scholarly journals Worldmaking in The Gray House by Mariam Petrosian

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Elizaveta Korskaia
Keyword(s):  
Narrative Theory ◽  
Children With Disabilities ◽  
18Th Century ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Use Of Space ◽  
Narrative Perspective ◽  
History Of ◽  
And Behavior ◽  
International Success

Disability in narrative often displays negative patterns such as overcoming a disability, exceptional achievements, the association of poverty and crime, and "fixing" someone. Mariam Petrosian breaks these patterns in the depiction of disability in the Russian-speaking world by imagining an orphanage for children with disabilities from their perspective, according to which disability is not an obstacle to be overcome but rather a fact of life. In The Gray House, Petrosian allows her characters to make choices rather than conform to them. By creating rules and reversing norms, they create a distinct world where their agency is incontestable. In my work, I examine the history of disability in Russia and how it reflects the situation in The Gray House. Additionally, I analyze existing scholarship on the depiction of disability in literature connecting theory to the specifics of the novel. In applying Yuri Lotman, I study ways in which characters resemble 18th century Russian citizens, as he presents them: their roles, rules, characteristics and behavior. Applying narrative theory, I integrate Petrosian's use of space and the ability of characters with disabilities to make choices to build the plot of their lives. Furthermore, I discuss shifts in narrative perspective and how these shifts shape the outcome of the characters' plots. Finally, I address the international success of the novel and the importance of its fan base.

4. Modern reading

2019 ◽  
pp. 50-74
Author(s):  
Belinda Jack
Keyword(s):  
Industrial Revolution ◽  
18Th Century ◽  
The Novel ◽  
History Of The Novel ◽  
Daily Newspaper ◽  
Paper Making ◽  
Late 18Th Century ◽  
History Of ◽  
Printing Processes ◽  
Rotary Press

The Industrial Revolution from the late 18th century on brought changes to reading. Printing processes developed further, in particular typesetting. The development of the steam-powered press, the rotary press, and cheaper paper-making accounted for the birth and rapid rise of the daily newspaper. ‘Modern reading’ also explains how the Industrial Revolution resulted in the expansion of towns and cities, which then became the privileged places for reading. The ever-growing audience of readers were reading newspapers and journals, sermons and manuals, but above all novels. The history of the novel is considered along with how reading affected people’s ideas, in terms of how they then wanted to live.

scholarly journals Samuel Richardsons brevromaner

2007 ◽  
Vol 35 (103) ◽  
pp. 174-187
Author(s):  
Martin Hultén
Keyword(s):  
Literary History ◽  
18Th Century ◽  
Samuel Richardson ◽  
Historical Understanding ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Literary Canon ◽  
History Of ◽  
Epistolary Novels ◽  
The Many ◽  
Professional Critics

En litteraturhistorisk placering The Epistolary Novels of Samuel Richardson: Reconsidering the Historical PerspectiveThe epistolary novels of Samuel Richardson were received with enthusiasm throughout Britain and Europe upon their publication in the 1740s and 50s, and they have had their unquestioned place in the literary canon and the literary history of the 18th century, as well as in the many rivalling Rise of the Novel narratives, ever since. The qualities of Richardson’s novels praised by contemporary reading audiences and professional critics were to some extent the qualities we still acknowledge in the the works. And yet I propose to reconsider and modify our ‘historical’ understanding of Richardson’s novels. Richardson scholars from the 1970s onward have deepened our understanding of the contexts of Richardson’s life and writing, and they have shown to what extent both the style, the form, the motifs, and the themes of his novels must be placed alongside the works of rival authors, today much less known, and the comedies and tragedies of the restoration period, just to mention two important fields of inspiration for Richardson. On the basis of their findings we must conclude that the novels we read today when considering Richardson’s works as part of a formal literary history are not quite the same as the novels contemporary readers cherished. There are important differences as well as correspondences between the contemporary reception of Richardson’s works and the reception of professional scholars in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.

scholarly journals Maja Haderlap: la historia del Ángel del olvido

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Branka Kalenić Ramšak
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
The Novel ◽  
History Of ◽  
Historical Issues ◽  
International Success

The latest novel in Slovenian wants to talk about previously ignored or inadequately presented historical issues. Among such topics is also the history of the Slovenians of Carinthia in Austria that throughout the twentieth century have gone through many individual and collective traumas. The writer Maja Haderlap has achieved international success with her novel Engel des Vergessens (The Angel of Oblivion), published in 2011 in German, in 2012 in Slovenian. With the gesture of forgiveness she tries to contribute to the improvement of Austrian-Slovenian coexistence. The novel is autofictional text of fragmented discourse that is part of the current postmodernist narrative tendency.

scholarly journals Barguzin Buryats: population size, wedding traditions (based on the field research materials of 2018–2019)

2020 ◽  
pp. 55-61
Author(s):  
V. V. Lygdenova ◽  
O. B. Dashinamzhilov
Keyword(s):  
Population Size ◽  
18Th Century ◽  
Field Research ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Lena River ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Republic ◽  
Traditional Performance ◽  
Different Parts

The paper is dedicated to studying the history of population, songs and wedding traditions of the Barguzin Buryats, who live in Barguzin and Kurumkan regions of the Republic of Buryatia. Barguzin Buryats represent the local ethnical group of Buryats who moved from the banks of the Lena River in the 18th century and settled in the Barguzin Valley, where they have lived up to now. Wedding traditions of Buryats were studied by many scholars such as M. N. Khangalov, S. P. Baldayev, K. D. Basaeva, G. R. Galdanova, and others. The paper’s relevance is due to the novel field materials collected by the authors in 2018−2019, including songs, wishes, cliché dialogues, etc. For in- stance, the tradition assumes many cliché dialogues during the ritual of matchmaking, and they are also described in the paper. Also, different fragments of songs for putting on different parts of wedding clothes and accessories are considered. All the songs were collected from the old women living in different villages of Barguzin and Kurumkan regions. They were recorded in the Barguzin dialect of the Buryat language. The songs were sung by their mothers, and the women inherited their traditional performance. The paper summarizes the peculiarities of modern wedding traditions of Barguzin Buryats, with the fragments of songs provided. Each wedding stage is described, and the sequence of actions is specified.

Muslim Brotherhoods in West African History

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mauro Nobili
Keyword(s):  
West Africa ◽  
18Th Century ◽  
West African ◽  
The Novel ◽  
African History ◽  
Lake Chad ◽  
History Of ◽  
Independent States ◽  
European Colonialism ◽  
Colonial Government

Muslim Sufi brotherhoods (ṭuruq, sing. ṭarīqa) are ubiquitous in contemporary Islamic West Africa. However, they are relative latecomers in the history of the region, making their appearance in the mid-18th century. Yet, Sufism has a longer presence in West Africa that predates the consolidation of ṭuruq. Early evidence of Sufi practices dates to the period between the 11th and the 17th centuries. By that time traces of the Shādhiliyya and the lesser-known Maḥmūdiyya are available between the Atlantic Ocean and Lake Chad, but it was the activities of the Kunta of the Qādiriyya and of al-ḥājj ‘Umar of the Tijāniyya that led to the massive spread of Sufi brotherhoods in the region. The authority of leaders of ṭuruq did not disappear with the imposition of European colonialism. In fact, the power of those leaders who adjusted to the novel political situation further consolidated thanks to their role as mediators between their constituencies and the colonial government. Eventually, the end of the colonial period did not signal the decline of ṭuruq in West Africa. Conversely, during the postcolonial years, Sufi brotherhoods continued flourishing despite the secular nature of West African independent states and the increasing tension with a plethora of equally rising Salafi movements.

scholarly journals Some Endangered Feeling

Daedalus ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 150 (01) ◽  
pp. 40-61
Author(s):  
Nancy Armstrong
Keyword(s):  
Recent Trend ◽  
Affect Theory ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Robinson Crusoe ◽  
History Of The Novel ◽  
Human Motivation ◽  
History Of ◽  
To Come ◽  
The Individual ◽  
And Behavior

This essay sees the recent trend in novels that feature damaged, partial, or wayward protagonists as the ascent of a tradition of formal outliers as old as the novel itself to a position of dominance. Rather than formulate a self-contained individual capable of defending itself against whatever forces of nature or society might disperse and refigure it, this other tradition gave into those forces, releasing human subjectivity from the confines of the self-regulating individual. Why now? How does this major turn in the history of the novel contribute to the current reconsideration of human motivation and behavior in light of affect theory? If Robinson Crusoe provided a bellwether for the individual to come, then what can the damaged protagonist of Tom McCarthy's 2005 novel Remainder tell us about the selves we are likely to become?

scholarly journals Hypocricy of the Rich vs Honesty of the Poor in the English Society of the 18$^\text{th}$ Century

2020 ◽  
Vol 16 (2 (22)) ◽  
pp. 119-130
Author(s):  
Vicky Tchaparian
Keyword(s):  
18Th Century ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Critical Attitude ◽  
The Poor ◽  
English Society ◽  
History Of ◽  
Poetic Justice ◽  
The Rich ◽  
Characteristic Features ◽  
Different Levels

During the 18th century, life was unpleasant and disturbing due to the Horrible Plague and the Great Fire that attacked England and turned the English society upside down. There was a big gap between the rich and the poor. Violence and crimes were everywhere. However, along with all the misfortunes, 18th century was also a period of elegance for England. Education flourished, and the novel genre developed impressively along with fine music and theatre performances. During these times, the rich led a luxurious life, while the poor in extreme poverty hardly preserved their miserable existence. The whole atmosphere was that of contrasts between brightness and staleness, wellness and sickness, abundance and insufficiency, virtue and vice, along with charity and selfishness which, combined with other characteristic features of the English society, created a chaotic situation. Henry Fielding’s novel, The History of the Adventures of Joseph Andrews and his Friend Mr. Abraham Adams, often called Joseph Andrews artistically mingles all these contrasts on different levels of different aspects of life, depicting the age he lived in while giving credit to the poor and the abandoned, making the good successfully triumphant and the bad miserably overwhelmed until at the end he makes his characters reach poetic justice punishing the vicious and rewarding the virtuous. The article aims at revealing the chaotic situation of the 18th century England through H. Fielding’s novel in question and the writer’s critical attitude to it.

scholarly journals Die mythische Existenz eines Romans und seine Wirklichkeit. Ein Prosamanuskript der siebenbürgischen Dichterin Gerda Mieß

2021 ◽  
Vol 47 (1) ◽  
pp. 23-30
Author(s):  
Joachim Wittstock
Keyword(s):  
School System ◽  
The Novel ◽  
The Public ◽  
History Of ◽  
Employment Of Women ◽  
Education And Employment ◽  
And Behavior ◽  
History Of Literature ◽  
Insight Into

Abstract Gerda Mieß (born in Bistrita in 1896, dies in Cisnădie in 1954), is know for her verses published in periodicals and anthologies as well as for only collection of her poems (by Dr. Stefan Sienerth in 1987 in Kriterion Verlag Bucharest published). People interested in the history of literature knew that she had also written a novel in her youth, which, howeser, never came to the public during her lifetime or afterwards. Her descendants (the Herbert-László family) hade the manuscript prose work translated into computer script and took steps to publish the novel. It offers an insight into the mentality and behavior of the time around 1910, into the school system of the time and the problems of that time and the problems of women (education and employment of women).

How Homo economicus lost her mind and how we can revive her

2018 ◽  
Vol 41 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter DeScioli
Keyword(s):  
Economic Thought ◽  
History Of Economic Thought ◽  
Homo Economicus ◽  
Economic Theories ◽  
Target Article ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Mind ◽  
And Behavior

AbstractThe target article by Boyer & Petersen (B&P) contributes a vital message: that people have folk economic theories that shape their thoughts and behavior in the marketplace. This message is all the more important because, in the history of economic thought, Homo economicus was increasingly stripped of mental capacities. Intuitive theories can help restore the mind of Homo economicus.

EPITAFIES OF THE RELATIVES OF HADJI IBRAHIM AL-URADI AS A SOURCE ON THE BIOGRAPHY OF THE SCIENTIST AND ON THE HISTORY OF GIDATL

2017 ◽  
Vol 13 (4) ◽  
pp. 13-21
Author(s):  
Sh M Khapizov ◽  
M G Shekhmagomedov
Keyword(s):  
18Th Century ◽  
Medieval History ◽  
Historical Sources ◽  
The Past ◽  
Arabic Script ◽  
History Of ◽  
History Of Culture ◽  
The Look ◽  
Cultural Monuments ◽  
Written Sources

The article is devoted to the study of inscriptions on the gravestones of Haji Ibrahim al-Uradi, his father, brothers and other relatives. The information revealed during the translation of these inscriptions allows one to date important events from the history of Highland Dagestan. Also we can reconsider the look at some important events from the past of Hidatl. Epitaphs are interesting in and of themselves, as historical and cultural monuments that needed to be studied and attributed. Research of epigraphy data monuments clarifies periodization medieval epitaphs mountain Dagestan using record templates and features of the Arabic script. We see the study of medieval epigraphy as one of the important tasks of contemporary Caucasian studies facing Dagestani researchers. Given the relatively weak illumination of the picture of events of that period in historical sources, comprehensive work in this direction can fill gaps in our knowledge of the medieval history of Dagestan. In addition, these epigraphs are of great importance for researchers of onomastics, linguistics, the history of culture and religion of Dagestan. The authors managed to clarify the date of death of Ibrahim-Haji al-Uradi, as well as his two sons. These data, the attraction of written sources and legends allowed the reconstruction of the events of the second half of the 18th century. For example, because of the epidemic of plague and the death of most of the population of Hidatl, this society noticeably weakened and could no longer maintain its influence on Akhvakh. The attraction of memorable records allowed us to specify the dates of the Ibrahim-Haji pilgrimage to Mecca and Medina, as well as the route through which he traveled to these cities.

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