scholarly journals The Portrayal of Occultism in “The Call of Cthulhu” (1928) by H.P. Lovecraft

k ta ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 23 (2) ◽  
pp. 47-57
Author(s):  
Evan Arnoldi Sebayang ◽  
Bayu Kristianto
Keyword(s):  
Short Story ◽  
Religious Belief ◽  
Almost All

H.P. Lovecraft crafted an intricate mythos which initially did not find success until after his death, and his works, most notably “The Call of Cthulhu” (1928), were regarded to be a landmark towards the relevancy of occultism both in the field of literature and religious belief. The short story was regarded to be the staple of “cosmic horror” which Lovecraft applied to almost all of his stories. The paper analyze how “The Call of Cthulhu” influenced the belief of modern occultism, which can be inferred from the literary elements in the story. Further analysis will also identify how Lovecraft portrayed the subgenre “cosmic horror” to enhance the elements of occultism within the short story. In relation to the previous elements, the paper examine how a particular cult, Typhonian Order, was influenced by the elements of occultism used in the story.  

scholarly journals Women’s Rights and Colonization in The Short Story of The Jakarta Post

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Ferdinal Ferdinal
Keyword(s):  
Short Stories ◽  
Gender Equality ◽  
Short Story ◽  
Women's Rights ◽  
Popular Media ◽  
Women’S Rights ◽  
Postcolonial Criticism ◽  
Almost All ◽  
Political Economic ◽  
Rights Issues

Right after the fall of Suharto’s regime, Indonesia has undergone tremendous changes in almost all aspects of life: political, economic, social, cultural, and possibly ideological lives. The changes bring new breaths to Indonesian future, especially in the area of women’s rights. This article discusses the issue of women’s rights in Indonesia based on a textual analysis. The purpose of this writing is to investigate the representation of women’s rights issues in some stories of The Jakarta Post, one of the most popular media which has also played an important role in popularizing and spreading such issues. Postcolonial criticism is used to see how the stories portray the issues of women’s rights, particularly gender equality and marginality. To study the issues, this analysis looks at two short stories: “Gender Equality” by Iwan Setiawan and “Street Smart Mom” by Eric Musa Piliang.  The two stories represent the fact that Indonesian women fight against colonization for their rights in some different ways, as a smart wife and a poor street mother. The stories signal that Indonesian women struggle to escape from colonization through some actions such as moving forward to the center of power by maintaining superiority against men and living their lives as they wish in spite of being poor.

In Their Image

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (6) ◽  
pp. 5-25
Author(s):  
Abra Staffin-Wiebe ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Short Story ◽  
Religious Belief ◽  
Belief System ◽  
Religious Culture ◽  
Religious Leader ◽  
Life Purpose ◽  
Mission Work

Religion, and the desire to find purpose, and often paramount to culture. In this work of philosophical short story fiction, a priest from earth is sent to another planet to continuing the mission work of his predecessor. The planet is inhabited by “teddies” a people with a deep spiritual faith and a belief that it is only by finding and performing one’s life purpose can they serve God’s role. Those that are unable to find their purpose are willingly put to death so that, according to their belief system, they can be reincarnated and make a new attempt at finding their purpose. The visiting human religious leader is appalled by this religious belief, and the religious culture. He goes against the community by helping those that a poor and hungry. This goes against the culture as the teddies see those that are poor or hungry and serving their purpose; they were born to live hungry and poor. This story, like all After Dinner Conversation stories, has suggested discussion questions at the end.

scholarly journals THE SHORT STORY CYCLE IN CONTEMPORARY BRITISH LITERATURE (BASED ON THE SHORT STORIES BY J. MCGREGOR)

2021 ◽  
Vol 31 (3) ◽  
pp. 628-634
Author(s):  
G.I. Lushnikova ◽  
T.Yu. Osadchaya
Keyword(s):  
Short Story ◽  
British Literature ◽  
Narrative Fiction ◽  
Short Story Cycle ◽  
Contemporary British Literature ◽  
Story Cycle ◽  
Classical Traditions ◽  
Narrative Techniques ◽  
Almost All ◽  
Short Narrative

The article is devoted to the poetics of the short story cycle - a genre of short narrative fiction, where classical traditions and experimental narrative techniques are used to explicate topical issues of contemporary British literature. Beside the fact that the stories are relatively short, they are characterized by semantic compression, gaps in meaning, “internal” psychological plot, intensity, expressive imagery, lyricism, implications. The consistency of the short story cycle is created by thematic complementarity, coherence of style and composition. The short story cycle by J. McGregor ‘That Isn’t the Sort of Thing that Happens to Someone like You’ is devoted to everyday life of English Fenland inhabitants and can be attributed to the ‘narrative of community’ genre, traditional for British literature. McGregor’s short story cycle embodies almost all modern tendencies of the genre: a wide palette of themes within the framework of topical issues; vivid psychological portraits and images; variety of narrative types and forms; suggestiveness, implications, specific usage of pronouns, stylistic devices of contrast and repetition.

scholarly journals Barthian Semiotics in Prince Bahram, In search of Gulandama

2017 ◽  
Vol II (I) ◽  
pp. 67-75
Author(s):  
Liaqat Iqbal ◽  
Irfan Ullah ◽  
Reena Khan
Keyword(s):  
Short Story ◽  
Textual Analysis ◽  
Narrative Structure ◽  
Cultural Elements ◽  
Cultural Codes ◽  
Cultural Code ◽  
Almost All

The paper aims at finding Ronald Barthes’ codes in the short story Prince Bahram, In Search of Gulandama. Using textual analysis, the short story was is analysed in the light of Ronald Barthes five codes. It is found that almost all of Ronald Barthes’ codes: hermeneutic, proairetic, semantic, symbolic and cultural codes are present in the short story. The story has puzzles and enigmas which inspire the readers to read the story in order to answer the unanswered questions. Like other stories, in this short story too, sequence is created through proairetic code. There are implied meanings, which bring forth the semantics code. Paradoxes, where binaries are the most import elements, are represented through symbolic codes. Lastly, there are many cultural elements, showing the cultural code. These different aspects gives a comprehensive narrative structure to the story.

Estate transgression in the story “Nastya” by Vladimir Sorokin

2020 ◽  
pp. 311-322
Author(s):  
Pavel E. Spivakovsky ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Human Nature ◽  
Short Story ◽  
The Other ◽  
Russian Society ◽  
Silver Age ◽  
Postmodern Theory ◽  
Avant Garde ◽  
The World ◽  
The One ◽  
Almost All

The article is devoted to the metaphorical image of pre-revolutionary Russian society in Vladimir Sorokin’s short story “Nastya”. Recreated in the exhibition traditionalist space of the estate is here the background for the demonstration of radical axiological changes in the minds of educated Russians at the turn of the XIX–XXth centuries. These changes are twofold. On the one hand, the writer interprets them as an ethical catastrophe: it is not by chance that they are metaphorically depicted as an act of cannibalism approved by almost all the heroes of the story, on the other handshows that transgressive avant-garde experiments with ethics and attempts to transform human nature are closely intertwined with very significant aesthetic achievements of the culture of the Silver Age. With this stems, in particular, and Gnostic transformation of Nastya in the final of the story. The article shows that the depth and tragedy of the depicted make us see in the story a metamodernist view of the world, free from the rigid restrictions of postmodern theory (the ban on seriousness, tragedy, the ban on non-ironic depiction of depth of being, etc.). All this creates a multidimensional metaphorical picture of the culture of the Silver Age, transgressed the limits and threw Russia into the improbability of the previously unthinkable.

scholarly journals Studi Pemikiran Fatima Mernissi Tentang Kesetaraan Gender

2019 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 221-244
Author(s):  
Eko Setiawan
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Gender Equality ◽  
Religious Belief ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Gender Issues ◽  
Muslim Woman ◽  
Fatima Mernissi ◽  
Arab Muslim ◽  
Almost All

Fatima Mernissi is a figure of modern Muslim feminism. He was an Arab Muslim woman sociologis who care gender issues in the lives of Muslims. Gender issues, especially he observed and he is paying special attention to gender issues in her native Morocco. Much of his talk about the problems of sexuality in the dynamics of social life which can not be separated from the Morocco Islam as a religious belief. It is universally thought of Fatima Mernissi actually want to show partiality Islam on gender equality. Substantively Islam does not forbid women to politics, career, and obtain higher education. Fatima Mernissi further want to show that Islam recognizes the rights, status and role of women in almost all dimensions of life. Keywords: Fatima Mernissi, Gender Equalit, Islam Abstrak                             Fatima Mernissi merupakan tokoh feminisme muslim modern. Ia adalah seorang wanita muslim Arab pakar sosiologi yang peduli masalah gender dalam kehidupan umat Islam. Masalah gender yang terutama ia amati dan ia beri perhatian khusus adalah masalah gender di negara kelahirannya Maroko. Banyak karyanya berbicara tentang problem seksualitas dalam dinamika kehidupan sosial Maroko yang tidak terlepas dari Islam sebagai agama keyakinannya. Secara universal pemikiran Fatima Mernissi sebenarnya ingin menampilkan keberpihakan Islam pada kesetaraan gender. Islam secara substantif tidak melarang wanita untuk berpolitik, berkarir, dan memperoleh pendidikan yang tinggi. Fatima Mernissi lebih lanjut ingin menunjukkan bahwa Islam mengakui hak-hak, status, dan peran wanita dalam hampir semua dimensi kehidupan.

scholarly journals ”What punishments of God are not gifts?” The meaning of suffering in Tolkien’s life and work

Ars Aeterna ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 41-51
Author(s):  
Martina Juričková
Keyword(s):  
World War I ◽  
Religious Belief ◽  
Early Life ◽  
Human Life ◽  
World War ◽  
Significant Element ◽  
Powerful Means ◽  
Almost All ◽  
Fallen World

AbstractJ. R. R. Tolkien, as somebody who experienced a difficult early life as an orphan and then as a World War I soldier, endured enough trauma and suffering in his life for it to become a significant element in almost all of his fictional works. This paper explores Tolkien’s understanding of the effects of suffering in human life, which was shaped by his religious belief. He presents pain as an inevitable and essential part of the nature of the Fallen World; yet while it may seem at first as a form of punishment, if treated appropriately, it turns into a powerful means of achieving personal or societal salvation.

Bosman, Herman Charles (1905–1951)

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Craig MacKenzie
Keyword(s):  
Short Stories ◽  
South African ◽  
Short Story ◽  
African Literature ◽  
The Family ◽  
South African Literature ◽  
Family Home ◽  
Story Writer ◽  
Almost All ◽  
The University

A short-story writer, novelist, poet and journalist, Bosman was born in Kuils River near Cape Town, but spent most of his life in the Transvaal, and it is the Transvaal milieu that features in almost all of his writings. He became known in the 1940s for his ‘Oom Schalk Lourens’ stories, and his use of this simple-seeming but wily narrator has ensured his place in South African literature as one of the country’s most enduring and best-loved storywriters. Schalk Lourens features in the short-story collections Mafeking Road (1947) and Unto Dust (1963), while Bosman’s prison memoir, Cold Stone Jug (1949), set the trend for this important genre in South Africa. Bosman was educated at Jeppe Boys’ High School, the University of the Witwatersrand and Normal College, where he qualified as a teacher. In January 1926 he received a posting to the Groot Marico in the remote Western Transvaal, as it was known then. Despite its short duration, this stay later inspired almost all of his 150 short stories. In July 1926, on vacation at the family home in Johannesburg, he became embroiled in a family quarrel and shot and killed his step-brother David Russell. He was tried and sentenced to death—a sentence that was later commuted to imprisonment for ten years with hard labour. He eventually served four years of this sentence and was released on parole in August 1930.

Conjecture and Criticism in Religious Belief

1979 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 71-78 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shivesh C. Thakur
Keyword(s):  
Religious Belief ◽  
Religious Language ◽  
Religious Traditions ◽  
General Account ◽  
Religious Issues ◽  
The World ◽  
Prescriptive Grammar ◽  
Proper Perspective ◽  
Almost All

Accounts of religion, like almost all influential academic and intellectual exercises, as indeed much else, in the last two or three centuries, have generally been the work of Western scholars and intellectuals, often less familiar with, but sometimes simply disinclined to take seriously, non-Western religious traditions. Consequently most of these accounts have tended to be parochial, failing to apply to, say, Eastern religions, not to mention so-called ‘primitive’ religions; and have often given to what should only have been ‘local squabbles’ the appearance of universal religious concern. As a result, even philosophers of religion have largely explicated what might be called the ‘prescriptive grammar’ of religion. With a view to rectifying the situation, I intend to outline what I hope will be a ‘descriptive’ account, i.e. one which will be true of at least the major living religions of the world, e.g. Hinduism, Buddhism, Judaism, Christianity, Islam and their main schools or sects. Inevitably, such a general account will fail to incorporate the unique features of any one religion; but it should have the advantage of restoring the proper perspective in debates concerning religion and religious issues, including those relating to the semantic and/or logical features of religious belief and so-called ‘religious language’.

scholarly journals The Italian Version of the Five-Word Test: A Simple Diagnostic Test for Dementia due to Alzheimer’s Disease in Routine Clinical Practice

2017 ◽  
Vol 2017 ◽  
pp. 1-6
Author(s):  
Luca Rozzini ◽  
Anna Ceraso ◽  
Marina Zanetti ◽  
Silvia Pelizzari ◽  
Evita Tomasoni ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Alzheimer’S Disease ◽  
Alzheimer's Disease ◽  
Clinical Practice ◽  
Short Story ◽  
Roc Curves ◽  
Routine Clinical Practice ◽  
Word Test ◽  
Valid Test ◽  
Almost All ◽  
Mci Due To Ad

Background. The five-word test (FWT) is a neuropsychological tool (derived from the Grober and Buschke paradigm), measuring hippocampal memory trace consolidation. The study aimed to validate the test for the Italian language and to verify its ability to discriminate patients affected by mild cognitive impairment and dementia due to Alzheimer’s disease from healthy matches. Methods. 217 subjects (127 controls, 47 MCI due to AD, and 43 AD) underwent neuropsychological evaluation. The Spearman rank coefficient (ρ) was used to assess the correlation between immediate (IRS), delayed (DRS), and total score (TRS) of the FWT and correspondent matches of a specific short story test, while receiving operator characteristic (ROC) curves were built to investigate the diagnostic accuracy of both. Results. Correlation between almost all the scores was significant in all the diagnostic subgroups; the ROC curves of the two tests were not statistically different. A TRS of the FWT with a cut-off of ≤9/10 could accurately discriminate AD patients (sensitivity: 97%, specificity: 94%) and MCI due to AD (sensitivity: 76%, specificity: 68%) from control matches. Conclusion. FWT is a simple and valid test of hippocampal memory which appears recommendable in routine clinical practice.

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