The Winning Formula. Convenții și stereotipuri ale romanului haiducesc în Mina haiduceasa. Fata codrilor de George Baronzi

The article aims to identify some of the peculiarities of the XIXth century outlaw novel in relation to the conventions and the stereotypes of the adventure novel, focusing on George Baronzi’s novel, Mina the Outlaw. The Girl of the Forests, an agreeable novel in spite of several narrative clumsiness. The novelty comes from the fact that the novel proposes a female character in the role of the hero, somehow accumulating the conventions and some narrative invariants specific to the outlaw novel, but also to the sentimental novel, the plot having as a starting point a love story. The novel is, therefore, chracterized by a certain naivity specific to the subgenre and to the literary period to which it belongs, but the author cannot be blamed for the lack of a certain sense of suspense and proliferation of adventures, by moving from one conflict to another, by changing the setting of the action thus activating its narrative potential.

EMOTIONAL NARRATIVES OF WOMEN WRITERS OF THE SECOND CONSTITUTIONAL PERIOD

Ayşe Zekiye, Hayriye Melek ,Şehbenderzade Pakize,Salime Servet Seyfi and Safiye Vefik who are takes place between women writers of the Second Constıtutıonal Period. In their fictional texts, generally emotionality that puts women at the center is intence. In these works that written by women writers about women using the women's point of view, are told sad or tragic stories of virtuous,innocent and beautiful women. In this work, Bir Pederin Hatası of Ayşe Zekiye, Zühre- i Elem of Hayriye Melek, Nihal of Şehbenderzade Pakize, Bir Hatıra-i Pejmürde of Salime Servet Seyfi, Muhaberât-ı Hakikiye of Sadiye Vefik that have been written in the Second Constitutional Period and these are an example of emotional novel, have been selected subject of study. It will be examined whether the person, subject and themes seen in the santimental novel are included in these works or whether there are features of aesthetic items. It is stated that the sentimental novel mostly focuses on life of a sensitive and emotional woman. Thematically, it describes the conflict between the heroine's individual desires and social value judgments. The narratives are resolved in the context of clashes of fictional women or their torments. Also, it will be determined that how authors deal with women's issues and whether they include a new type of woman by fictional work. Keywords: Conflict, conflicting duties, light touch, tableu, sentimental novel, woman writer

Another turn of the screw on the history of the reaction object construction

This article deals with the Reaction Object Construction (ROC), as in She smiled disbelief, where an intransitive verb (smile), by adding an emotional object (disbelief), acquires the extended sense “express X by V−ing” (i.e. “She expressed disbelief by smiling”). Earlier research has suggested a diachronic connection between the ROC and Direct Discourse Constructions (DDCs) of the type She smiled, “I don’t believe you” (Visser 1963–1973). More recently, Bouso (2018) has shown that the ROC is primarily a feature of 19th century narrative fiction. This paper aims to bring together these insights. On the basis of a self-compiled corpus and De Smet’s Corpus of English Novels, it investigates the productivity of the ROC in 19th and 20th century fiction, and the role of DDCs in its development. The results reveal a peak in the productivity of the ROC that coincides with the development of the sentimental novel, and a correlation between the development of the ROC on the one hand and of those DDCs that have been mistakenly hypothesised to be its single source constructions on the other. Extravagance is proposed as a triggering factor for the use of the ROC in the 19th century as an alternative to DDCs.