“Left-hander” by Nikolai Leskov and Rodion Shchedrin: Righteousness as a Constant of Russian Self-consciousness

10.34690/09 ◽  
2019 ◽  
pp. 176-185
Author(s):  
Н.А. Карпун
Keyword(s):  
Dead Souls ◽  
Main Protagonist

Статья посвящена теме праведничества в творчестве Н. С. Лескова и Р. К. Щедрина - идее, раскрывающей глубинные параллели в мировосприятии двух художников. На протяжении всего творческого пути оба автора неоднократно обращались к образу праведника, без которого «несть граду стояния». В статье рассматриваются ключевые эстетические и стилистические особенности воплощения данного образа и сферы божественного в музыкальнотеатральных сочинениях Щедрина (операх «Не только любовь», «Мертвые души», «Очарованный странник», «Боярыня Морозова»). Опера «Левша» представляется кульминационным этапом в репрезентации подобного семантического ряда. Анализ драматургии произведения, музыкальных характеристик главного героя и персонажей «надземного» мира, прочная связь таковых с русской традицией (народной, церковной, музыкально-профессиональной) наводят на размышления о концепции праведничества как неотъемлемой части русского самосознания. The article is devoted to a theme of righteousness in works by N.Leskov and R.Shchedrin. This idea disco vers deep parallels between mentalities of both authors. Aesthetic and stylistic features of the characteristic of the righteous figure and divine sphere are considered as a part of Shchedrins opera style (for example, in operas Not Love Alone, Dead Souls, The Enchated Wanderer, Boyarina Morozova). Opera Left-hander are represented a culmination in develop of the theme of righteousness in Shchedrins works. Dramaturgy analysis and analysis of music characteristic of the main protagonist and above-earth world (which strong connect with Russian traditionsfolk, religion, music-professional) are thought-provoking about righteousness concept as essential part of Russian self-consciousness.

Dead Souls — Comparing Dartmouth Atlas Benchmarks with CMS Outcomes Data

2009 ◽  
Vol 361 (22) ◽  
pp. e109 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael L. Langberg ◽  
Jeanne T. Black
Keyword(s):  
Dead Souls

Un/re/production of Old Age inThe Taking of Deborah Logan

Somatechnics ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 178-194
Author(s):  
Agnieszka Kotwasińska
Keyword(s):  
Alzheimer’S Disease ◽  
Old Age ◽  
Horror Film ◽  
Close Reading ◽  
Loss Of Control ◽  
Found Footage ◽  
Progressive Loss ◽  
The Face ◽  
Female Embodiment ◽  
Main Protagonist

The article offers a re-examination of abjected femininity and old age through a close reading of The Taking of Deborah Logan (2015), a found footage horror movie centered on spectral possession. While to a large extent the movie replicates an infamous monstrous old woman trope, it also effectively questions typical Alzheimer's disease (AD) narratives, which tend to portray life with AD as a story of unmitigated loss and debility. In The Taking of Deborah Logan, potentially destabilizing moments occur when in the face of progressive loss of control, memory, and bodily functions, the main protagonist is momentarily experienced as resisting the dehumanisation and loss of agency conventionally associated with AD and possession alike. The aim of this article is thus three-fold. The first part sketches the processes through which possession narratives generate a highly ambivalent space for aging femininity in horror film, and how aging, disability, and AD intersect both in popular understanding and in film. In the second part, the author examines how The Taking of Deborah Logan, as a found footage horror, shapes a discussion about selfhood, agency, and monstrous embodiment. Finally, the author argues that it is through the concept of transaging that one can find ways to destabilise traditional understandings of old age, female embodiment, and AD, and offer new narratives that highlight monstrous, if ambivalent, agency.

Bad apples, dead souls: understanding Abu Ghraib

2008 ◽  
Vol 84 (6) ◽  
pp. 1271-1280 ◽  
Author(s):  
ALEX DANCHEV
Keyword(s):  
Abu Ghraib ◽  
Dead Souls

El Batraa manufacturers for chemicals and paint

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-20
Author(s):  
Ashraf Sheta ◽  
Sandra Wael ◽  
Mariam Soliman ◽  
Nour Abdallah ◽  
Rovan Bahnassy ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Emerging Markets ◽  
Family Business ◽  
Master Of Business Administration ◽  
Business Decision ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Succession Plan ◽  
Academic Level ◽  
The Family ◽  
Future Strategy ◽  
Main Protagonist

Learning outcomes • Develop an understanding of how to institutionalize a family business. • Define the dynamics of the family business decision-making process in emerging markets. • Assess the cultural differences between founders and successors in an emerging markets context. • Identify the role of intergenerational differences in deciding the future strategy of a family business in emerging markets. Case overview/synopsis This case addresses El Batraa Manufacturers for Chemicals and Paints S.A.E., a privately owned family business operating in the coloring paste industry in Egypt. The main dilemma of the case is the existence of different visions about the business between the old and new generations. Also, it addresses the importance of understanding family dynamics to resolve existing challenges. The necessity of having governance in a family business is highlighted, together with a clear succession plan to secure family unity and business sustainability. Sandra the main protagonist within the case is trying to arrive to a resolution that can guarantee a motivating environment for her to join the family business. Her main dilemma is whether to choose to join the family business, with all the existing challenges or not. Accordingly, she proposes some steps to make the family business more appealing. Complexity academic level Under Graduate and Master of Business Administration level. Supplementary materials Teaching notes are available for educators only. Please contact your library to gain login details or email [email protected] to request teaching notes. Subject code CSS 3: Entrepreneurship.

‘A Wound in the Heart’

Exchange ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 43 (2) ◽  
pp. 132-152
Author(s):  
Alle G. Hoekema
Keyword(s):  
Gender Issues ◽  
The Bible ◽  
Main Protagonist ◽  
Role Of Religion

Abstract This article reflects on the role of religion as one of four, interconnected layers in the contextual novels of the candid and controversial Indonesian author Ayu Utami (b. 1968). Next to important gender issues, substantial critique of Indonesian politics, and attention to Javanese culture and mythology, her Christian background is present, in varying density, in all novels she has published so far. This can be proved by numerous quotations from the Bible and even by the fact, that the main protagonist of her largest novel so far is given an almost Messianic status. In her earlier novels, Ayu Utami seems to distance herself from patriarchic, institutional Catholicism. However, in her most recent, autobiographical, novel she makes clear, why and under which conditions she is able to return to her maternal faith.

scholarly journals Organ Shortage, Will People's Knowledge be a Path to the Solution?

2019 ◽  
pp. 44-49
Author(s):  
Cantarovich Félix
Keyword(s):  
Organ Donation ◽  
Economic Incentives ◽  
University Education ◽  
Basic Knowledge ◽  
Organ Shortage ◽  
Loved One ◽  
Social Risks ◽  
The Social ◽  
Medical Teams ◽  
Main Protagonist

Organ shortage transforming death into life, which is what organ transplants symbolize, needs the end of somebody life, a scientific miracle of our times, but as well a social problem. Prejudices or ignorance inhibits to offering life to another human being. The consequence of this conflicting situation is that patients waiting for transplantation, “unfairly” die every day. States and Social Security should be involved in this problem. Programming efficient education will be important for change social conduct towards organ donation. As well, several studies emphasize the persistence of an insufficient university medical teams training in transplantation. Organ shortage and waiting lists patient’s mortality is a failure of social communication on organ donation and transplantation. Proposals to review social and university education in current organ shortage crisis might be an ethical duty for states health and education officials. Solidarity is a positive people’s feeling, nevertheless faced with death of a loved one; it does not seem to be an enough reason to justify authorization to donate. For many people, organ donation represents a perverse and unjustified action of mutilation. Considering the negative reactions that often can occur in the moment in which the alternative of deciding the donation of organs of a loved one is presented; we have proposed the inclusion in the social education plans the following concepts: • Organ shortage is a health emergency. • Throughout our lives, we might need organ or tissue transplantation. • Our body after death is a unique source of health to be shared. • Organ donation meant to” share life” more than “to gift life”. • Organ donation should be a social agreement. • People should know the social risks involved in establishing economic incentives for donation. This analysis is made to provide a basic knowledge of a vital medical crisis, and to suggest to decision makers of educational programs useful suggestions for this serious problem. In addition, and very particularly this work is directed to the Society, the main protagonist of this problem, requiring to receiving a correct and detailed information on the dilemma of the lack of organs, in quest that the donation decision will be an act of full awareness. A french philosopher, Jean Rostand has said "To dream you have to know".

scholarly journals To Act or not to Act: How Coleridge Changed the Way We See Hamlet

2014 ◽  
Vol 26 (31) ◽  
pp. 133-143
Author(s):  
Svetozar Poštić
Keyword(s):  
Samuel Taylor Coleridge ◽  
Samuel Johnson ◽  
Intellectual Activity ◽  
Insightful Analysis ◽  
The One ◽  
Main Protagonist ◽  
General Opinion ◽  
Lasting Influence ◽  
Real Action ◽  
The Way

Exactly 200 years ago, from 1811 to 1819, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, one of the most famous English Romantic poets, held a series of influential lectures about William Shakespeareand his plays. His presentation of “Hamlet”, a play hitherto not only negatively appraised, but even viewed quite negatively by the leading critics, most notably Samuel Johnson, was especially significant. His insightful analysis helped to change the general opinion about the play, and pointed to the qualities of “Hamlet” that made it into perhaps the best known and most frequently played drama in the next 200 years. In this paper, I examine the way Coleridge was able to recognise the neglected features of Shakespeare’s profound tragedy up to that point. First of all, he identified with the main protagonist of the play, the Prince of Denmark, and described the unbridgeable gap between ambitions and power of imagination on the one hand, and inability to act on the other. Like Hamlet, Coleridge had "great, enormous, intellectual activity, and a consequent proportionate aversion to real action" (Coleridge 2014: 345). Aware of this shortcoming, but unable to correct it, the extremely talented and educated Coleridge presented it in fascinating detail. Secondly, he used his knowledge of the most influential contemporary philosophers, especially Kant, Locke and Hobbes, and the increasingly popular psychological approach to character analysis in order to paint an internal portrait of leading characters of the play. Due to the increasingly popular trend in recent literary theory and analysis focusing on the political and material context of an art work, the universal qualities of Coleridge's intepretation of “Hamlet” that contributed to the lasting influence of his critique have been largely neglected. This article intends, therefore, to re-establish the significance of Coleridge's “Hamlet” lectures

The Angry, Abusive and Controlling Men in K.S. Maniam’s Short Story ‘Mala’

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 61-73
Author(s):  
Nurhafizah Ali ◽  
◽  
Mazni Muslim ◽  
Aida Mustapha ◽  
◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Short Story ◽  
Daily Basis ◽  
Social Injustice ◽  
Young Leave ◽  
The Public ◽  
Male Characters ◽  
Male Clients ◽  
Unfair Treatment ◽  
Emotionally Abused ◽  
Main Protagonist

The fights against sexism have been going on for decades. However, women in the present society still experience gender and social injustice, domestic violence and sexual harassment on a daily basis. In many cases, conservative families with patriarchal values become a breeding ground for unfair treatment and discrimination against women. Maniam brings up these issues to the public through his short story ‘Mala’. This study seeks to examine the male characters’ behaviour, attitude and treatment towards Malati, the main protagonist of the story – and how she deals with the treatment she receives from them. The analysis reveals that the female protagonist is suppressed by her father when she was young, emotionally abused and exploited for free labour by her husband when she is married and harassed by her male clients at her workplace. The poor treatments she has received from men around her since young leave her with the feelings of numbness and unworthiness for the rest of her life.

The old garden

2021 ◽  
pp. 262-273
Author(s):  
A. E. Smirnov
Keyword(s):  
Symbolic Meaning ◽  
Master Craftsman ◽  
Dead Souls ◽  
Fallen Leaves ◽  
The Village

Smirnov’s essay is devoted to an episode from Gogol’s Dead Souls [Myortvye dushi]; rather a landscape than an episode. In Gogol’s opinion, a landscape is not a copy of nature but an artist’s creation. A landscape is meant to be created, not copied from nature: the role of a master craftsman is not to usher the viewer along the trimmed bosquets of a French formal garden, unsurprising and immediately recognisable, but to lure them into the thicket of his imagination. It is with such a fruit of imagination that we are faced in the case of the neglected, unruly and overgrown garden on the landowner Plyushkin’s estate. The author examines Gogol’s description of the garden in detail, almost word by word, uncovering the hidden symbolic meaning of contrasting the village, ugly in its state of neglect, with the landowner’s garden, equally neglected but beautiful nonetheless. What is piles of rubbish in the village streets becomes pretty fallen leaves on the garden paths; the author suggests that Gogol used this contrast to let nature ‘correct’ the gardener, i. e. to remove the incompetent human alterations and reveal itself in its full glory.

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