scholarly journals The Heavenly Flame: The Christian Picture of the World and Modeling of the Image in the Literary Text

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 151-167
Author(s):  
Надежда Захарова
Keyword(s):  
Literary Text ◽  
The World

scholarly journals The reality of fiction in a literary world: on an excerpt from Stanisław Lem’s Solaris

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 101-107
Author(s):  
Y. Domanskii
Keyword(s):  
Physical Reality ◽  
Literary Text ◽  
Higher Order ◽  
Fictional World ◽  
Actual Reality ◽  
The World ◽  
The Way

Using an excerpt from Stanisław Lem’s Solaris, this article explores the idea that, in a literary text, a fictional world and the world of physical reality may interact to form such a reality that can paradoxically turn out to be more real than what we believe to be the actual reality. It is also shown that the fictional world realized in a literary text may bring the reader to certain conclusions about the world in which he or she lives. Thus, even if literature is in­capable of affecting reality, it can change the way the latter is perceived. A fictional world is not just a reality — it is a reality of a higher order.

scholarly journals The philosophical problems in modern fiction: The concept of being in E. Schmitt’s "Noah’s child"

2019 ◽  
Vol 72 ◽  
pp. 03012
Author(s):  
Elena Ivanova ◽  
Ekaterina Ivanova
Keyword(s):  
Human Perception ◽  
Literary Text ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Moral Choice ◽  
Historical Material ◽  
The World ◽  
Modern Fiction ◽  
The Given

The article is devoted to the analysis of the novel by a contemporary writer, E.E. Schmitt “Noah‟s child” in terms of the realization of the important philosophical problems, updated with the time. The novelty of the given material is due primarily to the choice of the author, whose work is still to be reflected. This article examines the philosophical issues of existence implemented at various levels of the literary text: from the title to its symbolism. Drawing on biblical and historical material, in a novelistic genre E. Schmitt managed to present his vision of the problems of faith and disbelief, identity of the nation, the moral choice, etc. While not denying the value of the God in human perception of the world, the writer asserts the idea that the man himself is responsible for all what is happening on the ground and in the society, so the novel “Noah‟s child” can be seen as a passionate appeal to contemporaries to strive for the harmony of coexistence.

Intercultural Communication in Translingual Literary Text (based on the cycle of A. Zhaksylykov “Dreams of the Damned”)

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (6) ◽  
pp. 241-251
Author(s):  
Olga A. Valikova ◽  
◽  
Nina V. Shchennikova ◽  
Sheker A. Kulieva
Keyword(s):  
Narrative Analysis ◽  
Literary Text ◽  
Modern World ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Narrative Strategies ◽  
New Novel ◽  
Original Culture ◽  
The World ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Artistic Images

The purpose of this article is to analyze the transcultural literary text as a space for the “meeting” of languages and cultures. The modern world exists in the conditions of global transculturalism (F. Ortiz), when sign systems interact, giving rise to new images of the world. The language, which translates into a wide communicative space the elements of the original culture for the author, experiences its influence on itself. The literary text acquires multidimensionality and “convexity” due to the inclusion in it of alternative genre forms, narrative strategies and tactics, archetypes. On the basis of the novel series “Dreams of the Damned”, written by the Kazakh writer A. Zhaksylykov, we demonstrate in this work the mechanisms of “internal intercultural interaction” between Kazakh and Russian cultures, using the methods of hermeneutic commentary, mythopoetic and narrative analysis. We come to the conclusion that cultural content requires the creation of adequate forms of artistic representation. The result is the creation of new novel forms of depiction, the complication of the artistic images of the world and the strengthening of the empathic effect that a literary text can provide.

Marketing Soviet Nostalgia: The Many Faces of Buratino

2017 ◽  
Vol 17 (4) ◽  
pp. 88-101
Author(s):  
Laura Goering
Keyword(s):  
Marketing Strategy ◽  
Soft Drink ◽  
Food Studies ◽  
Literary Text ◽  
Consumer Perceptions ◽  
Film Adaptation ◽  
Trademark Law ◽  
Literary Character ◽  
The World ◽  
The Many

Nostalgia for the foods consumed in childhood is a phenomenon extensively documented by food studies scholars and exploited by marketers around the world. This article traces the evolution of the Soviet children's soft drink Buratino from its origins in the Brezhnev era through a variety of post-Soviet incarnations. The character featured on the label, drawn from A. N. Tolstoy's 1935 book based on Carlo Collodi's Adventures of Pinocchio, is both instantly recognizable and remarkably protean in nature, combining the archetype of the trickster from the original literary text with a more benign representative of Soviet values depicted in a 1975 film adaptation. Using Douglas Holt's premises in his book How Brands Become Icons (2004), I argue that what would seem like an easy transition from literary character to advertising icon is complicated by the limitations of nostalgia-based marketing, changing consumer perceptions, and lack of clarity in trademark law. The article concludes with an analysis of the marketing strategy of the Kazakh company Caspian Beverage Holding, which has been singularly successful in recognizing the potential power of the brand and adapting it to a new, post-Soviet market.

scholarly journals Co-Creation of Understanding. On a Literature Course in the Developmental Education System

2020 ◽  
Vol 25 (4) ◽  
pp. 71-80
Author(s):  
Z.N. Novlianskaya
Keyword(s):  
Secondary School ◽  
Developmental Education ◽  
World Literature ◽  
Literary Text ◽  
Creative Work ◽  
Developmental Learning ◽  
School Based ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of ◽  
Educational Paths

The article describes the theoretical grounds and structure of a literature course as a part of aesthetic education at school, based on the concept of developmental learning by D.B. Elkonin and V.V Davydov. This course became a first attempt to create a program from the first to the final year at school, which required finding a solution to a complicated problem of transferring the practice of developmental learning from primary to secondary school. The conception was innovative in that it considered literature as a part of Arts rather than Philology. The purpose of the course is to educate a cultured reader who would be able to engage in a text-mediated dialogue with an author. The course is based on the ‘author – literary text – reader’ relation (M.Bakhtin). It is shown that a child’s experience of creative work in literature (as the author) is essential for fostering the cultured reader. Learning happens through acquiring and interchanging the positions of the author, reader, critic and theorist, and furthermore, on different educational stages these positions play different roles in literature development of schoolchildren. The main educational paths are: “Readers’ practice and creative work of children” and “History of the world literature”.

scholarly journals Theory-Inspired Rather than Theory-Based Criticism: Towards a Semeiocritical Method for the Interpretation of Literature

2019 ◽  
Vol 54 (1) ◽  
pp. 21-41
Author(s):  
Khaled Besbes
Keyword(s):  
Present Article ◽  
Literary Theory ◽  
Literary Text ◽  
Literary Studies ◽  
English Studies ◽  
Literary Interpretation ◽  
English Departments ◽  
Critical Theories ◽  
Literary Theories ◽  
The World

AbstractThe present article is written almost a decade and a half after the reticent announcement of the death of literary theory by a number of scholars around the world. But during all these years, the humanities have not managed to drive Theory out of the seminar rooms of English departments, nor have the anti-theory proponents managed to remove it from the syllabi of English studies or even from the shelves of specialized libraries. After all these years, English studies academicians find themselves still doing Theory: holding conferences on how to conduct literary studies, organizing debates on how to launch new approaches that could possibly replace critical theories, and encouraging research into less-theorized methods of literary interpretation that could respond to the ineluctable need for a method in studying literature. For good or ill, whether we admit it or not, the echoes of literary theories continue to linger behind the scenes of all debates about literature and literary studies. The question is therefore not how to bring those echoes to silence, but rather how to find a way out of the post-theory deadlock by proposing what I have chosen to name the semeiocritical method as a theory-inspired, rather than theory-based approach to literature. The present article seeks to answer two questions: (1) how can we benefit from the lessons of literary theory without systematically doing theory or being methodically loyal to theories? and (2) how can we maximize the effects of literary interpretation in such a way as to cover as many aspects as possible of the signifying processes in the literary text while maintaining interpretive consistency?

scholarly journals An Aspect in the Poetic Experience of the Classical Poet Awat

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 555-579
Author(s):  
Jabbar Ahmed Hussein
Keyword(s):  
Internal Structure ◽  
Literary Text ◽  
The World ◽  
Personal Thought

          A literary text is a personal thought or emotion of the writer that are illustrated in the world of imagination. S/he conveys this very personal intuition into the readers’ side (addressee) through a crafty language and a highly technical style. Thus, each and every literary text is composed of four elements: three of them are the internal structure of the poem, which are theme, emotion, and imagination, and the fourth one is style, which is the incarnation of the previously-mentioned elements. All of these elements are firmly interconnected to each other and could only be separated for research purposes.            The aim of this study is to pinpoint the internal structure of Awat’s poetry and to show an aspect of his poetic experience.

scholarly journals LEXIS AND PHRASEOLOGY, VERBALIZING CONCEPTS OF WOMAN AND GIRL IN A.B. KAITUKOV’S WORKS

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Р.Г. ЦОПАНОВА
Keyword(s):  
Mental Content ◽  
Literary Text ◽  
The Other ◽  
Contextual Analysis ◽  
The People ◽  
The World ◽  
The One ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Linguistic Units ◽  
First Time

Целью данного исследования является определение ментального содержания лексики и фразеологии, вербализующей концепты женщина (сылгоймаг) и девушка (чызг) в произведениях осетинского писателя А.Б. Кайтукова. Научная новизна связана с тем, что впервые на языковом материале произведений А. Кайтукова выявлено ментальное содержание указанных концептов. Актуальность данного исследования в том, что, благодаря описанию языкового содержания концептов женщина (сылгоймаг) и девушка (чызг), читатель, с одной стороны, вводится в мир национальной лингвокультуры, содержащей информацию о менталитете народа, с другой стороны – дается характеристика индивидуальных особенностей языка писателя. В работе использованы следующие методы исследования: семантико-стилистический, методы концептуального и контекстуального анализа языковых единиц в художественном тексте. Поставлены следующие задачи: определить номинативную плотность концептов женщина и девушка; раскрыть ментальное содержание лексики и фразеологии, вербализующей названные концепты; указать когнитивные признаки исследуемых концептов; охарактеризовать лексику и фразеологию, объективирующие названные концепты как средство создания идиостиля писателя. В результате работы дана характеристика концептов женщина и девушка в произведениях А. Кайтукова в аспекте лингвокультуры и в рамках идиостиля писателя. The purpose of this study is to determine the mental contents of the vocabulary and phraseology that verbalize the concepts of woman (sylgoymag) and girl (chyzg) in the works of the Ossetian writer A. B. Kaitukov. The scientific novelty is connected with the fact that for the first time the mental content of these concepts will be revealed on the language material of A. Kaitukov's works. The relevance of this study is that due to the description of the linguistic content of the concepts woman (sylgoimag) and girl (chyzg), the reader, on the one hand, is introduced into the world of national linguoculture, containing information about the mentality of the people, on the other hand, a characteristic of the individual features of the writer’s language is given. The following research methods were used in the work: semantic and stylistic, methods of conceptual and contextual analysis of linguistic units in a literary text. The following tasks were set: to determine the nominative density of the concepts woman and girl; to reveal the mental content of lexis and phraseology, verbalizing the named concepts; indicate the cognitive features of the studied concepts; to characterize the vocabulary and phraseology that objectify the named concepts as a means of creating the idiostyle of the writer. As a result of the work, a description of the concepts of a woman and a girl in the works of A. Kaitukov is given in the aspect of linguoculture and within the framework of the writer's idiostyle.

scholarly journals Cognitive Metaphor in the Work of L. S. Petrushevskаya

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. e3378
Author(s):  
Viktoria Vyacheslavovna Radchenko ◽  
Oksana Vasilievna Sizykh ◽  
Anastasiya Egorovna Alekseeva ◽  
Anna Sofronovna Starostina
Keyword(s):  
Short Stories ◽  
Literary Text ◽  
Literary Texts ◽  
Artistic Style ◽  
Cognitive Metaphor ◽  
The World ◽  
Way Of Thinking ◽  
Individual Style

The paper dwells on functioning of cognitive metaphor in the literary texts. The metaphor in literary text is the active creative mechanism. Many researches focused on the analysis of the development of metaphorical relations, images, concepts that evolve from myth to symbol. The metaphor in the literary text is not just a means of expression, but a way of thinking and knowing the world. The academic novelty of the paper consists in the study of the author’s perception of reality through conceptual images that expand the boundaries of the metaphorical space of the text. The study reveals the ways cognitive metaphors function in the short stories by Lyudmila Petrushevskaya, also describing the author’s individual style, the manner of understanding reality, the peculiarity of author’s thought, her contribution to the development of metaphorization, and the expansion of the metaphorical space of the text. The author’s interpretation of already known symbols, images, concepts is of great importance. A substantive base that forms a metaphor in the work of Petrushevskaya is also relevant, together with the factors that influence the development of metaphorical relations, those events or phenomena that are an incentive for the development of a metaphor in the writer’s work. The paper identifies algorithms of metaphorical transformations, as well as metaphorical structure of cognitive metaphor, typical of author’s way of thinking and individual artistic style.  

scholarly journals LANGUAGE MEANS OF DESCRIPTION OF THE CONCEPT «LOVE OF LIFE» IN INDIVIDUAL AUTHOR’S PICTURE OF THE WORLD OF N. KAZANDZAKIS (ON THE EXAMPLE OF THE NOVEL «ZORBA THE GREEK»)

2020 ◽  
pp. 104-112
Author(s):  
Элина Павловна Чакалова ◽  
Зарина Ашотовна Фарамазян
Keyword(s):  
Literary Text ◽  
Theoretical Research ◽  
Behavioral Characteristics ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Greek Culture ◽  
The World ◽  
Characteristic Features ◽  
Geographical Characteristics ◽  
Of Greece ◽  
Linguistic Means

Концепт рассматривается как факт культуры и формирует систему знаний человека о мире, он позволяет нам конкретизировать наиболее характерные признаки изучаемой нами культуры. Цель данной статьи - выявление значимости лингвокультурного концепта «жизнелюбие» для понимания индивидуальной картины мира автора. Задача исследования состоит в том, чтобы описать и проанализировать лингвистические средства, которые наполняют один из характерных для греческой культуры концептов, на основе художественного текста, так как художественный текст предлагает авторские интерпретации ключевых понятий, составляющих национальную картину мира. Актуальность данного исследования определяется необходимостью выявить значимость лингвистических и этноспецифических особенностей в изучении поведенческих характеристик народа и греческого менталитета в ходе анализа языковых единиц и сопутствующих культурологических факторов, наполняющих концепт «жизнелюбие» в индивидуальной авторской картине мира. В статье рассматриваются примеры и из художественного текста «Грек Зорба» греческого классика Никоса Казандзакиса, анализируются языковые средства выражения указанного концепта. Содержание данного текста насыщено культурными, историческими и географическими понятиями и характеристиками, что позволило нам взять его за основу исследования культуры и менталитета Греции. В процессе изучения материала, а именно греческого художественного текста, мы применили методы эмпирического и теоретического исследования. Также использовались компонентный и контекстуальный методы изучения. В данном исследовании отмечается влияние концепта на языковую личность, так как языковая личность является собирательным образом представителя определенных культурно-языковых ценностей. Специфика языковой картины мира и идиолекта характеризует языковую личность автора. The concept is considered as a fact of culture and forms a system of human knowledge about the world, it allows us to reveal the most characteristic features of the Greek culture we are studying. The aim of this article is to identify the significance of the linguistic-cultural concept «Love of life» to understand the writer’s individual picture of the world. The objective of the study is to characterize the linguistic means that form one of the basic concepts of the Greek worldview based on the literary text, since the literary text shows author’s interpretations of key concepts that make up the national picture of the world. While studying this topic and analyzing the language units considered in the article, we were able to represent the relevance of the concept «Love of life» and related cultural factors to understand the author’s picture of the world, and this also allowed us to demonstrate the importance of linguistic and ethno-specific features in the study of the behavioral characteristics and Greek mentality. The article discusses the examples from the literary text «Zorba the Greek» by the Greek classic Nikos Kazantzakis and analyzes the linguistic means of expression. The content of this text is saturated with cultural, historical and geographical characteristics, which allowed us to consider it as a basis for studying the culture and mentality of Greece. In the direct study of textual material, empirical and theoretical research methods were used: analysis, synthesis, comparison, as well as component and contextual methods of study. The article underlines the influence of the concept on the linguistic personality formation, as we know the linguistic personality is a generalized image of the storage of cultural and linguistic values. The author’s linguistic personality is characterized by the specificity of his linguistic worldview and vocabulary.

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