scholarly journals Metaphor in M. Proust’s Artistic World: From the Being of Art to the Art of Being

2020 ◽  
pp. 146-162
Author(s):  
Natalia Astrakhan
Keyword(s):  
The Novel ◽  
Involuntary Memory ◽  
Artistic Style ◽  
The Past ◽  
Time Space ◽  
French Writer ◽  
Philosophy Of Dialogue ◽  
Associative Connection ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Individual Existence

The article deals with the functions of metaphor in the artistic world of M. Proust. In the context of the novel sequence In Search of Lost Time, metaphor becomes a mechanism to implement involuntary memory, which allows to combine the present (impressions) and the past (memories). Metaphor, given by the associative connection between impressions and memories, becomes the main constructive law of the artistic model of reality created by the French writer. The multifunctionality of metaphor correlates with the three forms of the subject of consciousness that appears in the context of the artistic whole of the novel sequence as an author, a narrator and a character. The author organizes the work of involuntary memory, based on the metaphor; the narrator balances what has been fished out of the past against the present with the help of experience associations; the character experiences the impressions by going through discoveries and disappointments. Proust’s lyrical epos gives the subject the ability to move beyond the hellish circle of the present into timeless dimensions. The novels created by the author and the character, intersect creating the effect of full being, allowing the subject of creative consciousness to recover its identity by overcoming painful contradictions of individual existence in the artistic creativity as in the dialogical interaction with the other. By using the formal and the hermeneutical methods with the emphasis on the philosophy of dialogue, the article explores the peculiarities of metaphor functioning at the macro- and microlevels. The former allows to construct the experimental picture of the world at the intersection of different time-space spheres that correlate with each other due to the spiritual and intellectual efforts of the subject. The latter allows us to consider the artistic image based on metaphor the core of the modernist writer’s artistic style and the way to the new concept of artist and art.

Merleau-Ponty’s Melancholy

2019 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 201-219
Author(s):  
Shannon Hayes ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Affective Response ◽  
Phantom Limb ◽  
Involuntary Memory ◽  
The Past ◽  
Creative Transformation ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Involuntary Memories ◽  
Phantom Limbs

I offer a re-evaluation of Freudian melancholy by reading it in-conjunction with Merleau-Ponty’s analysis of phantom limbs and Marcel Proust’s involuntary memories. As an affective response to loss, melancholy bears a strange, belated temporality (Nachträglichkeit). Through Merleau-Ponty’s analysis of the phantom limb, I emphasize that the melancholic subject remains affectively bound to a past world. While this can be read as problematic insofar as the subject is attuned to both the possibilities that belong to the present and the impossibilities that belong to the past world, I turn to Proust whose writings on involuntary memory indicate a way of taking up these futural (im)possibilities. I focus the discussion on the narrator’s involuntary memory of his grandmother after her death to highlight the creative transformation of his melancholy.

scholarly journals ANGUISH IN ALEXANDER DUMAS’ NOVEL THE COUNT OF MONTE CRISTO

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 217-224
Author(s):  
Hidayati Hidayati ◽  
Arifuddin Arifuddin ◽  
Zainab M Z. ◽  
Aflina Aflina
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Method ◽  
Social Reality ◽  
Social Contexts ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Sociology Of Literature ◽  
Literary Works ◽  
Literary Research ◽  
Research Guidelines ◽  
French Writer ◽  
The Subject

The research is conducted based on the novel The Count of Monte Cristo, written by a French writer Alexander Dumas. The focus goes to anguish experienced by the protagonist of the novel, Edmond Dante, a young and handsome sailor with a brilliant prospects in career making him plunged into life of anguish. He is arrested for no reason, sent to jail with inhuman treatment. Descriptive qualitative method is applied to reveal that literary works are mirrors of all the occurrences in society. This is in line with the sociology of literature also implemented here as the approach to further analysis of the subject matters having three aspects to be used as a literary research guidelines: social contexts of the author, already showed by the author, literature as the reflection of society, revealed through the text tending to social reality and functions of literature as entertainer or remodel of society, exposed through the responses of the readers. The results show that the novel contains anguish subdivided into Non-procedural Arrest and Inhuman Imprisonment covering the whole study.

scholarly journals Bernard Cohen’s Snowdome: somewhere in a postmodern time

2007 ◽  
pp. 185
Author(s):  
Andrés Romero Jódar
Keyword(s):  
Space Dimension ◽  
World Order ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Contemporary Society ◽  
Time Space ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Near Future ◽  
The City

Occidental societies, according to certain visions of a postmodern future as reflected in literature and arts, are heading towards a dystopian decadent world order. It is inside this perspective that I place the following essay with the aim to analyse the representation of Postmodernism and Postmodernity in Bernard Cohen’s experimental work, Snowdome. This novel can be conceived as a complex portrayal of contemporary existence and life in the city. By means of three different narrations and two stories separated by the unstable boundary of time, Cohen depicts contemporary Sidney from a nightmarish present of noise that leads to the complete isolation of the subject in a near future. The novel emphasises the multiplicity of information in contemporary society and the way in which that information becomes a constant noise flooding the city. The individual is unable to grasp a bit of that “pure reality” outside the simulacrum offered by the media and by the terrifying museum. Sidney and Australia become, in Cohen’s work, a prolongation of contemporary North-American invasive culture, based on the power of the TV screen and the falsehood of simulacrum, whereas individuals are plunged into a new time-space dimension which is placed somewhere in a postmodern time.

FUGITIVE IMAGES (VISUAL CULTURE IN MICHEL TOURNIER’S NOVEL THE GOLDEN DROP)

2021 ◽  
pp. 256-279
Author(s):  
Sergey N. Zenkin ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Postcolonial Theory ◽  
Visual Image ◽  
Specific Aspect ◽  
Visual Images ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Michel Tournier ◽  
Visual Objects ◽  
French Writer ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Original Concept

In the work of the French writer Michel Tournier, the novel The Golden Drop (1985) stands out for the massive presence within its plot of various visual images – photographs, drawings, mannequins, etc.; the hero, a young Algerian immigrant in France, develops in relation to those images. Their interaction can be described ideologically in the sense of postcolonial theory or through the opposition of the “symbolic” Islamic culture and the “figurative” European one; however, the author of the novel outlines his own, original concept of a visual image associated with the personality of the subject, but escaping his control due to its serial multiplicity. In this specific aspect, Tournier practically works out the problem of the intradiegetic image – a visual image included in a narrative plot. Encountering visual objects, some of which depict himself, the hero of Tournier’s novel remains unchanged, does not undergo any “education”, does not acquire, as a result of his adventures, either an ideal image or an ideal sign-symbol. Arriving from afar, he still does not recognize himself as a participant in European history, indicated in the novel by allusions to the student revolution of 1968

COVID-19 Vaccination Efficacy and Safety Literature Review

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Halim
Keyword(s):  
Active Immunization ◽  
Control Measures ◽  
World Health ◽  
The Novel ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Novel Coronavirus ◽  
Health Organization ◽  
Guidelines And Recommendations ◽  
Roll Out

Since the emergency of the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) that is caused by SARS-Cov-2 in 2019, researchers have been on the move to find solutions to mitigate the spread of the virus. Various control measures have been put in place by governments under guidelines and recommendations of key global agencies with the world health organization (WHO) leading in providing information to help fight the pandemic. Multi-agency research efforts have been geared towards developing vaccines for active immunization to prevent COVID-19 infection. This paper is geared towards providing a detailed review and analysis of developments of the current vaccines in terms of safety and efficacy. Approaches that have been taken by different researchers and their findings are the subject of this work. Based on the mechanism by which a vaccine protects an individual against COVID-19 infection, it has been found that the already rolled out vaccines are mRNA (Pfizer and Moderna) and vector (Astrazeneca) vaccine structured. There is also China's Sinovac vaccine which has been in place for the past few years. The four vaccines reviewed here are administered in two doses some days apart. Currently, no vaccine has a safety threat and the efficacies are 95% for COVID-19 mRNA vaccine BNT162b2 (Pfizer), 94.1% for mRNA-1273 vaccine (Moderna), 70.4%forChAdOx1 nCoV-19 vaccine / AZD1222 (AstraZeneca) vaccine and 78% for sinovac respectively. Findings of this paper show that other vaccines are awaiting clinical roll out for trials. Even though these efficacies imply that the vaccines offer significant protection against the infection, further research and evaluation should go on to achieve higher efficacies while addressing any safety concerns that may go beyond local and systemic reactions that occur on patients after vaccination. This study concludes that even with the protection of the present vaccines, individuals must continue wearing personal protective equipment (PPEs) such as masks.

scholarly journals Semantic identification of the novel “Evgenia Ivanovna” by Leonid Leonov

Litera ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 104-113
Author(s):  
Andrey Nikolaevich Bezrukov
Keyword(s):  
The Novel ◽  
Compromise Solution ◽  
Historical Time ◽  
Literature Research ◽  
The Past ◽  
Constructive Dialogue ◽  
Entire Country ◽  
Classic Literature ◽  
Literary Process ◽  
The Subject

The prose by Leonid Leonov exemplifies the dialogue of the writer with literary and cultural formations of the past. Artistic thinking of the writer is oriented towards the potentiality of discursive combinations, as well as the expression of his authorial position. The object of this research is the novel “Evgenia Ivanovna”, which is structured on the principle of condensation of intertextual references. The subject of this research is the versatile type of narration of the prose writer of the XX century. He implements the plot of the text by means of constructive dialogue with classic literature. Research methodology synthesizes the verges of intertextual, structural, conceptual, hermeneutical, and comparative approaches. Reception of the novel “Evgenia Ivanovna” becomes more complicated with the course of historical time. The philosophy of Leonov’s text consists in relative simplicity. Specificity of the novel lies in finding a compromise solution. The author suggestively intertwines fates of the characters into a single large event, which affects the entire country. The formulated conclusions specify the scale of the persona of Leonid Leonov in literary process of the XX century. This material may be valuable for further research on the specificity of Russian classic literature.

scholarly journals Ироническое начало в фельетоне Киев-город Михаила Булгакова

2021 ◽  
Vol 46 (2) ◽  
pp. 125-134
Author(s):  
Antoni Bortnowski
Keyword(s):  
The Novel ◽  
Spiritual Values ◽  
Characteristic Element ◽  
The Past ◽  
Depth Analysis ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Stark Contrast ◽  
Colloquial Speech ◽  
The City

The subject of the article is the analysis of the image of Kiev, presented in Mikhail Bulgakov’s feuilleton Kiev, the City. This work has rarely been the subject of in-depth analysis, despite the fact that it is one of the few texts in which the writer presents the image of his hometown. A characteristic element of the description of Kiev’s past and present is the irony. It is noticeable in the title of the feuilleton, as well as in the names of its parts. The ironic image of Soviet Kiev stands in stark contrast to the vision of the city captured in the novel The White Guard. The analysis of the techniques used by the writer in the text of Kiev, the City (e.g. the naive narrator’s mask, a combination of pompous style and colloquial speech) is carried out in order to prove that the feuilleton, in its style and ideas expressed, also shows the author’s rejection of post-revolutionary reality and his attempt to overcome the trauma of the past through laughter. The ironic image of the Soviet reality on the background of eternal spiritual values makes Kiev, the City a harbinger of the problems covered inMikhail Bulgakov’s later works.

scholarly journals Narrative Genres and the Administration of Consciousness : The Case of Daisy Goodwill's Rebellion

2008 ◽  
Vol 5 ◽  
pp. 155
Author(s):  
María Jesús Hernáez Lerena
Keyword(s):  
Short Story ◽  
Subject Matter ◽  
Meaning In Life ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Carol Shields ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Way ◽  
Fictional Autobiography

The Stone Diaries (1993), a novel by Carol Shields, examines the strategies characters use to render their selves accountable: they turn life into an ensemble made up of historical, scientific, novelistic or biographical discourse. In contrast, Daisy Goodwill, who is the subject-matter of this fictional autobiography, remains close to the epistemology of the short story, whose potential has been described by critics as a challenge to knowledge or synthesis (Cortázar 1973; Bayley 1988; Leitch 1989, May 1994; Trussler 1996). There seems to be agreement that the only condition of coherence necessary for the short story is a pointing to the evasion of meaning in life, also that the genre allies itself to the way in which the past is attached to our memory (Kosinski 1978; Hallet 1998; Lohafer 1998; Wolff 2000). This essay will analyze the implications of its protagonist’s stance with a view to pinning down some of the ideological grounds of the novel and of the short story in their approach to the question of identity.

scholarly journals Het beeld van het gezin in Boerenpsalm van Felix Timmermans en Placówka (De voorpost) van Bolesław Prus

2021 ◽  
Vol 69 (5 Zeszyt specjalny) ◽  
pp. 171-185
Author(s):  
Joanna Włodarczyk-Kaziród
Keyword(s):  
Interpersonal Relationships ◽  
Basic Structure ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Polish Literature ◽  
Time Space ◽  
The Family ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Way

This article is an attempt to present the image of the family that is contained in two novels, Boerenpsalm (A Peasant’s Psalm) by Felix Timmermans and Placówka (The Outpost) by Bolesław Prus. The article begins with an introduction, explaining the phenomenon of regional prose which was present at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries in both Dutch and Polish literature. Following this, aspects such as time, space and the subject of the novel, as well as the way of presenting the family theme, are discussed. The article ends with a summary and discussion of the conclusions drawn. The family community is the eternal and basic structure of interpersonal relationships. The family presented in the novels analysed is a large, multi-generational community, based on relationships. However, it can be unequivocally stated that the manner of presenting this community is different in the two novels discussed.

scholarly journals La ricezione delle opere di Giorgio Bassani in Slovenia

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 309-316
Author(s):  
Irena Prosenc
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Short Story ◽  
Global Strategy ◽  
Film Adaptation ◽  
The Novel ◽  
World War ◽  
The Past ◽  
Current State ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Selection Of

The article examines the reception of Giorgio Bassani’s works in Slovenia. The current state of translations of Bassani’s works into Slovene is characteristic of the availability of Slovene editions of Italian authors, which often seems desultory despite the relatively high number of literary translations from Italian published after World War II. In the past, the translations were typically published later than the original texts and without a global strategy. This situation partly persists to the present day: whilst the translations of some authors are sufficiently present, others continue to be absent, which is probably due to the limitations of the Slovene book market. As few as three of Bassani’s texts have been translated into Slovene, namely the novel Il giardino dei Finzi-Contini (1978), translated by Stabej, excerpts from the short story Una lapide in via Mazzini (1994), translated by Ožbot, and a selection of poems from In rima e senza (2008), translated by Dekleva. Il giardino dei Finzi-Contini, the only text to have been translated in an unabridged version, was also the subject of linguistic research by Miklič and Premrl. Whilst no doubt interesting for specialists, the results of their research most likely did not reach a wider public. Even though the translation of Bassani’s novel was followed by the release of the film adaptation, whilst the poetry collection received critical acclaim, Bassani remains a relatively little-known author in Slovenia to this day. Moreover, as many as thirteen years have passed since the publication of the last translation.

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