scholarly journals VITAL-HISTORICAL AND ETERNAL THEMES IN KHALED HOSSEINI’S NOVELS

2020 ◽  
pp. 89-99
Keyword(s):  
Detailed Analysis ◽  
Literary Studies ◽  
Personal Perspective ◽  
American Writer ◽  
The Core ◽  
The World ◽  
Repeated Events ◽  
Long Time ◽  
Children And Childhood ◽  
Core Meaning

In the study of literature the themes of fiction are divided into vital-historical and eternal themes. Vital-historical themes refer to the conditions resulted in character upbringing in the socio-historical situation and they can’t exist outside of this certain time and place. The eternal themes indicate the repeated events in all the periods of all the nations. The combination of several themes in one work is expressed in literary studies with the concept of “thematic”. When faced with such a situation, one or two major themes may be separated, and the rest should be explored as secondary. The objective of this paper is to seek to remedy these problems by analyzing the novels “The Kite Runner” and “A Thousand Splendid Suns” by Afghan-American writer Khaled Hosseini in terms of vital-historical and eternal themes. The data collected from the detailed analysis of the texts of Hosseini’s novels mentioned above by applying biographic method. The research results in proving the fact that the writer’s talent lies on fastening the theme of Afghanistan equally in his all three books pre-in- post Taliban periods and in addition to this he can indicate his own personal perspective towards the issues stated in the events. Hosseini could fulfill his task in describing his desire and Afghan people in each part of the world for the blessed peace that the nation couldn’t witness for a long time. Moreover, the themes of children and childhood, women and womanhood or family traditions can be found regularly in all the novels indicated above to strengthen the core meaning of what is being Afghan and what is living in Afghanistan. This study is an effort to unfold the significance of literary characteristics of the novels those mentioned above. The study concludes that Khaled Hosseini applied the vital-historical and eternal themes in his three novels to illustrate the objective picture of Afghanistan pre-in-post Taliban period.

Atonement and the Work of Christ

2018 ◽  
pp. 84-97
Author(s):  
William J. Abraham
Keyword(s):  
Human Action ◽  
Divine Action ◽  
The Core ◽  
The World ◽  
Action Theories ◽  
Core Meaning

In sorting through how best to understand the work of Christ we need a narrative that captures the core meaning of “atonement” and a way to deploy the various theories that abound in the tradition. At the root of the issue is a narrative of reconciliation that highlights the serious alienation that exists between human agents and God. Fixing this problem requires both divine and human action. Theories of atonement seek to spell out the divine action involved. Each has its own advantage in developing complementary descriptions of what has gone wrong with the world and how to fix it.

De actualisering van het geloof in een laatste oordeel in het existentiële perspectief van Rudolf Bultmann

2011 ◽  
Vol 65 (4) ◽  
pp. 293-306
Author(s):  
Gea Smit
Keyword(s):  
Human Life ◽  
Way Of Life ◽  
The Core ◽  
Rudolf Bultmann ◽  
Last Judgment ◽  
The World ◽  
The New Testament ◽  
New Form ◽  
Abstract Notion ◽  
Core Meaning

In the New Testament, the belief that the last judgment would arrive soon was paired with an ethical appeal to change one’s attitude or way of life. However, with the expectation of an imminent judgment fading, this connection weakened. This paper investigates whether the existential theology of Rudolf Bultmann offers an inter-pretation that manages to actualise belief in a last judgment for the present day. Bultmann interprets the core meaning of judgment to be that God, with the coming of Jesus Christ into the world, opens the possibility for a new form of true existence for every individual who submits to it. This conception indeed implies an existential importance of the belief in an eschatological judgment for human life in the present. However, a more exact interpretation of the rather abstract notion of this form of true existence seems hard to describe and therefore leaves the question somewhat open.

Pokémon Go as an HRG: Mobility, sociability, and surveillance in hybrid spaces

2016 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 20-23 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adriana de Souza e Silva
Keyword(s):  
Augmented Reality ◽  
Ordinary Life ◽  
The Core ◽  
The World ◽  
Long Time ◽  
Hybrid Spaces ◽  
Pokémon Go ◽  
Design Characteristics ◽  
First Time ◽  
Augmented Reality Game

In July 2016, Niantic Labs released the hybrid/augmented reality game Pokémon Go. Due to the game’s sudden enormous success, many mobile phone users all over the world could experience for the first time playing a hybrid reality game. Hybrid reality games, however, are not new. For at least 15 years, researchers and artists experiment with the affordances of location-based mobile technology to create playful experiences that take place across physical and digital (i.e., hybrid) spaces. Blast Theory’s Can You See Me Now?, developed in 2001, is one of the first examples. Yet for a long time, these games remained in the domain of art and research, and had therefore a very limited player community. Previous research has identified three design characteristics of hybrid reality games: mobility, sociability, and spatiality; and three main aspects to analyze these games: the connection between play and ordinary life, the relevance of the play community, and surveillance. With hybrid reality games’ commercialization and popularity, some of the issues that have been at the core of these games for over a decade will remain the same, while other aspects will change. This paper uses Pokémon Go as an example of a hybrid/augmented reality game to explore the main social and spatial issues that arise when these games become mainstream, including mobility, sociability, spatiality, and surveillance.

Noun-epithets of Dongba and Daba oral traditions

2021 ◽  
Vol 44 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Duoduo Xu
Keyword(s):  
Oral Traditions ◽  
Comprehensive Description ◽  
Comparative Linguistics ◽  
Main Category ◽  
Significant Percentage ◽  
The Core ◽  
The World ◽  
Monosyllabic Words ◽  
Core Meaning

Abstract Dongba and Daba chants represent two of the few oral traditions still surviving in the world. In both traditions, the main category of formulaic expressions consists of traditional noun-epithets describing spirits. Dongba and Daba spirits can be classified into five categories, of which the noun-epithets used to describe them share similar features. Another significant percentage of noun-epithets portray figures of animals. Dongba and Daba chants are both chanted in odd-numbered metric patterns in which noun-epithets are adapted to the metric context. Besides the core expression (often a tetra-syllabic compound), several monosyllabic words not affecting the core meaning may be inserted as optional morphemes to modify the number of syllables in the noun-epithet. This study provides a systematic philological analysis of the vast repertoire of Daba and Dongba noun-epithets. Comparative mythology and comparative linguistics combine to present a comprehensive description of the stylistic features of Daba and Dongba noun-epithets.

scholarly journals The COVID-19 pandemic storm in India

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Igor Nesteruk
Keyword(s):  
Detailed Analysis ◽  
Sharp Increase ◽  
Sir Model ◽  
Final Size ◽  
The World ◽  
Long Time ◽  
Pandemic Wave

The sharp increase in the number of new COVID-19 patients in India in the second half of April 2021 has caused alarm around the world. A detailed analysis of this pandemic storm is still ahead. We present the results of anterior analysis using a generalized SIR-model (susceptible-infected-removed). The final size of this pandemic wave and its duration are predicted. Obtained results show that the COVID-19 pandemic will be a problem for mankind for a very long time.

Inventing la Môme

Édith Piaf ◽  
2016 ◽  
pp. 27-44
Author(s):  
David Looseley
Keyword(s):  
Life Story ◽  
Early Years ◽  
The Core ◽  
The World ◽  
Early Songs ◽  
Core Meaning

The chapter begins with a brief biography of Piaf’s early years as a singer but focuses primarily on how the Piaf myth—the imagined Piaf that France and the world would come to know--was invented. The process of invention was the work initially of Piaf herself, who fabricated a life story almost from the beginning. But she was soon joined in this task by her first impresario, Raymond Asso, who wrote the lyrics for many of her early songs, and Marguerite Monnot, who composed the music. This team, progressively joined by others, worked together to produce a new iteration of the well-known realist song genre: Piaf’s songs were read through the narratives of the singer’s life, but, at the same time, those narratives were themselves read through the songs. This reciprocal identification between song and life would form the core meaning of Piaf’s stardom.

The “Monadology”

2020 ◽  
pp. 206-227
Author(s):  
Lloyd Strickland
Keyword(s):  
Detailed Analysis ◽  
Publication History ◽  
The Core ◽  
Philosophical System ◽  
The World ◽  
Core Features

Written in 1714, the “Monadology” is widely regarded as a classic statement of much of Leibniz’s mature philosophical system. In just 90 numbered paragraphs, Leibniz outlines—and argues for—the core features of his system, starting with his famous doctrine of monads (simple substances) and ending with the uplifting claim that God is concerned not only for the world as a whole but for the welfare of the virtuous in particular. This chapter begins by considering the circumstances of composition of the “Monadology” and its publication history before offering a detailed analysis of the claims and arguments found therein; I suggest the text is best read as dealing with three distinct realms, the metaphysical (§§1–60), the physical (§§61–82), and lastly the moral (§§83–90). The chapter concludes with a consideration of the fate and influence of this seminal text.

Reading the World, Reading the Self

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (3) ◽  
pp. 479-496
Author(s):  
Laura Lucia Rossi
Keyword(s):  
World Literature ◽  
The Self ◽  
Literary Texts ◽  
Literary Studies ◽  
The Core ◽  
The World ◽  
Transparent Objects ◽  
Meaning Production

This article is a reflection on the wordy and worldly characters of literary texts that invites us to focus on how their referentiality unfolds in the act of reading. The article focuses in particular on the necessity for world literature to factor in the subjective involvement of the reader entailed by literary communication. It does so by firstly revisiting the old debate about referentiality and contextualization of literary texts in literary studies, and specifically within world literature, which is particularly concerned with understanding the boundaries of literary communication. It then analyses how the worldly and wordy components of literature can be brought together by considering the act of reading as the core of meaning production and as a process of generative construction, which, when based on the interaction between readers and distant texts, like in the specific case of world literature, has the possibility to maximize its potential. Engaging with Iser's and Poulet's phenomenological approaches to the act of reading, the article argues against the vision of literary texts as transparent objects and encourages scholars working on world literature to embrace the translucency and generative potential that literature offers, inviting them to embrace aesthetic and anthropological perspectives so as to understand works of world literature as tools for interpretation both of the world and of ourselves.

scholarly journals Linguistic and Creative Aspects of Representation of the Macroconcept of Life in the Wordplay Poetics of the Story “The Circle” by V.V. Nabokov

2020 ◽  
Vol 162 (5) ◽  
pp. 72-88
Author(s):  
G.Yu. Maltseva ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Detailed Analysis ◽  
Association Analysis ◽  
Conceptual Metaphor ◽  
Implicit Associations ◽  
The Core ◽  
Layer Analysis ◽  
The World ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Russian Linguistic ◽  
Life Circle

This paper is based on a detailed analysis of the representation of the concept of circle as a component of the macroconcept of life in the poetic wordplay of the story “The Circle” (‘Krug’) by V.V. Nabokov. In the light of the theory of wordplay poetics, the following non-standard ways of representing the macroconcept of life were revealed: the absence of the concept nominee in the studied direction of association; the involvement of etymological data of the key representative and semantically related associates. The method of N.S. Bolotnova’s associative layer analysis was used to identify implicit meanings and to reveal key elements that can be helpful in decoding the wordplay of the text. It was found that the core of the macroconcept of life is based on the conceptual metaphor “life – circle”, which is characteristic of the Russian linguistic view of the world. The areas of association were singled out by the method of association analysis of the concept and divided into separate blocks, each representing one of the semes (elements of the meaning of the concept of circle) in the story “The Circle” and connected with implicit associations. Taken together, they provide V.V. Nabokov’s complete individual view of the macroconcept of life. The obtained results demonstrate the idiosyncratic character of V.V. Nabokov’s prose. By means of the wordplay poetics of the story “The Circle”, the concept of life reflects the individual view of the world by V.V. Nabokov, and the axiological layer of the concept translates the author’s philosophical views on life.

MAIN CHARACTERISTICS OF TERMINOLOGICAL LEXIS AS A PART OF SCIENTIFIC PICTURE OF THE WORLD

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (12) ◽  
pp. 121-125
Author(s):  
Z.U. Khakieva ◽  
◽  
M.L. Edelbieva ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Professional Knowledge ◽  
Specific Field ◽  
The Core ◽  
The World ◽  
Long Time

The purpose of the study is to describe the main characteristics of the terminological vocabulary. We consider such concepts as "terminological vocabulary", "Professional vocabulary", "Special vocabulary". The results obtained allowed to conclude that the terms form the core of special vocabulary. Under the term in this case it is understood as the verbal name of the concept relating to the terminology of the specific field of scientific and / or professional knowledge, and under the terminology - the system of terms denoting the concepts formed for a long time used in a specific technical or scientific sphere. The key requirements are defined and described key requirements: its semantic accuracy, the ability to call items and phenomena, definition, language expressiveness, modal neutrality, systemic in lexical and word-forming levels of the language, the ability to reflect only one property or a phenomenon within its own "terminological field".

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