scholarly journals ANALYSIS OF FICTIONAL SPACES IN CINEMA FILMS ADAPTED FROM FANTASTIC LITERATURE IN TERMS OF SIMILARITY

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (86) ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Interior Design ◽  
English Literature ◽  
Literary Work ◽  
Fantastic Literature ◽  
Fantasy Fiction ◽  
Fictional Space

The aim of this research is to analyze and reveal the fictional spaces of the movies called “Hobbit” adapted from fantastic English literature in terms of similarity. In this context, the concepts of space, interior and fictional space were examined and then all these concepts were discussed together with fantasy fiction. “Hobbit” literary work and movies, which are considered as an example of fantasy fiction genre, were examined and comparisons were made through the tables. As a result, it has been seen that there are intense overlaps between the book descriptions of the work and the movie locations in terms of similarity. Keywords: Fictional space, fantasy fiction, interior design, cinema, English Literature, adaptation

scholarly journals KEMAMPUAN MENGANALISIS UNSUR INTRINSIK KARYA SASTRA

2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 69-80
Author(s):  
Cita Hikmah Yanti ◽  
Neisya Neisya
Keyword(s):  
Action Research ◽  
English Literature ◽  
Literary Work ◽  
Class Action ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Literature Study ◽  
Study Program ◽  
Training And Education ◽  
The Third ◽  
Method Class

This study aims to evaluate the teaching of literary appreciation in improving the ability to analyze the intrinsic elements of a literary work. The object of this research is the 3rd semester students of the English Literature Study Program, Faculty of Teacher Training and Education and Language Sciences at Universitas Bina Darma. This study uses the CAR method (class action research) where this method has 3 cycles. In each cycle, researchers and teachers will evaluate the results of teaching in each cycle to be improved in the next cycle. In this study, the intrinsic elements that will be analyzed by students are the theme, setting, characterizations, plot, point of view, message and style of language. By using the methods and teaching materials that have been prepared in the third cycle, researchers and teachers have been able to significantly improve the ability to analyze the intrinsic elements of a literary work.

Natsume, Sōseki (1867–1916)

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jonathan Abel
Keyword(s):  
English Literature ◽  
Literary Work ◽  
Modern Literature ◽  
Natsume Soseki ◽  
Modern Condition ◽  
School Curricula

Natsume Sōseki (b. Natsume Kinnosuke, generally referred to by his pen name Sōseki, adopted originally for signing his poetry) is commonly held to be the greatest modern Japanese novelist. An idiosyncratic man of letters, he was a path-breaking satirist and stylist, as well as a critic and scholar of English literature. Among the first Japanese writers to make a living solely by the sales of his own literary work, Sōseki occupied the ironic position of having become widely popular by writing about the extreme loneliness of the modern condition. His place in the Japanese canon has only grown since his death, with his works appearing in anthologies of modern literature and regularly listed in school curricula; his visage also appeared for decades on the 1,000 yen note.

Writing across Kurdistan

2016 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 257-274
Author(s):  
Özlem Belçim Galip
Keyword(s):  
English Literature ◽  
Literary Work ◽  
National Literature ◽  
National Cultures ◽  
Literary Traditions ◽  
Political Conflicts ◽  
Forced Migrations ◽  
Single Voice ◽  
Critical Discourses ◽  
The Relationship

Gauri Viswanathan asks ‘where is English literature produced?’ and answers not only ‘in England, of course’. This is also true of Kurdish literature, which is not only produced ‘in Kurdistan, of course’. In fact, due to forced migrations, political conflicts and massacres, Kurds have mainly produced literary works outside Kurdistan. Because there is no state and there are no internationally recognized Kurdish territories, the understanding of what we mean by the term ‘Kurdistan’ is blurred; hence, the location of Kurdish literary work may change, as does the development of Kurdish literature, whether or not it is produced in Kurdish territory. Thus, compared to some other literary traditions, the Kurdish tradition is shaped in multiple geographies in terms of writing and publishing processes, multilingual and transnational affiliations, constant mobility and a diverse sociopolitical context that challenges and complicates the national literature, and vividly exemplifies the heterogeneity and discontinuity of national cultures. Drawing on debates on national literature and ideological texts, in this article I offer insights into Kurdish novels through readings of six novels from six spaces (Iraqi, Iranian, Syrian and Turkish Kurdistan, Soviet Armenia and the Kurdish diaspora) in order to explore the relationship between the texts and the boundaries they are set in, and to compare texts and the way they respond to different sociopolitical contexts. In these six fictional texts, I argue that the themes are usually identified with the realm of sociopolitical conflict and tension and the articulation of loss, trauma, war, the longing for return, and disappointment with the return. Furthermore I suggest that in contrast to idealized imaginary, home and nation, and patriotism in the case of statelessness or exile, these texts are articulated through critical discourses that challenge the idea of a unified national literature, and cannot be united under the sound of a single voice or stable ground.

scholarly journals An Intersectional Feminist Reading of Bapsi Sidhwa's Water

2021 ◽  
pp. 43-55
Keyword(s):  
Social Issues ◽  
English Literature ◽  
Literary Work ◽  
Cultural Norms ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Power Structures ◽  
Bapsi Sidhwa ◽  
Award Winning ◽  
Fiction Writers ◽  
Insight Into

Intersectionality has been recognized and widely taken by interdisciplinary fields that include Cultural studies, American studies, and Media studies to demonstrate a range of social issues. It focuses on the experiences of people in a different social and political context. The intersectional framework confronts significant social division axes that include race, class, gender, and disability that function together and influence each other. These social axes operate the power structures of a particular society that can cause inequality and discrimination. In literary studies, women's representation is no more confined to European and American academic writings. Within the feminist framework, the South Asian fiction writers also demonstrate a feminist approach in their works. Pakistani authors have indicated religion's exploitation as one of the central intersectional tropes in their literary work. Bapsi Sidhwa is one of the prominent feminist voices from Pakistan in diasporic English Literature. One of her novels, Water (2006), is based on Deepa Mehta's award-winning film, explores the life of the marginal and subaltern Hindu widows in India. The novel provides an insight into the intersectional nature of the Indian Hindu widows in a patriarchal society of a subcontinent where different power domains hold and impose dominant hierarchies. The paper's objective is to highlight the intersection of religion, gender, caste and politics against the backdrop of the Indian anti-colonial movement. It shows how power relations can manipulate cultural norms and use religion as a powerful tool to establish its hegemonic control over these marginalized widows who suffer as silent victims.

scholarly journals Of fear and fantasy, fact and fiction: Interrogating canonical Indian literary historiography towards comprehending partition of Bengal in post-Independence Indian (English) fictional space

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ashes Gupta ◽  
Keyword(s):  
English Literature ◽  
Western India ◽  
Indian Literature ◽  
Eastern India ◽  
Indian English ◽  
Literary Historiography ◽  
Literary Expression ◽  
Fictional Space ◽  
The Moment ◽  
Historical Moment

A victim of the partition of Eastern India/undivided Bengal, a refugee is one who has ironically left behind the real but has carried on forever indelibly imprinted in memory that which is lost and remembered in superlatives, thus moving and simultaneously resisting to move. Remaining mentally anchored forever on ‘Bengal’s shore’ and having been denied the moment of adequate articulation of the loss in factual terms partly due to immediate trauma and partly due to the inherent politics of the language of standard literary expression vis-à-vis spoken language (Bangla vs Bangal respectively) with its hierarchic positionings, as well as the politics of state policy that attributed partition of Western India primordial signification, the Bengali Hindu refugee migrating from erstwhile East Pakistan (and now Bangladesh) to India, has never ‘really’ spoken and this is the hypothesis of this argument. Thus, what is heard, being far removed from the historical moment of rupture that was partition and with the loss of that fateful generation is bound to be ‘fiction’ and not ‘fact’. This paper proposes that since the refugee voice was denied adequate articulation of the ‘facts’ and the ‘fears’ resultant from partition in this part of Eastern India, that historical moment of perception and documentation has been irretrievably lost. Hence any attempt at documenting the same now shall obviously result in fictionalization of and fantasizing the loss as is evident in original and translational post-Independence Indian English Fiction -the moment of loss being the moment of fictional genesis. This paper also puts forward the necessity of identifying two specific periods beyond ‘independence’ whose axiomatic point would be the partition of Eastern India/ undivided Bengal viz. pre-partition and post-partition Indian Literature. The same shall apply to Indian English Literature both in original and translation.

scholarly journals Redefining Nationhood and Nationality through Historiographic Metafiction in the Shadow Lines

2022 ◽  
pp. 11-20
Author(s):  
Nayana K. ◽  
Manjula K. T.
Keyword(s):  
English Literature ◽  
Primary Source ◽  
Secondary Data ◽  
Literary Work ◽  
Indian English ◽  
Late 20Th Century ◽  
Historiographic Metafiction ◽  
Post Colonial ◽  
Literary Methods ◽  
Partition Of India

Purpose: Postmodernism is a general movement that developed in the late 20th century across the arts, philosophy, art, architecture, and criticism, marking a disappearance from modernism. The term has been more often used to describe a historical age which followed after modernity. Postmodernism is a period of uprising which refers to ups and downs in each walk of life and the different disciplines of knowledge be it literary work, philosophy, or science. Postmodern literature revokes some modern literary methods by transforming them. Historiographic Metafiction is a contradictory term that consists of two opposite categories such as history and metafiction. It is having dual representations because such writings reflect the reality as well as fictional position. An attempt is made by the Post-colonial Indian English writers to liberate Indian English literature from the foreign bondage. Historical events such as agitations, migration, movements, refugees, colonial hegemony; social-economic and cultural problems like encounter of the east-west, caste, and class became the concerns of the writers. Design/Methodology/Approach: This paper is prepared by making a study of Primary source and accumulating secondary data from educational websites and written publications. This qualitative research is carried out by studying and interpreting the existing knowledge on the subject. The paper tries to analyze the historiographic metafictional features as depicted in The Shadow Lines by Amitav Ghosh. Findings/Result: After reviewing many articles, books and thesis it has been found that the paper aims to study Amitav Ghosh's notions like ‟ Nationhood and National distinctiveness in "The Shadow Lines” as a reminiscence novel, highlights a few historical happenings like the Second World War, the Swadeshi movement, and the Partition of India in 1947 and communal uprisings in Bangladesh and India. The ardent nationalism upheld by the protagonist that is the narrator’s grandmother is questioned and re-analysed. Ghosh searches for appropriateness of traditional identity such as nation and nationalism. Originality/Value: This paper makes a study of the major character Thamma with special reference to her concerns of Nationhood and Nationality. The identity of Thamma in the novel is given prominence being a woman she stands for her thoughts and identifies her as an individual who faced tragedy but still who had the courage to raise her voice till the end. Paper Type: Analytical Research paper.

Instructional Materials Design and Development of English Poetry Class

2017 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 30-31
Author(s):  
Sarif Syamsu Rizal
Keyword(s):  
Creative Writing ◽  
Learning Process ◽  
English Literature ◽  
Materials Design ◽  
Literary Work ◽  
Instructional Materials ◽  
English Poetry ◽  
Teaching English ◽  
Design And Development ◽  
Teaching Learning

The inspiring issue to share this paper is to increase teachers’ responsibilities as more than just transferring knowledge, distributing scientific facts, and becoming a useful model for learners but teachers have to be able to design and develop learners through engaging in any learning opportunities, search out and construct meaningful educational experiences that allow them to solve real-world problems and show that they have learned big ideas, powerful skills, and habits of mind also heart that meet educational standards as being stated at ELT Today in Global Community, 2017.This paper entitles “Instructional Materials Design and Development of English Poetry Class” revealing what to prepare and what to conduct, that later on being called as Two-Whats- To-Do, in teaching English poetry. To implement it in learning process; learners are going to recognize and practice how to analyse poetry to develop intellectual skill and how to write poetry to motivate creativity skill. By achieving these skills, the learners are able to apply capabilities; those are literary research and creative writing especially on English poetry.In composing this paper, the writer used qualitative descriptive in what factors have to be prepared in teaching English poetry to learners. The result of the study describes the factors namely planning and conducting in teaching-learning process based on the Revised Bloom’s Taxonomy. To develop and implement the Two-Whats- To-Do in teaching English poetry are expected to be the objectives after finishing the process such as learners understand the importance of literary work for life, learners are interested in poetic interpreting and creative writing in all part of excitement and mystery of learning English poetry, and learners express their thoughts, ideas, questions while attempting to interpret a poem. The benefit of the paper is that the Two-Whats- To-Do in teaching English poetry can be a usefulmodel to English literature teacher, learners, devotees, observers, and translators.

scholarly journals BOOK REVIEW. HOW TO READ LITERATURE BY TERRY EAGLETON REVIEW-THE MACRO ASPECTS OF LITERARY CRITICISM

2015 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 137
Author(s):  
Ginanjar Gailea
Keyword(s):  
Literary Criticism ◽  
English Literature ◽  
Narrative Structure ◽  
Literary Work ◽  
Public Intellectual ◽  
Text Book ◽  
Literary Forms ◽  
Aesthetic Form ◽  
Political Question

Terry Eagleton, the author of How to Read Literature, is a well-known British literary theorist, critic and public intellectual. He is a professor of English Literature at Lancaster University. Among his publications, Literary Theory: An Introduction (1983) is still the best one till nowadays. In How to Read Literature, Eagleton attempts to deal with the challenge of literary criticism at present. It is because students of literature often percept a literary work as what it says. The aspect of ‘literariness’ which is a work’s aesthetic form is not taken into account. A literary work, then, is a mere of writing that shares information to the readers as though a newspaper, text book or manual of computer does. Whereas, focusing on literary forms and directing our sensitivity to language (these are items mostly discussed in this book) can uncover a theoretical and political question of text (ix). What is meant by literary forms are all elements building a body of work such as “tone, mood, pace, genre, syntax, grammar, texture, rhythm, narrative structure, punctuation and ambiguity (2).”

scholarly journals FUNCTION OF TRANSLATORS AND CULTURE INSTITUTIONS IN TRANSLATING ENGLISH NOVEL FOR CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE INTO SERBIAN LANGUAGE

2019 ◽  
pp. 051
Author(s):  
Danijela Mišić
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
English Literature ◽  
Literary Work ◽  
Target Language ◽  
Children And Young People ◽  
English Novel ◽  
The First World War ◽  
Cultural Spaces ◽  
Translation Methods ◽  
First World

English is usually been selected as a target language in translating due to its global position as а mediating language for the promotion of international literature but in this paper we are considering the importance of translations of the English children's literature into the Serbian language transmitting its contents, cultural heritage, values, (hidden) ideologies and stereotypes. Until the First World War English literature was popularized in Serbia in magazines Srpski književni glasnik, Delo, Letopis Matice Srpske, Brankovo kolo, comprising translations, reviews, comments, and the opinions on  the  translation methods. Translations embodied universal values such as cooperation between cultures, similar and different mentality of people incarnated in heroes' actions, religion, accepting differences in all forms. While translating English novel for children and young people time and cultural spaces and stimulation of the development of spiritual wealth of readers were constantly in focus. The goal of this paper is also to indicate the specificities of this cultural and literary work in a more detailed way. 

scholarly journals THE PORTRAYAL OF INDIAN BACKDROP IN RUDYARD KIPLING’S KIM: A DIASPORIC PERSPECTIVE

2017 ◽  
Vol 4 (37) ◽  
Author(s):  
Bhagvanbhai H. Chaudhari
Keyword(s):  
English Literature ◽  
Literary Work ◽  
Rural Culture ◽  
Rudyard Kipling ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Indian Diaspora ◽  
Way Of Life ◽  
Diasporic Literature ◽  
The People ◽  
Set Up

The diasporic literature helps us in understanding various cultures in a broader perspective. Indian Diasporic writing seems a very significant set-up linking the entire world. The Indian Diaspora has attempted to bring astonishing realities located in the Indian rural culture. The European travelers and the orientalists have revitalized the varied culture of India and enriched the English literature through their literary work. Rudyard Kipling lived in India for some years, hence was fully acquainted with the people and entire way of life in India. Kim (1901) by Rudyard Kipling, is a remarkable novel which portrays diverse religions of India, its people and culture. The novel represents a multicolored picture of India viewing its indigenous spirit. It focuses on a life of Kim, a boy of Irish descent, who is orphaned and grows up as a native Indian. Taking into consideration the various facets of the novel, it seems that Kipling generates the realistic portrayal of Indian life. He very honestly depicts the indigenous spirit of Indian backdrop through this novel. This beautiful land itself remains the theme of novel.

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