Thematic Analysis in The Edible Women

The Edible Women is one of the most outstanding novels of Margret Atwood which has set a big milestone in her writing career. The novel leaves multiple of interpretations since its subject touches the most sensitive and deepest chord of the society. The novel is more a social novel that it deals with the major issue of gender roles and relationships in general. Atwood has used the novel to magnify even the minute errors and ills of the society which is not touched by other writers of her time. She has clearly portrayed the actual problems of Canadian women of 1960s who have been suppressed by the patriarchal society. She has tried to name their problems which have no names and moreover her approaches to those problems are strange and new.And hence, the novel is called as a proto-feminist novel. Beyond the feministic point of view, the story conveys various themes such as self-discovery, marriage, love, sex, modernity, cultural attitude, relationship and many. Besides, the novel is filled with various symbolic and metaphorical elements that support the author’s presupposition of her world view. Therefore, the paper has made an inquiry in to various thematic elements and symbols to explore the hidden meanings bound with in the story.

Genurile romanului românesc (1933-1947). O analiză cantitativă

This article puts forward a quantitative account of the subgenres of the Romanian novel during the 1933-1947 period. It shows the massive domination of the social novel and the Bildungsroman and analyzes the dynamics of genre and popular literature – adventure novels, detective fiction, SF, etc. – within the first period of massive literary production in Romanian literature. The article is the result of the MDRR (Muzeul Digital al Romanului Românesc – The Digital Museum of the Romanian Novel) projects, set out to archive the Romanian production of novels from 1845 (the year of the publication of the – arguably – first Romanian novel) to 1947, right before the establishment of the communist regime. The first part is a quantitative analysis of the novels according to DCRR (Dicționarul cronologic al romanului românesc – The Chronological Dictionary of the Romanian Novel). The second part analyzes the “dynamics of popular subgenres,” meaning adventure novels, policiers, SF novels, and children’s literature. The third part envisions “the social novel” as a predilect genre of the interwar period, the fourth occasions a reading of the “historical novel,” while the last two sections describe the evolution of sentimental and psychological novels.

NILAI SOSIAL PADA NOVEL “SUNSET BERSAMA ROSIE” KARYA TERE LIYE

ABSTRACT The purpose of this research is to describe the social values ​​contained in Novel Sunset with Tere Liye's Rosie. This research is a qualitative research. The steps carried out in this study are to describe the data objectively according to the data that has been found. This research has resulted in findings in the form of social values ​​(1) affection (Love) which include devotion, helping, kinship, loyalty, concern then (2) the value of responsibility (Responsibility) which includes responsibility to family, responsibility to society, and responsibility to God, it can be concluded that the novel Sunset Bersama Rosie by Tere Liye has life values ​​that can be applied in social life. Keywords: Value, Social, Novel

The Poison of Polygamy: A Social Novel by Wong Shee Ping, translated by Ely Finch

Review of: Wong Shee Ping 黄樹屏. The Poison of Polygamy: A Social Novel (Duoqi du, shehui xiaoshuo 多妻毒, 社會小説). Translated by Ely Finch. Series: China and the West in the Modern World. Sydney University Press, 2019. 446 pages.

THE SOCIAL TERMINOLOGY IN THE NOVEL “THE SQUIRRELS DANCING” HUMAN RELATIONS AS A MODEL

The Squirrels Dancing is considered a social novel in all its details because their temporal movements and personal relationships vary with them, making them an ideal model for tracking these terms. The study of social expressions in a novel that represents a diverse period to give a clear view of the terms development used in these different time periods, the change of their significance, their discursive requirements, and the depth of social relations according to the terms used in the novel. Accordingly, the novel's enriching with many social terms will identify the research in general human relations and family in particular. From the secondary title of the novel (Tales of the Shahbandar's Grove of Mustafa Khan, from which the memory is not lost), the importance of relations is evident in telling the stories and mentioning the orchard, and that the Shahbandar is one of the well-known and prestigious figures in society. So we find the father, mother, grandfather, friend, and some characters featured in the details of the novel.

Novels about the “erased”: The social-critical discourse in Slovenian prose of the 2010s

The increasing attention that writers pay to the consequences of cardinal political and sociocultural changes in the life of Slovenia is one of the trends observed in the national prose in the first decades of the 21st century, indicating that the socio-critical discourse has been gradually returning to literature. At this time one of the most pressing problems of independent Slovenia comes to the attention of novelists’ field of vision — that is, the fate of the so-called “erased”, persons with Yugoslav passports, who at the time of the proclamation of sovereignty were living and working in Slovenia and for political and bureaucratic reasons were excluded from the register of its permanent residents. In 1992, the newly proclaimed democratic state deprived them of their citizenship status, that resulted in ethnic cleansing of over 25 thousands of such people. The truth about this “inconvenient” episode has been hushed up or falsified for years. The writers M. Mazzini, P. Glavan and D. Bauck in their novels “Izbrisana” (2014), “Kakorkoli” (2014) and “Konec. Znova” (2015) seek to use the ethical potential of the artistic word to convey the practice of empathic experience. Despite the difference in genre varieties (thriller, social novel, novel with elements of surrealism), all three texts are united by the mimetic method proposed by the authors to overcome the collective trauma and collective guilt through artistic expression. Drawing the readers’ attention to the actual social conflict, writers, each in their own way, seek to destroy the stereotypes of its perception existing in the society.

La huella de Galdós en la novela social española contemporánea

Resumen: En este trabajo pretendemos exponer cómo el compromiso formulado por Galdós de retratar la sociedad que le rodea, mostrar sus defectos e intentar encontrar fórmulas para mejorarla, caló hondo en algunos novelistas sociales españoles contemporáneos como Juan Marsé, Rafael Chirbes, Almudena Grandes, o Antonio Muñoz Molina, entre otros. Para ello, en primer lugar, presentaremos cuáles eran los principios filosófico-sociales de Benito Pérez Galdós, seguidamente veremos cuál era la importancia que tenían la sociedad y la historia en su literatura, y por último analizaremos la huella galdosiana en los novelistas sociales de nuestro tiempo. Palabras clave: Benito Pérez Galdós, sociedad, principios filosóficos, huella, novelistas sociales. The footprint of Galdós In the Contemporary Spanish Social Novel Abstract: In this work, we intend to outline how Galdós' commitment to portray the society around him, to show its defects and to try to find ways to improve it, found its way into some contemporary Spanish social novelists such as Juan Marsé, Rafael Chirbes, Almudena Grandes and Antonio Muñoz Molina, among others. To this end, we will first present the philosophical and social principles of Benito Pérez Galdós, then we will see what importance society and history had in his literature, and finally we will analyse the Galdosian imprint on the social novelists of our time. Key words: Benito Pérez Galdós, society, philosophical principles, imprint, social novelists

Праблемна-тэматычная i жанрава-стылëвая полiфанiчнасць у раманах Вiктара Марцiновiча

Viktar Martsinovich’s novels reveal the aesthetic searches conducted in modern Belarusian literature. In the work “Sphagnum” the classical form of the social novel is originally reproduced, where various representatives of the society are convincingly shown in colorful images-types. The novels “Lake of Joy” and “Revolution” reveal first of all the psychological reflection of main characters, who act as symbolic incarnations of the spiritual aspirations of our time. Novels with assessments of psychological anti-utopia “Language” and “Night” represent the author’s prediction of the loss of national identity and spiritual literary tradition.