scholarly journals Amândoi by Liviu Rebreanu: multicultural settings and sources of suspense

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 87-110
Author(s):  
Lucian Vasile Bagiu
Keyword(s):  
Social Status ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Common People ◽  
Continuous Increase ◽  
Multicultural Context ◽  
Romanian Literature ◽  
Detective Genre ◽  
Multilingual Approach

The article looks into the multicultural settings of Liviu Rebreanu’s novel “Amândoi” (Both) by briefly examining the representation of its main, minor or incidental characters, either intelligentsia or common people. Ethnicity, social and professional statuses are considered as elements of multiculturalism. The continuous increase of suspense, the open ending, the parody in the undertone, and the development of the intrigue in an original multicultural context are presented further on. The various rumours arising from the townspeople’s own hypotheses about the murders of the aged Dăniloiu provide the opportunity to present the detective genre, which Rebreanu introduced in Romanian literature, suggesting a disguised satire of the type. The archaisms and the regional words of the novel are laboriously registered and underlined in terms of usage, etymology and linguistic connectivity, with the purpose of showing the multicultural flavour by means of a multilingual approach. The essay indicates that all characters use archaisms and local words, notwithstanding their social status or aspirations, a detail that puts in perspective the cultural configuration of the provincial town life, which Rebreanu is very aware of.

Basic Andragogy-Oriented Strategies and Communication in Online Education

2020 ◽  
Vol 26 (2) ◽  
pp. 350-356
Author(s):  
Anca Sîrbu
Keyword(s):  
Adult Learners ◽  
Online Education ◽  
Social Status ◽  
Rapid Onset ◽  
Learning Goals ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Academic Education ◽  
Online Instructors ◽  
New Methods ◽  
The World

AbstractWith the rapid onset of an unprecedented lifestyle due to the new coronavirus COVID-19 the world academic scene was forced to reform and adapt to the novel circumstances. Although online education cannot be regarded as a groundbreaking endeavour anymore in the21st century, its current character of exclusivity calls for deeper understanding of, and a sharper focus on the “end-consumer” thereof as well as more cautious procedures to be exercised while teaching. While millennials are no longer thought of as being born with a silver spoon in their mouth but with an iPad or any sort of device in their hand (irrespective of their social status), adults are more hesitant when coerced to alter course unexpectedly and turn to new methods of attaining their learning goals. This is why proper communicative approaches need to be thoroughly considered by online instructors. This article aims at presenting teachers with a set of strategies to employ when the beneficiaries of online academic education are adult learners.

Curvilinear Sexism and Its Links to Men’s Perceived Mate Value

2021 ◽  
pp. 014616722110097
Author(s):  
Jennifer K. Bosson ◽  
Gregory J. Rousis ◽  
Roxanne N. Felig
Keyword(s):  
Social Status ◽  
Subjective Social Status ◽  
Benevolent Sexism ◽  
Hostile Sexism ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Mate Value ◽  
Women Studies

We tested the novel hypothesis that men lower in status-linked variables—that is, subjective social status and perceived mate value—are relatively disinclined to offset their high hostile sexism with high benevolent sexism. Findings revealed that mate value, but not social status, moderates the hostile–benevolent sexism link among men: Whereas men high in perceived mate value endorse hostile and benevolent sexism linearly across the attitude range, men low in mate value show curvilinear sexism, characterized by declining benevolence as hostility increases above the midpoint. Study 1 ( N = 15,205) establishes the curvilinear sexism effect and shows that it is stronger among men than women. Studies 2 ( N = 328) and 3 ( N = 471) show that the curve is stronger among men low versus high in perceived mate value, and especially if they lack a serious relationship partner (Study 3). Discussion considers the relevance of these findings for understanding misogyny.

“A Manifestation of a Deep, Inborn Inherited Instinct”: Modernist Aesthetics and the Instabilities of Inheritance in Joseph Conrad’s Lord Jim

2017 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 197-216
Author(s):  
Evelyn T.Y. Chan
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Social Status ◽  
Joseph Conrad ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Nineteenth Century Literature ◽  
Familial Inheritance ◽  
Modern Self ◽  
Century Literature

This essay explores how Joseph Conrad reworks the trope of inheritance—traditionally considered relevant for earlier nineteenth-century literature rather than Modernism—in expressing Jim’s crisis of self-making in Lord Jim. Conrad moves away from the conventional emphasis on familial inheritance of social status and wealth to focus on inherited abilities, which Jim tries to prove in building his heroic and gentlemanly status. However, there are limits to this process of self-creation: inheritance is, as the word’s root suggests, innate to oneself, yet can also be extrinsic since it still needs to be expressed to call it one’s own, and be unstable since it is open to interpretation. Such complexities in the notion of inheritance, the essay argues, contribute to a modernist aesthetics in the novel that simultaneously harbours continuity (such as gradualism, predictability, and succession) and discontinuity (such as narrative rupture and the breakdown of causality), allowing the perils of modern self-making to be more fully revealed.

Business of Fiction

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael F. Suarez
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Population Growth ◽  
Social Status ◽  
Book History ◽  
Book Trade ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Luxury Products

The eighteenth century witnessed a remarkable proliferation of print, with annual publications in England, Scotland, Wales, and Ireland increasing by more than 350 per cent from the first decade to the last. This chapter relates the growth in novel publishing between 1695 and 1774 to population growth and the growth in literacy. Recent research links the book trade keeping prices artificially high to readers’ consumption of novels as luxury products and evidence of social status. This trend is considered, along with remuneration for authors; the market for fiction; Irish reprints; continuations and spin-offs; abridgements and serializations; translations; circulating libraries; and the significance of book history to understanding the emergence and development of the novel.

scholarly journals Shaping Gender: Femininity and Masculinity Through Sartorial Fashion in Virginia Woolf’s Mrs Dalloway

2018 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 9-19
Author(s):  
Alberto García García-Madrid
Keyword(s):  
Social Status ◽  
Social System ◽  
The Novel ◽  
British Modernism ◽  
Major Work ◽  
The Social ◽  
Femininity And Masculinity ◽  
Post War ◽  
Literary Techniques

Abstract Virginia Woolf’s Mrs Dalloway — published in 1925 — not only represents a major work regarding its literary techniques during the years of British Modernism, but also constitutes a critique of the social system of the post-war years, which was experiencing a change regarding the strict Victorian stereotypes of gender. Social status linked to sartorial fashion is a recurring element in the novel when considering these configurations. Woolf vindicates through different characters’ reflections a rearrangement of femininity and masculinity.

scholarly journals The Identification of Slurs and Swear Words in Bronte Sisters’ Novels

2019 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 11
Author(s):  
Citra Suryanovika ◽  
Irma Manda Negara
Keyword(s):  
Social Status ◽  
Qualitative Content Analysis ◽  
Social Rank ◽  
Unexpected Finding ◽  
Analysis Tool ◽  
Emotional States ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Female Characters ◽  
Wuthering Heights ◽  
Male Characters

This research aimed at identifying the categories of slurs, presenting how swear words expressed in male or female characters of Bronte sisters’ novels, and examining the social status scale in presenting slurs. The research was a qualitative content analysis of which process was categorizing, comparing, and concluding. The researchers employed MAXQDA 2018.1 (the data analysis tool) for analyzing the samples of five female and male main characters of the novel of Emily Bronte (Wuthering Heights), Charlotte Bronte (Jane Eyre), and Anne Bronte (The Tenant of Wildfell Hall). The research has shown three out of nine Thurlow’s pejorative items (social personality, phallocentric, and sexist), the possible formation of social personality slurs, the identification of swear words for showing speakers’ emotional states, and the influence of social status scale on the expression of slurs. It proves that slurs and swear words are used to deliver a derogatory attitude. The sexist slurs are not only delivered from male characters to female characters, but it is also found in Catherine Earnshaw targeting Nelly although they have similar gender background (female). Slurs are found in the characters from both high and low social rank since the plot develops the relationship amongst the characters. One unexpected finding is the different swear words between the characters. Swear words found in the novel are not only dominated by the word devil, damn, or by hell, but also the word deuce and humbug. The varied swear words proves that the male characters do not dominantly produce swear words, but also euphemistic expression.

scholarly journals The Ideological Reflection in F. Scott Fitzgerald's Novel, The Great Gatsby, (Post-Colonial Literature)

ATAVISME ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 121-132
Author(s):  
Sulistyaningsih Sulistyaningsih ◽  
Dina Merris Maya Sari
Keyword(s):  
Data Collection ◽  
Social Status ◽  
Analytical Approach ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Colonial Literature ◽  
Post Colonial ◽  
Great Gatsby ◽  
The Great Gatsby ◽  
Post Colonialism

 This study aims to disclose the cultural reflection of post-colonialism in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel, The Great Gatsby. This research uses analytical approach of post-colonial literature in the form of colonial behavior passed down to the weak, namely the colonized who consciously or unconsciously becomes the object of ideological oppression and power hegemony. The data collection techniques were reading, identifying, classifying, interpreting, inferring. The results of the analysis of  events in the novel suggest that the descriptions of the colonized  ideology are in the forms of hybrid ideology, mimicry, ethnicism, racism, sexism, and classism. The author describes that Gatsby has reflected ideology of hybrid, mimicry, racism, and ethnicism in his struggle to change his social status to be a rich man designated as the Jazz to attract Desy, his former girlfriend who has left him to marry Tom who has reflected ideology of classism and sexism to the colonialized native inhabitant.

scholarly journals „Astra. Roman epistolar” de Dito şi Idem – un caz de istorie literară

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 26-37
Author(s):  
Lucretia Pascariu
Keyword(s):  
Literary History ◽  
The Novel ◽  
European Continent ◽  
Epistolary Novel ◽  
Literary Collaboration ◽  
New Perspective ◽  
Romanian Literature ◽  
Book Format ◽  
Literary Methods ◽  
The 19Th Century

The literary collaboration between Carmen Sylva and Mite Kremnitz under the pseudonym “Dito und Idem” was a real accomplishment in the 19th century not only in Romania, but on the whole European continent. After a series of individual projects on translations of Romanian literature into German, Carmen Sylva and Mite Kremnitz began their literary collaboration (1882-1889). The main aim of the literary project was to promote the Romanian literature and culture in Western and Central Europe. Therefore, the project produced two epistolary novels (Aus zwei Welten, Astra) with a real success on the book market. As a result of their attainment, only one novel was translated in Romania. The epistolary novel Astra was published in 1886 in German and translated and printed in feuilleton, in Romania, the same year. Taking everything into account, the study looks into the manner in which Carmen Sylva and Mite Kremnitz managed to use literary methods characteristic to the feuilleton-novel (pickling technique, narrative “seduction”, sensational plot etc.) which assured a consistent distribution of the novel. Furthermore, the comparison between the feuilleton-format and book format of the novel Astra offered us a new perspective on the transition of translated novels into the pages of a feuilleton. All in all, the literary collaboration between Dito and Idem represents a whole page in the literary history of the Romanian novel.

scholarly journals Ideological Essentialization of Afghan Women in Hosseini's A Thousand Splendid Suns

The Batuk ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 55-62
Author(s):  
Binod Sapkota
Keyword(s):  
Psychological Trauma ◽  
Ethnic Cleansing ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Common People ◽  
Afghan Women ◽  
Representation Of Women ◽  
The Social ◽  
Poor Women ◽  
The Us ◽  
Women And Children

 This article analyses the representation of women in Khaled Hoesseini’s novel A Thousand Splendid Suns (2003). This novel foregrounds the Afghan history in the aftermath of the fall of monarchy and the subsequent Russianinvasion, rise of Taliban and the arrival of the US after 9/11. All these events resulted in ethnic cleansing, hunger, mass exploitation, displacement and physical and psychological trauma to the common people especially the poor, women, and children. They brought eternal political instability to the ancient nation. The article uses the feminist lens of interpretation and concludes that the novel presents a graphical picture of Afghan women, their sufferings, their fight against the social and political patriarchy and biasness, their pain, human values and struggle for dignity.

scholarly journals Life Writing "from Below" in Europe: Introduction

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 ◽  
pp. LWFB1-LWFB9
Author(s):  
T. G. Ashplant
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Social Status ◽  
Life Writing ◽  
Early Modern Period ◽  
Industrial Workers ◽  
Common People ◽  
Modern Period ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Common ◽  
Popular Classes

The term life writing “from below” is intended to be broad (accommodating) in a double sense: as regards the social status of authors, but also the genre of writing. The phrase “from below” draws on an analogy with the now well-established formulation “history from below” (Sharpe; Hitchcock). In the first instance it refers to authors from low down in a class or status hierarchy. Depending on the society and period in focus, such authors may be slaves, serfs, peasants, crofters, landless labourers, artisans, industrial workers … and may be referred to as—or may designate themselves—plebeians, the labouring poor, the common people, the popular classes, artisans, proletarians, the working class. For the early modern period, James Amelang explains his choice of the term “popular autobiography”:

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