To see the other types of publications on this topic, follow the link: Psychological fiction, English.
Journal articles on the topic 'Psychological fiction, English'
Create a spot-on reference in APA, MLA, Chicago, Harvard, and other styles
Consult the top 50 journal articles for your research on the topic 'Psychological fiction, English.'
Next to every source in the list of references, there is an 'Add to bibliography' button. Press on it, and we will generate automatically the bibliographic reference to the chosen work in the citation style you need: APA, MLA, Harvard, Chicago, Vancouver, etc.
You can also download the full text of the academic publication as pdf and read online its abstract whenever available in the metadata.
Browse journal articles on a wide variety of disciplines and organise your bibliography correctly.
1
Shen, Fanxi. "Freud’s Psychoanalysis Perspective on the Characteristics of the Monster in Frankenstein." IRA International Journal of Education and Multidisciplinary Studies 20, no. 1 (March 13, 2024): 36. http://dx.doi.org/10.21013/jems.v20.n1.p3.
Full textAbstract:
The famous English writer Mary Shelley wrote <em>Frankenstein</em> in 1818, which is regarded as the world’s first science fiction novel, and thus Mary Shelley was awarded the title of Mother of Science Fiction. With a gothic plot, this novel contains the philosophy of technology, psychology and epistemology, expressing the author’s exploration of human nature. The psychological and action descriptions of the characters in this novel, to a certain extent, show the psychological characteristics of the character’s id, ego and superego. Therefore, this paper will elaborate the psychological characteristics of the characters from the aspects of id, ego and superego from Freud’s psychoanalysis theory, thus exploring the character traits of the novel and providing a new perspective for the interpretation of the novel.
2
Redkozubova, Ekaterina A. "The psychological portrait of a conflict type personality in the English fiction discourse." Humanities and Social Sciences 88, no. 5 (September 1, 2021): 107–10. http://dx.doi.org/10.18522/2070-1403-2021-88-5-107-110.
Full text
3
Madavi, Dr Manoj Shankarrao. "Literary Representation of Natives in Indian Regional Literature-A Vast Panorama of Indigenous Culture, Imperialism and Resistance." International Journal of English Language, Education and Literature Studies (IJEEL) 2, no. 5 (2023): 01–04. http://dx.doi.org/10.22161/ijeel.2.5.1.
Full textAbstract:
Indian English fiction writing shows the development of Indian literature which takes a dive deep into the colonial past of India along with the detail observation of the history of deviation of social strata and its psychological effects on common masses of India. Social realism was checked through the early independence period of English writing. In Indian English fiction writing, partition trauma was glorified, celebrated as the main theme and Gandhian age is also described by most of the prominent novelist like Raja Rao, Chaman Nahal, and Khushwant Singh. The women novelists took the initiative after the independent period and Kamala Markandeya, Ruth P. Jabhawala, Shashi Deshpande, Geeta Hariharan, Anita Nair and Namita Gokhale have shown the rebellious feminism though their postcolonial sensibilities. If we want to write historical, social and cultural literature of India, we do not have escapism from the history of adivasi victimization and several adivasi harassments of centuries in India.
4
Martins, Mauricio de Jesus Dias, and Nicolas Baumard. "The rise of prosociality in fiction preceded democratic revolutions in Early Modern Europe." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 117, no. 46 (October 30, 2020): 28684–91. http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2009571117.
Full textAbstract:
The English and French Revolutions represent a turning point in history, marking the beginning of the modern rise of democracy. Recent advances in cultural evolution have put forward the idea that the early modern revolutions may be the product of a long-term psychological shift, from hierarchical and dominance-based interactions to democratic and trust-based relationships. In this study, we tested this hypothesis by analyzing theater plays during the early modern period in England and France. We found an increase in cooperation-related words over time relative to dominance-related words in both countries. Furthermore, we found that the accelerated rise of cooperation-related words preceded both the English Civil War (1642) and the French Revolution (1789). Finally, we found that rising per capita gross domestic product (GDPpc) generally led to an increase in cooperation-related words. These results highlight the likely role of long-term psychological and economic changes in explaining the rise of early modern democracies.
5
Chernenko, О. "SEMIOSIS OF INTERPERSONAL CONFLICTS IN ENGLISH ARTISTIC DISCOURSE." MESSENGER of Kyiv National Linguistic University. Series Philology 25, no. 1 (August 26, 2022): 134–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.32589/2311-0821.1.2022.263129.
Full textAbstract:
The current paper presents an overview of interpersonal conflicts in discourse area of character in modern English fiction discourse from the standpoint of multimodality theory, pragmalinguistics, and semiotics. In this respect semiosis is defined as the action of a sign, a dynamic process of meaning-making and meaning-interpretation realized through multimodal semiotic modes which collectively construct the meaning, communicated in these situations. This constructing is proceeded with the help of conflictives as emergent discursive constructs, the result of interactive constructing by means of verbal, nonverbal and graphic semiotic resources functioning in different stages of conflict communicative process. The linguosemiotic space of their realization is in the plane of disharmony of interpersonal relations of characters and its semiosis is built on cognitive, semiotic, communicative, and pragmatic specifics of conflictives as operational units of conflict discourse. Moreover, the appropriate inferences require understanding of cognitive, psychological, social, and cultural aspects accompanying narration.The aim of the study is also to establish a link between different approaches to the interpretation of conflict communication development and methods of their research in modern scientific studies. Multimodal nature of conflictives comprises several modes of multimodality for the analysis of conflict semiosis in fiction discourse: verbal, nonverbal, visual, auditory, kinetic etc. These patterns of meaning combination or meaning multiplication through different semiotic modes together construct the meaning, communicated and interpreted in the situations of interpersonal conflicts in discourse area of character in modern English fiction discourse. To achieve the objectives of research, a semiotic approach to the paradigm of conflict discourse approaches is applied, together with the elements of conversational analysis, multimodal discourse analysis, pragmatic analysis. The obtained results show the capacity of the semiotic approach to the conflict studies to enhance the effectiveness of linguistic research in the field of conflict studies.
6
Khabibullina, Lilia F. "Postcolonial Trauma in the 21st-Century English Female Fiction." Imagologiya i komparativistika, no. 15 (2021): 89–104. http://dx.doi.org/10.17223/24099554/15/5.
Full textAbstract:
The postcolonial fiction of the 21st century has developed a new version of family chronicle depicting the life of several generations of migrants to demonstrate the complexity of their experience, different for each generation. This article aims at investigating this tradition from the perspective of three urgent problems: trauma, postcolonial experience, and the “female” theme. The author uses the most illustrative modern women’s postcolonial writings (Z. Smith, Ju. Chang) to show the types of trauma featured in postcolonial literature as well as the change in the character of traumatic experience, including the migrant’s automythologization from generation to generation. There are several types of trauma, or stages experienced by migrants: historical, migration and selfidentification, more or less correlated with three generations of migrants. Historical trauma is the most severe and most often insurmountable for the first generation. It generates a myth about the past, terrible or beautiful, depending on the writer’s intention realized at the level of the writer or the characters. A most expanded form of this trauma can be found in the novel Wild Swans by Jung Chang, where the “female” experience underlines the severity of the historical situation in the homeland of migrants. The trauma of migration manifests itself as a situation of deterritorialization, lack of place, when the experience of the past dominates and prevents the migrants from adapting to a new life. This situation is clearly illustrated in the novel White Teeth by Z. Smith, where the first generation of migrants cannot cope with the effects of trauma. The trauma of selfidentification promotes a fictitious identity in the younger generation of migrants. Unable to join real life communities, they create automyths, joining fictional communities based on cultural myths (Muslim organizations, rap culture, environmental organizations). Such examples can be found in Z. Smith’s White Teeth and On Beauty. Thus, the problem of trauma undergoes erosion, because, strictly speaking, with each new generation, the event experienced as traumatic is less worth designating as such. Compared to historical trauma or the trauma of migration, trauma of self-identification is rather a psychological problem that affects the emotional sphere and is quite survivable for most of the characters.
7
О. Г. ШКУТА. "VERBALIZATION OF THE CONCEPT OF FEAR IN THE ENGLISH YOUTH DYSTOPIAN NOVEL “THE HUNGER GAMES” BY SUZANNE COLLINS." MESSENGER of Kyiv National Linguistic University. Series Philology 22, no. 2 (December 26, 2019): 79–87. http://dx.doi.org/10.32589/2311-0821.2.2019.192338.
Full textAbstract:
Introduction. The article focuses on the problem of the concept of FEAR verbalization in the English-language youth dystopian fiction novel “The Hunger Games” by American writer Suzanne Collins. The main invariant features of dystopian novels in general, and, in particular, of youth dystopian fiction novels, are detected.The purpose of the article is to identify the means of verbalization of the concept of FEAR as a component of the invariant model in youth dystopian fiction novel The Hunger Games by American writer Suzanne Collins.The following methods are applied to analyze the data: descriptive method, the method of lexicographic analysis and vocabulary definitions’ analysis.The results. Based on the textual analysis the means of the concept of FEAR verbalization are identified, and the most frequently presented lexical units of its verbalization in The Hunger Games are highlighted. Localization of FEAR in the youth dystopian fiction novel in time and space is explored, as well as the manifestations of the emotion of FEAR, the development of successive stages of FEAR growth. The study has revealed that the maininvariant features of dystopian novels are totally controlled by society, obligatory unanimity of its members, quest, external conflict. The significance of Suzanne Collins' interpretation of the tiniest nuances of the emotion of FEAR is summed up. The article states that the FEAR in the novel is inexplicable, existential and motivated by certain circumstances.The research makes the conclusion that the concept of FEAR plays an important role in the poetics of dystopian youth fiction novels, testifying to the author as a master of psychological analysis.
8
Soloshchuk, Lyudmyla, and Yuliia Skrynnik. "Ecolinguistic approach to the analysis of the notion “leader’s charisma” (based on English non-fiction literature)." 27, no. 27 (December 26, 2023): 67–76. http://dx.doi.org/10.26565/2218-2926-2023-27-05.
Full textAbstract:
The research attempts to study various aspects and correlations between the verbal and non-verbal characteristics of charismatic leaders from an ecolinguistic perspective. The analysis of the lingual and non-lingual repertoire of a charismatic leader, his main characteristics and correspondence of his verbal, non-verbal and supra-verbal behavior to the ecological principles of communication demonstrates that if the leader avoids using in their speech the elements producing a harmful effect on physical, psychological or emotional state of a partner they can reach ecologically effective influence on the audience. A charismatic leader's identity emerges from psychological and social factors that manifest in their speech. This statement correlates with the principles of ecolinguistics, which involve the analysis of verbal, non-verbal, and supra-verbal phenomena in the unity with natural, social, and psychological factors. Modern English non-fiction literature was chosen as the research material. The non-fiction authors – scientists, psychologists, coaches, and business-trainers, focus the reader’s attention on the main criteria for creating the image of a charismatic leader, which includes verbal and non-verbal communicative components, as well as their ecological combinability. Core features that effectively shape the image of a successful leader are charisma and high communicative skills, which include preservation of communicative maxims of quantity, quality, relation, and manner. The focus of ecolinguistic research on a charismatic leader who influences the society and achieves their goals through various means, including language, contributes to further development of the theory of discursive personality. The results of this study can be used in discourse studies, studies of verbal and non-verbal communication, pragmalinguistics, and communication theory.
9
Kartashkova, Faina I., and Liubov E. Belyaeva. "Colour Meaning in English Literary Pieces." RUDN Journal of Language Studies, Semiotics and Semantics 13, no. 1 (March 31, 2022): 201–12. http://dx.doi.org/10.22363/2313-2299-2022-13-1-201-212.
Full textAbstract:
The article deals with the colour maening and colour symbolics of a literary piece. Analysis of colour world in English fiction is aimed at determining the linguistic means of representing the individual writers idea of colour via the system of colour values. Along with it, analysis of the expression of colour sensations and their influence both on characters and on the plot development was carried out. It was shown that colour vocabulary is represented by words in their direct and figurative meanings. It was proved that language units may be represented in the form of a complex individual-authorial interpretation. Adjectives which convey or specify various colours and their shades make the main group of colour vocabulary discussed in the article. The same function may be performed by attributive phrases the semantic centre of which form names of animate/inanimate nature. Frequency of adjectives denoting colour was stated. Of special importance is the way colour names carry a special psychoemotional load. On the basis of analysis of literary pieces, it is shown that together with other psychological details colour meaning and colour symbolism perform esthetic function. Colour value can enhance a positive or negative assesment of the work of art described in a literary piece. The article presents classification of colour names based on different types of meaning: direct, metaphoric and symbolic. An attempt (based on an analysis of the color names) was made to determine the authors idea of further development of the plot. Study of the role of light in works of art verbalised in fiction proved that light and transparent colour scheme render high spirits of the characters of literary pieces and evokes the recipients positive emotions.
10
Kartashkova, Faina I., and Liubov E. Belyaeva. "Colour Meaning in English Literary Pieces." RUDN Journal of Language Studies, Semiotics and Semantics 13, no. 1 (March 31, 2022): 201–12. http://dx.doi.org/10.22363/2313-2299-2022-13-1-201-212.
Full textAbstract:
The article deals with the colour maening and colour symbolics of a literary piece. Analysis of colour world in English fiction is aimed at determining the linguistic means of representing the individual writers idea of colour via the system of colour values. Along with it, analysis of the expression of colour sensations and their influence both on characters and on the plot development was carried out. It was shown that colour vocabulary is represented by words in their direct and figurative meanings. It was proved that language units may be represented in the form of a complex individual-authorial interpretation. Adjectives which convey or specify various colours and their shades make the main group of colour vocabulary discussed in the article. The same function may be performed by attributive phrases the semantic centre of which form names of animate/inanimate nature. Frequency of adjectives denoting colour was stated. Of special importance is the way colour names carry a special psychoemotional load. On the basis of analysis of literary pieces, it is shown that together with other psychological details colour meaning and colour symbolism perform esthetic function. Colour value can enhance a positive or negative assesment of the work of art described in a literary piece. The article presents classification of colour names based on different types of meaning: direct, metaphoric and symbolic. An attempt (based on an analysis of the color names) was made to determine the authors idea of further development of the plot. Study of the role of light in works of art verbalised in fiction proved that light and transparent colour scheme render high spirits of the characters of literary pieces and evokes the recipients positive emotions.
11
Zhgun, Daria. "When emotions cannot “speak”: a pragmatic analysis of cases of alexithymia in English fiction." SENTENTIA. European Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences, no. 4 (April 2020): 43–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.25136/1339-3057.2020.4.34047.
Full textAbstract:
The article focuses on the analysis of cases of alexithymia in English fiction in order to reveal their pragmatic potential. Alexithymia is studied from a linguistic perspective and is defined as the inability or difficulty to express emotions verbally. Emotions are viewed as a type of language identity that functions within specific ways to exchange communicative information. Emotions are recognized as social phenomena that are embedded in social contexts. The article strives to provide a novel insight into the study of emotions in the field of linguistics. For the first time, alexithymia is addressed not as a psychological disorder, but as a linguistic attempt to create and increase a pragmatic effect on the reader by implying additional information and emotional and evaluative overtones. Research methods include definition, semantic and pragmatic analyses of emotional and evaluative utterances, expressing or implying alexithymia, and selected from English fiction by the continuous sampling method. The author comes to the conclusion that emotions can still be revealed and comprehended by the reader without being expressed or implied in the text. It is the context that helps to determine the emotion, its intensity and polarity, as well as its pragmatic potential.
12
Reiter, Barret. "A ‘Fiction of the Mind’: Imagination and Idolatry in Early Modern England." Past & Present 257, Supplement_16 (October 31, 2022): 201–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/pastj/gtac034.
Full textAbstract:
Abstract This chapter examines the conceptualization of Catholic liturgical practices within the Protestant anti-Catholic polemics of early modern England. I argue that, insofar as Protestants typically glossed such practices as ‘idolatry’, and thus, as the worship of a false god, Protestants explicitly accused Catholics of falling victim to the deceptive tendencies of their imaginations. Hence, for English Protestants, Catholics were responsible for transforming the good news of the Gospel into a mere fiction of their own making. More than a mere rhetorical posture — though of course it was also that — it is here argued that Protestant anti-Catholic polemic encodes a more generalized anxiety about the role of imagination within religious, social and political life, and thus serves as a microcosm of larger-scale transformations within the intellectual and political discourse of early modern England. Most obviously, the emphasis on the imagination, in particular within Protestant polemics, indicates a new context into which traditional scholastic psychological categories were forced in order to accommodate confessional differentiation and the new political realities of a post-Reformation world. Thus, by understanding just what Protestant polemicists meant by fictions, we can open up deeper continuities across the intellectual and political discourse of the period.
13
Nishtha Kishore. "Revisiting Anita Desai’s Fiction: Tracing Generational Relevance towards a Third Culture/Third Space Spectrum." Creative Saplings 1, no. 9 (December 25, 2022): 26–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.56062/gtrs.2022.1.9.185.
Full textAbstract:
The paper attempts to trace the generational relevance of produced fiction by Anita Desai (b. 1937) towards the possibility of locating third culture subjectivity and the scope of the third space spectrum. The association ranges from the character aesthetics to strategic spatial intervention in her fiction, and the scope of extending the same to new pressures of readership pertaining to constantly mobile and restructured locales. The world around shows signs of disintegration of the individual vis-a-vis dislocation, migration, and dynamic forms of locomotion. It is, therefore, imperative that the modern Indian-English novel should seek new techniques to articulate the experienced inner and outer realities, merging textuality, spatiality, and subjectivity. Desai's preoccupation with the individual highlights their psychological motivations, identity constructs, organizational logic of family institutions, disintegration, sense of failure, the absence to offer a clear binary, and her keen awareness of the futility of existence radiates from most of her novels. The paper tries to fathom such possibilities through analyses of her major fiction into a third culture spectrum, which may serve as a major constituent to tackle her oeuvre and accommodate her major themes.
14
Jenkins, Elwyn. "NAMIBIAN CHILDREN’S AND YOUTH LITERATURE WRITTEN IN ENGLISH." Mousaion: South African Journal of Information Studies 32, no. 4 (September 29, 2016): 75–92. http://dx.doi.org/10.25159/0027-2639/1652.
Full textAbstract:
This article examines 15 works of fiction written in English for children and young adults which have a Namibian setting. The earliest was published in the 1920s and the latest in 1998. The books are examined in order to ascertain what the Namibian setting has contributed: whether the authors have engaged with the history of the country; what they make of the setting; and whether there are any particular plots and themes that emerge.A notable trend in the English-language books published after the 1960s is that they focus on the personal growth of the protagonists. Rather than serving as a background for adventure, as the earlier books did, the Namibian settings and social circumstances serve as catalysts for psychological drama, while the landscapes with their flora and fauna play out as objective correlatives to the characters’ interior struggles. In keeping with this subject matter, the writing is usually sensitive and lyrical.
15
Zainab, Noreen. "Repression, Isolation, and Paranoia: A Psychoanalytic Feminist Study of ‘The Nightmare’ by Rukhsana Ahmad." University of Chitral Journal of Linguistics and Literature 1, no. 1 (March 3, 2018): 83–105. http://dx.doi.org/10.33195/uochjll/1/1/05/2017.
Full textAbstract:
Generally, literature written by Pakistani women writers in English depicts women as victims of patriarchy, social and cultural oppression. Meanwhile, in recent times the short fiction is exploring new paradigms related to the psychological oppression of married women in Pakistan. The following paper selects the short story, ‘The Nightmare’ by Pakistani writer, Rukhsana Ahmad, where a housewife suffers from paranoia because of disconsolate marriage. Therefore, this research aims to study the causes of psychological disorders specifically paranoia among apparently happy housewives. Moreover, the causes and effects of repression and isolation on personality of women would be discussed from the psychoanalytic feminist perspective using the framework of Sigmund Freud (1973- 86) through the character of Fariha. Through the method of character analysis (Dobie, 2011) this paper concludes that the childhood experiences of repression are the reason for victim’s passiveness towards psychological oppression during adult life. This paper would also help in establishing the conclusion that women who suffer abuse in their childhood are more likely to face abuse in their adult lives, which becomes the cause of their psychological instability.
16
Abdurakhmanova-Pavlova, Daria V. "John Woolman’s image in the English non-fiction in the 1850–1940s: Hagiographical motives." Izvestiya of Saratov University. Philology. Journalism 22, no. 2 (May 23, 2022): 177–85. http://dx.doi.org/10.18500/1817-7115-2022-22-2-177-185.
Full textAbstract:
John Woolman, an 18th century Quaker preacher, is known in the history of American literature for his spiritual autobiography titled The Journal (1774). The 1850–1940s is a period when Woolman’s autobiographical character attracts the attention of British and American critics and essay writers. They publish a significant number of non-fiction texts, which contain numerous elements of hagiography in Woolman’s portraiture, depicting him as a saintly proto-abolitionist figure. According to recent studies, the pioneering role in Woolman’s literary “sanctification” belonged to the 19th century American poet John Greenleaf Whittier, and it was his essays about Woolman that established the “hagiographical” tradition. The paper suggests, however, that the poet followed the tradition which had started earlier. The following “hagiographical” elements may be distinguished in the analyzed non-fiction texts: 1) (semi-) anonymity of several texts; 2) frequent use of the adjective “saint” in reference to Woolman; 3) overestimation of Woolman’s historical significance as “the first abolitionist”; comparisons with famous saints; 4) the motif of being born in “a pious family” and “eulogizing on the birthplace of the saint”; 5) historically inaccurate portrayal of Woolman as a poor and semiliterate person; 6) emphasizing such psychological traits as childlikeness and absolute truthfulness. The conclusion is that Woolman’s sanctification was promoted by the historical situation in the USA of the 1850–1940s as well as by The Journal itself and a certain “flexibility” inherent in Woolman’s autobiographical text.
17
Sankar, G., and L. Kamaraj. "SOCIAL REALISM AND PSYCHOLOGICAL TRANSFORMATION OF WOMEN PROTAGONIST IN NAYANTARA SAHGAL’S STORM IN CHANDIGARH AND A SITUATION IN NEW DELHI-A STUDY." Scholedge International Journal of Multidisciplinary & Allied Studies ISSN 2394-336X 5, no. 2 (February 28, 2018): 17. http://dx.doi.org/10.19085/journal.sijmas050201.
Full textAbstract:
The Research paper aims to focus on Nayantara Sahgal’s position in it as a novelist. It also discusses in detail a critical study of the social realism and Psychological Transformation with survival strategies of the woman protagonist in Nayantara Sahgal’s Storm in Chandigarh and A Situation in New Delhi. How Nayanara Sahgal’s writing was different from other Indian writers. During almost six decades of post-colonial history of Indian English fiction, a wide variety of novelists have emerged focusing attention on a multitude of social, economic, political, religious and spiritual issues faced by three conceding periods of human experience. With the turn of the century the Indian English novelists have surpassed their male counterparts outnumbering hem quantitatively as well as maintaining a high standard of literary writing, equally applauded in India and abroad, experimenting boldly with not only technique but also incorporating tabooed subject matters in their novels and short stories.
18
Klepuszewski, Wojciech. "‘The Delightful Logic of Intoxication’: Fictionalising Alcoholism." Acta Neophilologica 52, no. 1-2 (December 17, 2019): 97–118. http://dx.doi.org/10.4312/an.52.1-2.97-118.
Full textAbstract:
Alcohol invariably connotes different, often conflicting, feelings. As Iain Gately rightly observes in Drink: A Cultural History of Alcohol (2009), it “has been credited with the powers of inspiration and destruction” (1). This reflection is as relevant to classical antiquity, when wine was savoured during the Greek symposia, as to the modern world, in which alcohologists study the devastating effects of alcohol abuse. However, much as sociological, psychological, and medical research into alcoholism provide statistics, problem-analysis, and therapeutic approaches, literature offers representations of alcoholism which allow for a more profound insight into alcohol dependence and its many implications. This article focuses on how alcoholism is dissected and contextualised in literature, predominantly in contemporary English fiction.
19
Lushnikova, G. I., and T. Yu Osadchaya. "THE SHORT STORY CYCLE IN CONTEMPORARY BRITISH LITERATURE (BASED ON THE SHORT STORIES BY J. MCGREGOR)." Bulletin of Udmurt University. Series History and Philology 31, no. 3 (July 13, 2021): 628–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.35634/2412-9534-2021-31-3-628-634.
Full textAbstract:
The article is devoted to the poetics of the short story cycle - a genre of short narrative fiction, where classical traditions and experimental narrative techniques are used to explicate topical issues of contemporary British literature. Beside the fact that the stories are relatively short, they are characterized by semantic compression, gaps in meaning, “internal” psychological plot, intensity, expressive imagery, lyricism, implications. The consistency of the short story cycle is created by thematic complementarity, coherence of style and composition. The short story cycle by J. McGregor ‘That Isn’t the Sort of Thing that Happens to Someone like You’ is devoted to everyday life of English Fenland inhabitants and can be attributed to the ‘narrative of community’ genre, traditional for British literature. McGregor’s short story cycle embodies almost all modern tendencies of the genre: a wide palette of themes within the framework of topical issues; vivid psychological portraits and images; variety of narrative types and forms; suggestiveness, implications, specific usage of pronouns, stylistic devices of contrast and repetition.
20
Cherepovska, Tetiana. "LEXICO-STYLISTIC MEANS OF PSYCHOLOGICAL CRISIS REPRESENTATION (BY CECILIA AHERN’S NOVEL THE TIME OF MY LIFE)." Naukovì zapiski Nacìonalʹnogo unìversitetu «Ostrozʹka akademìâ». Serìâ «Fìlologìâ» 1, no. 10(78) (February 27, 2020): 171–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.25264/2519-2558-2020-10(78)-171-175.
Full textAbstract:
The article deals with the phenomenon of psychological crisis and its representation in psychological fiction. The work of the modern English novelist Cecilia Ahern The Time of my Life was chosen for the analysis. The concept of psychological crisis is viewed through the prism of the protagonist’s reaction to the separation as a kind of a personal loss. The research of the individual author style is focused on the set of lexical, stylistic and compositional means used to actualize the mentioned above concept in the novel. Personification as a key stylistic means is applied by the writer to create an image of the protagonist’s life. A variety of depicting and characterological details serve to trace the evolution of the personage named Life, in correlation with the changes that occur in the protagonist’s consciousness, in her life perception. Another set of details is used to show different manifestations of the crisis disregard: neglected apartment, unhealthy food, inability to maintain a normal relationship with friends. The use of key words, their repetitions in different contexts alongside with flashbacks and their role in the composition of the novel are studied. The implicit details, symbols and metaphors indicating different stages of psychological crisis overcoming (from refusal and stagnation to acceptance and acting) are also analyzed.
21
Ahmed, Hazhar Ramadhan. "The Formularization of the East Simulacrum in the Poetic Consonance of Walter De La Mare." Journal of University of Raparin 7, no. 1 (January 9, 2020): 563–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.26750/vol(7).no(1).paper29.
Full textAbstract:
The desideratum of this paper is to pageant of the formularization of the East simulacrum in the poetic consonance of Walter De La Mare, De La Mare always been known as a writer of fantasy, imagination world and supernatural fiction in English literature, it is proposed here that he is, in fact concerned with exploration of the conscious and unconscious selves.
His inspection is more philosophical than psychological in that he makes no use of Freud formulas. He follows rather the intuitive path of Jung but uses the media of fiction; Display and formulation the simulacrum theme in two sonnets of De La Mare ''Arabia & Listener '' characterize the imagination world of the East.
East fantasy for De La Mare is pure and marvelous creation which seemed he merged the fantasy cosmos of the East, even supposing Walter De La Mare wants to involving and remain in the nature of the East not in the West creation by virtue of him in distinction to the West, according to his verses of Walter De La Mare ''Arabia &Listeners '' there is no ambiguity that nature in the East more applicable for live than nature in the West.
22
Ryadchikova, Elena Nikolaevna, Olga Aleksandrovna Kadilina, and Ashhen Muradovna Balian. "Alice from the Tales of L. Carroll as a Character and Linguistic Personality." RUDN Journal of Language Studies, Semiotics and Semantics 11, no. 1 (December 15, 2020): 64–77. http://dx.doi.org/10.22363/2313-2299-2020-11-1-64-77.
Full textAbstract:
The relevance of this work is determined by the importance of studying the problem of the child’s linguistic personality as a fiction character in a linguistic-pragmatic manner, from the writer’s linguistic personality intentions and characteristics perspective, and insufficient linguistic aspect knowledge of Lewis Carroll’s works about Alice’s adventures. The work substantiates the following: as opposed to the fact that, due to ontological characteristics, individual mental, psychological and physical development and personality growth, the degree of their language acquisition and communicative skills, primary school age children are usually weak or average linguistic personalities, while fiction characters of this age are able to meet the parameters of a strong linguistic personality. It has been established that the preferred, highly appreciated by L. Carroll qualities of a seven-year-old English girl are as follows: high level of cognitive-speech development, speech-cognitive processes, vocabulary, ability to communicate, reflect, draw conclusions, evaluate and express one's opinion in words, intelligence superior to the development of an average child of this age, as well as Alice’s internal qualities, manifested in her speech activity, taking into account not only speech peculiarities, but also themes and stylistics, communicational strategies and tactics, pragmatics, perception adequacy and the interlocutor’s speech understanding, influencing the opponent with the paralinguistic methods, psycho-emotional background of communication. These qualities make it possible to characterize a given linguistic personality of a literary character as strong. A number of Alice's qualities allow her to be considered as a national-cultural English type of personality.
23
Chernysh, Valentyna, and Sofya Nikolaeva. "THE CONTENT OF TEACHING PROFESSIONALLY ORAL COMMUNICATION WITHIN THE INTERCULTURAL ASPECT TO PRE-SERVICE ENGLISH TEACHERS." Scientific and methodological journal "Foreign Languages", no. 1 (May 12, 2023): 19–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.32589/1817-8510.2023.1.278110.
Full textAbstract:
The article deals with the problem of the content of teaching professionally oriented oral communication within the intercultural aspect to pre-service English teachers. The author has analyzed oral communication as a combination of following components: professionally oriented monologue, professionally oriented dialogue and professionally oriented listening comprehension. Professionally oriented oral communication is considered to be a complete system of socio-psychological, educational and personal interaction of teachers with the participants of the educational process – with students, their parents, and colleagues. The article describes methods and types of intercultural interaction of teachers, outlines situations of intercultural communication. The content of teaching has been established and characterized in its two aspects – subject and procedural aspects. The components of the teaching content are determined on the example of two spheres, the texts are characterized as a component of the teaching content, and the correlation of the texts between the topics and communicative tasks during the teaching professionally oriented oral communication to pre-service English teachers is illustrated. Special attention is given to fiction and the possibility of its use in the training of pre-service teachers of English, the list of novels that can be used as a means for developing professionally oriented communication skills is given.
24
Ruano, Pablo. "A corpus-based approach to Charles Dickens's use of direct thought presentation." Corpora 13, no. 3 (November 2018): 319–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/cor.2018.0152.
Full textAbstract:
This paper presents a corpus-based approach to Charles Dickens's use of direct thought presentation in his fifteen novels, an aspect that is traditionally under-explored, perhaps due to his characters’ lack of psychological depth. Thanks to the use of corpus tools such as WordSmith Tools 7 ( Scott, 2016 ) and Corpus Linguistics in Cheshire (CLiC), stretches of direct thought have been effectively retrieved and systematically scrutinised. The 244 stretches of direct thought presentation identified here have revealed meaningful patterns in form and function so far as Dickens's use of this mode of presentation is concerned. Not only will the analysis of these patterns give us a better understanding of Dickens's style, but it will also reinforce the findings discussed in Busse's (2010) study of direct thought presentation in nineteenth-century English fiction – the most comprehensive analysis to date.
25
Sujitha, Dr S., and Dr A. Arun Daves. "Narratives of Self-Discovery: Examining Kamala Das's Autobiography in the Context of Women's Empowerment." International Journal of English Language, Education and Literature Studies (IJEEL) 2, no. 4 (2023): 1–6. http://dx.doi.org/10.22161/ijeel.2.4.1.
Full textAbstract:
This research article examines the significance of autobiographical works as a means of self-expression and self-portrayal in contemporary society. The study explores the genre of autobiography, its historical development, and its psychological implications. The research focuses on Kamala Das's autobiography, "My Story," as a case study to analyze the themes of self-realization, self-assertion, and the struggles of Indian womanhood. The article highlights the role of autobiographies in challenging societal norms and advocating for women's rights and individuality. It explores how Kamala Das's autobiography defies patriarchal expectations and explores themes of love, sexuality, and personal growth. The research also addresses the impact of Kamala Das's work in reshaping feminine personas in Indian English fiction. Overall, the article contributes to the understanding of autobiographical literature as a powerful medium for self-exploration and social critique.
26
R, Meenakshi, and Dr Mridula R. Kindo. "Asserting Agency in Negotiating Trauma: A Critical Analysis of Githa Hariharan’s “The Remains of the Feast”." International Journal of English Literature and Social Sciences 9, no. 3 (2024): 481–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.22161/ijels.93.62.
Full textAbstract:
The emergence of trauma as an alarming global issue has demanded attention and concern worldwide The term trauma comes from the Greek tpaa meaning wound The Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English defines trauma as an unpleasant and upsetting experience that affects you for a long time Trauma as a theory in literature escalated in the 1990s accelerated by the pioneering works of scholars such as Cathy Caruth Geoffrey H Hartman and Shoshana Felman In contemporary Indian English fiction the genre of short stories has consistently represented an essential component of the literary landscape The potency innate in short stories equates to that of novels in their efficacy to provide radical insights into social cultural historical and psychological arenas The Art of Dying 1993 authored by the esteemed contemporary postmodern postcolonial writer Githa Hariharan is a cluster of short stories that reflect on womens lives within the modern Indian setting The Remains of the Feast a short story from this collection unfolds the traumatic events in the life of Rukmini and her response to them as recounted by Ratna her greatgranddaughter The purpose of the study is to inquire into the reactions of Rukmini and Ratna to the events that unwind especially during Rukminis final phase of life This paper employs a feminist lens to examine the responses of these two central characters and brings to light the assertion of agency in the process of negotiating with physical and psychological trauma shedding light on their respective positions within the patriarchal framework
27
Ashari, Siti Auji. "A systematic review of the theory of mind studies and the potential for replications in linguistics." International Journal of Modern Languages and Applied Linguistics 6, no. 4 (December 1, 2022): 13–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.24191/ijmal.v6i4.19808.
Full textAbstract:
The theory of mind is a psychological concept that refers to the awareness of one’s mental states and others’. In the seminal study conducted by Kidd and Castano (2013), the researchers found that reading literary fiction led to better performance in the theory of mind test relative to reading popular fiction, nonfiction, or reading nothing at all. This paper collates seven subsequent replications of the original study: five direct replications and two indirect ones using other media, namely the visual narrative of television and movies. The findings of these replications are then compared to the original findings in terms of whether they achieved successful replication of the results as well. After that, key differences between the genres of the media used in the original study and its replications are elaborated, namely the writerly and readerly texts. For discussion, this paper further argues the case for replicating the original study in linguistics. In particular, this paper explores two main points pertaining to second language acquisition and emotions. The first one is that the original study and its replications were carried out exclusively with native speakers of English. Accordingly, this necessitates replicating the original study with participants other than first speakers. Meanwhile, considering the call for more replications, this paper makes the argument that since songs are short and also elicit emotions, they present another viable medium for indirect replications.
28
Kesebir, Selin, and Pelin Kesebir. "A Growing Disconnection From Nature Is Evident in Cultural Products." Perspectives on Psychological Science 12, no. 2 (March 2017): 258–69. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1745691616662473.
Full textAbstract:
Human connection with nature is widely believed to be in decline even though empirical evidence is scarce on the magnitude and historical pattern of the change. Studying works of popular culture in English throughout the 20th century and later, we have documented a cultural shift away from nature that begins in the 1950s. Since then, references to nature have been decreasing steadily in fiction books, song lyrics, and film storylines, whereas references to the human-made environment have not. The observed temporal pattern is consistent with the explanatory role of increased virtual and indoors recreation options (e.g., television, video games) in the disconnect from nature, and it is inconsistent with a pure urbanization account. These findings are cause for concern, not only because they imply foregone physical and psychological benefits from engagement with nature, but also because cultural products are agents of socialization that can evoke curiosity, respect, and concern for the natural world.
29
Cherepovska, Tetiana, and Olena Binkevych. "PSYCHOLOGISM OF THE NOVEL “THE BOOK OF TOMORROW” BY CECILIA AHERN." Naukovì zapiski Nacìonalʹnogo unìversitetu «Ostrozʹka akademìâ». Serìâ «Fìlologìâ» 1, no. 11(79) (September 29, 2021): 173–76. http://dx.doi.org/10.25264/2519-2558-2021-11(79)-173-176.
Full textAbstract:
The article reveals the phenomenon of psychologism in fiction and the ways of its actualization in modern English literature concerned with psychological aspects. The notion is analyzed on the basis of Cecilia Ahern’s novel “The Book of Tomorrow” that depicts the protagonist’s psychological crisis as a result of personal loss and the ways of coping with negative experience. Lexical-stylistic and compositional means are studied through the prism of the representation of the protagonist’s internal feelings caused by inner and outer factors. The role of symbols, fairy-tale allusions, personifications, artistic details and comparative tropes in depicting the young girl’s crisis state and her reactions to life changes is traced. The function of key words, implicit details, temporal fractures and the title in the compositional framing of the text is researched. The role of the mentioned-above linguistic means in the reflection of transformations taking place in the protagonist’s consciousness is studied. Some peculiarities of Cecilia Ahern’s individual author’s style, such as wide use of fairy-tale allusions and personifications, contrastive application of some lexical-stylistic means (artistic details) and the coherent function of the others (an implicit detail, extended metaphors), are outlined. The author’s favourite key words are listed; the stylistic role of their repetitions in different contexts is shown. The retrospective actualization of the lexeme tomorrow presented in the title is traced.
30
Dr. G. Keerthi. "Scrutiny of Self in Arun Joshi’s The Strange Case of Billy Biswas." Creative Launcher 6, no. 4 (October 30, 2021): 83–87. http://dx.doi.org/10.53032/tcl.2021.6.4.13.
Full textAbstract:
An Outstanding novelist of human predicament, Arun Joshi is ranked with the great masters of contemporary Indian fiction in English. He believes that reality lies within the consciousness of isolated individuals. As he is the great writer of psychological perception, he envisions the inner crisis of the modern man in his five novels. In particular, his second novel The Strange Case of Billy Biswas is the apple of his eye. It portrays the story of the protagonist who is dragged by the mysterious world of the tribal society. The protagonist, Billy’s strange quest leads him to leave his position as the sole inheritor of a wealthy family and lead to live a natural life. There is no comfort in his American life as well as in his marital life too. Further, the story visualises Billy’s quest for individualism and self-identity at the cost of leaving materialistic world. This paper focuses on the clashes between the civilised world and the primitive one as well as it looks at the root of the protagonist Billy’s quest for the self.
31
Karpukhina, Tamara Petrovna. "The category of seemingness and its functioning in Herbert G. Wells’s novel “The Time Machine”." Philology. Issues of Theory and Practice 17, no. 7 (July 24, 2024): 2295–307. http://dx.doi.org/10.30853/phil20240328.
Full textAbstract:
The aim of the research is to reveal the specific features of the epistemic category of seemingness functioning in an English novel of a science fiction genre. The article undertakes a versatile approach to the phenomenon of seemingness viewed from different angles, namely, a logic-philosophical, psychological and linguistic ones. Linguistic criteria identifying the category of seemingness have been clarified. Scientific originality of the research lies in describing the peculiarities of the category of seemingness as represented in H. G. Wells’s novel. The research findings reveal a diversity of lexico-syntactic denominations of seemingness constituting the corresponding semantic field thus forming its centre or periphery. The modus of seemingness embraces various types of perception, those of a visual, aural, tactile, olfactory and kinaesthetic ones. The results of the research indicate that seemingness in the novel tends to interact with the category of evaluation. As the study shows, the modus of seemingness in the novel is inseparable from the first-person narration describing the incredible events in the world of fantastic future as seemingly indefinite, unverified and illusory.
32
Dakhi, Saniago, and Horas Hutabarat. "LANGUAGE EFFECTIVENESS AND FACTORS INFLUENCING SCIENTIFIC WRITING OF INDONESIAN UNDERGRADUATE THESIS." English Review: Journal of English Education 7, no. 1 (December 9, 2018): 61. http://dx.doi.org/10.25134/erjee.v7i1.1496.
Full textAbstract:
The linguistic feature distinction between written and spoken discourse, like scientific writing, narrative text, discussion text, oral speech, etc. has been a longstanding discussion among scholars. However, there is limited number of studies on Indonesian undergraduate thesis context. This article reports the language effectiveness, i.e. lexical density and grammatical complexity of undergraduate thesis using the Flesch�s Analysis of the Readability of Adult Reading Materials (1974) and the determinant factors influencing them. This descriptive study, applying online system application, was conducted in an Indonesian pseudonym university. Forty-two undergraduate theses were used as data source of lexical density and grammatical complexity, and four English lecturers participated on interview. Results showed that the average lexical density ratio was 42.14 and the grammatical complexity was 14.54. On the other hand, the determinant factors of academic writing holistically encompass; (1) psychological factors including identity awareness, motivation, and conceptual competency, (2) sociocultural factor covering personal experience, and (3) linguistic factors, namely linguistic awareness and application, and mechanical competency. To sum up, three important conclusions are drawn. Firstly, there is no exactly the same lexical density and grammatical complexity across chapters of the undergraduate theses. Secondly, the undergraduate theses are lexically acceptable, but grammatically are not as they are interpreted as American students� slick fiction product. Finally, variables affecting academic writing are not only linguistic factors, but also psychological and sociocultural ones.Keywords: lexical density; grammatical complexity; undergraduate thesis; Indonesian context; academic writing; language effectiveness.
33
Shmakova, Anastasiia Valerievna. "Transparency and mirroring of literary translations of fairy tales by the English writers." Litera, no. 11 (November 2021): 1–8. http://dx.doi.org/10.25136/2409-8698.2021.11.36631.
Full textAbstract:
The subject of this research is the English-Russian translation of fairy tales from the perspective of transparency and mirroring. The goal of this research is to determine the strategy for literary translation of the English fairy tales. Linguostylistic and comparative analysis is conducted on B. Zakhoder's translations of such fairy tales as “Alice in Wonderland” by L. Carroll, “Winnie the Pooh and All, All, All” by A. Milne, and “Mary Poppins” by P. Travers. The modern theory of translation largely focuses on the various aspects of equivalence and adequacy of the original and translated texts; describes the requirements for the quality of translation, including literary translation. Russian and foreign researchers show heightened attention to the concepts of transparency and mirroring in translation, namely literary translation of children's literature substantiated by the specificity of the target audience. The scientific novelty consists in application of the modern postulates of the theory of translation to children's literature, which broadens knowledge in this scientific field. The main conclusion lies in following the theory of translation transparency for the child reader in translation of children's literature. As a result of the analysis of B. Zakhoder’s translations of fairy tales by L. Carroll, A. Milne, and P. Travers into the Russian language, it is noted that they reflect the general patterns of translation children's fiction, take into account psychological characteristics of the audience, text is adapted to be comprehensible for children, considerable attention is given to the emotional component, expressiveness, and humor. Although B. Zakhoder’s translations are not the full interpretation, he follows the theory of transparency. Imaginative interpretation of the text demonstrates the specificity of translator’s individual style.
34
Vanamala, M., and S. Himabindu. "Depiction of Women in the Selected Works of R. K. Narayan- An Analysis." Integrated Journal for Research in Arts and Humanities 3, no. 2 (April 3, 2023): 82–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.55544/ijrah.3.2.14.
Full textAbstract:
R. K. Narayan, one of the greatest Indian writers and a major contributor to English fiction, has presented the lives of women around and depicted women characters with varied facets in his fiction. Most of his works reflect the predicament of women and the social reality in which they try to assimilate themselves at times. He is a writer who could portray women depicting their psychological urges. Narayan’s works depict the role of women in family and society and show a gradual transformation in these women characters and evolve them to their best at the societal spectrum. He portrayed his women characters with all shades creating a signature effect with regard to characterization of women in society.This paper examines the various female characters – modern as well as traditional and the differences in their thought patterns, habits, ambitions, beliefs, conduct, aspirations and their way of looking at life. My research focuses on few observations on the portrayal and depiction of women in the selected works of R. K. Narayan with a view of exploring the female characters and different aspects of human nature and human life. This paper also proves the fact that apart from providing aesthetic pleasure, these selected literary texts depict the various facades of women in our everyday lives. It also portrays a paradigm shift that the female characters experience by rendering a message to the world around. This paper gives few insights into life and the predicaments which as human beings we falter on. This paper also suggests and recommends the readers to explore such texts and characters to develop an aesthetic ability and a sense of appreciation for the works of R. K. Narayan.
35
Vlasiuk, I. "FEATURES OF MODERN ENGLISH READING OF HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS BY MEANS OF INNOVATIVE TECHNOLOGIES." Zhytomyr Ivan Franko state university journal. Рedagogical sciences, no. 1 (104) (June 1, 2021): 69–77. http://dx.doi.org/10.35433/pedagogy.1(104).2021.69-77.
Full textAbstract:
The article highlights the importance of English reading as a type of linguistic activity that has great cognitive value and actually implements communicative, educational, and developmental function for high school students, and at the same time, considers the specifics of usage of innovative technologies as modern tools for English reading and learning a foreign language in general, as well as the suitability of using innovative technologies in the process of learning foreign languages at schools for high school students. There are many new methods of teaching English, and a necessary condition for choosing a particular method of teaching that is suitable for both teacher and student - knowledge of innovative learning technologies. Innovative technologies have become an integral part of a holistic educational process and can increase its effectiveness, as they affect the student's consciousness, feelings and will, form a creative personality that is able to effectively apply the acquired knowledge, skills and abilities in practice in any sphere of public life. English reading is a type of linguistic activity that allows not to imitate, but to reproduce one of the forms of real communication in English. With the help of reading in a foreign language, students get acquainted with the world of their foreign peers, with songs, poetry and fairy tales, available samples of children's fiction of the country whose language is studied. Looking at the process of reading from a psychological point of view, we can say that the process of perception and understanding of the text is directly related to thinking and memory. When a student perceives a text, he identifies the most important links in it and synthesizes them into a single whole. At the same time, memory helps logical and technical thinking. The main principles of integration of innovative technologies in the process of learning English are: movement from whole to separate, student-centred classes, purposefulness and relevance of classes, their focus on achieving social interaction facilitated by teacher’s faith in their students' success, language integration and language acquisition using knowledge from other fields of science. As a result of the use of innovative technologies, an information-rich educational process is created.
36
Llewellyn-Smith, Michael. "A politician and his books: the Venizelos library in Chania." Historical Review/La Revue Historique 14 (April 27, 2018): 177. http://dx.doi.org/10.12681/hr.16299.
Full textAbstract:
Eleftherios Venizelos loved books. He collected them, read them, andannotated them. With few exceptions, the most important being his translation of Thucydides into modern Greek, he did not write them. Books were an important part of his life, and he continued until the end to buy them. His collection of books is of historical and psychological interest. After his death in 1936, the books were transferred from his apartment in Paris and his wife’s house in Athens to the Venizelos family house in Halepa, near Chania in Crete. After many vicissitudes, especially during the German occupation of Crete, they came to rest in Chania Municipal Library, where they remain today. This paper explores Venizelos’ reading habits and preferences through this collection, showing that he used books both for professional information, for pleasure, and to improve his knowledge of foreign languages, in particular English. He was familiar with the great authors from Homer to Shakespeare; with philosophy from Aristotle to Bergson; with poetry, fiction, but especially with political thought, history and literature. It is good that the collection remains in the hands in the Municipal Library in the city where Venizelos lived and worked.
37
Aleksanyan, Anna Robertovna. "Stylistic features of fear-mongering in the literature of the horror genre and ways of their translation into Russian (by the example of S. King’s works in English and Russian)." Philology. Issues of Theory and Practice 16, no. 8 (August 14, 2023): 2333–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.30853/phil20230366.
Full textAbstract:
The aim of the study is to identify the stylistic features of the realization of the emotional state of fear in the works of fiction of the “horror” genre. The paper involves the material of Stephen King’s works in English and Russian to consider the stylistic devices used by this author to create emotional tension in the text of a work. In addition, the features of Russian translation of stylistic means are analyzed. Original texts by S. King have an artistic originality, and translators, when rendering stylistic expressive means, strive to preserve them. The scientific novelty of the study lies in the fact that the analysis revealed a number of stylistic devices used to create an intense psychological atmosphere in the works by Stephen King. As a result, it was proved that the stylistic devices used by the author throughout the plot contribute to the escalation of the atmosphere of horror and intensity of emotions. Translators, in turn, preserve the pragmatic task of a literary text, which is to cause fear in the reader, they manage to convey the artistic originality of the text without losing the author’s intention.
38
Romanets, V. M., and N. T. Podkovyroff. "COMPOSITION AND ARCHITECTONICS OF A WORK OF FICTION AS A CHARACTERISTIC OF THE AUTHOR’S STYLE. J. CHAUCER «THE CANTERBURY TALES»." Writings in Romance-Germanic Philology, no. 1(50) (October 13, 2023): 238–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.18524/2307-4604.2023.1(50).285566.
Full textAbstract:
The study presented here examines the problems of composition and architectonics of a work of fiction. The author analyses the correlation of these notions. A close examination of the types of compositional organization of a work of fiction has been carried out. It is noted that the problem of the composition of a work of fiction has a fairly long tradition. At the time, the problem was considered by Aristotle (4th century BC), who focused on the fact that the perfection of a work could be achieved by motivated selection and combination of separate elements into a single whole, which forms complete harmony. A study has been made of the theoretical aspects of the notion of «composition», as well as a demarcation with similar values such as «structure» and «architectonics», and a description of compositional techniques that clarify the functions of composition in a work of fiction. The article discusses the features of the composition and architectonics of «Canterbury Tales», a work by Geoffrey Chaucer, which was written at the end of the 14th century in Middle English, but remained unfinished. Chaucer’s literary skill is manifested in the fact that the stories reflect the individual traits and individual manner of narrating of the characters. The author depicts a wide canvas of English reality of his contemporary era. The book consists of a «Prologue», 22 verse and two prose stories, which are interconnected by interludes. The framing story reports on the development of the action. Borrowing the themes from numerous stories by other authors, Chaucer complicates the plot, saturates it with realistic details. At the same time, he connects the dynamics of action with psychological analysis. It is emphasized that the composition of a work of fiction is structured from the following main elements: plot — a series of events that are depicted in the work of fiction; conflict is a clash of characters and circumstances, views and principles of being, which are the basis of action. The conflict may arise between the individual and society or between characters. And in the mind of the hero, it can be explicit, hidden or imaginary. Plot elements reflect the stages of development of the conflict; prologue — a kind of introduction to the work, which tells about the events of the past and it emotionally sets the reader to perceive the work; exposition — an introduction to the main action, an description of the conditions and circumstances that preceded the beginning of the action (it can be expanded, non-deployed, integral and «torn», located at the beginning, in the middle or at the end of the work); familiarization with the characters of the work, the circumstances and chronology against which the action takes place; starting point of the plot — the beginning of the plot movement (the event from which the conflict begins, further events develop); development of action — a system of events that are the result of the starting point of the plot; the conflict escalates, and contradictions appear more clearly and sharply; climax — the moment of the highest tension of the action, the peak of the conflict — after the climax, the action weakens; denouement — the resolution of the main conflict, or an indication of possible ways to resolve it. This is the final moment of the action of the work of fiction. At this stage of the composition, either the resolution of the conflict is demonstrated or the impossibility of its resolution is shown; epilogue — the final part of the work of fiction, which indicates the direction of further development of events and the fate of the characters. A short message about what happened to the acting characters of the work of fiction after the end of the main storyline. The study considers plot options: the plot can be presented in a direct sequence of events with digressions into the past — retrospectives. In addition, the plot may depict «excursions» into the future or deliberately show an altered sequence of events. Non-plot elements are: inserted episodes, author’s digressions. Therefore, it should be noted that the main function of the plot is to expand the scope of the depicted events and, thus, to reflect the position of the author in relation to various phenomena of life. The work of fiction may lack individual elements of the plot, and sometimes there are several storylines. Architectonic techniques used by the author create a special unique author’s style. And it is the author himself who chooses the main compositional elements. Thus, the composition of a work of fiction can be multifaceted, linear, circular, «a thread with beads». Masterful architectonics is not just the unity of the constituent parts of a work, it is the originality of a particular work, its beauty and uniqueness. It has been determined that the most important property of the composition of this work of Chaucer is its logical sequence. It is with the help of the composition that one can determine that in the «Canterbury Tales» the center of events is the journey of the pilgrims to the holy place. Architectonics is consequently the relationship between the parts of the work. For example, the prologue and epilogue are traditionally small, the prologue being located at the beginning and the epilogue at the end of the work. And the larger elements are located between the prologue and the epilogue. Thus, the architectonics of the elements of the work is logically consistent with each other. In the «Canterbury Tales», the event type of composition has a chronological form. There is a time distance between separate events, but there is no violation of the natural chronology.
39
Shehata, Abdel kareem. "The Unemployed Main Character in the Fiction of Kunut Hamsun and Najeeb Mahfouz: A Comparative Study in the Light of Sustainable Development." International Journal of Literature Studies 1, no. 1 (November 4, 2021): 62–69. http://dx.doi.org/10.32996/ijts.2021.1.1.8.
Full textAbstract:
The Norwegian novelist Kunut Hamsun published his novel Hunger in 1921. The novel was translated into English by George Egerton. In this novel, Hamsun introduces the character of Andereas Tangen, a journalist who has a good life but starts to lose his living, and his essays begin to be refused. He becomes unemployed and suffers poverty, hunger, and homelessness for some time. By the end of the novel, he finds a job on a ship that is sailing from his town Christiania to fetch coal. During the 1930s the Egyptian novelist and short story writer Nageeb Mahfouz wrote his collection of short stories (Hams Eel- Gnoon) The Whisper of Madness. Among this collection, he published his short story (Al- Goo) The Hunger. In this short story, the main character, Ibrahim Hanafy has been working in a factory until he cuts his arm in an accident and loses his job. He becomes unemployed and he, with his family, suffers hunger and many social and psychological difficulties. He hates his life, tries to commit suicide but is saved coincidently by the son of the factory's owner. The man promises Ibrahim to find him a job. This paper aims to show that the unemployed main character in Hamsun's and Mahfouz's works is unable either to love a partner or to have a friend and if he is married, he is unable to keep his marriage relation. Another aim of the paper is to shed light on the negative relations of the unemployed character on one side with his god and with the government of his country on the other side. The third aim of the paper is to emphasize that unemployment, in Hamsun's and Mahfouz's works, leads the once good character to try to commit suicide. Thus the paper comes into three parts: the first part deals with Tangen’s failure to have a love relation or enjoy a friendship. This part also tackles Hanafy’s disability to protect his love for his wife. The second part introduces Tangen’s criticism of his god and of the government in his country. In the third part, the paper discusses the once good characters, becoming unemployed, thinking of death as a solution, and may try to commit suicide. The paper depends on the theory of needs' priority and the method of social and psychological analysis in tackling its topic.
40
Kosenko, Anna Volodymyrivna, and Viktoriia Oleksiivna Toder. "Linguistic Features of Advertising Texts and Their Translation." Vìsnik Marìupolʹsʹkogo deržavnogo unìversitetu. Serìâ: Fìlologìâ 14, no. 24 (2021): 95–100. http://dx.doi.org/10.34079/2226-3055-2021-14-24-95-100.
Full textAbstract:
The article is devoted to the study of linguistic and stylistic features of advertising texts and factors influencing their translation. Various means of translation of advertising texts and expediency of using lexical-semantic transformations are analysed. The work considered such issues as the structure of advertising texts, the peculiarities of their construction. All the above-mentioned statements are illustrated by the examples of the English-language advertising texts, isolated from the mass media, and the author's versions of their translation. Advertising is an integral part of our daily lives and culture. Advertising texts, as ways of a certain communicative influence on members of the cultural and linguistic community, are the objects of linguistic, psycholinguistic and sociolinguistic research. As one of the functional tools of economics, the advertising text has a huge psychological impact on the recipient. Modern advertising reflects all the radical changes in IT and the media, in social and economic relations, in the current understanding of culture, laws, social order and the role of man in it. Considering the linguistic and stylistic features of advertising texts, it should be noted that advertising has a variety of forms, which in turn is one of the factors that determine its widespread use in various fields of human activity from the commercial to the social sphere. In this case, the translation of advertising in contrast to the translation of fiction differs in form, language and pronounced communicative tendency. It is also emphasized that in the process of translation advertising texts the interpreter must solve not only linguistic problems due to the differences in semantic structure and features of the use of two languages in the communication process, but also the problems of sociolinguistic adaptation. Thus, the relevance of this study is the importance and prevalence of advertising in modern society, as well as the need for a deeper analysis and understanding of its spheres of influence, which largely determine the linguistic and stylistic features of advertising texts. The article also considers the linguistic features of modern English-language advertising slogans, because in many respects they explain the variety of slogans and the principles of their formation. In addition, the relevance of this study is that now advertising – is much more than just a process of trade. Advertising is increasingly influencing people's minds, changing their normal lifestyle. Solving the tasks in the course of our work we extensively used the comparative method, which can identify the nature of the English advertising slogan. The scientific novelty lies in the identification of linguistic and stylistic features of English advertising slogans, as well as methods of their translation.
41
Nikolina, Natalia N. "Personification in the Speech of a Child Narrator (a Case Study of Novels ‘Room’ by E. Donoghue and ‘All the Lost Things’ by M. Sacks)." Вестник Пермского университета. Российская и зарубежная филология 13, no. 4 (2021): 89–99. http://dx.doi.org/10.17072/2073-6681-2021-4-89-99.
Full textAbstract:
The article examines personification in the speech of a child narrator. Along with other grammatical and lexical features of a child’s speech, the use of personification by children is distinguished. Personification in a child’s speech, as well as in human speech, can be explained by metaphorical nature of human thinking as well as anthropocentrism of human thinking and speech. Personification can be a characteristic of the speech of a child narrator in fiction intended for adult readership. It is worth noticing that the use of a child narrator as a device is not new in literature. In the course of research, we conducted an analysis of two modern novels written in English: Room by Emma Donoghue (2010) and All the Lost Things by Michelle Sacks (2019). The two novels tell the reader about a traumatic experience that happened to the children or their significant others. The novels discuss the topics of abuse (physical and psychological), abduction, isolation, lying and memory. The narrators in the chosen novels are children of preschool and primary school age (5 and 7 years old). The analysis of the narrators’ speech allowed us to find numerous examples of personification, expressed by different parts of speech. All the found examples can be divided into groups according to the object of personification: household items and objects of the world, parts of the human body, animals, abstract notions, plants, and inorganic nature. The analysis showed that personification as a characteristic of speech can fulfill several functions: make the narrator more plausible, express the narrator’s emotions, communicate the reader the information that is crucial for the understanding of the plot.
42
Ньюман Джон. "The Linguistics of Imaginary Narrative Spaces in Daphne du Maurier’s Rebecca." East European Journal of Psycholinguistics 5, no. 2 (December 28, 2018): 42–61. http://dx.doi.org/10.29038/eejpl.2018.5.2.new.
Full textAbstract:
Daphne du Maurier’s 1938 novel Rebecca provides rich opportunities for the study of imaginary narrative spaces and the language associated with such spaces. The present study explores the linguistics of the imaginary narrative spaces in Rebecca, drawing upon three lines of linguistic research consistent with a Cognitive Linguistic approach: (i) an interest in understanding and appreciating ordinary readers’ actual responses (rather than merely relying upon “expert” readers’ responses), (ii) the construction of worlds or “spaces”, and (iii) the application of ideas from Cognitive Grammar. The study reveals a surprisingly intricate interplay of linguistic devices used in the construction of imaginary narrative spaces and the maintenance of such spaces in extended discourse.
References
Armitt, L. (2000). Contemporary women’s fiction and the fantastic. New York: St. Martin’s Press.
Beauman, S. (2003). Afterword. In Daphne du Maurier’s Rebecca (pp. 429-441). London: Virago Press.
Biber, D., Johansson, S., Leech, G., Conrad, S., & Finnegan, E. (Eds.) (1999). Longman grammar of spoken and written English. Harlow, UK: Pearson Education Limited.
Birch, D. (2007). Addict of fantasy. The Times Literary Supplement, 5447-5448, 17-18.
Dancygier, B. (2012). The language of stories: A cognitive approach. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Dancygier, B. (2017a). Introduction. In B. Dancygier (Ed.), The Cambridge handbook of cognitive linguistics (pp. 1-10). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Dancygier, B. (2017b). Cognitive Linguistics and the study of textual meaning. In B. Dancygier (Ed.) The Cambridge handbook of cognitive linguistics (pp. 607-622). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Du Maurier, D. (2012). Rebecca. London: Virago Press.
Emmott, C. (1997). Narrative comprehension: A discourse perspective. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Evans, V., & Green, M. (2006). Cognitive linguistics: An introduction. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.
Fauconnier, G. (1985). Mental spaces: Aspects of meaning construction in natural language. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Forster, M. (1993). Daphne Du Maurier. London: Chatto & Windus.
Gavins, J. (2007). Text world theory: An introduction. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.
Hadiyanto, H. (2010). The Freudian psychological phenomena and complexity in Daphne Du Maurier’s “Rebecca” (A psychological study of literature). LITE: Jurnal Bahasa, Sastra, Dan Budaya 6(1), 14-25. Available at: https://publikasi.dinus.ac.id/index.php/lite/article/ view/1348/1014.
Harrison, C., Nuttall, L., Stockwell, P., & Yuan, W. (Eds.) (2014). Cognitive grammar in literature. Amsterdam & New York: John Benjamins.
Harrison, C., & Stockwell, P. (2014). Cognitive poetics. In J. Littlemore and J. R. Taylor (Eds.), The Bloomsbury companion to cognitive linguistics (pp. 218-233). London: Bloomsbury.
Horner, A., & Zlosnik, S. (1998). Writing, identity, and the Gothic imagination. London: Macmillian.
Huddleston, R. (2002). The verb. In R. Huddleston & G. K. Pullum (Eds.), The Cambridge grammar of the English language (pp. 71-212). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Kelly, R. (1987). Daphne du Maurier. Boston: Twayne Publishers.
Lakoff, G., & Turner, M. (1989). More than cool reason: A field guide to poetic metaphor. Chicago & London: The University of Chicago Press.
Langacker, R. W. (1991). Foundations of cognitive grammar. Vol. II: Descriptive application. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press.
Leech, G. N. (1969). A linguistic guide to English poetry. London: Longman Group Limited.
Margawati, P. (2010). A Freudian psychological issue of women characters in Daphne Du Maurier’s novel Rebecca. LANGUAGE CIRCLE: Journal of Language and Literature IV(2), 121-126. Available at: https://journal.unnes.ac.id/nju/index.php/LC/article/viewFile/900/839
Naszkowska, K. (2012). Living mirror: The representation of doubling identities in the British and Polish women’s literature (1846–1938). Doctoral dissertation, The University of Edinburgh.
Palmer, F. R. (1974). The English verb. London: Longman Group Limited.
Stockwell, P. (2002). Cognitive poetics: An introduction. London & New York: Routledge.
Turner, M. (1996). The literary mind. New York & Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Turner, M. (2015). Blending in language and communication. In E. Dąbrowska & D. Divjak (Eds.), Handbook of cognitive linguistics (pp. 211-232). Berlin & Boston: de Gruyter Mouton.
Werth, P. (1999). Text worlds: Representing conceptual space in discourse (M. Short, Ed.). Harlow, UK: Longman.
Wilde, O. (1996). The picture of Dorian Gray. In The complete Oscar Wilde: The complete stories, plays and poems of Oscar Wilde (pp. 11-161). New York: Quality Paperback Book Club.
Winifrith, T. J. (1979). Daphne du Maurier. In J. Vinson (Ed.), Novelists and prose writers (Great writers of the English language) (pp. 354-357). New York: St. Martin’s Press.
43
Kudritskaya, Marina I. "Exploring Authenticity and Meaning in Art: an Analysis of Expressive Means and Stylistic Devices in “Headlong”, Novel by Michael Frayn." Nizhnevartovsk Philological Bulletin 8, no. 2 (December 10, 2023): 120–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.36906/2500-1795/23-2/10.
Full textAbstract:
The subject of research is the novel “Headlong” by Michael Fraine, published in 1999. The purpose of the study is to study the concepts of authenticity and meaning in art, presented by the author through an analysis of expressive means and stylistic techniques in this novel. The methods used to obtain results include a formal method, a hermeneutic method, psychological and existential methods, and an applied method, since the study was conducted during the teaching of an extensive reading course for students of the 4th year of the Foreign language: two foreign languages specialty. Michael Fraine's “Headlong” offers a thought-provoking exploration of authenticity and meaning not only in art, but also in real life of both the fiction character and the reader. Through the protagonist's quest for a lost painting, the novel challenges conventional notions of authenticity, emphasizing the subjective nature of perception and interpretation. Frayn underscores the role of context in shaping the meaning of art and highlights the complex interplay between art and society. Ultimately, “Headlong” invites readers to reflect on the intricate relationship between authenticity, meaning, and the ever-evolving nature of art. This essay explores how Frayn's skillful use of language, narrative structure, and character development enhances the exploration of authenticity and meaning in art, shedding light on the complex interplay between perception, interpretation, and the subjective nature of artistic value. The obtained results are of applied character, since they can be used for inclusion in educational syllabi in the English language and Literature of Great Britain, or used to illustrate events in art circles or courses and/or to organize extracurricular events, such as debates about the role of art or about the boundaries between reality and perception.
44
Овчаренко, Наталія. "THE ANTI-IMPERIAL GENRE PARADIGM OF THE CANADIAN POST-VICTORIAN NOVEL." Слово і Час, no. 5 (October 30, 2023): 68–82. http://dx.doi.org/10.33608/0236-1477.2023.05.68-82.
Full textAbstract:
The paper offers a comprehensive analysis of discursive anti-imperial models in Canadian post-Victorian novels. The set tasks relate to detailing the features of this genre paradigm. In particular, attention is focused on the study of its historical, literary, and cultural context. The explanation of the socio-historical background typical of classical English Victorianism, provided in the paper, helps to trace the evolution of the related genre on Canadian soil. Its reinterpretation was prompted by the polyethnic and cultural ‘mosaic’ of the country, which became a prerequisite for the emergence of original models in modern sociology, cultural studies, and fiction.
The study postulates the idea of an anti-imperial paradigm of the genre within the Dominion of Canada. Hence, the process of transforming the discourse of the Victorian novel into the post-Victorian one is demonstrated to be determined by the peculiarities of the post-colonial multicultural structure of the country, which manifests itself at the thematic, cognitive, psychological, and poetic levels. For the purpose of comprehensive analysis, the research is based on the plurality of historical and philosophical foundations within the field of ethics. The range of methods encompasses syncretic, cultural-historical, psychoanalytic, ‘close reading’, genetic, and gynocriticism.
The study led to the observation that the social pattern of the Victorian era (a strict religious and moral code, the pretext of which was Protestantism, mysticism, etc.) permeated Canadian prose as an echo of English Victorianism. There was an ontological dialogue between the Victorian era and post-Victorianism, between individuals and the times in which they lived. The relationship between literature and individuals of different cultural and historical periods had an evolutionary character. The evolution of the genre of the Canadian post-Victorian novel, particularly in the works by L. M. Montgomery, B. Moore, and M. Atwood, is related to the multifaceted style, which involves the use of diverse elements from various aesthetic forms. This synthesis is the result of an experiment with both new and traditional literary models in Canadian literature. The correlation between the classical and post-Victorian genres shows the functionality of such means as satire, pastiche, and simulacrum in the latter. These tools transform the Victorian novel into an ‘anti-Victorian’ one. The examination of the modern version of the classical genre demonstrates the heterogeneity of meanings, their layering and transmission, a new role and conceptual load, motivated by purely national means of explanation.
Over the course of an extended journey through time, the traditional Victorian models, adopted in the literature of the metropolis, had been transformed on Canadian soil. They acquired unique qualities, expanding the field of event and poetic content of the works by Canadian authors and demonstrating their solid post-Victorian anti-imperial discourse.
45
Trukhan, Oksana. "THE LATE XXth AND EARLY XXIst CENTURY WORLD LITERATURE AS A FACTOR IN SHAPING THE HISTORICAL MEMORY OF FUTURE TEACHERS." Mountain School of Ukrainian Carpaty, no. 26 (April 26, 2022): 58–61. http://dx.doi.org/10.15330/msuc.2022.26.58-61.
Full textAbstract:
It is noted that fiction for various reasons loses its educational role among future teachers, and a certain educational potential of modern world literature is virtually unfamiliar to students. It has been proved that modern foreign literature, which actualizes Ukrainian issues, can become an effective means of educating spirituality, national-patriotic feelings and historical memory in future teachers. The interest of foreign authors in Ukraine, its historical past, raising of important issues of national identity, historical memory of Ukrainians is a stimulus for students to get acquainted with these literary works and to read them deeply. The object of study may be the novel "Chornobyl Prayer: A Chronicle of the Future" by the Nobel Prize-winning writer Svetlana Alexievich , as well as Taisa Bondar (the novel "In the Name of the Father and the Son"), Ivan Shamyakin (the novel "The Evil Star") , the American writer Irene Zabytko ("The Sky Unwashed"), representing diaspora literature, the novel by the Irish writer Darragh McKeon "All That is Solid Melts into Air", the literary work of the French illustrator Emmanuel Lepage "Springtime in Chernobyl", journalism of the American-English scholar Serhii Plokhy ("Chernobyl: The History of a Nuclear Catastrophe”) and others. These authors are thematically united by the Chernobyl accident, which they portray as a global catastrophe, as a national tragedy of Ukrainians, a huge psychological trauma for people. The writers emphasize that the Chernobyl explosion happened not only due to neglect of safety rules, problems with the construction of the reactor or staff errors, but also largely due to the socio-political system and the authoritarian regime of those times. Today, more than ever, these problems are urgent, especially taking into consideration the events that took place at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant as a result of the invasion of Russian troops. Unfortunately, there is a great threat of a repeat of this catastrophe. Therefore, the artistic and journalistic works of the “Chernobyl discourse” must be read carefully and in a new way, in order to prevent a recurrence of the Chernobyl disaster. The lessons of Chernobyl must not be forgotten and should never be allowed to happen today. Such issues are perhaps the most capable of shaping the national memory of youth, national consciousness and high spiritual values.
Keywords: modern world literature, future teachers, historical memory, education, Chernobyl discourse, writers.
46
Andreichykova, Olena A. "THE MOTIVE OF CATASTROPHISM IN THE DYSTOPIAN GENRE POETICS: KAZUO ISHIGURO AND YAROSLAV MELNIK." Alfred Nobel University Journal of Philology 2, no. 24 (December 20, 2022): 29–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.32342/2523-4463-2022-2-24-3.
Full textAbstract:
The article examines the concept of catastrophe as an art theme, which is extremely relevant in our time and is also marked by the entropy features. We can confirm that this phenomenon grows and affects many spheres of human life, both external (global, social) and internal (psychological). The author of the article focuses on how modern dystopia reflects an awareness of a catastrophe, which is happening or has already happened. We have analyzed two novels from this point of view: “Masha, or the Fourth Reich” by the French writer of Ukrainian origin Yaroslav Melnyk and “Never Let me Go” by the English writer of Japanese origin Kazuo Ishiguro. The article emphasizes that the dystopias of our time correct classical dystopia attitudes, because they tend to the diffusion of new genres, acquiring the features of a parable novel, a myth novel, an alternative history fiction, and a philosophical novel. We have also noted the controversial nature of new formations, which combine signs of utopia and dystopia. Regarding the ideological and thematic component, the author of the article states that Ya. Melnyk and K. Ishiguro focus on the traditional problems of humanism and the relationship between “man and society” and on individual’s catastrophic depopulation issues in the conditions of nowadays turbulent challenges. The purpose of the article is to study the specificity of catastrophism artistic embodiment in the novels “Masha, or the Fourth Reich” by Yaroslav Melnyk and “ Never Let me Go ” by Kazuo Ishiguro and its functions in the structure of the dystopia genre. To achieve this goal we used historical-literary, cultural-historical and hermeneutic research methods. It was determined that the catastrophism motif realization in the dystopia genre contributes to searching for new experimental forms, activates the processes of transformation and diffusion in the genre creation field, paradoxically and organically combines classic and modern elements of dystopia, renewing the poetics of the genre. Conclusion. Kazuo Ishiguro’s novel “Never Let me Go” demonstrates a powerful example of genre synthesis: “stream of consciousness” coexists with the classic English estate novel, which is emphasized by confessional and allegorical intonations and does not prevent the writer from resorting to some possibilities of a detective story. Features of the traditional parable form and mythological genre are also observed. Fantastic elements are interspersed with realistic ones. But allegorical, mythological, fantastic, and realistic features organically coexist in the novel, reinforcing the author’s main ideas. Yaroslav Melnyk in his novel “Masha, or the Fourth Reich” successfully synthesizes an alternative history novel, an adventure novel and a classic philosophical novel. Here conflicting utopia and dystopia also organically coexist, reinforcing each other. A dystopia genre structure becomes open and acquires unlimited hybridization, losing its classical features and even postmodern boundaries. Thus, the catastrophic reality of the 21st century promotes the search for new experimental forms, activates unpredictable processes in the genre creation field, and paradoxically and organically combines classical and modern elements of literary art. Once again, modern dystopian literature shows that “common issue” as a social slogan cannot satisfy individual human needs. The problem of egocentrism with the insufficient development of the political machine is becoming more and more acute. As a general phenomenon, consumer society does not justify itself and makes the lives of its sons doomed. Unfortunately, the heroes of modern dystopias less and less often choose to fight and more often to humble themselves or flee, which is the main difference from their classical predecessors. The prospects of further work are to deepen the understanding of the causes of stylistic and substantive differences in dystopias, the influence of socio-cultural reality on modern dystopias genre synthesis, the differences in the methods of utopian representation and artistic means of enhancing catastrophization within stories framework.
47
POPE, HARRISON G., MICHAEL B. POLIAKOFF, MICHAEL P. PARKER, MATTHEW BOYNES, and JAMES I. HUDSON. "Is dissociative amnesia a culture-bound syndrome? Findings from a survey of historical literature." Psychological Medicine 37, no. 2 (December 7, 2006): 225–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0033291706009500.
Full textAbstract:
Background. Natural human psychological phenomena, such as depression, anxiety, delusions, hallucinations and dementia, are documented across the ages in both fictional and non-fictional works. We asked whether ‘dissociative amnesia’ was similarly documented throughout history.Method. We advertised in three languages on more than 30 Internet web sites and discussion groups, and also in print, offering US$1000 to the first individual who could find a case of dissociative amnesia for a traumatic event in any fictional or non-fictional work before 1800.Results. Our search generated more than 100 replies; it produced numerous examples of ordinary forgetfulness, infantile amnesia and biological amnesia throughout works in English, other European languages, Latin, Greek, Arabic, Sanskrit and Chinese before 1800, but no descriptions of individuals showing dissociative amnesia for a traumatic event.Conclusions. If dissociative amnesia for traumatic events were a natural psychological phenomenon, an innate capacity of the brain, then throughout the millennia before 1800, individuals would presumably have witnessed such cases and portrayed them in non-fictional works or in fictional characters. The absence of cases before 1800 cannot reasonably be explained by arguing that our ancestors understood or described psychological phenomena so differently as to make them unrecognizable to modern readers because spontaneous complete amnesia for a major traumatic event, in an otherwise lucid individual, is so graphic that it would be recognizable even through a dense veil of cultural interpretation. Therefore, it appears that dissociative amnesia is not a natural neuropsychological phenomenon, but instead a culture-bound syndrome, dating from the nineteenth century.
48
Chernenko, Olha V. "SEMIOTIC AND MULTIMODAL REPRESENTATION OF EXISTENTIAL CONFLICT IN FICTIONAL DISCOURSE." Alfred Nobel University Journal of Philology 2, no. 26/2 (December 26, 2023): 225–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.32342/2523-4463-2023-2-26/2-14.
Full textAbstract:
The article represents an attempt to build and apply a linguosemiotic model of existential conflict research in modern English fictional discourse. The modern tendency of philological and socio-humanistic studies to involve the tools of semiotics, discourse theory, and multimodality in the process of complex analysis of a literary work as an artistic model of reality is highlighted. The research is based on practical blocks of illustrative material, selected discursive fragments from a literary work, which contain an existential conflict. Basically, the key point here is the analysis of intra- and interpersonal conflict based on the theoretical achievements of semiotics and linguosemiotics (Ch. Pierce, Yu. Lotman, U. Eco, G. Pocheptsov) and the theory of discourse and multimodality (G. Kress, K. O’Halloran, C . Forceville, M. Halliday). It makes it possible to provide a detailed research of existential conflict in fictional discourse with the identification of latent, ambivalent meanings and the relevant reconstruction and interpretation of the conflict by the reader. The paper aims at projecting the modern tendency towards the synergy of various aspects of conflict studies across the humanities. Therefore, the goal of the paper is to outline the advantages of an integral approach to the study of conflict in modern linguistic conflictology and to build a linguosemiotic model for the analysis and interpretation of existential conflict in fictional discourse. Thus, the paper`s core objectives involve: 1) to study the achievements of the semiotic and multimodal approach in its application to synthetic level communicative systems containing conflict; 2) to reveal the place, role and potential of the existential conflict in fictional discourse using the above-mentioned methods; 3) to present a linguosemiotic model for the study of existential conflict in modern English fictional discourse. The theoretical and methodological base of the research involves general-scientific methods of analysis, synthesis, deduction as well as the method of linguosemiotic and multimodal analysis to determine the components of semiosis of existential intrapersonal conflict in fictional discourse. The results of the research consist in the creation of an integral semiotic model of the analysis of existential conflict in modern English-language fictional discourse, which assumes the presence of a static and dynamic component in its structure, revealed, in particular, in the process of semiotic reading of the work in three successive stages of mimesis, semiosis, and synthesis. The process of conflict interpretation presupposes a comprehensive approach to semiotic reading activity developed in consecutive steps. The linguosemiotic means of representing the existential conflict at different levels of the literary work, which have a multimodal nature, have been revealed. The temporal, psychological, and sign-symbolic characteristics of the existential conflict, which make up the semiotic space or semiosphere of the literary work, are analyzed and classified. As a result of the identification and unification of the factors that determine the way of development of existential conflict in fictional discourse, the linguosemiotic model of the analysis of this type of intrapersonal conflict was reconstructed. The model covers the study of the semiotic components of the sign-symbolic, psychological and temporal space and the surface and deep levels of the semiotic reading of the literary work, at which the cognitive, behavioral and emotional aspects of the conflict are decoded and reconstructed.
49
Keshavarz, Marzieh. "Tracing Psychological Facts in Amabelle Desir, the Fictional Heroine of Edwidge Danticat’s The Farming of Bones." International Journal of Humanities and Social Science 7, no. 2 (February 25, 2020): 42–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.14445/23942703/ijhss-v7i2p107.
Full text
50
LIVYTSKA, Inna. "Landscape Semiotics of Subjectivity in the English Novel of the 19thCentury." Linguistic and Conceptual Views of the World, no. 72(2) (2022): 96–107. http://dx.doi.org/10.17721/2520-6397.2022.2.07.
Full textAbstract:
Semiotic relations between the homo sapiens and his/her topos or environment have recently become the focus of eminent or mediated fictional subjective modelling. In the course of research with the tools of the cultural discourse analysis (CDA), a range of communicative practices has been unveiled. These include among others verbalized images of the topi, descriptive outlines of the localities and directions, ways of showing, symbolic representations of typical animals, topographic lexis, verbal and non-verbal means of the visualization of the surroundings etc. The object of the research constitutes the semiotic potential of the “ethnic-physical nomenclature”, which presupposes the application of the cultural discourse analysis to the environment as a form of subjectivized reality of the human being. Victorian writers provide us with the well of unlimited material in this respect as the experiencing subject of pre-industrial England has been portrayed as a sensitive agency in the imaginative fictional narrative world. Therefore, Victorian’s world outlook becomes the research objective of ecocriticism, a new direction of critical discourse analysis. The aim of cultural discourse analysis in symbiosis with the ecocritical approach is to investigate ways and means of correlation of verbal and non-verbal discourses and their material and physical embodiment in culture. Ecocritical reference to the Victorian period has been considered prolific in terms of discursive means disclosing complicated relations of the approaching technological progress, great discoveries in the human physic and Nature. Positing the human being in the centre of all the animal species stressed a universal character of semiosis, where the global ecological view was put on the core of the scientific and fictional manifestation. A prominent example of this cosmological feeling is seen in a close correlation of the narratives with the setting and psychological foregrounding in the novel of George Eliot “Middlemarch”, where the main character Dorothy Brooke symbolizes the Nietzschean idea of eternal return, demonstrating clear awareness of George Eliot of the evolution of species multiplied by theological subtext.