scholarly journals DESCAMINHOS E DESESPERANÇA: O BRASIL DE LUIZ RUFFATO EM VERÃO TARDIO / Aimless and hopelessness: the Brazilian middle classes in the novel Verão Tardio

2020 ◽  
Vol 26 (40) ◽  
pp. 333-345
Author(s):  
Enio Passiani
Keyword(s):  
Social Classes ◽  
Central Character ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Narrative Voice ◽  
Middle Classes ◽  
Brazilian Society ◽  
De Se ◽  
Middle Strata ◽  
Lines Of Force

O romance O verão tardio, do escritor mineiro Luiz Ruffato, organiza-se a partir de duas linhas de força, as classes médias nacionais e a temporalidade, sendo que esta última emoldura e define a primeira, ambas articuladas pela voz narrativa do personagem central, Oséias, cuja modulação figura, ao mesmo tempo, o distanciamento entre as classes sociais, incapazes de se reconhecer mutuamente, e o processo de desintegração das porções menos favorecidas de tais estratos médios, resultado de um processo de reprodução do capital que prescinde da própria força de trabalho dos trabalhadores.Palavras-chave: Romance brasileiro contemporâneo; Luiz Ruffato; Classes sociais; Classes médias; Formação da sociedade brasileira.AbstractThe novel O verão tardio, by Luiz Ruffato, is organized from two lines of force, the national middle classes and temporality, this latter framing and defining the first, both articulated by the narrative voice of the central character, Oseias, whose modulation at the same time figures the distancing between social classes, unable to recognize each other, and the process of disintegration of the less favored portions of such middle strata, the result of a process of capital reproduction that does not require the workers' own workforce.Keywords: Contemporary brazilian romance; Luiz Ruffato; Social classes; Middle classes; Formation of brazilian society.

scholarly journals Middle Class Rebellion through the Main Characters in Chuck Palahniuk’s Fight Club

2018 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
pp. 214
Author(s):  
Ali Muhammad ◽  
Andhika Pratiwi ◽  
Ria Herwandar
Keyword(s):  
Social Class ◽  
Middle Class ◽  
Working Class ◽  
Karl Marx ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
Social Classes ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Middle Classes ◽  
Chuck Palahniuk ◽  
Fight Club

<p><em>Abstract - </em><strong>This research entitled “Middle Class Rebellion through the Main Characters in Chuck Palahniuk’s Fight Club” analyses the portrayal of the Middle Classes which is depicted through the main characters. These characters are undertaking a Rebellion towards the system of Capitalism that is depicted in the novel Fight Club. The theory used in this research is the theory of the intrinsic element of Characterization by M.H. Abrams and the theory Capitalism by Karl Marx which includes the theory of Alienation and the Struggle of Social Classes. This research focuses on the portrayal of how Middle Classes undertake their Rebellion which is depicted through the main characters in the novel Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk. This research has found that the two main characters are a depiction of the Middle Class and the Working Class. They rebel against Capitalism by doing small acts of vandalism which escalates into blackmail. The findings are that the real characteristics of modern society of the middle class can be seen  such as consumerism, restless life towards insomnia and workers who identify themselves as not workers.</strong></p><p><strong><em>Keywords - </em></strong><em>Middle Class, Rebellion, Social Class, Marxism, Capitalism</em></p>

scholarly journals Women in Patriarchy: A Study of Sexual Colonialism in Colleen McCullough’s The Thorn Birds

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (7) ◽  
pp. 52-59
Author(s):  
Dr. Deepali Sharma
Keyword(s):  
Women Characters ◽  
Central Character ◽  
Colonial Rule ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Australian Society ◽  
Women Of Letters

Colleen McCullough, a famous Australian women novelist, extensively deals with the issue of sexual colonization by exhibiting the fact that this world belongs to men not to women where women suffer and men cause them pain. Meggie, the central character in the novel is shown as the victim, sufferer and the colonized individual and Paddy, Ralph and Luke are shown as the epitome of the British colonizers who misused, misbehaved and degraded the women during their colonial rule. The novelist while sketching women characters does not asseverate as ostensible women of letters but for the delineation of patriarchy in the novel The Thorn Birds which clearly manifests her declivity in the vicinity of the infringement with women in Australian society. 

scholarly journals ‘Something happened, something bad’: Blackouts, uncertainties and event construal in The Girl on the Train

2018 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 38-51 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marcello Giovanelli
Keyword(s):  
Young Woman ◽  
Reference Point ◽  
Mental Representations ◽  
Anterograde Amnesia ◽  
Cognitive Grammar ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Narrative Voice ◽  
World Theory ◽  
Event Construal

This article examines the representation of mind style in Paula Hawkins’ (2015) best-selling novel The Girl on the Train. It examines how Hawkins presents the fictional mind of Rachel, a character who is affected by anterograde amnesia as a result of alcoholic blackouts. Rachel’s narrative voice drives the novel, and its retelling of events is characterised by her inability to recall important information related to the night that a young woman disappeared and was murdered. This article specifically draws on the Cognitive Grammar notion of construal to explore the presentation of Rachel’s mind style and its affordances and limitations. In doing so, it builds on developing scholarship that has identified the potential for Cognitive Grammar to provide a richly nuanced account of the representation of a fictional mind. The analysis specifically examines two ways in which event construal is presented: nominal grounding strategies and reference point relationships. For the latter, the article also develops emerging work that has sought to make a connection between Cognitive Grammar and Text World Theory in terms of how mental representations are projected by the text.

HEGEMONI GURU TERHADAP MURID DALAM NOVEL “SANG PENDIDIK” KARYA AGUK IRAWAN MN (KAJIAN SOSIOLOGI SASTRA)

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 107-117
Author(s):  
Alfaza safira Alfaza
Keyword(s):  
Data Analysis ◽  
Qualitative Methods ◽  
Social Classes ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Good Person ◽  
Analysis Techniques ◽  
Analysis Technique ◽  
History Of ◽  
Data Source ◽  
Data Library

This research uses the object of the novel "The Educator" by Aguk Irawan MN. This novel tells the hegemony of intellectual figures and social classes who influence by instilling their ideology in certain groups by inviting goodness. The purpose of this research is to find and describe the hegemony of teachers to students in the novel "The Educator" by Aguk Irawan MN. In this study using qualitative methods by collecting data library and document techniques. The data source in this study was obtained from the novel "The Educator" by Aguk Irawan MN, published by Qalam Nusantara. Data analysis techniques in this study used a hermeniotic reader analysis technique, namely the stages of reading, marking, coding, interpretation and presentation of conclusions. The results of this study discuss the hegemony of Martokan as a teacher to his students. Martokan hegemony his students by giving advice to be a good person, Martokan also hegemony through the material described to tell the history of Sunan Drajat and Sunan Duwur, so that it will make his students enthusiastic in learning the Koran.

THE CONCEPT OF CHRONOTOPE IN THE NOVEL “MRS DALLOWAY” BY V. WOOLF

2020 ◽  
Vol XIII (XIII) ◽  
pp. 92-101
Author(s):  
E.Yu. Makarova ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Virginia Woolf ◽  
Social Classes ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Continuous Sampling ◽  
The World ◽  
Spatio Temporal ◽  
Modern Era

This article deals with the concept of chronotope in the text of the novel "Mrs. Dalloway” by Virginia Woolf. Certain characteristics of chronotope exemplifying these concepts were selected and analyzed, the former serving as an integral part of the analysis of works of the modern era. As a result of a continuous sampling and subsequent analysis of the text of the novel, we concluded that despite the contrast of the characters from different social classes, they are united by a single spatio-temporal continuum regulated by the chronotope. Virginia Woolf managed to accurately and truthfully convey the atmosphere of 1923, as she was a direct witness to the events taking place in the country and the world at that time.

A Sacred Communion

2018 ◽  
pp. 67-108
Author(s):  
Erin Michael Salius
Keyword(s):  
Spirit Possession ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Narrative Voice ◽  
The Way

Chapter 2 focuses on another trope that upsets the realist and rationalist discourse of slavery: spirit possession. Whereas existing scholarship stresses the postmodernist resonances of this trope, the chapter argues that Catholicism serves to frame—and even to facilitate—the antirealist effect that spirit possession has on two contemporary narratives of slavery. First is Ernest Gaines’s The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman, which is one of the earliest examples of the genre and a novel rarely associated with either spirit possession or Catholicism. By highlighting where Jane’s narrative voice is possessed by other speakers, this chapter documents how the Catholic characters in the novel enable it to engage radically antirealist views about history without ultimately endorsing them. The second part of the chapter focuses on Leon Forrest’s critically acclaimed but insufficiently studied novel Two Wings to Veil My Face, which also figures storytelling as a kind of spirit possession. Despite its obvious skepticism towards organized religion, the novel depicts these spiritual intercessions as Catholic sacraments: rituals of eating and drinking that recall the Eucharist. Thus, Catholicism is implicated in the way the narrator remembers slavery and in the parts of his history that are “beyond understanding.”

any real doubt about the ending. Heliodoros redirected curiosity from outcome to explanation. The second problem is lack of direc­ tion and unity: romance was prone to fall apart into a series of exciting but only loosely connected adventures, at the end of which the protagonists recovered their lost happiness and simply lived out the rest of their lives as if nothing had happened. By leaving central questions unanswered Heliodoros is able to hold large spans of text together, and the most important answers, when they do arrive, involve decisive change for the protagonists. Both these strategies imply an interpretatively active reader. The opening of the novel is deservedly famous.11 A gang of bandits come across a beached ship, surrounded by twitching corpses and the wreckage of a banquet. Through their eyes, and with their ignorance of what has taken place, the reader is made to assimilate the scene in obsessive but unexplained visual detail. In the midst of the carnage sits a fabulously beautiful young woman, nursing a fabulously handsome young man. It does not take long to identify them as the hero and heroine of the novel, and learn that their names are Theagenes and Charikleia, but Heliodoros tantalizes us over further details. Thus at the very beginning of the novel two riddles are established: what has hap­ pened on the beach? and who exactly are the hero and heroine? Heliodoros prolongs the reader’s ignorance by his characteristic use of partial viewpoint. Sometimes, as with the bandits, there is a fictional audience whose specific perceptions act as a channel of partial information to the reader, but elsewhere Heliodoros as narrator simply relates what an uninformed witness of the events would have seen or heard. For example, we are only allowed to find out about the hero and heroine as they speak to others r are spoken about: Heliodoros as author knows all about them but keeps quiet in favour of his recording but not explaining narrative voice. The opening scene is eventually disambiguated by Kalasiris, an Egyptian priest. He regales Knemon, a surrogate reader within the text who shares the real reader’s curiosity about the protagonists, with a long story, beginning in Book 2, of how he met Charikleia at Delphi, witnessed the birth of her love for Theagenes and helped the lovers to elope. He chronicles their subsequent experiences, until at the end of Book 5, half-way through the novel, the story circles back to its own beginning and at last resolves the mystery of the scene on the beach.

2014 ◽  
pp. 327-327
Keyword(s):  
Young Woman ◽  
Partial Information ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Narrative Voice ◽  
The Real ◽  
Opening Scene ◽  
Visual Detail ◽  
As If

Schnitzler, Arthur (1862–1931)

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katja Garloff
Keyword(s):  
Social Class ◽  
Gender Roles ◽  
Young Woman ◽  
French Revolution ◽  
Sexual Partner ◽  
Social Classes ◽  
Arthur Schnitzler ◽  
Middle Classes ◽  
Power Asymmetries ◽  
And Gender

Arthur Schnitzler was a leading exponent of Viennese modernism. The son of a Jewish laryngologist, Schnitzler studied and practised medicine before devoting himself exclusively to writing. His literary works explore the themes of love and death, reality and illusion, and changing codes of honour and morality. In his dramatic plays, Schnitzler emphasizes dialogue over action and often shows how people speak past each other. In his prose, he experiments with subjective modes of narration that give readers access to the thoughts and feelings of the characters. In 1895 Schnitzler achieved a breakthrough with Liebelei [The Reckoning], a play about love, betrayal, social class, and gender roles. Liebelei features a prototypical ‘sweet girl,’ a young woman from the lower middle classes involved in a relationship with an aristocratic man. The 1896/97 Reigen [Hands Around] was to become Schnitzler’s most controversial work. The play consists of ten dialogues between lovers, one of whom will find a new sexual partner in the next scene in each case. Linking members from different social classes into a sexual chain, the play exposes the power asymmetries between them. While Schnitzler was primarily a chronicler of his time and society, he also wrote several historical plays, including the 1899 Der grüne Kakadu [The Green Cockatoo], which is set at the beginning of the French Revolution.

Violância Familiar em Gêneros Literários e não Literários

2017 ◽  
Vol 17 (4) ◽  
pp. 286
Author(s):  
Jaime André Klein ◽  
Angela De Fátima Langa ◽  
Patrícia Luísa Klein Santos
Keyword(s):  
Domestic Violence ◽  
Family Violence ◽  
Daily Life ◽  
The Other ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Analysis Method ◽  
Flash Fiction ◽  
Literary Genres ◽  
Brazilian Society ◽  
Keywords Domestic Violence

Este artigo analisa a temática da violência familiar. Busca-se investigar, por meio da linha americana de comparatismo como método de análise e também utilizando noções de intertextualidade, de que forma a violência familiar é abordada em dois gêneros literários, um miniconto e umromance, e em dois gêneros não literários, duas charges. Pretende-se averiguar a intencionalidade desses objetos para com o leitor: chocar,fazer refletir, criticar ou sensibilizar. Tem-se como objetos de estudo um miniconto, de Flora Medeiros, o romance “Becos da Memória”,de Conceição Evaristo, e duas charges, uma de Janilton Nunes e outra de Arionauro da Silva Santos. Por meio do estudo realizado pode-se perceber que os agressores, geralmente, são os pais, cuja função seria garantir a segurança e a afetividade dos seus filhos. Ademais, destaca-se que a temática da violência está presente no cotidiano e na constituição da sociedade brasileira. Palavras-chave: Violência Familiar. Literatura. Gêneros Literários. Gêneros não-Literários. Intertextualidade. AbstractThis article examines the topic of family violence. The aim is to investigate, through the Comparatism American line as an analysis method and also using notions of Intertextuality, how the domestic violence is approached in two literary genres, a Flash fiction and a novel, and in two genres, non-literary, two chargers. The aim is to ascertain the intention of those objects to the reader: to shock, to make them reflect, criticize or raise awareness. It has as study objects a Flash fiction, byFlora Medeiros, the novel “Becos da Memória”, , by Conceição Evaristo, and two charges, one by Nandi and Janilton Nunes and the other by Arionauro da Silva Santos . Through the study carried out it is possible to realize that the attackers are usually the parents, whose function would be to ensure their children’s safety and the affection. Furthermore, the topic of violence is present in daily life and in the constitution of the brazilian society. Keywords: Domestic Violence. Literature. Literary Genres. Non Literary Genres. Intertextuality.

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