scholarly journals De Kretser’s Retelling of a Ghost Love Story

Humanities ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 87
Author(s):  
Alejandra Moreno-Álvarez
Keyword(s):  
Human Subject ◽  
Literary Work ◽  
Main Character ◽  
Ghost Story ◽  
Principal Role ◽  
Love Story ◽  
Alternative Conceptualization

Australian author Michelle de Kretser addresses in her literary work ideas of home and belonging. In Springtime. A Ghost Story (2014) the author gives voice to an ambiguous and variable subject who coexists with her past, present and future, inhabiting a fluid trans-space where love has a principal role. Frances, the main character in Springtime, sees ghosts who unconsciously allow her to voice her insecurities and doubts concerning her life existence. These phantoms contribute to the formation of Frances’ alternative conceptualization of subjectivity. At the same time, de Kretser offers in this dystopic novella a much-needed escape from binary definitions of inclusion/exclusion, offering palimpsests of the spaces that Frances inhabits—Melbourne, Sydney and Paris. This main character is a fluid flâneuse who tries to adjust to her glocality constituted and reconstituted by a discursive imaginary. In this article, I analyze how de Kretser subverts ghost story patterns, destabilizes binary thinking, and decentralizes the human subject offering the reader an alternative haunting love story with an open ending, where cities, ghosts, humans, dogs and nature become active characters who are-in-this-together-but-who-are-not-one-and-the-same.

The use of second person pronouns in a literary work

2014 ◽  
Vol 43 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Helen de Hoop ◽  
Lotte Hogeweg
Keyword(s):  
Literary Work ◽  
First Person ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Main Character ◽  
Second Person ◽  
Person Pronoun

AbstractFor this study we investigated all occurrences of Dutch second person pronoun subjects in a literary novel, and determined their interpretation. We found two patterns that can both be argued to be functionally related to the de-velopment of the story. First, we found a decrease in the generic use of second person, a decrease which we believe goes hand in hand with an increased distancing of oneself as a reader from the narrator/main character. Second, we found an increase in the use of the descriptive second person. The increased descriptive use of second person pronouns towards the end of the novel is very useful for the reader, because the information provided by the first person narrator himself becomes less and less reliable. Thus, the reader depends more strongly on information provided by other characters and what these characters tell the narrator about himself.

scholarly journals Mythe de beauté et image de soi chez une adolescente dans « Robert des noms propres » d’Amelie Nothomb

FRANCISOLA ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 153
Author(s):  
Tania INTAN
Keyword(s):  
Descriptive Analysis ◽  
Literary Work ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Main Character ◽  
Mots Clés ◽  
Holistic View ◽  
Self Image ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
French Speaking ◽  
The Relationship

RÉSUMÉ. Cette étude vise donc à prouver surtout la relation entre le ballet, l'anorexie, et l'image de soi chez le personnage principal du roman Robert des Noms Propres, écrit en 2013 par Amélie Nothomb, une auteure francophone de Belgique. Cette recherche utilise la méthode d'analyse descriptive, pour obtenir une vue holistique des problèmes dans l'œuvre littéraire, qui ont été étudié en utilisant l'approche psychologique. Cette écriture est préparée en utilisant un large éventail de documents liés au thème du ballet, l'anorexie, et l'image de soi chez les filles. Le résultat de la recherche montre qu'il existe une relation causale entre ces trois elements cités. Le trouble de l'alimentation s’est montré depuis l’enfance du personnage principal qui devient anorexique en raison d'un traumatisme, les influences de l'environnement, ainsi que les exigences de sa profession en tant que danseuse de ballet. Cette recherche apporte également l’information que l’image de soi chez l’adolescente s’est formé dans les aspects cognitifs, affectifs, et psychomotoriques. Mots-clés : ballet, anorexie, image de soi, adolescente ABSTRACT. This study aims to prove above all the relationship between ballet, anorexia, and self-image in the main character of the novel Robert des Noms Propres, written in 2013 by Amélie Nothomb, a French-speaking author from Belgium. This research uses the method of descriptive analysis, to obtain a holistic view of the problems in the literary work, which were studied using the psychological approach. This writing is prepared using a wide range of documents related to the theme of ballet, anorexia, and self-image in girls. The result of the research shows that there is a causal relationship between these three elements. The eating disorder has been shown since the childhood of the main character who becomes anorexic due to trauma, environmental influences, as well as the demands of her profession as a ballet dancer. This research also brings the information that the adolescent's self-image has formed in the cognitive, affective, and psychomotoric aspects. Keywords: ballet, anorexia, self-image, adolescent girls

scholarly journals Ičvič's Travels: Representations of Identity in Petar Milošević's Novel London, Pomaz

2020 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Mladena Prelić
Keyword(s):  
Collective Identity ◽  
Literary Work ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Small Community ◽  
Berlin Wall ◽  
Love Story ◽  
Power And Control ◽  
The Cold War ◽  
Ethnic War ◽  
And Control

The paper offers a reading of the novel London, Pomaz by Petar Milošević (b. 1952 in Kalaz, Hungary) in the key of individual and collective identity positionings, from the aspect of sociocultural anthropology. The novel, published in 1993, is framed as a love story spanning the East and West, until recently divided by the Cold War, and the protagonists are Serbs from the area around Budapest, a community to which both the author and his main character Ičvič belong. The character's surname, which is actually non-existent, has been formed from the suffixes -ić and -vić characteristic of patronymic Serbian surnames, in the Hungarianized version of -ič and -vič. Through a series of sequences, the novel describes the protagonist's life cycle from Pomaz, a small town between Budapest and Szentendre, where Ičvič was born, and Budapest, to Slovakia, the former Yugoslavia, Venice and London, and finally back to Pomaz, from the 1950s to the 1990s. Ičvič encounters different people and situations, others' stereotypes and prejudices as well as his own, unfulfilled expectations and the illusion of freedom in a world that has supposedly risen above ideological divisions, while next door, his (former) country is riven by ethnic war, the small community to which he belongs by birth is gradually disappearing, and in the supposed democratization processes following the fall of the Berlin wall, power and control merely take new forms. The situations in which the protagonist finds himself provide the possibility of reading/reading into them the relationship we:others or I:others, in other words, of different identity formations and positionings, not only of Ičvič himself but also of other characters and the collectivities to which they actually or supposedly belong. The assumption is that, despite the significant differences between a literary text and ethnography, a literary work can be used, with due methodological caution, as a source in anthropological research.

scholarly journals The Process Of Transforming The Mahabharata Literary Work Written In The Old Javanese Into Geguritan Sarpayajnya And Geguritan Kicaka Written In The Balinese Language

2017 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 103
Author(s):  
I Made Suastika ◽  
I Ketut Jirnaya ◽  
I Wayan Sukersa ◽  
Luh Putu Puspawati
Keyword(s):  
Literary Work ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Love Story ◽  
Chief Minister ◽  
One Year ◽  
The One ◽  
Performing Art

<p>The story of the Pandawas and their wife in Wirata was used as the plot of the <em>geguritan Kicaka</em>which was initially transformed from <em>Wirataparwa</em> in the form of <em>Parwa</em>. The only episode which was transformed into <em>geguritan</em> written in the Balinese language is the one narrating when the Pandawas were in disguise for one year. In this episode the love story of their wife, Drupadi, who was disguised as Sairindriis also narrated. In this episode it is also narrated that the Chief Minister, Kicaka, would like to have her as his wife. However, the Chief Minister, Kicaka, was killed by Bima, who was disguised as Ballawa, meaning that the love story came to an end. From the language point of view, the episode telling that the Pandawas were in Wirata was transformed into <em>Geguritan Kicaka</em> written in the Balinese language. In addition, although the text was dynamically translated, many Old Javanese words are still used in the Balinese version.</p><p>Similarly, <em>geguritan Sarpayajaya </em>adopted the episode of <em>Sarpayajnya</em> of <em>Adiparwa</em>; however, the plot was modified again using thestrophes <em>pangkur, dangdanggula</em>, <em>sinom</em> and <em>durma</em> and was introduced using the Balinese language. It is narrated that King Parikesit was bitten and killed by a snake named Taksaka. Consequently, his son, Janamejaya, performed a ritual known as <em>Sarpayajaya</em>, causing all the snakes to die. From the cultural point of view, the text is recited as part of the performing art and the art of music ‘magegitan’ in Bali. The text <em>Sarpayajaya</em>isrecited as part of the cremation ceremony ‘ngaben’ known as <em>mamutru</em>.</p>

‘Every love story is a ghost story’ : The Spectral Network of Laurie Anderson’s Heart of a Dog (2015)

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Deane Williams
Keyword(s):  
21St Century ◽  
Network Theory ◽  
David Foster Wallace ◽  
Ghost Stories ◽  
Ghost Story ◽  
Love Story ◽  
The Future ◽  
Spectral Network

While it has been described as ‘a paean to a canine friend’ and ‘a meditation on love and loss’, Laurie Anderson’s Heart of a Dog (2016) can also be understood as a network of ghost stories. Drawing on Anderson’s idiosyncratic multimedia technique (foregrounding technology) and conceptualizing of the future, this chapter explores the ways in which the figures of 9/11, Lou Reed, David Foster Wallace, Gordon Matta-Clark, and the Bardo course through Heart of a Dog. Exploring the implications of the juxtaposition of these themes and Anderson’s oeuvre, Williams positions the film in relation to a confluence of network theory and hauntology as a particular rendering of 21st-century subjectivity.

METAFICTION AND DROSTE EFFECT IN THE NOVEL “IF ON A WINTER’S NIGHT A TRAVELER” BY ITALO CALVINO

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (Special) ◽  
pp. 86-95
Author(s):  
Phuong Khanh Nguyen
Keyword(s):  
Short Stories ◽  
Literary Work ◽  
Italo Calvino ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Main Character ◽  
Open Structure ◽  
Narrative Style ◽  
Role Limitation ◽  
Narrative Techniques ◽  
Reader Involvement

f on a winter's night a traveler is considered one of the greatest novels by Italian writer Italo Calvino. Published in 1979, this literary work, which belongs to the postmodernist narrative style in the form of a frame story, tells about a reader trying to read a book with the same title from beginning to end. Much of the story’s content was written in the second-person’s narration, implying that “you” (the Reader) are the protagonist of the novel. Embedded inside are ten short stories (the loose ends of different novels) read by the main character, which causes the book to constantly switch between settings, narrators, and styles. If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler is truly a perfect illustration for the literary style characterized by metafiction and postmodernism. The novel is a conscious textual play with various techniques employed such as authorial role limitation, reader involvement in the plot line, open structure, non-linearity, fragmentation, multiplicity, and intertextuality. By effectively using these devices, Calvino deconstructs the traditional novel form and creates a new structure which shows a parallel between the processes of writing and reading a text. Calvino acts as the supreme game-master taking control of both the characters and the real players, who have been pushed into this game-like novel. This article focuses on analyzing the charactericstics of metafiction, the Droste effect and deconstruction in Calvino’s novel If on a winter's night a traveler, thereby helping to grasp his playful language and his narrative techniques as well as to discover his metafictional discourse.

scholarly journals The Construction of the Malay Hero as Conceived in Hikayat Hang Tuah

2012 ◽  
Vol 25 (2) ◽  
pp. 177-197
Author(s):  
Rahmah Bujang ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Literary Work ◽  
Hero's Journey ◽  
Prototype Model ◽  
Main Character ◽  
Three Stages

This article is an exposition of the legendary character of Hang Tuah in the traditional Malay literary work titled Hang Tuah edited by Kassim Ahmad (1964), which is based on the manuscript Hikayat Hang Tuah from the collection of Dewan Bahasa and Pustaka. It traces the experiences of Hang Tuah, the main character, focusing on the development of his heroism. The concept of the construction of a hero is based on Joseph Campbell’s prototype model of the hero, whereby in his book The Hero with a Thousand Faces (first published 1949, third edition 2009), he summarizes every step of the hero’s journey into three stages: departure, initiation and return. The objective of the article is to examine Hang Tuah as a heroic figure using Campbell’s model as an archetype. The analysis will show the similarities in the treatment of the hero entity as an extraordinary person in Malay literature, while at the same time highlighting the most noticeable differences. The backbone of the construct is the contention that Hang Tuah’s heroism runs in tandem with the concept of king and kingdom in Malay tradition. Keywords: Hang Tuah, legendary warrior, Malay hero, hero’s journey

scholarly journals ANALISIS ASPEK KEJIWAAN TOKOH UTAMA NOVEL HATI SUHITA KARYA KHILMA ANIS (TINJAUAN PSIKOLOGI SASTRA

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (02) ◽  
pp. 197
Author(s):  
Nanda Maulana Hasmi
Keyword(s):  
Human Life ◽  
Literary Work ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Main Character ◽  
Literary Research ◽  
Qualitative Descriptive ◽  
Psychological Conflict ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Implicit And Explicit ◽  
Relationship Of

Literary work tries to describe human life, not only in relation to other humans, but also in relation to itself through the relationship of inner events. One form of literary work is novel. The birth of the novel is the creative result of the author in processing a story about life complete with various conflicts in it. Because this research is intended as a study of literary psychology to achieve the psychological aspects of the main character in the novel Hati Suhita by Khilma Anis, what will be put forward is the structure of the story which is closely related to the psychological exposure of the main character. The story structure is the characters and characterizations. As well as the story setting. Qualitative method. Namely, research procedures that produce qualitative descriptive data in the form of written or spoken words from people and observed behavior. How as much data as possible will be able to become the subject of research depends on the use of research techniques. While the approach is a literary assessment perspective. The approach is the scope of literary research. The form, content, and nature of literature as the subject of study. Until now, it seems that in literary research there is often confusion between the use of the terms method, technique and approach. As a result, there are overlapping areas of literary research. The method should involve the operational means of research. The method requires research steps that are worth following. The research results found by the researcher were in the form of the character of the main character and psychological conflicts in Khilma Anis' novel Hati Suhita. Suhita's character is good, tawadhu, smart. Al Birruni is firm, easy to change. Rengganis beautiful, smart. Aruna is good, cheerful. Kang Dharma is calm, mature. And the psychological conflict of Suhita's character is sad. Al Birruni didn't have the heart, Rengganis knew himself, Aruna was sad, and Kang Dharma was calm. In connection with conducting the research, the writer suggests that: first, literary reviewers are advised to examine more deeply the implicit and explicit values in Khilma Anis' novel Hati Suhita, because then we as readers can understand the author's message and his work in totality.

scholarly journals THE PSYCHOLOGICAL IMPACTS OF SEXUAL ABUSE EXPERIENCED BY THE MAIN CHARACTER OF K.L RANDIS’ NOVEL SPILLED MILK

2019 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 9-21
Author(s):  
Sri Wahyuni
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Abuse ◽  
Child Abuse ◽  
Child Sexual Abuse ◽  
Psychological Impact ◽  
Psychological Theory ◽  
Literary Work ◽  
Primary Data ◽  
Main Character ◽  
Psychological Impacts ◽  
Keywords Child

The title of this research is “The Psychological Impacts of Sexual Abuse Experienced by The Main Character of K.L Randis’ Novel Spilled Milk”. This study aims to determine the psychological impact of children on sexual abuse experienced by children. This research examines the phenomena of child abuse especially for sexual abuse and aim to reveal that literary work reflects social reality. The object of this research is “Spilled Milk” This novel shows that sexual abuse against children is a relationship between a child and an older person where the child is used as a satisfying object for the sexual needs of the offender. The method of this research that is used is Descriptive Qualitative. Data were obtained from words, phrases, clauses, or sentences in primary data. Data were analyzed by literary psychology approach and psychological theory. The psychological theories that are used in this thesis are the psychological impacts of sexual abuse by SECASA. The results of the psychological impact found in novel “Spilled Milk” are fear, responsibility, guilt and shame, anger and flashback or nightmare. So, hopefully this research is expected to be able to become a reference which can provide useful information child abuse and for people to prevent the act of child sexual abuse and help the victims. Keywords: Child Sexual abuse; Psychology; The Sexual Abuse Impact

scholarly journals NARCISSISM ANALYSIS OF RUPERT IN PAUL HOWARD SURRIDGE’S ALL IN THE MIND

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 115-120
Author(s):  
Pramudana Ihsan ◽  
Okta Reyna Dwi Tanaya
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Mental Disorder ◽  
Common Mental Disorder ◽  
Literary Work ◽  
Psychological Disorder ◽  
Main Character ◽  
Common Disorder ◽  
The One ◽  
The Mind ◽  
Taking Care

Purpose: Psychological disorder topics are being a common topic in a lot of discussions lately, moreover for the narcissism as the one of the most common disorder in psychology but with the least intention to taking care of. Thus, this study will focus on narcissism disorder in the main character named Rupert Digby in the drama script All in the Mi by Paul Howard Surridge. This analysis will apply psychoanalysis theory, especially in Narcissism Disorder as the most common mental disorder among society which has a lack of awareness from people nowadays. Methodology: The methodology that the writer has used is qualitative research which needs a deep analysis of the literary work that used by the writers of this study based on the theory that had been chosen. Results: This analysis aims at finding illustrations and proofs in the drama script All in The Mind’s main character, which can illustrate the narcissism disorder. In this study, we find that the main character Rupert Digby in the drama can be diagnosed as possessing the narcissism disorder. Implications: His behaviors such as his big ego, his superiority, and the feeling of exclusiveness among others, clarify that Rupert is a narcissist. Besides, this research also finds the trigger that makes Rupert turned into a narcissist.

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