Current Paper ◽  
Cross Fertilization

Abstract Medieval literature and visual art provide one area of cross-fertilization. The current paper pays special attention to the analysis of the relations between the iconography of Job and its links with oral and written literary tradition. I examine interrelationship between the apocryphal tradition and iconography as illustrated by reference to the 'magic belts' of Job's daughters. I propose that the ability of Job's daughters to understand the language of angels may be linked with their wearing lor(os) which was part of the Byzantine imperial costume and also the angels' attire. In addition, the ribbons commonly found on the heads of angels may be linked with such glossolalia.

The Dramatics of Time

KronoScope ◽  
2005 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 193-212
Author(s):  
Cole Crittenden
Keyword(s):  
Visual Arts ◽  
Human Experience ◽  
Real Space ◽  
Basic Category ◽  
Art Form ◽  
Artistic Inquiry ◽  
Primary Focus ◽  
Unique Potential ◽  
Widespread Interest ◽  
The Ideal

AbstractArt has as many definitions as it has practitioners, but one function of art is to help us understand the human experience, regardless of how our definitions of that experience differ. And since time is experience, art is particularly well-suited to treat it. Along with space, time, as a basic category of human experience, is, therefore, a basic category of artistic inquiry. Space is the primary focus of the visual arts, whereas music is an art form in time. Literature, however, always deals with both, and nowhere is this more apparent than in drama, where the time and space of the literary text are realized in the real time and real space of the performed text. Yet despite the widespread interest in time in much twentieth-century literary theory, the unique potential for the investigation of experiential time in drama has gone largely ignored. The purpose of this article is to address that curious absence, first by looking at the ways existing theories approach literary time (and largely fail to approach dramatic time), and then by discussing the generic and performative characteristics of drama (especially Russian drama, since that is the tradition with which I am most familiar) that make it in many ways the ideal art form in which to investigate time.

The Oeconomy of Human Life: An ‘Ancient Bramin’ In Eighteenth-Century Tibet

2009 ◽  
Vol 19 (4) ◽  
pp. 439-458
Author(s):  
JOHN BRAY
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
English Translation ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Literary Tradition ◽  
Deep Roots ◽  
Chinese Scholar ◽  
The Enlightenment ◽  
Indian Text ◽  
Key Features ◽  
India And China

AbstractThe Oeconomy of Human Life purports to be an English translation of an ancient Indian text found by a Chinese scholar in Lhasa. Almost certainly written by Robert Dodsley (1704–1764), the book became an eighteenth-century bestseller. This article discusses its place in the varied lineage of western images of Asia, beginning with Alexander the Great's encounter with a group of ‘naked philosophers’ in India. It argues that the key features of the Oeconomy are representative of the Enlightenment period, with at best tenuous links to Tibet, India and China. However, it also belongs to a much broader literary tradition with deep roots and unexpected contemporary resonances.

scholarly journals Macambiras, the most northeastern of the xerophiles: taxonomy, distribution and potential

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. e051005
Author(s):  
Everton Hilo de Souza ◽  
Aurélio José Antunes de Carvalho ◽  
Erasto Viana Silva Gama ◽  
Antônio Ramos da Hora Neto ◽  
Lidyanne Yuriko Saleme Aona
Keyword(s):  
Organic Matter ◽  
Rural Communities ◽  
Visual Arts ◽  
Scientific Journal ◽  
Ornamental Plants ◽  
Raw Material ◽  
Distribution Data ◽  
Vernacular Names ◽  
Taxonomic Description ◽  
Song Lyrics

Abstract: Bromelia laciniosa and Encholirium spectabile (Bromeliaceae) have vernacular names as macambira. Both species are restricted to the Northeast of Brazil, mainly in the Caatinga domain or in ecotonal regions with the Atlantic Forest and Cerrado. Macambira species have been reported for different uses in rural communities, ranging from ornamental plants, hedges, human and animal food, medicinal application, and raw material to manufacture handicrafts and utensils, besides ecological interaction with different animals. This study aims to present the taxonomic description, distribution data, habitat, phenology, taxonomic comments, and potential uses of B. laciniosa and E. spectabile. Bromelia laciniosa belonging to the subfamily Bromelioideae and Encholirium spectabile belongs to the subfamily Pitcairnioideae. Both species are xerophilous; i.e, they have morphological and physiological structures adapted to the semiarid climate. Bromelia laciniosa is a terrestrial species and can also inhabit rocky outcrops where organic matter is found, whereas Encholirium spectabile is a strictly rupicolous species. Given the importance of the species to the Northeast of Brazil, macambiras are also reported in visual arts, literary works, song lyrics, family surnames, nicknames, names of municipality, villages, riverside, waterfalls, and a scientific journal. Keywords: Bromelia laciniosa, Bromeliaceae, Encholirium spectabile, Use Potential, Caatinga.   Resumo: Bromelia laciniosa e Encholirium spectabile (Bromeliaceae) são conhecidas popularmente, como macambira. As duas espécies são restritas ao Nordeste do Brasil, principalmente, no domínio da Caatinga ou em regiões ecotonais com a Mata Atlântica e Cerrado. As espécies de macambira têm sido reportadas para diferentes usos em comunidades rurais, que vão desde plantas ornamentais, cerca-viva, alimentação humana e animal, aplicação medicinal e matéria-prima para a fabricação de artesanatos e utensílios, além da interação ecológica com diferentes animais. O objetivo deste estudo é apresentar a descrição taxonômica, dados de distribuição, habitat, fenologia, comentários taxonômicos e potenciais usos de B. laciniosa e E. spectabile. Bromelia laciniosa pertencente a subfamília Bromelioideae e Encholirium spectabile pertence a subfamília Pitcairnioideae. Ambas as espécies são xerófilas, ou seja, possuem estruturas morfológicas e fisiológicas adaptadas ao clima semiárido. Bromelia laciniosa é uma espécie terrestre, podendo habitar também afloramentos rochosos onde se encontram matéria orgânica depositada, já Encholirium spectabile é uma espécie estritamente rupícola. Dada à importância das espécies para o Nordeste do Brasil, as macambiras são reportadas também nas artes plásticas, obras literárias, letras de músicas, como sobrenome de família, apelidos de pessoas, nome de município, povoados, ribeirões, cachoeiras e um periódico científico. Palavras-chave: Bromelia laciniosa, Bromeliaceae, Encholirium spectabile, Potenciais de Uso, Caatinga.

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