scholarly journals 'Die man van Nizjni-Nowgorod': Leroux in embrio

Literator ◽  
1987 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 18-29
Author(s):  
M. J. Prins
Keyword(s):  
Short Story ◽  
Close Reading ◽  
Main Character ◽  
True Self ◽  
The Way

The aims of this article are: (a) a “close reading” of Etienne Leroux’s short story “Die man van Nizjni-Nowgorod" and (b) testing Hennie Aucamp's statement that this story can serve as an “introduction” to Leroux, In doing the first the author of the article confirms the second. The story deals with the contrast between reality and illusion, truth and falsehood, the mask and the “true self”. In various ways the main character tries to transform and transcend an ugly and unacceptable reality. However, he himself and his strategies are periodically being exposed. The fact that it is not always possible for the reader as well as for the narrator to know whether Johnny really believes his own “salesman’s talk” contributes to the complexity and fascination of the discourse. In the way in which the actantial matrix is handled, the use of the (literary) reference and the passive role played by the main character the later Leroux is clearly discernible.

scholarly journals Granica życia i śmierci. Motyw kryształowej tafli w opowiadaniu E.T.A. Hoffmanna „Kopalnie w Falun”

2019 ◽  
pp. 339-352
Author(s):  
Tomasz Szybisty
Keyword(s):  
Short Story ◽  
Close Reading ◽  
Main Character ◽  
Membrane Partitioning ◽  
Critical Literature

The article seeks to analyse the symbolic significance of the crystalline membrane featured in Elis Fröbom’s dream; he is the main character of E.T.A. Hoffmann’s short story entitled The Mines of Falun. There prevails extensive consensus in the critical literature, that the dreamy landscape of the cave externalises the deepest layers of Elis’ psyche; in addition, this scene presents a key to the understanding of the whole story. The application of hermeneutical close reading and the augmentation of this analysis through invoking the vintage symbolic that accreted around the notion and image of crystal in the literature, philosophy and the science of the Romanticism era warrant the postulation of a thesis, that the mute queen appearing in the aforementioned intriguing vision can be construed as a corporeal symbolisation of death, deeply yearned for by the main character. As far as the crystalline membrane partitioning the cave into two realms is concerned, we may hazard a surmise that it functions as a peculiar delineation of life, the frontier where the inorganic world transitions into its organic extension.

scholarly journals A paisagem sonora como elemento constitutivo no conto “O poncho”, de Charles Kiefer / The Soundscape as a Constitutive Element in the Short Story “O poncho”, by Charles Kiefer

2020 ◽  
Vol 29 (1) ◽  
pp. 255
Author(s):  
Viviane Aparecida Pandolfo Debortolli ◽  
Gérson Luís Werlang
Keyword(s):  
Short Story ◽  
Decisive Role ◽  
Literary Text ◽  
The State ◽  
Main Character ◽  
State Of Affairs ◽  
Constitutive Element ◽  
The Way

Resumo: Este artigo se propõe a verificar os elementos constitutivos da paisagem sonora do conto “O poncho”, de Charles Kiefer. A presença da música, dos ventos, de sons naturais e não naturais se alinham ao clima da narrativa e compõe o cerne em que se desenvolve a narrativa. Neste conto, a paisagem sonora tem papel determinante no desenvolver do enredo, visto que influencia as ações do personagem. Levando-se em consideração as diferentes possibilidades de eixos de análise que o texto literário permite, pretende-se evidenciar a paisagem sonora como um elemento da narrativa por meio da presença dos sons na obra selecionada, e, através disso, demonstrar de que forma eles são relevantes na construção do enredo.Palavras-chave: paisagem sonora; clima; narrativa.Abstract: This paper aims to verifying the constitutive elements of the soundscape of Charles Kiefer’s short story “O poncho”. The presence of music, winds, natural and unnatural sounds align to the state of affairs and form the essence in which the narrative is developed. In this tale, the soundscape plays a decisive role in the development of the plot, since it influences the actions of the main character. Considering the different possibilities of analysis that the literary text allows, we intend to highlight the soundscape as an element of the narrative through the presence of the sounds in the selected work, and consequently to demonstrate the way they are relevant in the construction of the plot.Keywords: soundscape; state of affairs; narrative.

scholarly journals Reconfiguring the West in Neil Jordan's short story "Love"

2004 ◽  
Vol 37 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 95-102
Author(s):  
Stipe Grgas
Keyword(s):  
Short Story ◽  
Close Reading ◽  
The West ◽  
Irish Identity ◽  
Representation Of Space ◽  
The Way ◽  
West Of Ireland

In introducing his article,  the author draws attention to the enormous importance space, especially the west of Ireland, has in the Irish culture and in the legitimization of Irish identity. The central part of the article is devoted to an analysis of Neil Jordan's  "A Love" in which the author describes the way Jordan uses the West as the privileged place of Irish self-representation. A close reading of the text shows the writer's strategies which subvert the conventional image of the West of Ireland  and the author voices the opinion that Jordan's text refers to the end of one conceptualization of Irish identity. Offering the concept of heterotopia (Foucault) in his conclusion the author opens up the possibility of reading the representation of space in Jordan's story as his inscription of those places which were elided from the utopian Irish national saga.

scholarly journals COMPARATIVE LITERATUREOF NOVEL SURAT KECIL UNTUK TUHANAND OSCARAND THE LADY IN PINK

Paramasastra ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Andri Noryunita ◽  
Dewi Purwatiningsih
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Comparative Study ◽  
Short Story ◽  
Qualitative Data ◽  
Literary Work ◽  
Main Character ◽  
Literary Works ◽  
The Way

Comparative study is the way to make comparison of two (possibly more) things. In  literature,  there  are  some  aspects  that  could be  compared  such  as  the  literary work  itself. This  study discusses about  two  literary works  from different  culture and different author. The first one is novel which title Surat Kecil Untuk Tuhan by Agnes  Devauner  and  the  second  is  short  story  from  Eric-Emmanuel  Schmitt which  title Oscar and  the Lady  in Pink. The purpose of  this study  is  to compare about the intrinsic elements of both literary works and to compare about the main character  there.  The method which  is  used  to  this  study  is  qualitative  research because  of  the  data  collected  by  the  word  or  sentence  but  not  the  number. Qualitative  data  deals  with  descriptions  which  could  be  observed  and  not measured.  The  results  of  this  study  showed  to  the  reader  about  the  intrinsic elements  of  both  different  literary works  and  also  the  comparison  between  the main characters of each literary work. Hopefully this study will give the beneficial to the reader in terms of comparative study.

Bad Dreams and Secret Artists: Translating Freud into Literature

2002 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 127-139 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ian Patterson
Keyword(s):  
Sigmund Freud ◽  
Ordinary Language ◽  
Close Reading ◽  
Careful Attention ◽  
Popular Approach ◽  
English Reader ◽  
Creative Writer ◽  
The Many ◽  
The Way

This article addresses the increasingly popular approach to Freud and his work which sees him primarily as a literary writer rather than a psychologist, and takes this as the context for an examination of Joyce Crick's recent translation of The Interpretation of Dreams. It claims that translation lies at the heart of psychoanalysis, and that the many interlocking and overlapping implications of the word need to be granted a greater degree of complexity. Those who argue that Freud is really a creative writer are themselves doing a work of translation, and one which fails to pay sufficiently careful attention to the role of translation in writing itself (including the notion of repression itself as a failure to translate). Lesley Chamberlain's The Secret Artist: A Close Reading of Sigmund Freud is taken as an example of the way Freud gets translated into a novelist or an artist, and her claims for his ‘bizarre poems' are criticized. The rest of the article looks closely at Crick's new translation and its claim to be restoring Freud the stylist, an ordinary language Freud, to the English reader. The experience of reading Crick's translation is compared with that of reading Strachey's, rather to the latter's advantage.

POLA NARASI PADA ANTOLOGI CERPEN TARIAN SALJU KARABAN

2019 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 95-113
Author(s):  
Novi Diah Haryanti
Keyword(s):  
Short Stories ◽  
Short Story ◽  
Main Character ◽  
The Past ◽  
Child Relationship ◽  
Mother And Child ◽  
Narrative Patterns

Abstract: This study aims to look at narrative patterns in the collection of short stories "Karaban Snow Dance" (TSK). From the fifteen short stories, the researchers took five main stories, namely the Karaban Snow Dance (Tarian Salju Karaban), The Fall of a Leaf (Gugurnya Sehelai Daun),  Canting Kinanti Song (Tembang Canting Kinanti), Jagoan Men Arrived (Lelaki Jagoan Tiba), and Origami Pigeon (Merpati Origami). Of the five short stories, environmental themes and honesty appear most often. The place setting depicted shows the environment that is close to the author or according to the author's origin. The main characters in the four short stories are children, only one short story Male Hero Tiban (Lelaki Jagoan Tiban/LJK) who uses adult takoh as the main character. The child leaders in LJK only appear in the past stories of the main characters. The five short stories do not show a picture of whole parents (father and mother). The warm relationship between mother and child appears clearly, in contrast to the father-child relationship that is almost negligent. The five short stories also represent how children become heroes for their family, friends, and environment.Abstrak: Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk melihat pola narasi pada kumpulan cerpen Tarian Salju Karaban (TSK). Dari limabelas cerpen yang ada, peneliti mengambil lima cerpen utama yakni “Tarian Salju Karaban”, “Gugurnya Sehelai Daun”, “Tembang Canting Kinanti”, “Lelaki Jagoan Tiba”, dan “Merpati Origami”. Kelima cerpen menampilkan tema lingkungan dan kejujuran. Latar tempat yang digambarkan memperlihatkan lingkuangan yang dekat dengan penulis atau sesuai dengan asal usul penulis. Tokoh utama dalam keempat cerpen tersebut ialah anak-anak, hanya satu cerpen “Lelaki Jagoan Tiban” (LJK) yang menggunakan takoh dewasa sebagai tokoh utama. Tokoh anak dalam LJK hanya muncul dalam cerita masa lalu tokoh utama. Kelima cerpen tersebut tidak memperlihatkan gambaran orangtua utuh (ayah dan ibu). Relasi yang hangat antara ibu dan anak muncul dengan jelas, berbeda dengan relasi bapak-anak yang nyaris alpa. Kelima  cerpen tersebut juga merepresentasikan bagaimana anak-anak menjadi pahlawan bagi keluarga, sahabat, dan lingkungannya.  

When Is a Religion Like a Weed?

2016 ◽  
Vol 44 (4) ◽  
pp. 10-18
Author(s):  
Nathan Rein
Keyword(s):  
Analytical Study ◽  
Religious Studies ◽  
Close Reading ◽  
Focus Attention ◽  
The Way

Caroline Schaffalitzky de Muckadell's 2014 article, "On Essentialism and Real Definitions of Religion," offers a comprehensive rationale for the use of real, essentialist definitions of religion in the field of religious studies. In this article, I examine her arguments and the proposed definition she supplies. I argue that a close reading of Schaffalitzky's piece, concentrating especially on the way she uses examples, helps to demonstrate that she and her anti-essentialist opponents view the field of religious studies in incommensurable ways. While Schaffalitzky views definitions as serving the analytical study of religion as an object, her opponents view definitions primarily rhetorically and seek to focus attention on the process of defining.

The Justified Body: Hauerwas, Luther and the Christian Life

2017 ◽  
Vol 31 (1) ◽  
pp. 65-78
Author(s):  
Justin Nickel
Keyword(s):  
The Body ◽  
Close Reading ◽  
Sacramental Theology ◽  
Christian Life ◽  
Stanley Hauerwas ◽  
The One ◽  
God's Grace ◽  
Ethical Significance ◽  
The Way

Stanley Hauerwas and others argue that Luther’s understanding of justification denies the theological and ethical significance of the body. Indeed, the inner, spiritual person is the one who experiences God’s grace in the gospel, while the outer, physical (read: bodily) person continues to live under law and therefore coercion and condemnation. While not denying that Luther can be so read, I argue that there is another side of Luther, one that recognizes the body’s importance for Christian life. I make this argument through a close reading of Luther’s reflections on Adam and Eve’s Fall in his Lectures on Genesis (1545) and the sacramental theology in ‘Against the Heavenly Prophets’. For this Luther, disconnection from our bodies is not a sign of justification but rather the sin from which justification saves us. Accordingly, justification results in a return to embodied creatureliness as the way we receive and live our justification.

scholarly journals Recalculating the White Page-GPS Love in Comme dans un film des frères Coen

2016 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 53-72
Author(s):  
Valerie Hastings
Keyword(s):  
The Novel ◽  
Main Character ◽  
Creative Activity ◽  
Moving Images ◽  
The Voice ◽  
The Way

Abstract Hastings reads the novel Comme dans un film des frères Coen (2010) by Bertrand Gervais as addressing both the midlife and the blank page crisis. Indeed, the main character of this novel is a writer in his fifties who still suffers from the failure of his last novel ignored by the critics. Disenchanted, he slowly enters a world of fantasy, and falls in love with the voice of his GPS he called Gwyneth “parle trop” (speaks too much) therefore recalling the name of the actress with the same name. He gradually loses contact with his wife and his son, a successful painter, and is transformed into “the man who was not there” another character from a movie by the Coen brothers entitled The Barber: the man who was not there. Hastings asks: How could one get lost with a GPS? After the main character had initially bought his GPS for a trip in Australia in order to find his way, it started to go beyond its role as a road guide and questioned where he was in his relationship with his wife, in his career as a writer, and in his skin as a mature man. Not only was the GPS not fulfilling its purpose but also it started to ruin a fragile relationship hoping to find its way back to love during a last minute trip in Australia. Even after destroying the annoying talkative GPS, it continued to disrupt the couple in the plane on the way back to Canada. As much as Gwyneth the GPS is synonymous with escape and freedom, it is also showing the main character the wrong way, the way out of his reality, out of his family and out of his life. His attempts to free himself from Gwyneth are worthless, her image is still there, haunting his thoughts like images from a movie. But the displacement happens at another level than just the diegetic one. The confrontation of the text with moving images has consequences on the shape of the text itself. The mapping of the text on the page is influenced by this amalgam. The white page becomes a space where words are rearranged in different ways, some of which suggest poetry, other cartoons or cinematic images. The displacement of literature in areas that were previously foreign to it is at the heart of creative activity, and determines its renewal. Hastings presents the consequences resulting from the confrontation with the GPS, both on the mapping of one’s identity as well as the mapping and the shaping of the text itself.

scholarly journals INTERPERSONAL MEANING IN THE SHORT STORIES OF WILLEM ISKANDER’S SI BULUS-BULUS SI RUMBUK-RUMBUK

LINGUISTICA ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 409
Author(s):  
ULFA YOZA SALSABILA ◽  
ELIA MASA GINTING ◽  
WILLEM SARAGIH
Keyword(s):  
Short Stories ◽  
Short Story ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Way

This study aimed to analyze the mood and modality used in the short stories of Willem Iskander’s Si Bulus-Bulus Si Rumbuk-Rumbuk, elaborating and explaining the interpersonal meaning realized in each short story. The source of data was taken from a book authored by Willem Iskander, entitled “Si Bulus- Bulus Si Rumbuk-Rumbuk”. This research showed that : (1) there were 157 clauses in the short stories with three mood types and two degrees of modality. (2) interpersonal meaning is realized based on the order of the subject and the finite. (3) the reason why the interpersonal meaning is realized in the way they are is that the author wants to share his thoughts and experiences of Mandailingnese by classifying each clause and finding the dominant use of declarative mood as the most direct and soft way of conveying the author’s thought

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