Literary Output Research Articles

A Sharp Scalpel Or A Mighty Pen The Legacy Of A.J. Cronin.

Archibald Joseph Cronin was born in Cardross, which currently lies in the local authority of Argyll and Bute, a few miles from Glasgow. Training to become a physician, Cronin graduated from the University of Glasgow in 1919 with a degree in medicine and with the hope of becoming a surgeon. Learning eagerly and constantly, working hard towards his desire of owning a practice in London's fashionable Harley Street, Cronin's ambition was shattered by a diagnosis of duodenal ulcer which forced him to take a break. Returning to his childhood dream of writing a novel, he published Hatter's Castle in 1933, the success of which was so immense that Cronin never returned to the medical field. This paper aims to highlight a few aspects of the writer's life and literary output in relation to his medical background.

Back of Beyond: A Horace Kephart BiographyHorace Kephart: Writings

Back of Beyond: A Horace Kephart BiographyHorace Kephart: Writings

Redwood: A Tale by Catharine Maria Sedgwick

Reviewed by: Redwood: A Tale by Catharine Maria Sedgwick Rachel B. Griffis Redwood: A Tale. By Catharine Maria Sedgwick. Edited by Jenifer B. Elmore. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2021. vii + 320 pp. $120 hardback/$120 e-book. Originally published in 1824, Redwood: A Tale is the last of Catharine Maria Sedgwick's major novels to be reprinted in a modern scholarly edition. Since Mary Kelley edited Hope Leslie; or, Early Times in the Massachusetts (1827) for publication by Rutgers University Press in 1987, new editions of Sedgwick's novels have been released steadily, with the most recent being Married or Single? (1857), edited by Deborah Gussman and published by University of Nebraska Press in 2015. Jenifer B. Elmore's new edition of Redwood is therefore a milestone for scholars of Sedgwick and nineteenth-century American women writers, who now have all six of Sedgwick's major novels available in a format conducive to teaching and research. Redwood follows the orphan Ellen Bruce as she grapples with her identity, navigates both sincere and disingenuous friendships, meets and falls in love with Charles Westall, helps save her friend Emily Allen from the Shakers, and eventually discovers the mystery of her parentage. The titular character, Henry Redwood, is Ellen's long-lost father, a Virginia planter who abandoned his first wife, Ellen's mother, a virtuous woman who died shortly after giving birth. Henry does not learn that he fathered a child with his first wife until the end of the novel, after he has become acquainted with Ellen and developed a parental fondness for her. Both Henry and Ellen are delighted to learn that they are father and daughter, and Ellen facilitates Henry's repentance and religious conversion before he dies. Though Sedgwick does not specify the date of the novel's events, Elmore speculates that Redwood's historical setting could be as early as the years following the American Revolution or as late as the 1820s. Most of the events of the novel take place in Vermont and Massachusetts, though characters travel from Virginia, South Carolina, Boston, Philadelphia, and England. Through the [End Page 115] geographical diversity of her characters, Sedgwick explores regional differences and tensions, particularly between the North and South and between England and the United States. Redwood is a work of sentimentalism deeply engaged with political, social, moral, and religious questions, especially as these topics pertain to the lives of American women. Sedgwick challenges the institution of slavery through her portrayal of Lilly, an enslaved woman who works as a maid for Ellen's manipulative half sister Caroline. Lilly self-liberates and elopes with a West Indian man when the Redwood family visits New York, a plot twist that highlights political tensions between North and South. The subplot featuring Ellen's rescue of her friend Emily from the exploitative Shaker leader Reuben Harrington invites readers' reflection on the meaning of freedom and how harmful ideologies limit and confine individuals and communities in multiple aspects of life—morally, intellectually, and physically. Sedgwick also complicates the ideal of feminine domestic fulfillment through Ellen's mentor Debby Lenox, who defies conventional performances of gender and affirms the benefits of singlehood amid a flurry of marriages at the novel's conclusion. Elmore's edition of Redwood contains a substantive introduction, a bibliography of recent scholarly work on Sedgwick, a chronology of Sedgwick's life and literary output, a character list, appendices, and the prefaces Sedgwick wrote for the book in 1824 and 1850. This scholarly edition of Redwood reproduces the original 1824 version, while incorporating the changes in spellings and punctuation Sedgwick made for the 1850 edition. The 1824 preface, located at the beginning of the book, contains Sedgwick's reflections on the role of the novel in her time and her own aspirations for Redwood, which she hopes will convey "the great truths of our common religion" (7). In the 1850 preface (Appendix A), Sedgwick expresses remorse for offending the Shakers through her negative portrayal of them, and in the 1850 edition she significantly revised many of her descriptions of this religious community, which, Elmore asserts, "soften[s] her criticism of the doctrines and practices of the Shakers" (317). In Appendix...

The Sin and Punishment in Döblin's Berlin, Alexanderplatz

Berlin, Alexanderplatz is a novel completed by Döblin in 1929 that marks the pinnacle of Döblin's literary output. The novel tells the story of Franz Biberkopf's difficult survival in Berlin after his release from prison. The dark thread of the novel is Biberkopf's struggle with god of death, in which the theme of sin and punishment is embedded. By analysing and explaining the transformation of Biberkopf's perception of the problem of sin and punishment, it shows the process of his soul's active lowering of its will towards the path of rationalism. It analyzes the Volitionalism, irrationalism and rationalism hidden under the motif of sin and punishment.

Teatralizacje Cypriana Norwida

The article investigates selected uses of theatricality by the poet and playwright Cyprian Norwid (1821-1883). Based on his previous works on theatricality, among others, his book “Theatricality of Life. Practices and Startegies” (A. Marszałek, Toruń 2020), as well as his numerous publications on Norwid, Kazimierz Braun focuses on four, especially evident, cases of Norwid’s bringing theatricality into play in his life. They are discussed in the chapters of the article: “Norwid on Horseback, Norwid Without a Coat, Norwid in a Cap “Konfederatka”, Norwid as Dalang”. (The latter chapter compares Norwid with an Indonesian Dalang, who is a “total” artist of theatre). Each case of use of theatricality by Norwid brought about a significant literary output such as poems, dramas, short stories and letters.

The Historicity and Internality of the Imperial Landscape：A Study of Doppo Kunikida’s Work

This book is an outstanding academic study of modern Japanese literature in China. It has been published by Sichuan University with the support of the central university research fund. It examines the work of Doppo Kunikida, a famous writer in the Meiji era in Japan, particularly “Aitei Tushin” (Letters to my beloved brother), “Musashino” and other works, and uses a large number of Chinese and Japanese documents and historical materials to explore the relationship between Kunikida’s literary output and the development of imperial Japan. The text also places Kunikida in the context of the multiple connections of Japanese literature with Chinese and English literature, and reinterprets his work from the interdisciplinary perspectives of media studies, discourse analysis, geography and translation studies. This can constitute a break with the conventional narrative surrounding Japanese literary history, and prompt relevant Japanese studies to incorporate the Chinese context.

‘What you thought you have forgotten’: The Mersey Sound Revisited

The Mersey Sound (1967) was the best-selling poetry anthology of the sixties in the UK. Apart from its commercial success, it is also an important document in terms of the study of working-class literary output in this decade. Despite this, its position within the British literary canon has often been neglected in academic realms. It is for this reason that the present article aims to offer an insight into the scholarly importance of thisanthology through offering arguments for its reevaluation. Moreover, in this research its current status will be explored, looking in particular at contemporary literary criticism of working-class mass culture and art. To this end, I will first discuss the main justifications for a reconsideration of the significance of the collection and describe its context and origins. This will be followed by an analysis of the content of the volume and its current relevance. Conclusions drawn from this will include possible reasons for its absence in many academic poetry guides and will also stress the need torecover and reappraise the anthology in future research on working-class British poetry.

Bartók, Biography, and the Violin

Abstract Biography takes the scant facts of a life that are available to scrutiny, like the waypoints on a journey to be mapped, and attempts to form a coherent narrative from them. That coherence is, to at least some degree, contingent upon the ideological position of the author and as Michael Benton has noted, “the biographical subject is a textual creation as much as a historical recreation.” While fully acknowledging that one cannot “read back” from the works of an author to their life, Benton has described the substance of literary outputs as “quasi-facts” to be set beside “historical facts” and argued that these “can be seen as reflecting some contemporary events or as sublimating some experiences in the writer’s past or mirroring some authorial state of mind.” This article draws on the First Violin Sonata as such a quasi-fact of Bartók’s life to question whether biographical information can or should impact the ways that we understand and perform his music. The article additionally considers whether the content of individual works as mental products may have something tangible to impart about their composer’s personality. Given the broad consensus around the so-called “Five-Factor Model” of personality measurement within the field of psychology, it speculates whether this might offer a tool to refine our portrait of Bartók through analysis of his music.

„Jestem Serbem, serbskim dzieckiem” – miejsce pisarzy wyznających islam na łamach czasopisma „Bosanska vila” (1885–1914)

The aim of the article is to answer the question of whether the Muslim writers (Mustafa Hilmi, Riza-beg Kapetanović, Savfet-beg Bagašević, Salih Kazazović, Osman Đikić, Avdo Karabegović, Avdo Karabegović Hasanbegov, Omer-beg Sulejmanpašić-Despotović, Musa Ćatim Ćatić and Šaćir Karabegović Hasanbegov) who submitted their poetry to “Bosanska vila” – Sarajevo’s periodical of Bosnian Serbs published in the years 18851914, participated in the promotion of Serbian national identity. “Bosanska vila” was the first journalism platform enabling the Muslim authors to make a literary debut – this was a strategy used by Serbs to show that Islamic literary output is part of the Serbian linguistic and literary heritage, and by extension, that the Muslims are in fact Serbs. Some of these authors contributed to the propagation efforts in that they revealed their Serbian national sentiment, others were discouraged by the magazine’s policies from further cooperation with the Serbs both literary and otherwise. The analysis of the poems presented in the article can point to which authors actually embraced their Serb identity and who amongst them opposed national declarations altogether.

Oneiric Fascism. The Political Economy of Fernando Pessoa

Poet Fernando Pessoa (1888-1935), Portugal's literary glory, is also known to have penned a not inconsiderable corpus of sociological and politological reflections. This essay collates all such original material and glosses it with a view to uncovering Pessoa's religious true colours, and by so doing, goes on to argue that it is no accident, poetics aside, that western cultural intelligentsia finds it expedient to promote the literary output of personages like Pessoa who, in one form or another, preach an ultra-conservative gospel. Though he is not typically recognised as a thinker of the Right at all, the article's thesis is that Pessoa not only cuts a “fascist” figure in the conventional (Leftist) tenor of the epithet, but that the category itself of Fascism ought to be torn off its historical (pro-Liberal) contextualisation and radically reformulated as the default entomological categorisation of modern forms of society, and turned thereby into the norm against which exceptions need be counted, not the other way around. In light of this paradigmatic shift, Pessoa's considerations on selfishness, patriotism, and social dynamics afford an ulterior revelation of the anti-compassionate agenda of a type of System, ours, so keen on promoting thinkers of his ilk.

The Demonstration of Indian Virtues in Vikram Seth’s A Suitable Boy

Indian literature has provided a platform for the writers to highlight the virtues of human civilization. The diversified attitude of people is emanated with the purpose of reviewing social, political and historical characteristics. Vikram Seth is one of the protuberant novelists of Indian literary consequence. He has exerted on the ideals of human virtues and principles in his colossal expression A Suitable Boy (1993). The novel deals with the post-independent groundswell of cultural India. He has interlaced the epitomes of society, politics and history bearing in mind the rootedness of common folk. The insight of the novel generates a kind of impulse among the bibliophiles with a sequence of queries and assumptions about the animation of social order. It also shed light on the identity, religious and national predicaments which are treated as inherent in India. The novel is an embodiment of satires perceived in the history of Indian humanity. It also embarks on the subjects of Indian National Politics till the period of first post-independent elections. The antagonism between Hindus and Muslims, workers and landlords, liberation of women and academic activities are interwoven in the literary output. Lata, the protagonist has been able to sustain the Indian aesthetics and illustrates the motivation in ascertaining her discrete aspiration. Love is the most important aspiration of human endurance, but it should not be the final optimal. An individual must be prepared to reform his choice and brand life as a meaningful one. Hence, the research paper makes an effort to demonstrate the Indian virtues in Vikram Seth’s A Suitable Boy within the modern context.

Between Communism, Zionism, and Statehood: Władysław Broniewski in Palestine

Abstract This article focuses on Władysław Broniewski’s political activities in Palestine during his stay there from February 1943 to November 1945. His personal history is presented against a backdrop of the political and intellectual life of Polish refugees in the Middle East. Broniewski, a revolutionary and avant-garde poet who belonged to the left-wing world, is depicted against the backdrop of events and tensions occurring at that time in Zionist communities, as well as in the centers of Polish power—both the communist government in Warsaw and the Polish government-in-exile in London—and the dispute between them concerning the future of Poland. The article presents Broniewski’s friendships and acquaintances during his stay in Palestine. Extensive epistolary material as well as other archival and press sources were used. The article also explores the subject matter of Broniewski’s literary output. The poems he wrote in Palestine are some of his most interesting works, exemplifying the most expressive poetry in the canon of literature written by refugees.

Dodawanie otuchy jako forma wzmocnienia ludzkości nie tylko w czasie pandemii. Międzygeneracyjna transmisja przesłania Wincentego Kadłubka

Offering Reassurance as a Form of Strengthening Humanity Not Only during a Pandemic. The Inter-Generational Transmission of Wincenty Kadłubek’s Message Master Wincenty (ca. 1150–1223), who has been known as Kadłubek since the 15th century, was an unquestionable ally of mankind and especially of Poles. In his work entitled Magistrii Vincentii Chronicon Polonorum he encouraged his readers not to neglect reassurance and to seek it wherever possible. He also advised people to try to enjoy offering reassurance to others and to lead a good life connected with faith in God, which in his belief constitutes the most reliable “safeguard of your happiness”. This article aims to provide answers to several questions (and at the same time to solve a number of related research problems), How does Wincenty perceive reassurance and what significance does he attribute to offering it to other people? What advice does he give on not losing but gaining reassurance and on offering reassurance to others? What factors in his belief constitute stumbling blocks in the process of drawing reassurance for oneself and how to protect oneself against them (i.e., how to prevent their occurrence and how to overcome them)? The use of hermeneutic methods in studying the problems of providing reassurance as a social skill, an element that is very conspicuous in Master Wincenty’s literary output, seems well justified, considering the cognitive and noetic significance of the research subject.

Paz’s A Draft of Shadows: Rewriting the Past, the Present and the Self

Pasado en Claro (A Draft of Shadows) was first published in 1975. This long poem is the mental journey Paz embarks upon in pursuit of his own personal paradise. This article focuses on three of important concepts Paz explores in this poem and in his literary output as a whole: the scope of language, memory and otherness. In the case of language, and its expression in poetry, Paz’s most eloquent pages can be found in The Bow and the Lyre (1956), but especially in The Monkey Grammarian (1970), the account of another journey, through language and the acts of writing and reading. As a personal attempt at regaining a mythical past, A Draft of Shadows affords a view of both the vast narrative of Mexican history and Paz’s personal retelling of his own past. A journey like this is only possible via the winding path of memory, its expression in language, and an identity created as it follows its own trail.

REINTERPRETING THE DILEMMA OF THE FUTURIST-MODERNIST NARRATOR IN MINA LOY S "APHORISMS ON FUTURISM"

The British poet and artist Mina Loy holds an exceptional place in the art and literature of the avant-garde and enlightens the dawn of the Modernist era in the early twentieth century. Loy’s poetry is innovative with its unusual and idiosyncratic fragmentary style and shifting narrative voices, while her artworks are unique, maintaining an eclectic approach associated with the canonical artistic movements of her age, such as Futurism, Cubism, Dadaism, and Surrealism. Her creative visual and literary output problematizes the conventions of that time by both opposing and reconciling with them. Loy’s manifesto-poem, “Aphorisms on Futurism” (1914), intertextually connects the significations in each aphorism with one another and with her other textual and artistic works. The text creates the chains of signification to reveal the dialogical rhetoric as well as the evolutionary nature of the narrative voice manoeuvring between Futurism and Modernism in relation both to herself and the implied readers. Loy’s persona argues for destroying the traditional language forms and proclaims a new form, which is representative of Futurist poetry, by subverting the retrospective ones and constructing new ones. Within this framework, Loy’s untitled 1951 New York painting seems to represent the destruction of the traditional art forms to celebrate the concepts of dynamism and deformation, which evokes the features of Futurist, Dadaist, and Cubist aesthetics. In this experimental poem, the arguments of Loy’s fictive persona, through shifting between Futurism and Modernism, create complex intertextuality between the aphorisms and the narrator’s shifting voices. The arguments of the narrative voice illuminate the narrator’s Futurist-Modernist project by inviting both herself and the readers to attain the individual consciousness and liberation through a metamorphic journey from being a Futurist to a Modernist.

Writing Self, Writing Empire: Chandar Bhan Brahman and the Cultural World of the Indo-Persian State Secretary

Writing Self, Writing Empire: Chandar Bhan Brahman and the Cultural World of the Indo-Persian State Secretary

"Of pearls and stars, he made the verse": the literary career of the founders of Brazilian Neurology.

In the beginning of modern Neurology, between the 19th and the 20th centuries, neurologists often assumed simultaneous positions of intellectual prominence and gained significant cultural credentials. Not only observers and admirers of music, literature, and the fine arts, many neurologists and neuroscientists worldwide developed significant cultural careers. When studying the careers and lives of the founders of Brazilian Neurology, one finds only sparse information on their cultural activities, which are often relegated to side notes. Therefore, the author aims to focus on the literary output of some of the most important early Brazilian neurologists, who excelled in poetry or longer written forms and were eventually immortalized by the Academia Brasileira de Letras: Antônio Austregésilo, Aloysio de Castro, Deolindo Couto, and Miguel Couto, contextualizing their artistic production in their respective academic lives.

Global research productivity in cybersecurity: a scientometric study

PurposeThe purpose of the study is to conduct a scientometric analysis of cybersecurity literature indexed in the core collection of the Web of Science for a period of ten years (2011–2020).Design/methodology/approachCybersecurity is a focused topic of research across the globe. To identify the global research productivity in the field, the terms “cybersecurity, cyber-security, web security, information security, computer security, etc.” were used for retrieving the publications in the advanced search mode of the database “Web of Science”, limiting the time frame for 2011– 2020. The results retrieved were downloaded in the Excel file for further analysis and interpretation. The harvested data was analysed by using scientometric techniques to measure the progress such as growth rate, doubling time and author collaborations. Besides, the Biblioshiny and VOSviewer software were used for mapping networks.FindingsThe research output in the field of cybersecurity has shown an increasing trend during 2011–2020, and the maximum number of scholarly publications was published in 2020 (1,581), i.e. more than 715% of 2011 (221). A good number of countries (93) have contributed globally in cybersecurity research, and the highest share in research publications was reported by the USA (23.55%), followed by China (23.24%), South Korea (5.31%), UK (5.28%) and India (4.25%). The authorship patterns in cybersecurity publications show a collaborative trend, as most articles have been published by multiple authors. Total 5,532 (90.14%) articles have been published in co-authorship, whereas only 605 (9.86%) articles have been published by single authors. Keyword analysis shows that the most common keyword research by the authors is cybersecurity and its variants such as “cyber security” and “cyber-security” (1,698) followed by security (782), computer security (680) and information security (329).Research limitations/implicationsThe database studied for the work does not represent the total literary output available on the theme. There are plenty of other databases, such as Scopus, Compendex, INSPEC, IEEE Xplore, arXiv, contributing to the same theme as well.Practical implicationsThe findings of the study may help researchers, information technologists, library professionals and information specialists to identify the research progress, authorship patterns, collaborative networks and hot topics of research in the field of cybersecurity. Besides, it will assess the global response to the cybersecurity issue.Originality/valueThe study is the scientometric analysis of the cybersecurity based on current literature and will highlight the progress and development of global research in the said field.

Review: American Freethinker: Elihu Palmer and the Struggle for Religious Freedom in the New Nation, by Kirsten Fischer

Review: <i>American Freethinker: Elihu Palmer and the Struggle for Religious Freedom in the New Nation</i>, by Kirsten Fischer

Eudocia’s Singing Deacon: Another Programmatic Passage In Late Antique Christian Verse

AbstractAmongst the varied literary output of the fifth-century empress Aelia Eudocia is a hexameter paraphrase of the martyrdom of Saints Cyprian and Justina. The opening lines of the poem, which were rediscovered in the second half of the 20th century, describe the conversion of Justina (Justa) to Christianity through the preaching of a deacon named Praulius. Even as Eudocia remains close to her prose model(s), she imposes her own interpretation upon the text through subtle variation and careful choice of poetic vocabulary. In her version, she depicts the preacher Praulius as a Christian counterpart to the traditional singer of hexameter poetry, linked also to her own poetic activity. This description of Praulius’ transformational preaching, prominently placed at the outset of the poem, constitutes another programmatic passage in late antique Christian verse.