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.

Biblical Allusions in Papuan Mythical Folktales and Their Effects on Material Culture Development for the Papuans

Powerful texts may have great impacts on the many people who read them. This article examined the biblical allusions found in two Papuan myths and discussed their impacts as seen in the material culture. The books in the Bible that the myths allude to are the Old Testament: Isaiah, Exodus, Genesis, and Deuteronomy and the New Testaments: Luke, John, Mark, and Revelations. The sources suggested that the biblical information might have been heard sporadically by the Sawi/Auyu and the Tabi from earlier Europeans. The formal contacts which brought the Bible, though, came in the 1800s. This means that the impacts of the great biblical stories had not been there long enough to internalize in the people’s lives so as to trigger significant material culture - let alone the highest linguistic diversity. Furthermore, the geographical challenges made it even worse for the people to have to endure the hardship, and made it difficult to obtain healthy, nutritional, and sufficient food sources for the improvement of human resources which would have been necessary for creating significant material culture. Keywords: biblical allusion, Papuan mythology, material culture, Kwembo, Ataphapkon

IMITATIO CHRISTI IN THE PLOT OF THE 16TH CENTURY FRENCH POLITICAL ENGRAVING “THE MURDER OF THE GUISE BROTHERS IN BLOIS”

The article concerns with the analysis of the representation in the 16th century French engraving of the murder of Henry of Guise and Louis of Lorraine, Cardinal of Guise in the Royal Château de Blois in december, 1588. The murder of the leaders of the Catholic party by order of the French king provoked an increase in the number of the tyranny-fighting pamphlets and related leaflets. As in the case of textual sources, the leaguers engraving is characterized by flattering images of Guise brothers to the religious one: they are represented as “martyrs for belief” by means of a number of biblical allusions the top of which it becomes imitatio Christi.

Patterns of literary name-giving strategy and the uncertainties of identity

This is the third paper in the series of my papers on the subject of name and identity. Leaving aside the widely discussed topic of the so-called “telling names”as well as the history and philosophy of the name in general, I focus on the authorial naming strategies within the paradigm of signs and symbols of the cosmopolite émigré pattern and against the ambivalent motif of wandering, eternal home-searching and home-avoiding on behalf of the intellectuals forced out of their native home by external or inner motivation. Obvious motifs such as suitcases or passports as well lesser known biblical allusions or phantom-cities extend the name-paradigm which includes specific narrative and rhetoric strategies, among them those that aim to distort the author’s identity and highlight the elusiveness of her personality. The subject of the essay is broad, interdisciplinary, analytical, and theoretical at the same time – because it concerns the very core of the theory of interpretation and the theory of the text as well as the relation of authorship and naming strategies of fictitional characters.

Intertextual discourse in V. Vynnychenko's dramas

The article analyzes V. Vynnychenko's dramas in terms of the use of such intertextual elements as historical, literary, Biblical allusions, precedent names; the autointertextuality which is realized by self-citation and autointerpretations of identical concepts in various plots; the importance of understanding the emotional and aesthetic context of the work through the study of intertextuality categories is proved. Echoes in V. Vynnychenko's dramas are revealed both on the plot-compositional levels, and on the figurative and linguistic levels. Therefore, the article identifies the categories of intertextuality and interprets their content in V. Vynnychenko's dramas. Markers of V. Vynnychenko's works are the understanding of freedom of moral and ethical choice and responsibility for it, deep external and internal conflicts, dissociation of personality, borderline situations at the ideological, political and domestic levels, love triangles, etc., i.e. the existential field of human existence. It was found that the category of intertextuality in the works of the author is presented as historical allusions (mention of events, places, or persons who semantically clarify the content of the work, perform an expressive function), literary allusions (works, lines, episodes, characters of these works), Biblical allusions, precedent names – the mention of famous figures, whose appearance or activity is correlated with the character, self-citation. In many works of the studied writer the autointertextuality is pervasive, which testifies to the symbolic biography of V. Vynnychenko consciously constructed in his works. It is proved that the study of the category of intertextuality in V. Vynnychenko's dramas is an important element of understanding the linguistic and stylistic features of the texts, irrational understanding of the writer's creative idea. Autointertextuality, which is realized through self-citation and self-interpretation, as well as literary, historical, Biblical allusions, precedent names generate the emotional and aesthetic context of the works.

Family relations and the economic-metaphysical message of Instruction

Much of the sapiential treatise Instruction (=4QInstruction) can be read as a systematic attempt to support one basic ideological principle: Each person has a divinely assigned share, and every interaction that requires mixing that share with other agents is a breach of the metaphysical order. This idea was first formulated with regard to Instruction by Menahem Kister. In the present article, I apply this notion to the prologue (preserved in 4Q416 1) and to the sections on family relations (parents, wife) in 4Q416. These latter cases explore the financial relations within a family and align them with the overall principle of Instruction. The various sections highlight the person’s spirit as a commodity, intertwined with the life and capital of that person. The literary focus is on the phenomenology of the spirt, as it shifts during various transactions. The biblical allusions in these sections are explained along the same line of argument.

(Re) examining Autobiography as Social History: A Historico-Critical Reading of Nasir Ahmad El-Rufai’s the Accidental Public Servant

This study explores the thematic issues raised in Taiwo Oloruntoba-Oju’s poetry collection Losses. A total of nine data were selected from the poems Another Parable, Apata, the Rock; The new Commandments; Down the Throat of Pieter Botha and, Tell Them Mandela which were purposively selected from the poetry collection. These selected data from the poetry collection were analysed using Stylistics as the model for analysis. Specifically, Biblical allusion, as a stylistic device, is used for analysis. The Biblical allusions are elicited from the selected data. The aim of this study is achieved by exploring how the selected Biblical allusions reinforce the various themes in Losses. This study has revealed through the analysis that the use of Biblical allusions by the poet is not just a show of the poet’s linguistic or stylistic dexterity but also as a potent tool to reinforce his message through the themes. The analysis has shown that the poet through Biblical allusion explores basically the themes of oppression, hardship, poverty and revolution. This study is unique in that apart from exploring the stylistic prowess of the poet through his use of Biblical allusions, it further explores how the allusions are important in the thematic construction of the poems. This study concludes that Oloruntoba-Oju is an ace stylistician who through stylistic devices is able to aptly communicate his message to readers. Keywords: stylistics, style, allusion, poetry, Taiwo Oloruntoba-Oju, Losses.

Thematic Reinforcement in Poetry: An Analysis on the use of Biblical Allusion as Stylistic Device in Oloruntoba-Oju’s Losses

This study explores the thematic issues raised in Taiwo Oloruntoba-Oju’s poetry collection Losses. A total of nine data were selected from the poems Another Parable, Apata, the Rock; The new Commandments; Down the Throat of Pieter Botha and, Tell Them Mandela which were purposively selected from the poetry collection. These selected data from the poetry collection were analysed using Stylistics as the model for analysis. Specifically, Biblical allusion, as a stylistic device, is used for analysis. The Biblical allusions are elicited from the selected data. The aim of this study is achieved by exploring how the selected Biblical allusions reinforce the various themes in Losses. This study has revealed through the analysis that the use of Biblical allusions by the poet is not just a show of the poet’s linguistic or stylistic dexterity but also as a potent tool to reinforce his message through the themes. The analysis has shown that the poet through Biblical allusion explores basically the themes of oppression, hardship, poverty and revolution. This study is unique in that apart from exploring the stylistic prowess of the poet through his use of Biblical allusions, it further explores how the allusions are important in the thematic construction of the poems. This study concludes that Oloruntoba-Oju is an ace stylistician who through stylistic devices is able to aptly communicate his message to readers. Keywords: Stylistics, Style, Allusion, Poetry and Taiwo Oloruntoba-Oju.