scholarly journals JOURNEY «BEYOND THE BODY» IN THE NOVEL OF H. MURAKAMI «KAFKA ON THE BEACH»

ASJ. ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (55) ◽  
pp. 39-42
Author(s):  
A. Matviyenko
Keyword(s):  
Literary Criticism ◽  
Personal Identity ◽  
Phenomenological Theory ◽  
The Body ◽  
Hero's Journey ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Main Character

The article examines the phenomenon of traveling «beyond the corporeality» of the characters of Haruki Murakami's novel Kafka on the Beach. Special attention is paid to the bodily transformations of the characters, going beyond the limits of physicality, as signs of the loss of personal identity. The article also compares the «bodily journeys» of the main character of the novel with the passage of the labyrinth, which also symbolizes the rite of initiation. The relevance of the research is due to the need to fill in the existing gaps in modern literary criticism on the problems of bodily metamorphoses considered in the designated context, as well as on the study of the creative heritage of H. Murakami in general. The novelty of the research is seen in the fact that the novel by H. Murakami, chosen as the object of research, is analyzed through the prism of the phenomenological theory of corporeality by V. Podorogi, special attention is paid to the concept of «the body outside the norm». The work also reflects the ideas about the physicality and identity of J. Baudrillard, F. Nietzsche, M. Yampolsky et al. It is proved that in the novel the phenomenon of the hero's journey inside his own body is both a sign of the loss of personal identity and a way of acquiring this identity.

scholarly journals Alif’s Adolescence Crises in Ahmad Fuadi’s The Land of Five Towers

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (01) ◽  
pp. 31-40
Author(s):  
Muhammad Bayu Aji Putra Harianto
Keyword(s):  
Literary Criticism ◽  
Psychosocial Development ◽  
Literary Work ◽  
Self Esteem ◽  
Identity Crisis ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Main Character ◽  
Environmental Situation ◽  
Literary Theories ◽  
Role Confusion

This study aims to describe the crisis of adolescents in the main character in Ahmad Fuadi's The Land of Five Towers. This research shows the adolescence crises that occurred on the main character in the novel The Land of Five Towers and the efforts made by the main character to overcome the adolescence crises. This research is categorized into literary criticism. The objective is to analyze a literary work using literary theories. The object of this study is novel The Land of Five Towers by Ahmad Fuadi. This research focuses on adolescence crises that occur in the main character psychosocially. The researcher uses the theory of psychosocial development by Erik H. Erikson but focus only on the adolescence stage. The data in this study are taken from quotes in the novel in the form of author's explanation of the main character and dialogue between characters. The results showed the following things. First, the form of adolescent crisis experienced by the main character, Alif, in the form of an identity crisis and role confusion. The identity crisis experienced by Alif is shown by finding a different personality with others, the emergence of feelings of doubt and worry, and the emergence of feelings of jealousy and envy. While role confusion experienced by Alif was shown by low self-esteem when dealing with people who were different from him, feeling confusion to adjust to be accepted by society or community, and feeling confused when he wanted to determine or give his role in a society. or community. Second, the efforts made by Alif in overcoming the adolescent crisis are diverse. In overcoming his identity crisis, Alif motivated himself, being optimistic, and showing his identity. Then Alif's efforts in overcoming role confusion are by accepting his identity and the environmental situation, accepting the role given by others, and accepting messages or advice of others. These efforts are obtained from within themselves and the support of others.

scholarly journals CITRA PEREMPUAN DALAM NOVEL CERITA TENTANG RANI KARYA HERRY SANTOSO; TINJAUAN KRITIK SASTRA FEMINIS* (The Image of Women in the Novel Entitled Cerita Tentang Rani by Herry Santosa: A Feminist Literary Criticism)

ALAYASASTRA ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 71
Author(s):  
Choerul Anam
Keyword(s):  
Literary Criticism ◽  
Qualitative Method ◽  
Feminist Criticism ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Main Character ◽  
Descriptive Research ◽  
Feminist Literary Criticism ◽  
History Of ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Research Types

This study aims to describe the image of women in Herry Santoso's novel: Cerita Tentang Rani in the perspective of feminist literary criticism. The method applied in the research is a qualitative one. The purpose of the qualitative method leads the writer being able to get to know the in-depth history of the research environment by applying descriptive research types. Feminist criticism theory of Rosemarie Putnam Tong and gender theory of Judith P. Butler were applied in this research. The results of this study prove that the image of the main character, Maharani, is a strong and tough woman. The images of the woman cover 1) the image of women in her relation with Allah Swt (God); 2) the image of women in her relation with herself; and 3) the image of women in her relationship with others. Keywords: female image, feminist literary criticism, Novel Cerita Tentang Rani.

Desire and Fantasy in Erica Jong’s Fear of Flying

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jay Hood
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Desire ◽  
Social Transformation ◽  
The Body ◽  
Self Control ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Main Character ◽  
Human Relations ◽  
Fear Of Flying ◽  
Second Wave Feminism ◽  
Second Wave

This chapter reexamines the central voyeuristic fantasy that animates Erica Jong's 1973 novel Fear of Flying. At the time of its release, Fear of Flying, with its unabashed presentations of the female body, and indeed all bodies, was widely considered controversial and risqué. It argue that these representations of the body are directly tied to the novel's attempts to mediate the flow of desire between fantasies of fulfillment and the difficult realities of human relations. The main character and narrator of the novel, Isadora Wing, embodies both culturally inscribed fears regarding the limits of bodily self-control and sexual desire, and also the possibility of getting outside these limits. For this reason, Fear of Flying is perhaps the most famous of the consciousness-raising novels of second-wave feminism—texts that were defined by a “utopian project of total social transformation” and often by explorations of alternatives to traditional thinking about happiness, desire, sexual relations, and propriety.

scholarly journals Deconstruction of Ethical Predicament in J. M. Coetzee’s Waiting for the Barbarians

2018 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
pp. 136-143
Author(s):  
Huang Hui
Keyword(s):  
Literary Criticism ◽  
Cognitive Process ◽  
Social Problems ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Main Character ◽  
Binary Opposition ◽  
Ethical Discourse ◽  
Ethical Choices ◽  
Civilization And Barbarism ◽  
Waiting For The Barbarians

Waiting for the Barbarians is an allegorical novel by J. M. Coetzee, which tells a story of the confrontation of civilization and barbarism. The old Magistrate, as the main character of the novel is called, is a defender of the civilization of the Empire at the very beginning. He falls into the dilemma of the binary opposition between civilization and barbarism through the cruel torture of the Empire and the contact with the barbarians; he breaks completely with the civilization of the Empire, and achieves the salvation of his soul ultimately, after witnessing the torture of the Empire by himself. This paper, with the approaches of Ethical Literary Criticism, throws light on the construction of ethical discourse and metaphor in the novel, and analyzes how the old Magistrate falls into the ethical predicament and comes out of it through ethical choices, thus deconstructing the old Magistrate’s psychological cognitive process of civilization and barbarism, and revealing the ethical callings and moral reflections of this work in relation to realistic social problems.

scholarly journals Elements of expressionism in the story of A. Green «Gray Car»

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 26-32
Author(s):  
Konstantin S. Pozdnyakov
Keyword(s):  
Literary Criticism ◽  
Speech Acts ◽  
Semantic Analysis ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Main Character ◽  
New Approach ◽  
Hidden Order ◽  
Soviet Literature ◽  
Russian Literary ◽  
Empirical Material

The topic of the work is relevant, since at present the Russian literary criticism is rediscovering the features of the artistic expression of Soviet literature of the 1920s. The aim of the study was to discover the features of the poetics of Greens text that allow us to identify the novel under consideration as expressionist. Research methods used in the article: comparative-historical and semantic analysis of texts. At the beginning of the article, the research of the novella Gray Car by A.V. Polupanova and L.U. Zvonareva is considered, inaccuracies and obvious factual errors are noted, indicating a lack of understanding of the text, a mixture of such forms of expression of the authors position (according to B.O. Korman) as hero-narrator and author-narrator. As an empirical material, in addition to the novel by A. Green, the works of G. Mayrink, F. Kafka and L. Perutz were used. As a result of consideration of the novels the Golem, Castle, the Cossack and the Nightingale, the Wizard of judgment was allocated with the following features art in the world of the expressionist literary works: a) the problem of identity associated, as a rule, the main character; 2) semema madness, which became a constant for expressionist texts; 3) mysterious (hidden) order of a seemingly chaotic world; 4) the lack of success of speech acts. All these features were found in the story of A. Green, so it seems that the new approach to the work of the writer as a representative of Russian expressionism, demonstrates its consistency and can be contrasted with the more traditional consideration of the authors prose as a super-textual unity.

“Body Time”:

Poetics Today ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 40 (4) ◽  
pp. 699-720
Author(s):  
Isabelle Wentworth
Keyword(s):  
Literary Criticism ◽  
Subjective Experience ◽  
The Body ◽  
Sound Symbolism ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Temporal Synchronization ◽  
Neurophysiological Mechanism ◽  
The Unconscious ◽  
Experience Of Time ◽  
Temporal Shifts

This article looks at Don DeLillo’s novel The Body Artist through the lens of cognitive literary criticism, unpacking the intersection of time, intersubjectivity, and identity. Building on cognitive linguistic principles, the article’s methodology examines diverse linguistic phenomena from grammatical tense and mood to sound symbolism, ultimately demonstrating the resonances between the thematic trajectory of the novel and the neurophysiological mechanism of temporal synchronization: the unconscious capacity to “catch” the subjective experience of time from other people. Cognizance of this resonance not only deepens our understanding the novel’s thematic trajectory, but offers a new critical framework to examine temporal shifts, and their implications, within narrative and character.

scholarly journals THE ENCHANTED WANDERER BY LEONID YUZEFOVICH

2021 ◽  
Vol 31 (3) ◽  
pp. 620-627
Author(s):  
G.M. Rebel
Keyword(s):  
Literary Criticism ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Main Character ◽  
Main Attention ◽  
Fictional Character ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Almost All ◽  
Xix Century

The article analyzes the novel “Philellin” by L.A. Yuzefovich, the main attention is paid to the method of narration, the system of characters, the typological characteristics of the main character and the genre features of the work. The novel is a collection of documents of different genres, which together form a story about the events of the liberation war in Greece in the 20s of the XIX century. Almost all of Yuzefovich's characters act simultaneously as subjects of the narrative and participants in the events. The exception is Alexander I, because he is “silent” (his point of view is broadcast by his secretary Yelovsky) and "inactive". Despite the importance of the figure of the Russian emperor in the plot of the novel, for these reasons, Alexander “gives way” to the place of the main character to a fictional character - Grigory Mossepanov, whose fate forms the plot outline of the novel. Mossepanov is not only an important participant in the events, but also one of the main subjects and objects of the narrative. In literary criticism, the hero is given typological definitions of Don Quixote, Petrushka, “a little man”. This article offers a more appropriate definition of the character and fate of Mossepanov - “enchanted wanderer”, which is confirmed by the comparison of the characters of L. Yuzefovich and N. Leskov. The key plot role of the Russian philhellene, the peculiarities of his character and fate largely determine the genre nature of the work as a historical and mythological novel.

scholarly journals „Ucieleśnienie” traumy w powieści historycznej Hägring 38 Kjella Westö

2017 ◽  
pp. 64-78
Author(s):  
Agata Teperek
Keyword(s):  
Social Relations ◽  
Human Body ◽  
The Body ◽  
The Other ◽  
Close Reading ◽  
Literary Representations ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Main Character ◽  
Body Memory ◽  
Traumatic Memories

Applying close-reading the transdisciplinary article investigates the way in which trauma experienced by women during the Finnish civil war (1918) is presented in Kjell Westö’s novel Mirage 38. Focusing on the female body and working with the term “body memory”, it discusses symbolical literary representations of traumatic memories, which cannot be described verbally and are often hided from the other members of the community, as well as their destructive impact on the psyche and social relations of the traumatised person – in this case the main character of the novel Milja Matilda Wiik. The human body is perceived here as a place of embodiment of suppressed memories. Consequently, the body can be also seen as a medium of memory.

Diaghilev and British Writing

2009 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 65-92
Author(s):  
Susan Jones
Keyword(s):  
Visual Arts ◽  
The Body ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Literary Responses ◽  
Literary Aesthetics ◽  
Ballets Russes ◽  
The Arts ◽  
The Subject ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Opening Up

This article explores the diversity of British literary responses to Diaghilev's project, emphasising the way in which the subject matter and methodologies of Diaghilev's modernism were sometimes unexpectedly echoed in expressions of contemporary British writing. These discussions emerge both in writing about Diaghilev's work, and, more discretely, when references to the Russian Ballet find their way into the creative writing of the period, serving to anchor the texts in a particular cultural milieu or to suggest contemporary aesthetic problems in the domain of literary aesthetics developing in the period. Figures from disparate fields, including literature, music and the visual arts, brought to their criticism of the Ballets Russes their individual perspectives on its aesthetics, helping to consolidate the sense of its importance in contributing to the inter-disciplinary flavour of modernism across the arts. In the field of literature, not only did British writers evaluate the Ballets Russes in terms of their own poetics, their relationship to experimentation in the novel and in drama, they developed an increasing sense of the company's place in dance history, its choreographic innovations offering material for wider discussions, opening up the potential for literary modernism's interest in impersonality and in the ‘unsayable’, discussions of the body, primitivism and gender.

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