Literary Family Research Articles

“Comment devient-on une écrivaine?”: Pineau, Kanor, Octavia

This article examines Gisèle Pineau’s Fleur de Barbarie (2007), Fabienne Kanor’s Je ne suis pas un homme qui pleure (2016) and Gaël Octavia’s La Bonne Histoire de Madeleine Démétrius (2020). Striking similarities between the texts produce a coherent vision of the contemporary Antillean woman writer as a rounded, independent figure who balances individual, collective, personal and literary elements of her life and adopts a singular approach to the intergenerational dynamics that are so important in Antillean culture. As a woman, she seeks to end painful intergenerational family legacies; as a writer, she detaches herself from the overdetermining, backward-looking and vertical metaphor of the literary family tree (whether patri- or matrilinear), in favor of a more horizontal fellowship of black women writers that creates space both for her and for other writers who might join her.

Continuing the Tradition? Michael Roch and the Future of Martinican Literature

In recent years, Patrick Chamoiseau has appeared to take a new writer, who is both continuing and renewing the Martinican literary tradition, under his wing: Michael Roch. This article explores this emerging writer, focusing in particular on his 2022 novel Tè Mawon and its relationship of both continuity and rupture with the work of its literary predecessors, Chamoiseau and fellow Martinican Édouard Glissant. To do so, this article examines the novel’s various allusions to the work of Chamoiseau and Glissant, as well as the manner in which the concept of Caribbean generations is thematised in the novel. It then explores how such generational interaction is a two-way dialogue by exploring Chamoiseau’s endorsements of this newcomer. In positioning Roch as the latest “son” in the exclusive, highly selective, and strongly gendered Martinican literary family tree—with Chamoiseau the father and Glissant the grandfather—this article highlights how his novel is both a development of and a departure from the work of his predecessors. This piece is thus a reflection on the intergenerational tendency of literature from and about Martinique, offering insight into the future potentiality of the literary tradition as embodied through Roch.

Oded Rabinovitch, The Perraults: A Family of Letters in Early Modern France, Ithaca, Cornell University Press, 2018, 252 p. - Niel Kenny, Born to Write: Literary Families and Social Hierarchy in Early Modern France, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2020, xii + 407 p.

Oded Rabinovitch, The Perraults: A Family of Letters in Early Modern France, Ithaca, Cornell University Press, 2018, 252 p. - Niel Kenny, Born to Write: Literary Families and Social Hierarchy in Early Modern France, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2020, xii + 407 p.

Up-Hill: An Allegory.

The Christina Rossetti poem "Up-Hill" (1862) is an exemplary poem of the Victorian era by one of the rare female poets of the time, including Emily Brontë, Elizabeth Browning, Katherine Tynan, and Alice Meynell. Rossetti, typical of the era and the Victorian genre, wrote allegories about faith and love. She came from a distinguished literary family. "Up-Hill" was one of her better-known works.

بَنُو عَشَرَة السَّلَاویین فِی شِعْرِ مُعَاصِرِیْهِم دِرَاسَةٌ تَحْلِیلِیَّةٌ

This research singled out the study of a Moroccan family, the Banu Ashra who lived in the fifth and early sixth centuries in Sale in Morocco, under the Almoravid state. And it was confined to one of its houses, which is the house of Ali bin Al-Qasim, so this study aimed to track all that was said about the head of this family, Ali bin Al-Qasim, and his sons Ahmed, Al-Hassan, Yahya and Youssef, from poetry and an analytical study that highlights the status of the literary family in that time period. This is done by collecting the poetry that was said about them, and classifying it according to the poetic purposes for which it was organized

DESAIN PEMBELAJARAN TEORI SASTRA DI KAMPUS WILAYAH PERBATASAN NKRI-RDTL MENGGUNAKAN MODEL PROJECT AND PROBLEM BASED LEARNING BERBASIS PENDIDIKAN

This paper aims to conceptualize and describe the learning design of the Literary Theory course in the Indonesian Language and Literature Education study program at the NKRI-RDTL border area campus by using the Project Based Learning and Problem Based Learning models based on character education. One of the campuses in the NKRI-RDTL border area is the University of Timor (Unimor) campus. In this study program, Literary Theory is a subject of a literary family that is conditionally mandatory and programmed by second-semester students with a weight of 3 credits. Through the ethical-emic paradigm set in the NKRI-RDTL border area, this paper is presented using a qualitative descriptive method. Many problems and obstacles are found in the practice of learning this course, especially for students who are in the NKRI-RDTL border area. Therefore, learning designs with contemporary models must be conceptualized, explored, and further explored, so that the learning outcomes of this course can be fulfilled effectively, optimally, and maximally. Students also become more enthusiastic about learning and in love with this course. In general, the learning model used is not a new product. But for students in the NKRI-RDTL border area, this model is a new product that has never been applied on campus, is innovative, creative, fun, and can be collaborated with various other learning models that are relevant to their era and the focus of the discussion that is the subject of their study. Moreover, the learning model is balanced with the values of character education in its practice and implementation, starting from the values of religiosity, nationalism, independence, mutual cooperation, and integrity.

Born to Write. Literary Families and Social Hierarchy in Early Modern France , by Neil Kenny

Born to Write. Literary Families and Social Hierarchy in Early Modern France , by Neil Kenny

“FAMILY CHRONICLE” IN ENGLISH LITERARY CRITICISM

The article explores the meaning of the genre of literature ‘family saga’ in modern American literary criticism. The general meaning of ‘Family saga’ gives us a definition that this genre chronicles represent the way of life and traditions of a family or several related or interconnected families over some time. The article aims to present traditions that are emerging, evolving, and how they are handed on over time. ‘Family saga’ gives us glimpses beyond the daily struggles of life in ways that resonate with our deepest connections to our own families. The article has an analytical and historical approach to the study of these novels. The scientific novelty of the research work lies in the aspects forming family values of American families who lived in the period under review are compared, as every literary family has its secrets and stories that can be difficult and heartrending. The article examines the question posed in world literary studies about the genre of family chronicle, the peculiarities of its principles in general, and individual families in particular. The study reveals a peculiar form of a story about the life of a particular society.

Research And Critical Review Of Insha's Experiments

"Syed Insha is a famous Urdu poet and prose writer. He was born in Murshidabad, India. His father's name was Mir Mashallah Khan. Syed Insha's grandfather was Mir Noorullah Hakim. Belonging to a scholarly and literary family, he spoke Turkish, Hindi, Arabic, Persian, European, Pashto, Punjabi, Kashmiri and Bengali fluently. Thanks to this linguist, he worked in prose. In prose Syed Insha wrote two stories. In both of them, he had two different experiments. In the story of Rani Ketki, Insha did not use any words of Persian and Arabic. For him Urdu is a separate language apart from these two languages and without the use of these two languages, excellent writing can also be written in Urdu. In Silk -e- Gohar he used words that not have dots that is, he wrote the story with pointless words. Both these experiences of Syed Insha are valued in Urdu literature. Because no other literature has adopted this style."

The sociology of style: Writing and influence within literary families

Since Michael Bull's seminal work on the Walkman, media scholars have observed how sound and technology enact certain interactional frameworks in urban contexts. We know little about the materiality of listening in non-urban space. This article contributes to these conversations by examining how adventurers (climbers, bushwalkers) adopt or resist mobile music devices when they are in the bush or mountains. I show how device use is moralised in this context, wrapped up in broader conversations about what it means to be a bushwalker or climber, particularly with respect to its impacts on connection to place and the embodied experience of being there. The analysis shows three modes of mobile music device use or non-use: 1) resisting devices to fully connect with the immediate environment; 2) attending to both the sounds of place with selective engagement with music as an additional layer of experience; and 3) device use as a strategy to disconnect mind from body at times of difficulty or boredom.

Kenny, Neil. Born to Write: Literary Families and Social Hierarchy in Early Modern France

Kenny, Neil. Born to Write: Literary Families and Social Hierarchy in Early Modern France

Kenny, Neil. Born to Write: Literary Families and Social Hierarchy in Early Modern France.

Kenny, Neil. Born to Write: Literary Families and Social Hierarchy in Early Modern France.

Born to Write: Literary Families and Social Hierarchy in Early Modern France. By Neil Kenny

<i>Born to Write: Literary Families and Social Hierarchy in Early Modern France</i>. By <scp>Neil Kenny</scp>

BUNDA: KISAH CINTA 2 KODI BY ASMA NADIA: A STRUCTURALISM STUDY

This study aims to describe the socio-historic background of (1) Asma Nadia and (2) the structure of Bunda: Kisah Cinta 2 Kodi, This study uses the descriptive qualitative method. The research strategy is embedded in case studies. The research data are in the form of words, phrases, sentences, and paragraphs in the novel Bunda: Kisah Cinta 2 Kodi that contains information about the socio-historic background of Asma Nadia, and the structure of the novel. The primary data source is the novel and the secondary data source is relevant journal articles. The data were collected through the library, observation, and documentation techniques. The data were analyzed using the semiotic reading method, namely heuristic and hermeneutic reading. The results of the study are (1) Sociohistorical setting: Asma Nadia was born into a literary family (her grandfather, Teuku Muhammad Usman El Muhammady and her two siblings, Helvy Tiana Rosa and her brother Aeron Tomino, and her husband, Isa Alamsyah, were writers). Her works have particular characteristics: Islamic theme, simple language, and the struggle of Moslem women. (2) The structure of the novel: the theme is the struggle of a mother in a family. It uses the flashback method since the story takes a regressive plot. The important figures are Kartika, Aryani, Farid, Bagja, Farid’s mother, Anton’s mother and Siti. The setting: schools, Kartika boarding house, campus canteens, cinemas, bookstores, Aryani's house, hospitals, abortion clinics, Tanah Abang market, Aryani's in-law's house, mushalla, and food stalls. Time setting: 1962, 1963, 1965, 1989, 1992, 1998 and 2000. Social setting: Kartika comes from Javanese and Minangkabau parents, whose works are civil servants and teachers.

Fashionable Connections: Alicia LeFanu and Writing from the Edge

This article focuses upon Alicia LeFanu (fl. 1809–36), author of several poems, six multi-volume novels, a critical biography of her grandmother, Frances Sheridan, and articles for the Court Magazine. Descended from an eminent literary family, and since misremembered as a mere ‘petticoat novelist’, LeFanu complicates ideas of the centre and the periphery in her writing. I explore how this interest is figured in LeFanu's use of the chapter epigraph, developing work I have undertaken as editor of LeFanu's early novel, Strathallan (1816). LeFanu's epigraphs persist across her fiction as a dimension in which she not only reflects upon literary legacies, but also contests the boundaries of her own print culture. Through its consideration of LeFanu, as author and reader, the article further reflects upon the significance of her example for a broader understanding of other women writers at the edges and borders of Romanticism, and of their literary networks.

Goethe's Families of the Heart by Susan E. Gustafson

Reviewed by: Goethe's Families of the Heart by Susan E. Gustafson Julie Koser Susan E. Gustafson. Goethe's Families of the Heart. New York: Bloomsbury, 2016. 208 pp. In this persuasive new study on family in Goethe's works, Susan Gustafson extends the focus of her award-winning scholarship on male same-sex desire to attend to the multiplicity of affinities and non-exclusive attractions constituting familial configurations in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Expanding recent scholarship on gender and sexuality in Goethe's literary corpus, Gustafson foregrounds the varied iterations and diverse constellations of the family manifested in works spanning from 1776 to 1829. The aim of Gustafson's project is to illuminate how "Goethe's literary texts provide a counter discourse to the predominant aristocratic and emerging civil constructions of 'ideal families'" (2) by examining "the multiple ways in which his texts challenge common eighteenth-century notions of family and relationships between women and men, men and men, and women and women" (4). At stake in [End Page 300] Gustafson's critical readings is the claim that Goethe "clearly rejects the norms of his time in defining and accepting all love relationships, and in dismissing the notions of ideal civil or aristocratic families" (5). Through careful analyses, Gustafson's book participates in and successfully deepens Goethe scholarship by offering further insights into Goethe's attitudes and views about gender, sexuality, and kinship. Confining its analysis of Goethe's unconventional families to the novel Die Wahlverwandschaften, the play(s) Stella, and the novels Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre and Wilhelm Meisters Wanderjahre, primarily, Goethe's Families of the Heart is organized into four chapters framed by a brief introduction and conclusion. In the introduction, readers are presented a concise summary of the historical, political, and legal definitions of family as they emerged at the end of the eighteenth century. Gustafson positions this important study on kinship within the existing scholarship on Goethe and establishes the theoretical framework for nuanced readings of the family with recourse to Michel Foucault's History of Sexuality, Volume I and Lisa M. Diamond's Sexual Fluidity. The first chapter, with its in-depth examination of the changeable and fluid nature of attraction in Die Wahlverwandschaften, functions as a fulcrum for detailed explorations of familial configurations in subsequent chapters. In this foundational chapter, Gustafson persuasively establishes the non-conformist, non-exclusive, and changeable nature of love that permeates the panoply of Goethe's literary families. In chapter two, same-sex relationships between women take center stage in Gustafson's compelling reading of the play Stella. Juxtaposing the two versions of the play's conclusion, the author notes that the drama "presents one of the most daring representations of same-sex desire between women in Goethe's works" (66). This chapter, as well others in which Gustafson exhibits a sustained engagement with elective affinities between women in Goethe's texts, offers perhaps the most innovative and impactful contribution to recent scholarly discussions. The majority of Goethe's Families of the Heart, chapters three and four, is dedicated to the novels Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre and Wilhelm Meisters Wanderjahre respectively, which offers numerous examples of the manifold and arguably unconventional forms of family conceptualized by Goethe. From incestuous attractions, same-sex and heterosexual partnerships, to non-biological, adoptive families, Lehrjahre and Wanderjahre provide Gustafson with the most compelling evidence for her claim that Goethe not only radically redefined notions of family and rejected conformist, conservative definitions of kinship promulgated by the dominant discourses of his time but that such elective affinities "are not only present, not only real, not just acceptable, but (as the Wanderjahre asserts) actually the highest and holiest of feelings that bring relationships and families together" (153). The study's arguments are synthesized succinctly in the book's conclusion which once more articulates the radical and controversial views of family instantiated by Goethe's works that took aim at conservative, restrictive notions of family in late eighteenth and early nineteenth-century German-speaking society. Gustafson's concluding remarks affirm the transformative potential of Goethe's characters in their pursuit and consummation of elective affinities: "Goethe's stories confront us with not only the persistent...

Scenic Depictions of Huizhou in Ming–Qing Literature

In the Ming through the Qing Dynasties, literary works captured Huizhou through scenic depictions of its mountains and rivers, villages, wealth, literary families, and portrayals of the local people. In these works, Huizhou men are described as virtuous, literary, and gallant while Huizhou women are often seen as knowledgeable, worldly, and industrious characters upholding the values of feudal society. By exploring such depictions of Huizhou, this article considers the way in which literary depictions correspond to historical reality, how scenes depicted in literature accord with the specific and various characteristics of a region, and the inextricable ties between scenic depictions in literature (wenxue tujing 文學圖景) and regional literature (diyu wenxue 地域文學).

Margaret Drabble's Wordsworth

Previous articleNext article No AccessMargaret Drabble's WordsworthRussell PerkinRussell Perkin Search for more articles by this author PDFPDF PLUS Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail SectionsMoreDetailsFiguresReferencesCited by The Wordsworth Circle Volume 46, Number 3Summer 2015Romanticism and Experiment Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1086/TWC24888034 Views: 11Total views on this site © 2015 by The University of Chicago. All rights reserved.PDF download Crossref reports no articles citing this article.

Fiction's Family: Zhan Xi, Zhan Kai, and the Business of Women in Late-Qing China by Ellen Widmer

Reviewed by: Fiction's Family: Zhan Xi, Zhan Kai, and the Business of Women in Late-Qing China by Ellen Widmer Guo Chen (bio) Ellen Widmer. Fiction's Family: Zhan Xi, Zhan Kai, and the Business of Women in Late-Qing China. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Asia Center, 2016. xvii, 352 pp. Hardcover $49.95, isbn 978-0-674-08837-5. It is a common approach to consider "fiction" in the form of a single object, scrutinizing one novel at a time, or "family" in a similar way, penetrating into every member, every generation of a certain biological clan. However, cognizant that historical narrative played a significant and predominant role in Chinese literary tradition, it makes sense to put "fiction" and "family" together, using "fiction" to contextualize "family," and "family" to contextualize "fiction." What facts, [End Page 79] questions, and implications will then emerge in the contextualization and recontextualization of "fiction's family"? This innovative approach is what Ellen Widmer takes in her Fiction's Family: Zhan Xi, Zhan Kai, and the Business of Women in Late-Qing China. Centering on "women" and "literature," Widmer focuses on the late Qing dynasty Zhan (詹) family and depicts the parental and fraternal influence on the children's attitude toward talented women and women's role in society. Widmer targets specifically two famous novelists of the second generation, Zhan Xi (詹熙) and Zhan Kai (詹垲), and their published and unpublished writings, using each other's works to enrich their personal information and social contact which is lost or ambiguous at present. Thus, it gives a bird's-eye view of the landscape of a literary family in the late Qing and the emerging and flourishing awareness of women's power in social transition, as well as a microcosmic perspective of the characteristics of each writer and the similarities and differences in their conceptions of women in fiction and reality. With fiction and reality closely and complementarily intertwined, this work consists of, in addition to the opening and closing chapters, three main parts. To begin, Widmer depicts a portrait of the first generation of the Zhan family, the couple consisting of Zhan family mother Wang Qingdi (王庆棣), herself an unconventional guixiu (gentlewoman, 闺秀) writer, and the uxorilocal father Zhan Sizeng (詹嗣曾). They both write and publish poems locally and unprofitably. In this part, the mother's role in the family is quite noteworthy in the wife-husband relationship and the mother-son relationship: she is talented and ambitious while her husband respects her capability and endeavors to publish her poetry; she is discontented from her marriage and expresses it boldly and directly through poems, whereas her husband sends her letters filled with love and compassion; she educates her sons through writing while her sons help her publish poetry in the new media of newspapers. A positive attitude toward women's talent and its role in a family is revealed in their life stories and writings. This might seem ordinary in contemporary times, but it was tremendously radical in the Qing dynasty when patriarchy, bound feet, and the notion that "women without talent are virtuous" prevailed. After the first generation's portrait, Widmer continues with the oldest son in the second generation of the family, Zhan Xi, who is inspired by a writing contest held by a foreigner aiming at three targets—opium, examination essays, and bound feet (which soon become the focus of his writing: two novels, one published, one not)—singled out as the main barriers to social progress. Thus his novels are more about reform than women. His famous novel Love among the Courtesans (Hualiu Shenqing Zhuan, 花柳深情传) argues against bound feet, but since it is for a male audience, this progress was to be prosecuted by men. Moreover, this published novel is significant in the reconstruction of the Zhan [End Page 80] family; it has a biographical basis which makes it a precious resource for family history. In addition, Widmer gives it a closer look in the context of his unpublished historical narrative titled Quzhou's Strange Disaster (Quzhou Qihuo Ji, 衢州 奇祸记), which provides complementary evidence about the family itself, where the parental influence appears more obvious. Compared with his elder brother, the younger Zhan Kai is more influenced...

Mei-Shin Shih: a surgeon, master, and mentor.

Dr. Mei-Shin Shih (Figure 1) was born on January 5, 1918 to a literary family in Fuzhou City, Fujian Province. In his early years China was being plagued by years of fighting among factional warlords, and people were living in misery. He studied very hard and was determined to get enrolled into the Shanghai Medical College, now an affiliate to Fudan University. His name appeared on the school’s admission list published by Shun Pao newspaper on August 18, 1936.