scholarly journals The Narrative Techniques in The Portrait of a Lady

2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 89
Author(s):  
Yu Zhao

The paper aims to analyze the narrative techniques in Henry James’ masterpiece The Portrait of a Lady. James is both a novelist and a literary critic. The narrative techniques that James puts forward are mixed well like milk and water with the theme of The Portrait of a Lady. James regards human heart as a closed book and is very interested in the obscurity in human relations. Isabel is eager to learn about the world, yet she is always haunted with the feeling of helplessness due to the isolation and estrangement with others. James’ three narrative techniques, i.e., the “central consciousness”; the “limited point of view” and the “organic form” are employed to effectively represent the theme in this novel.

2015 ◽  
Vol 39 (1) ◽  
pp. 175
Author(s):  
Maria Cristina Vidotte Blanco Tárrega ◽  
Daniel Diniz Gonçalves

RESUMO:O intento do presente trabalho é refletir sobre duas das principais instituições das sociedades atuais, o Direito e a Universidade, o que será realizado à luz de uma perspectiva pluralista epistemológica. Ambas as instituições, tal e como se nos apresentam nos tempos presentes, são construídas e moldadas para funcionar sob a égide de uma especial maneira de ver o mundo, denominada modernidade, que labora sobre paradigmas simplistas e dualistas, que hierarquizam as relações humanas, provocando dominação e marginalização. Direito e Universidade, como instituições, criações humanas, retiram sua razão de ser, sua legitimidade, de seu papel na dinâmica das relações humanas, ou seja, de sua serventia ao homem. A ontologia de qualquer instituição é servir ao criador, ao ser humano, e, como tal, deve produzir o resultado de promover a melhora de suas condições de vida. Com essa visão ontológica e ética das instituições, desvelaremos e criticaremos os fundamentos epistemológicos da modernidade, evidenciando seus males, sobretudo seu intento de uniformizar e universalizar formas de viver e de conhecer o mundo e, em um segundo momento do desenvolvimento do trabalho, proporemos alternativas, com a citada perspectiva pluralista epistemológica. Na conclusão, formulamos nossa concepção de instituição, notadamente de Direito e Universidade, enquanto criação que advoga e viabiliza a emancipação e liberação do homem. Abstract: The purpose of this paper is to discuss two major institutions of modern societies, the Law and the University, which will be held in the light of a pluralistic epistemological perspective. Both institutions, as present today, are built and shaped to operate under the auspices of a special way of seeing the world, called modernity that works on simplistic and dualistic paradigms that put in hierarchical terms human relationships, causing domination and marginalization. Law and University, as institutions, as human creations, derive their “raison d'être”, its legitimacy, its role in the dynamics of human relations, of their usefulness to man. The ontology of any institution is to serve the creator, to serve the human being, and as such, this institutions should produce a result of promoting the improvement of living conditions of humanity. With this ontological and e thical point of view about institutions, this article will reveal and criticize the epistemological foundations of modernity, showing their ailments, especially their intent to standardize and universal ways of living and seeing the world. In a second phase of development work, this paper will propose alternatives with the aforementioned epistemological pluralistic perspective. In conclusion, this work will formulate a proposal of new institutions, notably of Law and University, as institutions that advocates and enables the empowerment and liberation of man.


2020 ◽  
Vol 61 (12) ◽  
pp. 27-31
Author(s):  
Muborak Abdullaevna Ataniyazova ◽  

This article deals with a scientific analysis of the views of the literary critic Olim Sharafiddinov on the poetics of the epic Alisher Navoi "Khamsa", in particular, "Farhod and Shirin", "Leyli and Majnun". It evaluates the views of the scientist on this topic, the world of images, plot and composition from today's point of view. Also, scientific problems related to the poetics of the epic are studied, new views are put forward on the genre and semantic features of this immortal work. Along with this, issues related to the poetics of the epic are clarified. Key words: views of Olim Sharafiddinov, poetics of the epic, composition, literary criticism of the 1930s, artistic interpretation


Istoriya ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (8 (106)) ◽  
pp. 0
Author(s):  
Olga Leontyeva

The article focuses on the approach to the study of human psyche and behavior, suggested by literary critic and ideologist of Narodnikism N. K. Mikhailovsky in the second half of the 19th century. Mikhaylovsky is proved to have developed an original model of scientific cognition, which was based on the synthesis of knowledge from different fields of science and built around an “anthropological or humane point of view”. Scientific search within the framework of this model is carried out with the help of the subjective method, based on the effort to understand another person, and the subject of cognition is a “profane” — a person complete with all of his social experience. The problems put forward by Mikhailovsky seem relevant in the light of the modern “cognitive turn” in the humanities, the desire for interdisciplinary approach and the creation of an integrative scientific picture of the world, fundamental rethinking of the classical objectivistic model of scientific knowledge.


1970 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 73-89
Author(s):  
Alan W. Bellringer

From what Henry James writes in the well-known passage on the novelist's ‘need of the individual vision’ (Preface to The Portrait of a Lady), one is surprised to find him attributing absolute objectivity to the central character in another of his novels. A valid subject, he had said, is the result of some direct impression or perception of life; it springs out of the soil of the artist's prime sensibility. To represent adequately what he felt mattered about Isabel Archer, James had decided to place ‘the centre of the subject in the young woman's own consciousness’. He had rejected the easy evasive trick of giving only the general sense of her effect upon the characters surrounding her. To make theirs the predominant point of view would have been an escape from any close account of the subject. What then induced James on a later occasion to reverse this procedure without scruple? One can look first at James's account of the effect which this novel was to produce.


2021 ◽  
Vol 36 (1) ◽  
pp. 60-74
Author(s):  
Bianca Del Buono

‘With books or with the world?’ Alienation effects without disorientation in Viaggio e maravigliose avventure d’un veneziano by Francesco Contarini This paper investigates the forms and effects of displacement in Viaggio e maravigliose avventure d’un veneziano ch’esce per la prima volta dalle lagune e si reca a Padova e a Milano, published anonymously in Milan in 1818. According to Luigi Catucci, the author is Francesco Contarini, who translated many travel books for the editor Sonzogno between 1816 and 1817: this would explain the noticeable intertextual dialogue between the Viaggio and other travel writings, both fictional and non-fictional. Some allusions to Vasco de Gama’s and James Cook’s geographical explorations reveal the author’s interest in travel as an anthropological experience, while quotations from Swift and De Maistre suggest a familiarity with the literary conventions and the most recent renewal of the European novel.  From a theoretical point of view, the essay examines the interaction between travel literature, (anti-)novel, récit excentrique, and parody, in order to show that literary contamination works as an estrangement device. At the same time, this theoretical interpretation is evaluated (from an analytical and interpretative point of view) in relation to the narrative techniques through which Contarini expresses the alienation-effect of the first-person dramatized narrator, prompting a strong sense of disorientation in the reader (but not in the main character). 


2017 ◽  
Vol 135 (3) ◽  
pp. 511-542
Author(s):  
Peter Freese

AbstractT. C. Boyle’s fifteenth novel The Harder They Come (2015) offers a fictional inquiry into the American propensity for violence and takes its title from Jimmy Cliff’s 1972 reggae song and its motto from D. H. Lawrence’s characterization of the “essential American soul [as] hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer” (1978: 68). The article investigates how Boyle creates a metafictional historiography by combining two unrelated historical events – the bare-handed killing of a mugger by an elderly American veteran in Costa Rica and the long police hunt for the schizophrenic murderer Aaron Bassler in the Mendocino Redwoods – with a fictional character who represents the paranoid fringe worlds of sovereign citizens. The article then shows how Boyle embeds his plot in a general atmosphere of menace and incorporates the legend of the heroic mountain man John Colter, thus adding historical depth and evoking the world of wilderness survivalists. It also examines the narrative techniques, such as the choice of a schizophrenic’s point of view, and the stylistic features employed in order to fuse these ingredients into a thrilling tale that reveals the hidden relations between American foundation myths and the threats of contemporary gun violence.


1978 ◽  
Vol 17 (01) ◽  
pp. 28-35
Author(s):  
F. T. De Dombal

This paper discusses medical diagnosis from the clinicians point of view. The aim of the paper is to identify areas where computer science and information science may be of help to the practising clinician. Collection of data, analysis, and decision-making are discussed in turn. Finally, some specific recommendations are made for further joint research on the basis of experience around the world to date.


2004 ◽  
pp. 113-122
Author(s):  
L. Kabir

This article considers the basic tendencies of development of trade and economic cooperation of the two countries with accent on increasing volumes and consolidating trade and economic ties in Russian-Chinese relations. The author compares Russian and Chinese participation in the world economy and analyzes the counter trade from the point of view of basic commodity groups.


2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 38-43
Author(s):  
MARIETA EPREMYAN ◽  

The article examines the epistemological roots of conservative ideology, development trends and further prospects in political reform not only in modern Russia, but also in other countries. The author focuses on the “world” and Russian conservatism. In the course of the study, the author illustrates what opportunities and limitations a conservative ideology can have in political reform not only in modern Russia, but also in the world. In conclusion, it is concluded that the prospect of a conservative trend in the world is wide enough. To avoid immigration and to control the development of technology in society, it is necessary to adhere to a conservative policy. Conservatism is a consolidating ideology. It is no coincidence that the author cites as an example the understanding of conservative ideology by the French due to the fact that Russia has its own vision of the ideology of conservatism. If we say that conservatism seeks to preserve something and respects tradition, we must bear in mind that traditions in different societies, which form some kind of moral imperatives, cannot be a single phenomenon due to different historical destinies and differing religious views. Considered from the point of view of religion, Muslim and Christian conservatism will be somewhat confrontational on some issues. The purpose of the work was to consider issues related to the role, evolution and prospects of conservative ideology in the political reform of modern countries. The author focuses on Russia and France. To achieve this goal, the method of in-depth interviews with experts on how they understand conservatism was chosen. Already today, conservatism is quite diverse. It is quite possible that in the future it will transform even more and acquire new reflections.


2011 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 21-34 ◽  
Author(s):  
John T. Warren

Through narratives and critical interrogations of classroom interactions, I sketch an argument for a co-constitutive relationship between qualitative research and pedagogy that imagines a more reflexive and socially just world. Through story, one comes to see an interplay between one's own experiences, one's own desires and one's community — I seek to focus that potential into an embodied pedagogy that highlights power and, as a result, holds all of us accountable for our own situated-ness in systems of power in ways that grant us potential places from which to enact change. Key in this discussion is a careful analytical point of view for seeing the world and a set of practices that work to imagine new ways of talking back.


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