scholarly journals DEPORTATION OF THE SOVIET GERMANS THROUGH THE EYES OF A CHILD IN THE NOVELETTE: EXPERIENCE OF REFLECTION AND AUTOREFLECTION

Keruen ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 66 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
E.I. Zeyfert ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Present Article ◽  
The Other ◽  
Central Character ◽  
The Novel ◽  
German Culture ◽  
International Union ◽  
Main Plot ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Russian Germans

Data for study in the present article is the anthology of literature of the Russian Germans «The rumble of sounds is in the air» having been issued following the anthology of the Russian Germans literature of the second half of the XX – early XXI century «Towards the mistrustful sun». A genre palette of the new edition is the following: a novel, a novelette, a story, a miniature and a schwank. The book has been prepared for printing by the Institute of Ethnocultural Education in cooperation with the International Union of the German Culture. Due to the announced subject, i.e. deportation of the Soviet Germans through the eyes of a child, such works as «Our Yard» by Gugo Vorsmbekher, «The Nonfictional Landscape» by Olegа Klingа, «The Nonwoven of Fate» by Nellie Kossko and «The Melting Boat. The Karaganda novelet» by Elena Zeyfert, giving the experience of an autoreflection, are analyzed. Deportation of the Russian Germans through the child's eyes is shown at the Russian Germans mainly in the novelette; the subject is the character or the story-teller character. «The Nonfictional Landscape» by O. Klinga flickers between the novel and the story. Its poetics gravitates toward the specific for the novelette historical sight and two spheres of «friend or for». The genre of the novelette is interesting to the authors not only with the tendency to one main plot, the central character which is easy for attaching to the child. Constant is the historical sight of the novelette. The child can’t realize the originality of the situation which he is in. He just lives, noticing singularity of adults’ behavior remaining at that in the children’s world. He experiences recurrence of time altogether with the cycles of his own life. Such is Sasha of Klinga, Fritz of Vormsbekher, Emma of Kossko and Mariyka of Zeyfert. The other reason lies in the sphere of the internal movement of the plot and chronotope: the hero leaves from one valuable (and an existential point) in another and then comes back.

La transposition profane de l’Exode dans Moïse fiction de Gilles Rozier

2013 ◽  
pp. 174-183
Author(s):  
Piotr Sadkowski
Keyword(s):  
Present Article ◽  
Old Testament ◽  
The Other ◽  
Jewish Tradition ◽  
Human Being ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Jewish Origin ◽  
French Writer ◽  
The World ◽  
Jewish Writers

Throughout the centuries French and Francophone writers were relatively rarely inspired by the figure of Moses and the story of Exodus. However, since the second half of 20th c. the interest of the writers in this Old Testament story has been on the rise: by rewriting it they examine the question of identity dilemmas of contemporary men. One of the examples of this trend is Moïse Fiction, the 2001 novel by the French writer of Jewish origin, Gilles Rozier, analysed in the present article. The hypertextual techniques, which result in the proximisation of the figure of Moses to the reality of the contemporary reader, constitute literary profanation, but at the same time help place Rozier’s text in the Jewish tradition, in the spirit of talmudism understood as an exchange of views, commentaries, versions and additions related to the Torah. It is how the novel, a new “midrash”, avoids the simple antinomy of the concepts of the sacred and the profane. Rozier’s Moses, conscious of his complex identity, is simultaneously a Jew and an Egyptian, and faces, like many contemporary Jewish writers, language dilemmas, which constitute one of the major motifs analysed in the present article. Another key question is the ethics of the prophetism of the novelistic Moses, who seems to speak for contemporary people, doomed to in the world perceived as chaos unsupervised by an absolute being. Rozier’s agnostic Moses is a prophet not of God (who does not appear in the novel), but of humanism understood as the confrontation of a human being with the absurdity of his or her own finiteness, which produces compassion for the other, with whom the fate of a mortal is shared.

scholarly journals Learning fire investigation the clean way: The virtual experience

2009 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Amanda Davies ◽  
Barney Dalgarno
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Study ◽  
The Other ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Fire Investigation ◽  
Virtual Experience ◽  
Teaching Resource ◽  
Novel Approach ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Origin Determination ◽  
Fire Scene

<span>The effective teaching of fire investigation skills presents logistical challenges because of the difficulty of providing students with access to suitable fire damaged buildings so that they can undertake authentic investigation tasks. At Charles Sturt University (CSU), in the subject JST415, </span><em>Fire Investigation Cause and Origin Determination</em><span>, the novel approach of providing students with a CD based virtual environment based on the scene of a burned down house, as an alternative to having them undertake investigation of a real fire scene, has been implemented. This paper describes a quantitative and qualitative study exploring the effectiveness of this teaching resource. A key finding from this study was that students felt that the virtual fire investigation task had important advantages over undertaking a real investigation task, even though there were some limitations in the overall degree of realism of the experience. The results also suggested that students found that the visual fidelity and navigation capabilities provided within the environment were quite adequate for carrying out their fire investigation activity. Importantly, students also felt that the ability to revisit the virtual scene as many times as they wanted, at a time convenient to them, gave it advantages over a real investigation task if they were to be provided with only one or the other.</span><br />

scholarly journals Het gezicht van de oorlog – het gezicht van de Ander: epifanie van het gelaat in Die son struikel van Dolf van Niekerk

Literator ◽  
2003 ◽  
Vol 24 (2) ◽  
pp. 59-82
Author(s):  
J. Koch
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Literary Adaptation ◽  
The Face ◽  
Il Y A ◽  
War Experiences ◽  
The Subject ◽  
To Come ◽  
War Experience ◽  
Interpretative Framework

The face of war – the face of the Other: Epiphany of the visage in Die son struikel by Dolf van Niekerk Traumatic war experiences are crucial in shaping the identity of Diederik Versveld, the main character in Dolf van Niekerk’s Die son struikel (The sun stumbles). In this article I want to explore the war experience that the protagonist has to deal with, its literary adaptation, and the construction of the protagonist’s identity. I indicate that the three stages of Diederik’s development are closely connected to the concrete philosophic contents of the novel. The thought of Emmanuel Lévinas serves as my interpretative framework. Central to Diederik Versveld’s experience of war is the reduction of the subject to merely and impersonally existing, to il y a (“there is”). In my opion Lévinian concepts are useful in outlining the route to a better understanding of the protagonist’s experience of the war. In analysing the processing of the trauma of war Lévinas’ notion of the epiphany of the face of the Other can be helpful. The encounter with the Other in the faces of other people plays a crucial role in Diederik’s attempt to come to terms with his experiences of war and death. In Totalité et Infini (Lévinas, 1961:188) the French philosopher wrote: “The epiphany of the face unlocks humanity”.

scholarly journals The Rights of Minorities in International Law

2016 ◽  
Vol 9 (6) ◽  
pp. 15
Author(s):  
Fatemeh Mihandoost ◽  
Bahman Babajanian
Keyword(s):  
International Law ◽  
Present Article ◽  
International Society ◽  
Minority Rights ◽  
The Other ◽  
Human Right ◽  
Religious Minorities ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Specific Culture ◽  
Definition Of

Today human right is of great importance. The existence of different minorities such as lingual, ethnic, racial, and religious minorities with different tendencies derived from different civilizations and cultures has brought about social and cultural varieties and differences in each country and also the emergence of this variety has resulted in the development of variety in a specific culture and ceremony in different countries. On the other hand, each country as a member of international society has to observe norms and principles accepted by international society. In other words, although preparation of constitution of each country depends on exclusive qualification of the country’s people and government, it does not mean they are free in each law because international legitimacy of each country’s government and constitution depends on observation of the accepted principles and the governing rules in international law. The subject of minorities was first introduced in Vienna Congress and today different minorities live in different countries. In international documents and treaties, a precise definition of minority has not been provided. The present article seeks to interpret minority rights according to international law and investigate minority rights in international law by using international documents.

scholarly journals Rilke, Παλαμάς, Σαχτούρης, Αθανασιάδης: ένα σημείο συνάντησης / Rilke, Sachtouris, Palamas, Athanasiades: a point of convergence

2016 ◽  
Vol 25 ◽  
pp. 99
Author(s):  
Σταυρούλα Τσούπρου
Keyword(s):  
Present Article ◽  
The Other ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Love Affair ◽  
Prose Passage ◽  
Book Of Hours ◽  
The One

With the date 28.1.1924, the translation of the first nine verses from the “Book of Pilgrimage” is entered in the Appendix of Xanatonismene Mousike [Retoned Music], that is the collection of translations by Kostis Palamas, as these were included in his Complete Works. The “Book of Pilgrimage” is the second of the three parts of Rainer Maria Rilke’s Stundenbuch (which was translated into Greek as “Horologion” by Aris Diktaios, but is more widely known as “Book of Hours” and is referred to as such in Palamas’s translation. This translation of the characteristic excerpt from the poetic oeuvre of the “romantic” Rilke, as Palamas considered him, was destined – and not without reason – to be the most popular, even though several translations have followed. Except that, as we shall see, the perception of the specific verses as referring to the love affair between a man and a woman, a perception-interpretation that has prevailed widely, does not correspond (exactly) to the “reality” of Rilke’s poem. The two intertexts, to which we shall refer in the present article, seem to presuppose a corresponding interpretation, at least broadly speaking. So, examined here is the intertextual contact of the aforesaid poetic passage-translation from Rilke’s Stundenbuch, on the one hand, with the poem “The night of the forgotten woman” from the collection the Forgotten Woman (1945) by Miltos Sachtouris (who spoke often with love and respect about the influence of Rilke’s work on his own), and on the other, with a prose passage from the novel The Throne Room, by Tasos Athanasiadis (whose rich textual-intellectual contact with Rilke’s oeuvre has also been pointed out), which has characteristically been defined as a “modern Aesop’s fable”.

Volavérunt

1982 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 30-31
Author(s):  
Antonio Larreta ◽  
Malcolm Coad
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Historical Events ◽  
Spanish Society ◽  
Francisco Goya ◽  
Police Report ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Aristocratic Culture

‘Impossible not to think of Russian dolls,’ writes Antonio Larreta in the prologue to this novel The book juxtaposes different kinds of testimony to cast varying lights on historical events. The novel turns on the death in July 1802 of Maria del Pilar Teresa Cayetana de Silva y Alvarez de Toledo, the 13th Duchess of Alba and the subject of several paintings by Francisco Goya, notably the famous pair of pictures, La Maja Vestida ('La Maja clothed) and La Maja Desnuda (‘La Maja nude’), the second of which caused a major scandal in Spanish society when it was exhibited The novel is constructed around two apocryphal testimonies regarding her death, one supposedly by Goya himself, and the other by Don Manuel Godoy, Duke of Alcudia, a friend but political enemy of the Duchess. The first of these is recounted by Godoy as part of his own statement written in 1848. Both testimonies, plus a police report about the death and a letter sent to Godoy by another participant in the events, are purportedly found by the author in 1980 among papers in a house in Paris belonging to his Uruguayan mother's third husband, Lorenzo de Pita y Evora, Marquess of Peñadolida. There are notes added throughout the text written notionally by Pita y Evora in 1939 and by Larreta himself. The issue throughout is whether the Duchess died naturally, was poisoned or committed suicide. The novel is concerned with the corruption of a luxurious and decadent aristocratic culture, preoccupied with political intrigue and artistic show. The figure of the Duchess, a brilliant schemer, hostess and cocaine addict, is central to this world; her death throws it into crisis, setting up reverberations which echo down the ensuing 150 years. The extract of Volavérunt which follows is from Goya's description of the soiree after which the Duchess is found dying. The paragraph in parentheses is comment by Godoy, and the notes are by Larreta drawing from Pita y Evora (notionally, of course). Goya, it should be pointed out, was substantially deaf by the time of the events he describes.

Colombian Sicariato and Rosario Tijeras

2020 ◽  
pp. 197-228
Author(s):  
Aldona Bialowas Pobutsky
Keyword(s):  
Real Life ◽  
The Other ◽  
Press Coverage ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Femme Fatale ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Rosario Tijeras

This chapter turns to the other by-product of Colombia’s narco machine: the plague of sicarios recruited from that nation’s hardscrabble neighborhoods. It traces the rise of hitmen from its original press coverage, when Escobar ordered the assassination of Colombia’s Justice Minister Rodrigo Lara Bonilla in 1984, to the present-day “baby sicarios,” whose disturbingly premature entry into delinquency has become the subject of several film documentaries. Though real-life sicarios have been associated with men, it is Jorge Franco’s female rendition of the phenomenon, the eponymous heroine of the novel Rosario Tijeras, which in a brief time moved to both the small and the big screens. This chapter explores the trajectory of the Rosario Tijeras franchise, where her multiple renditions turned the femme fatale into a household name. Albeit fictional, she grew to incarnate Colombia’s women who became hardened by the volatile circumstances of drug and guerrilla violence.

Greek Inscriptions at Cairness House

1934 ◽  
Vol 54 (2) ◽  
pp. 140-162 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marcus N. Tod
Keyword(s):  
Present Article ◽  
Fifth Century ◽  
The Other ◽  
Short Account ◽  
Late Professor ◽  
The Subject

Professor J. D. Beazley recently discussed in this Journal (xlix. 1 ff.) a fifth-century Attic relief now preserved in Cairness House, Lonmay, Aberdeenshire. He appended a short account, partly from the pen of Colonel C. T. Gordon, of General Thomas Gordon (1788–1841), who brought to this country that relief and various other antiquities, and of the dispersion of the collection in 1850. The relief, however, remained at Cairness, together with two inscribed stelae, one of which has not been published hitherto, while the other has been regarded as lost. These form the subject of the present article.My warm thanks are due to the late Professor J. Harrower for calling my attention to the inscriptions and supplying me with excellent photographs of them, as also to Colonel Gordon for granting me permission to publish them and for his hospitality at Cairness, where he kindly gave me every facility for examining the stones with a view to verifying and completing the texts I had already deciphered from the photographs.

scholarly journals BECOMING THE POSTHUMAN: THE DESTABILISATION OF THE SUBJECT IN THOMAS GLAVINIC’S NIGHT WORK

2021 ◽  
pp. 223
Author(s):  
Branka B. Ognjanović
Keyword(s):  
Urban Environment ◽  
The State ◽  
Night Work ◽  
The Other ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Organic Life ◽  
The Uncanny ◽  
The Face ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Insight Into

The paper provides an insight into the destabilisation of the subject and the emergence of the posthuman condition in the novel Night Work (Die Arbeit der Nacht, 2006) by Austrian writer Thomas Glavinic. The first part briefly discusses previous analyses of the novel and the definitions of posthumanism as an umbrella term for a heterogeneous theory dedicated to the questions of what follows after the re-consideration of the humanist ideals and after decentring the human. The posthuman is interpreted as non-fixed, in the state of constant reconstruction as opposed to the humanist subject’s fixedness and integrity. The analysis examines the ‘uncanny’ setting of the novel and the power of survival in the face of death, which becomes the protagonist’s point of demise and divergence from consciousness and rationality. The urban environment devoid of all organic life replaces the Other applied traditionally to other humans. The Sleeper as the nightly doppelgänger and the filming of the environment further add to the transgression of the boundaries between material and immaterial, the living and the non-living, the real and the dreamlike/artificial, and ultimately determine the protagonist’s posthuman existence in the state of ‘becoming’ rather than ‘being’.

scholarly journals Tro og beslutsomhed

2018 ◽  
Vol 76 (4) ◽  
pp. 276-290
Author(s):  
Lars Albinus
Keyword(s):  
Thomas Mann ◽  
Human Existence ◽  
The Other ◽  
Formal Structure ◽  
The Novel ◽  
The Awakening ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Literary Figure ◽  
The Subject

Kierkegaard and Heidegger agree in seeing the prominenceof human existence in the reflexive concern for itself and the anxietywhich follows from recognizing the abyss of possibility and nothingness.However, Heidegger misses a notion of the formal structure of beingin Kierkegaard’s work, which he conceives to merely offer a theologicalsolution to questions that only a phenomenological outlook mightprovide on neutral grounds. Kierkegaard, on the other hand, lends hisvoice to forms of existence by which the “existentiell” dimension restson the awakening of the Spirit as the condition of possibility. Contraryto Heidegger, Kierkegaard does not regard the fulfi llment of existenceas something the subject can decide for itself without falling into despair.Using the literary figure of Hans Castorp from the novel Zauberbergby Thomas Mann, the article aims to show how easily the decisionto confront life with love falls back into a spell of escapism, leavingKierkegaard with the upper hand in pointing out the inadequacy of thehuman spirit, including philosophical endeavors, to ground itself.

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