scholarly journals BARCAROLE PRINCIPLE IN A GENRE-COMPOSITIONAL ORGANIZATION OF “BERESTECHKO” BY LINA KOSTENKO

2021 ◽  
pp. 21-37
Author(s):  
Valentyna Saіenko
Keyword(s):  
Creative Thinking ◽  
Historical Novel ◽  
Central Character ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Main Character ◽  
World Culture ◽  
Music And Literature ◽  
Time Flow ◽  
Musical Genres ◽  
First Time

The paper deals with a historical novel in verse by the celebrated modern Ukrainian writer Lina Kostenko, for the first time analyzing it totally in a synesthetic way — through the component of musicality (namely barcarole principle of poetic creativity). The folklore origins of barcarole in the world culture have been traced, as well as the peculiarities of the absorption of the genre by professional music and literature, especially Ukrainian. Formation of the genre in the creative work of the author of “Berestechko”, who is the poet of a special musical feeling, deserves special attention. Barcarole is one of the forms of modernity in the creative thinking of Lina Kostenko; it is a natural writer’s way of perceiving reality and transforming it into an aesthetic system of artistic work (both in poems and the novel in verse). Being inclined to poetically adopt chamber and solo musical genres, the poetess creates a special voice polyphony in “Berestechko”, where each sense construct of a modern unity, i. e. novel lyric epos and barcarole, sounds both separately and complementarily, and the part of a protagonist merges into “I” of a speaker. The compositional function of barcarole in “Berestechko” is the modeling of a central character of the text. It is hetman Bohdan Khmelnytskyi, spiritually undermined by the recent defeat. The barcarole elements are used for constructing the author’s version of this failure and its consequences, which spread around Ukraine as circles on water; absorbing a soothing rhythm of a song, which can cure the soul with love; shaping the architectonics of the text in the form of 'splashes'-'circles' with poly-functional titles and subtexts. In the genre structure of the novel, barcarole is essential both in the development of the theme and its stylistic implementation. In the unity of the work, one may notice “prelude”, the main part, and “postlude”, each part with its artistic sense. The images typical for a barcarole — water, boat, song, woman, love, etc. — are designed in accordance with the agrarian microcosm of the main character and its symbolic senses. Time flow, self-immersion, and love do not only spiritually heal hetman Bohdan Khmelnytskyi, but give his life a direction and endow his figure with grandeur. The neoromantic potential of barcarole and the novel in verse correspond well and join in the final coda about the unshakable courage and heroism of the Ukrainian warriors. 

Kidnapped

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert Louis Stevenson ◽  
Ian Duncan
Keyword(s):  
West Coast ◽  
Historical Novel ◽  
The Novel ◽  
The West ◽  
Scottish Highlands ◽  
Cross Country ◽  
First Time ◽  
Adventure Stories

Your bed shall be the moorcock’s, and your life shall be like the hunted deer’s, and ye shall sleep with your hand upon your weapons.’ Tricked out of his inheritance, shanghaied, shipwrecked off the west coast of Scotland, David Balfour finds himself fleeing for his life in the dangerous company of Jacobite outlaw and suspected assassin Alan Breck Stewart. Their unlikely friendship is put to the test as they dodge government troops across the Scottish Highlands. Set in the aftermath of the 1745 rebellion, Kidnapped transforms the Romantic historical novel into the modern thriller. Its heart-stopping scenes of cross-country pursuit, distilled to a pure intensity in Stevenson’s prose, have become a staple of adventure stories from John Buchan to Alfred Hitchcock and Ian Fleming. Kidnapped remains as exhilarating today as when it was first published in 1886. This new edition is based on the 1895 text, incorporating Stevenson’s last thoughts about the novel before his death. It includes Stevenson’s ‘Note to Kidnapped’, reprinted for the first time since 1922.

scholarly journals Eugene Onegin’s stages of evolution

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (4) ◽  
pp. 136-171
Author(s):  
Yuri M. Nikishov
Keyword(s):  
Old Age ◽  
Meaning Of Life ◽  
Self Determination ◽  
Complete Picture ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Main Character ◽  
Search For Self ◽  
Eugene Onegin ◽  
First Time

The article attempts to understand the author’s attitude to the main character of the novel “Eugene Onegin” by Alexander Pushkin. For the first time, a complete picture of Onegin’s evolution is given. The author proves that the rapture of secular life is just his prehistory; that the search for self-determination of Pushkin’s hero begins with a blues (premature old age of the soul). Communication with Vladimir Lensky makes Onegin reflect on the meaning of life. The highest point of his searches is freedom and peace (at the level of interests of the circus circle). Thoughts on the Onegin’s hypothetical fate are not attempts “to complete” the novel ending, but this is a way to understand the hero more deeply. The poet himself gave an example of such hypothetical thoughts. The “Fragments from Onegin’s Journey” that violate the plot sequence, placed after the notes (end sign), with their tone create a hint in determining Onegin’s hypothetical fate.

scholarly journals Restoration of the Self through History and Myth in Lina Kostenko’s “Marusia Churai”

2019 ◽  
pp. 39-45
Author(s):  
Myroslava Tomorug-Znaienko
Keyword(s):  
Historical Novel ◽  
The Self ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Main Character ◽  
Historical Reality ◽  
The Past ◽  
History Of ◽  
Narrative Mode ◽  
History And Myth ◽  
Unique Individual

The paper analyzes Lina Kostenko’s historical novel in verse portraying the life of the 17th century  Ukrainian minstrel poet Marusia Churai, condemned to death for poisoning her faithless lover. This work, which grows out of Kostenko’s individualized mythical perception of Marusia Churai legend, represents a unique individual construct in which the heroines’ quest for self-realization is kept in tune with the same yearning of the poetess herself; the author’s attitude towards the myth resembles the heroine’s relations with history. The narrative mode of the novel functions mainly in three aspects; these are the heroine’s confrontation with the carnivalized reality of her trial; her subjective journey inward, into the  ruined self, when her execution was pending; and her objective pilgrimage outward, into the history of her ruined land, after getting pardon. The paper touches upon various aspects of the heroine’s perception of history. The main character is depicted as a witness of contemporary events and a bearer of the Word who keeps harmony with the sacred truth of the past. The Hetman’s ‘pardon’ allows Marusia to move freely through history in order to achieve a deeper understanding of her ruined land and seize its spirit. In the experience of the heroine the historical reality appears as versatile and polyphonic, at the same time remaining integral and inseparable from her personality. Kostenko asserts the rights of poets to create their own epochs, to recreate the past or present from within their own mythical experience, becoming thus not only myth-bearers but also mythmakers.

THE STYLISTIC VALUE OF THE SIMILE IN THE HISTORICAL NOVEL “ GEVORG MARZPETUNI” BY MURATSAN

2021 ◽  
pp. 115-122
Author(s):  
MARY HAMBARYAN
Keyword(s):  
Creative Thinking ◽  
Historical Novel ◽  
The Novel

MARY HAMBARYAN- THE STYLISTIC VALUE OF SIMILE IN THE HISTORICAL NOVEL “GEVORG MARZPETUNI” BY MURATSAN The article refers to the stylistic functions of similes applied in Muratsan's historical novel "Gevorg Marzpetuni". Being unique forms of creative thinking, the similes make the novel sound emotional, colorful and expressive. The article dwells upon diverse nuances and types of similes and their different manifestations used in the novel.

scholarly journals FAKTA SEJARAH DALAM NOVEL PEREMPUAN KEUMALA KARYA ENDANG MOERDOPO

2015 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 25
Author(s):  
Wildan Wildan ◽  
Mohd. Harun ◽  
Yeni Safrida
Keyword(s):  
Historical Novel ◽  
New Historicism ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Military Academy ◽  
Historical Events ◽  
Historical Fact ◽  
First Time

This study aims at analyzing historical facts encountered in the novel  Keumala Woman (Perempuan Keumala) written by Endang Moerdopo. The analyses comprises of historical facts about: (1) Keumalahayati, (2) historical events, and (3) places having historical story. Data of this study are sequences of events in the novel pertaining to historical realities.  New historicism analysis is used to describe the data.  The study reveals some findings. First, Keumalahayati is a royal woman who finished her education in Military Academy Makhad Baitul Makdis. Several names that supports historical fact is her husband Sultan Alaiddin Riayat Syah, Cut Limpah, Alfonso, Sultan Muda, Cornelis de Houtman and Frederick de Houtman. Second, historical events incurred in the novel included the development of Makhad Baitul Makdis, the war to Portoguuese in Teluk Haru, rebellion of Sultan Muda, and the arrival of the Dutch for the first time in Aceh.  Third, name of places supporting historical facts consisted of Makhad Baitul Makdis, kingdom palace, Krueng Raya Harbor, Pulau Weh, Benteng Inong Balee, Teluk Haru, and Tamiang.  This novel is in fact a historical novel particularly that describes the heroism of Keumalahayati.  

scholarly journals OBJECTIVATION OF THE INTROVERT TYPE OF A PERSONALITY IN THE NOVEL"TICKET TO THE STARS" BY V. AKSYONOV

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (7) ◽  
Author(s):  
Liliya F. Bormusova ◽  
Dinara I. Rakhimov ◽  
Nailya N. Fattakhova
Keyword(s):  
Psychological Type ◽  
Professional Activity ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Main Character ◽  
Psychological Types ◽  
The Core ◽  
Individual Traits ◽  
Methods Of Synthesis ◽  
The Individual ◽  
First Time

The current research is executed in the mainstream of psycholinguistics within which the theory of psychological types has been developing in the last decades. The analysis of an introspective psychological type is carried out in the article on the basis of an art discourse viewing which we are guided by the theory of the identity of K.G. Jung. On the material of the story by V.P. Aksyonov "Ticket to the stars" the introspective type of the personality is being investigated for the first time; it is represented by the personage of the graduate student Victor, the elder brother of the main character of the story – of Dimka. In general, being stereotypic, the analyzed character has a number of the individual traits latently pointing to his professional activity. For the description of structure of the core of a psychological type the typified and individual signs are revealed; the share of these signs in the formation of the studied psychological type is defined. The analysis was carried out with the application of the methods of synthesis and generalization.

scholarly journals PAUL KALANITHI’S PSYCHE AS SEEN IN PAUL KALANITHI’S WHEN BREATH BECOMES AIR

2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Anicleta Yuliastuti ◽  
Nisfi Juli Imroatussolihah
Keyword(s):  
Sigmund Freud ◽  
Qualitative Method ◽  
Moral Principle ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Main Character ◽  
Causal Factors ◽  
First Time

The main goal of this research is to find out the psyche of the main character from When Breath Becomes Air novel using qualitative method. Psychoanalysis theory of Sigmund Freud (1856- 1939) is used to analyze the main character by the words and conversation in the novel. The result of this research shows that the psyche of the main character is balance. Id, Ego, and Superego are well played in Paul Kalanithi. In the first time, he is conquered by the Id and the ego tries to fulfill the id’s demand, shows from his passion in writing and studying Literature. By the following time, the superego appears and works as good as its moral principle, describes from his decision for being a doctor to help someone’s life. Furthermore, to make more understand about Paul Kalanithi’s psyche, the causal factors and the effects of his psyche are also analyzed in this research.Key Words: Novel, Character, Psychology, Psychoanalysis, id ego and superego

Spectral Histories: The Queer Temporalities of Emma Donoghue's Slammerkin

2013 ◽  
Vol 43 (1) ◽  
pp. 157-168 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maria Mulvany
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Temporal Logic ◽  
Historical Novel ◽  
Central Character ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Teenage Girl ◽  
Race And Class ◽  
The Social ◽  
Temporal Aspects ◽  
Queer Temporality

Set in mid-eighteenth century London, Emma Donoghue's first historical novel, Slammerkin reconstructs the life of a teenage girl hanged in 1764 for the murder of her mistress and, in doing so, attempts to position the girl's murderous outburst as a reaction to the psychical traumas suffered throughout the course of her short and brutal life. This essay attends to the temporal aspects of Slammerkin in order to examine how the novel offers a subtle queering of both temporal normativity and the sequential temporal logic that heteronormative culture is contingent upon. Moreover, it explores how Donoghue's ventriloquization of the central character, Mary Saunders, speaks not only to the spectralization of women in history but also to the social ghosting of those whose lives appear to be out-of-joint with normative modes of time. By reading Donoghue's reparative gesture through recent articulations of spectrality and queer temporality, I present the novel as a form of narrative crypt that provides a phantasmal space for the spectral return of those who have been abjected from history, not only as a consequence of their gender, race, and class, but also because of their inability or refusal to comply with the normative temporal rhythms of the society in which they live.

scholarly journals Lady Macbeth in the Context of Russian Culture: From a Character to a Plot

2020 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 73-88
Author(s):  
M. N. Klimova
Keyword(s):  
Collective Consciousness ◽  
The Novel ◽  
World Culture ◽  
Literary Source ◽  
Theater Music ◽  
Russian Soil ◽  
Lady Macbeth ◽  
Contemporary Reality ◽  
First Time ◽  
Jacob's Ladder

Lady Macbeth, the ambitious wife of the title character of the Scottish tragedy of W. Shakespeare, became a household name. Her name is represented in collective consciousness both as a symbol of insidiousness and as a reminder of the torments of a guilty conscience. Lady Macbeth entered the world culture, as an image of a strong and aggressive woman, who is ready for a conscious violation of ethical norms and rises even against the laws of her nature. N. S. Leskov describes appearance of that kind of a character in a musty atmosphere of a Russian province in his famous novella “Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District” (1864). He pegged this image as the product of a suffocating lack of freedom of his contemporary reality. The author moved typical features of the Shakespearean heroine to a Russian soil, into the thick of people’s life and created a special love-criminal plot of complex origin for the purposes of its full disclosure in new conditions. The novella plot organically absorbs a number of Shakespearean motifs and images despite of the fact that it is outwardly far from the events of the tragedy “Macbeth”. Notwithstanding that Leskov’s novella had been leaving out by critics’ attention for more than 60 years, it was included in the gold fund of Russian classics in the 20 th century, evoked many artistic responses in literature and art, gained international fame and complemented the content of the “Russian myth” in world culture. Not only Leskov’s novella is discussed in the article but also other variants of the Russian Lady Macbeth’s plot such as the poem of N. Ushakov, the story of Yu. Dombrovsky, named after the Shakespearean heroine, as well as a fragment of the novel by L. Ulitskaya “Jacob’s Ladder” with discussing of the draft of one of the possible staging of the essay. Also, a hidden presence of this plot for the first time is noticed in the story “Rus” by E. I. Zamyatin and in the ballad-song “Lesnichikha” by V. Dolina. Moreover, the article gives analysis of transpositions of this literary source into theater, music and cinema languages: its first stage adaptation by director A. Dikiy, the opera “Katerina Izmailova” by D. D. Shostakovich, and its screen versions and cinema remakes such as “Siberian Lady Macbeth” by A. Wajda, “Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District” by R. Balayan, “Moscow Nights” by V. Todorovsky, “Lady Macbeth” by W. Oldroyd. The moral evaluation of the Katerina Izmailova’s story left for Leskov as a frightening mystery of an immense Russian soul, but in the further processing of the plot it ranges from condemnation to justification and even apology of the heroine. Adaptations of this plot are also differ in the degree of dependence of the central female image from his Shakespearean prototype.

scholarly journals A Slap in the Face of Socialist Taste: The Novel "Nikolai Nikolaevich" by Yuz Aleshkovsky As a Contestation of the Rules of Socialist Realism

2021 ◽  
Vol 31 ◽  
pp. 1-22
Author(s):  
Elżbieta Tyszkowska-Kasprzak
Keyword(s):  
Socialist Realism ◽  
Literary Texts ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Main Character ◽  
Sperm Donor ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Socialist Realist ◽  
Long Time ◽  
The Face ◽  
First Time

Yuz Aleshkovsky wrote the novel „Nikolai Nikolaevich” in the 1970s. For a long time, the work was disseminated in samizdat and it appeared in print for the first time only in 1980. Composed under the censorship conditions of socialist realism dominant in the arts, this work violates strict taboos imposed on subjects related to sexuality and stylistic solutions which exclude sub-normative vocabulary. In many aspects, the composition of the novel resembles the pattern of the production novel. At the same time, the writer negate the values propagated in the art of socialist realism: the main character is a former pickpocket, who built a comfortable life for himself as a sperm donor in a laboratory and talks about his professional achievements in a language saturated with profanity and elements of criminal jargon. The plot of the work is based on an amalgamation of components characteristic of ideologized literary texts with elements that were unacceptable in such texts. The introduction into the novel of the theme of corporality, and human sexuality, which was a taboo topic in socialist realist literature, introduces a major dissonance and induces produces a comic effect.

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