scholarly journals “There you feel the warmth of foreign life”: Pacifistic Epistolary Novel by Zofka Kveder (1878–1926)

2018 ◽  
Vol 51 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 103-116
Author(s):  
Irena Samide
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
20Th Century ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Literary Canon ◽  
Literary Works ◽  
Epistolary Novel ◽  
War Narratives

The present paper addresses the novel Hanka written by Slovene writer Zofka Kveder, published in Croatian in 1917 and translated into Slovene in 1938. The paper shows that this little-known war novel differs substantially from other war narratives and that it can be ranked among the eminent pacifistic literary works of the first two decades of the 20th century. At the same time, the paper questions the role of the texts of Slovenian authors written in a foreign language, and stands up for the view that the national literary sciences should consider the more appropriate placement of these texts in the literary canon.

scholarly journals Place matters: geographical context, place belonging and the production of locality in Mediterranean Noirs

GeoJournal ◽  
2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicola Gabellieri
Keyword(s):  
20Th Century ◽  
Crime Fiction ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Late 20Th Century ◽  
Literary Works ◽  
Geographical Discourse ◽  
Detective Stories ◽  
Narrative Medium ◽  
Geographical Context

AbstractScholars have been investigating detective stories and crime fiction mostly as literary works reflecting the societies that produced them and the movement from modernism to postmodernism. However, these genres have generally been neglected by literary geographers. In the attempt to fill such an epistemological vacuum, this paper examines and compare the function and importance of geography in both classic and late 20th century detective stories. Arthur Conan Doyle’s and Agatha Christie’s detective stories are compared to Mediterranean noir books by Manuel Montalbán, Andrea Camilleri and Jean Claude Izzo. While space is shown to be at the center of the investigations in the former two authors, the latter rather focus on place, that is space invested by the authors with meaning and feelings of identity and belonging. From this perspective, the article argues that detective investigations have become a narrative medium allowing the readership to explore the writer’s representation/construction of his own territorial context, or place-setting, which functions as a co-protagonist of the novel. In conclusion, the paper suggests that the emerging role of place in some of the later popular crime fiction can be interpreted as the result of writer’s sentiment of belonging and, according to Appadurai’s theory, as a literary and geographical discourse aimed at the production of locality.

scholarly journals Feministic Approach in Kamala Das’s My Story

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 54-56
Author(s):  
Robancy Amal
Keyword(s):  
Short Stories ◽  
20Th Century ◽  
Indian Society ◽  
Women Empowerment ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Literary Works ◽  
Indian Women ◽  
Inner Self

The role of the readers in reading a novel or a poem is to look through the eye of the author and to enjoy the beauty of the literary works. Kamala Das’s poetry, novels and short stories have always carried self-transformation and women empowerment asserting her rights freedom and desire to liberate her from the clutches of traditions and cultures which suppress women in the Indian society. This paper tries to analyze the outspoken and controversial autobiography and an unheard cry for freedom of many Indian women and depicts how revealing the inner self of a woman free her from the oppression of Caste, class, race and sex. It has become a cult classic in the 20th century. It attempts to see the feministic approach of the novel.

The Limit Situation And The Narrative Of War (On The Material Of The Novel “My Lieutenant” By Daniil Granin)

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 90-104
Author(s):  
Anatoly S. Kuprin ◽  
Galina I. Danilina
Keyword(s):  
20Th Century ◽  
Scientific Work ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Continuous Limit ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Term Limit ◽  
Abstract Author ◽  
The Third ◽  
Definition Of

The purpose of this study is the analysis of limit situation in the narrative of war. The material of the study is the novel of Daniil Granin “My Lieutenant” and related texts. In the first part of the paper, the authors explore existing approaches to the term “limit situation” and similar concepts into scientific and philosophical traditions; limits of its applicability in literary studies and its relation to the categories of “narrative instances” and “event”. Proposed a literary-theoretical definition of the limit situation, which can be used in the analysis of fiction texts. Existing approaches to the examination of the situation of war are analyzed: philosophical-existential, psychoanalytic, sociological, literary. In the second part of the paper, the authors propose their method for analyzing limit situations in texts about war, which basis on existing approaches and preserves the text-centric principle of studying the structure of the story. Two interrelated areas of research have been identified: the study of war as a continuous limit situation in the intertextual aspect (the discourse of war); the study of limit situations (death, suffering, guilt, accident) in the narrative of war as part of a specific text. In the third part of the scientific work,the analysis of war as a continuous limit situation results in the study of the concept of “limit” (border) in a fiction text. The role of “limit” (border) concept in the texts about the war is studied, the possible types of limits in the discourse of war are examined. Limit situations in the narrative of war are analyzed on the basis of the novel “My Lieutenant” by Daniil Granin. A review of journalistic and scientific works about the novel revealed both the continuity and the differences between the novel and the “lieutenant” prose of the 20th century. An analysis of the limit situations in the novel revealed their key position in the narrative. These situations are independent of the fiction time, of the fluctuation of the point of view’; the function of the abstract author is to build the narrative as a “directive” immersion of the hero and narrator in these situations.

scholarly journals THE NEGLECT OF THE AUTHOR IN NEW HISTORICISM

eTopia ◽  
2010 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patricia Ana Marquez
Keyword(s):  
New Historicism ◽  
Autonomous Agent ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Power Structures ◽  
Social Construct ◽  
Literary Works ◽  
Historical Scholarship ◽  
Art Form ◽  
Time Period

When discussing the emergence of New Historicism in American scholarship, it is imperative to assess its origins and influences. Mikhail Bakhtin’s exploration of the multiples of languages within the novel and Michel Foucault’s analysis of the role of the author in texts both catapulted the development of New Historical scholarship. Today, this method of scholarship approaches the author as a non-autonomous agent subjected by the multiple social, political, and cultural forces of his or her era. Similarly, literature is perceived as an art form not unique from others and should be analyzed to point toward overarching power structures to the same degree as any other mode of representation. In considering the author as a social construct, many New Historicists neglect to perceive the author as a potential formulator or modifier of reigning ideology. The fact of the matter is that literature is able to shape the ideology of a society, not merely represent it. In viewing the author as a construct of his time period, critics fail to attempt to determine which literary works were revolutionary in their ability to manipulate and change a given society’s underlying modes of thinking and practice.

scholarly journals Contribution of historical and literary works to the understanding of political phenomena

2005 ◽  
pp. 93-124 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vojislav Stanovcic
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
20Th Century ◽  
Civil Wars ◽  
Political Life ◽  
Bertrand Russell ◽  
Ethical Orientation ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Michel De Montaigne ◽  
Power Struggle ◽  
Literary Works

The paper presents a series of arguments which indicate that significant historiographic works describing and analyzing bygone political phenomena as well the literary works which picturesquely depict political situations and human destinies - with their specific approaches and methods - contribute to the better insight and understanding of the phenomena in the political life which philosophy and social sciences express by notions. Social and political life have their bright and dark sides. It is less arguable that political sciences - in the study of phenomena included in their topic -find great help in history, if it is - as Leopold von Ranke advised - oriented only to "show what really happened". Historical studies, specially the ones of the socalled great historians, present to us the images of the situation in a certain period or event with all significant details and contribute to the understanding of that phenomenon, helping to clarify its essence. Thus for example, Appian's Roman Civil Wars or Tacitus' descriptions in The Annals of the suffering of the innocent victims in the power struggle during civil wars and during the ferocious persecution of Christians -innocent, but accused of all possible crimes. What astonishes the reader is the grea similarity between the phenomena, processes, actions happening two millennia ago and in the 20th century. Philosopher and political thinkers (like Aristotle), but also some historians (like Thucydides) offer explanations why some patterns repeat and why they would "keep repeating". In Khalil Inalcik's work, we find detailed descriptions of brutal mutual killings among the sons of the majority of the Turkish sultans in the power struggle after their fathers' death. Generalizing on the basis of the material provided by history, we reach an entire string of general notions in political and social sciences. Great thinkers and writers, from the oldest Eastern and the greatest antique philosophers till the ones from the 20th century, used found inspiration and drew ideas and incentives or material from the sources with which they supplemented their theoretical categories, notions and explanations, including the images of political life. These sources are represented in the great literary works. Contradictory opinions about the character and significance of ail and literature are found in Plato's and Aristotle's writings. Aristotle, who analyzed this problem, presented arguments why literary insights - precisely because of the character of insights they offer - deserve to stand in the same pedestal with philosophy. He used the expression he himself introduced to mark one aspect of the effect of art and literature - and that is catharsis. Psychology facilitates our insights into the motives and consequences of the participants' behavior social psychology being particularly important, but also ethics. The means used to convey a certain truth is less important, its essence is more important. Several Greek philosophers (Parmenides, Empedocles, Xenophon) even the Roman ones (for example, Lucretius Cains) wrote their philosophical treatises in verse. Kant's famous words Sapere aude! with which he asks people to have courage to use their own mind and thus become enlightened originate from the Roman poet Horace, and Michel de Montaigne also used them. Plato and Aristotle referred not only to the available sources about preceding philosophical ideas and political systems, including the first Greek historians, but also to the tragedians, primarily Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides, to the comedy writers (like Aristophanes), to the lyricists (Solon, Simonides, Archilochus). When Aristotle expounds one of the key categories of his political theory about man as a political animal (zoon politikon), he refers to Homer to confirm what he himself believes. Anica Savic-Rebac quotes Strabo's formulations about poetry as "the first philosophy", as well as about Homer's work as "poetic philosophy" and as a source of every kind of wisdom, even every kind of knowledge. With his ideas and images he presented in his literary works, Dostoyevsky influenced several philosophers (Nietzsche, Camus and others) and scientists (Freud, Adler and others). "The philosophy of existence" and its ethical orientation were presented not only in the philosophical, but also in the literary works (Kierkegaard, Sartre, Camus). The so called philosophy of the absurd and "the literature of the absurd" mutually merge and supplement. Not even the best 20th century theoretical treatise about the nature of power - like those by Charles Merriam, Bertrand Russell, Bertrand de Jouvenel or Harold Lass well can depict what man gets to know through the tragedies of Marlowe Shakespeare, Goethe, in which main participants are driven and urged by the yearning to achieve absolute power. "The Great Inquisitor", "The Iron Heel" "Dark at Noon", but also the personalities like Raskolnikov or Verhovensky from the novel The Possessed help us to understand many things. "Gulag" became a political notion because of the title of the novel Gulag. Literature-antiutopia pointed to the dangers of the closed mind and of the technological society before scientific studies had done that.

THE WRITER AS THE CONSCIENCE OF HIS SOCIETY: A STUDY OF FESTUS IYAYI’S HEROES

2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 331-342
Author(s):  
Abdullahi Haruna
Keyword(s):  
Civil War ◽  
Social Reform ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Ruling Class ◽  
Literary Works ◽  
The Common ◽  
Creative Writer ◽  
Common Man ◽  
Nigerian Civil War

This article discusses the role of the creative writer as the conscience of his society using Festus Iyayi as an exam-ple. The study focuses on the themes and narrative technique of Iyayi's Heroes to present the author as a literary artist who exposes the corruption and other forms of social evil perpetrated against the common man and the soci-ety generally. Studies show that Iyayi’s Heroes is one of the literary works written on the Nigerian civil war fought between 1967 and 1970. Iyayi’s novel, however, is said to be different from other literary works on the war on account of its neutral perspective on the crisis. This is what informs the choice of the novel for this study. In the novel, Iyayi projects himself as the conscience of society highlighting the deceit, corruption, class-consciousness, insensitivity and avarice to which the common man and the society are subjected by the ruling class using the façade of fighting a civil war. The outcome of this study establishes Iyayi as a conscientious patriot who uses the genre of the novel to highlight the wrongs of Nigerian society with a prescription for social reform.

scholarly journals A Representação das Minorias nas Obras Literárias do Programa de Avaliação Seriada da UnB (aplicação 2019)

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (12) ◽  
pp. 473
Author(s):  
Marcus Rodolfo Bringel de OLIVEIRA ◽  
Claudio Alves PEREIRA
Keyword(s):  
Literary Text ◽  
Literary Canon ◽  
Literary Works ◽  
Selection Program ◽  
The University ◽  
Didactic Planning

RESUMOTendo em vista a relevância das obras literárias para o planejamento didático e o trabalho docente dos professores da disciplina de Língua Portuguesa, este artigo tem como objetivo analisar como os textos indicados pelo programa de seleção da Universidade de Brasília contemplam a presença ou reforçam a ausência das minorias, dialogando, atualizando ou revisando o cânone literário. Para tanto, buscou-se analisar a relevância dos vestibulares na programação de ensino, o papel do cânone no ensino da literatura, bem como tal entidade é decisiva na representação e recepção das minorias no texto literário, e as possibilidades de atualização didática desses elementos de ensino para uma educação que considere as minorias de forma mais inclusiva ou como produtoras de literatura. Essa discussão procura nortear as possíveis discussões em sala de aula e a conscientização final acerca desses grupos na sociedade, de modo a promover a formação de sujeitos críticos e conscientes. Cânone. Representação. Minorias. Vestibular.ABSTRACTIn view of the construction of literary works for didactic planning and the teaching work of teachers of the Portuguese language discipline, this article aims to analyze the texts indicated by the selection program of the University of Brasília contemplate the presence or reinforce the absence of minorities, dialoguing, updating or revising the literary canon. To this end, we sought to analyze the vestibular research in teaching programming, the role of the canon in the teaching of literature, as well as this entity is decisive in the representation and reception of minorities in the literary text, and as possibilities for didactic updating of these elements of teaching for an education that considers minorities in a more inclusive way or as producers of literature. This discussion seeks to guide how possible it occurs in the classroom and the final awareness about these groups in society, in order to promote the formation of standards and conscious.Canon. Representation. Minorities. Entrance exams.RESUMENDada la relevancia de las obras literarias para el planeamiento didáctico y el trabajo docente de los profesores de la asignatura de Lengua Portuguesa, este artículo tiene como objetivo analizar cómo los textos indicados por el programa de selección de la Universidad de Brasilia contemplan la presencia o refuerzan la ausencia de las minorías, dialogando, actualizando o revisando el canon literario. Para ello, se buscó analizar la relevancia de las pruebas de acceso en la programación de enseñanza, el papel del canon en la enseñanza de la literatura, así como esta entidad es determinante en la representación y recepción de las minorías en el texto literario, y las posibilidades de actualización didáctica de estos elementos de la la enseñanza para una educación que considere a las minorías de manera más inclusiva o como productoras de literatura. Esta discusión busca orientar las posibles discusiones en el aula y la conciencia final sobre estos grupos en la sociedad, con el fin de promover la formación de sujetos críticos y conscientes.Canon. Representación. Minorías. Vestibular.SOMMARIOData la rilevanza delle opere letterarie per la pianificazione didattica e il lavoro di insegnamento dei professori della materia Lingua portoghese, questo articolo si propone di analizzare come i testi indicati dal programma di selezione dell'Università di Brasilia contemplano la presenza oppure rafforzano l'assenza di minoranze, dialogando, aggiornando o rivedendo il canone letterario. Per fare questo, abbiamo cercato di analizzare la rilevanza degli esami di ammissione nella programmazione dell'insegnamento, il ruolo del canone nell'insegnamento della letteratura, così come questa entità è decisiva nella rappresentazione e ricezione delle minoranze nel testo letterario, e le possibilità di aggiornamento didattico di questi elementi dell'insegnamento per un'educazione che consideri le minoranze in modo più inclusivo o come produttrici di letteratura. Questa discussione cerca di guidare possibili discussioni in classe e la consapevolezza finale su questi gruppi nella società, al fine di promuovere la formazione di temi critici e consapevoli.Canon. Rappresentazione. Minoranze. Vestibolare.

scholarly journals Parodia e ironía como subversión de la tradición en el “Viaje a la oscura ciudad de Cacodelphia”

Acta Poética ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 42 (2) ◽  
pp. 147-167
Author(s):  
Eridania González Treviño ◽  
Keyword(s):  
20Th Century ◽  
Dante Alighieri ◽  
Narrative Structure ◽  
Divine Comedy ◽  
General Context ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Literary Canon ◽  
The Divine Comedy ◽  
Leopoldo Marechal

This research presents an analysis of the dialog between parody and irony, as a gender and a literary modality respectively, through its subversion function in the “Seventh book (Journey the dark city of Cacodelphia)” of the novel Adán Buenosayres by the argentinean writer Leopoldo Marechal. This study starts with an introductory approach to the general context of the novel, where narrative structure, the positioning of the modern man as the hero of the 20th century are discussed, along with the implicit parody in the “Journey to the dark city of Cacodelphia” and its predominant irony, both as subversive elements of transgression of the represented literary canon, in this case by the “Hell” of the Divine comedy by Dante Alighieri.

scholarly journals Miss Jane and Miss Eyre: From student to teacher in Jane Eyre

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 ◽  
pp. 61-72
Author(s):  
Noelia Galán Rodríguez
Keyword(s):  
Jane Eyre ◽  
Close Reading ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Literary Canon ◽  
Literary Works ◽  
Victorian Novels ◽  
Student Education ◽  
Sociocultural Background ◽  
Do So

Jane Eyre is considered to be one of the most significant Victorian novels within the English literary canon as well as a governess novel. However, apart from her experience as governess, it must not be forgotten that, first of all, Jane was a student. Education has shaped the protagonist’s life and the plot of the novel making it one of the main topics of Jane Eyre and other Charlotte Brontë’s literary works such as The Professor (1857) and Villette (1853). The main aim of this essay is to study how education has shaped Jane Eyre both as a student and a teacher and how it has affected the outcome of the novel. In order to do so, a close reading of the novel is carried out along with a sociocultural background of Victorian society.

scholarly journals Το νεοελληνικό διήγημα την περίοδο του μεσοπολέμου (1918-1940)

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Αθηνά Κορούλη
Keyword(s):  
Literary Criticism ◽  
Interwar Period ◽  
Short Story ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Literary Canon ◽  
Critical Approach ◽  
Literary Works ◽  
Modern Greek ◽  
Critical Commentary ◽  
The Impact

The shift of the short story from the center to the periphery of the Modern Greek literary canon is part of the complex literary and cultural revisions that occurred in Greece during the Interwar years. The thesis, based on the theoretical, historical and critical approach of the study material (literary works, critical essays, articles and literary reviews), explores the following issues: the context of the “short story - novel” juxtaposition, the problems and the intentions that were related to the hierarchical downgrading of the short story, the critical opinions on short story poetics, the impact that the broader intellectual and literary pursuits of the period had on the Greek short story, those features that the literary criticism of the period perceived and commented on as a manifestation of change in the field of the Greek short story; furthermore, literary works that follow the directions recognized as signs of the renewal of the genre poetics are examined. With regard to the last issue, it should be noted that in parallel with the recurrent severe criticism of the short story and the turn towards the novel, there were signs that the Modern Greek short story of the Interwar period had also made a turn whose direction can be detected through a new critical commentary that was being frequently repeated, describing features of an interesting thematic and formal renewal that was recognized as the “new impetus” of the genre.

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