After Death, Death: The Mechanics of Longing in Henry Carrington's «The Siren»

This essay deals with the mechanics of longing in a late Victorian siren poem by Henry Carrington, The Siren. Although Victorian literature was teeming with short stories, poems and novels on sirens, this genre, that builds upon and reverses Homeric siren tradition, remains neglected in literary discussions. With the translation of The Little Mermaid into English in 1872, the image of a "longing siren" was born. No longer were these the stories of Odysseus who had survived the siren song: now they were about the sirens’ own sorrows, griefs and desires. Sirens became profoundly human – they became desiring subjects themselves.

On Literary Terror (Based on the Materials of V.V. Rozanov’s Drafts and Unpublished Articles)

The article presents the views of experts on the specifics of V.V. Rozanov’s literary discussions. It highlights the features of the thin­ker’s polemics with P.B. Struve and his colleagues about the boundaries of the party framework in the course of public statements in late 1910 — early 1911. The most vivid details of disputes on the previously mentioned topic are noted. This is evidenced by citation of various draft versions of manuscript materials from V.V. Rozanov’s archive, stored in the Manuscripts Department of the Russian State Library. The article focuses on the duality of the positions not only of V.V. Rozanov, but also of the critics who started the dispute. On the basis of previously unknown archival sources presented in the article, the study aims to refute the myth that the philosopher was never engaged in author’s editing of works in the genre of journalism, and to prove the importance of this work for the thinker. It was V.V. Rozanov who introduced the term “literary terror”. There is consi­dered the lexical series of the origin of this concept in the writer’s texts. The article confirms V.V. Rozanov’s view on the inadmissibility of politicization of his creative works. Personal motives in the philosopher’s fate during the described journalistic polemics are revealed. Responding to accusations of immorality, he claimed the inseparability of talent and moral forces of a literary person’s soul. There is also noted that it was important for V.V. Rozanov to understand the “mosaic” composition of cultural formations in all types of creative process. The article provides guidelines for detai­ling the ideological foundations used by the writer in his polemical speeches.

Introduction

This chapter defines miscellaneity and the miscellany. It traces their material manifestations in early modern culture and establishes key pedagogical precepts and practices in relation to both, as well as examining their literary discussions and depictions. It also surveys the essential models of miscellaneity available at the time, identifying Aulus Gellius’ Noctes Atticae as the most important literary antecedent for the early modern works that are discussed in subsequent chapters of the book. It begins with a discussion of the satirized miscellanist Sir Politic Would-Be (in Ben Jonson’s Volpone), using Jonson’s play to provide an overview of the book’s aims and intentions, before reviewing the relevant scholarship in adjacent fields. Finally, through a series of case studies, it demonstrates that ‘miscellaneous order’ was essential to the habits of annotation and transcription and the organization of knowledge in early modern Britain—thus laying the foundations for the remainder of the book.

KEPENGAYOMAN TERHADAP SASTRA PESANTREN DI JAWA TIMUR (The Nurture of Pesantren Literature in East Java)

Penelitian ini mengkaji kepengayoman sastra pesantren di Jawa Timur pada tahun 2000— 2011. Tujuan penelitian adalah untuk memperoleh gambaran tentang keberadaan para pengayom sastra pesantren di Jawa Timur dan bentuk kepengayomannya pada tahun 2000—2011. Hal tersebut sangat bermanfaat dalam rangka penyusunan sejarah sastra pesantren di Jawa Timur. Teori yang digunakan adalah teori makro sastra yang dikembangkan oleh Tanaka. Teori makro sastra adalah sebuah teori yang lebih menekankan perhatiannya pada hubungan antara sastra dan masyarakat pendukungnya. Dari pembahasan dapat diketahui bahwa para pengayom sastra pesantren di Jawa Timur dilakukan oleh lembaga- lembaga pemerintah dan oleh lembaga-lembaga swasta. Sementara itu, pengayom dari penerbit, terutama penerbit-penerbit yang beranggotakan IKAPI masih sangat terbatas. Pemuatan dan penerbitan karya sastra pesantren oleh para pengayom bersifat kultural. Bentuk kepengayoman yang dilakukan oleh penerbit, baik dari lembaga pemerintah maupun dari lembaga nonpemerintah berupa pemberian hadiah kepada sanggar sastra yang tumbuh dan hidup di pesantren, pendiskusian kesasteraaan dengan melibatkan santri, dan penerbitan hasil-hasil karya sastra.Abstract:This study focuses on the nurture of literature of pesantren (Islamic boarding school) in East Java from the years 2000 to 2011. The aim of the study is to obtain the description of the existence of the pesantren-literature nurturer in East Java and the forms of the nurture from the years 2000—2011. It is a significant part in the effort of compiling the pesantren-literature history in East Java. This study uses literary macro-theory developed by Tanaka. Literary macro-theory is a theory emphasizing its focus on the relationship between literature and its supporting community. The discussion has found that the nurturers of pesantren literature in East Java are state and private institutions. Meanwhile, there is a very limited number of nurturers from publishers, especially those which are the members of IKAPI (Association of Indonesian Publishers). The nature of the pesantren literary work publication by the nurturers is cultural. The forms of nurture by publishers, either governmental or nongovernmental, are giving awards to sanggar sastra (literary workshops) which grow and exist in pesantren, literary discussions involving santri (Islamic boarding school students), and the publication of the literary works.

Stylistics and the analysis of poetry – a credo and an example

As Donald Freeman once aptly remarked, urging demonstration rather than propaganda, “The only way to do stylistics is to do stylistics” (Freeman, Styles and stylisticians, 1973). But not everyone is willing to do stylistics, by any means. The case for stylistics still seems to be resisted or ignored – or it simply fails to be heard. In English Literature departments, various passing influences have served to sideline whatever considerable claims can be made for a properly informed stylistic analysis. More or less simultaneously, emerging academic realignments have threatened to leave stylistics marginalized in exactly those theoretical and descriptive areas on which it vitally depends, namely Linguistics and English Language. In fact, in almost all its connections, stylistics tends to be affected by marginalization or isolation – or by a puzzling failure to make its irresistible case. This paper, drawing on (or drawing attention to) several friendly and enlightened assessments, again makes the case for stylistics and demonstrates its relevance in the focused analysis of a poem, namely the sonnet On First Looking into Chapman's ‘Homer’ by John Keats. The analysis focuses on syntactic and grammetric features of the poem, sometimes coinciding with earlier literary discussions.

Kansanomaisuus, kirjallisuus ja merkityskytkennät Neuvosto-Karjalassa

My article is a study of Finnish literary activities in Soviet Karelia. I analyze what kinds of meanings were ascribed to the descriptions of localities, folk poetry and oral tradition in the literary discussions in Soviet Karelia from the late 1950s to the 1970s. I also examine the descriptions and interpretations of folk and local traditions that were politically or ideologically authorized and those that were suppressed. Theoretically, this article is connected to the discussion of power relations that exist in writing about people, tradition, and localities. The research material includes prose published in Finnish, the Communist Party’s literary programs, literary reviews and theoretical articles published in literary journals. It also includes materials from the National Archive of the Republic of Karelia. The literary descriptions of folklore and locality appear as areas of competing articulations of meaning. In the literary discussions they were connected to the writers’ own era, the changing present and the ideologically relevant Soviet history. They were also representations of Karelia’s past, its heritage, and local history, all of which were regarded as “inappropriate” interpretations of locality.