scholarly journals «Carousel of Truth» (The Meaning of the Epigraph in V. V. Nabokov’s Novel "The Gift")

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
pp. 205-210
Author(s):  
E. I. Liapushkina ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Semantic Content ◽  
The Novel ◽  
The Gift ◽  
Direct Indication

The article offers the analysis of the semantic content of Nabokov’s epigraph via its correlation with the leading themes and compositional structuring of the novel. The epigraph to "The Gift" is a kind of an enigma, its apparent triviality serves as a direct indication that it should be carefully searched for the full scope of its hidden semantic signifi cance.

METAPHORIC REPRESENTATION OF THE CONCEPT “CREATIVE PROCESS” IN V. NABOKOV’S NOVEL “THE GIFT”

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yuliya Golovnyova ◽  
Albina Novikova
Keyword(s):  
Creative Process ◽  
Theoretical Basis ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Artistic Creation ◽  
The Gift

Descriptions of the process of artistic creation take an outstanding place in V. Nabokov’s works and abound both in conventional and creative metaphors. In this article we analyze metaphoric representation of the concept “creative process” in V. Nabokov’s novel “The Gift”. The theoretical basis of research is the descriptor theory of metaphor by A.N. Baranov. The article reveals the most frequent metaphorical models of creative process in the novel and the areas of its metaphoric conceptualization.

scholarly journals The Russian China in the Last D. A. Prigov’s Novel

2020 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 146-165
Author(s):  
E. V. Kapinos
Keyword(s):  
Far East ◽  
Main Task ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Main Character ◽  
The Far East ◽  
The People ◽  
The Gift ◽  
Pass Through ◽  
John Wilkins

The article relates to the last novel by D. A. Prigov “Katya the Chinese” (published in 2007), based on the memories of the writer’s wife, N. G. Burova from Harbin, who was born and grew up in the Russian China and left it in 1950s. The main task of the article is to show what stylistic techniques, plots, motives, subtexts allow to recreate the atmosphere of the Russian China and the generalized image of the East. The narration synthesizes the memories of the people of Harbin and recognizable storylines of D. A. Prigov’s work (such, for example, as a fantastic bestiary). In the subtext of the novel the following works are found: feuilleton by I. Ilf and E. Petrov “Nikudykin the Commtied”, pro- totyped by the “futurist of life” V. Goltsshmidt, who traveled in 1918–1920s with lectures on Siberia and the Far East, V. Nabokov’s novel “The Gift” with his father’s Asian journey (the plot about his father in “The Gift” influenced the plot about the girl’s father in “Katya the Chinese”), the “Chinese” stories by J. L. Borges “The Garden of Forking Paths” and “The Analytical language of John Wilkins”, etc. In Prigov’s narrative, a particular role is played by an autobiographical excerpt about the Tashkent artist A. N. Volkov and an insertion novel about the “Monastery of Flying Cats”, in- tentionally inaccurately stylized by Prigov as a Chinese legend. Many motifs and subtexts of the novel pass through the prism of the child’s consciousness (the “girl’s”, who is the main character of the novel), which gives the image of the Russian East, along with documentary, fantastic features.

scholarly journals СЕМАНТИКА ЕВАНГЕЛЬСКОГО ЭПИГРАФА К РОМАНУ «БЕСЫ» Ф. М. ДОСТОЕВСКОГО кандидат фи

2020 ◽  
Vol 18 (4) ◽  
pp. 209-228
Author(s):  
Anna Skoropadskaya
Keyword(s):  
Semantic Content ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Christian Tradition ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Ancient Greek ◽  
Demonic Possession ◽  
Negative Connotation

The article is devoted to the review of the gospel epigraph to the novel Demons from the point of view of the ancient tradition. The parable of the Gadarene demoniac, which correlates with the title and the figurative and semantic content of the novel, actualizes the concept of devilry, the nominative field of which includes the lexeme demon. In addition to historical and literary content, this lexeme has a deep historical and philosophical meaning that goes back to the demon of Socrates described by Plato. The mythological δαίμων and the Socratic τὸ δαιμόνιον possess generally positive semantics, but in the Christian tradition, which replaced antiquity, the nomination demon began to denote an evil demonic force that seeks to take over a person’s soul. The Russian lexeme bes, as well as the words derived from it — Russian besnovaty and besnovanie (demoniac and possession by demons), is synonymous with demon, which is of a Greek origin. Demonic possession, which manifests itself outwardly in the loss of reason, is equated with spiritual illness. For such States, Plato uses the words μαίνομαι and μανία, the root of which is present in the words mania and maniac, denoting obsession with a certain idea. In both ancient Greek and Russian, this root has a negative connotation. Thus, demonic possession, described in the gospel as a spiritual illness, goes back to the ancient concepts of δαιμονίζομαι and μαίνομαι. This perspective allows us to reveal additional layers of meaning in the gospel epigraph and, as a result, in the novel itself.

Bellow's “Indian Givers”: Humboldt's Gift

1981 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 231-238
Author(s):  
Judie Newman
Keyword(s):  
American Indians ◽  
Gift Exchange ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Sociological Analysis ◽  
Gift Giving ◽  
Loss Of Face ◽  
North West ◽  
The North ◽  
Central Activity ◽  
The Gift

Emerson's essay on “Gifts” perceptively highlights the ambivalence felt in gift-giving or receiving, an ambivalence which lies at the heart of Saul Bellow's most recent novel, Humboldt's Gift. The importance of literal gift-giving has been insufficiently recognised as a factor which governs the action of the novel, our understanding of which is enhanced by an examination and application of the sociological analysis of gift-exchange.Gift-exchange has been most extensively studied in relation to the North-West Coast American Indians, notably the Kwakiutl, in whose culture the “potlatch” is a central activity. The term “potlatch” is applied to a variety of gift-giving ceremonies, involving both the giving away of quantities of possessions and their wilful destruction. The whole of a man's worldly goods may be dispersed or destroyed in this fashion, in an attempt to maintain status. To eclipse a rival chief, for example, a man may destroy all his own accumulated wealth. While in theory the “gift” is spontaneous and disinterested, in practice it is based on political or economic self-interest.The gift of property implies an obligation in the recipient which, if not fulfilled, results in his loss of face.

scholarly journals THE TEXT CONCEPT OF UKRAINE IN A METAPHORICAL VIEW (BASED ON THE MATERIALS OF THE NOVEL BY L. KOSTENKO “THE NOTES OF UKRAINIAN SAMASHEDSHYI (MADMAN)”

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Natalia Koch ◽  
◽  
Natalia Vasylkova ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Conceptual Analysis ◽  
Conceptual Metaphor ◽  
Semantic Content ◽  
Literary Text ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Cognitive Mechanisms ◽  
Conceptual Metaphors ◽  
Conceptual Space ◽  
Mental Language ◽  
The Individual

The article is devoted to the study of cognitive mechanisms of actualization of the discursive topic UKRAINE in L. Kostenko 's fiction novel “The Notes of Ukrainian samashedshyi (madman)”. The interaction of conceptual metaphors, which represent the basic textual concept at a deep level, forms the original conceptual space of the work. The purpose of scientific research is to establish connections between structural, orientations and ontological metaphors of the novel, as well as to describe their semantic content, verbalized at the linguistic level. According to the topic, the object of research is a discursive topic (text concept), the subject – the means of verbalization of conceptual metaphors as its expression. The relevance of the publication theme is determined by the general tendency of linguoconceptology, aimed to the study of conceptual space of the author's literary text. The main method of research is a conceptual analysis applying of methodologies of interpretive, contextual and other types of analysis. In-text and out-of-text level connections, which are viewed by involving background contexts (historical-cultural, socio-cultural, situational, etc.), determine the discursive character of the literary text, in which the key text concept functions as a discursive topic. The metaphorical projection of the text concept UKRAINE is carried out in the context of the political picture of Ukrainian world during the “Orange” revolution. The concept UKRAINE is a structurally and contently complex mental unit of individual consciousness that represents interdependent components due to the author's choice of conceptual metaphor. Keeping the established meanings (state; country where Ukrainians live), the concept acquires specificity due to its rethinking in the mind of the writer, who has an original worldview of modern life in the context of globalization. In interpretation of the conceptual content of analyzed topic, it is important the authors’ assume about the theory of conceptual metaphor that a metaphor affects on the decision-making process of problem situation, in particular on the stage of identifying alternatives to solve the problem. The author's vision of such alternatives is manifested in the systematic use of certain types of metaphors. The emotional and pragmatic potentials of conceptual metaphors have a powerful influence on the reader’s mind. In the process of conceptual analysis the basic spheres of experience, related to the representation of the discursive topic UKRAINE were distinguished. Such spheres are represented by structural metaphors of war, morbid metaphor, game metaphor, etc. Productive metaphorical models of the novel are orientation metaphors, which are based on universal empirical experience and individual experience of the the mental language of ontological metaphors supplements the artistic and journalistic discourse. The author’s created a metaphorical model of Ukrainian reality at the beginning of the XXI century is a diffuse system of intersecting metaphorical projections, updated by the discursive topic. The perspectives for further study of metaphorical models of the Ukrainian writers’ works we see in the possibility of describing the specifics of the individual author's worldview in particular and the national picture of the world in general.

scholarly journals IDIOLOGI PATRIARKI YANG TERGAMBAR PADA ROMAN THE GIFT KARYA DANIELL STEEL SEBUAH KAJIAN FEMINISME

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 20-26
Author(s):  
Wahyuni Wahyuni
Keyword(s):  
Public Sector ◽  
Literary Criticism ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Female Characters ◽  
Patriarchal Ideology ◽  
The Gift ◽  
Descriptive Qualitative

The purpose of this research is to describe patriarchal ideology of female characters depicted in the novel The Gift by Danielle Steel. The method used in this research is descriptive qualitative. The source of data in this research is novel The Gift By Danielle Steel. To analyze patriarchal ideology data, researcher used literary criticism of feminism. The result of the research the patriarchal ideology of female characters depicted in the novel The Gift By Danielle Steel in the form of action in the domestic sector and public sector namely oppression, discrimination and injustice. Some women surrender and realize that as children and as wife must obey the mommands of their husbands or father.

scholarly journals The “Kirghiz Fairy Tale” in The Gift: Nabokov, Folklore, and Orientalism

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 266-299
Author(s):  
Alexander A. Panchenko
Keyword(s):  
Fairy Tales ◽  
Fairy Tale ◽  
Literary Work ◽  
Human Vision ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Central Theme ◽  
Alexander The Great ◽  
The World ◽  
The Gift ◽  
Russian Literary

In the second chapter of The Gift, Fyodor Konstantinovich Godunov-Cherdyntsev recalls a “Kirghiz fairy tale” about a human eye that wants “to encompass everything in the world.” The plot of the story goes back to a Talmudic parable about Alexander the Great. The parable was retold in Russian by a number of writers and scholars in the 19 th and early 20 th centuries. However, it seems unlikely that Nabokov did use in any original piece of Inner Asian folklore in his novel. More probable is that he invented the “fairy tale” proceeding from one of the Russian versions of the parable. At the same time, Nabokov’s version is based on a number of international literary and folkloric motifs and is related to the “Kalmyk fairy tale” in Pushkin’s novel The Captain’s Daughter and to 19 th century Russian literary fairy tales in verse. While the central theme of Nabokov’s parable is the insatiability of human vision and the frailty of life, its con- and subtexts allude to some other recurrent themes of the novel — death and immortality, the quest for paradise, closed doors and exile, sources of love and poetical inspiration. The Oriental coloring of the tale (and the second chapter of the novel in general) appears to be a literary play with a limited number of texts, in particular with The Captain’s Daughter and A Journey to Arzrum. This allows discussing the “Kirghiz fairy tale” as an intratextually meaningful part of the novel rather than a marginal encrustation. It seems that Nabokov’s literary work with “migratory” plots and folklore texts was in a way close to the methods and ideas developed in Alexander Veselovsky’s school of comparative literary studies.

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