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Journal articles on the topic "Literature, stories, plots, etc"
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Kumar, Prem. "Intertextuality in Nāṭya Literature: Un-wrapping the Riddle of Historical Imagery and Literary Citations in Śūdraka’s Mṛcchakaṭikam." YMER Digital 21, no. 02 (February 3, 2022): 32–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.37896/ymer21.02/04.
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Intertextuality is widely used in the production of various genres of literature in India. It is most widely used in smṛti literature. The present article explores intertextuality in Mṛcchakaṭikam, which is one of the important nātya literatures of the Gupta period. In this play, Intertextuality is expressed in direct and indirect ways in the adoption of plots, subplots, characters, incidents, etc. Stories, fictions, mythologies, histories, texts, authors, characters all feed on intertextuality. The author of the play knew the basic historical and literary information that he invoked in his plays as references, quotations, allusions, examples etc. to authenticate his writings.
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Vdovin, Alexey. "THE MODELS OF PEASANT AGENCY IN FICTION FOR COMMON PEOPLE IN THE RUSSIAN EMPIRE, 1839–1861." Children's Readings: Studies in Children's Literature 23 (2023): 269–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.31860/2304-5817-2023-23-1-269-298.
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The traditional narrative on the history of public education and reading in the Russian Empire considers books for “common people” as a genre appeared not earlier than in the 1860s, and en masse only in the 1880s. This article substantially corrects this notion and uses the material of 15 fictional texts created by the educated elite (Mikhail Zagoskin, Vladimir Sollogub, Vladimir Dal’, Vladimir Burnashev, Nikolaj Uspensky, Maria Korsini, Mikhail Mikhailov, Marko Vovchok, etc.) for folk reading in 1839– 1861 to prove the existence of the early stage of this type of didactic literature for the people. Using the method of determining so called ‘elementary plots’ for fiction texts, the author identifies 4 groups of texts with different types of plots (plotless, type “Temptation”, type “Violence”, texts about love and marriage), which embody different ideas of whom the peasants were as subjects, how they were to interact with each other, with the law, and the authorities. The analysis of the stories becomes the starting point for interpreting the model of peasant agency that the authors of the stories elaborated for the folk. The study shows that while the patriarchal model of the peasant agency dominated in the 1840s and first half of 1850s, on the eve of the abolition of slavery in 1859–61 the democratically minded authors (Marko Vovchok and Mikhail Mikhailov) tried to construct in stories for peasants an emancipated type of agency, with human dignity at its core. The special section of the article describes the intersection of literature for common people of the 1840s with children’s literature of the 1830s.
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Maryaskina, E. A., and I. V. Nekrasova. "SECONDARY TEXTS AS A VARIANT OF THE "TRANSCODING" OF THE CLASSICS." Izvestiya of the Samara Science Centre of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Social, Humanitarian, Medicobiological Sciences 23, no. 80 (2021): 86–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.37313/2413-9645-2021-23-80-86-90.
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The article is devoted to the study of modern Russian literature, created on the basis of the classics. On the example of the stories "The Lady with the Dog", "Darling", etc., the secondary texts of G. N. Shcherbakova from the collection of short stories "Yashkin's Children" are considered as variants of "recoding" of "Chekhov's texts". The analysis of some texts from the collection is carried out, the methods and techniques of turning modern texts to classical ones are determined. It was revealed that the integral elements of the context of A. P. Chekhov in the work of the modern writer G. N. Shcherbakova's works are intertextual dialogue, an anachronization of intertextual material. Intertextuality is implemented using various techniques and methods: the reproduction of a classical text in a modern situation, a dialogue with the Chekhov text and its characters, an insert story, borrowing titles, plots, and storytelling methods.
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Andrianova, Irina, and Olga Sedelnikova. "Apollon Maikov and Fyodor Dostoevsky: the Unfulfilled Idea of Short Stories from Russian History." Неизвестный Достоевский 11, no. 1 (March 2024): 127–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.15393/j10.art.2024.7101.
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The article examines the creative history of short stories from the Russian history of Apollon Maikov on the basis of epistolary sources and archival materials. The idea of the work emerged in the author’s mind in a discussion with Fyodor Dostoevsky: in letters of 1867–1869 they reflected on Russia’s past and future, the work on the translation of the “Tale about Igor’s Campaign,” the need to create a textbook living history, the central event of which would be the spread of Christianity in Russia. In correspondence with Maikov, Dostoevsky outlined the concept of epics as a literary genre capable of expressing the essence of Russian history and “serving to revive the self-consciousness of the Russian people” and delineated the turning points of history that determined the future of the country. Maikov conceived another version of the description of Russia’s past — a cycle of ten to twelve historical short stories “for children and the people.” He recorded the plan of the work point by point in papers dating from 1868, and outlined it to Dostoevsky in an April letter for 1869. In separate short stories, he intended to reveal the deeds of Alexander Nevsky, Metropolitans Peter and Alexy, Dmitry Donskoy, Ioann III, Ivan the Terrible, Ermak, St. Sergius of Radonezh, Peter I, Catherine II, Suvorov, the events of 1812, the Crimean War and the liberation of the peasants. The author planned to tell the reader about the main events of Russian history and the patriots of Russia, to reveal the supreme destiny of its historical path, the prerequisites for the formation of the Russian national character, to highlight the idea of unity and integrity of all Russian territories. To realize the idea, Maikov processed chronicle legends, epics, folklore sources (for example, anecdotes about Peter I), the works of historians (I. D. Belyaev, K. P. Pobedonostsev, etc.). He thought out the plots in detail, worked through them repeatedly (which is confirmed by the preserved cycle plans for 1868 and 1881), but released from print only two short stories in 1869 (the second story includes four separate plots). Neither Dostoevsky nor Maikov succeeded in carrying out their plans for historical works. But their plans testify to a common understanding of the historical path of Russia — the path of preserving the Orthodox Christian truth in the struggle for identity and independence. Conscious of their moral duty to the fatherland, they considered it their duty to convey to readers the need to feel Russian and the right to be proud of the history of this great country.
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Bohdanets, Svitlana. "Gastronomic Humor in Medieval European Literature: Topoi and Historiography." Text and Image: Essential Problems in Art History, no. 2 (2019): 34–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.17721/2519-4801.2019.2.02.
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The article looks at topoi in gastronomic images of European medieval humoristic texts and seeks to examine the connection between food and comic discourses. The author shall also highlight how these images were evaluated and interpreted by scholars of a different methodological background. The attention is paid to motives in gastronomic humour and comic plots related to food, which were widely spread in Western culture. Gastronomic humour is displayed through examples that are to be found in such medieval literary genres as farce, fabliau, Schwank etc. The study aims to propose a common food comic code, explain the principles of its implementation in the text and show its typical constituent elements. The essay starts with an examination of anthropological and social factors that might have shaped and symbolically and functionally determined gastronomic humour. It is assumed that mouth has a significant role in the processes of organization of nutrition and laughter on the bodily level. Then the author overviews in detail the literary origins of gastronomic jokes tracing their formation from the antique comedy. The development and establishment of food comedy are shown through examples from medieval urban literature. Attention is also drawn to the context in which the text functions, in other words, the specifics of its implementation in time and space. It is revealed that nutrition often appears as a background for comic plots, and culinary spaces are typical locations in humoristic stories. According to their professional activity comedy characters are also closely related to food. It is noticed that the food itself becomes a subject of conflict in a comic situation. Main characters actions are concentrated around the food, drinks or dishes. Another aspect of gastronomic humour involves a situation where eating resembles defecation. A typical comic tool on its own is the analogy between having a meal and sex. The paper also describes the features of food that often appear in humoristic texts and therefore has a higher level of comic value.
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Anna A., Zabiyako, and Zemlyanskaya Kseniya A. "Stories of the East in the Context of Artistic Ethnography by V. Mart of the Soviet Period." Humanitarian Vector 16, no. 4 (October 2021): 8–17. http://dx.doi.org/10.21209/1996-7853-2021-16-4-8-17.
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The relevance of the research is determined by the interest of modern literary criticism in the methodological paradigms of studying texts of artistic and ethnographic content in thematic, genre-stylistic, receptive aspects. The novelty lies in the source study, textual, genre-stylistic analysis of the unpublished collection Stories of the East by V. Mart. The research problem lies in the poetological reconstruction of the history of the creative failure of the opportunist literate writer in the Soviet literature at the beginning of the 1930s. The research methodology is based on genre-stylistic, structural-semantic analysis, source analysis of manuscript texts from the point of view of their ethnographic orientation. Based on the experience of research published in the USSR and works of artistic ethnography of the writer, the authors establish the typological features of the artistic strategy by V. Mart. Research methods: historical and literary, structural and semantic, source analysis, mythological reconstructions. The authors state that the unifying principle of V. Mart’s collection Stories of the East is his “old-fashioned” attitude. It turned out that V. Mart collected variations of previously published “oriental” stories and only a few completely new works (Indian, Japanese, Korean, Chinese themes) into a single artistic space. When creating them, he mainly used typological techniques used in previous publications of the Soviet period: the contamination of traditional mythological plots and revolutionary maxims, the transposition of foreign cultural realities into Russian reality, simplified linguistic, ethnocultural, mythological commentaries, etc. The authors of the article came to the conclusion that the collection was compiled in the early 1930s; at the same time, neither artistic flaws nor problems with the reliability of the ethnographic material became the reason for the rejection of the manuscript for publication. Factography in depicting revolutionary events in China and other countries of the late 1920s played the fatal role of anachronism in the early 1930s, when the situation in the Northeast and Southeast Asia changed dramatically. The ethnographic “true stories” of Mart put together became convincing “sabotage” evidence of the defeat of the revolutionary movement in the East and the strategic mistakes of Soviet diplomacy in the region.
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Vasylenko, Vadym. "«Ancient Kyivan Legends» by Natalena Koroleva: renewal of the genre." Philological Review, no. 2 (November 29, 2023): 103–14. http://dx.doi.org/10.31499/2415-8828.2.2023.299076.
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The paper is devoted to the analysis of the collection (two volumes) Ancient Kyivan Legends by Natalena Koroleva as an individual author’s vision of ancient Ukrainian history, the problems of its genre specificity, probable historical and literary sourceography, the nature of artistic imagery. In particular, plot echoes of some Koroleva’s legends of the Scythian cycle with ancient Greek and Slavic myths and Herodotus stories, the Kyevan cycle with ancient Ukrainian chronicles, primary with the stories of Tale of Bygone Years, and The Kyiv-Pechersk Patericon, as well as with the Scandinavian epos, displayed in the Poetic Edda. It is noted the author modernized the legend genre traditional in Ukrainian literature, in particular through the synthesis of mythological, historical and apocryphal elements, the combination of literary and folklore means, appeal to the principles of historicism and psychologism, as well as displacement of time and space, intertextual constructions, reminiscences etc. It is argued the way of artistic representation chosen by the writer, the style and language of her works most correspond to their material, its spirit and essence. Reconstructing plots taking from the Scythian, Kyiv Rus’ times, Koroleva systematically and on high ideological and artistic registers fills in the gaps in the cultural history of Ukraine, in particular, she tries to renew those links in historical memory that are necessary for understanding the continuity of the development of the Ukrainian nation. Among other things, the Scythian motives of Koroleva’s legends are analyzed, in particular, author’s interpretation of the story of Herodotus about the origin of the Scythians (about Heracles and Melusine), as well as her rethinking of the legend about the founders of Kyiv (three brothers Kyi, Shchek, Khoryv and their sister Lybid).
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Ponomareva, Anastasiya A. "The plot of the arrival of the landowner in the village in A. F. Pisemsky’s novel The Troubled Sea: Literary sources." Izvestiya of Saratov University. Philology. Journalism 22, no. 1 (February 21, 2022): 55–61. http://dx.doi.org/10.18500/1817-7115-2022-22-1-55-61.
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The article studies literary sources of the plot about the arrival of a landowner in the village, presented in A. F. Pisemsky’s novel The Troubled Sea (1863). The paper reveals that the model of this plot was formed in the stories of the pre-reform period, i.e. at the turn of the 1850s– 1860s. Especially often stories with this plot were published in M. N. Katkov’s magazine Russkiy Vestnik (The Russian Bulletin). The main feature distinguishing this plot is the image of a landowner coming to the village. It was found that his description was stereotypical: the youthfulness and progressiveness of the hero’s views were invariably emphasized. In the stories of this time, the conflict arises between a young progressive landowner and a representative of the older generation (father / neighbor / an elderly servant, etc.). Also, an obligatory element of the plot in question is the reorganization of the economy with a modern twist by the recently arrived landowner. The main motive associated with the reconstruction is the total destruction of everything considered old. The paper shows that attempts to rebuild the economy have always been unsuccessful and led to serious dramatic or tragic results. In the post-reform period, the plot associated with the arrival of the landowner in the village became a ‘derivative semantisation’: it adapted to the new relevant tasks that became the focus of attention after the peasant reform. The paper analyzes in detail the variant given in the story of A.V. Druzhinin Last Summer in the Village (1862). It is shown that the novel The Troubled Sea contains a large number of references to this particular variant. In the course of the comparative analysis of these works, it is concluded that Pisemsky argued with Druzhinin on some issues related to the peasant reform and its results. In conclusion, it is inferred that the plot of the landowner’s arrival in the village in the novel The Troubled Sea was obviously guided by the stories in Russkiy Vestnik. Pisemsky shared the view of Katkovsky’s edition in interpreting the behavior model of the landowner, who began to reorganize the life of peasants under the influence of democratic literature.
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Ponomareva, Anastasia A. "The Generation Gap in Russian Literature of the Second Part of 1850s." Philology 18, no. 9 (2020): 157–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.25205/1818-7919-2019-18-9-157-168.
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The paper analyzes the generation gap in the Russian literature of the second part of 1850s. Our research is based on works published in magazines: short stories, novelettes, and novels by L. N. Tolstoy, E. P. Novikov, P. I. Melnikov-Pecherskii, S. T. Slavutinskii, S. A. Ladyzhenskii, N. M. Pavlov, etc. The generation gap in Russian literature of the second part of 1850s hasn’t yet been made an object of special research. It is traditionally touched upon in relation to the novel Fathers and Sons (1862) by I. S. Turgenev and fiction ‘generated’ by this novel. However, variants of 1850s and of 1860s differ from each other in significant ways: these variants linked by various ideas, heroes, plots and other. The paper features two variants of the generation gap formed in the Russian literature of the second part of 1850s: great-grandfather / grandfather versus children, fathers versus children. The paper contains a detailed analysis of characterology and plot functions of protagonists that collide with each other, as well as structural-semantic plot organization. First generation gap formed in the middle of 1850s. Short stories, novelettes, and novels have similar plot-composition structures: a story from the distant Russian past forms the plot core; as a rule, events take place in the 18th century (the so-called grandfather’s time); most often, the story is told by a servant of an old lord or is written down after his words; the audience of the story is meant to be from the middle of the 19th century; in some cases, he is also the narrator, a young man who compares generation values of the 18th and 19th centuries. The paper asserts that, in spite of the fact that events take place in the past, the generation are identified through the turn towards social processes of the second half of the 1850s, particularly the emancipation reform. Literature and criticism emphasize the arrival of the new educated follower of democratic reforms instead of the hot-tempered landowner of the old type. The type of the educated landowner gained prominence in 1850–1860s during the active discussion of the emancipation reform. The main narrative function of such protagonists is to prove the effectiveness of democratic theories in practice. At the core of the plot there is the conflict with the generation of fathers, the opponents of reform. We propose that the generation of children, as well as the generation of fathers, is needy: in spite of their education, the young men are shown to be petty and unable to act upon their words or understand the peasant way of life. The protagonists explain their lack of success by other reasons: the new generation was too hasty in their actions. In conclusion, we maintain that Russian literature reflects an important social process of second part of 1850s, namely the anticipation of a ‘new’ man able to act upon popular democratic theories. This type formed ex adverso: writers and critics show a kind of behavior that differs from that of great-grandfathers, grandfathers, or fathers. However, the problem of rearrangement of the social system is beyond the abilities of the ‘fifties’ protagonist’. Much as he differs from his ancestors, he remains their descendant. A demonstrative devotion to democratic theories does not negate his aristocratic privileges. As a result, the plot turns stemming from popular ideas do not work as expected in the end.
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Koroleva, Vera V. ""Hoffmann’s complex" in Edgar Allan Poe’s story "Loss of Breath"." Vestnik Tomskogo gosudarstvennogo universiteta. Filologiya, no. 82 (2023): 288–302. http://dx.doi.org/10.17223/19986645/82/13.
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In the article, based on the theory of intertextuality (Roland Barth, Julia Kristeva), the question of the influence of E. T. A. Hoffmann on the formation of the satirical style of Edgar Allan Poe in the cycle of stories Grotesques and Arabesques (Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque (1839)). The author argues that Hoffmann’s recognizable plots (“The Sandman”, “Princess Brambilla”, “Elixirs of Satan”, etc.), which were popular during this period in Europe, as well as the relevance of the problems of his works and the original style, could become a source of not only satire (the story “Loss of Breath” is written as a parody of works from Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, where Hoffmann was also published during this period), but also samples for the early works of Poe. The hypothesis of the article is the statement about the possibility of applying in American literature, on the example of Poe’s story “Loss of Breath”, the previously developed methodology of “Hoffmann’s complex” (characterized by the integrity of the reproduced content, the unity of issues, images and stylistic techniques), which allows highlighting the traditions of the German romantic in Poe’s works, where they are not obvious. The features of Hoffmann’s poetics are considered in Poe’s “Loss of Breath” (1832) in the form of “Hoffmann’s complex”, which includes the following components. Firstly, it is the transformation of the romantic plot (Hoffmann’s “Adventure on New Year’s Eve”), which Poe reinterprets ironically, depriving it of an infernal context. He rethinks the idea of a two-world and mixes the real-life and theatrical narrative planes by combining the puppet element with the human one, by characters’ behaving theatrically, by acting out the roles that are imposed by society (a corpse, a criminal), by replacing household details with theatrical attributes (a false jaw, two buslles, a false eye). Secondly, it is the actualization of the problem of mechanization of life and man, which is realized in the opposition of the living – the inanimate (“The Sandman”, “Princess Brambilla’) and is aimed at criticizing society, which devalues a person and turns him into a “living” corpse, a doll. In contrast, objects come to life, and abstract concepts (breath) become materialized. Another manifestation of the problem of mechanization of life and man is the comparison of a man with an animal, and an animal with a man. Thirdly, it is the use of stylistic techniques characteristic of Hoffmann (“The Golden Pot”, “Little Zaches Called Cinnabar”, “Princess Brambilla”, etc.): hyperbole, self-explanatory names, romantic irony and grotesque, which are characterized by a sharp change of the serious and the frivolous, a combination of the objective and the subjective, a continuous parody, as well as the use of alogism – reasoning that violates the laws of logic, when something terrible (execution, autopsy of the body) is described as funny, etc.
Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Literature, stories, plots, etc"
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Strecker, Geralyn. "Reading prostitution in American fiction, 1893-1917." Virtual Press, 2001. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/1213148.
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Many American novels of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries discuss prostitution. Some works like Reginald Wright Kauffman's The House of Bondage, (1910) exaggerate the threat of "white slavery," but others like David Graham Phillips's Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise (1917) more honestly depict the harsh conditions which caused many women to prostitute themselves for survival. Contemporary critical interpretations of novels addressed in this dissertation began before major shifts in women's roles in the workplace, before trends towards family planning, before women could respectably live on their own, and especially before women won the right to vote. Yet, a century of progress later, this vestigal criticism still influences our study of these texts.Relying on primary source materials such as prostitute autobiographies and vice commission reports, I compare fictional representations of prostitution to historical data, focusing on the prostitute's voice and her position in society. I examine actual prostitutes' life stories to dispel the misconception that prostitution was always a lower-class business. My chapters are ordered in regards to the prominence of the prostitute characters' voices: in Stephen Crane's Maggie: A Girl of the Streets (1893) the heroine seldom speaks for herself; in two Socialist novels--Upton Sinclair's The Jungle (1906) and Estelle Baker's The Rose Door (1911)--prostitutes debate low wages, political corruption, and organized vice; and in Phillips's Susan Lenox, the title character is almost always allowed to speak for herself, and readers can see what she is thinking as well as doing. As my chapters progress, I demonstrate how the fictions become more like the prostitutes' own autobiographies, with self-reliant women telling their stories without shame or remorse. My conclusion, "Revamping `Fallen Women' Pedagogy for Teaching American Literature," suggests how social history and textual scholarship of specific "fallen women" novels should affect our teaching of these texts.Department of English
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Mavromatidou, Eleni. "The Role Of The (Postcolonial) Intellectual/Critic: Textualization Of History As Trauma: The African American And Modern Greek Paradigm." Columbus, Ohio : Ohio State University, 2008. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=osu1213616340.
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Rose, Caroline. "Closure and the short story: with readings oftexts by Elizabeth Gaskell and Angela Carter." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1996. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31213571.
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方慧娜 and Wai-na Wendy Fong. "Reader response and the dynamics of plot." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1998. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31220812.
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Fong, Wai-na Wendy. "Reader response and the dynamics of plot /." Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong, 1998. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B20934002.
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Rose, Caroline. "Closure and the short story : with readings of texts by Elizabeth Gaskell and Angela Carter /." Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong, 1996. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B17506207.
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Green, Anna. "Dead man and an accompanying exegesis, Labyrinthine modes in Dead man and The Castle by Franz Kafka /." Connect to thesis, 2006. http://portal.ecu.edu.au/adt-public/adt-ECU2007.0042.html.
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Makosana, Nomkhitha Ethley. "A comparative study of six Xhosa radio dramas." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 1991. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/69076.
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Thesis (MA)--University of Stellenbosch, 1991.ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This study is based on the comparison of six Xhosa radio dramas spanning the period 1987 and 1988. The main objective is to investigate the strengths and weaknesses which manifest themselves in the dramas. The dramas are compared with respect to the six structural elements of drama viz., theme, plot, characterization, time and space, and the techniques of production.Themes are studied to establish whether there have been any developments as far as the choice of themes is concerned in Xhosa radio dramas or whether there has been stagnation. Also given is a brief literary history of the themes broadcast in the Xhosa radio. The analysis of the plot structure is also done to identify the areas where they met the requirements successfully as well as where they failed to. The dramas are analysed according to the traditional approach Le. the exposition, complication, climax and the denouement.With regard to characterization, the characters are classified according to the function they perform viz., the protagonist, antagonist, tritagonist and confidante. They are also analysed according to their individual nature Le. whether they are static or dynamic, mono- or multidimensional etc. Techniques that the playwrights have used in the portrayal of their characters are also examined.The aspects of time and space are also discussed, to investigate the artistic skills of the different dramatists in handling the time and space relations. Time is viewed with respect to the following: order, duration, frequency, tempo and the presentation of the time structures. Space is discussed with respect to the following: type, function, and the techniques of localisation.A critical comparison of the production techniques used by these different playwrights is explored, the focus being on the microphone, sound effects and music. The examination conducted in the study basically revealed that there is little development in Xhosa radio dramas.The themes that are broadcast are mainly for entertainment and consequently have little intellectual depth. There is also a lack of innovation which is shown by the repetition of the same themes.The playwrights also lack skill as far as plot construction is concerned. The plays are devoid of conflict The absence of conflict in the dramas has an effect on characterization. It has given rise to weak antagonists in the dramas. Lack of focus regarding the main character is one of the faults that is evident in the dramas. Because of the fact that all characters are on the level of importance, it becomes difficult to pin-point who the focal character is. Finally, the Xhosa radio dramas discussed in this thesis revealed that there is latent potential in the Xhosa dramatists and the producers. It is therefore necessary that they should be motivated towards research on the subject and consultation with people who are knowledgeable in this sub-genre. Such actions could be of assistance towards the improvement of skills and techniques needed in the writing of the radio drama
AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Hierdie studie is gebaseer op die vergelyking van ses Xhosa radio dramas wat strek oor die tydperk 1987-1988. Die hoofdoelstelling is om die sterkpunte en swakpunte te ondersoek soos dit na vore kom in die dramas. Die dramas sal vergelyk word met betrekking tot die ses strukturele elemente van die drama, naamlik, tema, intrige, karakterisering, tyd en ruimte, en die tegnieke van produksie. Die temas van die dramas is ondersoek om vas te stel of enige ontwikkelings wat betref die keuse van temas plaasgevind het, en of daar stagnasie was in hierdie verb and. Voorts sal 'n kort ootsig gegee word van die liter ere temas in radio Xhosa dramas. Die analise van die intrige van die dramas word gedoen om vas te stel waar daar suksesvol of onsuksesvol voldoen is aan vereistes. Die dramas word ontleed volgens die tradisionele benadering van uiteensetting, verwikkeling, klimaks en die afwikkeling. Betreffende karakterisering, word karakters geklassifiseer volgens die funksie wat hulle vervul, naamlik die protagonis, die antagonis, die tritagonis, en die vertroueling. Karakters kan ook ontleed word volgens hulle individuele karakter, dit is, in welke mate hulle staties of dinamies is, enkel- of multi-dimension eel, ens. Tegnieke wat die skrywers gebruik het in die uitbeelding van hulle karakters word ook ondersoek Die aspekte van tyd en ruimte word bespreek ten einde die artistieke vaardighede van die verskillende skrywers te ondersoek in die hantering van tyd en ruimte verbande. Tyd word ondersoek ten opsigte van volgorde, duur, frekwensie, tempo en die aanbieding van die tyd strukture. Ruimte word bespreek met betrekking tot die aspekte van tipe, funksie en die tegnieke van lokalisering. 'n Kritiese vergelyking word gedoen van die produksietegnieke wat aangewend is deur die verskillende skrywers, met die fokus op mikrofoon klankeffekte en musiek Die ondersoek in hierdie studie toon aan dat daar geringe ontwikkeling is in die Xhosa radio dramas. Die temas van die dramas wat uitgesaai word is hoofsaaklik van 'n vermaaklikheids aard met geen intellektuele diepte nie. Daar is ook 'n tekort aan vernuwing, soos aangedui deur die herhaling van dieselfde temas. Die skrywes toon ook 'n tekort aan vaardigheid wat betref die konstruksie van die struktuur van. intrige. Die dramas toon weinig konflik Die afwesigheid van konflik het ook 'n invloed op die krakterisering, wat aanleiding gee tot swak antagoniste in die dramas.'n Gebrekkige fokus betreffende die hootkarater is een van die foute wat opvallend is in die dramas. Omdat byna al die karakters op dieselfde vlak van belangrikheid is, is dit moeilik om te bepaal watter karakter die hootkarater is. Laastens, die Xhosa radio dramas wat ontleed is in hierdie studie toon dat daar latente potensiaal is in die Xhosa skrywers en regiseurs. Dit is nodig dat hulle aangemoedig word om navorsing te doen oor die onderwerp. Konsultasie met kundiges op hierdie sub-genre kan 'n hulp wees in die verbetering van vaardighede en tegnieke wat nodig is vir die skryf van radio dramas.
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Eckert, Sierra C. "The Research Aesthetic: Information and the Form of the Victorian Novel." Thesis, 2020. https://doi.org/10.7916/d8-7a6p-me93.
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This dissertation locates the emergence of a modern conception of information in the work of Victorian novelists and novel critics. In a period where the novel is most often understood as a genre interested in depicting total worlds, Victorian novelists lingered on aesthetic and social methods for organizing the informational minutiae that made up such worlds. Novelists developed baroque plots around marriage registers and memos. Even more notably, they conducted research: consulting and creating notebook lists, tabular arrays, archival records, and pre-printed survey forms as strategies for linking the work and the world.
In this dissertation, I draw on both literary critical analysis and original archival research to show how the research of Victorian novelists wrestled with the social and aesthetic conventions of abstract data. At its core, my project shows how nineteenth-century definitions of authorship and narrative form emerge from some of the most routinized practices of storage, search and retrieval.
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"Plot exposition in D.P. Thulo's O Hopola Jwang?" Thesis, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10210/14329.
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Rosenberg, Jane. Sing me a story: The Metropolitan Opera's book of opera stories for children. New York, N.Y: Thames and Hudson, 1989.
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Lamarque, Vivian. Il flauto magico: Dall'opera di Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. 2nd ed. Milano: Fabbri Editori, 2000.
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Gill, Tomblin, ed. The illustrated book of ballet stories. London: Dorling Kindersley, 1997.
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ill, Brown Marcia, ed. Of swans, sugarplums, and satin slippers: Ballet stories for children. New York: Scholastic, 1991.
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Yolen, Jane. The Barefoot book of ballet stories. Cambridge, MA: Barefoot Books, 2004.
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ill, Mayhew James 1964, ed. The barefoot book of stories from the opera. Cambridge, MA: Barefoot Books, 2006.
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Beidler, Peter G. A reader's guide to the novels of Louise Erdrich. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2005.
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Beidler, Peter G. A reader's guide to the novels of Louise Erdrich. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1999.
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ill, Wallis Diz, ed. Shoes of satin, ribbons of silk: Tales from the ballet. New York: Kingfisher, 1995.
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Holzer, Lorenz, Philip Marmet, Mathias Fingerle, Andreas Wiegmann, Matthias Neumann, and Volker Schmidt. "Tortuosity-Porosity Relationships: Review of Empirical Data from Literature." In Tortuosity and Microstructure Effects in Porous Media, 51–89. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-30477-4_3.
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AbstractIt is generally assumed that transport resistance in porous media, which can also be expressed as tortuosity, correlates somehow with the pore volume fraction. Hence, mathematical expressions such as the Bruggeman relation (i.e., τ2 = ε−1/2) are often used to describe tortuosity (τ)—porosity (ε) relationships in porous materials. In this chapter, the validity of such mathematical expressions is critically evaluated based on empirical data from literature. More than 2200 datapoints (i.e., τ – ε couples) are collected from 69 studies on porous media transport. When the empirical data is analysed separately for different material types (e.g., for battery electrodes, SOFC electrodes, sandstones, packed spheres etc.), the resulting τ versus ε—plots do not show clear trend lines, that could be expressed with a mathematical expression. Instead, the datapoints for different materials show strongly scattered distributions in rather ill-defined ‘characteristic’ fields. Overall, those characteristic fields are strongly overlapping, which means that the τ – ε characteristics of different materials cannot be separated clearly. When the empirical data is analysed for different tortuosity types, a much more consistent pattern becomes apparent. Hence, the observed τ − ε pattern indicates that the measured tortuosity values strongly depend on the involved type of tortuosity. A relative order of measured tortuosity values then becomes apparent. For example, the values observed for direct geometric and mixed tortuosities are concentrated in a relatively narrow band close to the Bruggeman trend line, with values that are typically < 2. In contrast, indirect tortuosities show higher values, and they scatter over a much larger range. Based on the analysis of empirical data, a detailed pattern with a very consistent relative order among the different tortuosity types can be established. The main conclusion from this chapter is thus that the tortuosity value that is measured for a specific material, is much more dependent on the type of tortuosity than it is dependent on the material and its microstructure. The empirical data also illustrates that tortuosity is not strictly bound to porosity. As the pore volume decreases, the more scattering of tortuosity values can be observed. Consequently, any mathematical expression that aims to provide a generalized description of τ − ε relationships in porous media must be questioned. A short section is thus provided with a discussion of the limitations of such mathematical expressions for τ − ε relationships. This discussion also includes a description of the rare and special cases, for which the use of such mathematical expressions can be justified.
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Nikolchina, Miglena. "Bulgarian Women’s Literature: Plots and Stories." In Bulgarian Literature as World Literature. Bloomsbury Academic, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9781501348136.ch-019.
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Vadde, Aarthi. "Stories Without Plots." In Chimeras of Form. Columbia University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.7312/columbia/9780231180245.003.0004.
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The third chapter brings together Caribbean-born migrant writers Claude McKay and George Lamming, and forms a bridge across the divides of period and national literature that usually assign McKay to the Harlem Renaissance and Lamming either to the category of postwar black British literature or Caribbean literature. In allowing these two writers to converge, I argue that a paranational account of modernist internationalism emerges in their mutual formal and theoretical engagement with plotlessness. A lack of a plot, understood in the polysemic terms of a planned-out heteronormative life, a collective political program, and a patch of land to call home, becomes the common ground from which McKay’s Banjo: A Story without a Plot (1929) and Lamming’s The Emigrants (1954) explore the fugitive life and fantasies of colonial black subjects within a securitized Europe. In deforming plot and finding an alternative idiom, rhythm, and structure for the mobility of stigmatized populations, McKay and Lamming’s novels anticipate contemporary theories of cosmopolitics and international law (namely, those of Etienne Balibar, Seyla Benhabib, and Nicolae Gheorghe), which have argued for the accommodation of transience within territorialized models of belonging and citizenship.
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Hewitt, Elizabeth. "Stories without Plots." In Speculative Fictions, 134–94. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198859130.003.0004.
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This chapter explains how the eighteenth-century genre of the periodical essay describes the modern economy as a complex system. Specifically distinguishing itself from the novel, the periodical (or Addisonian) essay narrates economic causality as multiplex and contingent: economic relations cannot be plotted around individual protagonists. The chapter offers a history of the importance of the periodical essay in American literature, and specifically focuses on the examples of the genre by Philip Freneau, Judith Sargent Murray, and Charles Brockden Brown. Although these writers represent very different ideological positions, they each use the generic affordances of the periodical essay to depict the intricate dependencies that constitute global capitalism. The periodical essay thus presents a belletristic form that functions similarly to Hamilton’s policy writing: speculative fictions that narrate the possible consequences that descend from individual moments of production, exchange, and consumption.
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Coll, Cynthia García, and Amy Kerivan Marks. "The Developmental Tasks of Middle Childhood." In Immigrant Stories, 33–52. Oxford University PressNew York, NY, 2009. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780195174595.003.0003.
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Abstract To begin to capture the complex contextual influences on children of immigrants’ identity development and academic pathways, we have chosen to focus our studies on the period of development often referred to as “middle childhood.” This period, ranging roughly between the ages of 6 and 12 years, is a crucial time in children’s development (Eccles, 1999; Huston & Ripke, 2006). Yet, most of the literature has tended to neglect this developmental period. We know a fair amount about the first 3 years of life, about preschoolers, and about adolescents (unfortunately, in the latter stage, mostly about their problems), but little about the normative processes in middle childhood. Before we could begin our studies, then, we needed to build a thorough understanding of what developmental processes and milestones are currently known to be important to children of this age and consider how to apply these past developmental studies to our research with children of immigrants. Why is increasing our knowledge about middle childhood important? We contend that pathways that are created, initiated, or maintained during middle childhood put children onto certain life trajectories and not others. Many life course research projects start such analyses in adolescence, since trajectories and decisions made in that developmental period (i.e., continue education, start work, start parenthood, etc.) are clearly implicated for later life trajectories (e.g., MacMillan & Eliason, 2003). In contrast, we propose that patterns established and decisions made in middle childhood are just as critical in determining later outcomes.
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Saprykina, Elena Yu. "Android in the 20th Century Italian Literature." In Artificial Body in the World Intellectual and Artistic Culture, 270–83. A.M. Gorky Institute of World Literature of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.22455/978-5-9208-0719-9-270-283.
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In various epochs, science fiction writers shared an interest in problems related to the humanization of an artificial body and the process of human interaction with a man’s own creation. In the 20th century Italian literature, in particular, this theme emerged already at the dawn of the century (e. g. а futuristic novel by F.T. Marinetti) and was present up until the beginning of the current “age of artificial intelligence”. Fantastic plots of several short stories and novellas by D. Buzzati and T. Landolfi, written in the 1950s and 1960s, depicted ambivalent perception of the technogenic civilization and its novelties by the modern cultural consciousness. On the one hand, these works reflected the turning of the machine into an indispensable attribute of the social status of the modern human, the guarant of her private life success and mental health. On the other hand, in science fiction, there is a clear tendency to dramatize the problems and difficulties that the technological age set for a human — in particular, the problem of preserving the privilege of the human consciousness over the increasingly sophisticated artificial intelligence of the machine.
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Brown, Steven. "Theatre and storytelling." In The Unification of the Arts, 171–218. Oxford University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198864875.003.0005.
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The narrative arts deal with the presentation of stories via a variety of narrative processes and presentation media. Fictionality is a unique feature of the arts, one that distinguishes the narrative arts from the storytelling of everyday conversation. The plots of stories are grounded in the experientiality of the story’s protagonist in a storyworld, most especially his/her problem-solving dynamics. Literature describes these behaviours in the third person using narration, whereas theatre re-creates these actions in an embodied manner by having actors portray the characters in performance. While role playing is a central part of the presentation of the self in everyday social interactions, actors portray characters who they themselves are not, a re-creative process of impersonation and pretence that comprises the most art-specific feature of the narrative arts.
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Bennett, Andrew. "Elizabeth Bowen on the Telephone." In Elizabeth Bowen, 182–98. Edinburgh University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9781474458641.003.0012.
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This chapter proposes that telephones are critical in the plotting of most of Bowen’s novels, as well as in some of her stories. Bowen’s plots are often organized around the telephone and around telephone calls in a way that would have been inconceivable at the start of the twentieth century. Making a telephone call in Bowen can be seen as an ideal version of speech and even as an ideal model for literature itself, precisely because the telephone generates a sense of immediacy and unmediated presence while at the same time marking absence. At the same time simple object and eerily human, the uncanny telephone in Bowen suggests that communication is what her writing, and what literature more generally offers while at the same time contesting, displacing, and resisting it. Bowen’s work thereby challenges our very understanding of how literature as a form of communication between author and reader can be said to work.
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Чебашек, Александра. "ДА ЛИ ,,РЕЧИ РАЗБИШЕ МАГИЈУ”? СИМБОЛИЧКА И СЕМАНТИЧКА МОЋ РЕЧИ ФРУЛА, ВРЕТЕНО И ЦРН(ИЛО) У НОВОМ ЈЕРУСАЛИМУ БОРИСЛАВА ПЕКИЋА." In JEZIK, KNJIŽEVNOST, MOĆ/LANGUAGE, LITERATURE, POWER, 567–81. Filozofski fakultet u Nišu, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.46630/jkm.2023.37.
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The main purpose of the paper is to examine the power of the words flute (played), spindle and black(ness) in the novel New Jerusalem (1988) by Borislav Pekić. Through five stories, the mentioned words in Pekić’s poetic discourse appear in different contexts - directly and indirectly. If, according to Foucault, a discourse is a culturally constructed representation of reality, the paper will explore the ways of culturally and symbolically constructing the narrative matrix of the New Jerusalem by pointing out the power of words that simultaneously create meanings and permeate the entire narrative. The semantic power of words will be interpreted based on several dictionaries of symbols (Dictionary of Symbols by J. Chevalier (2004), Dictionary of Symbols by H. Biderman (2018), Dictionary of Symbols by J. C. Cirlot (1990), etc.). The symbolic power of the mentioned words, with its variations, is transposed through the (mythical) past, present and future – that is, from 1347 to 2999. Based on the selection of these words and the observation of their discursive power, which first encompasses the meaning of the stories, and then the meaning of the New Jerusalem as a whole, we will try to point out Pekić’s symbolic manipulation of words that is complicating its semantics. In other words, by varying the mentioned words from story to story, changing their temporal and narrative context, the author manipulates them by assigning them symbolic meanings. Thus, their semantics – depending on the context – are different. The power with which the mentioned words permeate on the poetic discourse of New Jerusalem opens the reading to a symbolic, folklore and magical interpretation of Pekić’s text.
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Luhova, Tetiana. "Moral and Ethical Scenarios for Educational Computer Games Based on the Robotic Futurology of Stanislaw Lem." In Handbook of Research on Gamification Dynamics and User Experience Design, 384–408. IGI Global, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-6684-4291-3.ch018.
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The research aims to develop a method of creating moral and ethical scenarios for educational computer games based on stories from the cycle of robotic futurology by S. Lem. The result of the study revealed a correspondence between the directorial script and game design document; the critical components of Lem's story “Trurl's Machine” were formalized considering the moral and ethical conflicts of the plot; the authors created a map of the action scene, game mechanics, and UML based on the story “Trurl's Machine.” Considered the issues of transforming plots of classical literature into the game design of educational computer games with an emphasis on the development of the moral and ethical scenarios and the spiritual values formation in students, the rules of the “Mechanical Robots AlgorithmsAda Board Game” as a video game prototype have been rethought with pedagogical impact.
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Gonçalves, Larissa Pereira, Edna Dias Canedo, Daniel Alves da Silva, Carlos Eduardo Lacerda Veiga, Rafael Timóteo de Sousa Junior, and Fábio Lúcio Lopes de Mendonça. "Requirements Documentation Containing Natural Language: A Systematic Tertiary Literature Review." In Workshop on Requirements Engineering. Recife, Brasil: Even3, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.29327/1407529.27-20.
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Context: Requirements documentation in natural language has diverse artifacts, but few studies address their suitability to types of requirements or ease of communication. Methods: We conducted a systematic tertiary literature review (STLR) and identified 22 relevant review papers that address natural language artifacts used by practitioners to document software requirements. We also investigated which types of requirements are addressed by artifacts and if there are guidelines for each. Results: A variety of artifacts used for this purpose were identified, of which the most referenced in the literature were diagrams, use cases, conceptual models, user stories, and prototypes. The analysis highlighted that artifacts are applied differently to functional and non-functional requirements. In general, diagrams, use cases, scenarios, and prototypes can be used for both types of requirements, depending on the content (usability, security, etc.). However, user stories and derived artifacts are more recommended for functional requirements and have limitations for non-functional requirements. Conclusion: Furthermore, the study explored different guidelines, structures, and formats used in documentation artifacts, reflecting the diversity in requirements documentation practices in software projects.
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Abdullayev, a. Umida. "AMERICAN LITERATURE AT ENGLISH CLASSES: AUTHOR’S STYLE ANDLANGUAGE ACQUISITION." In Modern approaches and new trends in teaching foreign languages. Alisher Navo'i Tashkent state university of Uzbek language and literature, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.52773/tsuull.conf.teach.foreign.lang.2024.8.5/palr8965.
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The article represents the significant role of reading American literature at the class of English in universities. Discussion has put forward several positive sides of reading novels and short stories while learning any foreign language. Notable examples of these kinds of challenges include inadequate comprehension of lexical and phraseological units, trouble grasping grammatical structures, etc. The above-mentioned challenges might be resolved by developing deeper vocabulary, phraseology, and grammar understanding in group or individual classes. But even a deep degree of expertise will not be sufficient to fully comprehend the original works because writers frequently employ dialects and unique forms of English, such Black English, inaddition to the conventional language used in fiction.
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Storozhuk, Alexander. "PU SONGLING’S LITERARY HERITAGE AND ITS TRANSLATIONS INTO RUSSIAN." In 9th International Conference ISSUES OF FAR EASTERN LITERATURES. St. Petersburg State University, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.21638/11701/9785288062049.06.
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While speaking of Pu Songling’s (1640–1715) impact on the Chinese literature one can’t help mentioning his short stories about fox turnskins and other wonders, known in English as Strange Tales from the Chinese Studio (Liao Zhai zhi yi). Commonly here the general survey concludes, and the main efforts are directed to analysis of the author’s pencraft and concealed political implications, since most of the plots are believed to be not original but adopted from earlier oeuvre. Thus the two major implied notions can be worded in the following fashion: 1) Strange Tales are the only work by Pu Songling to be mentioned and 2) they happen to be quite a secondary piece of literature based on borrowed stories and twisted about to serve the new main objective — mockery on social and political routine of the author’s present. The chief idea of the article is to cast a doubt on both of these notions and to show diversity and richness of Pu Songling’s genres and subjects as well as finding out the basis of these texts’ attractiveness for readers for more than 300 years. The other goal of the paper is to give a short overview of Pu Songling’s translations into Russian and their influence on the literary tradition of modern Russian prose. The main focus is put on the difficulties any translator is to face, on the quest for the optimal form of reproduction of the original’s peculiarities. Since the language of Pu Songling’s stories is Classical Chinese (wenyan), the author’s mastership in reproduction of different speech styles including common vernacular is also to be mentioned and analyzed.
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Oktyabrskaya-Kisnichan, A. "“GRANDFATHER MAXIM'S STORY ABOUT THE SEVASTOPOL DEFENSE DURING THE CRIMEAN WAR” BY O.E. NAKKO: PROBLEMS AND POETICS OF STORIES FOR CHILDREN." In VIII International Conference “Russian Literature of the 20th-21st Centuries as a Whole Process (Issues of Theoretical and Methodological Research)”. LCC MAKS Press, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.29003/m3746.rus_lit_20-21/292-295.
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The article provides a hermeneutic analysis of O.E. Nakko's educational story through the prism of the study of the problematic and poetics of this work. The specificity of the story as a work addressed to a children's audience, built as a memory story, is revealed. The emphasis is on the study of the figurative system of the work, the typology of characters, as well as the relevance of the theme of memory, the problem of heroism, etc.
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Rocaciuc, Victoria. "Book graphics in the creation of the plastic artist Liudmyla Kozhokar." In Patrimoniul cultural: cercetare, valorificare, promovare. Institute of Cultural Heritage, Republic of Moldova, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.52603/9789975351379.11.
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The fine arts artist Liudmyla Kozhokar had professional studies in Ukraine: the Arts Studio in Kherson (1975–1978) and the Ukrainian Polygraphic Institute „I. Fyodorov” in Lvov (1978–1983). Since 1984, Liudmyla Kozhokar participates in fine art exhibitions in Chisinau and abroad. Since then, the artist has collaborated with various Moldovan publishing houses, combining publishing with teaching in the field of fine arts. Since 1999 Liudmyla Kozhokar is a full member of the UAP of the Republic of Moldova, and since 2001 – a member of the A.I.A.P. UNESCO, Paris, France. Liudmyla Kozhokar’s works are in the collections of the National Art Museum of Moldova and in private ones in Romania, the Republic of Moldova, France, USA, Iraq, Italy, Germany, Japan, England, etc. The graphic designer illustrated books of different kinds: ABC books, textbooks, children’s stories, encyclopedic literature, etc. Liudmyla Kozhokar perceives each graphic book separately, finding new plastic formulas and stylistic methods, delving into the text and studying it to the last sentence.
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Krasovec, Aleksandra N. "“KALEIDOSCOPIC” NOVEL OF JOSIP OSTI IN THE ASPECT OF TRANSCULTURALITY." In 50th International Philological Conference in Memory of Professor Ludmila Verbitskaya (1936–2019). St. Petersburg State University, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.21638/11701/9785288063183.10.
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The Slovenian-Bosnian poet, writer, essayist, literary critic, translator and editor Josip Osti (1945–2021) was born in Sarajevo, lived and worked in Slovenia since 1990. Being a recognized poet in his homeland, writing in Croatian, one of the largest translators of Slovenian literature into Serbo-Croatian, since 1997 he has been writing in Slovenian. The transcultural aspects of Josip Osti’s literary works, both poetry collections and novels, are a unique phenomenon. In our study, we turned to the novels of Josip Osti, namely his trilogy — Ghosts of the House of Heinrich Böll (2016), In Front of the Mirror (2016) and Life is a Creepy Fairy Tale (2019). All three works have a strong (auto)biographical component and form a special novel form, which the author calls the “kaleidoscope-mosaic” novel. The latter has a fragmented structure and consists of short stories, life stories, anecdotes, urban legends, essayistic notes, literary-critical digressions, lyrical passages, diary entries, etc. In Osti’s novels, we also find a connection with the tradition of short prose in Bosnian-Herzegovina literature, in particular, with the works of the 1990s by such authors as M. Jergović, D. Karahasan, N. Veličković, K. Zaimović and others. Their texts are characterized by a destabilized genre form, a mosaic narrative, personal and documentary evidence, and a palimpsest narrative model. The kaleidoscopic structure of Osti’s prose texts helps him to reflect the transcultural view characteristic of his intimate and artistic world, to embrace the complex overlap of heterogeneous elements. The novels are written in Slovene, but they are mainly devoted to the space of Sarajevo, the unique multicultural atmosphere of this city, as well as the tragedy unfolding in it; thus, the writer complements the so-called “Sarajevo text”, but already in the field of Slovenian literature, artistically comprehending the interconnectedness of Bosnia and Slovenia. Refs 19.
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Cao, Thi Hao. "Research on Tay Ethnic Minority Literature in Vietnam Under Cultural View." In GLOCAL Conference on Asian Linguistic Anthropology 2019. The GLOCAL Unit, SOAS University of London, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.47298/cala2019.3-3.
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The Tay people are an ethnic minority of Vietnam. Tay literature has many unique facets with relevance to cultural identity. It plays an important part in the diversity and richness of Vietnamese literature. In this study, Tay literature in Vietnam is analyzed through a cultural perspective, by placing Tay literature in its development from its birth to the present, together with the formation of the ethnic group, and historical and cultural conditions, focusing on the typical customs of the Tay people in Vietnam. The researcher examines Tay literature through poems of Nôm Tày, through the works of some prominent authors, such as Vi Hong, Cao Duy Son, in the Cao Bang province of Vietnam. Cao Bang is home to many Tay ethnic people and many typical Tay authors. The research also locates individual contributions of those authors and their works in terms of artistic language use and cultural symbolic features of the Tay people. In terms of art language, the article isolates the unique use of Nôm Tay characters to compose stories which affect the traditional Tay luon, sli, and so forth, and hence the use of language that influences poetry and proverbs of Tay people in the story of Vi Hong, Cao Duy Son. Assuming a symbolic framework, the article examines the symbols of birds and flowers in Nôm Tay poetry and the composition of Vi Hong, Cao Duy Son, so to point out the uniqueness of the Tay identity. The above research issue is necessary to help us better appreciate the cultural values preserved in Tay literature, thereby, affirming the unique cultural identity of the Tay people and planning to preserve and develop these unique cultural features from which emerges the risk of falling into oblivion in modern social life in Vietnam. In addition, this is also a research direction that can be extended to Thai, Mong, Dao, etc, ethnic minorities in Vietnam.
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Kaul, Sudhir. "Engine Mounting Systems for Electric Powertrains: Mounting Layouts and Design Parameters." In ASME 2022 International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/imece2022-87646.
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Abstract The vibroacoustic characteristics of electric powertrains are well known to significantly differ from internal combustion engines. A relatively very high power-to-torque density makes a three-phase permanent-magnet synchronous motor (PMSM) very appealing for electric powertrains, but its electromagnetic characteristics typically result in high frequency noise and vibration. While the vibration response in internal combustion engines is generally evaluated up to 100 Hz, electric drive trains are known to exhibit a response ranging from 1 to 10 kHz. As a result, multiple studies in the recent literature have investigated several designs for engine mounting systems that could be used to address some of the specific issues such as internal resonances, wave effects, high frequency noise and vibration, etc. It has been widely reported in the literature that force transmissibility and noise radiation can be significantly underestimated at relatively higher frequencies without directly modeling the inertial properties of the engine mounting system. Some of the mounting system layouts that have been investigated in the literature include the three-point or four-point saddle mounting configurations, the cradle type pendulum mounting configuration, etc. This paper performs a comparative analysis for a few of the commonly used mounting system layouts to identify the pros and cons of the design strategies specifically aimed at vibration mitigation in electric powertrains. A spatial model that has been previously validated is used to compare three different mounting system layouts. Since viscoelastic properties are known to exhibit a strong influence from excitation frequencies, the spatial model that has been used in this study incorporates the properties that are associated with high frequency response of the engine mounting system. Force transmissibility plots are used to evaluate the mounting layouts and specific design parameters associated with the engine mounting system. Results indicate that the four-point saddle mounting configuration provides a good balance between transmissibility at low frequencies and high frequencies. Models presented in this study can be used to determine an optimal mounting configuration for an electric powertrain.
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Salvatierra, Julio C. Villarroel, Larry W. Lake, and David DiCarlo. "Accounting for Exterior Flow Using the Modified Logistic Growth Model for Unconventional Geopressured Shale Gas Reservoirs." In SPE Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition. SPE, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.2118/214872-ms.
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Abstract The scope of this work is to assess the flow beyond boundary-dominated flow, defining the existence of a third flow regime (after transient linear flow and boundary-dominated flow) that we call "exterior flow" for further use in decline curve analysis in unconventional reservoirs. Thus, exterior flow is defined as the linear flow of gas from the non-stimulated matrix feeding into the edges of the depleted stimulated reservoir volume (SRV), at late times, far away (predicted by Lee 2021; and anticipated by Marder et al. 2021). Sometimes referred as "flow beyond the tips" or post-SRV flow (Blasingame 2019). Because of the existence of this third flow regime, the production curves of over-pressured shale gas reservoirs, such as the Haynesville formation, seem to not be fitted by a single hyperbolic model or any of the modern rate-time relations (Power law exponential, Stretched exponential, Duong, etc.). We believe that the over-pressured condition of the formation—close to the lithostatic gradient in the Haynesville Shale for example—yields such high pressure drawdowns that all flow regimes (transient linear flow, boundary-dominated flow, and exterior flow) occur sooner compared to other basins. Additionally, this paper shows that a new member of the logistic growth family of curves, called the "modified Logistic Growth Model" in its 2023 version (m-LGM 2023) solves the problem of curve-fitting production data from horizontal wells in the Haynesville Shale. Furthermore, two novel diagnostic plots are presented for rate-time analysis to obtain the characteristic time of switching from boundary-dominated to exterior flow, which enables the prediction of additional volume to be produced under this flow regime. Finally, given that the current literature of the SPE-PRMS 2022 does not provide specific guidelines for the categorization of probable reserves (P2) in shale gas, we believe this work could signify a contribution for future reserves using this category for unconventional formations. The volume expected from exterior flow could be justified as probable reserves (P2) in shale gas wells.