scholarly journals Temporal Structure in the Novel “The Killer of Hamza (Qaatil Hamza)” by Najeeb Gillani

2021 ◽  
Vol 39 (- 1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Robina Naz ◽  
Yaqoob Khan Marwat
Keyword(s):  
Literary Criticism ◽  
20Th Century ◽  
Temporal Order ◽  
Temporal Structure ◽  
Essential Element ◽  
Space Structure ◽  
Time Structure ◽  
The Other ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Temporal Space

Temporal Structure is an essential element of the narrative works as well as a component of narratives. It has become a prominent issue in literary criticism in 20th century. Because time structure plays an enormously important role in the construction of story/novel, the other elements of the novel/story cannot be viewed without temporal space. It is temporal space/structure on which the events of the story are based and rhythm, flow and continuity of the story can be maintained by temporal space. Events cannot exist out of the temporal structure of the story. This study deals with the temporal structure and its role in the novel “Killer of Hamza” by Najeeb Gillani and attempts to reveal the method of constructing time in the novel by standing on temporal order and temporal paradoxes both types of retrieval and anticipation, as well as the structure of the rhythm of time such as the technique of speeding narration with its movements (The dialogue scene, the descriptive position) and the frequency of the three types (solitary, repetitive, author).  In addition, the study concludes the discussion based on the findings.

A morte como conclusão

2016 ◽  
Vol 4 (8) ◽  
pp. 203
Author(s):  
Ana Maria De Almeida
Keyword(s):  
Temporal Order ◽  
Temporal Structure ◽  
The Other ◽  
Main Process ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Other Hand

Resumo: Considerações sobre o tempo em D. Quixote, observando-se as ilhas de quase-eternidade das seqüências bucólicas e o universo de pura ocorrência da narrativa cavaleiresca.Abstract: This paper presents some considerations about time in the novel D. Quixote. It points out that a temporal order, distinct from either concrete time or eternity, prevails in the bucolic sequences; on the other hand, the pure occurrence appears as the main process in the temporal structure of the chivairic narrative.

scholarly journals Miriam y Dalila ¿en fuga?

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ana Cecilia Prenz Kopušar
Keyword(s):  
20Th Century ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
The Other ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Female Characters ◽  
Carmen De Burgos ◽  
The One

This work analyses some female characters present in the novel Luminarias de Janucá by Rafael Cansinos Assens. The dimension of the escape is analysed from different perspectives taking into account its double meaning that, on the one hand, can be understood as persecution and, on the other, as escape. Other meanings of the term are also considered. The female characters are analyzed within the problems posed by the historical context to which the novel refers, that is, the philosephardic campaign promoted by Senator Ángel Pulido at the beginning of the 20th century. Dalila and Miriam as well as the other treated female characters personify real women: Miriam is the author’s sister, Dalila is Carmen de Burgos, known as Colombine.

scholarly journals LYKKEN PÅ FØRTIDSPENSION - VELFÆRDSSTAT OG AFFEKTIV MOBILITET I JENS BLENDSTRUPS GUD TALER UD

1970 ◽  
Vol 41 (116) ◽  
pp. 77-87
Author(s):  
Peter Simonsen
Keyword(s):  
Social Science ◽  
Welfare State ◽  
Literary Criticism ◽  
Early Retirement ◽  
The Other ◽  
The Novel ◽  
The One ◽  
Point Of Departure ◽  
Welfare Model ◽  
The Welfare State

HAPPINESS ON EARLY RETIREMENT: THE WELFARE STATE AND AFFECTIVE MOBILITY IN JENS BLENDSTRUP’S GUD TALER UD | The article takes its point of departure in current happiness studies and probes the possibly fruitful interdisciplinary relation between research in social science that suggests close links between the Nordic welfare model and the high levels of selfreported happiness we find in the region, and literary criticism which instinctively seems to hold that unhappiness is most conducive to inspire the literary mind. To demonstrate that things are never as simple as that, the article reads Jens Blendstrup’s novel, Gud taler ud (2004), as an example of both a welfare narrative and of what it coins ”an affective mobility story”: a story about a person’s enhanced feeling of happiness in retirement. On the one hand, the novel portrays a person who finds happiness when he is granted early retirement from the welfare state. On the other hand, the novel relates this in such a manner that we are reminded that one man’s happiness may be another’s unhappiness.

The Clock Finger at Nought

2021 ◽  
pp. 91-102
Author(s):  
Kevin Ohi
Keyword(s):  
George Eliot ◽  
Temporal Structure ◽  
Narrative Structure ◽  
The Other ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Daniel Deronda ◽  
Character System

The epigraph of George Eliot’s Daniel Deronda immediately raises questions of foundation: “the make-believe of a beginning” is both the make-believe that there is a beginning and the make-believe that constitutes a beginning. It is itself the foundation that eludes it; its fiat, self-grounding and groundless. That structure enacts the topography of Eliot’s realism, which seeks to comprise a world it can also never reach. Finding in the epigraph’s sidereal clock an image both for the novel’s temporal structure (repeatedly circling back to approach its own beginning from behind, it keeps deriving its own inception) and for the groundless positing of its narrative view, it suggests that one highly abstract way to render the drama of Daniel Deronda would be to say that it involves treating questions of foundation as perspectival ones. Perspective in George Eliot—crucial to sympathy, and to her ethics and her realism—appears at the beginning of Daniel Deronda to produce character (rather than the other way around). Many of the larger movements of the novel (its character system, its narrative structure, even, at moments, its syntax) enact the sweep of the epigraph’s sidereal clock and return one, repeatedly, to its initial, initiating paradoxes of inception.

scholarly journals Schulz, duchy i meblościanka

Schulz/Forum ◽  
2019 ◽  
pp. 86-101
Author(s):  
Marcin Romanowski
Keyword(s):  
20Th Century ◽  
Turning Point ◽  
The Other ◽  
Early 20Th Century ◽  
Central Character ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Systemic Transformation ◽  
Material Conditions ◽  
Historical Moment

The paper presents an analysis of the “Schulzoid” novel by Dominika Słowik, Atlas: Döppelganger, which addressed the topic of passing from adolescence to adulthood during the Polish systemic transformation. The author’s starting point is the famous interpretation of Schulz’s fiction by Artur Sandauer in his essay “The Degraded Reality” [Rzeczywistość zdegradowana], based on a claim that Schulz represented in his own way the experience of the decomposition of the known world as a result of the capitalist expansion in the early 20th century. The analysis focuses on the figure of the grandfather and the transformation itself. The former is the central character in the narrator’s mythology of childhood: he keeps telling fascinating stories about life at sea, on the other hand being a fantasist who tries to alleviate his sense of exclusion from the new reality. The systemic transformation has been represented in Słowik’s novel by a series of antinomies as well. The nostalgic and sublime descriptions of the material conditions at the turning point have been combined with the pictures of degradation and trash. Then the novel is placed against the background of the literature of the 1990s, summed up by Olga Drenda’s essay, Duchologia polska. Słowik remembers the material conditions of the period of the systemic transformation and the trashy, though also sentimental, aesthetics of the historical moment when she and other authors of her generation were children. This makes the author of the paper compare their writing with Schulz’s postulate of the return to childhood. Yet in Schulz’s fiction childhood is the source of a private mythology – the images that constitute the writer’s imagination. The writers of the 1990s make a turn toward the reminiscences of childhood to revise critically the myths of the historical turning moment and to articulate their own and their generation’s experience of the transformation.

scholarly journals Material truth in law and fiction in literature

2016 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 285
Author(s):  
Douglas Ceccagno
Keyword(s):  
Literary Criticism ◽  
Law And Literature ◽  
The Other ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Literary Expression ◽  
Legal Studies

In transdisciplinary intersection between Law and Literature, there is the need to approximate concepts, so that the theories that support one area are, to some extent, applicable to the other. This study aims at trying an application of the concept of material truth, which comes from legal studies, to the study of Literature, through its relation to the concepts of mimesis, realism and verisimilitude, used by literary criticism. This study assumes that no one of them is able to fulfil the needs of literary expression, so that an attempt to locate a material truth in Literature will fail too. The article discusses the realistic style in Literature based on different writers’ views on realism and discusses the concept of mimesis and the concepts of internal and external verisimilitude through Roland Barthes’s questioning of truth as understood by literary criticism. In addition, a brief analysis of the novel Leite derramado (Spilt milk), by Chico Buarque, demonstrates how, despite subverting several criteria that assure the verisimilitude, the narrative is able to ensure its credibility as fictional discourse and make the reader accept the fiction that it expresses.

scholarly journals FURNACES: VISIONS OF THE AMERICAN DREAM AND NIGHTMARE IN BRADDOCK

2020 ◽  
Vol XI (31) ◽  
pp. 69-75
Author(s):  
John C. Spurlock
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
20Th Century ◽  
American Dream ◽  
Economic Inequality ◽  
The Other ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Three Generations ◽  
The Social

Two works of fiction, one a novel, the other a movie, provide a harrowing journey from the American Dream to the American nightmare. Appearing about 70 years apart, Out of this Furnace (by Thomas Bell) and Out of the Furnace (directed by Scott Cooper) closely examine the lives of steelworking families in Braddock, Pennsylvania. The novel shows the hopes and aspirations of Slovak immigrants slowly improving their material lot over three generations. The movie fast forwards through two more generations to show Braddock in terminal decline, a victim of deindustrialization and all the social ills of America’s economic inequality. Taken together these works reveal the arc of American economic development in the 20th century as experienced in the lives of those who experienced it most directly.

Walter Van Tilburg Clark

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeffrey Chisum
Keyword(s):  
Literary Criticism ◽  
20Th Century ◽  
American West ◽  
Growing Up ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Dry Spell ◽  
Hall Of Fame ◽  
The University ◽  
Archival Work ◽  
The City

Walter Van Tilburg Clark (b. 1909–d. 1971) was born in Maine, but spent his formative years growing up in Reno, Nevada, where his father served as president of the University of Nevada. Clark’s body of work (notably The Ox-Bow Incident) established him as one of the preeminent writers of the American West during the middle of the 20th century (he was friends with Wallace Stegner, the “Dean of Western Writers”), and in 1988, he was one of the first writers inducted into the Nevada Writers Hall of Fame. Clark’s fiction blends elements of the genre western with a careful eye for the local landscape and a spiritual ambivalence toward nature. The Ox-Box Incident (1940), about a lynch mob that erroneously executes a trio of innocent men, is his best-known work (it was made into an Academy Award–nominated film in 1943), though it’s perhaps the least characteristic of his artistic concerns. Clark’s second novel, The City of Trembling Leaves (1945), is a Künstlerroman that details the growth and maturation of a young, budding composer named Tim Hazard. The novel is a powerfully evocative depiction of early-20th-century Reno, and the scene-setting, characterizations, and development of central themes are all expressive of Clark’s prowess as a fiction writer. His final two creative works—The Track of the Cat (1949) and The Watchful Gods and Other Stories (1950)—are arguably his best. The Track of the Cat is a tense, tightly wound novel about a marauding mountain lion which has been preying on the cattle of the isolated Bridger family, and which begins to prey upon the humans as well. The Watchful Gods, meanwhile, shows Clark’s range as a storyteller, with the title story being perhaps the purest and most focused narrative expression of his main thematic concerns (especially the spiritual connection between humans and the natural environment). Clark did not publish any fiction after The Watchful Gods. This dry spell, from one of the most promising writers of the American West, remains one of the great enigmas of Clark’s career. The secondary literature on Clark ranges from scholarly analysis to exploration of the narrative themes in his work to biographical and archival work. Generally speaking, Clark’s fiction is interpreted through the lens of western American literary criticism and history, with many scholars treating it as both an exemplar of and deviation from western generic conventions.

scholarly journals The Portrayal of Hegemony and Patriarchy in Louise O’ Neill’s Only Ever Yours

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 173
Author(s):  
Nurin Naufina
Keyword(s):  
Literary Criticism ◽  
Literary Work ◽  
Speculative Fiction ◽  
The Other ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Young Girls ◽  
Dystopian Literature ◽  
Sociological Approach ◽  
Patriarchal Culture ◽  
Mode Of Production

This study analyzes patriarchal hegemony portrayed in a dystopian world where young girls are hegemonized to fulfill patriarchal interests written by Louise O’ Neill, Only Ever Yours. As a counter to utopian writing, dystopian literature emerged as a subgenre of speculative fiction. The objectives of this study are to elucidate the kinds of patriarchal structures and media operated in portraying patriarchal hegemony in the novel. This study employs Antonio Gramsci’s hegemony theory along with the concept of patriarchy by Sylvia Walby. This study is literary criticism as the researcher interprets and analyzes the literary work. It employs a sociological approach for the analysis and Sylvia Walby’s six structures of patriarchy theory along with Gramsci’s theory. The data are taken from the words, phrases, and sentences in Only Ever Yours published in 2015. The researcher took the data by identifying, classifying and analyzing the data by elucidating the data with the theories. The result of this study shows that there are three patriarchal structures portrayed in the novel which are patriarchal mode of production, patriarchal state, and patriarchal culture. On the other hand, patriarchal hegemony is portrayed through the medium of television.

scholarly journals THE ARTISTIC EMBODIMENT OF THE IMAGE OF ENGLAND IN THE «LETTERS TO ANOTHER ROOM» BY RAVIL BUKHARAYEV

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (7) ◽  
Author(s):  
Alina R. Gaynutdinova ◽  
Alfiya F. Galimullina ◽  
Foat G. Galimullin ◽  
Abay K. Kairzhanov
Keyword(s):  
Literary Criticism ◽  
Religious Identity ◽  
Russian Literature ◽  
The Other ◽  
Cultural Tradition ◽  
The Novel ◽  
English Society ◽  
Ancient Times ◽  
Everyday Realities ◽  
The One

The problem of the writer’s self-identification, especially of such a multifaceted one as Ravil Bukharayev, is closely connected with one of the topical problems of modern literary criticism and cultural studies – the problem of the Other. Ravil Raisovich Bukharayev (1951 - 2012) – a Tatar poet, writer, philosopher who wrote in Russian, lived for more than 20 years in England. In his work he demonstrates a new cultural situation, the ability to seamlessly apprehend the universal art culture, literature and worldview ideas from ancient times to the present day at the same time preserving his national and religious identity. The poetry by R. R. Bukharayev has repeatedly become the object of scientific research while the philosophical prose by R. R. Bukharayev is still waiting for his researcher. This article represents the experience of a scientific study of the artistic world of RR Bukharayev’s prose based on the example of his novel Letters to Another Room [1]. The results of our study suggest the following conclusions: The novel by R. R. Bukharayev “Letters to Another Room” presents the perception of England through the Other’s vision of it. R. R. Bukharayev representing himself as the Other in relation to the English tradition upends the preconceived idea of the English “gentleman” as the only bearer of the English literary and cultural tradition. Irony and self-irony help the narrator to isolate himself from Englishness of the created text: 1)The image of England in the novel by R. R. Bukharayev is ambiguous: on the one hand, the narrator found a real House with a wonderful garden, a place of rest and creativity in it, on the other – the author is far from idealizing English society. He seeks maximum objectivity in the artistic presentation of the image of England in his novel. 2)A distinctive feature of R. R. Bukharayev’s narrative is an integration of Russian and English realities in the text, which is manifested in comparisons of English everyday realities with memories of Russian life. In the minds of the author the images and associations connected with English and Russian literature and culture organically coexist.  

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