scholarly journals “A cancer on the planet”: Mountaintop Removal and Environmental Crime in Jonathan Franzen’s Freedom

2019 ◽  
pp. 343-365
Author(s):  
Barbara Miceli
Keyword(s):  
Mining Operation ◽  
Strip Mining ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Main Character ◽  
Small Species ◽  
Mountaintop Removal ◽  
Environmental Causes ◽  
Cerulean Warblers ◽  
The One ◽  
Shed Light

The American novelist Jonathan Franzen has always shown a great interest for the environmental problems, mainly in his masterpiece Freedom (2011) and in the essay “My Bird Problem” (2005). Freedom, which recounts three decades of the Berglund family, sees its main character dealing with the environmental themes for his work. Walter is a lawyer who is actively engaged in environmental causes, but the one that occupies most of the novel, is the support of an organization called “Cerulean Mountain Trust”, which aims at saving the cerulean warblers, a small species of songbird, creating a “birds’ sanctuary” in West Virginia. The honorable cause is actually moved by Vin Haven, a Texan millionaire tycoon who wants to implement an extractive coal strip mining operation and afterwards build the birds’ sanctuary as a remedial move. The aim of this paper is to analyze the novel to extract Franzen’s fictional depiction of actual environmental crimes in order to shed light on harmful practices such as the mountaintop removal.

scholarly journals On the Reflection of Naturalism in the Main Character in The Call of the Wild

2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (11) ◽  
pp. 1530
Author(s):  
Xiu Zeng
Keyword(s):  
American Literature ◽  
Jack London ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Main Character ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Literary Naturalism ◽  
Artistic Creation ◽  
Fighting Spirit ◽  
The Will ◽  
The One

Jack London is one of the most outstanding and celebrated critical realists in American literature in the 20th century, he is well recognized in his artistic creation of literary works with the feature of naturalism. The Call of the Wild is one of his naturalistic works filled with adventure and fighting spirit. The main character of the novel is a dog named Buck. By concentrating on Buck's gradual reversion from a civilized pet to a primordial beast, Jack London demonstrates the power of heredity and environment in determining and shaping one’s mind and behaviors. Naturalists believe that mankind is the product of environment, the power of heredity and force of environment are greater than the will of human beings. It is not the strongest of the species that can survive, but the one most responsive to changes. Humans have to adapt themselves to the environment for survival. In The Call of the Wild, the principle of literary naturalism is mainly reflected in the effects of the hereditary and environmental factors on the fate of the main character, Buck.

scholarly journals Offervilje. Om ret og rimelighed blandt venner og fjender og om at komme og dømme levende og døde i Max Kestners film "I am Fiction"

2013 ◽  
Vol 28 (70) ◽  
Author(s):  
Louise Brix Jacobsen ◽  
Henrik Skov Nielsen ◽  
Rikke Andersen Kraglund
Keyword(s):  
Freedom Of Expression ◽  
Publishing House ◽  
The Other ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Main Character ◽  
Artistic Collaboration ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
The Dead ◽  
The One ◽  
Alleged Victim

Louise Brix Jacobsen, Rikke Andersen Kraglund & Henrik Skov Nielsen: “Selfsacrifice. On Right and Reasonableness among Foes and Friends, and on Judging the Living and the Dead in Max Kestner’s film I am Fiction”In 2011, the performance artist Thomas Skade-Rasmussen Strøbech lost a lawsuit against his former friend and collaborator Helge Bille Nielsen and the publishing house of Gyldendal. This led to a debate about copyright, freedom of expression, identity, and the line between fiction and reality. In 2008, Nielsen or Das Beckwerk published the novel The Sovereign where Strøbech – seemingly without his knowledge and apparently against his will – is the main character. About a year after losing the lawsuit Strøbech and film director Max Kestner gives his version of the events before, during, and after the trial in the film I am Fiction (Identitetstyveriet). This article analyzes I am fiction in order to show how the film on the one hand outlines Strøbech’s version of the events as a story about a victim but on the other hand undermines this version with humor and irony and points towards an artistic collaboration between alleged victim and villain.

scholarly journals NILAI-NILAI KEHIDUPAN PADA NOVEL MOGA BUNDA DISAYANG ALLAH KARYA TERE LIYE

2017 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 89-100
Author(s):  
Lozi Septiana ◽  
Yayah Chanafiah ◽  
Amril Canrhas
Keyword(s):  
Research Problem ◽  
Value Of Life ◽  
Research Data ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Research Approach ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Main Character ◽  
Story Line ◽  
Story Character ◽  
The One

This study aims to determine the values of life contained in the novel Moga Bunda Disayang Allah by Tere Liye. The formulation of this research problem is how the value of life contained in the novel Moga Bunda Disukai Allah by Tere Liye. The method used is descriptive. The research approach used in this study is an objective approach, focusing on intrinsic analysis. The source of this research data is the novel Moga Bunda Disayang Allah Tere Liye's work with data taken in the form of texts from the story line, theme and story, character and characterization , Point of view, the novel style of Moga Mother Dear Mother God by Tere Liye.Research Results Values of life contained in the novel Moga Mother Dear God is, judging from the main character of Bunda HK who is very fond of his disabled son and he endlessly fight against the disease Melati. Rough corals in caring for Jasmine, ugly physical but noble heart. Mr. HK is rich but inhuman, misjudging someone from his physical appearance, it turns out HK is wrong. The reef that was ostracized because of his appearance turned out to be the one who saved his daughter. Judging from the depressed Melati characters, the prestation with its limitations, suddenly can pray for Mother "met bobo Mother. Moga Mother Dear God".

scholarly journals Citra Perempuan dalam Novel "Kala" Karya Stefani Bella dan Syahid Muhammad

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 164
Author(s):  
Hanif Ivo Khusri Wardani ◽  
Rina Ratih Sri Sudaryani
Keyword(s):  
The Novel ◽  
Main Character ◽  
Note Taking ◽  
Social Image ◽  
The People ◽  
Study Results ◽  
The Family ◽  
The One ◽  
Descriptive Qualitative

Penelitian bertujuan untuk mendeskripsikan citra perempuan pada tokoh utama dalam novel “Kala” karya Stefani Bella dan Syahid Muhammad dengan kajian feminisme ideologis. Penelitian dilakukan secara deskriptif kualitatif. Pengumpulan data dilakukan dengan teknik kepustakaan dan teknik baca-catat serta metode membaca sebagai perempuan. Hasil penelitian adalah sebagai berikut: (1) citra fisik Lara adalah perempuan dewasa yang sederhana, apa adanya, dan tidak suka bersolek, (2) citra psikis Lara adalah perempuan yang berjiwa kuat, tegar, tanggung jawab, dan mandiri, (3) citra sosial Lara dalam keluarga adalah anak perempuan yang berbakti kepada orang tuanya, dan (4) citra sosial Lara dalam masyarakat adalah perempuan yang ramah, mudah bergaul, dan aktif berkegiatan. Sosok perempuan dalam novel “Kala” ini menggambarkan sosok perempuan yang berhasil menyetarakan kedudukannya dengan laki-laki khususnya dalam bidang pekerjaan di ranah publik. Ketidakadilan yang dihadapinya karena jenis kelamin tidak menjadikan perempuan lemah dan terpuruk tetapi membangkitkan semangatnya menjadi perempuan yang mandiri.Katakunci: citra, perempuan, feminis ideologisAbstract:The study aimed to describe the woman’s image reflected by the main character of Kala, a novel written by Stefani Bella and Syahid Muhammad. The woman’s image was viewed from an ideological feminism approach. The research was descriptive qualitative of which the data were collected through library study and note-taking, as well as reading as woman. The study results in several findings. First, Lara’s physical image was described as modest, natural, and not keen on prinking herself. Second, psychologically, Lara’s image was strong, tough, responsible, and independent. Third, Lara’s social image in the family was filial to her parents, and fourth, Lara’s social image in society was described as friendly, sociable, and active. The woman’s figure in the novel shows the one who is able to equalize the position with men, especially in occupations related to the people. The inequality as experienced by the character should not weaken women. Instead, it should encourage women to be independent.Keywords: image, women, ideological feminism

scholarly journals Psychoanalytic Reading of Love and Desire in Somerset Maugham’s Of Human Bondage

2017 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 58
Author(s):  
Amin Ettehadi ◽  
Roohollah Reesi Sistani
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Main Character ◽  
Human Love ◽  
Gradual Loss ◽  
The One ◽  
The Relationship

<p><em>The present study was a comprehensive psychoanalysis of the idea of love and desire in Somerset Maugham’s Of Human Bondage. The study explored the relationship Philip Carey, the main character, develops with Other people throughout the novel. To further enrich the analysis, Lacan’s theory of human love and desire was employed to provide a psychoanalytic examination of Philip Carey’s bond of love for Mildred, on the one hand, and his gradual loss of identity in his desire towards her, on the other. The study inspected the nature of Philip’s desire for Mildred and shows how he turnd to a desiring subject in his bond to her and finally reached a state of selflessness and depended heavily on Mildred as the object of his desire which drove him towards self-contempt and a masochistic denial of real facts in his life.</em></p>

scholarly journals Образ мирового человека в романе Алексея Иванова „Географ глобус пропил"

2018 ◽  
pp. 175-186
Author(s):  
Roman Szubin
Keyword(s):  
Russian Literature ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Main Character ◽  
The One

The article is devoted to a research of archaic models in Alexei Ivanov’s creativity. On the material of the novel entitled Geographer has spent on drink the globe(Geograf globus propil) the images and motifs of rescue, as well as the archaic image of rescue described in Vardan Hayrapetyan’s hermeneutics are revealed. In the center of a research is the main character, another example of an archetype of the Russian literature — the little person. In particular, his uncommon abilities to understand, to decode and interpret are emphasized. The attention is also paid to the hermeneutical model of the communication consisting of three instances: speaking (nature), the listener (who is willfully understanding the pupil) and the interpreter (the teacher) whose efforts supplement the anthropomorphous model of unity — the all-man, the one-man (mirovoj chelovek).

scholarly journals Dichten ums Überleben auf Gratwanderung zwischen Ost und West. Die Rolle der Geschichte(n) in Jan Koneffkes Roman Die sieben Leben des Felix Kannmacher

2020 ◽  
Vol 46 (1) ◽  
pp. 130-141
Author(s):  
Ana Karlstedt
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Main Character ◽  
Fine Line ◽  
The One ◽  
Looking Back

Abstract Looking back, my memories seem like distant, made­up stories. These words of the main character are to be found all over Jan Koneffkes novel. A foreigner on the run, Felix Kannmacher is forced to tell stories in order to survive. He is at the mercy of a teenager who is avid for constantly new and different bedtime stories. Felix gives in, as he has no other choice but to be a slaveto this child. The following article analyses the fine line between the stories Felix invents for Virginia and two narratological aspects: the actual plot of the novel on the one hand, and the actual course of history, on the other. The entire novel is built on stories-within-stories that twist and turn the course of Story and History alike. Because each one of us writes their own (hi)story.

scholarly journals Text on the Culturological Border: the Cinemanovel “The Red. Without a Front Line” by A. Kokotiukha

2020 ◽  
pp. 164-194
Author(s):  
Nataliia Nikoriak
Keyword(s):  
Literary Text ◽  
The Other ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Main Character ◽  
Front Line ◽  
Film Genre ◽  
Inner World ◽  
Key Features ◽  
Original Narrative ◽  
The One

The article under studies reveals the terminological polymodality of the concept of “cinemanovel” as a screened novel; film genre; an original narrative work that tends to a screenplay; literary text written on the basis of the film and the screenplay to it (film “novelization”). An overview of modern theoretical and practical discourse of the cinemanovel genre is presented in the paper. It has been emphasized that some researchers try to find out the origins of this genre by analyzing the samples in a comparative and intermediate way, while others focus on clarifying the specifics of individual novels, concluding on the synthetic and hybrid nature of this genre. In particular, in this aspect, the cinemanovel-prequel by A. Kokotiukha “The Red. Without a Front Line” (2019) has been analyzed. This text, based on a film screenplay, appears to be a rather complex construct that acquires a double coding – cinematic and literary – hence the genre of the novel (as a product of the synthesis of two arts) contains the key features of both. On the one hand, we have to deal with the preservation of the cinematic codes that pass from the screenplay: fragmentation, word visualization, documentalism, eventfulness, editing, alternation of angles and plans, time reduction, dialogues, character formation in action, characterization through speech, conciseness of phrases in certain scenes to create the effect of maximum tension, image condensation, accumulation of internal tension in the episode. On the other hand (as a result of the so-called “novelization”), the text acquires genre features of the novel. These are: the scale of the narration (although fragmented and condensed), the description of characters’ lives is presented in line with historical events, with the disclosure of their psychology and inner world. Finally, the work is also marked with specifically architectonic, i.e. the author connects his cinemanovels together by means of a plot, the main character and a general artistic idea.

Growing up of Laszlo Garaczi and his «Lemur»

2021 ◽  
pp. 45-60
Author(s):  
Angelika Molnar
Keyword(s):  
Growing Up ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Main Character ◽  
Socialist Society ◽  
The Poor ◽  
The World ◽  
Adult World ◽  
Autobiographical Work ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
The One

The article draws attention to the feature of postmodern discourse in a qua-si-autobiographical work, which in fact, is not the organization of memory, but fo-cusing on the events of the speech flow. In Laszlo Garaczi’s novel «What Fun We Have on This Coach Ride!», on the one hand, the life of a typical schoolboy of the 1960s is considered, and on the other hand, through this prism, the main problems of socialist society are revealed. Through deconstructing a devastated old language and creating a new one, the approach applied exposes the process of the adult world degradation (the world of parents and teachers, which seemed to represent a stable position in society), it shows them as the poor with the dictatorial tendencies of people, whose human and professional prestige is removed in parallel by (no)education of the teenager, the main character in the novel, who faces both the crisis of personal identity and the experience of socialism.The purpose of the linguopoetic analysis is to reveal the main metaphors and similes in the text of the novel. They cover both the process of the lemur’s growing up and his image appearing in different forms, as well as the meaning of «riding a bus». It contributes to the understanding of the novelsense.Summing up even such a brief study of the sample belonged to Hungarian proseallows the author to emphasize the importance of postmodern attitude to the tropes for both the reading general public and for a narrow circle of specialists.

scholarly journals LOVE THE ONE YOU’RE WITH: WOMAN AT THE CROSSROADS OF TRUE LOVE AND REAL LIFE

2017 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Tatik Muflihah
Keyword(s):  
Real Life ◽  
Literary Work ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Main Character ◽  
True Love ◽  
The One

Conflict is a situation frequently occurs in people’s lives. The source of conflict is usually originated from a personal and interpersonal misunderstanding in a relationship and poor communication. As a part of human’s creativity, literary work sometimes reflects people problematic life. One of those is internal and external conflict faced by the main character of the novel Love the One You’re With by Emily Giffin. This paper aims at investigating the conflicts faced by the main character of the novel and the strategy used to resolve those. The result of the study shows that the main character of the novel faced both internal and external conflicts. The internal is the conflict of Ellen and her own mind when she run into her true love and her real life as a wife. It becomes a conflict as she trapped and started to hesitate her own self whether go along with her emotional love or go back to her husband. The external conflicts occur between Ellen and all the characters of the novel. Thus, the main character of the novel had a complicated struggle to save her marriage live.

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