Academic literature on the topic 'Leprosy in fiction'

Формирование образа будущего писатели-фантасты начинают с постановки вопроса: «Кто такой человек?». В центре художественного исследования авторов повести «Гадкие лебеди» (1967) - самые актуальные проблемы сегодняшнего дня: содержание и смысл «человеческого» в человеке, формирование нравственной «арматуры» личности в подростковом возрасте, соотношение этики и интеллекта в системе ценностей молодого поколения, роль и статус учителя в период взросления. В статье рассматриваются особенности художественной репрезентации образов подростков в аксиологическом аспекте: исследуются условия формирования сознания «вундеркиндов» и причины их коллективной дивергенции. В повести логика работы предполагает движение аналитики от генезиса подросткового сознания, обусловленного мотивами распада дома и семьи, интенсивного взросления под влиянием интеллектуального авторитета «мокрецов»-идеологов, к интерпретации смысла заглавия повести в перспективе интертекстуального диалога с одной из самых известных сказок Г. Х. Андерсена в контексте нравственно-этической проблематики (повесть была впервые опубликована в 1986 году под заглавием «Прекрасный утенок»). Культурно-исторический метод исследования в сочетании с методикой филологического анализа текста позволили сделать вывод о том, что экзистенциальная сторона мировосприятия подростков в повести проявляется как экстенсивное переживание нигилизма, основанного на отрицании базовых понятий социокультурного бытия взрослых, а духовная аскеза и интеллектуальное развитие без нравственно-этической доминанты приводят к личностной деформации - распаду души и гибели Человека. Science fiction writers begin shaping the image of the future by asking the question: “What is the human like?”. In the center of artistic research of the authors of the story “The Ugly Swans” (1967) are the most pressing problems of the present day: the content and meaning of the “human” in a person, the formation of a moral “frame” of the personality in adolescence, the correlation of ethics and intellect in the value system of the younger generation, the role and status of the teacher during growing up. Тhe paper dwells upon the peculiarities of artistic representation of the image of a teenager in the axiological aspect: the conditions for the formation of young “prodigies” consciousness and the reasons for their collective divergence. The analysis of the work goes from the genesis of adolescent consciousness conditioned by the motives of the disintegration of home and family, the intensive maturation influenced by the intellectual authority of the “four-eyes”-ideologists (leper people suffering from disfiguring “yellow leprosy” manifesting itself as yellow circles around the eyes), to the interpretation of the meaning of the title of the story in the perspective of an intertextual dialogue with one of the most famous fairy tales by Hans.Chrisitian h. Andersen in the context of moral and ethical issues (the story was first published in 1986 under the title “The Beautiful Duckling”). The cultural-historical research method in combination with the method of philological analysis of the text made it possible to conclude that the existential side of the adolescents’ worldview is manifested as an extensive experience of nihilism based on the denial of the basic foundations of the socio-cultural being of adults, and spiritual asceticism and intellectual development without moral and ethical dominant leads to personal deformation - the decay of the soul and death of the Human.

This work takes as its central "conceit" a specific cultural site, namely a small town choir-- The Emu Park and District Amateur Choral Society Inc., which operates in Central Queensland, circa 1965. A discontinuous narrative of interconnected short stories of one chapter each, highlight significant and often highly traumatic aspects of the interconnected lives of selected choir members. The narrative lampoons the English choral tradition against the setting of a society which does not deal with the political and social negativities of Queensland in the sixties. It is a culture in denial. The comedy deals with the often banal, though always good natured, behaviours of the choir members in dealing with often black-edged lives. An Overture introduces all characters, while Acts I, II & III deal with individual's stories. The Finale deals with the outcome of rehearsals in a culminating performance of the Emu Park and District Amateur Choral Society Incorporated. The short stories, one to a chapter, concern individual choir member's life stories and form discreet, fully finished pieces of work in their own right. Background action throughout the stories involves a series of rehearsals which structurally tie all the narratives to the final chapter. Lyrics of popular songs of the 1900's through to early 1960's are mentioned within the text. For copyright reasons the texts are not reproduced in full. However, these lyrics do comment tangentially on some aspect of the character's story.