scholarly journals The Progressive Face of Contemporary Pakistani English Novel: A Study of Ali’s Night of the Golden Butterfly (2010)

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (II) ◽  
pp. 73-90
Author(s):  
Kalsoom Khan
Keyword(s):  
Literary Criticism ◽  
Religious Identity ◽  
Social Order ◽  
The Novel ◽  
English Novel ◽  
The Social ◽  
Political Conditions ◽  
Identity Crises ◽  
Progressive Strain ◽  
Radical Transformation

The present study is based in a departure from the currently abounding academic researches into contemporary Pakistani English novel exploring the cultural and religious identity crises of the local and diasporic Pakistani characters in the wake of 9/11 which constitute a single, superstructure-related segment of the aggregate social reality. The present research aims to bring to the fore a holistic and progressive strain within this corpus. Formulating a theoretical paradigm out of Marxist literary criticism as expounded in the seminal works of Leon Trotsky and K. Damodaran, the study thematically scrutinizes the narrative of Night of the Golden Butterfly (2010) by Tariq Ali for a realistic depiction of the socio-economic and political conditions of present-day Pakistan, and the delineation of the multiple spheres of life such as the economic, political, institutional, moral and intellectual as interconnected components of the composite unit of society. The study also appraises the novel for the representation of a vision for better collective future and suggestiveness in relation to the means and modes for a radical transformation of the social order.

scholarly journals The Concept of Victorianism in A. S. Byatt’s “Posession”

2019 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Literary Criticism ◽  
Victorian Novel ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Victorian England ◽  
Victorian Era ◽  
English Novel ◽  
The Past ◽  
Russian Literary ◽  
Postmodern Novel ◽  
Current Research Interest

The late 1990s – early 2000s was a time of numerous projects dedicated to the Victorian age and the Victorian novel as a specific phenomenon that inspires the modern novel development. The English postmodern novel with its typical narrative, time transferal to Victorian England, weaving of time layers, invokes current research interest. The relevance of this study is caused by considerable interest of researchers in the Victorian era heritage and by need of a comprehensive study of Victorian linguoculture and its implementation in the modern English novel. The Victorian text influences a new genre of the novel that reflects the gravity of modern English prose to the traditional literature of Victorian era, assumed to be particularly important in this context. The analysis of A. S. Byatt’s “Possession” in the Russian literary criticism was made only by O. A. Tolstykh; in the Ukrainian science, this work was investigated by O. Boynitska in the context of searching the past, so this subject is not investigated enough, and in our opinion is new and relevant, especially from the perspective of the “Victorian era” concept embodied in the novel. The aim of the paper is to analyze the “Victorian era” concept peculiarities in the intercultural context, on the basis of A. S. Byatt’s “Possession” as a Victorian novel. The paper takes into account the reproduction of concepts of Marriage, Home, Family, Freedom, Life, as components of “Victorian era.” The Victorian family is often represented through the place of their dwelling; therefore, the great Victorians’ works are overwhelmed by interior descriptions (Dombey’s house, Miss Havisham’s home, Mr. Rochester’s Castle). However, in “Possession,” there is an obvious contrast of Victorian buildings to the same structures in the XX century: the past prime – the modern decline. All the secrets and delusions hidden behind the facades of supposedly respectable buildings result in distorting facts and, to some extent, to violating the rights of ownership to the memories of the past. This gives another meaning to the title of the novel – “possession,” that is ownership, possession of letters, memory, truth.

scholarly journals Genrens tøven

2007 ◽  
Vol 35 (103) ◽  
pp. 108-137
Author(s):  
Carsten Sestoft
Keyword(s):  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Book Market ◽  
English Novel ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Status ◽  
Historical Semantics ◽  
History Of ◽  
Insight Into ◽  
Or History

Romanens status i det 17. århundredes Frankrig The hesitations of a genre: The status of the novel in seventeenth-century FranceIn answering the question: What was the novel in seventeenth-century France? – this article provides insight into some important points of the early history of the genre. The contradiction between its non-existence in official (Aristotelian) poetics and its existence as a popular commodity on the book market was, in the course of the seventeenth century, reconciled in the emergent category of belles lettres as a plurality of genres mainly defined by their public of honnêtes gens, while attempts at legitimizing the novel as belonging to such Aristotelian genres as epic or history generally failed; and at the end of the century a number of convergences – between epic and novel, between the designations roman and nouvelle, and between the ‘high’ and ‘low’ forms of the novel – seem to point to the fact that the social existence of the genre had been strengthened, even if it was the English novel of the eighteenth century that could be said to reap the profits of this stronger position. Using historical semantics and cultural sociology to study the status of the novel in seventeenth-century France thus leads to a clearer understanding of the specificity of the novel as a literary and cultural genre.

scholarly journals Komunikasi Kenusantaraan (Studi Komunikasi Nusantara Perspektif Integrasi Interkoneksi)

2017 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 121
Author(s):  
Mokhamad Mahfud
Keyword(s):  
Religious Identity ◽  
Social Order ◽  
Science Communication ◽  
Political Identity ◽  
Cultural Hegemony ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Quarter Century ◽  
Class Culture ◽  
The Social ◽  
As If

The term "think globally and act locally" has begun to surface since the eighties, but until now, a quarter century later, there was also a surefire formula go see about it. Human experience feel things that otherwise like sara (suku, agama dan ras)  events that befall the nation, instead of peace, mutual trust, peaceful coexistence, at-ta'ayus as-silmi, tolerance, tasamuh among fellow human beings and between groups, but rather violence, violence , prejudice (prejudice), az- su'u zan  religion, ethnicity, class, race, interests, both at the local, regional, national and even international (global). As if all want to reverse the adage "think locally and act only", without having coupled "think globally". In the associate, connect and communicate with other groups and do not feel the need to consider the governance rules, laws, agreements and international relations.Each ethnic group, religion, class, culture wants to maintain, even cult, sect or school of thought wanted to strengthen and reinforce certain local religious identity, cultural identity, ethnic identity, political identity as felt in the shadow of the threat of domination and cultural hegemony, certain foreign cultures or civilizations.Pressure of social psychology in the real and the imagined then cause unfair treatment (injustice), discriminatory (political behavior discrimination of race, ethnicity, religion and origin) and subordinate (humble and do not consider important the presence of another person or group), here as if there is no problem indeed, in maintaining the identity and group identity, but the ripples that appear in events locally, regionally, nationally and internationally to prove there is indeed a problem in the social order of the world.This paper offers a model of communication between fellow men's race (human), which integrates and connectedness with nature and God (spirituality), in the context of Communication Studies allows develop integration-interconnection study Communications, for example, the model trialektika between Islamic, and Indonesian-ness can Modernity in trialektika developed to initiate some sort of communication, namely (Islamic [Komunikasi Islam(i)/ hadarah an-nas/Religion/‘irfani], Indonesianness (Komunikasi Indonesia/ Nusantara/ hadarah al-falsafah /Philosophy/ burhani), and Modernity [Modern/Western Communications]/ hadarah al-‘ilm/Science/bayani), researcher asumtion that Modern Communications refers to Western Communications.Komunikasi Nusantara is a science communication in digging up the basic values of the indegenous values or the values of local wisdom Indonesia (Nusantara Philosophy), then associate with theories derived from Komunikasi Islam(i)/Komunikasi Profetik and Modern/ Western Communications.

ANNE BRONTË'S SHAMEFUL AGNES GREY

2013 ◽  
Vol 41 (2) ◽  
pp. 251-260 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katherine Hallemeier
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Literary Criticism ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Recent Scholarship ◽  
The Social ◽  
Agnes Grey ◽  
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak

For much of the twentieth century, literary criticism tended to be relatively dismissive of Anne Brontë's novels. While recent scholarship has argued for the complexity of gender and class dynamics in Agnes Grey (1847), there is little consensus as to what, precisely, those dynamics are. Elizabeth Hollis Berry suggests that Agnes “takes charge of her life” (58), and Maria H. Frawley argues that her narrative is a “significant statement of self-empowerment” (116). Maggie Berg and Dara Rossman Regaignon, however, highlight the continued subjugation of Agnes in the course of her narrative. These scholars’ divergent readings demonstrate how Agnes Grey and Agnes Grey can be read both as illustrative of what Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak has famously described as the nineteenth century “female individualist” (307), and as instructive of the social strictures that circumscribed this identity. In this essay, I outline how shame works in and through the novel to bridge these opposing readings.

scholarly journals Periferni likovi u romanu U registraturi Ante Kovačića

2021 ◽  
pp. 272-285
Author(s):  
Marijana Terić
Keyword(s):  
Social Order ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Fantasy Literature ◽  
City Life ◽  
The Social ◽  
Literary Process ◽  
Long Time ◽  
Fantastic Realism ◽  
The Village ◽  
The City

In this paper, the author examines a work of one of the most significant Croatian literary writers, Ante Kovačić, whose novel U registraturi (In the Registry Office) is considered by many literary critics and theoreticians to be the best writing of Croatian realism. It is an author who was not understood at the time when his work appeared, which is why the text was published in the form of a novel with a twenty-three year delay. Nonlinear composition of the text, elements of fantasy literature and innovative literary process in creating a fabula and sujet course of events confused literary critics as well as readership, which points to the fact that Ante Kovačić was treated for a long time as a peripheral author. In this narrative text, the misery and helplessness of peasants and their revolt against their feudal lords in Croatia are described, therefore the object of our analysis will be the characterisation of figures from various layers of society, with a particular focus on the “peripheral characters” of Kovačić’s prose. Using the term “peripheral characters” we will attempt to bring close those characters of subjugated peasants in relation to the feudal-capitalist social layer and thereby emphasise their role in the novel in relation to their fate. Unlike the characters of the peasants – Ivica Kičmanović (whom the social order turns into a lackey and scoundrel); Jožica Zgubidan (the personification of a poor person from Zagorje), Anica (a patriarchal girl with an angelic face); Miha; Perica; the neighbouring Kanoniks; and the Medonjićes – Kovačić brings us harsh, drastic images of moral vacillations in the city in which figures, distorted into caricatures, dominate. By contrasting the rural environment with the city life, the author is writing an “epopee of the village and city” in which the “peripheral characters” become tragic ones. These characters are the carriers of elements of “fantastic realism,” and their function is to show all the depravities of society and to announce the phenomenon of the innovative processes of narration familiar to authors of the modern literature. Finally, we come to the conclusion that Ante Kovačić made a step forward in relation to the generation of realists, with the peripheral position of his creation disappearing with the emergence of modern literary achievements, which ultimately gives the author and his work a polished place in Croatian literature.

scholarly journals KRISTALISASI KONDISI SOSIAL, EKONOMI, DAN POLITIK DALAM NOVEL RASA MERDIKA

2016 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
pp. 72
Author(s):  
Agus Sulthon
Keyword(s):  
Social Structure ◽  
Cultural Condition ◽  
The Novel ◽  
The Social ◽  
Political Conditions

<p>Rasa Merdika is a novel released in 1924. This novel narrates the people’s misery occured in Dutch- Indies era. The internationalism ideology becomes the alternate undderstanding for people by using poetry as a messenger. In this research, the social, economical and political conditions depicted in the novel will be correlated to the history when the novel is created. using Goldmann's theory, considered having homological relations  with the social structure. Umar Junus takes advantage of it as a story to depict the social-cultural condition of society.</p><p> </p><p>Rasa Merdika merupakan novel bacaan liar yang terbit tahun 1924. Novel ini membicarakan tentang penderitaan rakyat yang terjadi di Hindia Belanda. Ideologi internasionalisme menjadi alternatif pemahaman kepada rakyat dengan memanfaatkan sastra sebagai alat penyampai pesan. Dalam penelitian ini, kondisi sosial, ekonomi, dan politik novel akan korelasikan terhadap sejarah saat novel itu diciptakan kemudian menghubungkan konsep keduanya menggunakan teori Goldmann, dianggapnya memiliki keterkaitan homologis dengan struktur sosial (kondisi).</p><p> </p>

Post-secularism, Multiculturalism, Human Rights, and Religion in Ontario

2016 ◽  
Vol 45 (4) ◽  
pp. 542-565 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Seljak
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Religious Identity ◽  
Social Order ◽  
Religious Freedom ◽  
Public Attitudes ◽  
Liberal Democracies ◽  
The Social ◽  
Christian Privilege ◽  
Policy Work ◽  
Role Of Religion

Most Canadians believe that they have resolved the issue of religious freedom—as well as the problems of the injustice of Christian privilege and discrimination based on religion—by redefining the social order according to Canadian models of secularism, multiculturalism, and human rights. Typical of this resolution were the protections against discrimination based on religion or “creed” in the Ontario Human Rights Code, drafted in 1962. However, dramatic social and demographic changes in Ontario over the last fifty years have presented the efforts of the Ontario Human Rights Commission to protect and promote religious freedom with unexpected challenges. New forms of ethno-racial and religious pluralism, more widespread secularism, more religious hybridity and innovation, and greater degrees of individualized expression of religious identity have forced the Commission to rethink its policies pertaining to religious freedom. The Commission is wrestling with the fact that not only has Ontario become more religiously diverse in terms of the number of world religions and sub-divisions in those traditions, but religion in Ontario is expressing itself in unprecedented forms. At the same time, jurisprudence and public attitudes about the role of religion in secular, liberal democracies are also evolving. This article examines the Commission’s treatment of religious freedom in its policy work on balancing competing human rights and protection of freedom based on creed. It analyzes the Commission’s challenges in formulating policies around religious freedom by examining the interaction between secularism, multiculturalism, and human rights culture in the context of the transition of Canada’s social order to a post-secular society.

scholarly journals Indo - English Novels Amalgamation of Indian Tradition and World Tradition

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (S1-Feb) ◽  
pp. 212-217
Author(s):  
Dayananda Sagar G S
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Dominant Trait ◽  
English Novel ◽  
Indian Tradition ◽  
European Tradition ◽  
The Social ◽  
Late Twentieth ◽  
Late Twentieth Century ◽  
Recurrent Motif

In India the novel is the readiest and most acceptable way of embodying experiences and ideas in the context of our time.The duality of Indo-English fiction has been attracting worldwide attention. One wonders whether the Indo-English novel is a part of the Indian tradition or the European tradition or of the abstract world tradition.The Indo-English fiction in Post-independent India assumed over the preceding thirty years all kinds of colorful traditions. It is now free from the social yard political overtones of a rabidly nationalistic variety.As regards the theme of the novel, in the late Twentieth Century alienation has significantly affected the Indo-English novel. It has served as a recurrent motif in quite a few works produced by Indian novelists in English. It is also the dominant trait of several characters created by the novelists.

scholarly journals Tom Jones : A Subaltern Critique

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 219-226
Author(s):  
Dr. Shreeja Tripathi Sharma
Keyword(s):  
Third World ◽  
Power Structure ◽  
Research Paper ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Imperial Authority ◽  
English Novel ◽  
Tom Jones ◽  
The Social ◽  
English Society

Henry Feilding’s Tom Jones offers a picture of  English society during the imperial times through a thought-provoking scrutiny of the marginalised voices and indirectly subverts the imperial authority of oppression. Fielding’s defining work which notably laid the foundation of the English novel has often been implored for nuances of morality and sin. This research paper explores the novel as a prelude to the postmodern  subaltern voice against the dominion of the social and economically elite through the emancipatory empowerment of the roguish foundling hero of the picaresque tradition: Tom Jones.  The paper seeks to establish the relevance of Tom Jones for the  readers of the so- called Third World, as it offers a glimpse into the subaltern aspects of identity of the coloniser. In this context, this paper evaluates the narrative of Fielding’s Tom Jones with reference to two key concerns: exposition of the oppressive power structure and revelation of marginalised oppressed.

scholarly journals “Con los pobres de la tierra quiero yo mi suerte echar…”: la figura del intelectual-lumpen en las obras de Guillermo Rosales y Pedro Juan Gutiérrez

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (13) ◽  
pp. 25-53
Author(s):  
Cristina Pérez Múgica
Keyword(s):  
Social Order ◽  
Karl Marx ◽  
Max Weber ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Essential Characteristic ◽  
Theoretical Support ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
The Social ◽  
Pedro Juan Gutierrez ◽  
Friedrich Engels

This paper presents the analysis of the novel Boarding Home (1987) and the short stories collection Trilogía sucia de La Habana (1998), respectively written by the Cuban writers Guillermo Rosales and Pedro Juan Gutiérrez. These works share an essential characteristic: their authors, who narrate using the first person, became outsiders after a dramatic succession of events. Consequently, they build their discourse from an inner reality forged by all kind of material lack, as well as the exclusion from the models ruling the social order. Taking this as a starting point, the paper studies the often-similar attitudes and careers of both characters in order to establish those features the figure of the intellectual could assume in eccentric domains. Such objective will be achieved by means of different kinds of theoretical support, mainly: the pariah intelligentsia by Max Weber, the infrapolitics concept by James C. Scott and the ideas on lumpen by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels.

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