scholarly journals To whom and why F. M. Dostoevsky is precious?

2021 ◽  
pp. 24-30
Author(s):  
Ivan A. Charota
Keyword(s):  
Basic Education ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Self Awareness ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Crime And Punishment ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Constructive Criticism ◽  
Main Thing ◽  
Great Writer ◽  
Literary Classics

The article is devoted to the analysis of F. M. Dostoevsky’s work regarding his 200th anniversary. The author aims to reveal to whom and why the great writer and thinker is precious, and how his work is perceived in Serbia. He tries to evaluate what contributes to and what hinders the comprehension of the F. M. Dostoevsky phenomenon. The author notes that veneration for such a writer can be fully expressed when everyone who has mastered literacy starts reading at least one of his works and feels the field of attraction and repulsion, which does not always correlate with the problem field of scientific F. M. Dostoevsky studies. Unfortunately, the author states that the youth do not initially develop an elementary desire to necessarily be included in the literary classics in such conditions when the entire system of basic education seems to be subordinated to the task of discouraging any desire to read on their own, and even more so to feel and reflect. Interest in «Crime and punishment» is almost impossible to arouse basing on stereotypical comments with a retelling of the plot, some elements of which are included in the tests for the subject devoid of attractiveness. And the plot, moreover, is fully conveyed by the half-page versions of the novel, which are prepared by enterprising interpreters precisely for passing the test as the optimal form of attestation. At the same time, the judgments of foreign writers are used surprisingly widely, and at the same time thoughtlessly – the main thing is that they have an appropriate image. Over time, it becomes more and more obvious that few contemporary writers can compare to F. M. Dostoevsky both in the depth and completeness of ideas about the real life of a Russian person, especially in the scope of its spheres, and in the insight of the analysis of everything that happened and which inevitably followed from what was happening. For a century and a half, F. M. Dostoevsky has remained an unparalleled bearer of the conscience of mankind, a kind of seismograph of the coming upheavals. The author states that in Serbia, the reverent perception of F. M. Dostoevsky, which was formed under the influence of the Russian religious emigration, dominates. A separate topic is also the impressive activity and productivity of the Serbian scientific F. M. Dostoevsky studies. Finally, if all this we project onto the Belarusians, then it would be appropriate to say that F. M. Dostoevsky is the bearer of special patriotism manifested not in superficial pathos, which usually serves either self-praise or complacency, but in soberly analytical and constructive criticism, which presupposes, first of all, self-criticism, as an indispensable component of sound national self-awareness.

scholarly journals “EVANGELICAL TEXT” OF THE NOVEL “CRIME AND PUNISHMENT” IN VIETNAMESE TRANSLATION

2020 ◽  
pp. 148-152
Author(s):  
Nguyen Thi Hoan ◽  
Galina G. Yermilova
Keyword(s):  
New Testament ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Russian Orthodoxy ◽  
Fyodor Dostoevsky ◽  
Crime And Punishment ◽  
The Bible ◽  
The New Testament ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The 19Th Century ◽  
First Time

The article for the first time explores the translation of the ‟evangelical text” of Fyodor Dostoevsky’s novel ‟Crime and Punishment” into Vietnamese. The ‟evangelical text” refers to the New Testament quotations, for the first time both in the writer’s work and in the Russian literature of the 19th century as a whole, widely used by Fyodor Dostoevsky. Threeauthoritative translations by Trương Định Cư (1972), Lý Quốc Sinh (1973), Cao Xuân Hạo (1982-1983) are involved. The translation of the Bible into Vietnamese used by translators and involved in the liturgical practice of the Vietnamese Orthodox Church, has been revealed. On the basis of a continuous text sample of the «evangelical text» three translations were compared with the original and reverse translations, followed by an analytical commentary. The subject of the article is a monologue of «drunken» Semyon Marmeladov in the tavern (p. 1, ch. 2), saturated with New Testament quotations, and an evangelical scene about raised Lazarus (p. 4, ch. 4). It is concluded that when translating the «evangelical text» of the novel, the Vietnamese translators experienced serious difficulties due to ignorance of Russian Orthodoxy, which is still perceived in Vietnam to this day as a kind of exotic. Some specific refinements to existing translations are proposed.

scholarly journals For what reason does Raskolnikov laugh?

Litera ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 89-97
Author(s):  
Tszinyan Ma
Keyword(s):  
Computer Software ◽  
Semantic Space ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Semantic Field ◽  
Linguistic Identity ◽  
Crime And Punishment ◽  
Semantic Fields ◽  
Field Linguistics ◽  
The Subject

This article analyzes the resources of application of computer technologies for the purpose of visualization of the text semantic field “laughter”. The concept of “laughter” holds a special place in the works of F. M. Dostoevsky, as well as in one of the central semantic fields in the text semantic space of the novel “Crime and Punishment”. Examination of the semantic field within the space of a particular literary text allows determining the peculiarities of the authorial thesaurus within the structure of his linguistic identity. The subject of this article is the concept of “laughter” as the core of the corresponding text semantic field; determination of saturation of the text with the words belonging to a certain semantic field. Despite the fact that multiple questions related to the theory of semantic field are well studied, the scholars take interests in studying the linguistic material, denoted in field linguistics, namely development of the techniques for visualization of the semantic  network through creating cloud tags, semantic text markup, synoptic patterns, rendering, etc. The article offers one of the techniques – visualization based on construction of a plot using a specifically developed computer software. The graphic image illustrates the distribution of units of the semantic field “laughter” in the novel, which enables new interpretations of the content of Dostoevsky’s novel.

scholarly journals Excerpts from The Freedom Fight: A Novel of Resistance and Freedom.

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-36
Author(s):  
Pamela J. Olubunmi Smith
Keyword(s):  
Basic Education ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Modern World ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Traditional Authority ◽  
The People ◽  
Feudal Lord ◽  
Freedom Fighters ◽  
The Many

The Novel Set in 19th century traditional Yorùbáland in South Western Nigeria, Olókùn Ẹṣin is a historical tale about feudalism and enslavement, freedom and independence. It chronicles brilliantly the rebellion of an idealist, Àjàyí, son of Olókùn-Ẹṣin, a prominent member of the town’s Council of Chiefs and the chain reaction of the revolution he mounts against the injustices of enslavement and any kind of feudal practices. His violent protest results in eventual freedom and independence for the people of Òkò from years of servitude under the feudal lord, Olúmokùn, signaling the beginning of the end of feudalism in Yorùbáland. Told mostly from the protagonist’s point of view, with the help of his two prominent compatriots, childhood friend Àyọwí and Ibiwumi, the town’s ̀ Baálẹ’s own daughter, ̀ Ọmọ Olókùn-Ẹṣin chronicles not only the experiences and struggles of these three idealists, but also the inevitable uncertainties and risks of mobilizing the oppressed rank and file in a rule-of-fear system, sanctioned by traditional authority, the many trials and tribulations suffered at the hands of the wily oppressors, and the risks and frustrations of advancing the movement. Ironically, despite the novel’s tension, the ending is paradoxical. While the freedom seekers succeed in establishing a grassroots movement, first by their own example of charity and basic education, however, their hard-fought campaign is compromised by a less than convincing negotiation for freedom, which they gain by bargaining their forced enslavement for a voluntary servitude. Nonetheless, as with any fight for freedom in the modern world, the separation process between the colonizer and the colonized is tenuous, much like the typical Prospero-Caliban sort of scheming, distrustful bargaining between two “unequals.” In Fálétí’s words, “the choice of ending is no different from what happens in ‘real-life’ situations, when the colonizer ensures that he 208 From the Archives does not leave the negotiation table completely empty handed.” 1 The incongruous, happily-ever-after ending of weddings among the freedom fighters, while plausible, appears rather contrived. Nonetheless, its place in Yorùbá literary corpus and contribution to the revolutionary novel sub-genre cannot be overstated. Its significance is threefold. First, it is the best, perhaps still the only, known example of the revolutionary novel sub-genre in Yorùbá that chronicles the practice of the feudal system in Yorùbá history, thus making it the standard example, a good one at that, of successful experimentation in the sub-genre. Undoubtedly, its depiction of slavery and resistance makes it unrivalled as an eloquent marker of a historical and linguistic age gone by. Secondly, it joins the ranks of the works of only two other leading contemporary Yorùbá writers, whose attention to language make them the remaining literary and linguistic purists of the previous generation of Yorùbá writers. Thirdly, since its publication in 1970, it has withstood the test of time as the premier example of “ìjìnlẹ̀ Yorùbá.”    

The investigator: on ‘life’ after death. Charles Lewinsky’s Andersen

2019 ◽  
pp. 216-225
Author(s):  
I. I. Reiderman
Keyword(s):  
Self Awareness ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Moral Self ◽  
Life After Death ◽  
Banality Of Evil ◽  
Human Type ◽  
The Enlightenment ◽  
Enlightenment Project ◽  
The Subject

Devoted to Andersen, a novel by the Swiss-born writer Charles Lewinsky, the article sets out to interpret the book with a special emphasis on its protagonist, a Gestapo officer, whose image experiences a paradoxical reinvention in our time. In his analysis, the author is not limited to interpretation of the novel’s meanings. The article argues that Lewinsky’s novel explores contemporary cultural-philosophical problems: those of humanity in the postmodern situation. On the subject of the ‘banality of evil’ (using Hanna Arendt’s term), the author points out the severe estrangement of the main character’s consciousness, the existence devoid of life, substituted with insensitive functioning. The paper emphasizes that while the human type described in the novel formally conforms to ‘the Enlightenment project’, it demonstrates an egregious lack of moral self-awareness. The author refers to such a description as typical for a ‘hero of our time’ in the 21st c. and, therefore, problematizes the cultural-philosophical discourses invoked by Lewinsky in his book.

Colombian Sicariato and Rosario Tijeras

2020 ◽  
pp. 197-228
Author(s):  
Aldona Bialowas Pobutsky
Keyword(s):  
Real Life ◽  
The Other ◽  
Press Coverage ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Femme Fatale ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Rosario Tijeras

This chapter turns to the other by-product of Colombia’s narco machine: the plague of sicarios recruited from that nation’s hardscrabble neighborhoods. It traces the rise of hitmen from its original press coverage, when Escobar ordered the assassination of Colombia’s Justice Minister Rodrigo Lara Bonilla in 1984, to the present-day “baby sicarios,” whose disturbingly premature entry into delinquency has become the subject of several film documentaries. Though real-life sicarios have been associated with men, it is Jorge Franco’s female rendition of the phenomenon, the eponymous heroine of the novel Rosario Tijeras, which in a brief time moved to both the small and the big screens. This chapter explores the trajectory of the Rosario Tijeras franchise, where her multiple renditions turned the femme fatale into a household name. Albeit fictional, she grew to incarnate Colombia’s women who became hardened by the volatile circumstances of drug and guerrilla violence.

scholarly journals “Voskresenie” and “Voskreshenie” in Fedor Dostoevsky’s Novel Crime and Punishment

2020 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 190-216
Author(s):  
Natalia A. Tarasova
Keyword(s):  
Scientific Literature ◽  
Russian Orthodox ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Main Character ◽  
Crime And Punishment ◽  
Long Time ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Points Of View ◽  
Biblical Sources

<p>The article deals with the history of studying Christian images and motifs in the novel of Fedor Dostoevsky <em>Crime and Punishment</em>. The novel&rsquo;s conflict and the image of the main character for a long time have had different, often directly opposite, interpretations&nbsp;&mdash; first of all, in the matter of Raskolnikov&rsquo;s repentance and his spiritual rebirth. The subject of the research is the resurrection as the central theme of the novel <em>Crime and Punishment</em>. Special attention is paid to the analysis of lexical variants &ldquo;voskresenie&rdquo; and &ldquo;voskreshenie&rdquo;, the first of which belongs to Dostoevsky, and the second, one applicable to Raskolnikov, is traced in scientific literature on the novel. The overview of various research points of view is accompanied by an analysis of the novel&rsquo;s draft and printed texts. This review allows carrying out a detailed textual comparison with the biblical sources of the theme of the resurrection and identifying the author&rsquo;s position in this work. The text of the novel indicates that its author is focused on the key ideas of Russian Orthodox culture and the &ldquo;Easter&rdquo; plot of the gospel narrative.</p>

scholarly journals Emotional intelligence in Belva Plain’s Blessings

2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 204
Author(s):  
Nori Indriyani ◽  
Rahmi Munfangati
Keyword(s):  
Emotional Intelligence ◽  
Social Skills ◽  
Interpersonal Relations ◽  
Self Regulation ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Self Awareness ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Emotional Challenges ◽  
Psychological Phenomena ◽  
Qualitative Descriptive

Everyone faces emotional challenges. It can influence their behavior since emotion is an incredibly strong drive on human behavior. This powerful emotion can lead someone to take actions that he might not regularly do, or keep away from the conditions that someone enjoys. Emotionality is related to a range of psychological phenomena, including mood, temperament, personality, and motivation. The ability to control emotions in the self and others is called Emotional Intelligence (EI). EI can be found not only in real life but in literary works such as a novel. In line with that interesting topic, this article, therefore, explores the EI and the implications of EI of the main character in Belva Plain’s Blessings. In analyzing the novel, the study applied a psychological approach. The technique of analyzing the data was a qualitative descriptive method. The findings of the study showed Jennie’s EI, that is composed of emotional self-awareness, self-regulation, motivation, and social skills. Furthermore, the results revealed the implications of Jennie’s EI; she becomes successful because she is good at self-regulation and motivation. She is also good at self-awareness, empathy and social skills, so she has better interpersonal relations.

scholarly journals ASSOCIATED RATIO IN ARCHITECTONY OF THE NOVEL BY H. TIUTIUNNYK “ZAVIAZ”

2018 ◽  
pp. 84-87
Author(s):  
Olesya Likhachova
Keyword(s):  
Multilevel Analysis ◽  
Real Life ◽  
The Other ◽  
The Novel ◽  
The Real ◽  
The Core ◽  
Spiritual World ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Self Motion

The article deals with the motive analysis in the work of G. Tiutiunnyk, the connection between the motive and the plot in the novel “Zaviaz” is updated. The purpose of the article is an updated, methodologically pluralistic, multilevel analysis of the poetics of the prose of H. Tiutiunnyk in the organic interconnection and interaction with such macrostructures as the conceptual and dialogic nature of the conflict of the work, as a plot and «philosophy of composition»; an updated interpretation (on the phenomenological and hermeneutic levels) of the work of the writer’s prose “archetypal plot” and the role of large and small “associative fields”, their “binary pairs” in the process of implementation and self-deployment of the composition. It was in this context that the subject of the analysis was the novel “Zaviaz of H.Tiutiunnyk. Emphasis is placed on the existential perception of the author. It is characterized the binary pairs that grow rapidly, pulsating, generating all the other, new and unexpected dynamic bonds, images, symbols, associative crossings, dialogical positions and their circulation; in fact, it is this self-motion of all the structures in the work that is the essence of the internal self-deployment of the composition; they — in dynamics — are the key, supporting, semantically and figuratively charged nuclei, in the process of splitting distinguishing the conceptual and compositional energy of the work. It is noted that associative areas and their dynamic connections in the prose of the writer are deeply thought out, deliberately organized and designed: from the real life and the spiritual world of the author, his characters — again aimed at the core of the same real life.

scholarly journals The idea of acceptance of suffering in the works of F. M. Dostoyevsky and its correlation with the theme of schism and the myth on earth

Litera ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 51-63
Author(s):  
Svetlana Dmitrievna Snigireva
Keyword(s):  
Religious Movements ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Common People ◽  
Special Contribution ◽  
Old Believers ◽  
Crime And Punishment ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Dead ◽  
Brothers Karamazov

The subject of this research is the idea of acceptance of suffering described in the works Of F. M. Dostoevsky, and its correlation with the theme of unorthodox religious movements and the myth on earth. The object of this research is the works of F. M. Dostoevsky (&ldquo;The House of the Dead&rdquo;, &ldquo;Crime and Punishment&rdquo;, &ldquo;Demons&rdquo;, &ldquo;The Brothers Karamazov&rdquo;) along with preliminary materials, as well as articles from the periodicals dedicated to old believers and sectarianism (&ldquo;Double-believers of the Holy Rus'&rdquo; by V. I. Kelsiyev, &ldquo;Secret Sects" and &ldquo;White Doves&rdquo; by P. I. Melnikov,&rdquo;Zemstvo and Schism. Runners&rdquo;, &ldquo;Mentality of the Russian Schism&rdquo; by A. P. Shchapov). The goal of this research consists in determination of correlation of the idea of acceptance of suffering in Dostoevsky's works with the theme of schism and the myth on earth. The scientific novelty lies in analysis of mythologization mechanisms of the category of earth and the image of Russian people in the writings of F. M. Dostoevsky, associated with the idea of acceptance of suffering that takes its roots in the schism. The author&rsquo;s special contribution lies in identification of correlation between motifs and images from of the novel &ldquo;Demons&rdquo; and sectarianism. The conclusion is made that voluntary acceptance of suffering, associated with the religious context, namely with the idea of accepting suffering for the faith inherent to old believers, is reflected in &ldquo;The House of the Dead&rdquo; and &ldquo;Crime and Punishment&rdquo;. Beginning with the first novel of &ldquo;Samaritan Pentateuch&rdquo;, this motif, entailing with a special for Dostoyevsky mythologem of earth, is implemented in the context of the idea of humanity&rsquo;s guilt before nature and mankind, and the need for its redemption through suffering. The idea of suffering, essential for salvation of the soul and regaining of the lost faith is also closely related to the ideology of nativism, since it is conveyed to the &ldquo;out of touch&rdquo; atheists by the representatives of common people.

Investigating College Students’ Views on Mathematics Learning Through Reflective Journal Writing

2017 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 38 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ivee Kalalo Guce
Keyword(s):  
Journal Writing ◽  
Meaning Making ◽  
Mathematics Learning ◽  
Group Discussion ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Study Data ◽  
Self Awareness ◽  
Reflective Journal ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Axial Coding

The study on reflective journal writing (RJW) and its benefits as assessed by the teachers has long been an inclination in mathematics education. However, little research has been done to explore the feelings of students towards RJW and how such has an effect on their mathematics learning. This study aimed to describe the feelings of the students about RJW. Being a qualitative type of research study, data were acquired through focus group discussion and were analyzed using axial coding. Results revealed that RJW (i) provided opportunities for the students to construct meaning and express personal views and ideas; (ii) built a connection between the teacher and the students; (iii) through the use of prompts, allowed the students to relate mathematics to real-life facts improving their understanding of the subject; (iv) helped the students build association of ideas using their prior knowledge and experiences; and (v) enabled the students to develop self-awareness. The findings suggest that when students are engaged in reflective writing experiences which explicitly promote meaning-making or self-questioning, teachers create an opportunity for them to see how the process of writing can enrich their mathematical learning.

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