PLOT «DEATH OF A YOUNG MAIDEN» IN THE POETICS OF SHORT STORIES BY I. A. BUNIN

2020 ◽  
pp. 25-34
Author(s):  
E. A. Khudenko ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Short Stories ◽  
Young Age ◽  
Human Freedom ◽  
Female Character ◽  
Ancient Greek ◽  
Life And Death ◽  
New Meanings ◽  
Existential Problem

The article is devoted to the consideration of the plot scheme associated with the death of a girl at a young age – a plot that is quite common in Bunin poetics. The mythological and ritual-sacral etymology of the plot is transformed in Bunin’s poetics into an existential problem of searching for human freedom and its borders, and generates a philosophical opposition/identity «love and death». The ways of introducing the plot scheme and the types of the girl’s death are original – a certain effect of “estrangement” of the author is created, indicating a deep ontological contradiction between the beauty and sensuality of a female character and the tragic end of her fate. The heroine’s life and death is based on the model of the ancient Greek pnigos, and has the qualities of hyperbolized theatricality, but without the effect of catharsis. Thus, the ritual and mythological content of the plot scheme is problematized and filled with new meanings in Bunin’s poetics.

scholarly journals Die dialoog tussen die voorblad, die manneplot en die verhale in Dulle Griet van Riana Scheepers

Literator ◽  
2001 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. 113-132
Author(s):  
G.H. Taljaard
Keyword(s):  
Short Stories ◽  
Female Character ◽  
Female Characters ◽  
Survival Mechanism ◽  
Male Attitudes ◽  
The Way

The dialogue between image and text in Riana Scheepers's Dulle Griet This article examines the way in which the content and theme of Riana Scheepers’s Dulle Griet (1991) interact with the “manneplot” (traditional and/or stereotypical portrayal of female characters within novels) and with the cover illustration of the book – a detail of “Mad Meg” (as she is often referred to) from Pieter Brueghel’s Dulle Griet (1562). It explores how the women in Scheepers’s short stories are portrayed – not only as vulnerable, but also as evil and corrupt. They are abused victims; but they are also tyrannical abusers. They are innocent maidens and mothers, but also lovers, prostitutes, lesbians and murderers. The way in which the gradual degeneration of the anonymous central female character relates to Brueghel’s image of “Mad Meg” on her way to the jaws of hell is discussed in this article. But the article also demontrates Scheepers’s concern with feminist issues by using the cover as an ironic “frame”, and shows that the moral decline of the women portrayed in the text seems to be as a result of the actions of chauvinistic men, who appear in different forms throughout the text. Female degeneracy can thus be seen as a survival mechanism, in a world – and a text – dominated by the masculine paradigm, the “manneplot” of traditional male attitudes to women.

scholarly journals Voorzienigheid en verantwoordelijkheid

2001 ◽  
Vol 35 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Van de Beek
Keyword(s):  
Human Beings ◽  
The Real ◽  
Life And Death ◽  
The Bible ◽  
The Holocaust ◽  
Genesis 22 ◽  
Existential Problem ◽  
Theological Concept

Providence and responsibility Providence is usually regarded as a theological concept that sets human hearts at rest. God rules our lives, and in particular those of Christians. Modern people often have problems with this idea. How can a good God rule a world with diseases and disasters? And can we actually imagine such an all-controlling power? Nevertheless, these are not the real issues concerning the concept of providence. The existential problem is that providence in the Bible has to do with responsibility: God takes responsibility for his world. This responsibility is total; it even implies responsibility and punishment for sin. Thus providence and atonement are not two separated fields of theology, but coincide. The chapter in the Bible to which the concept is originally related makes this plain: Genesis 22, and verse 8 in particular, states, “God himself will provide the lamb for the burnt offering, my son”. (The Vulgate reads: “the victim for the holocaust”.) In Genesis 16-22 the word “to provide”, literally “to see” (r’h), turns out to be a key concept. Who sees? The Lord sees, Abraham sees and Hagar sees – and it is always in a situation of life and death in which they are called to responsibility to save lives. But actually these are lives that have already been sacrificed. Thus providence demands the ultimate from human beings, as it asks the ultimate from their God. Noordmans highlights this in a meditation on Matthew 6:34: “Jesus does not say this in order to lay worries to rest but in order to raise worries”. If you search for the kingship of God, all things that are needed will be given to you – such as feet to walk the second mile.

Matters of Life and Death: The Story of Elijah and the Widow's Son in Comparative Perspective

2004 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 117-144 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stuart Lasine
Keyword(s):  
Personality Traits ◽  
Case History ◽  
Comparative Perspective ◽  
Ancient Greek ◽  
Life And Death ◽  
Medical Case ◽  
Form Of Life ◽  
Narcissistic Personality ◽  
Shamanic Healing ◽  
1 Kings

AbstractThis paper examines the concept of death projected by 1 Kgs 17:17-24 and other accounts of miraculous resuscitation. Viewed as a medical case history, Elijah's reviving of the widow's son raises difficult questions. Was the boy really dead, "only mostly dead," or merely gravely ill? Scholars often answer such questions by claiming that ancient Israelites did not consider corpses "to be 'totally' dead for a couple of days," and regarded death as "an enfeebled form of life." This paper challenges these claims by comparing Elijah's actions to those of other biblical and ancient Greek healers, as well as to Mesopotamian and shamanic healing practices. Why do healers like Elijah end up getting into bed with their patients? Examples in modern stories by Flaubert and Kafka reveal the kinship between the healer and the scapegoat, and suggest that miraculous healers tend to display narcissistic personality traits. Analysis of Greek sources and the Mount Horeb episode (1 Kings 19) indicates that this may also be the case for ancient healers like Elijah, Empedocles, and Asclepius, and that narcissism is itself a defense against death.

scholarly journals Andronikos I Komnenos: A Greek Tragedy

2011 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 101 ◽  
Author(s):  
Harry J. MAGOULIAS
Keyword(s):  
Greek Tragedy ◽  
Mirror Image ◽  
Byzantine Empire ◽  
Font Size ◽  
Ancient Greek ◽  
Life And Death ◽  
Greek Culture ◽  
Classical Drama ◽  
12Th Century ◽  
The Aesthetic

<span style="line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; color: black; font-size: 12pt">The Annals of Niketas Choniates depict Emperor Andronikos I Komnenos (1183-1185) in certain aspects of his lifestyle as a mirror image of his first cousin, Emperor Manuel I Komnenos (1143-1180). The life and death of Andronikos I Komnenos provide us with a window into the aesthetic, moral, intellectual, religious, economic and emotional world of Byzantine society in the 12th century. It was thanks to the Byzantine empire that the ancient texts were preserved and transmitted. Ancient Greek culture and reason, in particular, continued to inform Christian values while, at the same time, both could be in radical conflict. The tragic reign of Andronikos as presented by Niketas Choniates conforms to Aristotle's principles of classical drama, but there is a fundamental disagreement between the author of the Poetics and the historian as to what constitutes tragedy, which underlines this conflict.</span>

scholarly journals Stylistics analysis of the short story “My Old Man” by Ernest Hemingway

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (4) ◽  
pp. 685-692
Author(s):  
Siti Ayu Hardiyanti
Keyword(s):  
Short Stories ◽  
Short Story ◽  
Ernest Hemingway ◽  
Young Age ◽  
Stylistic Analysis ◽  
Horse Racing ◽  
Methods Of Analysis ◽  
The World ◽  
Language Styles ◽  
Processing Language

This study aims to explore the language style of Ernest Hemingway’s short story “The Old Man”. This research describes the stylistic used in the short story. Ernest Hemingway is one of the famous writers of prose and short story. Many people recognize his special works for short stories because Ernest Hemingway has a characteristic that makes him one of the best short story writers in Europe from a young age. My Old Man is the first work known for the lot use of stylistic styles that distinguish this story from Hemingway’s other works. The researcher limits the stylistic only to explore linguistics such as pragmatics and semantics. In addition, the researcher explains the features of stylistic devices which are on simile, poetry, and calque. This study combines 2 methods of analysis, namely textual and stylistic analysis. The results illustrated how Hemingway used stylistic to describe a child as the narrator, where he told in detail the dark experiences of his father in the world of horse racing in a coherent manner. Hemingway combined his imagination with processing language styles in the story. 

scholarly journals Spotkanie starożytnego chrześcijaństwa z filozofią grecką (w czasach Justyna Męczennika i Klemensa Aleksandryjskiego)

2016 ◽  
Vol 86 (2) ◽  
pp. 69-84
Author(s):  
Kazimierz Pawłowski
Keyword(s):  
Greek Philosophy ◽  
Ancient Greek ◽  
Cultural Form ◽  
Early Christian ◽  
Spiritual Culture ◽  
Ancient Greek Philosophy ◽  
Religious Systems ◽  
The One ◽  
Existential Problem

For followers of religions which take solid cultural form of coherent doctrinalsystems, the fact that other comparable religious systems exist may posea difficult theoretical and existential problem that needs to be addressed ata number of levels, including the one of human existential experience. This isthe problem that was faced by the original followers of the Christian religionin relation to the Greek spiritual culture, and ancient Greek philosophy inparticular, at the time when it boldly explored spiritual areas closely connectedto Christianity. The problem became particularly significant in the secondcentury CE. It was tackled by early Christian thinkers that were educated inGreek philosophy themselves and used its ideas to solve the above-mentionedproblem.

Exorbitant Dust

2021 ◽  
Vol 27 (3) ◽  
pp. 357-377
Author(s):  
Christina A. León
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Short Stories ◽  
Particulate Matter ◽  
Puerto Rican ◽  
Life And Death ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Future ◽  
Manuel Ramos Otero ◽  
Eventual Death

Abstract This article traces the figure of polvo (dust) across the writing career of Puerto Rican and New York writer Manuel Ramos Otero. Polvo heralds the macabre sensuality of his early short stories, long before his diagnosis with HIV, and persists and morphs through his later essays and poetry up until his eventual death in 1990 from AIDS complications. Writing defiantly as a queer, a feminist, a Puerto Rican, and a sidoso, he produced work that invites death and desire to commingle through a figuration of dust, as a scattered substance that covers skin, coats translation, and dirties conventional genres. Polvo illuminates the dimensions and risks of relation as a particulate matter that exposes our porosity—clinging and hovering in the space between bodies, between the past and the future, between life and death. As the dust settles in the wake of Hurricane María, so too can polvo be read as prescient for how coloniality lingers as enduring conditions of debility and precarity. Ramos Otero's affinity for finitude, figured through polvo, counterintuitively conjures a relational desire that privileges the porous, the marginal, and the always precarious possibility of survival. Polvo moves across the different genres and phases of Ramos Otero's work as a matter that refuses to disentangle the material realities of queerness and coloniality.

Dancing for Uwí – Rituals and Ontologies on the Move

Sociologus ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 71 (1) ◽  
pp. 33-54
Author(s):  
Elke Mader
Keyword(s):  
Past Century ◽  
Political Issues ◽  
Life And Death ◽  
New Meanings ◽  
1960S And 1970S ◽  
Cultural Performances ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
The One ◽  
Historical Developments ◽  
Relationship Of

Dancing for Uwí (peach palm, Bactris gasipaes), a calendric ritual celebrated by the Shuar in the Ecuadorian Amazon region, forms part of a mainly animistic ontology, and has been reframed repeatedly during the past century in interaction with shifting historical, political and cultural contexts. The power field associated with Uwí is extensive, and encompasses life and death: on the one hand, Uwí stands at the centre of the ritualization of life, growth, procreativity and abundance; on the other hand, he embodies destructive agency, which has been linked with warfare and its diverse ritual frames. Uwí represents, at the same time, a significant dimension of a Shuar theory of life, as well as a figure within their theory of power, and is closely connected to conviviality and the good life. During the 1960s and 1970s Uwí was adopted and adapted by intercultural Catholic liturgy, and has acquired new ritual elements and new meanings in this context. In recent years, after large gaps between performances from the 1970s to the new millennium, Uwí and his celebration has been merged with the performance of indigeneity as part of intercultural politics in Ecuador. In this framework, the performance of an animistic ontology has been interconnected with the cultural turn in indigenous politics. This contribution explores several questions concerning ontological trajectories, as well as the relationship of ritual and cultural performances to historical developments and political issues.

scholarly journals The Theme of Life and Death in Short Stories by A.E. Novoselov

2020 ◽  
pp. 71-78
Author(s):  
Марина Павловна Гребнева ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Short Stories ◽  
Life And Death

scholarly journals ASIAN ENGLISH LITERATURE'S MIDTERM EXAMINATION MATERNAL INSTINCT DEPICTED IN VERENATAY'S BROKEN

Lire Journal ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 8-13
Author(s):  
Ruly Indra Darmawan
Keyword(s):  
Short Stories ◽  
East Asia ◽  
Short Story ◽  
Newborn Baby ◽  
South East Asia ◽  
Life And Death ◽  
Feminist Study ◽  
Maternal Instinct

In this essay, I want to analyze how maternal instinct is depicted in one short story which has South East Asia as a setting of place because this maternal instinct has became one of the most debatable issues in feminist study until nowadays. The main data is a short story entitled Broken. This short story was included in anthology of Asian short stories entitled A Rainbow Feast. One thing which becomes uniqueness in Broken that picks my interest is how this novel exploits woman acts and habits in different way than any other novel. VerenaTay through this novel tells a story about one particular woman and how she treats her newborn baby. Different with other novel, Broken pictures the woman who lives in different world than us, a human. It is interesting to see how VrenaTay pictures that woman acts and somehow lives after she was dead, how a woman escapes from subversive condition and move toward dominant one by leap through the limit of life and death.

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