An Existentialist Epistemology of the Closet: Sexuality and Art in Raymond Queneau's Zazie dans le métro

2012 ◽  
Vol 51 (2) ◽  
pp. 175-191
Author(s):  
Enda McCaffrey
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Orientation ◽  
Identity Construction ◽  
Coming Out ◽  
Choice Situation ◽  
Main Character ◽  
Artistic Creation ◽  
Verbal Utterance ◽  
The Way

This article explores how Sartean existentialism can be used to explain the sexual orientation of the main character Gabriel in Raymond Queneau's Zazie dans le métro. Drawing firstly on the novel's rich and broader philosophical roots, the article proceeds to engage with the philosophy of existentialism as a way of highlighting Gabriel's attempts to conquer himself, champion a morality of action and commitment over secular morality, and give meaning to his sexuality through concepts of choice, situation, authenticity and artistic creation. Gabriel's monologues take him out of the conversational currency of the récit's structure and into a philosophical mode of thinking. In these instances, Queneau's sub-codes and intertextual references to Sartrean existentialism gesture towards an existentialist breakthrough where Gabriel's existence is seen to coalesce with a discrete ‘coming out’ narrative that predates the politics of power, gender and identity construction of the 1970s and beyond. The situatedness and literariness of Gabriel's homosexuality is textual; this textuality is played out existentially in the way his homosexuality as verbal utterance/reality is continually deferred and connected critically to signifiers of Sartrean humanism, intersubjectivity and transcendence.

The impact of demographic factors on the way lesbian and gay employees manage their sexual orientation at work

2015 ◽  
Vol 38 (9) ◽  
pp. 992-1015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas Köllen
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Orientation ◽  
Gay Men ◽  
Demographic Factors ◽  
Diversity Management ◽  
Coping Resources ◽  
Cross Sectional Survey ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Lesbian And Gay ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Way

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore the influence demographic factors have on the way lesbians and gay men manage their sexual orientation at work. Design/methodology/approach – Based on data taken from a cross-sectional survey of 1,308 gay and lesbian employees working in Germany, four regression models are proposed. The means of handling one’s homosexuality at work was measured by the 31 items containing Workplace Sexual Identity Management Measure from Anderson et al. (2001). Findings – Results indicate that being in a relationship is related to increased openness about one’s homosexuality at work. Furthermore, it appears that the older and the more religious lesbian and gay employees are, the more open (and therefore less hidden) about their sexuality they are. Having a migratory background is related to being more guarded about one’s sexual orientation, whereas personal mobility within the country is not related to the way one manages one’s sexual orientation at work. Lesbians tend to be a little more open and less guarded about their homosexuality compared to gay men. Research limitations/implications – The focus of this research (and the related limitations) offers several starting and connecting points for more intersectional research on workforce diversity and diversity management. Practical implications – The study’s findings indicate the need for an intersectional approach to organizational diversity management strategies. Exemplified by the dimension “sexual orientation”, it can be shown that the impact each dimension has for an employee’s everyday workplace experiences and behavior in terms of a certain manifestation of one dimension of diversity can only be understood in terms of its interplay with other dimensions of diversity. Originality/value – It is shown that manifestations of demographic factors that tend to broaden the individual’s coping resources for stigma-relevant stressors lead to more openness about one’s homosexuality in the workplace.

Coming Out in Class: Disclosure of Sexual Orientation and Teaching Evaluations

1997 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 32-35 ◽  
Author(s):  
Becky J. Liddle
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Orientation ◽  
Coming Out ◽  
Counseling Psychology ◽  
Assistant Professor ◽  
Group Differences ◽  
Teaching Evaluations ◽  
Disclosure Of Sexual Orientation ◽  
Orientation Bias

A lesbian assistant professor of counseling psychology disclosed her sexual orientation during lectures to 2 sections of an undergraduate course and did not disclose in 2 comparable sections of the same course. Group differences in means and variances of teaching evaluations were examined for possible student bias. No evidence of sexual orientation bias was found.

scholarly journals Recalculating the White Page-GPS Love in Comme dans un film des frères Coen

2016 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 53-72
Author(s):  
Valerie Hastings
Keyword(s):  
The Novel ◽  
Main Character ◽  
Creative Activity ◽  
Moving Images ◽  
The Voice ◽  
The Way

Abstract Hastings reads the novel Comme dans un film des frères Coen (2010) by Bertrand Gervais as addressing both the midlife and the blank page crisis. Indeed, the main character of this novel is a writer in his fifties who still suffers from the failure of his last novel ignored by the critics. Disenchanted, he slowly enters a world of fantasy, and falls in love with the voice of his GPS he called Gwyneth “parle trop” (speaks too much) therefore recalling the name of the actress with the same name. He gradually loses contact with his wife and his son, a successful painter, and is transformed into “the man who was not there” another character from a movie by the Coen brothers entitled The Barber: the man who was not there. Hastings asks: How could one get lost with a GPS? After the main character had initially bought his GPS for a trip in Australia in order to find his way, it started to go beyond its role as a road guide and questioned where he was in his relationship with his wife, in his career as a writer, and in his skin as a mature man. Not only was the GPS not fulfilling its purpose but also it started to ruin a fragile relationship hoping to find its way back to love during a last minute trip in Australia. Even after destroying the annoying talkative GPS, it continued to disrupt the couple in the plane on the way back to Canada. As much as Gwyneth the GPS is synonymous with escape and freedom, it is also showing the main character the wrong way, the way out of his reality, out of his family and out of his life. His attempts to free himself from Gwyneth are worthless, her image is still there, haunting his thoughts like images from a movie. But the displacement happens at another level than just the diegetic one. The confrontation of the text with moving images has consequences on the shape of the text itself. The mapping of the text on the page is influenced by this amalgam. The white page becomes a space where words are rearranged in different ways, some of which suggest poetry, other cartoons or cinematic images. The displacement of literature in areas that were previously foreign to it is at the heart of creative activity, and determines its renewal. Hastings presents the consequences resulting from the confrontation with the GPS, both on the mapping of one’s identity as well as the mapping and the shaping of the text itself.

scholarly journals THE ELEMENTS OF PERSONALITY IN THE MAIN CHARACTER OF SWEENEY TODD: THE DEMON BARBER OF FLEET STREET BY TIM BURTON

CALL ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Rizki Syifaurrahman ◽  
Ujang Suyatman
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Methods ◽  
Main Character ◽  
The Real ◽  
The Way ◽  
Descriptive Qualitative

This research analyzes the elements of personality in the main character of Sweeney Todd: The Demon of Barber of Fleet Street by Tim Burton. The researcher uses descriptive qualitative methods because the results of this research are words which are then described. In this research, the reseacher found the elements of personality in the main character of Sweeney Todd: The Demon of Barber of Fleet Street by Tim Burton such as Todd id as the desire wants to revenge Turpin and Beadle because of what they did to Todd’s family, the desire wants to kill Pirelli because he knew his the real identity, and the desire wants to kill Mrs. Lovett because she lied him. The desires as Todd’s id realized and supported by the ego. The way how ego realized all of id in Sweeney Todd, the ego does his role with an action. Thus the superego does not appear much as the id. His role only related with a good value such as when Todd wants to reveal the fake barber about his crime.Keywords: Sweeney Todd, id, ego, superego.

scholarly journals Possible Worlds in Translation: Coleman Barks’s Rendition of a Story from Rumi’s Masnavi

2021 ◽  
Vol 44 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Vahid Medhat ◽  
Hossein Pirnajmuddin ◽  
Pyeaam Abbasi
Keyword(s):  
Internal Structure ◽  
English Translation ◽  
Possible Worlds ◽  
Translation Studies ◽  
Original Text ◽  
Main Character ◽  
Source Text ◽  
Narrative Worlds ◽  
The Way

This article applies the theory of possible worlds to the field of translation studies by examining the narrative worlds of original and translated texts. Specifically, Marie-Laure Ryan’s characterization of possible worlds provides an account of the internal structure of the textual universe and the progression of the plot. Based on this account, one of the stories from Rumi’s Masnavi is compared to Coleman Barks’s English translation. The possible worlds of the characters and the unfolding of the plots in both texts are examined to assess the degree of compatibility between the textual universes of the original and the translated texts and how significant this might be. It also examines how readers reconstruct the narrative worlds projected by the two texts. The analysis reveals some inconsistencies in the way the textual universes of the original and translated texts are furnished and in the way readers reconstruct the narrative worlds of the two texts. The inability of translation to fully render the main character results in some loss in terms of the pungency and pithiness of the original text. It is also shown that the source text presents a richer domain of the virtual in comparison, suggesting a higher degree of tellability in the textual universe of the Masnavi’s narrative.

scholarly journals CONVERSATIONAL MOVES IN ACE VENTURA MOVIE

LINGUISTICA ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Yaebesi Gulo ◽  
Citra Anggia Putri ◽  
Juli Rachmadani Hasibuan
Keyword(s):  
Main Character ◽  
Interaction Theory ◽  
The Way

This study deals with Conversational Moves in Ace Ventura Movie. The purpose of the study is to find out the moves are played by the main character of Ace Ventura movie 1st series, describing how the moves are played by the characters of Ace Ventura movie 1st series and to find out the reason why the Moves are played in the way it is. The data were analyzed based on the Structure of interaction theory by Martin (1992). The analysis showed the moves are played by the main character of Ace Ventura Movie are K1 (primary knower) 37,9 %, K2 (secondary knower) 21,07 %, K1f (primary knower follow-up) 4,64 %, K2f (secondary knower follow-up)13,6 %, A1 (primary actor) 3.2 %, A2 (secondary actor) 7,14 %, A1f (primary actor follow-up) 0,35 %, A2f (secondary actor follow-up), Da1 (delay primary actor) 0,35 %, Bch (backchannel) 0,35 %, Cl (clarification) 0,35 %, Cf (confirmation) 3,2 %, Rcf (response to confirmation) 4,64 % and Ch (challenging) 0,71 %. The moves that are played by the characters is dynamic because the speakers on that dialogue staged clarification, confirmation, back-channel and challenging move on the dialogue.Keywords: ConversationalMoves, Dynamics of Exchange.

scholarly journals ANALISIS GENDER FILM SALAH BODI MELALUI SEMIOTIKA CHRISTIAN METZ

2019 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Mohammad Mahrush Ali
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Orientation ◽  
Data Collection ◽  
Gender Identity ◽  
Review Literature ◽  
Main Character ◽  
Literature Study ◽  
Social Responses ◽  
Qualitative Descriptive ◽  
Document Review ◽  
Christian Metz

<p align="center"><strong>ABSTRAK</strong></p><p> </p><p>Tulisan ini membahas mengenai <em>gender</em> yang terdapat pada film Salah Bodi melalui semiotika Metz. Pengamatan <em>gender </em>pada tokoh utama yaitu Farhan (Andien) dan Inong (Indra). Metode yang digunakan adalah kualitatif<em> </em>deskriptif, dengan teknik pengumpulan data yaitu telaah dokumen, studi pustaka, dan wawancara. Hasil dari tulisan ini adalah (a). Menghasilkan pemaparan dari analisis menggunakan semiotika Christian Metz pada film Salah Bodi. Delapan grand sintagmatiknya yaitu <em>Autonomous Shot, Parallel Syntagma, Descriptive Syntagma,</em> <em>Alternating Syntagma, Scene, Episodic Sequence</em>, dan<em> Ordinary Sequence </em>terkandung dalam film Salah Bodi<em> </em>kecuali sintagma kurung (<em>Bracket Syntagma</em>). Rangkaian sintagmatik Metz mengungkap adegan-adegan yang berdasarkan atas <em>gender</em> dan bertujuan untuk menunjukkan kepada penonton identitas gender dari tokoh film</p><p> </p><p>(b). <em>gender</em> yang ditampilkan dalam film Salah Bodi memiliki kecenderungan berprilaku tersendiri seperti penampilan fisik, orientasi seksual, kebiasaannya, dan respon sosial dari masyarakat. Meskipun di akhir film ditunjukkan tokoh utama kembali ke kodrat aslinya. Dalam pembahasan ini juga didukung oleh argumen dari pelaku di luar film.</p><p> </p><p><strong>Kata kunci</strong>:<strong> </strong><em>Gender</em>, Film Salah Bodi, Semiotika Christian Metz.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p align="center"><strong><em>ABSTRACT</em></strong></p><p> </p><p><em>This paper discusses about gender contained in film Salah Bodi through Metz semiotics. The observation of gender is focused on the main characters, Farhan (Andien) and Inong (Indra). The method used is qualitative descriptive, with data collection techniques namely document review, literature study, and interview. The re-sults of this paper are (a). A presentation of the analysis using Christian Metz’s semiotics on the film Salah Bodi. The eight grand syntagmatic namely Autonomous Shot, Parallel Syntagma, Descriptive Syntagma, Alternating Syntagma, Scene, Episodic Sequence, and Ordinary Sequence are contained in the film Salah Bodi except Brackets Syntagm (Bracket Syntagma). The Metz’s syntagmatic sequence reveals the scenes based on gender and aims to show the audience the gender identity of the film character (b). the gender shown in the film Salah Bodi has a tendency to behave in isolation such as physical appearance, sexual orientation, habits, and social responses from the community, even though at the end of the film, the main character is shown back to his original nature. This discussion is also supported by the arguments from actors outside the film.</em></p><p> </p><p><strong><em>Keywords: </em></strong><em>Gender, Film Salah Bodi, Christian Metz Semiotics.<strong> </strong>.</em></p>

scholarly journals Endeavour to Survive in Patricia McCormick's Novel Never Fall Down (2012)

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Esron Simarmata ◽  
Muhd Al-Hafizh
Keyword(s):  
Sigmund Freud ◽  
Main Character ◽  
The Way

This thesis is the analysis of a novel which written by Patricia McCormick entitled Never Fall Down (2012). It explores the issue of endeavour to survive which reflected by the main character. It is also intended to find out the contribution of fictional devices such as character, plot (conflict), and setting in revealing the issue of endeavour to survive. This analysis is related to the concept of life instinct which developed by Sigmund Freud that is supported by the text-based and context-based interpretation. The result of this analysis shows about the way the main character survive in dealing with any situation in his life by changing his mindset and behaviour.

scholarly journals Striving for Survival and Success in play The Flick (2013) by Annie Baker

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Gina Felandri ◽  
Desvalini Anwar
Keyword(s):  
Sigmund Freud ◽  
Main Character ◽  
Self Interest ◽  
Stage Direction ◽  
The Way

This thesis is the analysis of a play written by Annie Baker entitled The Flick (2013). It explores the issue of striving for survival and success reflected by the main character. This issue refers to the way the main character deals with all the difficulties and tries to reach a dream in his life. It is also intended to find out the contribution of fictional devices such as character, plot (conflict), and stage direction in revealing the issue of striving for survival and success. This analysis is related to the concept of life instinct which developed by Sigmund Freud and also supported by the text-based and context-based interpretation. The result of this analysis shows about the way the main character persistence in surviving and achieving goals in his life through the efforts of socialization and self-interest exploration made by the character.

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