scholarly journals (Anty)bohaterowie w gąszczu aluzji. Poetyka powieści fantastycznej w "Słowodzicielce" Anny Szumacher

2021 ◽  
Vol 52 (3) ◽  
pp. 223-241
Author(s):  
Łukasz Kucharczyk
Keyword(s):  
The Novel ◽  
Ontological Status ◽  
Fantastic Literature

In the article, I analyze Anna Szumacher’s novel Słowodzicielka as a metatextual work, talking about the conventions and traditions of fantastic literature. I begin by discussing the ontological status of the novel’s characters, their mismatch with the heroic pattern established in the tradition, and I define them as anti-heroes. Then I go on to discuss the intertextual strategies presented in the novel. I end my analysis with a discussion of the morphology of genres change in Słowodzicielka. 

scholarly journals John Banville’s „Ghosts”: “A different way of being alive”

2017 ◽  
Vol 55 ◽  
pp. 69-82
Author(s):  
Bożena Kucała
Keyword(s):  
The Novel ◽  
Ontological Status ◽  
Empirical Reality ◽  
Fictional World ◽  
Work In Progress ◽  
Literary Character ◽  
The World ◽  
The Status

This article analyses the ontological status of the characters who inhabit the world of John Banville’s novel Ghosts. While the problem of volatile selfhood recurs in Banville’s fiction, in this novel the very existence of the characters within the fictional world remains doubtful. It is argued here that the numerous metafictional elements in the text are central to its interpretation. The novel itself should be treated as a work in progress or a design for a novel rather than a completed project. The narrative initiates and ultimately resists familiar patterns; the characters’ peculiar way of being alive seems to stem from an intersection of empirical reality and an obscure realm of fantasy, imagination as well as textual and artistic allusions. Correspondingly, the narrator’s status as a literary character is ambiguous. The article suggests that the narrator is the most likely creator of the characters within the fictional world and is himself a playful author-substitute in the novel. In conclusion, a reading that treats Ghosts as a postmodern artefact appears to provide a viable framework for resolving the apparent contradictions and ambiguities in the status of the characters.

scholarly journals ORGANIZATION OF ARTISTIC SPACE IN THE NOVEL "VITA NOSTRA" BY M. AND S. DIACHENKO

2018 ◽  
pp. 91-96
Author(s):  
Serhii Tsikavyi
Keyword(s):  
Urban Space ◽  
Personal Space ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Fantastic Literature ◽  
Spatial Correspondence ◽  
Methods Of Analysis ◽  
Provincial City ◽  
The World ◽  
Narrative Functions

The article is devoted to the analysis of the space in the novel "Vita Nostra", written by M. and S. Diachenko - contemporary Ukrainian writers of fantastic literature. With the use of narratological and geo-poetical approaches, it was possible to determine the features of the world created in the work under consideration .  The main spatial frames are characterized, features of their narrative functions are defined. It is proven that destruction of the conventional features of "resort", "personal space" and "provincial city" is successive; in the novel "Vita Nostra" cultural-spatial correspondence of scrutinized topoi gives way to the development of other meanings: accordingly, "the test", "the house", "the metamorphosis". Fictitious cities in the novel (Thorpa and its implementation in hypertext reality) are separately analyzed. The indicative geo-poetical parameters of these topoi ae determined, special attention iss paid to the interpretation of the centrality  of the hypertext urban space - opposite to linearity of its empirical twin. Traits of deformation of spatiality under the influence of the heroine's metamorphosis are traced . It iss noted that the central fantastic assumption correlates with the specific parameters of space / place: subjectivity, repeatability, the inclusion of individual frames in the narrative universe, the blurring of boundaries between private and communal spaces. Further explications of study may be conducted both in extension of fantastic assumption problem in the novel and in attempts to extend the provided methods of analysis upon issue of fictional cities.

scholarly journals Потенциал иронии в творчестве Людмилы Петрушевской (на примере романа Нас украли. История преступлений)

2020 ◽  
Vol 45 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Юлия Брюханова
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
The Other ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Ontological Status ◽  
Common Features ◽  
Significant Element ◽  
Philosophical Aspect ◽  
The Status ◽  
The Common ◽  
The One

Many researchers of Lyudmila Petrushevskaya’s works draw attention to the irony which is the significant element of her prose, drama and poetry. It is important that the ironic principle manifests itself not only as an artistic technique but also as a philosophical aspect. Irony demonstrates the ambivalence of reality. On the one hand, it ridicules and profanes everything. On the other hand, irony gives the certitude of the ontological status of reality. We can see a good example of this function of irony in the novel Nas ukrali. Istoriya prestupleniy (2017). This novel shows the common features of Petrushevskaya’s works – the unity of ironic potential and language. In this case, language is not only the style but first of all the ontological element. This is why the language becomes almost a character in Petrushevskaya’s novel. Irony opens the vital potential of the linguistic personality. As a result, one of the heroes imitates foreign speech but doesn’t speak a foreign language. Irony also helps to reveal the ambivalent nature of life. It shows that our “umora” in Sanskrit and in ancient Indian is “humour” and “death”. So, the game and profanity not only reduce the status of the hero, the image, or the reader’s expectations but, first of all, fill the gap between words, ideas, feelings, and people.

Knowledge, Emotion, and Imagination: Negotiating Cultural Boundaries in The Eunuch Sanbao's Voyage to the Western Ocean

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 115-148
Author(s):  
Chiung-yun Evelyn Liu
Keyword(s):  
The Novel ◽  
World Knowledge ◽  
Common Humanity ◽  
Fantastic Literature ◽  
Early Stages ◽  
Literary Achievement ◽  
Cultural Boundaries ◽  
The World ◽  
Historical Accounts ◽  
Key Questions

Abstract The Eunuch Sanbao's Voyage to the Western Ocean, a late sixteenth-century novel loosely based on the historical expeditions commanded by Zheng He (1371–1433), is a peculiar mixture of factual accounts of foreign lands and fantastic narrative. While previous studies have confirmed its historical value, evaluated its literary achievement as fantastic literature, or criticized its plagiarism, this article situates the novel within the context of the late-Ming publishing boom and expanding world knowledge and examines how its author negotiates cultural boundaries through refashioning historical accounts and classical allusions. The key questions explored are whether the broadened knowledge of the world beyond China brings about new ways to conceptualize and imagine cultural others, and how the novelist maneuvers between an enlarged understanding of the world and a long-standing Sinocentric discourse. The article demonstrates that the novel reveals much of the curiosity, ambivalence, and conflict at work during the early stages of global contact. Throughout the novel, its author oscillates between conflicting urges to differentiate or assimilate, to antagonize or empathize, and to emphasize Ming superiority or identify a common humanity. These oscillations give us a glimpse into the complex responses to a changing world and propel us to reflect more deeply on the conflicts and struggles experienced in the early stages of global contact.

scholarly journals Ontological Motives of Home-Antihome in the Novel Demons by F.M. Dostoevsky

2021 ◽  
Vol 26 (3) ◽  
pp. 424-441
Author(s):  
Sheker A. Kulieva
Keyword(s):  
Point Of View ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Ontological Status ◽  
Intimate Connection ◽  
Destructive Analysis ◽  
Initial Idea ◽  
The Relationship

Dostoevsky realizes the motive of home in an inseparable antinomical connection with the motive of homelessness, which is opposite to it, artistically embodied in the idea of familylessness, wandering, Chaos, and Entropy. The relevance of the study of the motives of home and homelessness lies in the gradual reconstruction of the author's concept of the saving future. In this article, the motives of home and homelessness are considered in several aspects, including toponymic, functional, archetypal and ontological. We tried to demonstrate the implementation of the stated motives at the level of such categories as faith-unbelief, Heaven and Hell, brotherhood and isolation. In the novel Demons , the idea of national soil and separation from it, the possible salvation of a person and the consequences that await society in the event of the dominance of demons and the loss of the primordial brotherhood - the intimate connection between people, is consistently developed. From this point of view, the motives of home and homelessness become significant for the novel space. The archetype of home contains the idea of a saving own circle, which is opposed to the outside world with its hostility, spontaneity, and disaster. Everything that is located outside this circle are elements belonging to the anti-world, and therefore their effect on the microcosm of home is destructive. Analysis of the text confirms that the archetype of Dostoevsky's home is destabilized. Its tightness is broken; the boundaries protecting the interior are permeable. The motive of the home is typically supplanted by the motive of homelessness, and therefore it is natural to consider this motive couple in its antinomical continuity. In the above study, the motives of home and homelessness are considered as ontological: they are associated with the existential level of the work, due to which it is possible to establish the ontological status of the actants and determine the relationship with the so-called initial idea.

scholarly journals Parody of a Life which is Elsewhere

2015 ◽  
Vol 55 ◽  
pp. 35-43 ◽  
Author(s):  
Javad Momeni
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Human Being ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Ontological Status ◽  
Middle Aged ◽  
Socialist System ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Historical Discourses ◽  
Two Stages

Life Is Elsewhere is a reflective introspection into the life of a young poet and of his demanding mother. Kindera depicts the mother as a woman feeling unworthy of love who relishes the fantasy of being Jaromil’s ethereal mother in order to escape from her actual bodily deprivation and resolve her psychological tensions. On the other hand, Jaromil’s portrait as a young poet involves his consonant, in Lacan’s terms, imaginary and symbolic identifications which lead him to an unending alienation in the context of a socialist system. Reading the novel in the light of Bakhtin’s ideas on parody and its polyphonic nature illuminates Kundera’s parodic treatment of motherhood, poetic, political and historical discourses, and especially his use of parody as a political means to oppose the domineering voice of totalitarianism. However, by giving parody an ontological status, Kundera considers it as the inevitable destiny of a human being who has forgotten his authentic “being” and ignored all his existential possibilities opened up to realization. Applying this notion to Kundera’s relation to his characters, Jaromil and the middle-aged man, implies that these two characters are, in fact, the parody of the two stages of Kundera’s own life and that of his generation’s.

The novel steroidal glycoside from the dried bulb of Allium Macrostemon Bunge inhibits platelet activation

2010 ◽  
Vol 34 (8) ◽  
pp. S33-S33
Author(s):  
Wenchao Ou ◽  
Haifeng Chen ◽  
Yun Zhong ◽  
Benrong Liu ◽  
Keji Chen
Keyword(s):  
Platelet Activation ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Steroidal Glycoside ◽  
Allium Macrostemon
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