تشكيلُ النّص الأدبيِّ ما بعد الحداثيِّ

يسعى هذا البحث إلى تبيان ملامح تشكيل النّص الأدبيّ ما بعد الحداثيّ، والوقوف على أبرز المفاهيم الأولية التي وظفها النّقاد في أطروحات ما بعد الحداثة، والتي شكّلت الاختلافات الجوهرية في الفرق بين النّصوص الحداثيّة وما بعدها، كما ترنو الدراسة إلى استكناه إشكالية النّص ما بعد الحداثيّ من خلال استدعاء بعض النّصوص الشّعرية والروائية المعاصرة التي تعزز حضور بعض سماته فيه، متبعة في ذلك، المنهج الوصفيّ التحليليّ. وقد عمد البحث إلى تحديد الملامح التي شكلت ماهية النصوص ما بعد الحداثية من خلال البحث في المفاهيم الأوليّة، كما وردت على لسان منظري ما بعد الحداثة نظريًا، ومن ثمّ تطبيق هذه المفاهيم على عينة من النصوص الشعرية والروائية المعاصرة. وخلصت الدراسة إلى أن تشكيل النصوص ما بعد الحداثية جاءت مغايرة لنصوص الحداثة السابقة لها، وأن هناك بونًا شاسعًا بينهما؛ فالنصوص الأولى منحت القارئ دورًا فاعلًا في المشاركة في عملية إنتاج النصوص مما يضمن له صرورة البقاء، على العكس من النصوص الحداثية التي اتسمت بالانغلاق والجمود. الكلمات الدّالة: الحداثة، ما بعد الحداثة، النّص، المفاهيم الأوليّة Abstract: This research attempts to crystalize basic characteristics of Postmodern Literature and sheds light on the most prominent and basic concepts that were employed by many critics in dissertations of Postmodernism, which constitute fundamental differences between Modern Literature and Postmodern Literature. In addition, the study seeks to elucidate characteristics of Postmodern Literature through tackling some contemporary works of poetry and novels that enhance the presence of some postmodern characteristics; this is based on the descriptive analysis approach. The purpose of this research is to define the main essence that formed Postmodern Literature through studying the basic concepts according to perspectives of postmodern theorists, then applying these concepts on some contemporary novels and poetry works. Conclusion of the study indicated that forming Postmodern Literature was more different than former Modern Literature. There is an obvious difference between them; Postmodern Literature granted the reader an active role in order to take part in creation of any literary works, which guaranteed his engagement and interaction, unlike Postmodern Literature which was characterized by its enclosure and rigidity. Key words: Modernism, Postmodernism, Literary work, Basic concepts.

Literature and Cognitive Science

<p>The field of Literature and Cognitive Science is an emergent one. This thesis investigates ways in which knowledge generated about the brain and mind in the field of Literature can complement knowledge generated about the brain and mind in the field of Cognitive Science. The work of a representative selection of literary critics who identify themselves as working within and shaping the field of Literature and Cognitive Science will be examined, and the representation of brain-mind states in two contemporary novels, Haruki Murakami's Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World and Pat Cadigan's Tea from an Empty Cup, will be closely analysed. A principal aim of this investigation is to affirm the power of literary and literary critical texts as potent and relevant knowledge sources about the brain and mind that must be included in our understanding of cognition. In this respect it will support the position of those in the field of Literature and Cognitive Science who argue that knowledge created in the field of Literature can enrich the new understanding of human cognition being developed in the field of Cognitive Science.</p>

Literature and Cognitive Science

<p>The field of Literature and Cognitive Science is an emergent one. This thesis investigates ways in which knowledge generated about the brain and mind in the field of Literature can complement knowledge generated about the brain and mind in the field of Cognitive Science. The work of a representative selection of literary critics who identify themselves as working within and shaping the field of Literature and Cognitive Science will be examined, and the representation of brain-mind states in two contemporary novels, Haruki Murakami's Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World and Pat Cadigan's Tea from an Empty Cup, will be closely analysed. A principal aim of this investigation is to affirm the power of literary and literary critical texts as potent and relevant knowledge sources about the brain and mind that must be included in our understanding of cognition. In this respect it will support the position of those in the field of Literature and Cognitive Science who argue that knowledge created in the field of Literature can enrich the new understanding of human cognition being developed in the field of Cognitive Science.</p>

History in Fiction, History as Fiction: Two Contemporary Novels and the Problems of the Australian Past

<p>In 2008 two high profile mid-career Australian novelists published works of historical fiction. Kate Grenville’s The Lieutenant and Richard Flanagan’s Wanting both fictionalise events and characters from Australia’s actual colonial past. In addition to their shared genre and subject matter the novels have other similarities. Both novels are concerned with ideas about writing and reading, sharing an interest in the creation of written texts. In fictionalising the creation of actual historical texts they destabilise the authority of written texts. This destabilisation creates a tension with the novels own use of the historical record as source material. Both novels engage with the history of white representations of indigenous peoples while also creating new representations themselves. The Lieutenant and Wanting have received significant critical attention from the popular media. This critical attention places the novels within current debates about Australia’s past and present. The novels arise from a specific context in post-colonising Australia and reflect current white liberal anxieties about the facts of the Australian past. Fiction is positioned as providing a new angle for tackling the “problem” of Australian history. Their fictional engagement with the actual past appears to provide a new method for examining Australia’s traumatic past, by offering an alternative for those readers fatigued by the heated political debates of the so-called History Wars. However, the novels do not ultimately suggest a hopeful new direction or resolution to these debates, instead they reflect back the stalled nature of the Australia’s public discourse around the facts and meanings of its contested past.</p>

History in Fiction, History as Fiction: Two Contemporary Novels and the Problems of the Australian Past

<p>In 2008 two high profile mid-career Australian novelists published works of historical fiction. Kate Grenville’s The Lieutenant and Richard Flanagan’s Wanting both fictionalise events and characters from Australia’s actual colonial past. In addition to their shared genre and subject matter the novels have other similarities. Both novels are concerned with ideas about writing and reading, sharing an interest in the creation of written texts. In fictionalising the creation of actual historical texts they destabilise the authority of written texts. This destabilisation creates a tension with the novels own use of the historical record as source material. Both novels engage with the history of white representations of indigenous peoples while also creating new representations themselves. The Lieutenant and Wanting have received significant critical attention from the popular media. This critical attention places the novels within current debates about Australia’s past and present. The novels arise from a specific context in post-colonising Australia and reflect current white liberal anxieties about the facts of the Australian past. Fiction is positioned as providing a new angle for tackling the “problem” of Australian history. Their fictional engagement with the actual past appears to provide a new method for examining Australia’s traumatic past, by offering an alternative for those readers fatigued by the heated political debates of the so-called History Wars. However, the novels do not ultimately suggest a hopeful new direction or resolution to these debates, instead they reflect back the stalled nature of the Australia’s public discourse around the facts and meanings of its contested past.</p>

The Cultural Hybridity of Chineseness

This article looks at three contemporary novels where songs sung by rural women from the border region of northern Shaanxi Province evoke cultural and temporal hybridities, fusing social continuity with the threat and promise of change. The novels alternately portray untamed others—ranging from a Xiongnu soldier to a mountain bride to a country girl—as invasive threats and purveyors of potentially beneficial hybridities, adapting tropes of ethnic alterity to rethink the rural-urban divide and challenge both urban-centered and rural-centered discourses of progress. The wild brings vibrancy to the civilized, the center is drawn to the periphery, and the rural and urban are alternately desired and dismissed. In the end, these rural women's songs erase hierarchical notions of center and periphery and bring together alternative worldviews and visions of progress as only songs of the borderland can.

Библиски алузии во современиот македонски роман

Biblical Allusions in Macedonian Contemporary Novel. This paper aims to show some models of biblical intertext in Macedonian contemporary novels. The concept “allusion” in this frames is not considered in classical sense, but it means more an inter-play, a ludicrous strategy of postmodern writing. The biblical allusions are interpreted as explicate quotes, implicit references, inclusions, re-writings, parodies, travesties, echoes etc. In the focus of interest are the novels: Novel for Noah by Danilo Kocevski, On the Road to Damascus by Elizabeta Bakovska, The Prophet of Diskantrija by Dragi Mihajlovski and Witch by Venko Andonovski.

Beyond the ‘Glasgow Discourse’? Emotions and Affects in Ellie Harrison’s The Glasgow Effect and Darren McGarvey’s Poverty Safari.

The present article investigates two recently published essayistic memoirs, Ellie Harrison’s The Glasgow Effect (2019) and Darren McGarvey’s Poverty Safari (2017), and the debate between the two writers/artists within the wider framework of the Glasgow discourse, a manneristic imagination of the city shaped by the Glasgow novel in the course of the twentieth century. Focusing on issues of representation of traumatic historical memory, it relies especially on Myriam Jimeno’s idea of emotional community and presents the Glasgow novel as an example of such community, originally designed to make the predicament of the working classes visible. The article contends that many contemporary novels posit deviance from the genre’s original function of voicing the subaltern, exploiting instead a popular literary cliché. It also argues that both the texts, by representing their authors’ emotions and life stories as embedded in the city’s social and cultural landscape, dis/place the borders of the city’s imagination, simultaneously stumbling upon and pushing back the limits of the Glasgow discourse

Dis-comforting Urban Myths: Challenging Brexit Nostalgia in Recent Edinburgh Fiction

This article analyses two contemporary novels, Mary Paulson-Ellis’ The Other Mrs Walker (2016) and Ever Dundas’ Goblin (2017), comparing their depictions of Edinburgh in their strikingly similar parallel narratives, in which a contemporary Edinburgh setting intertwines with that of London in the Second World War. In the context of the Brexit vote of 2016, in which arguments for British autonomy and border closure won the day, the article argues that these texts challenge the pro-Brexit discourse which employed the mythology of the Blitz spirit to undermine the backward-looking nostalgia of a specifically English nationalism. In contrast, the Scottish setting of Edinburgh is presented here as facilitating a turn to a future of more mobile narratives of interrelation and connectedness rather than the fixed dimensions of myth