Literary Persona Research Articles

Alone in Song (The Poetry of Ada Salas)

A glance at Ada Salas’ poetry (Cáceres, 1965). Her literary personality revitalizes an aesthetics conceived as research and knowledge that veils the autobiographical narrative and justifies the essential thrust of language and its transcendent dimension. The journey assumes from the beginning of a personal approach, a unique proposition without generational debts and it has a unitary and continuous structure that reflects on the identity and light observation of the environment.

Preservation of rare documentary sources in private libraries and religious institutions

Purpose The study is an endeavour to find out the preservation status of rare documents in Srinagar. The rare documents, here, mean the manuscripts and rare books, journals, reports, magazines, archival documents, etc. These resources are available in private libraries of individuals and religious institutions in Srinagar. This study aims to find these private libraries of individuals/families and religious institutions, which are unknown to the scholarly world and observe the preservation status of rare documents. The main focus is to document their present preservation status to give an opportunity to the stakeholders, particularly the government organizations, to take appropriate action before they are lost forever. Design/methodology/approach Before conducting the survey, the investigator interviewed 114 persons including literary persons, faith leaders, librarians, faculty members from various prominent institutions in Srinagar to get leads regarding the persons/families and religious institutions in possession of rare documents. The investigator gathered data through two different schedules and later analyzed the same in this study after carrying out a pilot study to make necessary changes to the schedules compiled for the study. The investigator visited personally each family/individual and religious institution to gather the data for months together. Findings An arduous job was carried out in which around 111 individuals/families and religious institutions were found to be having such rare resources. However, the data gathered reveals a dismal picture of private libraries and religious institutions, in possession of rare documents, as almost all caretakers/ families are devoid of any knowledge regarding the maintenance of these important sources of knowledge. Further, the traditional methods of preservation are still in vogue in some private libraries. These traditional methods have opened new areas of research while at the same time can prove detrimental to the collection if they are useless. Originality/value The study is the first of its kind in the summer capital of Jammu and Kashmir i.e. Srinagar. The study gives an idea of preservation status of manuscripts and rare documents including books, magazines, journals, archival documents, etc. so that the same are taken care of for posterity. The study is an eye-opener for the policymakers, conservators, archivists and others interested in historical documents. The study will help in furthering the research process as it needs to be ascertained whether the traditional methods of preservation are fruitful. In short, the study is quite helpful in understanding the nature of collection in Srinagar so that appropriate steps are taken by all particularly the Government in J&K. The paper will surely help in the policy formulation in the future.

About the Attention of the Temurid Rulers to the Creation of Manufactured Works

In the cultural aura of the XV century, the Timurid princes, who were the rulers of that time, occupied a place in a number of historical and literary sources of both literary figures and literary personalities. An artistic manuscript in the epoch of Timurides, as well as the other genres of that period, developed on the basis of creative assimilation of the best traditions of masters who had worked in the previous centuries. It is emphasized that this manuscript is a kind of a rare example of calligraphy and artistic design of a Timurid book.

The ‘nun’ as narrative: religion, writing and reputation in the life of Mary Francis Cusack

ABSTRACT Mary Francis Cusack (1829–1899) was a prolific writer, historian and publisher, producing over forty books during her life-time. She was a vocal supporter of the Land League, an advocate for female education and an early believer in the Marian apparitions at Knock. She was also, for much of her career, an enclosed nun. Her religious identity was essential to the literary persona which she cultivated throughout her career. Through her books and the press, she relied upon and adapted common tropes associated with women religious in order to give her opinions weight. By doing so she was, perversely, able to write about topics normally off-limits to women religious. Even after converting to Methodism in later life, her identity as a former nun was integral to how she presented herself. Cusack’s fame and success provides a valuable insight into the position and visibility of religious women in nineteenth-century society.

التشاؤم فی رسائل ابن الدَّبَّاغ (دراسة فنیة)

الملخص : التشاؤم أحد المشاعر الإنسانية التي قد تصبغ حياة فرد أو أدب أديب، وقد هدف هذا البحث إلى الکشف عن هذه النزعة في رسائل الأديب الأندلسي ابن الدباغ، متخذا من المنهج الفني الجامع بين التذوق الذاتي والحکم الموضوعي منهجا للبحث. وقد انقسم البحث مبحثين، الأول: التشاؤم وشخصية ابن الدباغ: ذکرت فيه ترجمة موجزة لابن الدباغ، وشخصيته الأدبية. والثاني: تجليات التشاؤم في رسائل ابن الدباغ: بدأت بتعريف التشاؤم في اللغة وعلم النفس والفلسفة، وعرجت على فن الرسائل الإخوانية. ثم ذکرت تجلي التشاؤم من خلال الموضوعات التي طرقها ابن الدباغ، ثم الفن في سياق التشاؤم عند ابن الدباغ، من جهة البناء الفني، البواعث والأفکار والمعاني، والأسلوب ثم من جهة الألفاظ وکذا الصور. وتجلت نتائج البحث في استعمال ابن الدباغ للقيم الجمالية النثرية في عصره، وظهور بواعث التشاؤم والقلق والاضطراب في رسائله، ومقدرته التعبيرية عن المعاني وقدرته في تشکيل الصور والألفاظ. Abstract Pessimism is one of the human feelings that may color the life of an individual or a literary person. This research aims to reveal this tendency in the letters of the Andalusian writer Ibn al-Dabbagh, taking the artistic method that combines self-appreciation and objective judgment as a method of research. The research was divided into two topics, the first: The pessimism and the personality of Ibn al-Dabbagh: I mentioned a brief translation of Ibn al-Dabbagh and his literary personality. The second: the manifestations of pessimism in Ibn al-Dabbagh's letters: I began with defining pessimism in language, psychology, and philosophy, and turned to the art of the Brotherhood's messages. Then I mentioned the manifestation of pessimism through the topics that Ibn al-Dabbagh discussed, then art in the context of Ibn al-Dabbagh's pessimism, from the point of view of artistic construction, motives, ideas, meanings, style, and then in terms of words and images. The results of the research were evident in Ibn al-Dabbagh's use of prose aesthetic values ​​in his time, the emergence of pessimism, anxiety, and turmoil in his messages, his expressive ability to express meanings and his ability to form images and expressions.

A Commentary on Stephen E. Lewis, 'Love and Politics in Wyndham Lewis's Snooty Baronet'

Roy Campbell was once a key figure in the South African literary canon. In recent years, his poetry has faded from view and only intermittent studies of his work have appeared. However, as the canon of South African literature is redefined, I argue it is fruitful to consider Campbell and his work in a different light. This thesis aims to re-read both the legend of the literary personality of Roy Campbell, and his prose and poetry written during the period of “high” modernism in England (the 1920s and 1930s), more closely in relation to modernist concerns about language, meaning, selfhood and community. It argues that his notorious, purportedly colonial, “hypermasculine” personae, and his poetic and personal explorations of “selfhood”, offer him a point of reference in a rapidly changing literary and social environment. Campbell lived between South Africa and England, and later Provence and Spain, and this displacement resonated with the modernist theme of “exile” as a necessary cond...

Ehmedê Xasî, Berhemên Wî û Kesayetîya Wî Edebî

Alimê serdema Dewleta Osmanî Xasî, wekî ronakbîrekî Dîyarbekirê, bi edebîyat û îlmê Îslamî re meşxûl bûye. Digel tehsîla îlmên klasîk ên medreseyên serdema xwe, ew bi îlmê tesewwuf, fiqih, û kelamê re jî eleqedar bûye. Wî di biwarê kelam û edebîyatê de hem berhem dane hem jî li pêşberî rûdanên civakî-sîyasî reftar û helwesta xwe nîşan daye. Xasî wekî helwesteke bertekî, li hember rûdanên dewrê, dev ji wezîfeya xwe ya fermî berdaye û kesayetîyeke azad tercîh kirîye. Ji ber vê, rayedarên wê serdemê, tehde lê kirine, ew sirgûn û zindanî kirîye. Ew bi vê xweragirtinê gihaştîye asta muderristî, muftîtîyê, nivîskarîya îlmê kelamê û di qada tesewwufê de derketîye payeya xelîfetîyê. Wekî edîbekî kurmanc û dimbilîyan, wî mesnewîyeke Mewlidê, bi kirmancî/zazayî, mulemme‘eke pênczimanî û çend helbestên din bi kurmancî, erebî, tirkî û farisî hûnane. Digel van, wî çend berhemên îlmî-kelamî bi zimanê erebî hûnaye. Li hember bîr û boçûnên dijberî Ehlê Sunnetê, wekî alimekî Eş‘erî, wî bi berhemên xwe bi awayê çalak eqîdeya Îslamî parastîye. Şexsîyeteke wiha binavûdeng ku li herêma kurmanc û dimbilîyan bûye xwedan pile û payeyeke bala û kesayetîyeke wiha mezin û girîng, bi qenaeta me hîna jî bi awayê ku heq bike nehatîye naskirin. Me nîyet bi vê lêkolînê, hîn baştir danasîna wî ye. Heta nuha hin xebat û lêkolîn li ser Xasî hatine kirin; bes me xwest em çend alîyên wî yên cîyawaztir derxînin pêş û li ser binemal, jîyan, berhem, kesayetîya wî ya edebî û helwesta wî ya alimane lêkolîn bikin.

Imaginative Networks: Tracing Connec­tions Among Early Modern Book Dedi­cations

This essay uses network metrics (centrality, density, clustering coefficients) to account for shifts in dedicatory practice resulting from political crises, religious turmoil, and changes in book production practices. It constructs a network from the names that appear in dedications of EEBO-TCP texts; names are detected using the linguistic markup from the EarlyPrint project. The essay argues that we learn more about early modern book history by constructing networks of all the names that appear in dedications, not just those of authors, printers, and patrons. The network includes a mixture of religious and political figures, literary personalities, fictional characters, and bookmaking professionals, because this is the full range of names that dedicatory practice covers in the period. By proceeding in this way, network metrics can account for a range of dedicatory phenomena, including Queen Elizabeth’s popularity on both sides of the political aisle long after her death and, especially, consolidation around non-contemporary names in dedicatory practice as a result of both the Civil War and the Restoration. The imaginative networks revealed by early modern dedications are organized mainly around untimely figures from the recent and distant past, but despite this the networks are sensitive to historical change, especially at moments of political and social crisis.

Disability Studies: A Path Breaking Approach in Literature

“Man is unique, though he is impaired”. The uniqueness had been challenged in ancient time and considered disabled as sinners and cursed people. During middle-ages the uniqueness of disabled persons has been challenged and used them for entertainment purposes. Later they have been considered as wild and brutal and also gave much importance to the caretakers rather than disabled. Modern age especially later half of twentieth century the disabled got good position in literature due to the impact of civil rights movement and the writings of literary personalities. The life writings of disabled people made them to fly up to the heights of their life and also it inspire both able bodied and disabled to achieve their goals. At present disability studies is one of the growing branches of literature.

PRENSES KADRİYE HÜSEYİN VE MEHASİN-İ HAYAT İSİMLİ ESERİ

Princess Kadriye Hüseyin is one of the important figures of Turkish Literature that developed in Egypt. The work of Princess Kadriye Hüseyin, who thinks that people should give importance to moral education and values education in order to protect cultural values and prevent corruption, is taught in a fluent style in Mehâsin-i Hayât. As in the Divan literature within the Turkish litera-ture developing in Egypt; Important figures have also been raised in the field of New Turkish literature. The most important of these personalities is undoubtedly Princess Kadriye Hüseyin. Princess Kadriye was born on January 10, 1888 in Cairo. Princess Kadriye is a member of the Kavalalı Mehmet Ali Pasha family, whose name the Egyptians speak highly of today. This fa-mily dominated Egypt until 1952, when Kavalalı Mehmet Ali Pasha became governor in 1805. Princess Kadriye Hüseyin witnessed the collapse of the Ottoman Empire and the liberation struggle of Anatolia. National Struggle in Turkey has neglected its moral and material support. Princess Kadriye Hüseyin "always saw herself as a part of Istanbul" due to her grandmother be-ing from Istanbul. Kadriye Hüseyin, who took part in the establishment and operation activities of the Hilal-i Ahmer Ladies Center, which was established within the Ottoman Hilal-i Ahmer Society, and made material and moral contributions; He wrote articles on life, people, cultural, religious and national values, spirituality, manners and manners with the consciousness of being indigenous, national and well-being. Kadriye Hüseyin has written important works such as Me-hasin-i Hayat, Temevvücât-ı Efkar, Muhadderât-ı Islam, An Important Night, My What, Letters from the Holy Ankara. Princess Kadriye Hüseyin penned the first examples of the essay in the Turkish literature that developed in Egypt, which is defined as the writings that the writer has written in a style that carries the air of speaking to himself, without making definitive judgments and without the need to prove his personal thoughts on any subject he chooses according to his own will. His work named Mehâsin-i Hayat consists of trials. In this study, information about the life, literary personality and works of Princess Kadriye Hüseyin will be given and her work consisting of essays named Mehasin-i Hayat will be introduced.

The Hunter and the Dreamer: Roy Campbell’s Literary Personality in Anthony Akerman’s Dark Outsider

This article considers readings of the life and literary personality of the South African poet Roy Campbell. Drawing on Anthony Akerman’s play about Campbell, Dark Outsider, to support the argument, it argues that readings that limit themselves to the biographical, which tend to foreground his hypermasculine, colonial persona, or the psychological, which read this persona as a mask for a sensitive nature, tend to downplay both the literary influences for, and the contextual nature of, his well-documented self-inventions. This article suggests that these were in tune with the modernist era in which his writing emerged, and drew in particular on the respective influences of the French poet Charles Baudelaire and Campbell’s friend, the artist and writer Percy Wyndham Lewis.

Изучение экспрессионизма в конце XX — начале XXI в.

The article analyzes and systematizes results of Russian research in German and Russian Expressionism for the past 17 years. The focus of the author are both great collective research projects on history and theory of Russian and German literature, which includes Expressionism as an integral part of the literary process, and individual studies of literary critics and linguists. The geography of Russian study of Expressionism covers research centers in Universities of Moscow, St. Petersburg, Yekaterinburg, Nizhni Novgorod, Chelyabinsk, Samara and in Austrian libraries (Yekaterinburg, Nizhni Novgorod). The research has four main directions. The first, the most traditional, focuses its forces on the study of new literary material and personalities, unknown literary texts and historical and literary facts. The second direction works with well-known texts, but operates with the latest scientific tools and provides a different understanding of the known material. The third direction is interdisciplinary and uses synthetic methods. The fourth is the comparative and typological direction, an important part of which is translation theory and practice.

Изучение экспрессионизма в конце XX — начале XXI в.

The article analyzes and systematizes results of Russian research in German and Russian Expressionism for the past 17 years. The focus of the author are both great collective research projects on history and theory of Russian and German literature, which includes Expressionism as an integral part of the literary process, and individual studies of literary critics and linguists. The geography of Russian study of Expressionism covers research centers in Universities of Moscow, St. Petersburg, Yekaterinburg, Nizhni Novgorod, Chelyabinsk, Samara and in Austrian libraries (Yekaterinburg, Nizhni Novgorod). The research has four main directions. The first, the most traditional, focuses its forces on the study of new literary material and personalities, unknown literary texts and historical and literary facts. The second direction works with well-known texts, but operates with the latest scientific tools and provides a different understanding of the known material. The third direction is interdisciplinary and uses synthetic methods. The fourth is the comparative and typological direction, an important part of which is translation theory and practice.

Munawwar Hashmi: An Active Poet of affluent Era

Munawwar Hashmi is a versatile literary personality of this age. He is well known as a poet, writer, critic, researcher, and expert of Iqbal doctrine. He is considered among famous lyric writers who contributed to developing this art of poetry throughout his life. In his lyrics, there are thought-provoking ideas, depth, and a new paradigm shift about the art of lyric. The poetry of Munawwar Hashmi reflects passions and feelings naturally. He has translated feelings and emotions in a quiet natural way. His art is a combination of individual and collective vision. In this article, an effort has been made to highlight the structure and characteristics of the poetry of Munawwar Hashmi.

The Personality, Literary Personality And Poems of Haydari Vucudi, Who is Considered the Second Mawlana in the Sufi Literature of Afghanistan

Bu makalede Afganistan’da tasavvuf edebiyatına yeni bir soluk getirmiş ve Mevlânâ’yı Sânî” (İkinci Mevlânâ) olarak tanınmış olan Haydarî Vucûdî’nin şahsiyeti, edebî kimliği ve şiirleri hakkındaki bilgilere yer verilecektir. 
 Makalemize konu olan Haydarî Vucûdî, sosyal hayatı, sanatsal düşüncesi, şiirsel formları, edebî eserleri ve etkisi ile varlığını ortaya koymuş bir şahsiyettir. Şair, ülkesinde sosyal yaşamda, sanatsal icatlarının gerçekliği, önemi ve değeri ile edebiyat ve irfan alanına nüfuz etmiş biri olarak bilinmektedir. Afganistan halkının Mevlânâ Şinas (Mevlânâ Uzmanı) olarak ta vasıflandırdığı bu irfan şairinin yakın tarihte vefat etmiş olması araştırmamızın gerekliliğine işaret etmektedir.
 Haydarî Vucûdî, Afganistan’da edebiyattan tasavvufa, tasavvuftan siyasete birçok çevrenin fikirlerine ve sanatına itibar ettiği ve sohbetlerinin ve eserlerinin bu kesimlerde tesirli olduğu bir ilim erbabıdır. Haydarî, kendi manevî hallerini gizleyerek, Mevlânâ Celâleddin’in şiirlerini öğrencilerine yıllar yılı okumuş ve irfan edebiyatını sûfî öğütlerle öğretmeye gayret etmiştir. Tıpkı Mevlânâ gibi hâmûş olmayı (sükûneti), uzleti daha küçük yaşta keşfeden şairin, insana matuf dünyasında rıza ve aşk can bahşeden iki kaynak olmuştur.

Arap Şiirinde Urcûze ve Râciz Halîl Mutrân’in Erâciz’i

One of the modern Arab poets is Halil Mutran. Halil Mutran was born in Balebek, Lebanon, in 1871. The poet, who learned poetry and meteres from his mother, took lessons from important poets of the period and wrote poems from an early age. The poet, who criticizes the classical poetry concept harshly and emphasizes that the content of the poem should not be overshadowed by features such as shape and form, has a divan in which his poems in urcuza type are included. This divan To Young People, which contains only poems written in racaz meter, is known as the name. The full name of the divan is Ile’ş-Şebab Eraciz fî Ahdasi Vasaʾili’n-Najah mina’l-Ahlak ve’l-Adab and it means urcuzes about new ways of achieving success in ethics and decency for young people. In this divan, the poet gives advice to young people under the headings such as social principles, praiseworthy qualities, conditions of being successful, guidance about business and economy and general advice. Considering that the development of society and the achievement of European modernity can only be possible with young people, he tries to instill moral principles in his poems in this direction. In this study, all aspects of racaz are given and the terms urcuza, eraciz and raciz derived from recez are explained, the life of Halil Mutran, his literary personality, his understanding of poetry, his works are revealed, and the content, form and style, sentence structures of the poet’s divan called To Young People, it is handled within the framework of vocabulary. Sample poems were added to the study with their Arabic and translations so that the poet’s handling of the content could be clearly seen.

Adalet Ağaoğlu’nun Öykülerinde Anlatı Temposu

Narrative pace is the fundamental determiner of temporal transitions in a literary text; it governs the continuity and rhythm of certain facts or events illustrated in the text. A literary text acquires its fictional integrity and compositional patterns through myriad flows and accelerations that accompany the narrative pace, thereby revealing intellectual and ideological representations through compositional maneuvers. Thus, the narrative pace is a fictional tool that mediates between narrative aesthetics and ideology. The narrative pace offers a domain extension and transitional space to the literary text through ideology-laden syntactic repetitions and textual momentum. The narrative pace can further be articulated through leitmotifs, which becomes a descriptive strategy that signifies the fictional velocity and acceleration of a literary text. Adalet Ağaoğlu was an important literary personality in Turkish literature. She established a fictional connection between the literary and aesthetic realities of the narrative and its ideological ground. In her stories, the narrative pace manifests this link and reveals the associations between narrative aesthetics and ideology. This study examines Adalet Ağaoğlu’s fiction from the perspective of narrative pace, attending specifically to the relationships between aesthetics and ideology. 

Cevâhir-i Mültekata’dan Ahlâk ve Öğüt İhtiva Eden Seçme Hikâyeler

The work named Cevâhir-i Mültekata by the poet, clerk and scholar Mehmed Lebîb Efendi, one of the 19th century Ottoman statesmen, is one of the important works belonging to the story genre of Classical Turkish Literature. Compiled and brought together from Arabic, Persian and Turkish works, the work presents a rich universe of wisdom with scholars, Sufis, poets, statesmen and personalities who have left behind unique stories. In the first part of this article, information about the life, literary personality, works and story genre of Mehmed Lebîb Efendi, one of the 19th century Ottoman statesmen, scribe, scholar and poet is presented. In the second part, information about the method, universe and sample of the research is given, and in the part of data collection and analysis, information about the relevant literature research and transcription properties is presented. In the third chapter, the original Ottoman texts, transcriptions and Turkish meanings of eleven selected stories on ethics and advice are given along with the language and narrative features of the work named Cevâhir-i Mültekata in the findings and interpretations section. In this context, information was given about the language and narrative features of the stories. In the conclusion and suggestions section, information about the literary and scientific values ​​and importance of the selected stories determined to draw the importance of the work named Cevâhir-i Mültekata is presented.

Cevâhir-i Mültekata’dan Seçme Hikâyeler

Among the works in the style of verse and prose in the tradition of Classical Turkish Literature, ‘divan, mesnevi and tezkires’ are important literary sources. Prose stories, such as masnevis, and prose texts such as dates, menakıpnames, are remarkable texts in terms of the breadth of the audience they address. One of the works that have an important value in this tradition is the work of Ruznamçeci-zâde Mehmed Lebîb Efendi, which is called Cevâhir-i Mültekata. In the first part of this article, information about Divan / Written Literature from Classical Turkish Literature and about the life and literary personality of Mehmed Lebîb Efendi, one of the 19th century Ottoman statesmen, was presented. In the second part, information about the method, universe and sample of the research is given, and in the part of data collection and analysis, a literature research on the subject is presented. In the third part, Cevâhir-i Mültekata, which presents the stories of the prophets with words full of decency, virtue, superior morality, wisdom, the lives of people with righteousness, the morality of wise people and the behavior of generous people, the lives of people who stand out with their historical and wise personalities, as a guide. Some examples of story types in the work are presented. Finally, in the results and recommendations section, it is aimed to draw attention to the importance of the work named Cevâhir-i Mültekata through the spiritual, literary and scientific values of some determined stories.

Temuriy mirzolarning adabiy shaxsiyatini o‘rganishda manbalarning o‘rni

The concept of a literary personality expresses the literary and cultural accumulation of the artist, which differs from the personality unique to each person. In this sense, the Timurids-mirzas, who were outstanding and at the same time rulers of the period in the cultural sphere of the XV century, appeared in the sources as literary people or literary figures. If you count some sources related to the topic: "Majalis-un-nafais" Alisher Navoi, "Tazkirat-ush-shuara" of Devletsah Samarkandi, "Wakaya" (Baburname) of Zahiriddin Muhammad Bobur, "Habib-us-siyar" of Giyaseddin Khandemir, "Tarikh-i Rashidi" of Muhammed Haider Mirza, "Ravzat-us-Salatin" by Fakhr-i Heravi, "Badee-ul-wakaye” of Zayniddin Vosifiy, "Muzakkir-ul-ahbab" of Hasanhoja Nisari.Throughout history, there have been many rulers who wrote poetry or engaged in other arts. However, this is a very rare event in the history of literature, when there are many masters who grew up from the same dynasty. In this respect, it is a fact that the Timurid rulers did not require much evidence that they were interested in and interested in literature, artistic creativity, and ingenuity.Having stated the value of the Timurid mirzas in reflecting their literary personality in the above-mentioned and related sources, we have defined the purpose and duty to indicate how clear the ideas of the authors of the mentioned works are and what are the principles underlying them.The article explains the significance of the Timurids for the Turkish language and literature by citing examples from Alisher Navai's book " Majalis-un-nafais", whose works they wrote in Chagatai Turkic and other sources. In fact, the information contained in the sources about Shahrukhmirza, Khalil Sultan, Mohammad Mumin mirza, Shah Garib mirza, and Zahiriddin Mohammad Babur has been identified, described, and analyzed.