scholarly journals Palindromic Structure in the “Pardoner's Tale”

2012 ◽  
Vol 41 (1) ◽  
pp. 53-67
Author(s):  
LUCIA TREANOR
Keyword(s):  
Literary Criticism ◽  
Creative Process ◽  
Writing Process ◽  
Palindromic Structure

ABSTRACT This paper explains the medieval writing process known as palindromic structure, a face of anagogy that, as far as we can determine, has largely been ignored in literary criticism. It begins by examining the “little verses” of Augustine of Dacia that were a staple of schoolboy studies, and demonstrates how the verses were used to teach the creative process to students of Latin composition. Then, after introducing Mary Douglas's criteria for identifying the structure, it sets forth Chaucer's “Pardoner's Tale” as a well-balanced palindrome, arguing for authorial intentionality by referencing a section of the “Parson's Tale.” It offers John Dryden's observations about Chaucer's characters—which he has written in palindromic structure—to show that later British authors were aware of Chaucer's method, and concludes by giving evidence that Chaucer knew some Greek.

scholarly journals Lexical choices along the creative process of coc comparato

2019 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 141
Author(s):  
Livia Sprizão de Oliveira ◽  
Edina Regina Panichi
Keyword(s):  
Creative Process ◽  
Writing Process ◽  
Genetic Criticism ◽  
Lexical Choice ◽  
Feedback Cycle ◽  
The Impact

Lexicographical words represent things – physical or abstracts – and are also plenty of expressive shapes, which are socially built. The grammatical use of words disseminates denotative meanings and metaphorical effects that engage emotions. The context in which words are placed creates a feedback cycle between the sign and the psychic images that it evokes. Through the analysis of the manuscripts of the Brazilian dramatist, Doc Comparato, we shall observe the movements of experimentation and lexical choice along the creative process of his writing of the script Jamais (Never) - also called Calabar or A tribute to the treason. We are going to verify the changes on the effects of meaning by comparing the reviews applied to the text, following the author’s search for the grammatical shape that gives life to the idea. In order to analyze the metamorphosis of the writing process we shall use the fundaments of Genetic Criticism and the Stylistic to evaluate the results reached by the author – considering that a dramaturgical text is made to be staged and, for being so, must predict the impact of the sounds of words and also the actions that follow them.

Grant Writing as a Creative Process

2019 ◽  
pp. 641-668
Author(s):  
Ellen Gorsevski ◽  
Kate Magsamen-Conrad ◽  
Lisa Hanasono
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Problem Solving ◽  
Creative Process ◽  
Writing Process ◽  
Grant Writing ◽  
Public Scholarship ◽  
Knowledge Based ◽  
Rhetorical Genre ◽  
Creative Problem

This chapter emphasizes creativity as an important, but often forgotten, methodological aspect of grant writing as a rhetorical genre. Sharing knowledge of three experienced grant writers in communication, the co-authors reflect on the role of creativity in developing and sustaining fundable grants, and on larger research prospects and implications of inspiration, which span careers in knowledge-based sectors. The authors provide helpful context and proven strategies to support the grant writing process. Literature on grant writing in the humanities and social sciences points to innovative grant writing as a productive approach or method of doing public scholarship. Creativity often sets apart winnable, funded grant projects from projects that are less impressive to funders in real-world settings. Counterintuitively to higher education’s increasing bureaucratization, lofty, aspirational artistry is central to successful grants development, particularly writing persuasive grant narratives. Grants entail creative problem solving to address pressing issues and remediate urgent challenges across multidisciplinary fields.

Halfway-to-whole things: ecologies of writing and collaboration

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Philip Gross
Keyword(s):  
Creative Process ◽  
Writing Process ◽  
Natural World ◽  
Collaborative Process ◽  
Professional Interest ◽  
The Social ◽  
Political Stance ◽  
Visual Artist ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Disciplinary Group

Philip Gross explains how he started to explore the creative process at the same time as the terms ‘ecocriticism’ and ‘ecopoetic’ made an appearance. Although he writes about the natural world, he is wary of being seen as an ecopoet, on the grounds that it does not feel like his own experience of the writing process and that it implies a specific moral-political stance. In this chapter Gross looks at several collaborative projects that he has been drawn to, sensing that they too hold clues to this process, not just in the subject matter but in the process itself. In one such collaboration he joined a multi-disciplinary group that brought him into contact with people with a professional interest in ecology and the social sciences as well as with a visual artist who bases her work on walking. Subsequently he walked together with the same artist at the Newport Wetlands. He uses examples of his own poetry to explore how the creative and collaborative process works for him in an environmental context.

A Collaborative Practitioner Inquiry into Societal and Power-Relational Contexts of an Activist Writing Community’s Textual Events

2019 ◽  
Vol 15 (1/2019) ◽  
pp. 62-80
Author(s):  
Amir Kalan ◽  
Parisa Jafari ◽  
Mahdyar Aghajani
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Studies ◽  
Literary Criticism ◽  
Writing Instruction ◽  
Hip Hop ◽  
Writing Process ◽  
Practitioner Inquiry ◽  
Community Literacy ◽  
Dominant Discourses ◽  
Writing Instructors ◽  
Relational Contexts

This article describes experiences with a community literacy approach to writing instruction in a cultural studies and literary criticism workshop in Tehran, Iran (2009-2014). The writers narrate the process of writing a book undertaken by a group of Iranian feminists, who chose to write about and critique dominant discourses in Iranian hip hop, in an attempt to start a conversation with young underground Iranian rappers. Adopting collaborative practitioner inquiry, the researchers discuss different steps of the process of writing and publishing the book, and also the pitfalls and challenges that they encountered in the project and the ensuing interventions. In the course of sharing their reflections, the writers highlight the sociocultural and power relational contexts of their writing process to sensitise writing instructors to the often invisible social and political layers of the act of writing.

The fragmentation of the writing self: Using dialogic reflection to explore the writing process of an autobiographical novel

2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 143-159 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alberta Natasia Adji
Keyword(s):  
Creative Process ◽  
Reflective Thinking ◽  
Meaning Making ◽  
Writing Process ◽  
The Self ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Multiple Perspectives ◽  
Critical Engagement ◽  
Thinking Processes ◽  
Inner Voices

In this article, the author-researcher presents three intertwined texts: excerpts from an autobiographical novel, extracts from a reflexive journal written during the writing of that novel, as well as a theorized account and analysis of the overarching creative process. These texts talk to each other as a form of intertextuality in the similar way that the three generations of a Chinese Indonesian family depicted in the novel interact with one another and present differing perspectives and fresh insights. The issues of the writer’s inner voices and multiplicity of the self feature prominently in this work, the result of a deep and critical engagement with the author-researcher’s creative writing and reflective thinking processes. Together, these three interrelated texts capture and explore multiple perspectives interacting during the writing process while at the same time present how the self and sites of meaning-making can be constructed through writing.

scholarly journals الإسلامية وسؤال النقد الأدبي (Islamization and the question of Literary Criticism)

1970 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
بشرى عبد المجيد (Busyra Abdel Majid Takfrast)
Keyword(s):  
Literary Criticism ◽  
Literary Theory ◽  
Creative Process ◽  
Arab World ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Human Knowledge ◽  
Critical Text ◽  
Critical Discourses ◽  
Islamic Values

ملخص البحث:كثيرة هي الخطابات النظرية والنقدية في العالم العربي، المهتمة بشأن النقد العربي قديمه وحديثه، وهذه الكثرة لا تدل بالضرورة على  وعي واستقامة لمقاربة النص النقدي بتلاوينه المختلفة طالما أن هذه الطروحات تذهب إلى إضفاء صدقية المنهج في الدراسة والتحليل أكثر مما تذهب إلى مقاربة النص النقدي بشكل لا يبدو فيه ازدياد وثراء وعمق، مما يجعل المتلقي يستقبله كعلامة دالة لمساءلة الظاهرة. وتحاول هذه الدراسة تأطير النقد الإسلامي ومعاييره المستنبطة من نظرية الأدب الإسلامي، ودوره في مواكبة العملية الإبداعية لضبط إيقاعها وفق نظرية أدبية معيارية إسلامية واضحة المعالم. ومقاربة لأسلمة النقد العربي والتأصيل الإسلامي للمقاييس النقدية التي تهدف إلى تأثيث سياق إعادة صياغة وبناء المعطيات المعرفية الإنسانية من منظور إسلامي. ومحاولة تجاوز المنقود على مستوى الرؤية والمنهج لإنجاح عملية القراءة التي ينطوي فعلها على تأويل المقروء.الكلمات المفتاحية: النقد الإسلامي- النقد الـأدبي- القيم الإسلامية- المعيارية- المعوقات. Abstract:Many of theoretical and critical discourses in the Arab world that focus on Arabic literary criticism be it traditional or modern, do not necessarily indicate an awareness and correctness in approaching critical text that come in different shades. This was possible as long as these discourses seem adhere to the integrity of method although they are surficial in their discussion. As a result, reader would understand that there are dealing with the some issues of a certain phenomenon. This study aims at putting the framework of Islamic criticism and defining its standards derived from Islamic literature. The role of Islamic criticism in keeping up with the creative process to ensure its compliance in accordance to a clear Islamic prescriptive literary theory. The approach to Islamacize Arabic literary criticism and the effort to establish its rooting in Islam is a part of the efforts to rearrange human knowledge in accordance to the Islamic point of view and to broaden the interpretation of the text itself.Keywords: Islamic Criticism – Literary Criticism – Islamic values – Prescriptive – Challenges. Abstrak:Teori wacana kritis sangat banyak dalam dunia Arab dan ia mengambil berat tentang kritikan sastera lama dan baru. Namun kebanyakannya tidak menunjukkan kesedaran yang konsisten kerana dalam usaha mendekatkan teks kritikan dengan demensi-demensi yang berbagai-bagai selagi cadangan-cadangan yang dilontar ini hanya tertumpu kepada methodologi kajian dan analisis lebih banyak daripada mendekatkan teks kritikan yang mana ia tidak membawa kepada penambahan dan kekayaan yang mana ia menjadikan penerima mengambilnya sebagai tanda yang menunjukkan permasalahan luaran. Kajian ini cuba meletakkan satu garis panduan dalam wacana kritis yang diambil berasaskan teori sastera islam berserta peranannya dalam mengikuti arus inovasi dan kreativiti bagi memastikan ia masih mengikuti piawaian yang digariskan islam.  Hal ini bertujuan untuk menghasilkan semula fakta-fakta yang berkaitan dgn kognisi seperti proses pembelajaran, pemahaman dan pemerolehan pengetahuan oleh manusia dari perspektif Islam dan cuba memberikan pandangan dari sudut methodologi bagi menjayakan proses pembacaan yang mengandungi banyak tafsiran.Kata kunci: Kritikan Islam – Kritikan Sastera – Nilai-Nilai Islam – Piawaian - Halangan .

scholarly journals Harmony of theory and practice in the works of V.V. Golubkov

2020 ◽  
pp. 108-120
Author(s):  
V.F. Chertov ◽  
I.V. Sosnovskaya
Keyword(s):  
Literary Criticism ◽  
Creative Process ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Historical Research ◽  
Human Knowledge ◽  
Scientific Publications ◽  
Teaching Literature ◽  
Reading Interests ◽  
The Face ◽  
Artistic Images

The purpose of the article is to analyze the methodological heritage of V.V. Golubkov, to establish links between the practical activities of the teacher and his scientific publications, teaching and methodical manuals, the definition and updating of the main directions of research of the scientist’s methodological system. The article uses the comparative historical research method, with the use of memoirs and archival sources. The authors characterize the methodological concept of V.V. Golubkov as fundamental and theoretically substantiated, based on the achievements of pedagogy, psychology, literary criticism. The article highlights the main features of this concept: the significance of the issues of methodology and methodical thesaurus in research on the methodology of teaching literature; “psychologism” as attention to the personality of the reader, their reading interests, and features of the artistic perception; a take on literature as human knowledge expressed in artistic images; considering reading as a creative process; the development of specific techniques for the modern reading of classics and the development of critical thinking of students; statement of the problem of stimulating personal memories, emotions, imagination and independent judgments of students; introduction of the concept of “sense of proportion in the study of a work of art”, etc. In conclusion of the article, the authors deduce that the methodological system of V.V. Golubkov has laid the foundations for teaching literature in the 20th century and can be regarded as a tradition that still retains its significance and relevance in the face of changing sociocultural realities and approaches to the study of literary text in lessons of literature.

scholarly journals POSISI PENGARANG DALAM INTERPRETASI: PEMBACAAN DUA SAJAK TERKENAL SITOR SITUMORANG

Widyaparwa ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 48 (1) ◽  
pp. 106-121
Author(s):  
Dipa Nugraha
Keyword(s):  
Social Context ◽  
Literary Criticism ◽  
Creative Process ◽  
Comparative Approach ◽  
The Status ◽  
Death Of The Author ◽  
Interpretive Reading

On how interpretation must position the author of the text is still discussed and always relevant in literary criticism. From mimetic, expressive, social context and creative process, objective approaches towards Barthes’ the death of the author, to the Foucauldian function of the author, the positions of the author with and within his text have always been disputed. This study uses comparative approach. It applies reading with multiple lenses of interpretation to compare the interpretations from different literary approaches in regard to the position of the author in interpretation. Interpretive readings using multiple lenses of interpretation on the status of the author with and within the text are described to show the differences among them. Two most celebrated poems from one of the Indonesian best poets Sitor Situmorang,“Cathedrale de Chartres” and “Malam Lebaran,” are selected and interpreted in this article. The basis for every interpretive reading based on every theory discussed is also provided and explained. This study shows that the author is always present with or within the text he creates. His existence manifests in various ways and in different contexts. Pembicaraan mengenai relevansi pengarang di dalam pembacaan atau interpretasi karya sastra tidak pernah lekang hingga kini. Dari pendekatan mimetik, ekspresif, situasi sosial dan interaksi kreatif, objektif, kematian pengarang oleh Barthes, hingga berlanjut dengan fungsi pengarang oleh Foucault, posisi pengarang terus diperbincangkan. Kajian ini menggunakan pendekatan komparatif.  Kerangka kerja pembandingan mengacu pada interpretasi berlensa jamak yang menyuguhkan berbagai interpretasi dengan pendekatan yang ada sejak masa Yunani kuno hingga masa pascastrukturalisme berkait dengan posisi pengarang dalam interpretasi karya sastra. Dua sajak terkenal Sitor Situmorang, “Cathedrale de Chartres” dan “Malam Lebaran,” diletakkan dalam contoh kerja interpretasi. Di dalam setiap interpretasi yang disuguhkan diberikan acuan teoretis paradigma mengenai bagaimana operasi pembacaan atau interpretasi diberlakukan. Hasil kajian ini menunjukkan bahwa posisi pengarang di dalam interpretasi tidak bisa dihilangkan dari setiap usaha interpretasi teks. Pengarang selalu hadir dan termanifestasikan dalam berbagai cara dan muncul lewat beraneka konteks.  

Saints and Writers

2003 ◽  
Vol 59 (4) ◽  
pp. 607-617
Author(s):  
Belden C. Lane
Keyword(s):  
Creative Process ◽  
Writing Process ◽  
The Self ◽  
Spiritual Life ◽  
Personal Reflection ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The Way

This article is a personal reflection on the relationship between spirituality and the writing process. It deals with the dilemma faced by saints and writers alike in “getting out of the way” of their work, keeping the self-consciousness of the ego from distorting the simplicity of what they do. An aspiration to sainthood can ruin the spiritual life. Just as the desire to be published often keeps a would-be author from ever writing. The article probes the parallels in these two experiences, asking how starting and hiding are joined in the spiritual life and the creative process.

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