The Gothic Element in Ann Radcliffe's The Mysteries of Udolpho

2021 ◽  
Vol 26 ◽  
pp. 19-31
Keyword(s):  
Key Words ◽  
Ann Radcliffe ◽  
The Novel ◽  
The Mysteries Of Udolpho ◽  
Main Ideas

The paper attempts to analyse the gothic element in Ann Radcliffe’s The Mysteries of Udolpho (1794). The paper presents the study in the essay form and it begins with a presentation of the gothic romance and its significance, characteristics and nature as a genre and in the novel of this study. The paper points out the types of the gothic school for Radcliffe is a representative of the school of terror while Lewis the school of horror. The study concentrates on Radcliffe’s The Mysteries of Udolpho as a gothic romance which narrates the story of Emily St. Aubert, and Valencourt, who faced a thousand obstacles, and perils thrown in their way. The heroine finds herself separated from the man she loves, and confined within the medieval castle of her aunt's new husband, Montoni. Inside the castle, she must cope with an unwanted suitor, Montoni's threats, and the wild imaginings and terrors that threaten to overwhelm her. The study ends with a conclusion that states the main ideas in the study. Key words: Gothic element, Gothic Romamce, Ann Radcliffe, The Mysteries of Udolpho, terror, horror

scholarly journals Rozrywki „serc czułych” w „Tajemnicach zamku Udolpho” Ann Radcliffe w świetle pism Jana Jakuba Rousseau

2018 ◽  
Vol 57 ◽  
pp. 41-47
Author(s):  
Magda Ebert
Keyword(s):  
18Th Century ◽  
English Literature ◽  
Free Time ◽  
Ann Radcliffe ◽  
The Novel ◽  
The Mysteries Of Udolpho

The entertainments of „tender hearts” in Ann Radcliffe’s The Mysteries of Udolpho in the light of Jean Jacques Rousseau’s worksIn the second half of the 18th century, English literature was influenced by sentimentality. One of the most talented writers of this time was Ann Radcliffe. She created the novel by combining the Gothic romance with the novel of sensibility. Radcliffe in her works formed two contrasting groups of heroes: honest and virtuous, and hypocritical and cruel people. With the diversity of character stemmed variety of preferred pastimes. In this article I discuss excerpts from novel The Mysteries of Udolpho, which describe ways of spending free time by the main characters and I show their relationship with the works of the philosopher Jean Jacques Rousseau.

СТАЛИНДИК БИЙЛИК Ч.АЙТМАТОВДУН КӨРКӨМ ОЙ ЖҮГҮРТҮҮСҮНДӨ

2020 ◽  
pp. 85-87
Author(s):  
Б. Ниясалиева ◽  
Н. Алтыкеева
Keyword(s):  
Key Words ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Good Luck ◽  
The West ◽  
Innocent People ◽  
The Government

Аннотация. Ч.Айтматов “Кылым карытар бир күн” романында ачыктап бере албаган бийлик маселеси кийинки демократиянын учурунда романдын уландысы катары берилген “Чынгызхандын ак булуту “ аттуу чыгармасында таама көрсөтүлдү. Аталган чыгарма сталиндик бийликти сынга алуу менен бийликтин курмандыктары болгон күнөөсүз адамдардын оор тагдырын чагылдырат. Сталиндин образын ачуу максатында элдик легендага кайрылып, Чынгызхандын образы аркылуу Сталиндин образын чагылдырган. Чыгармадагы Тансыкбаевдин образы мансапка манчыркап, адам тагдыры менен ойногон наадан адамдардын образын ачууда колдонулган. Абуталип, Эрдене, Догуланг – булар бийликтин курмандыктары. Алар алдыда өлүм күтүп турса да, өз көз караштарынан тайышпады, өлүмгө тике кароо менен жеңиш дайыма алар тарапта экендигин аныктай алышты. Ырас, Тансыкбаев да өз максатына жете алган жок, Чынгызхан болсо батышты багынтам деген тилегине жетпеди, ал эбегейсиз күчүн жоготту, мындан ары анын жолу болбоду. Түйүндүү сөздөр: образ, демократия, каарман, легенда, идея, көркөм ой жүгүртүү. Аннотация. Проблема правительства, которую Ч.Айтматов не смог раскрыть в романе “И дольше века длится день, ярко показаны в произведении “Белое облако Чингизхана” созданное во время демократии как продолжение названного произведения. В данном произведений критикуется и отражается тяжелая судьба безвинного народа, которые стали жертвами сталинского режима. Писатель обратился к народной легенде для раскрытия образа Сталина, через образ Чингизхана. В произведений образ Тансыкбаева применятся для раскрытия образов людей, которые ради собственного нажива использовали судьбы народа. Абуталип, Эрдене, Догуланг – они жертвы правительства. Несмотря ни на что, они не отреклись от своих убеждений, стояли на смерть ради справедливости. В статье говорится о не достижении своей цели Тансыкбаева, о не покорении Чингизханом Запада, о том, что Чингизхан потерял всю свою силу и удача его покидает. Ключевые слова: власть, образ, демократия, герой, легенда, идея, художественное размышление.. Annotation. The problem of the government, which Ch. Aitmatov could not reveal in the novel “And the day lasts more than a century”is clearly shown in the works “White cloud of Genghis Khan” created during the democracy as a continuation of the title work. In this work criticized and reflected the heavy fate of innocent people who were the victims of the Stalinist regime. The writer appealed to the folk legend to reveal the image of Genghis Khan the writer conveys the image of Stalin. In the work (composition) the image of Tansykbaev will be used to reveal the images of people who used the people’s destinies for their own profit . Abutalip, Erdene, Doulan-they are the victims of government. No matter what, they didn’t renounce their beliefs, stood to death for justice . The article says about not achieving the goal of Tansykbaeva, about not conguering the West by Genghis Khan and that Genghis Khan lost all his strength and good luck leaves him. Key words: power, image, democracy, hero, legend, idea, artistic reflection.

Anima e morte. Lettura, secondo la prospettiva della psicologia analitica, del racconto Klara Milic di Ivan S. Turgenev

2009 ◽  
pp. 65-90
Author(s):  
Ivan S. Turgenev
Keyword(s):  
Key Words ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Psychological Model ◽  
Feminine Principle

- Klara Milic This is the author's interpretation, in accordance to an analytical psychological model, of one of Turgenev's novels, which was written just before his death. In synthesis the novel tells the story of a young man, lacking the attributes and totally incapable of dealing with life's adversities, who meets the "fatal woman", who is nothing but the projection of his unconscious feminine soul. This image is the fruit of his distorted perception of real woman and his denial to confront the woman component inside himself. This extreme behaviour creates an archetypical image of woman, of "eternal femininity", to the point where this destroys him.Parole chiave: Coscienza maschile, principio femminile, archetipo, Anima, complesso autonomo, psicosi.Key words: Male conscience, feminine principle, archetype, Anima, autonomous complex, psychosis.

“The synapses colapse; well, let them…” el feminismo postmoderno de the stone diaries de Carol Shields

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Macarena Garcia-Avello
Keyword(s):  
Key Words ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Feminist Standpoint ◽  
Carol Shields ◽  
Palabras Clave ◽  
Political Function ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
The Way

Este artículo examina la manera en que la metaficción postmoderna de Carol Shields en The Stone Diaries sirve de punto de partida para una crítica feminista desde la que se explora el carácter relacional y fragmentario del sujeto femenino. Aunque la crítica haya incidido en la vertiente feminista de la novela de Carol Shields, The Stone Diaries, el papel que juega el postmodernismo en la crítica feminista ha pasado desapercibido. El objetivo de este artículo es, por tanto, ahondar en la manera en que el feminismo se intercala con el postmodernismo en la obra de Shields. A lo largo de este  se demostrará cómo la confluencia entre la condición postmoderna y la construcción de la subjetividad de la protagonista proporciona a la obra una función política. Palabras clave: postmodernismo, feminismo, política, The Stone Diaries   This article examines the way in which postmodern metafiction in Carol Shields´ s The Stone Diaries can be understood as a starting point to explore the relational and fragmentary subjectivity from a feminist standpoint. Although most analysis on The Stone Diaries put an emphasis on the importance of feminism, the influence of postmodernism in Shields´s novel has been commonly overlooked. This article aims to delve into the interaction between feminism and postmodernism in order to demonstrate how this interplay provides the novel with a political function.   Key words: postmodernism, feminism, politics, The Stone Diaries.  

Translating Irony in Popular Fiction

Babel ◽  
2001 ◽  
Vol 47 (2) ◽  
pp. 97-108 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel Linder
Keyword(s):  
Key Words ◽  
Popular Fiction ◽  
The Other ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Raymond Chandler ◽  
Dramatic Effect

Raymond Chandler published his first novel, The Big Sleep, in 1939. There are two Spanish translations of the novel, both titled El sueño eterno, one published in 1958 by Aguilar (Madrid) and the other in 1972 by Barral (Barcelona). This study analyzes irony in the two Spanish translations and concludes that both translations fail to reflect the degree of irony present in Chandler’s original, especially with respect to the translation of two key words, cute and giggle, and the dramatic effect of the novel’s climax is dampened as a consequence. Also, it is demonstrated that the 1972 version is, if not an outright plagiarism of the earlier 1958 version, at the very least a version which does not meet the criteria for originality.

scholarly journals PSYCHOLOGISM OF THE NOVEL “THE BOOK OF TOMORROW” BY CECILIA AHERN

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (11(79)) ◽  
pp. 173-176
Author(s):  
Tetiana Cherepovska ◽  
Olena Binkevych
Keyword(s):  
Key Words ◽  
Fairy Tale ◽  
English Literature ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Life Changes ◽  
Negative Experience ◽  
Ways Of Coping ◽  
Personal Loss ◽  
Linguistic Means

The article reveals the phenomenon of psychologism in fiction and the ways of its actualization in modern English literature concerned with psychological aspects. The notion is analyzed on the basis of Cecilia Ahern’s novel “The Book of Tomorrow” that depicts the protagonist’s psychological crisis as a result of personal loss and the ways of coping with negative experience. Lexical-stylistic and compositional means are studied through the prism of the representation of the protagonist’s internal feelings caused by inner and outer factors. The role of symbols, fairy-tale allusions, personifications, artistic details and comparative tropes in depicting the young girl’s crisis state and her reactions to life changes is traced. The function of key words, implicit details, temporal fractures and the title in the compositional framing of the text is researched. The role of the mentioned-above linguistic means in the reflection of transformations taking place in the protagonist’s consciousness is studied. Some peculiarities of Cecilia Ahern’s individual author’s style, such as wide use of fairy-tale allusions and personifications, contrastive application of some lexical-stylistic means (artistic details) and the coherent function of the others (an implicit detail, extended metaphors), are outlined. The author’s favourite key words are listed; the stylistic role of their repetitions in different contexts is shown. The retrospective actualization of the lexeme tomorrow presented in the title is traced.

scholarly journals The Myth of Zheng He: Kenya-China Encounters in Yvonne Owuor's The Dragonfly Sea

Afrika Focus ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 33 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Mingqing Yuan
Keyword(s):  
Indian Ocean ◽  
Key Words ◽  
Home Country ◽  
50Th Anniversary ◽  
Nation State ◽  
The Novel ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Indian Ocean ◽  
Dominant Discourses

The year 2005 marked the 600th anniversary of Zheng He’s first voyage on the Indian Ocean and the 50th anniversary of the Bandung Conference. In the same year Mwamaka Sharifu, a girl from Lamu island in Kenya, also a descendent of sailors of Zheng He’s fleet (1405-1433), was awarded a scholarship to study in her “home country”. In 2019, the novel The Dragonfly Sea by the Kenyan female writer Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor, which incorporates the story of Mwamaka Sharifu, was publishedby Alfred A. Knopf. By using the concept of “fictive ethnicity”, proposed by Balibar, and “push back”, as articulated by Ruth Simbao, this paper tries to explore how the history of Zheng He is adopted and narrated to construct, blur or refute boundaries of nation and ethnicity in The Dragonfly Sea. It also investigates how fictional writing, both aesthetically and culturally, intervenes and responds to the dominant discourses surrounding “China-Africa” by exhibiting the ambiguity and nuances within. It shows that an epistemological and discursive fracture exists between Africa and China that leads to a binary construction of the myth of Zheng He, which might be effective to some degree but runs the risk of repeating nation-state and ethnic configurations. KEY WORDS: ZHENG HE, CHINA-KENYA LITERATURE, FICTIVE ETHNICITY, THE DRAGONFLY SEA

scholarly journals "You’re Not the Same Kind of Human Being": The Evolution of Pity to Horror in Daniel Keyes' Flowers for Algernon

2012 ◽  
Vol 32 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Brent Walter Cline
Keyword(s):  
Key Words ◽  
Narrative Theory ◽  
Mental Disability ◽  
Human Being ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Mentally Disabled ◽  
Original State ◽  
American Novels

<p>Key words: mental disability, Daniel Keyes, Flowers for Algernon, pity, narrative theory</p><p>Of American novels that engage with the topic of mental disability, few are more popular than Daniel Keyes' <em>Flowers for Algernon</em>. Such popularity seems based on a simplistic reading of the novel where the mentally disabled are objects of good-natured compassion. A more thorough reading of how Charlie Gordon is presented, however, leads to the conclusion that mental disability is the embodiment of death in the novel. Readers are first taught to pity the pre-operative Charlie, but once they come to respond to the ethical voice of the post-operative Charlie, his regression to his original state becomes the rhetorical villain in the novel. At first an object of pity, the mentally disabled Charlie Gordon eventually becomes the metaphorical horror of oblivion that no character has the power to overcome.</p>

scholarly journals Dos libros y una novela: la función sintagmática y paradigmática de los espacios en Rayuela

2014 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 28
Author(s):  
Libertad Garzón Hurtado
Keyword(s):  
Key Words ◽  
Typical Feature ◽  
The Other ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Narrative Space ◽  
Textual Cohesion ◽  
Present Text

ResumenEl presente texto se pregunta por el sentido de los “dos libros” contenidos en Rayuela y anunciados por Cortázar en el Tablero de dirección al inicio de la novela. Se propone aquí un análisis semióticoestructural centrado en dos modalidades del espacio narrativo que representan dos modos de cohesión textual: la sintagmática de los macro-espacios y la paradigmática de los micro-espacios en la novela. Mediante este análisis se intenta mostrar cómo la narrativa resultante de cada uno de los órdenes posibles de lectura (el consecutivo y el salteado) se sostiene sobre ejes de construcción distintos, dando lugar a dos sistemas comunicativos diferentes: uno característico de la narrativa, y el otro de la poesía.Palabras clave: Espacio narrativo, Cortázar, Rayuela, frontera semiótica, ejes sintagmático y paradigmático, novela poética.*************************************************Two books and one novel: the syntagmatic and paradigmatic function of Rayuela’s spacesAbstractThe present text considers the question for the sense of the two books contained in Rayuela, which were, also, announced by Cortazar in the Direction board at the beginning of the novel. A semioticstructural analysis is proposed here centred in two modalities of the narrative space that represent two ways of textual cohesion: the syntagmatic one of the macro-spaces and the paradigmatic one of micro-spaces in the novel. Through this study we intend to show how the resulting narrative of each one of the possible reading orders (the consecutive reading and the jump reading) stands over different construction axis, giving way to two different communicative systems: one which is a typical feature of narrative, and the other one a typical feature of poetry.  Key words: Narrative space, Cortázar, Rayuela, semiotic border, syntagmatic and paradigmatic functions, verse/poetry novel.**************************************************Dois livros e uma novela: a função sintagmática e paradigmática dos espaços em Rayuela ResumoEste texto pregunta pelo sentido dos “dois livros” presentes em Rayuela e anunciados por Cortázar  no Tabuleiro de Direção no início da novela. Propõe-se aqui uma análise semiótico-estrutural centrada  em duas modalidades do espaço narrativo que representam dois modos de coesãon textual: a sintagmática dos macro-espaços e a paradigmática dos micro-espaços na novela. O objetivo dessa análise é mostrar como a narrativa resultante de cada uma das ordens possíveis de leitura (sequencial ou pula-pula) se apoia em eixos de construção distintos, dando lugar a dois sistemas comunicativos diferentes: um, característico da narrativa, e o outro,   poesia. Palavras-chave: Espaço narrativo, Cortázar, Rayuela, fronteira semiótica, eixes sintagmático e paradigmático, novela poética

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