scholarly journals La escritura epistolar entre pasado y presente: Habitaciones cerradas de Care Santos

2019 ◽  
Vol 28 ◽  
pp. 139-149
Author(s):  
Giulia Tosolini
Keyword(s):  
The Novel ◽  
Space And Time ◽  
Family Saga ◽  
Care Santos

El artículo se propone analizar la fragmentación narrativa creada por el uso de cartas, correos electrónicos y “escrituras del yo” en el esquema narrativo de Habitaciones cerradas (2011) de Care Santos, muestra de la literatura femenina española contemporánea. En la novela, una saga familiar con dos tramas paralelas, los saltos temporales y espaciales que mantienen viva la atención del lector, y a la vez, recrean el flujo de los recuerdos, se crean también gracias a las cartas colocadas a lo largo del cuento, que, simultáneamente, ofrecen detalles para la solución del misterio que desencadena la narración. The article focuses on how letters, mails and self-writing are used in the fragmented narrative scheme of Habitaciones cerradas (2011) by Care Santos. The novel is a family saga developing two parallel plots, jumping around space and time in order to keep the reader attentive and to return the structure of memories, while offering useful details to solve the mystery that narration develops.

scholarly journals Chronotope of Russian Works about Robinson

2021 ◽  
pp. 287-302
Author(s):  
T. V. Shvetsova ◽  
V. E. Shakhova
Keyword(s):  
Russian Language ◽  
Literary Analysis ◽  
The Novel ◽  
The Real ◽  
New Methods ◽  
Space And Time ◽  
Language Interpretation ◽  
Similarities And Differences ◽  
The Russian Language

The results of the study of the chronotope in Russian-language compositions based on the novel about Robinson’s adventures are presented. The material for the work was A. E. Razin’s novel “The Real Robinson” (1860) and Lev Tolstoy’s story “Robinson” (1862). The issues of the specifics of the representation of the chronotopic in the works of Russian writers are considered. The relevance of the study is due to the appeal to the universal of the chronotope, which contains an exhaustive toolkit for the artistic embodiment of images of space and time; as well as the search for new methods of literary analysis of the text. It is shown that in the analyzed texts, a kind of fusion of Russianlanguage compositions with a foreigncultural text in the aspect of a chronotope is realized. The similarities and differences in the rethinking of the story of Robinson are shown on the example of the model of textual connexity, the national specifics of the representation of the image of Robinson are indicated. It is noted that the external and internal chronotopes are retransmitted from work to work and create the basis for the emergence of the author’s intentions. It is proved that chronotopic analysis allows one to form an idea of the peculiarities of the Russian-language interpretation of the story of Robinson.

scholarly journals The Chronotope of Fairy Tale in Guzel Yakhina’s Novel “My Children”

2019 ◽  
Vol 16 (6) ◽  
pp. 584-594
Author(s):  
Olga A. Nesterova
Keyword(s):  
Fairy Tales ◽  
Fairy Tale ◽  
Mutual Influence ◽  
Literary Analysis ◽  
Mirror Reflection ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Static Properties ◽  
Space And Time ◽  
Time Extension ◽  
Soviet Russia

The article examines the chronotope of fairy tale as a basic plot component in the structure of the novel “My Children” by the contemporary Russian writer Guzel Yakhina. The article investigates the ways of archetypical space functioning within the system of mythological time, and analyzes the principal space and time coordinates of the lives of main characters and their interaction. There is shown that Yakhina’s appeal to the genre elements of fairy tale allows her to underscore the universal and all-encompassing nature of the historical processes that shaped the tragic fate of the Volga Germans in Soviet Russia. In the novel “My Children”, the plots and images of German folklore serve as a basic model for organizing different types of space arising from the stable archaic communicative mo­dels and cultural archetypes of folk tradition. The no­vel presents such elements of the space and time continuum of fairy tales as the existence of borders (both open and closed) and the character’s travels within different worlds; the transformative capacity of space and time (extension and compression, appearance and disappearance, plasticity and rigidity, dynamic and static properties, etc.); the link between the “lower” and the “upper” worlds or the “space of giants” and the “space of dwarves”; and the mutual influence of space and time characteristics. The article identifies the semiotic and semantic properties of the underground, underwater, aquatic, terrestrial and aerial spaces presented in the novel. The everyday and socio-historical space and time continua in the novel are a mirror reflection of the space and time characteristics of fairy tale, while archetypes are incarnated in the domain of social interaction. Yakhina’s novel “My Children” presents such chronoto­pic features as relativism, invariance, and symmetry. The use of the archetypical structure of fairy tale allowed the writer to make a literary analysis of complex socio-cultural and socio-psychological processes.

scholarly journals ETNOSENTRISME DALAM TENGGELAMNYA KAPAL VAN DER WIJCK KARYA HAMKA DALAM PERSPEKTIF STRUKTURASI GIDDENS

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 90
Author(s):  
Uci Elly Kholidah ◽  
Siti Hardiyanti Amri
Keyword(s):  
Social System ◽  
Literary Work ◽  
Social Activities ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Space And Time ◽  
Literary Context ◽  
Anthony Giddens ◽  
Theory Of Structuration ◽  
Agent Structure

Sebagai makhluk sosial, manusia saling berinteraksi dengan gugus pengetahuan dan pengalaman berbeda satu sama lain. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk menganalisis etnosentrisme dalam novel Tenggelamnya Kapal Van der Wijck karya Hamka dengan perspektif Strukturasi Giddens. Strukturasi menolak pandangan dualisme dengan menekankan dualitas agen dan struktur. Setiap agen bertindak berdasarkan skemata atau struktur dalam ruang dan waktu tertentu. Selanjutnya, aktivitas sosial para agen tersebut memengaruhi struktur itu kembali. Dalam konteks sastra, agen merujuk pada penulis dan tokoh-tokoh yang ada di dalam karya sastra. Hasil penelitian ini menunjukkan bahwa gejala etnosentrisme melalui tindakan para tokoh dalam novel merupakan manifestasi struktur penulis. Novel Tenggelamnya Kapal Van der Wijck merupakan sarana komunikasi Hamka selaku agen yang dimotivasi oleh keinginan akan perbaikan dan perubahan terhadap struktur budaya Minangkabau. Karya ini juga mampu mengubah sistem sosial yang membentuk struktur etnosentrisme Hamka.Kata Kunci: Strukturasi; Agen; Struktur; Anthony Giddens; Tenggelamnya Kapal Van der Wijck As social beings, humans interact using a distinct set of knowledge and experiences. This research aims to analyze ethnocentrism in the novel Tenggelamnya Kapal Van der Wijck by Hamka through the perspective of Giddens’ structuration. The theory of structuration rejects the notion of dualism by highlighting the duality of agent and structure. Every agent acts on a schemata or structure in a certain space and time. Furthermore, the agents' social activities conversely affect the structure. In literary context, agents refer to both writer and characters in literary work. The result of this study indicates that the phenomenon of ethnocentrism showed through the actions of the characters in the novel isthe manifestation of the author's structure. The novel Tenggelamnya Kapal Van der Wijck is a media of communication for Hamka as an agent motivated by his desire for improvements and changes in the structure of Minangkabau culture. This work is also able to change social system that actually constructs Hamka ethnocentrism structure.Keywords: Structuration; Agent; Structure; Anthony Giddens; Tenggelamnya Kapal Van der Wijck. 

scholarly journals De Roberto and Faenza: Ideological Shifts in I Viceré

2013 ◽  
Vol 34 (1) ◽  
pp. 241-266
Author(s):  
Annamaria Pagliaro
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Political System ◽  
Film Adaptation ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Narrative Strategies ◽  
Family Saga ◽  
The Family ◽  
The Relationship

This article examines the relationship between De Roberto’s I Viceré and Faenza’s film adaptation focusing on the two texts’ different ideological positions and narrative strategies. Both texts depict the mechanisms employed by a ruling caste to remain in power through a period of acute social change. The novel, through a multifocal narration, gives agency to individuals for shaping their environment and presents them in their alienating subjective deformation of reality, casting the historymaking process and any interpretation of it in an ambivalent light. The film focuses on the family saga and on the ongoing trasformismo of the Italian political system bringing to the fore its resonance with the present. The characters, particularly Consalvo as the principal voice, are represented as victims of a larger socio-political mechanism.

scholarly journals Seeking Byzantium on the Borders of Narration, Identity, Space and Time in Julia Kristeva's Novel Murder in Byzantium

Nordlit ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 31 ◽  
Author(s):  
Helena Bodin
Keyword(s):  
General Public ◽  
Literary Analysis ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Historical Texts ◽  
Space And Time ◽  
12Th Century ◽  
Academic Discussion

This article discusses the notion of Byzantium and Byzantium's potential capacities as a multifaceted borderland, as shaped and perceived in Julia Kristeva's novel Murder in Byzantium. In spite of its title, this is not a historical, but rather a so-called total novel, which reconciles several different plots - romantic, criminal, political and philosophical. It relies on both fictive and historical texts, especially on The Alexiad, written in the 12th century by the Byzantine princess and the first female historian ever, Anna Comnena. Through a literary analysis, this article shows how Byzantium is shaped in the novel by transgressions of the borders of narration, identity, space and time. Byzantium is thus of great interest to the general public and an academic discussion of borders, origin, history and culture, so important for the discussion of Europe's role today in - or, as suggested in the novel, perhaps between - Eastern and Western cultures. 

scholarly journals Fictions of Time and Space

2021 ◽  
Vol 67 (2) ◽  
pp. 139-162
Author(s):  
David Sergeant
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Time And Space ◽  
Space And Time ◽  
Spatial Narrative ◽  
Narrative Mode ◽  
Twentieth Century Fiction ◽  
Shed Light

This essay argues for a fuller recognition of the key transitional status of The Four-Gated City (1969) in Doris Lessing’s career. As an attempt to recalibrate the basic coordinates of the realist inheritance, the novel develops a strongly spatial narrative mode that coincides with a desire to write a utopian collective. This is confirmed both by previously unstudied draft material for Briefing for a Descent into Hell (1971) and the published texts that followed. However, in The Four-Gated City this attempt to break from the destructive globalization of the postwar era becomes deeply problematic through its handling of history and time. Examining this struggle in Lessing’s writing can shed light on how the interplay of space and time informs the intertwined histories of realism and modernism in twentieth-century fiction, and on how Lessing’s work contributes to current debates about possible futures for the novel.

scholarly journals Жанрові модифікації роману «Вільний світ» Т. Белімової

2017 ◽  
Vol 9 ◽  
pp. 61-69
Author(s):  
Світлана Степанівна Журба
Keyword(s):  
The Novel ◽  
Free World ◽  
Family Saga

In the article is researched the genre originality of the novel by Tetyana Belimova "Free World". It is specified that the peculiarity of author's artistic thinking is realized through the modification of the genre: romance-chronicle, romance-family saga, romance-memories, romance-memory. An attempt is made to trace the metaphor of the "free world" as an image of the characters, both at the philosophical level.

scholarly journals Некоторые особенности универсального пространства войны в романе Олега Ермакова „Знак зверя”

10.24917/3933 ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 15 ◽  
pp. 174-183
Author(s):  
Monika Knurowska
Keyword(s):  
Main Topic ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Book Of Revelation ◽  
Human Reaction ◽  
Space And Time ◽  
Universal Space ◽  
Universal Nature

Universal space of war in Oleg Yermakov's Sign of the beast In his clearly pacifistic and anti-war book, a contemporary Russian writer Oleg Yermakov projects such an image of war which at a mythological level could be compared to the vision of hell. The main topic of the book is signalled through its title and motto, taken from the Book of Revelation (14:11): “And the smoke of their torment will rise for ever and ever. There will be no rest day or night for those who worship the beast and its image”. The beast found in the novel is a personification of war, which in the writer’s view is unhuman and pointless. By combining in his writing visual and acoustic effects, as well as by making use of biblical symbols, Yermakov creates a universal space of evil. The space mentioned is composed of ideas of emptiness, ideological void, world without God, death, recurrence of phenomena which bears the signs of eternity, endlessness. The universal nature of the problem discussed was signalled through setting the plot in unspecified space and time. Anonymity and typicality are the dominant features. The writer is concerned with human reaction to evil, degradation of personality of one consciously taking part in war, the notion of complicity, and responsibility for one’s actions.Key words: Oleg Jermakow; Sign of the beast; space; war; evil; biblical symbols;

scholarly journals Family (Novel), Death, and Polyphony in Lúcio Cardoso, Crônica da Casa Assassinada

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 30-47
Author(s):  
Jobst Welge
Keyword(s):  
Literary Tradition ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Culturally Specific ◽  
Life And Death ◽  
American Gothic ◽  
The Past ◽  
Family Saga ◽  
Modern Family ◽  
Normative Expectations ◽  
Big House

Taking its cue from the anthropological conjunction of "house" and "death," the article contextualizes Lúcio Cardoso's novel Crônica da Casa Assassinada (1959) within the literary tradition of the Brazilian "Big House novel" as well as the modern family saga generally, thus highlighting both its culturally specific and its potentially universal dimension. The dinstictive formal character of the novel is analyzed with regard to its emphasis on psychological representation and its polyphonic, kaleidoscopic fragmentation of epic totality. Furthermore, the novel is also linked to the tradition of the (American) Gothic, from which Cardoso adapts the notion of the unstabe boundary between life and death, of haunting as the survival of the past, or of specters as hinges between different temporalities. The recurring tropes of death and decadence are not objectively distanced, but the novel paradoxically affirms the notion of decadence against the normative expectations of both the traditional past and of modernity.

scholarly journals Wordsworthian Chance

2009 ◽  
pp. 0
Author(s):  
Andrew Burkett
Keyword(s):  
First Generation ◽  
Sufficient Reason ◽  
The Novel ◽  
A Posteriori ◽  
Causal Relations ◽  
Space And Time ◽  
Principle Of Sufficient Reason

Abstract First-generation Romantic poets generally hold a deeply rooted faith in the notion of the limitless nature of possibility, and in reaction to Enlightenment determinism, several of these poets strive for an understanding and representation of nature that is divorced from Enlightenment notions of causality. This essay specifically explores William Wordsworth’s poetic denunciation of such deterministic accounts of causality through an investigation of The Prelude’s (1799, 1805, 1850) complication of the assumption that the natural effect can be traced backward towards a single identifiable cause. I argue that in place of this principle of sufficient reason, Wordsworth embraces the notion of “chance” as possessing the inexhaustible powers of difference. In accordance with his fascination with the potentialities of the novel infinite, the idea of “chance” allows Wordsworth to challenge the notion of “necessity,” or the philosophic claim that steadfast and orderly laws determine all events in space and time. While Wordsworth certainly does not argue with the notion that cause-effect chains can be traced temporally back in time, such a genealogical record, he suggests, can only ever be deduced and constructed a posteriori. Only after the fact of its historical instantiation can the genealogical record of causal relations be deciphered and inscribed, he indicates. Such a genealogy, then, in no way undermines a faith in chance. Rather, according to Wordsworth, the record only makes the idea of chance all the more manifest. Such a posteriori inscriptions provide a distillation of the concept of chance. In this causal record Wordsworth locates the phantom outlines left in chance’s conceptual wake, or perhaps better stated, through the specters of the idea of chance.

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