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Karam Ahmadova, Latifa. "REALISM IN NINETEENTH-CENTURY ENGLISH LITERATURE." SCIENTIFIC WORK 61, no. 12 (December 25, 2020): 117–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.36719/2663-4619/61/117-120.
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In England, realism was formed very quickly, because it appeared immediately after the Enlightenment, and its formation occurred almost simultaneously with the development of Romanticism, which did not hinder the success of the new literary movement. The peculiarity of English literature is that in it romanticism and realism coexisted and enriched each other. Examples include the works of two writers, Elizabeth Gaskell and Charlotte Bronte. However, the discovery and confirmation of realism in English literature is primarily associated with the legacy of Charles Dickens (1812-1870) and William Makepeace Thackeray (1811-1863). The works of Charles Dickens differ not only in the strengthening of the real social moment, but also in the previous realist literature. Dickens has a profoundly negative effect on bourgeois reality. Key words: England, realism, literary trend, bourgeois society, utopia, unjust life, artistic description
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Crisp, P. "Essence, Realism and Literature." English 38, no. 160 (March 1, 1989): 55–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/english/38.160.55.
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Khan, Amara, Zainab Akram, and Irfan Ullah. "Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy and the Influence of English Literature." Global Regional Review IV, no. II (June 30, 2019): 536–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.31703/grr.2019(iv-ii).56.
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While Tolstoy is regarded as the greatest writer of global literature and his work being translated into all major languages of the world, his literary relationship with the literature in the English language is largely ignored. The paper explores the influence of the Anglophone scholars and literary figures on the formation of Tolstoy as a great pillar of literature. The paper explores the influence of English and American writers by detailing the contents of his personal library, publications and diary entries. H.D. Thoreau, R.W. Emerson, Longfellow, Mark Twain, Walt Whitman, Laurence Stern, Ernest Miller Hemingway, William Shakespeare, and George Bernard Shaw. His moral rectitude, his love for realism and his humanism find a close connection with the mentioned writers, and the paper details this connection. The paper establishes the position that Tolstoy was a person with the greatest creativity and imagination, he was open to the formative influence and in the process forged his original form of the influence he imbibed in his realistic writings.
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Brickhouse, Anna. "Unsettling World Literature." PMLA/Publications of the Modern Language Association of America 131, no. 5 (October 2016): 1361–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.1632/pmla.2016.131.5.1361.
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Simultaneous But Distant Events in Collision: In 1981, New York University (NYU) Celebrated the 150th Anniversary of its founding with a series of notable speakers and events; in rural Guatemala that year, the military began to carry out a policy of genocide against the Mayan Indians. In New York, the much-awaited English translation of Roland Barthes's treatise on photography, La chambre claire, appeared as Camera Lucida; in Nicaragua, the CIA-backed contras waged war on the Sandinista government, which had passed the Agrarian Reform Law to redistribute land to the campesinos who labored on it. In the United States, leading physicists announced advances “toward a unified theory”: “an integral work of art” made up of “threads in a tapestry,” a scientific weaving with the almost phantasmagorical ability to replace all “the confusion of the past” with “a simple and elegant theory” (Glashow 494-95). Abroad, magical realism officially became what Homi Bhabha would later call “the literary language of the emergent post-colonial world” (7). An example of the genre, Midnight's Children, by Salman Rushdie, won the Booker Prize. In the United States, magical realism came to stand, “as surely as Carmen Miranda's fruity cornucopias,” for a reified, homogeneous, and consumable “Latin America” (Molloy 374) and served as Latin America's new entrée into the exclusive party held by comparative literature. Gabriel García Márquez received the Nobel the following year.
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Hemminger, Bill. "Coterminous Worlds: Magical Realism and Contemporary Post-Colonial Literature in English (review)." Research in African Literatures 32, no. 4 (2001): 222–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/ral.2001.0098.
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Kantini, Samson, and Cheela Chilala. "A Critical Review of Ideological Trends in the Study of Zambian Literature in English." Journal of Law and Social Sciences 4, no. 1 (December 18, 2020): 14–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.53974/unza.jlss.4.1.386.
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Two ideologically divergent schools of thought have emerged in the study of Zambian
literature in English. The first one rooted in imperialist doctrines emerged in the early 1980s
and continues to influence many studies on Zambian literature to this day. The second one
with a clear object of the renaissance of world literatures like that of Zambia is recent.
It begun towards the end of the second decade of the 2000s and challenges the first one.
This paper gives a critical discussion of studies that constitute and mark these two trends.
It is a desktop research that employs the documental analysis informed by the historical
cultural materialism theory. It concludes that the imperialist school of thought overlook
and impoverish our understanding of the wider ideological and political context in which
Zambian literature in English has and is evolving and the world literary scene on which we
encounter it. Then, the renaissance school of thought does not just remedy this ideological
problem but creates an opportunity for us to study Zambian literature in English as a distinct
local realist tradition that is organically developing and in transition.
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Inggs, Judith. "Translation and Transformation: English-Language Children's Literature in (Soviet) Russian Guise." International Research in Children's Literature 8, no. 1 (July 2015): 1–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/ircl.2015.0145.
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This article investigates the perceived image of English-language children's literature in Soviet Russia. Framed by Even-Zohar's polysystem theory and Bourdieu's philosophy of action, the discussion takes into account the ideological constraints of the practice of translation and the manipulation of texts. Several factors involved in creating the perceived character of a body of literature are identified, such as the requirements of socialist realism, publishing practices in the Soviet Union, the tradition of free translation and accessibility in the translation of children's literature. This study explores these factors and, with reference to selected examples, illustrates how the political and sociological climate of translation in the Soviet Union influenced the translation practices and the field of translated children's literature, creating a particular image of English-language children's literature in (Soviet) Russia.
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Purvis, Samantha. "English Prize Essay Happiness and Experimentalism: on H(a)ppy and The Lesser Bohemians." English: Journal of the English Association 69, no. 264 (2020): 1–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/english/efz046.
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Abstract This essay contends that happiness offers an alternative point of entry into recent debates about the supposed ‘hybridity’ or ‘dialectic’ of realism and experimentalism in contemporary literature. Sarah Ahmed’s The Promise of Happiness suggests that happiness is a particularly contemporary concern; I will also argue that it has been brought surprisingly to the fore in two recent experimental texts, Eimear McBride’s The Lesser Bohemians1 and Nicola Barker’s H(A)PPY. At first glance, the marriage of experimentalism and happiness may appear odd; as Sianne Ngai observes, the avant-garde ‘is conventionally imagined as sharp and pointy, as hard- or cutting-edge’, and Rachel Greenwald Smith has delineated a supposed tension between affect and postmodernism. However, Claire Colebrook’s theory of a relationship between literature and non-teleological or desubjectivized happiness helps us to see how Barker and McBride mobilize the destabilizing capacities inhering in literary form to return a greater complexity and ambivalence to the concept of happiness. This suggests one way of placing the novels in terms of literary history and contemporary aesthetics, evoking what Timotheus Vermeulen and Robin van den Akker call a ‘metamodernist oscillation’ between postmodern suspicion and modernist hope. However, the erratic behaviour of happiness as narrative telos in the novels also challenges the logic of aesthetic categories by alerting us to the strangeness of literary form, suggesting that qualities normally attributed to experimental writing may be possibilities inhering in literature as such.
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Baff, Suzanne J. ""Realism and Naturalism and Dead Dudes" Talking About Literature in 11th-Grade English." Qualitative Inquiry 3, no. 4 (December 1997): 468–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/107780049700300407.
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Samuelson, Meg. "Literature in the World: A View from Cape Town." PMLA/Publications of the Modern Language Association of America 131, no. 5 (October 2016): 1544–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.1632/pmla.2016.131.5.1544.
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Returning Recently to Teach at My Alma Mater, The University of Cape Town, I Was Amazed to Find That the Undergraduate curriculum to which I had been exposed at the dawn of the post-apartheid era remained substantially unaltered. With the exception of an experimentally convened introductory year that reverses chronology with interesting effects, the English major continues to plot a literary history across four inherited periods: Shakespeare and Co., Romance to Realism, Modernism, and Contemporary Literature, which collapses a previous bifurcation of the capstone course into Postmodernism or Postcolonialism.
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Prytoliuk, Svitlana. "CONCEPTUALIZATION OF THE NOTION “MAGICAL REALISM” IN GERMAN LITERATURE." Research Bulletin Series Philological Sciences 1, no. 193 (April 2021): 252–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.36550/2522-4077-2021-1-193-252-259.
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The article is devoted to the study of magical realism in German literary criticism, the origins of the term and its conceptual principles are considered. The author of the article relies on the research of German scientists, in particular M. Scheffel, D. Kirchner, H. Roland, T.W. Leine, M. Niehaus, J. Schuster and notes the differences and contradictions in the interpretation of the term, the vagueness of the concept and its heterogeneity. It is emphasized that the period of formation of the magic-realistic method of writing in Germany in the historical perspective generally covers the period from 1920 to 1960 and includes the beginning of the era of National Socialism and the Second World War. In German literature, the term was not immediately established, its assertion and dissemination were hampered by several factors: first, its contradiction, because it combines semantically opposite concepts – “realism”, which directly correlates with reality, the true image of reality, and “magical”, based on the supernatural, fantastic, reaching beyond reality; second, the moment of its origin falls on a rather complex and contradictory period of German history, which is reluctantly mentioned or silenced; third, magical realism has sometimes been mistakenly identified with the notion of “Neue Sachlichkeit”. Analysis of all factors shows that the origin and formation of the magic-realistic method in German literature has its own characteristics and uniqueness and differs from the world-famous examples of Latin American or English literature. As a result, the author notes that German magical realism is historically determined and in many of its examples reflects the traumatic postwar experience with a pronounced inrospectivity and humanistic orientation. As an aesthetic concept, magical realism expands the boundaries of realism: by depicting the objective world in its real dimensions, it focuses its gaze on the unreality hidden behind real objects.
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Prośniak, Anna. "“Sardoodledom” on the English Stage: T. W. Robertson and the Assimilation of Well-Made Play into the English Theatre." Text Matters, no. 10 (November 24, 2020): 446–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.18778/2083-2931.10.25.
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The article discusses a vital figure in the development of modern English theatre, Thomas William Robertson, in the context of his borrowings, inspirations, translations and adaptations of the French dramatic formula pièce bien faite (well-made play). The paper gives the definition and enumerates features of the formula created with great success by the French dramatist Eugène Scribe. Presenting the figure of Thomas William Robertson, the father of theatre management and realism in Victorian theatre, the focus is placed on his adaptations of French plays and his incorporation of the formula of the well-made play and its conventional dramatic devices into his original, and most successful, plays, Society and Caste. The paper also examines the critical response to the well-made play in England and dramatists who use its formula, especially from the point of view of George Bernard Shaw, who famously called the French plays of Scribe and Victorien Sardou—“Sardoodledom.”
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Kardiansyah, M. Yuseano. "English Drama in the Late of Victorian Period (1880-1901): Realism in Drama Genre Revival." TEKNOSASTIK 15, no. 2 (October 18, 2019): 64. http://dx.doi.org/10.33365/ts.v15i2.100.
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A progressive growth in literature was seen significantly during Victorian period. These decades also saw an overdue revival of drama, in which the existence of drama was started to improve when entering late of Victorian period. Along with that situation, Thomas William Robertson (1829-1871) emerged as a popular drama writer at that time besides the coming of Henrik Ibsen’s works in 1880’s. However, Robertson’s popularity was defeated by other dramatists during late of Victorian period (1880-1901), drama writer like Oscar Wilde (1854-1900). Beside Wilde, there were several well known dramatists during late of Victorian period. Dramatists as Shaw, Jones, and Pinero were also influential toward the development of drama at that time. In the discussion of English drama development, role of late Victorian period’s dramatists was really important toward the development of modern drama. Their works and efforts really influenced the triumph of realism and development of drama after Victorian period ended. Therefore, the development of drama during late of Victorian period is discussed in this particular writing, due to the important roles of dramatist such as Wilde, Shaw, Pinero, and Jones. Here, their roles to the revival of English drama and the trend of realism in the history of English literature are very important.
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Shcherbak, Nina F. "Diversity of Genre in Post-Colonial Literature." Polylinguality and Transcultural Practices 18, no. 3 (September 10, 2021): 295–300. http://dx.doi.org/10.22363/2618-897x-2021-18-3-295-300.
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The main aim of this article is to outline main tendencies in the development of post-colonial literature in the face of Jean Rhys and her novel Wide Sargasso Sea as a vivid example of starting attempt to break a white-domineering view of Asian countries and build up a new identity. Research attempts to refer to a wider scope of literary texts, including the ones that outline issues and problems related to the so-called invasion narratives. The term invasion narratives is seen as referring to a number of different texts, including English Patient by Michael Ondaatje or the Reader by Bernhard Schlink. One of numerous possibilities of analyzing post-colonial literature is the analysis of the novels by Zadie Smith White Teeth and on Beauty, the latter being a good example of a return to realism and actualizing what is called coined as the meanwhile. Special attention is given to meta-modernism and its function on the contemporary cultural and literary scene, above all with its attempt to start a neo-romantic direct kind of prose, or verse, simple in its form, yet aiming to construct new identities. This kind of prose incorporates the narratives exploring different traumas, including trans-generational traumas.
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Stanton, Domna C. "From Imperialism to Collaboration: How Do We Get There?" PMLA/Publications of the Modern Language Association of America 117, no. 5 (October 2002): 1266–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.1632/003081202x61160.
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I want to begin with some anecdotal facts:Item: a first-year seminar on multiethnicity in New York is taught at Barnard College only by the English faculty.Item: a senior seminar on epic and romance in the Middle Ages, announced in the fall 2002 offerings of the University of Michigan's English department, will include works by Chrétien de Troyes and Marie de France, but the only texts to be read in the original language are in Middle English.Item: a comparative literature course on modernism, magical realism, and postmodernism at the University of Michigan for fall 2002 will read texts by Proust, Kafka, Mann, Borges, García Márquez, Tekin, Calvino, and Pamuk in English only
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Wang, Jieqing. "A Study of the Impacts of Participating in the “CCTV CUP” English Public Speaking Contest on the Contestants." Chinese Journal of Applied Linguistics 36, no. 4 (October 22, 2013): 495–504. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/cjal-2013-0033.
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Abstract Up to now there still lacks relevant study on what role participating in English public speaking contests plays in cultivating students’ English public speaking ability and the instruction of this course. The “CCTV CUP” English public speaking contest is one of the most important contests of this field. Despite a few studies on the “CCTV CUP” in the literature, none of them has focused on the contestants’ perspective. This paper first attempts to describe the “CCTV CUP” English public speaking contest from the perspective of sociocultural theory and social realism. Then it takes 7 final contestants’ “reactions to participating in the contest” for analysis, focusing on what impacts participating in this contest brought on them. The results show that participating in the “CCTV CUP” English public speaking contest not only deepened the contestants’ understandings about English public speaking, but brought significant harvests at ability training, and the increase of life experience and wisdom. At last, it gives relevant suggestions on the instruction of English public speaking course.
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Mahlberg, Michaela, Viola Wiegand, Peter Stockwell, and Anthony Hennessey. "Speech-bundles in the 19th-century English novel." Language and Literature: International Journal of Stylistics 28, no. 4 (November 2019): 326–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0963947019886754.
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We propose a lexico-grammatical approach to speech in fiction based on the centrality of ‘fictional speech-bundles’ as the key element of fictional talk. To identify fictional speech-bundles, we use three corpora of 19th-century fiction that are available through the corpus stylistic web application CLiC (Corpus Linguistics in Context). We focus on the ‘quotes’ subsets of the corpora, i.e. text within quotation marks, which is mostly equivalent to direct speech. These quotes subsets are compared across the fiction corpora and with the spoken component of the British National Corpus 1994. The comparisons illustrate how fictional speech-bundles can be described on a continuum from lexical bundles in real spoken language to repeated sequences of words that are specific to individual fictional characters. Typical functions of fictional speech-bundles are the description of interactions and interpersonal relationships of fictional characters. While our approach crucially depends on an innovative corpus linguistic methodology, it also draws on theoretical insights into spoken grammar and characterisation in fiction in order to question traditional notions of realism and authenticity in fictional speech.
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Pollack, Sarah. "After Bolaño: Rethinking the Politics of Latin American Literature in Translation." PMLA/Publications of the Modern Language Association of America 128, no. 3 (May 2013): 660–67. http://dx.doi.org/10.1632/pmla.2013.128.3.660.
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On 25 november 2012, when the united states novelist jonathan franzen opened mexico's feria internacional del libro de guadalajara, he spoke of his experience of reading Latin American fiction. Asked about the region's representation through literature in English translation, Franzen stated that, magic realism having now “run its course,” Roberto Bolaño had become the “new face of Latin America.” Franzen's words echo what has almost become a commonplace in the United States over the last five years: naming Bolaño “the Gabriel García Márquez of our time” (Moore), after the publication by Farrar, Straus and Giroux of the translations of Los detectives salvajes (1998; The Savage Detectives [2007]) and his posthumous 2666 (2004; 2666 [2008]). Bolaño is also considered by many writers, critics, and readers in Latin America to be “reigning as the new paradigm” (Volpi, sec. 3). If in the United States market, through the synecdoche of literary commodification, García Márquez's revolutionary Cien años de soledad (1967; One Hundred Years of Solitude [1970]) and, specifically, the magic realism of his fictional Macondo came to stand in for the diverse literary projects of Latin American authors in the 1960s, one must ask if a similar operation is taking place with Bolaño. While the number of translated Latin American literary works continues to be limited and most “go virtually unnoticed” (“Translation Database”), the significance of Bolaño's place at the center of a new canon in translation is magnified and necessitates inquiring into how his critical success in the United States market may be shifting the politics of translation of other texts. As a critic announced in 2011, “a second Latin American literature Boom is happening … [that] probably owes its existence to the explosion of the late-Chilean author Roberto Bolaño, whose popularity re-opened the door to North American publishing houses for Latin American authors” (Rosenthal).
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Hemminger, Bill. "BOOK REVIEW: Ed. Elsa Linguanti et al.COTERMINOUS WORLDS: MAGICAL REALISM AND CONTEMPORARY POST-COLONIAL LITERATURE IN ENGLISH. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1999." Research in African Literatures 32, no. 4 (December 2001): 222–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.2979/ral.2001.32.4.222.
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Oskina, Nataliia, and Raisa Martynova. "ON THE ISSUE OF RENDERING STYLISTIC COLORING OF COCKNEY DIALECT IN TRANSLATION." Naukovy Visnyk of South Ukrainian National Pedagogical University named after K. D. Ushynsky: Linguistic Sciences 2019, no. 29 (November 2019): 216–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.24195/2616-5317-2019-29-16.
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The presented article is aimed at elaborating the problem of specific stylistic coloring achieved by the employment of the Cockney dialect in English literature in the 19th century. The main objective of the paper consists in investigating the stylistic value of the Cockney rhymed dialect as the powerful expressive means in the English literature of realism as well as the possible ways of its rendering in artistic translation. The results of the carried-out research have proved that there exist common strategies and techniques of both employing Cockney in English literature of the given period and reproducing it in literary interpretations. The practical value of the research lies in the fact that the conclusions may be applied in the educational activity, namely in the course of English stylistics. The urgency of this paper arises from the need for all-sided review of difficulties of translating belles-lettres works in contemporary translation studies. The object of the work is a Cockney dialect viewed in the aspect of its translatability. The subject is the specific stylistic function of Cockney dialect in B. Shaw's play. The immediate tasks of the article have been predetermined by the above-mentioned objective and include respectively: the disclosure of the specifics of Cockney dialect; the outline of the strategies and tactics of translating Cockney in belles-lettres works. The methodology of this research involved the inductive and deductive methods, the method of contrastive analysis and ethnic methodological conversation analysis. In the course of the research it has been concluded and experimentally and statistically proved that there exist common strategies and tactics of translating Cockney. It has also been postulated that the pragmatic and the expressive potential of Cockney is rendered in translation. The perspective is seen in reviewing the peculiarities of rendering Cockney in literary interpretations in various Western and Oriental languages.
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Nadal, Paul. "A Literary Remittance: Juan C. Laya’s His Native Soil and the Rise of Realism in the Filipino Novel in English." American Literature 89, no. 3 (August 16, 2017): 591–626. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/00029831-4160906.
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Kinkley, Jeffrey C. "The Monster That Is History: History, Violence, and Fictional Writing in Twentieth-Century China. By David Der-Wei Wang. [Berkeley, Los Angeles and London: University of California Press, 2004. 402 pp. ISBN 0-520-23140-6.]." China Quarterly 182 (June 2005): 439–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0305741005270261.
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This celebration of modern Chinese literature is a tour de force, David Wang's third major summation in English. He is even more prolific in Chinese. Wang's command of the creative and critical literatures is unrivalled.Monster's subject is “the multivalence of Chinese violence across the past century”: not 1960s “structural violence” or postcolonial “epistemic violence,” but hunger, suicide, anomie, betrayal (though not assassination or incarceration), and “the violence of representation”: misery that reflects or creates monstrosity in history. Monster thus comments on “history and memory,” like Ban Wang's and Yomi Braester's recent efforts, although for historical reasons modern Chinese literature studies are allergic to historical and sociological methodologies.Monster is comparative, mixing diverse – sometimes little read – post-May Fourth and Cold War-era works with pieces from the 19th and 20th fins de siècle. Each chapter is a free associative rhapsody (sometimes brilliant, sometimes tedious; often neo-Freudian), evoking, from a recurring minor detail as in new historicist criticism, a major binary trope or problematic for Wang to “collapse” or blur. His forte is making connections between works. The findings: (1) decapitation (loss of a “head,” or guiding consciousness?) in Chinese fiction betokens remembering or “re-membering” (of the severed), as in an unfinished Qing novel depicting beheaded Boxers, works by Lu Xun and Shen Congwen, and Wuhe's 2000 commemoration of a 1930 Taiwanese aboriginal uprising; (2) justice is poetic, but equals punishment, even crime, in late Qing castigatory novels, Bai Wei, and several Maoist writers; (3) in revolutionary literature, love and revolution blur, as do love affairs in life with those in fiction; (4) hunger, indistinct from anorexia, is excess; witness “starved” heroines of Lu Xun, Lu Ling, Eileen Chang and Chen Yingzhen; (5) remembering scars creates scars, as in socialist realism, Taiwan's anticommunist fiction, and post-Mao scar literature; (6) in fiction about evil (late Ming and late Qing novels; Jiang Gui), inhumanity is all too human and sex blurs with politics; (7) suicide can be a poet's immortality, from Wang Guowei to Gu Cheng; (8) cultural China's most creative new works invoke ghosts again, obscuring lines between the human, the “real,” and the spectral.
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Wenzel, M. "Crossing spatial and temporal boundaries: Three women in search of a future." Literator 21, no. 3 (April 26, 2000): 23–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.4102/lit.v21i3.493.
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The past has become a focal point in contemporary South African discourse, in public debate, newspaper articles and various forms of literature. South African literature written during the eighties and nineties, in particular English and Afrikaans novels, effectively portray this climate of confrontation and reconciliation by engaging in dialogue with the past and history. This article traces the evolution of political consciousness in the female protagonists of A Sport of Nature (1987) by Nadine Gordimer, Die reise van Isobelle (1996) by Elsa Joubert and Imaginings of Sand (1997) by André Brink. All three novelists subvert the traditional stereotypes of white women: Gordimer in an ironic quasi-picaresque form, Joubert by staging a family saga that assumes a testimonial quality and Brink in a fictionalised meta-history of women interwoven with strands of magic realism. The novels all engage with history, and in particular the role of women in history, in a constructive manner and attempt to anticipate a positive scenario for the future.
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Bolin, J. S. "Thresholds of the Novel: Realism, the Inhuman, the Ethical in J. M. Coetzee's Foe." Novel 51, no. 3 (November 1, 2018): 438–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/00295132-7086481.
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Abstract The end of a novel is the site of particular epistemic privilege. If the form is governed by a biographical master plot, the “meaning of the life,” as Benjamin has it, is “revealed only in [the] death” that is the plot's narrative limit—and beyond this limit “the novelist . . . cannot hope to take the smallest step.” Such a limit is seemingly crossed in one of the most difficult and quite possibly the strangest of passages in J. M. Coetzee's fiction: the ending of Foe. This book's self-conscious re-presentation of the origins of the English novel (and of Defoe's inauguration of the genre's biographical pattern) culminates in a surreal encounter that Coetzee's readers have claimed limns a restorative justice or a utopic futurity. But these interpretations ignore the text's insistence on a silence that overwhelms language, the specter of mass death, and a summative darkness that attend upon this place. What might it mean, in fact, for Foe's ending to cross the Novel's thresholds only to stage a total “blackout” of the realist novel's meaning-producing mechanism and the story of individual experience the genre has valorized? This article draws on Coetzee's unpublished notebooks and the Foe ur-text to argue that the novel proposes an impossible crossing, whereby key strategies we have used to value the genre—its capacity to summon countervoices or to invoke an ethical response to alterity—are shadowed by a radical question about the limits of our readerly attention.
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Zelezinskaya, N. S. "Dialogues with teenagers. Jay Asher." Voprosy literatury, no. 5 (December 19, 2018): 126–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.31425/0042-8795-2018-5-126-152.
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The article examines the prose of the US writer J. Asher, a popular author of young adult novels, who does not hesitate to bring up issues such as teenage suicides, peer relationships, social networks, etc. Considering Asher’s works in the context of contemporary young adult literature in the English language, N. Zelezinskaya singles out their defining features, such as plasticity of material, realism of descriptions and motivations, the use of multiple interwoven plotlines, experimentations with the form, elements of science fiction (e. g. characters travelling to the future), etc. Along with treatment of highly relevant and even poignant subjects, those are the reasons why Asher remains popular with teenage readers and keeps meeting their expectations with his new work.
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Scott, Jeremy. "Midlands cadences: Narrative voices in the work of Alan Sillitoe." Language and Literature: International Journal of Stylistics 25, no. 4 (November 2016): 312–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0963947016645001.
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This paper will examine excerpts from a range of Alan Sillitoe’s prose fiction, Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (1958) and short stories from the collection The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner (1958), via a comparative exploration of the texts’ representations of Midlands English demotic. The narrative discourse traces a link between the experience of the Midlands English working classes represented and the demotic language they speak; the narrators have voices redolent of registers rooted in 1950s English working-class life. The texts also contain different methods of representing their protagonists’ consciousness through the demotic idiolects that they speak. Sillitoe’s is a novelistic discourse which refuses to normalise itself to accord with the conventions of classic realism, and as such prefigures the ambitions of many contemporary writers who incline their narrative voices towards the oral – asserting the right of a character’s dialect/idiolect to be the principal register of the narrative. The paper will demonstrate this thesis through the ideas of Bakhtin, and through an analytical taxonomy derived from literary stylistics. It aims to propose a model which can be used to analyse and explore any fiction which has been labelled as ‘working-class’, and asserts that such an approach leads to a more principled characterisation of working-class fiction (based on its use of language) than current literary-critical discussions based simply on cultural/social context and biography.
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Morey, Peter. "“Halal fiction” and the limits of postsecularism: Criticism, critique, and the Muslim in Leila Aboulela’s Minaret." Journal of Commonwealth Literature 53, no. 2 (February 13, 2017): 301–15. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0021989416689295.
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This article examines Leila Aboulela’s 2005 novel Minaret, considering the extent to which it can be seen as an example of a postsecular text. The work has been praised by some as one of the most cogent attempts to communicate a life of Islamic faith in the English language novel form. Others have expressed concern about what they perceive as its apparent endorsement of submissiveness and a secondary status for women, along with its silence on some of the more thorny political issues facing Islam in the modern world. I argue that both these readings are shaped by the current “market” for Muslim novels, which places on such texts the onus of being “authentically representative”. Moreover, while apparently underwriting claims to authenticity, Aboulela’s technique of unvarnished realism requires of the reader the kind of suspension of disbelief in the metaphysical that appears to run contrary to the secular trajectory of the English literary novel in the last 300 years. I take issue with binarist versions of the postsecular thesis that equate the post-Enlightenment West with relentless desacralization and the “Islamic world” with a persistent collectivist and spiritual outlook, and suggest that we pay more attention to fundamental narrative elements which recur across the supposed West/East divide. Historically simplistic understandings of the secularization of culture — followed in the last few years by a postsecular turn — misrepresent the actual evolution of the novel. The “religious” persists, albeit transmuted into symbolic schema and themes of material or emotional redemption. I end by arguing for the renewed relevance of the kind of analysis of literary “archetypes” suggested by Northrop Frye, albeit disentangled from its specifically Christian resonances and infused by more attention to cultural cross-pollination. It is this type of approach that seems more accurately to account for the peculiarities of Aboulela’s fiction.
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Zatorska, Izabella. "Le mythe de Paul et Virginie à travers trois romans francophones de l’océan Indien." Romanica Wratislaviensia 65 (August 4, 2020): 169–83. http://dx.doi.org/10.19195/0557-2665.65.14.
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Ex oriente lux? From the Southern Tropics in any case, since certain myths from former times, forgotten and buried under indifference, come back to us rejuvenated and transformed. In this article, we treat one myth — ‘myth’ given the extent of its cultural hypertext — which arose, strangely but almost necessarily, in an ancient French colony: the Île-de-France (Mauritius). It may seem fairly obvious that Paul and Virginie (hero and heroine of Bernardin de Saint-Pierre’s eponymous novel) should have returned to haunt the literature of the Île-de-France and her “sister island”, La Réunion. We examine three novels: the first transcribes the idyllic couple in terms of a realism based on a form of local colour (Georges Azéma, Noëlla, 1874). The second ends up destroying the pastoral eclogue of Bernardin de Saint-Pierre (Loys Masson, Les Noces de la vanille, 1962, English title: The Overseer). The third novel, Le Chercheur d’or by J.M.G. Le Clézio (1985, English title: The Collector), abandons the island setting in order to preserve the myth. Whether colonial or postcolonial, the old myth, dressed in new clothes, invites us to a dialogue between different centuries and different cultures.
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Amigoni, D. "Review: Darwin Below, George Eliot on Top: The Tenuous Holding Ground of Victorian Realism * Philip Davis: The Oxford English Literary History, Vol. VIII: 1830-1880: The Victorians." Cambridge Quarterly 33, no. 1 (January 1, 2004): 81–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/camqtly/33.1.81.
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Lian, Min. "Analysis of Dickens' Critique and Humanity Spirit in Oliver Twist Based on the Appraisal Theory." Theory and Practice in Language Studies 8, no. 8 (August 1, 2018): 1050. http://dx.doi.org/10.17507/tpls.0808.19.
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As the greatest representative of English critical realism, Charles Dickens’ novel Oliver Twist reflects the complex social reality in his time and manifests the author’s humanity spirit especially to the poor and the lower class. The paper uses the attitude sub-system in appraisal theory as analytical framework, chooses the attitude resources related to the protagonist Oliver as research material, mainly analyzes his personality characteristics at lexical level. The study aims to reveal the author’s humanity spirit that lurked in the discourse after construing Oliver’s image in that social background and his critique spirit to the society, in the hope of deepening our understanding of the significance of the theme of the novel, and providing a linguistic reference for the appreciation of literature work. At the same time, this study further confirms the value of appraisal theory in discourse analysis and appreciation.
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Bowen-Withington, Julie, Shelaine Zambas, Rachel Macdiarmid, Catherine Cook, and Stephen Neville. "Integration of high-fidelity simulation into undergraduate nursing education in Aotearoa New Zealand and Australia: An integrative literature review." Nursing Praxis Aotearoa New Zealand 36, no. 3 (November 2020): 37–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.36951/27034542.2020.013.
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In undergraduate nursing education, low to high-fidelity simulations are used to prepare students for clinical placement and work readiness. This review provides a synthesis of what is known about the use of high-fidelity simulation in Aotearoa New Zealand and Australian undergraduate nursing education programmes. The aim of this review is to evaluate and synthesise the existing evidence about the use of high-fidelity simulation in these programmes. An integrative literature review methodology was used. Specific search terms and specific inclusion/exclusion criteria were applied to academic databases EBSCO, Medline, CINAHL, and the search engine Google Scholar. Electronic databases were searched for peer reviewed empirical research articles published in English (2000 – 2020), undertaken in Aotearoa New Zealand and Australia. Sixteen studies met the inclusion criteria. The main themes identified from this review included: i) realism and high-fidelity simulation; ii) resource implications; iii) preparation of simulation scenarios; iv) simulation for clinical preparedness; and v) students’ difficulties with simulation. In conclusion, simulation-based experiences continue to be used to support undergraduate nursing student learning. There is a shift from technical skill acquisition to soft skill development such as communication and teamwork. This review suggests that while high-fidelity simulation has benefits, it is resource-intensive, both in terms of equipment, and in the time required for educators to develop scenarios and learning packages. Nonetheless, students remain positive about simulation-based education that is well facilitated.
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Martin, Xavier. "La littérature à l'épreuve du réel : les jeux de Pascal Quignard avec les Lettres." Bergen Language and Linguistics Studies 10, no. 1 (November 7, 2019): 11. http://dx.doi.org/10.15845/bells.v10i1.1431.
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The novel Les Larmes, by French writer Pascal Quignard, takes place in the ninth century, two twin brothers make totally different choices of life. Hartnid is always on the go. His twin, Nithard, is a pure scholar. His life is devoted to language. It is precisely his involment in language that allows him to write something that was never written before. He writes the Serments de Strasbourg (English: Oaths of Strasbourg, Latin: Sacramenta Argentariae) in 842, first written marks of a language that will become the French language.
This novel offers a unique opportunity to sketch a thought on the ability of literature to speak about our relationship to reality.
The first part of the article questions the gesture of the novelist who acts on himself and on reality when writing, he really tries to change the world.
The second part of the article studies the notion of realism and shows how Quignard finds a place in the history of literature that, today, stays away from realism, but, maybe, in order to better track down reality.
Finally, in order to grasp the specificity of the Works of Quignard, my interest in the aesthetic of Les Larmes is threefold: its complex structure, the fascination for origin that it shows and, the question of identity and splitting with the twin brothers Hartnid and Nithard.
The article concludes on the ability of artists to anticipate in their creations and, in advance, to tell about events that will occur in the future.
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Brackley, James, Penelope Tuck, and Mark Exworthy. "Public health interventions in English local authorities: constructing the facts, (re)imagining the future." Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal 34, no. 7 (July 26, 2021): 1664–91. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/aaaj-11-2019-4278.
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PurposeThis paper examines the contested value of healthy life and wellbeing in a context of severe austerity, exploring how the value of “Public Health” is constructed through and with material-discursive practices and accounting representations. It seeks to explore the political and ethical implications of constructing the valuable through a shared consensus over the “facts” when addressing complex, multi-agency problems with long time horizons and outcomes that are not always easily quantifiable.Design/methodology/approachThe theorisation, drawing on science and technology studies (STS) scholars and Karen Barad's (2007) agential realism, opens up the analysis to the performativity of both material and discursive practices in the period following a major re-organisation of activity. The study investigates two case authorities in England and the national regulator through interviews, observations and documentary analysis.FindingsThe paper demonstrates the deeply ethical and political entanglements of accounting representations as objectivity, consensus and collective action are constructed and resisted in practice. It goes on to demonstrate the practical challenges of constructing “alternative accounts” and “intelligent accountabilities” through times of austerity towards a shared sense of public value and suggests austerity measures make such aims both more challenging and all the more essential.Originality/valueFew studies in the accounting literature have explored the full complexity of valuation practices in non-market settings, particularly in a public sector context; this paper, therefore, extends familiar conceptual vocabulary of STS inspired research to further explore how value(s), ethics and identity all play a crucial role in making things valuable.
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Mossman, Mark. "REPRESENTATIONS OF THE ABNORMAL BODY INTHE MOONSTONE." Victorian Literature and Culture 37, no. 2 (September 2009): 483–500. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1060150309090305.
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Wilkie Collins'sThe Moonstoneis anovel constructed through the repeated representation of the abnormal body. ReadingThe Moonstonein critical terms has traditionally required a primary engagement with form. The work has been defined as a foundational narrative in the genre of crime and detection and at the same time read as a narrative located within the context of the immensely popular group of sensation novels that dominate the Victorian literary marketplace through the middle and the second half of the nineteenth century. T. S. Eliot is one of the first readers to define one end of this paradigm, reading the novel as an original text in the genre of detective fiction, and famously saying thatThe Moonstoneis “the first, the longest and the best of modern English detective novels” (xii). On the other end of the paradigm, the novel's formal workings are again often cited as a larger example, and even triumph, of Victorian sensation fiction – melodramatic narratives built, according to Winifred Hughes and the more recent Derridean readings by Patrick Brantlinger and others, around a discursive cross-fertilization of romanticism, gothicism, and realism.
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Fabiszak, Jacek. "Sex-speare vs. Shake-speare: On Nudity and Sexuality in Some Screen and Stage Versions of Shakespeare’s Plays." Text Matters, no. 3 (November 1, 2013): 203–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/texmat-2013-0035.
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The article attempts to address the issue of nudity and eroticism in stage and screen versions of Shakespeare’s plays. Elizabethan theatrical conventions and moral and political censorship of the English Renaissance did not allow for an explicit presentation of naked bodies and sexual interactions on stage; rather, these were relegated to the verbal plane, hence the bawdy language Shakespeare employed on many occasions. Conventions play a significant role also in the present-day, post-1960s and post-sexual revolution era, whereby human sexuality in Western culture is not just alluded to, but discussed and presented in an open manner. Consequently, nudity on stage and screen in versions of Shakespeare’s plays has become more marked and outspoken. Indeed, in both filmic and TV productions as well as stage performances directors and actors more and more willingly have exposed human body and sexuality to the viewer/spectator. My aim is to look at such instances from the perspective of realism and realistic conventions that the three media deploy and the effect nudity/sex can have on the recipient. The conclusion is that theatre is most conventional and stark realism and directness of the message need to be carefully dosed. Similarly to the theatre, television, more specifically television theatre, is, too, a most direct genre, as television is inherently a live medium, the broadcasts of which occur here and now, in the present tense (ideally). Film is markedly different from the two previous forms of art: it is narrated in the past tense, thus creating a distance between what is shown and the viewer, and allowing for more literalness. Naturally, particular cases discussed in the article go beyond these rather simple divisions.
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Fatima Asif, Amimah. "Appraisal of National Response to Chronic Hepatitis in Pakistan." Journal of Islamabad Medical & Dental College 8, no. 1 (March 22, 2019): 3–7. http://dx.doi.org/10.35787/jimdc.v8i1.301.
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Chronic hepatitis has emerged as a grave health crisis in Pakistan that is becoming increasingly difficult to control. The national response in the public and private sector is lacking realism, direction and strategy. The aim of the present review was to analyze the efforts directed towards elimination of this menace, outline the challenges and make pragmatic recommendations. We searched PubMed, Google Scholar and Google web search for relevant indexed literature in English using the Mesh terms ‘Chronic Hepatitis’, ‘Pakistan’, ‘Hepatitis B’, ‘Hepatitis C’, ‘Hepatitis prevention’, ‘National hepatitis control’, etc. Rigorous efforts to improve the capacity of the primary healthcare establishments are pivotal to contain further spread of hepatitis B and C infections. Combating quackery, regulating the use of medical sharps and making affordable hepatitis treatment accessible to the masses should be the principal focus of the government. Healthcare delivery units should be equipped to render complete coverage of essential quality hepatitis services in order to curb this menace.
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Kurnick, David. "UNSPEAKABLE GEORGE ELIOT." Victorian Literature and Culture 38, no. 2 (May 6, 2010): 489–509. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1060150310000136.
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The very idea of Victoriancosmopolitanism might at first glance seem an oxymoron. Historically bracketed by a Romanticism that took political inspiration from France and intellectual cues from Germany and by a modernism whose most prominent “English” personnel were largely from overseas, the Victorians can look decidedly parochial. The most incisive recent attempts to link cosmopolitan thinking to specific formal or stylistic innovations have tended to leave the Victorians out of the picture. A recent essay by David Simpson, for example, nominates what he terms the Romantic “historical-geographical epic” as a critically cosmopolitan genre – one whose barrage of footnotes ruptures the surface of the text and ensures that even in surveying the exotic Other, Romantic epics guarantee that “the pleasure of poetry sits uneasily but inescapably alongside the burden of critique” (150). On the modernist side, Rebecca Walkowitz'sCosmopolitan Style(2006) has compellingly excavated the links between a host of modernist experimental practices and the project of thinking creatively outside national boundaries – reaching the conclusion that “there is no critical cosmopolitanism without modernist practices” (18). Neither Simpson nor Walkowitz deals with the Victorians in depth, but a certain idea of nineteenth-century realism hovers as the implicit contrast to the genres and practices they catalogue.
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Caymaz, Ebru, and Y. Barbaros Büyüksağnak. "An Analysis from the English School Perspective on conflict issues in the Arctic Region of the Russian Federation and the United States." Journal of Human Sciences 18, no. 1 (March 27, 2021): 76–93. http://dx.doi.org/10.14687/jhs.v18i1.6094.
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When the current literature on RF and the USA's Arctic doctrines, strategies and disputes are examined, it is seen that there are two basic approaches that provide analyzes from realist and liberal perspectives. A large body of these analyzes focus on singular and linear dimensions, primarily on energy security and military issues. The number of studies which examine the dimensions of the conflict from a realistic perspective and synthesize with the cooperation and governance offered by the liberal perspective is relatively low. There is a need for a more in-depth understanding of the region, so extensive studies involving multidisciplinary dimensions that can promote collaboration and expertise sharing as well as resolution of disputes among security actors. In this study, the subject dispute matters were examined from the perspective of English School, which can present a unique framework by synthesizing the traditions of realism, rationalism and revolutionism. In conclusion part, possible solution suggestions in accordance with the international law for the resolution of disputes are discussed within a broader framework offered by the English School perspective. In addition, the role and functions of the People's Republic of China (PRC) in the struggle for dominance of the region as the third actor, which led to various discussions with large–scale investments and cooperation agreements across the region, were also included. In today's world where power-based approaches are replaced by binding international rules, it is concluded that in order to develop the cooperation in the Arctic Region, the international community, especially in terms of the the littoral states; developing policies that support joint scientific studies and prioritize measures to increase the socio-economic conditions and human development levels of indigenous peoples and communities living in the region are more significant than being a commercial and economic gain center provided by the rich energy resources and new maritime trade routes which emerged due to global warming. Özet RF ve ABD’nin Arktik politika, doktrin, strateji ve uyuşmazlık konularını ele alan güncel literatür incelendiğinde realist ve liberal bakış açılarından analizler sunan iki temel yaklaşımın olduğu görülmektedir. Söz konusu analizlerin büyük bir kısmı başta enerji güvenliği ve askeri konular olmak üzere, tekil ve doğrusal boyutlar üzerine odaklanmaktadır. Uyuşmazlık boyutlarını realist bir bakış açısıyla irdeleyerek, liberal perspektifin sunduğu iş birliği ve yönetişimle sentezleyebilen çalışma sayısı ise oldukça azdır. Bölgeye yönelik daha derinlikli bir anlayışı, dolayısıyla, güvenlik aktörleri arasında uyuşmazlıkların çözümünün yanı sıra iş birliği ve uzmanlık paylaşımını teşvik edebilecek çok disiplinli boyutların analize dâhil edildiği kapsamlı çalışmalara ihtiyaç bulunmaktadır. Bu çalışmada bahsi geçen uyuşmazlık konuları, gerçekçilik (realism), akılcılık (rationalism) ve devrimcilik (revolutionism) geleneklerini sentezleyerek özgün bir çerçeve sunabilen İngiliz Okulu perspektifinden irdelenmiştir. Sonuç bölümünde anlaşmazlıkların çözümü için uluslararası hukuka uygun olası çözüm önerileri İngiliz Okulu yaklaşımının sunduğu daha geniş kapsamlı bir çerçevede tartışılmıştır. Ayrıca bölgeye yönelik büyük çaplı yatırımları ve iş birliği anlaşmaları ile çeşitli tartışmalara yol açan Çin Halk Cumhuriyeti’nin (ÇHC) üçüncü aktör olarak bölge hâkimiyet mücadelesindeki rolü ve işlevi de incelemeye dâhil edilmiştir. Güç temelli yaklaşımların yerini, bağlayıcılığı bulunan uluslararası kuralların aldığı günümüzde Arktik Bölgesi’ndeki iş birliği potansiyelinin geliştirilebilmesi için başta kıyıdaş devletler olmak üzere uluslararası toplumun; küresel ısınma nedeniyle ortaya çıkan zengin enerji kaynaklarının ve yeni deniz ulaşım / ticaret yollarının sunduğu ticari ve ekonomik bir kazanç merkezi olmaktan ziyade ortak bilimsel çalışmaları destekleyen ve bölgede yaşayan yerli halkların ve toplulukların sosyoekonomik koşullarını ve insani gelişim düzeylerini artıracak önlemleri önceleyen politikalar geliştirmelerinin daha önemli olduğu sonucuna ulaşılmıştır.
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Van der Elst, J. "De miskenning van Theo van Doesburg; zijn bijdrage tot de ontwikkeling van de konkrete poëzie." Literator 8, no. 1 (May 7, 1987): 1–15. http://dx.doi.org/10.4102/lit.v8i1.856.
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More literary critics outside Belgium and the Netherlands have written about Theo van Doesburg than from inside these countries. The first important monograph on him appeared in English - Theo van Doesburg - Propagandist and Practitioner of the Avant-Garde, 1909-1923, by Hannah Hedrick. Van Doesburg’s poetry developed in the direction of concrete poetry - the type of poetry in which the spatial, acoustic and visual characteristics of language are maximally utilized towards the creation of the poem. Word as sound and as image is foregrounded in concrete poetry, while the imaging of persons and subjective experience is eliminated as far as possible. The anecdotal or the epic component of the concrete poem is minimal and the language of this sort of poem has been reduced to the minimum. In the spirit of the theory of concrete poetry Van Doesburg advocates the liberation of art from all the commitments imposed upon it. That with which Van Doesburg began was continued by other poets, especially in Germanic literature by poets of the so-called neo-realism.
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Davidson, Clifford. "Tim Spiekerman. Shakespeare's Political Realism: The English History Plays Albany: State University of New York Press, 2001. x + 208 pp. $16.95. ISBN: 0-7914-4868-1." Renaissance Quarterly 55, no. 2 (2002): 766–67. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/1262363.
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Chapman, Raymond. "How accessible is English literature?" English Today 3, no. 2 (April 1987): 38–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0266078400002935.
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Boborykina, Tatiana A. "Tarnished Virtues: From Richardson to Beardsley." Dostoevsky and world culture. Philological journal, no. 3 (2021): 98–120. http://dx.doi.org/10.22455/2541-7894-2021-3-98-120.
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The starting point of the article is a statement about “tarnished virtues” by one of the characters of Poor Folk, Fyodor Dostoevsky’s first novel. The word combination evokes various associations, allusions, and numerous variants of interpretation. A remark on virtues made in the frame of an epistolary novel immediately recalls the novels of a coryphaeus of the genre, 18th-Century English writer Samuel Richardson, especially his first one, in which the word “virtue” appears in the title – Pamela Or, Virtue Rewarded. However, Richardson’s comprehension of virtue seems to be quite narrow, a fact that had been already noticed by his contemporary writer Henry Fielding, who wrote a parody on Pamela. A brief analysis of the parody discovers a common vision on the nature of virtue by both Fielding and Dostoevsky, which becomes even clearer when one finds out their mutual reference point – Cervantes’ Don Quixote. The article explores other novels by Richardson, his influence upon European literature as well as his inner correlation with such writers as Karamzin and Pushkin. Besides, the article investigates the question – raised by its author some years ago – of a certain similarity between the plotlines of Clarissa and Poor Folk, the appearance of “Lovelace” in Dostoevsky’s first book, and the sudden turn of the plot from Richardson’s glorification of virtue to Dostoevsky’s dramatic realism. A few interpretations of Poor Folk are briefly analyzed, including that of Aubrey Beardsley, who illustrated the novel. Several explanations of the sentence on “tarnished virtues” are explored, and finally, the author offers a new one.
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Solhi Andarab, Mehdi. "The content analysis of the English as an international language-targeted coursebooks: English literature or literature in English?" Cypriot Journal of Educational Sciences 14, no. 1 (March 28, 2019): 69–79. http://dx.doi.org/10.18844/cjes.v14i1.3930.
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The integration of literature and literary works has always played an undeniable role in language education. Despite the existence of a wealth of literature in non-native English-speaking countries, in the majority of the coursebooks, the entire attention is devoted to literary works of the native English-speaking countries. In this study, five coursebooks claiming to be based on English as an international language (EIL) were randomly selected and analysed to investigate to what extent they have incorporated the literatures of native and non-native English-speaking countries. The criteria for the content analysis of the claimed EIL-based coursebooks were based on Kachru’s Tri-Partide Model to categorise the countries, and culture with a small c and Culture with a capital C dichotomy. Results indicated that although the chosen coursebook purports to be based on EIL, less or nearly no attention is given to the literary works of the non-native speakers of English.
Keywords: ELT coursebooks, English as an international language, Kachru’s Tri-Partide model, literature in English
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Aliyev, Ilqar. "NOTES ON COMPARATİVE TYPOLOGY OF MYTHOPOETİC PROSE AT THE JUNCTİON OF THE XX-XXI CENTURİES (BASED ON AZERBAİJANİ AND ENGLİSH PROSE)." EurasianUnionScientists 7, no. 6(75) (July 21, 2020): 34–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.31618/esu.2413-9335.2020.7.75.876.
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The article compares the historical-literary, structural, semantic and functional aspects of mythopoetic prose at the junction of the XX-XXI centuries on the basis of Azerbaijani and English literature. The article touches on the common and different features of the mythopoetic style formed in different socio-historical and ethno-cultural environments in Azerbaijani and English national literature at that time, the peculiarities of content, genre, originality of compositional concepts, realist, modernist, and postmodernist literary currents emphasize the appeal of myth. The article substantiates the importance of comparative study of the mythopoetic style, literary-theoretical and literary-historical significance, which became one of the leading directions of development in Azerbaijani, English and world literature at that historical stage.
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THIEME, J., P. POLLARD, A. SMITH, C. A. HOWELLS, S. CHEW, J. P. DURIX, and C. DURIX. "New Literatures in English." Year's Work in English Studies 68, no. 1 (January 1, 1990): 701–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ywes/68.1.701.
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THIEME, J., P. POLLARD, A. SMITH, C. A. HOWELLS, S. CHEW, J. P. DURLX, and C. DURIX. "New Literatures in English." Year's Work in English Studies 69, no. 1 (January 1, 1991): 677–755. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ywes/69.1.677.
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POLLARD, P., G. RAINES, C. A. HOWELLS, J. THIEME, S. CHEW, K. SINGH, J. P. DURIX, and C. DURIX. "New Literatures in English." Year's Work in English Studies 70, no. 1 (January 1, 1992): 693–793. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ywes/70.1.693.
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MORGAN, L., G. RAINES, C. A. HOWELLS, P. BURNETT, J. P. DURIX, and C. DURIX. "New Literatures in English." Year's Work in English Studies 71, no. 1 (January 1, 1993): 673–762. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ywes/71.1.673.
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HOWELLS, C. A., G. RAINES, P. LANGRAN, P. BURNETT, J. P. DURIX, and C. DURIX. "New Literatures in English." Year's Work in English Studies 72, no. 1 (January 1, 1993): 510–91. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ywes/72.1.510.
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ABODUNRIN, F., G. RAINES, P. LANGRAN, and C. DURIX. "New Literatures in English." Year's Work in English Studies 73, no. 1 (January 1, 1995): 638–702. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ywes/73.1.638.
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