scholarly journals INTERPRETATION OF THE BIBLICAL PROTOTEXT IN LEONID MOSENDZ’S NOVEL “THE LAST PROPHET”

2021 ◽  
pp. 60-75
Author(s):  
Yuliіa Hryhorchuk
Keyword(s):  
Spiritual Growth ◽  
Gospel Of Luke ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Historical Sources ◽  
Distinctive Features ◽  
John The Baptist ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Common ◽  
The Aesthetic ◽  
Independent Work

The paper deals with the biblical prototext in L. Mosendz’s novel “Th e Last Prophet”. This work focuses on the figure of John the Baptist making the most full coverage of the prophet’s personality in Ukrainian literature. Besides the historical sources, the novel is based on the ideological and aesthetic pattern of the Holy Scripture. However, the canonical text has been significantly rethought. The specifics of interpreting the biblical prototext in L. Mosendz’s novel have not yet been the subject of special research, although many scholars paid attention to the biblical basis of the work. Therefore, the purpose of the present paper is to highlight the peculiarities of the biblical prototext embodied in the novel “The Last Prophet”. The analysis of the plot, figurative and stylistic levels was necessary for achieving this goal. At the plot level, the common and distinctive features of the biblical and fictional stories of the John the Baptist’s life have been indicated. The distinctive features appeared to be more numerous as the text of the novel complements rather than repeats the prototext (the Gospel of Luke). Psychologization, the scholarly motivation of events, the manner of filling “semantic gaps” with both oneiric visions and historical narrations are the specific features in reproducing the biblical story. The main characters of the work Jehohanan and Elizabeth, unlike original biblical characters, are endowed with portrait characteristics and shown in the dynamics of age and spiritual growth. Creating them, the author combines the Old and New Testament prototypes: Eliseba — Sarah, the Mother of God; Jehohanan — David, Elijah, Isaiah, Moses, and Messiah. In this context, the figure of Elizabeth appears as a generalized image of the Mother, and the figure of Jehohanan — as a common image of the Prophet. Th e sacred vocabulary, biblical anthroponyms, toponyms, aphorisms, stylistic figures of inversion, amplification, gradation, etc. form the stylistic level of implementing the aesthetic means of the Holy Scripture. Some biblical quotations are given as poetically modified and emotionally characterized by the writer. The biblical prototext secures ideological and aesthetic integrity for the novel but doesn’t give the plot a strict direction. Although deeply rooted in the Holy Scripture, the novel by Mosendz is a completely independent work on the search for values of a man, people, and humanity.

scholarly journals An exploration of place and its representations: an intertextual/ dialogical reading of the photographs of AB Ovenstone and the novel Gillespie by John MacDougall Hay.

2016 ◽  
Vol 41 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lindsay Fiona Blair
Keyword(s):  
Literary Text ◽  
Landscape Painting ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Work Of Art ◽  
Shipping Company ◽  
Private Collection ◽  
Semiotic Approach ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Common ◽  
The Relationship

“An intertextual/ dialogical reading of place through photography and fiction” The article is an exploration of place and its representations based on the intertextual reading of a series of photographs (1880-82) of Tarbert, Loch Fyne by Andrew Begbie Ovenstone (1851-1935) and the dialogical reading of a novel, Gillespie (1914), by John MacDougall Hay (1881-1919) which is set in Tarbert. The proposed article is inspired by a sense that a semiotic approach to the subject will reveal far more than has been discovered within the tradition of hermeneutics and patrimony and that much will be gained by a study of the contrast between written and visual signifiers. The article raises questions about the (unexamined) coded readings of place especially in relation to the photograph, and the lack of an adequately theorized tradition for the novel. The literary text is well known - if not well understood - but the images are from a rare, unpublished, private collection of photographs from Scotland, India and the furthest reaches of Empire (Ovenstone was the Atlantic Freight Manager of Anchor Line Ltd, the Glasgow shipping company). The paper emphasizes the need for the use of codes to decipher the texts. When we “read” the photographs we need to be aware of the intertextual relationship between the photograph and the landscape painting tradition as well as the common practice of the created tableau – there is then overlaid upon the image the sense of a set of conventions, a system which operates much like a language. We are able to discover through the notion of the “long quotation from appearances” the potential for more complex “synchronic” readings. Likewise, in the case of Gillespie, the novel operates within a genre which determines a “reading”. When we are aware of a code, we become aware of the way that Hay manoeuvres adroitly to thwart the reader’s best efforts to settle upon a preferred reading – especially one shaped by an authoritative narrator - which thereby allows for the genuine experience of “heteroglossia” to emerge. The notion of truth in Gillespie is interrogated in the light of Heidegger’s essay “The Origins of a Work of Art” in order that the relationship between representation and reality be clarified.

scholarly journals “Restoring the Kinship”: the Novel The Adolescent as a Prologue to the Dialogue Between Nikolay Fedorov and Fyodor Dostoevsky

2021 ◽  
pp. 58-87
Author(s):  
Anastasia G. Gacheva
Keyword(s):  
The Novel ◽  
Fyodor Dostoevsky ◽  
Main Work ◽  
Common Task ◽  
The World ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Common

The article is an attempt to read the novel The Adolescent in the light of the spiritual and creative dialogue between the philosopher of the common task Nikolay Fedorov and Fyodor Dostoevsky. Although The Adolescent was written and published three years before Fedorov’s student N. Peterson presented his teacher’s ideas to the writer in the article “What should a people’s school be?”, the novel can be considered as a prologue to the topic that eventually became the subject of Fedorov’s main work The question of brotherhood or kinship, about the causes of the non-fraternal, unrelated, i.e. non-peaceful, state of the world, and about the means to restore kinship. The plot of the novel is interpreted in the article through the prism of Fedorov’s themes of non-kinship and the restoration of universal kinship, the idea of returning the hearts of sons to their fathers and the fathers’ ones to their children. It is shown how the theme of “family as the practical beginning of love” is expressed in the novel.

scholarly journals Biographical and artistic in M. Y. Lermontov’s novel “Princess Ligovskaya” and the drama “Two Brothers”

Litera ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 27-35
Author(s):  
Ekaterina Andreevna Denisova
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Crucial Role ◽  
Early Period ◽  
Literary Texts ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Artistic Interpretation ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Common

This article is dedicated to a comparative analysis of two works by M. Y. Lermontov, which represent the interpretation of the common biographical context. The subject of this research is the specificity of transformation of the biographical fact into the artistic generalization in the works of M. Y. Lermontov. The object of this research is the drama "Two Brothers" and the novel Princess Ligovskaya” viewed within the paradigm of artistic comprehension of the scenario of unfaithfulness, or destruction of love as conceptually important in the conflict present in the works of M. Y. Lermontov. Such approach, based on interrelation between the creative and biographical, allows making important remarks on specificity of the phenomenon of autobiographism in the works of M. Y. Lermontov. The author analyzes the initial biographical situation (relationship between Lermontov and V. A. Lopukhina), and concludes that two literary texts – drama and novel – represent a distinct system of creative reflection of the biographical fact. It is established that in the process of creating the drama, and the novel later on, Lermontov ensues the need for artistic interpretation and resolution of the situation of unfaithfulness as an instance, and in a broader sense – as an ontological pattern; however, the conflict cannot be settled within the framework of this storyline. Since 1837, autobiographism in Lermontov's works ceases to play the crucial role; in other words, personal situation and its artistic interpretation no longer coincide, which renders impossible to continue the novel. Such circumstance allows realizing the reasons of incomplete works of Lermontov’s early period, which lie in inability to resolve love conflicts with a positive finale.

scholarly journals FUNCTIONAL CHARACTERISTICS OF OSSETIAN AND COMMON NORTH CAUCASIAN REGIONALISMS IN A. TSALIKOV’S NOVEL “BROTHER AGAINST BROTHER”

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Б.В. Кунавин
Keyword(s):  
Scientific Literature ◽  
Emotional State ◽  
Cognitive Structure ◽  
Moral Foundations ◽  
Controversial Issues ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Way Of Life ◽  
Main Research ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Common

ктуальность предпринятого исследования обусловлена обострившимся в последнее время интересом к проблемам филологической регионалистики, предметом исследования которой является язык регионов, характеризующийся своеобразной территориальной окраской. Между тем, в существующей научной литературе такие понятия, как региолект, регионализм не получили однозначного толкования и четко не отграничены от смежных понятий. Не выясненным остается вопрос об отношении региональных вариантов языка к общеязыковой норме, не определено отношение региолекта к литературному языку, не выявлен состав региолекта. Много спорных вопросов связано с регионализмами, представляющими собой локальные заимствования и функционирующими в ткани художественного произведения. И в этом смысле актуальность данной статьи представляется очевидной. Целью статьи является исследование функций общекавказских и осетинских регионализмов в романе А. Цаликова «Брат на брата». Основными методами исследования являются описательный, стилистический и когнитивный. Научная новизна работы заключается в уточнении понятий региолекта, регионализма, в раскрытии функций регионально маркированных единиц в романе Цаликова «Брат на брата», в постижении творческой индивидуальности автора, в описании структуры повествования в романе и раскрытии способов репрезентации в нем локальных заимствований. Основными результатами работы являются следующие. Выявлена важнейшая функция регионализмов в романе, используемая для романтизации патриархальной осетинской жизни в ее противопоставлении цивилизации, нивелирующей многие национальные явления, разрушающей народные нравственные основы. Именно эта функция осетинских регионализмов является основополагающей в романе, ибо они наиболее адекватно передают содержание когнитивной структуры и способствуют воссозданию национальной картины мира; кроме того выделены тематические группы указанного разряда региональной лексики в тексте произведения; рассмотрены способы их включения в ткань романа; проанализировано их взаимодействие с другими элементами текста. Сделан вывод о том, что помимо передачи колорита осетинской жизни, транслирования традиционной осетинской культуры, анализируемые регионализмы служат передаче эмоционального состояния героев, особенно главного героя, страстно протестующего против негативных сторон цивилизации и романтизирующего патриархальный уклад жизни.  The recently intensified interest in the problems of philological regionalism, the subject of which is the language of the regions, characterized by a kind of territorial coloring, accounts for the relevance of the present study. Meanwhile, in the existing scientific literature, such concepts as regionalect, regionalism, have not received clear interpretation and are not clearly separated from related concepts. The question of the relation of the regional options language to the common language norm is not defined, nor the ratio of regiolect to the literary language, the composition of regiolect has not been identified. Many controversial issues are related to regionalism, which is a local borrowing and is functioning in the fabric of the work of art. In this sense, the relevance of this article is obvious. The aim of the article is to study the functions of the Caucasian and Ossetian regionalisms in A. Tsalikov’s novel «Brother Against Brother». The main research methods are descriptive, stylistic and cognitive. The scientific novelty of the work is to clarify the concepts of regionalect, regionalism, to reveal the functions of regionally marked units in the novel by A. Tsalikov «Brother Against Brother», in the comprehension of the creative individuality of the author, in the description of the structure of the narrative in the novel and the disclosure of ways of representation of local borrowings in it. The main results of the work are the following: the most important function of regionalisms in the novel, used for the romanticization of the Patriarchal Ossetian life in its opposition to civilization, leveling many national phenomena, destroying the people’s moral foundations, is revealed. It is this function of Ossetian regionalisms that is fundamental in the novel, because they most adequately convey the contents of the cognitive structure and contribute to the reconstruction of the national picture of the world; in addition, the thematic groups of this category of regional vocabulary are highlighted in  the text of the work; the ways of their inclusion in the fabric of the novel are considered; their interaction with other elements of the text is analyzed. It is concluded that in addition to the transfer of the color of Ossetian life, broadcasting traditional Ossetian culture, the analyzed regionalisms serve to convey the emotional state of the characters, especially the main character, passionately protesting against the negative aspects of civilization and romanticizing the patriarchal way of life.

The Mirror, the Lamp, and Public Performances

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shubha Ghosh
Keyword(s):  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
Copyright Infringement ◽  
Copyright Law ◽  
Creative Work ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Literary Critic ◽  
Public Performance ◽  
Legal Method ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Aesthetic

How courts determine copyright infringement has been the subject of scholarly debate. Where courts fail is in adequately appreciating the richness of a creative work, often reducing the novel, the song, the work to its literal terms. While the need for contextualizing creative works is accepted, the approach is not. This article uses the aesthetic framework of literary critic M.H. Abrams to offer a conceptual framework to contextualizing a work within the legal method for assessing copyright infringement. This framework is applied to the problems of infringement by reproduction and unauthorized public performance. Abrams’ aesthetic categories provide a multivalent approach to copyright law. The article ends with a precatory discussion of the problems of conceptualism in law, whether in the application of economic models or of aesthetic theories.

Judicial Review of Administrative Action (1890–1910): A Brief Comparison between the Austro-Hungarian and the German Empires

2021 ◽  
pp. 246-256
Author(s):  
Luca De Lucia
Keyword(s):  
Judicial Review ◽  
Case Law ◽  
Legal Order ◽  
General Introduction ◽  
German Empire ◽  
Distinctive Features ◽  
Administrative Action ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Common ◽  
Comparative Nature

In this brief chapter some reflections of a comparative nature between the Austrian legal order and some state systems of the German Empire are presented regarding the standards of judicial review adopted between 1890 and 1910. The comparison is based primarily on the research works of Angela Ferrari Zumbini and Lilly Weidemann, which, after a general introduction to the subject in the different legal orders, present a series of judgments issued by the administrative courts of last instance in that period. This chapter outlines the common and distinctive features of the review conducted by these courts before examining whether, and in what ways, this case law has contributed to the formation of general principles and rules of conduct for public administrations.

scholarly journals Metafictional poetics of Victor Pelevin’s novel “iPhuck 10”

2019 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Human Life ◽  
The Other ◽  
Dual Function ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Art Objects ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Self Transcendence ◽  
The Aesthetic ◽  
Existential Anthropology ◽  
Event Dynamics

The article analyzes the ways of artistic realization of the aesthetic-reflective metafictional complex in Victor Pelevin’s novel “iPhuck 10”. The metanarrative structure of the novel is traced, which is built with the use of a special type of narrator - a literary simulator, which at the same time is the sum of all the cultural forms of writing, a kind of archive thesaurus, on the other hand undermines the basis of its own narrative by exposing the empty nature and the existential problematic nature of the narrative. Metatextual issues are updated at the level of the deictic structures of the language-speech that are basic for aesthetic communication. A further subject of study is the method of isomorphic conjugation of plot-motive event dynamics with semantics of a series of ecstatically described and interpreted art objects of various medial-semiotic nature. Thanks to the dual function of the diegetic narrator as the subject of the story and its object, the equivalence effect of different metalanguages and discourses is simultaneously created within the framework of the basic conceptual metaphors and symbolic constructions of the novel. Thanks to this, we can talk about both metanarrativeness and the metafiction of the poetics of the novel. Metafictional reflection productively correlates with author's anthropological concepts. In particular, the plot of the creator-impostor combines the through Pelevinian motive of suffering and pain as the fundamental characteristics of human life with pain as an inalienable quality and source of creativity. A software algorithm is grown as a conscious person to create works of art, and its creators reinforce sorrow, anxiety, and the experience of the meaninglessness of existence so that creativity is genuine. Man is experienced by the temptation of demiurgy, by meeting with the Other, by the demand for personal self-transcendence. Thus, the author succeeds in isomorphically combining metafictional poetics and existential anthropology of the novel.

scholarly journals OBJECT, SUBJECT OF THEOLOGY AND ITS DISTRIBUTION WITH OTHER SCIENCES OF RELIGION

2018 ◽  
pp. 109-118
Author(s):  
Vitaliy Khromets
Keyword(s):  
Historical Development ◽  
Distinctive Features ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Common ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Main Material

An attempt was made to outline the common and distinctive features of theology and religion, to instruct domestic scientists in foreign studies on this issue, and to indicate the historical development of these concepts. The statement of basic materials. The presentation of the main material is divided into two parts: the first part of the study is devoted to the object, the subject of theology and the definition of the very concept of theology, the second part of the study details the delineation of theology in the context of other areas of knowledge of religion

scholarly journals THE CHARACTER CONFRONTING THE AUTOR: TOWARD THE ISSUE OF AN UNDESCRIBDED METALITERARY PLOT

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 96-113
Author(s):  
Olga N. Turysheva
Keyword(s):  
Miguel De Unamuno ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Modernist Literature ◽  
Equal Rights ◽  
Fictional World ◽  
Contemporary Novels ◽  
Mass Literature ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Aesthetic ◽  
The Relationship

The article examines a specific metaliterary motif of the confrontation between ‘the author’ and the character. In this motif, both ‘the author’ and the character are portrayed as characters of the plot of the fictional world. The article analyses the emergence of the motif in modernist literature which subverts the realist poetics of the author’s omniscience. The author of the article employs the term ruman to refer to the novel genre where the author and the character enjoy equal rights. The term was first introduced by Miguel de Unamuno whose Mist (1914) was the first example of this version of metareflexive narrative. The article traces the development of the motif in modernist, postmodernist, and recently published contemporary novels. The differences in depicting of the relationship between the author and the character are explicated by reconstruction of the aesthetic and philosophical context of the time and the polemics with the dominating concepts of the Subject. Additionally, the article examines variations of the motif both in highbrow and mass literature focusing on such rumanistic pieces as novels by K. Vaginov, J. Fowles, V. Pelevin, L. Binet.

scholarly journals Some Types of Archaisms in Polish Dialects in Lithuania

2019 ◽  
Vol 64 (2) ◽  
pp. 99-113
Author(s):  
Viktorija Ušinskienė
Keyword(s):  
Significant Role ◽  
International Project ◽  
Historical Sources ◽  
Project Group ◽  
Slavic Languages ◽  
Scientific Papers ◽  
Polish Language ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Common

The subject of the article is related to the author’s work on the international project “Polish Dialects in Lithuania” (“Gwary polskie na Litwie”, 2016–2018). The purpose of this paper was to identify and study lexical archaisms in the dialect material selected by the project group. In the article the concept of ‘archaism’ is interpreted widely: both archaic and obsolete words are considered. In total, it was identified about 200 lexical units classified as obsolete or archaic: proper lexical archaisms constitute approximately 50% of the material (arenda, bachur, czernica etc.), semantic archaisms constitute about 35% (baczyć, cacka, czeladź etc.), and about 15% of the material are lexical word-building archaisms (kradkiem, lenować się, nadgrobek etc.). By comparing the studied material with the data of the historical sources, it was possible to realize that a number of lexemes qualified in some scientific papers as regionalisms borrowed from the Eastern Slavic languages should be recognized as archaisms, once known to the common Polish language. Тhe results allow us to confirm the undoubtedly significant role of the Belarusian and Russian languages in supporting the functioning of lexical archaisms in Polish dialects in Lithuania. About half of the identified lexical archaisms are also known to a number of dialects in Poland.

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