scholarly journals Breaking the Silence of Homer’s Women in Pat Barker’s the Silence of The Girls

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 10-16
Author(s):  
Indrani A. Borgohain
Keyword(s):  
Ancient Greece ◽  
Traumatic Experiences ◽  
The Novel ◽  
World War ◽  
World War One ◽  
Contemporary World ◽  
Trojan War ◽  
New Novel ◽  
Dominant Ideologies ◽  
Pat Barker

Since time immemorial, women have been silenced by patriarchal societies in most, if not all, cultures. Women voices are ignored, belittled, mocked, interrupted or shouted down. The aim of this study examines how the contemporary writer Pat Barker breaks the silence of Homer’s women in her novel The Silence of The Girl (2018). A semantic interplay will be conducted with the themes in an attempt to show how Pat Barker’s novel fit into the Greek context of the Trojan War. The Trojan War begins with the conflict between the kingdoms of Troy and Mycenaean Greece. Homer’s The Iliad, a popular story in the mythological of ancient Greece, gives us the story from the perspective of the Greeks, whereas Pat Barker’s new novel gives us the story from the perspective of the queen- turned slave Briseis. Pat Barker’s, The Silence of the Girls, written in 2018, readdresses The Iliad to uncover the unvoiced tale of Achilles’ captive, who is none other than Briseis. In the Greek saga, Briseis is the wife of King Mynes of Lyrnessus, an ally of Troy. Pat Barker as a Postmodernist writer, readdresses the Trojan War in his novel through the representation of World War One, with dominant ideologies. The novel illustrates not only how Briseis’s has tolerated and survived her traumatic experiences, but also, how she has healed and composed her fragmented life together. Homer’s poem prognosticates the fall of Troy, whereas Barker’s novel begins with the fall Lyrnessus, Briseis’ home that was destroyed by Achilles and his men. Hence, Pat Barker uses intertextuality in her novel, engages both the tradition of the great epic and the brutality of the contemporary world. She revives the Trojan War with graphic pictorial vividness by fictionalizing World War in her novel. Through her novel, she gives Briseis a voice, illuminates the passiveness of women and exposes the negative traits of a patriarchal society.

The Expatriate Idyll

2018 ◽  
pp. 98-125
Author(s):  
William Cloonan
Keyword(s):  
World War I ◽  
War Literature ◽  
Traumatic Experiences ◽  
Great War ◽  
The Novel ◽  
World War ◽  
Contemporary World ◽  
American Expatriates ◽  
Post War ◽  
The Great War

A critique of American expatriates, mostly veterans of World War I, who turn Europe into a vast American playground. The alleged justification of their behaviour is their traumatic experiences of the Great War which has been over for ten years at the start of the novel. Robert Cohn’s character contrasts with that of his fellow expatriates and sheds light on their affections and sterility. He also represents the condition of post-war literature, severely tried by the realities of the war, but slowly re-establishing its strength and ability to comment meaningfully on the contemporary world.

The Great War in the Book Ithaca and Comments by Miloš Crnjanski

2014 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-4
Author(s):  
Milisav Savić
Keyword(s):  
Great War ◽  
The Novel ◽  
World War ◽  
World War One ◽  
The Great War

Crnjanski’s Ithaca and Comment, published forty years after the collection of poems about World War One entitled Lyrics of Ithaca are considered as a fragmented autobiographical novel about the poet's participation in the Great War.Although he found himself at the front, Crnjanski rarely describes battles, even less cruelties of war. He is the narrator of the war's echo. Both the poetic and prosaic story is linked by an idea about the meaninglessness of war. Crnjanski's anti-war stance in Ithaca is also present in the novel Diary About Čarnojević - Crnjanski's ‘war novel’. Ithaca and Comments is the first Serbian postmodern book which banishes borders between genres.

Temporalitatea internă a romanului românesc (1844-1932)

Transilvania ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 22-32 ◽  
Author(s):  
Radu Vancu ◽  
Alex Goldiș ◽  
Ovio Olaru ◽  
Vlad Pojoga ◽  
Teodora Susarenco ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Present Article ◽  
Historical Novel ◽  
Temporal Distribution ◽  
The Novel ◽  
World War ◽  
World War One ◽  
Contemporary Novel ◽  
The Past ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship

The present article follows the relationship of the Romanian novelistic output between 1901 and 1932 with time and temporal distribution. Its emphasis falls on the degree of correlation between the time of publication and the time during which the events unfold for each corresponding novel, expressed through a variable coined “distance”. By making use of this variable, the temporal distribution of the novelistic corpus in the article clearly shows that the novelists’ focus gradually shifts towards contemporary events; while during the period between 1900 up until the outbreak of World War One, novelists were inclined to place the events of their works in the past, the War seems to have triggered an acute preoccupation with the immediate present. Lastly, the text touches upon two distinct subgenres of the novel, arisen out of their relationship to time, namely the historical novel and the so-called ‘contemporary novel’.

scholarly journals A Bolt from the Blue in Kazuo Ishiguro’s The Remains of the Day

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (11) ◽  
pp. 96-105
Author(s):  
M. Meghaa ◽  
Shobha Ramaswamy
Keyword(s):  
Nobel Prize ◽  
Trauma Theory ◽  
Traumatic Experiences ◽  
The Novel ◽  
World War ◽  
Kazuo Ishiguro ◽  
English Writing ◽  
The World ◽  
Artistic Works ◽  
The Mind

Kazuo Ishiguro, receiver of the Nobel Prize for Literature in the year 2017, isa Nagasaki-born writer. He developed his writing career in the year 1982 and many of his novels have historical contextual ideas. The literary attributes of Ishiguro's works are acknowledged for his uniqueness in English writing and method. It blends the sequence of the plot, to the extraordinary subjectivity of the portrayal, and to the historical sensitivity which truly interweaves with the depictions.The nostalgic and evocative characteristics of his writings make him the master of prodigious artistic works. The renowned novel of Kazuo Ishiguro, The Remains of the Day, which bagged him the prestigious Booker Prize in the year 1989, portrays the psychological niceties associated with the protagonist of the novel, Stevens.  Stevens is a butler who works under an aristocrat whom he revered the most at the beginning but later he was betrayed by knowing the facts of his lordship being associated with the Nazis during the World War.  Through the Trauma Theory this paper anatomizes the traumatic experiences of the mind, ramifications of thoughts and also the restrained dealings of human nature.This theory investigates the effect of trauma in writings and society, by examining its mental, logical, and social criticalness.The novel relocates the inherent presence of the theory throughplenteous incidents and contemplates on Stevens’ thoughts.  

The “Supplementary Chapter” to Bulwer Lytton's A Strange Story

1998 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
pp. 157-182 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew Brown
Keyword(s):  
Historical Novel ◽  
Ancient Greece ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Great Expectations ◽  
Work In Progress ◽  
Strange Story ◽  
New Novel ◽  
Woman In White

On August 3, 1860 Dickens wrote to his friend Bulwer Lytton asking whether he might be prepared to contribute “a tale” to All the Year Round. The inquiry was speculative, but prompted by characteristic editorial foresight. The magazine's current serial, Wilkie Collins's The Woman in White, was nearing completion, Charles Lever's A Day's Ride was waiting to take over from it, and Dickens himself was beginning to contemplate a new novel which, as Great Expectations, was subsequently issued between December 1860 and August 1861. Evidently he was already thinking of their successor, and clearly he recognized that Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton, ex-cabinet minister and pillar of the literary establishment, would be a real catch. Bulwer did not reply immediately, though he was in fact already making preliminary sketches for the novel that would become A Strange Story. The idea for the book had come to him in a dream (as, twenty years earlier, had that for his other great tale of the supernatural, Zanoni), and as it developed during the summer of 1860 it gradually supplanted his other work in progress — the historical novel of ancient Greece Pausanias the Spartan (eventually published posthumously in 1876, still incomplete). In October 1860, while vacationing in Corfu, he noted ruefully that his “mystic story” was at a standstill, but on his return to England the following month he was sufficiently encouraged to respond, at least tentatively, to Dickens's inquiry.

Re-thinking the Story

Leftovers ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 61-96
Author(s):  
Ruth Cruickshank
Keyword(s):  
Consumer Culture ◽  
Second World War ◽  
Literary Realism ◽  
The Novel ◽  
World War ◽  
New Novel ◽  
Food And Drink ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Second World ◽  
Class Distinction

His first nouveau roman [‘new novel’], Robbe-Grillet’s Les Gommes [The Erasers] (1953) eschews conventional storytelling, anthropomorphizing meanings and psychological motivations, instead focussing on ‘the adventure of language’. Food, drink and the places they are consumed are part of a strategy of subverting literary realism, noir conventions and classical tropes as Robbe-Grillet seeks to deny readers narrative satisfaction. However, the interpretative multiplicity of eating and drinking counters such intentions, notably in frequently food-premised mises en abyme (including and exceeding the famous tomato quarter), intended to encapsulate the narrative but full of leftover political, social, cultural and psychological meaning. Robbe-Grillet’s subversion of Oedipus Rex and its scenes of nourishment (and its withdrawal) along with references to hunger point to characters and a narrative fuelled by lack. Constructs of gender and of class distinction are revealed in Robbe-Grillet’s representations of food and drink, as are coercive and excessive effects of capitalism in everyday life. Descriptions of eating and drinking are shown to have ambivalent remainders of trauma (from the Second World War and the impact of consumer culture). Re-thinking the novel through its representations of eating and drinking shows how writing and reading – like feeding – are necessarily transformative, multiple and conflictual processes.

scholarly journals Multimodal Stylistics in Graphic Novel: Understanding the Visual Language Syntax in Art Spiegelman’s Maus

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 45-51
Author(s):  
Baishalee Rajkhowa
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Comic Book ◽  
Graphic Novel ◽  
Concentration Camps ◽  
Traumatic Experiences ◽  
The Novel ◽  
World War ◽  
Verbal Language ◽  
The Holocaust ◽  
Words And Images

Maus (2003) by Art Spiegelman is a graphic novel of unfolding his father, Vladek's, World War II ordeal and how he survived the holocaust. It is a gripping story of Spiegelman's own parents' experience in Poland during 1930s when Nazis invaded and persecuted the Jews. With a broken language, gaps in communication and visual strategy, Maus takes the readers across Europe unravelling the experiences of World War II and the Nazi Concentration camps. The characters are depicted as anthromorphic animals; the Nazis as cats, the Jews as mice and the Polish as pigs. It can be named as an autobiography or a memoir featuring a metareferential frame story with an author as narrator (Art) who tells his father (Vladek) that he wishes to write a comic book and so incited him to tell about " his life in Poland and the war" (Spiegelman, 2003). A graphic novel is written in a comic strip format which uses a combination of text and illustration in order to tell a story. The linguistic elements in a graphic narration are important as words and images cannot be analysed in similar terms. Multimodal stylistics represents this in the light of lexical and grammatical aspects of the verbal language. Maus (2003) represents a story of the holocaust and the traumatic experiences of Vladek.  It is a heteroglossic text with the presence of foreign languages and an authorial voice. The novel not only gives a different meaning but also an altogether different perspective to the verbal and visual significance.

scholarly journals Form Follows Function: A Statement Taken too far

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (12) ◽  
pp. 1283-1289
Author(s):  
Haardik Kansal
Keyword(s):  
World War ◽  
Architectural Style ◽  
World War One ◽  
Basic Principles ◽  
Contemporary World ◽  
Research Article ◽  
Form Function ◽  
Post Modernism ◽  
Modernist Architecture ◽  
Contemporary Architecture

Abstract: This research article examines the study of the philosophy behind the statement "Form Follows Function", its relation to modernist architecture and its interpretation in contemporary architecture. It explains the basic principles of this philosophy, which began with the work of Louis Sullivan and how this statement actually came into existence. It defines the basic terms and vocabulary of this philosophy. It identifies the concepts of this philosophy that were transferred to architecture and became the basis of modernist architectural style. Modernist projects and buildings are very functional and lack any kind of ornamentation. The “transfer” of the concepts of form follow function to architecture was very direct and literal, this is the reason why it isn't suitable for the contemporary world. Moreover, the time when this statement was given was the time when world war one had just taken place and a fast and low funded restoration of infrastructure was needed. There is not any such kind of need in the contemporary world. The technology has advanced to such an extent that the functions can be fit into even the strangest forms which us to experiment. enables The focus is now more on the forms and the aesthetics which has been highly employed in the deconstructivist style. The new concept of adaptive reuse cannot be employed in the modernist architecture which is a big disadvantage. Keywords: form, function, modernism, post modernism

scholarly journals Trauma and Remembering in Earnest Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms

2014 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 59-64
Author(s):  
Badri Prasad Pokharel
Keyword(s):  
World War I ◽  
Ernest Hemingway ◽  
Interdisciplinary Studies ◽  
Literary Texts ◽  
Traumatic Experiences ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
World War ◽  
War Experiences ◽  
Farewell To Arms

Human beings have been coming across different kinds of traumatic experiences since the very beginning of the human civilization. Such experiences have become one of the issues, which can be discussed and interpreted while reading the literary texts. For example, Ernest Hemingway has produced fictional works that reveal the horrible war experiences and whose characters participate in the war, endure fatal events, and get badly victimized, having traumatic experiences. A Farewell to Arms written in 1929, one of his literary masterpieces, brings out those experiences which the main character Henry endures and is badly traumatized by the horrible consequences. The activities that he involves either in the World War I, as an ambulance driver or has a love affair with a British nurse Catherine, are all related to his traumatic experiences. As a traumatic hero of the novel, he would not have anything except remembering those horrible memories that he probably wants to forget, but as much as he tries to forget them, he remembers a lot. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3126/ctbijis.v1i1.10469 Crossing the Border: International Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies Vol.1(1) 2013; 59-64

scholarly journals Trauma y desarraigo en A Pale View of Hills, de Kazuo Ishiguro

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vera Helena Jacovkis
Keyword(s):  
Textual Analysis ◽  
Atomic Bomb ◽  
Second World War ◽  
Traumatic Experiences ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Main Character ◽  
World War ◽  
Kazuo Ishiguro ◽  
War Experience ◽  
Second World

In A Pale View of Hills, Kazuo Ishiguroʼs first novel, the main character and narrator Etsuko remembers a summer in Japan after the Second World War. Migration and the possibility of rebuilding their lives in a different place become a matter of discussion in that period. The purpose of this article is to explore through textual analysis how the novel presents an experience of war in visual terms. Sight becomes the frame for war experience, and therefore the notion of ʻwitness’ becomes central. The narrator takes a position between being a victim and being a witness, showing the difficulties of telling traumatic experiences such as war, the atomic bomb, and its consequences.

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