scholarly journals SPIRITUAL “PORTRAIT” OF THE RUSSIAN PEOPLE THROUGH THE EYES OF A CHILD IN THE STORIES OF I.S. SHMELEV 1934-1937

2021 ◽  
Vol 31 (3) ◽  
pp. 571-577
Author(s):  
E.Yu. Shestakova
Keyword(s):  
Point Of View ◽  
Narrative Discourse ◽  
Childhood Memories ◽  
Russian People ◽  
Limited Knowledge ◽  
Speech Characteristics ◽  
High Skill

This article reveals the features of the artistic embodiment of the spiritual «portrait» of the Russian people in the stories of the writer of the first half of the XX century I.S. Shmelev “Unprecedented dinner”, “Martin and Kinga”, “Lampadochka” and “Fear”, created in 1934-1937. In the studied texts, the author chooses a special narrative discourse, in which folk images are presented from the point of view of the autobiographical hero - a child. The plot of the works is based on the writer's childhood memories. The worldview of the child hero, which is the basis of the artistic structure of the stories, is characterized by limited knowledge of the depicted events and actions of adult characters. As a result, folk images recreated in texts get a humorous color. The brightness and originality of speech characteristics testifies to the writer's high skill in portraying folk characters. The spiritual and moral «portrait» of the Russian people presented in these works contains characteristics of honesty, openness, sincerity, decency, righteousness and deep faith in God.

L’absence chez Michel Butor. L’Emploi du temps et Degrés

2012 ◽  
pp. 66-80
Author(s):  
Michał Mrozowicki
Keyword(s):  
Human Memory ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Narrative Discourse ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Michel Butor ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
One Year ◽  
The Moment ◽  
Narrative Mode ◽  
The City

Michel Butor, born in 1926, one of the leaders of the French New Novel movement, has written only four novels between 1954 and 1960. The most famous of them is La Modification (Second thoughts), published in 1957. The author of the paper analyzes two other Butor’s novels: L’Emploi du temps (Passing time) – 1956, and Degrés (Degrees) – 1960. The theme of absence is crucial in both of them. In the former, the novel, presented as the diary of Jacques Revel, a young Frenchman spending a year in Bleston (a fictitious English city vaguely similar to Manchester), describes the narrator’s struggle to survive in a double – spatial and temporal – labyrinth. The first of them, formed by Bleston’s streets, squares and parks, is symbolized by the City plan. During his one year sojourn in the city, using its plan, Revel learns patiently how to move in its different districts, and in its strange labyrinth – strange because devoid any centre – that at the end stops annoying him. The other, the temporal one, symbolized by the diary itself, the labyrinth of the human memory, discovered by the narrator rather lately, somewhere in the middle of the year passed in Bleston, becomes, by contrast, more and more dense and complex, which is reflected by an increasinly complex narration used to describe the past. However, at the moment Revel is leaving the city, he is still unable to recall and to describe the events of the 29th of February 1952. This gap, this absence, symbolizes his defeat as the narrator, and, in the same time, the human memory’s limits. In Degrees temporal and spatial structures are also very important. This time round, however, the problems of the narration itself, become predominant. Considered from this point of view, the novel announces Gerard Genette’s work Narrative Discourse and his theoretical discussion of two narratological categories: narrative voice and narrative mode. Having transgressed his narrative competences, Pierre Vernier, the narrator of the first and the second parts of the novel, who, taking as a starting point, a complete account of one hour at school, tries to describe the whole world and various aspects of the human civilization for the benefit of his nephew, Pierre Eller, must fail and disappear, as the narrator, from the third part, which is narrated by another narrator, less audacious and more credible.

Fear and wonderment in a limitless world: Learning to write from a child’s point of view

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 345-355 ◽  
Author(s):  
Frank Deese
Keyword(s):  
Los Angeles ◽  
Young People ◽  
Children And Adolescents ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
First Episode ◽  
Childhood Memories ◽  
Child Characters ◽  
The World

During my 25 years working as a screenwriter in Los Angeles, I developed a reputation as a writer who could craft vivid and believable scripts about young people. Initially, this was based on my teleplay for the first episode of Steven Spielberg’s Amazing Stories series, and later for the semi-autobiographical Josh and S.A.M. released by Columbia Pictures. I also wrote uncredited revisions of DreamWorks’s Small Soldiers and Castle Rock’s Alaska, both involving prominent child characters. I have to confess that my reputation for writing content for children and adolescents realistically did not stem from any natural ability. It came from mining my personal childhood memories, and from studying movies and literature I felt authentically captured what it is like to be new in the world. This text explores my journey writing from a child’s perspective.

The eye/I upon the event: a study of narrative voice in Robert Penn Warren's All the King's Men

1987 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 53
Author(s):  
Maria Lúcia Barbosa de Vasconcellos
Keyword(s):  
Point Of View ◽  
Narrative Discourse ◽  
The Other ◽  
Major Theme ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Temporal Perspective ◽  
Narrative Prose ◽  
Linguistic Level ◽  
King's Men ◽  
The Relationship

This thesis is a study of the relationship between the narrating self and its enunciation in Robert Penn Warren's All the king's men. The concept of point of view is surveyed and discussed and the poetics of narrative is opposed to the poetics of drama, since All the king's men is a novelization of a play by the same author. It is argued that narrative prose allows for a temporal perspective and is thus the adequate genre for the portrayal of man trapped in the complex tensions of time, a major theme of the novel. The narrative discourse is then analyzed through the categories of time, mode and voice, with the narrator's hesitation being examined in terms of function at the linguistic level. Finally, the fragmented and specular pattern of the enunciation is investigated by examining the insertion of the Cass Mastern episode in the narrative. A concluding reflexion focuses on the other voices which permeate the narrator's discourse and confirm the fragmented configuration of the text.

Ethnohermeneutics Russian fairy tales

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Марина Пименова ◽  
Marina Pimenova
Keyword(s):  
Fairy Tales ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Folk Tales ◽  
Russian People ◽  
The People ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
History Of

The monograph describes Russian folk tales from an unusual point of view. It deals with the mentality of the Russian people, language categorization, conceptualization, specifics of the manifestation of the national mentality. The monograph is intended for philologists, culturologists, psychologists and a wide range of readers interested in the problems of mentality, language, psychology, astronomy, culture and the history of the people.

scholarly journals Dialect Names of Holidays and Rituals as a Reflection of the Cultural and Historical Traditions of the Russian People

2021 ◽  
pp. 17-31
Author(s):  
Elvira Akimova ◽  
◽  
Tatiana Mochalova ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Point Of View ◽  
Cultural Consciousness ◽  
Russian People ◽  
Funeral Rite ◽  
The People ◽  
The Status ◽  
Wedding Ceremony ◽  
Closed Society ◽  
The Republic ◽  
Vegetation Water

The article studies lexical and phraseological units nominating holidays and ceremonies in Russian dialects, which are spoken on the territory of the Republic of Mordovia. The specificity of nominative processes associated with the naming of a fact that is significant from linguistic and cultural point of view, is determined. The research is carried out on the material taken from the Dictionary of Russian dialects on the territory of the Republic of Mordovia. It has been found that in Russian dialects, the names of religious holidays, which are dedicated to the most revered saints, or the holidays related to a certain time of the year, are actively used. The surviving holidays reproduce elements of the most ancient customs associated with the worship of human deities, the cult of vegetation, water and fire, which magical powers were attributed to. The names of rituals represent a special layer in the dialect corpus. The most illustrative represented are the funeral rite and the rite of baptism. All these rituals are of great importance in the life of the people, since they symbolize a change in the status of a person, his transition from one state to another. The nominations of different phases of wedding ceremony are noted to be most numerous, while funeral and baptizing rites are less representative. The study showed that the names of holidays and rituals in Russian folk dialects reflect cultural and historical traditions, beliefs, customs of representatives of a territorially closed society. They perform peculiar means of representing the ethnic and cultural consciousness of the people.

scholarly journals Georgy Ivanov on the “Vial of Poison” by Konstantin Leontiev

2021 ◽  
Vol 45 (1) ◽  
pp. 16-22
Author(s):  
Natalia Solntseva ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Point Of View ◽  
The Political ◽  
Political Arena ◽  
Russian People ◽  
Way Of Thinking ◽  
Younger Generation ◽  
New Generation ◽  
The Church ◽  
The Way

The article is devoted to the analysis of G. Ivanov’s judgments about K. Leontiev. The sharpness of Ivanov’s statements is explained by the similarity of Leontiev’s views with the ideology of a new generation of emigrants, including members of the fairly mass party of “mladorosses” (young Russians). From the point of view of Ivanov, Leontiev’s political convictions in many ways contain a danger for the formation of the worldview of contemporaries. Leontiev’s idea that liberal-egalitarian progress would lead to the collapse of the Empire was combined with his belief in the possibility of protective socialism in Russia and a socialist monarch, blessed by the Church. The “mladorosses” were social monarchists who believed that with the older generation of Bolsheviks leaving the political arena, Bolshevism would come to an end; they saw the Soviets without the Bolsheviks as a promising form of self-government. In the political activization of the younger generation of emigrants, their way of thinking, Ivanov was not satisfied with the opposition to the ideals of the old emigration. He considered the ideas of the “new Russian people” contradictory and illusory, and expressed his beliefs in a number of articles. The deceptive hope of emigrants for the Soviets without the Bolsheviks is the motif of the famous poem “The way is Free under Thermopylae...” Ivanov created a complex, contradictory portrait of Leontiev; he is partly close to the opinion of N. Berdyaev, S. Bulgakov, V. Rozanov in his assessments of Leontiev’s human qualities and judgments.

scholarly journals Professional formation of a teacher in monitoring research

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (189) ◽  
pp. 105-110
Author(s):  
Olga Voloshina ◽  
Keyword(s):  
General Purpose ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Human Interaction ◽  
Practical Training ◽  
Pedagogical Orientation ◽  
Psychological Point ◽  
Key Competencies ◽  
Personal Qualities ◽  
The Individual ◽  
High Skill

The professional and pedagogical characteristics of the professional development of a teacher include, first of all, the level of professional-theoretical, as well as methodical and practical training of the teacher. The pedagogical orientation of the individual is manifested in the nature of solving this task. The pedagogical orientation of the teacher means, first of all, his interest in pedagogical activity and ability to be engaged in it. Orientation includes goals, motives and emotional attitude to activities (love, pleasure and other needs). Achieving high skill in teaching and educating individuals largely depends on the personal qualities of the teacher. And first of all from his pedagogical abilities. The activity of a teacher, as a form of expressing a person's active attitude to the surrounding reality, is concentrated in the field of involving the younger generation in the accumulation of social experience. Lack of purposeful education can lead to both intellectual and moral degradation of new generations. A specialist in the field of education is entrusted with social responsibility for the consequences of his work. The general purpose of the teacher - the formation of key competencies of the individual in the learning process. From a psychological point of view, a goal is a result of a person's predicted activity with a certain object. The result of the activity demonstrates the changes that occur with the object during human interaction with it. The issue of key competencies is being debated around the world today. This problem is especially relevant now in connection with the modernization of Ukrainian education.

scholarly journals Parametric status of the subject of utterance

2020 ◽  
Vol 26 (4) ◽  
pp. 88-94
Author(s):  
N. K. Danilova
Keyword(s):  
Interpersonal Relations ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Narrative Text ◽  
Narrative Discourse ◽  
Grammatical Subject ◽  
Zero Position ◽  
The World ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Moment ◽  
The Relationship

The article proposes a possible solution to the problem of the poly-subjectness of narrative discourse, associated with the hybrid nature of artistic communication, in which not only the world of narration is modeled, but also the communicative situation of communication. As one of the parameters of the discursive process, the analysis of which makes it possible to observe the intensive interaction of a number of systems participating in modeling the imaginary world of a work of art, the subject of the statement is considered, in M. Foucault's terminology, an empty position in discourse. The narrative text can be viewed as a complex of a number of communicative phenomena, as a special type of social interaction. A speech act, in which the text becomes an integral component, represents, according to this point of view, a two-unit complex of events, the process of the speaker's production of an utterance and the process of interpretive perception of the finished speech product. The interaction of the author and the reader takes place at the point I here now (Origo), in which an event takes place, which in the theory of the speaking subject of Yu. Kristeva is defined as passing the zero position subject of evocation-process and statement-result. In a complexly structured artistic message, the dynamics of the subject of utterance is expressed in the alternation of pronoun forms. In the structure of discourse, the subject of utterance forms a position, filling which the grammatical subject realizes the relationship between the grammatical and the communicative system, which represents a complex perspective of communication. The observer's area, which determines the communicative situation of narrative discourse, completely excluding interpersonal relations (this is what Bakhtin means when he speaks of the absence of dramatic relations between the author and the reader). The introduction of the observer category makes it possible to describe the position of out-of-access, according to which the author is on the border of fiction. The perspective of the observer explains another feature of literary communication, described by M.M. Bakhtin as the birth of meanings at the moment of meeting (dialogue) of the consciousnesses of both participants.

Animated Documentary, Recollection, ‘Re-enactment’ and Temporality

2018 ◽  
pp. 69-83
Author(s):  
Paul Ward
Keyword(s):  
Point Of View ◽  
Childhood Memories ◽  
The Holocaust ◽  
Nazi Era

In this chapter Paul Ward focuses particularly on the concept of re-enactment, arguing that it raises varied questions about the nature of performance, agency, point of view and temporality within animated documentary. Ward grounds his theoretical speculations and conceptual distinctions in close readings of two animated documentaries, Andersartig (2011) and The Children of the Holocaust (2014), both of which depict individual childhood memories of living in Nazi-era Germany. He concludes that works such as these encourage audiences and critics alike to understand and engage with animated documentary as a filmmaking mode able to portray intangible, often non-indexical (and therefore un-photographable) documentary phenomena.

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