Literary Prose Research Articles

VERBAL ACTUALISATION OF HOLOGRAPHIC EFFECTS IN URBAN SPACE DESCRIPTION (A STUDY OF VIRGINIA WOOLF’S "MRS DALLOWAY")

This paper highlights the current state of interpreting the concept of space in literary text as a trend in present-day philological studies. This concept reflects the internal structural and compositional features of literary text and its fragments, further determining its genre features and the author’s individual style characteristics. The paper systematizes the theoretical foundations for the study of literary space, while clarifying the phenomenon of urban space, viewed from semantic and structural perspectives. It focuses on the combination and integration of various semiotic codes and modes of perception against the background of the artistic imitation of other arts, including architecture. The effect of portraying the majesty and congestion of the urban life, its noisy and vibrant nature is achieved due to combining a variety of techniques, which provides a three-dimensional description of the cityscape. The research reveals the mechanisms of verbal holography in the system of urban space representational modes in Virginia Woolf ‘s "Mrs Dalloway", reached through implicit and explicit multimodality along with manifestations of intermediality. Describing the life of London with Big Ben and the Palace of Westminster as its symbols, Virginia Woolf skillfully combines their audible and visual facets not only as of artifacts, but also as part of nature, emphasizing its impact on the atmosphere of the city. The research proves that verbal manifestations of multimodality, detected in the course of analysis, reinforce each other, clearly demonstrating the liveliness and fullness of urban London. The paper concludes with outlining vectors of further research addressing holographic effects in spatial descriptions of cities and towns, while systematizing verbal means used to represent urban space in English literary prose of modernism, as well as defining their functions in literary works by British and American modernist writers.

An Innovative Teaching Tool: Manga for KOMSAS’ Prose Comprehension

Studying literature encourages thinking both critically and creatively. It helps to understand and interpret life through the lens of prose, poems, essays, and novels. The KOMSAS genre of literary materials require good pedagogical practices to ensure academic success of a student. The pivotal focus of this study is to assess the advantages of using ‘Manga’ as a creative tool to teach KOMSAS or traditional Malay literary prose and to determine its effectiveness on students’ performance. The aim of the study was also to explore the impact of using ‘Manga’ to enhance creativity among students in the classroom where traditional prose comprehension is taught. A quasi-experimental design was chosen as methodology and a study was conducted with high school students of Form Four. The research instrument involved a statistical achievement test. Findings from this research indicated that there were positive changes in the performance of students who used this Manga module. Teaching methods which could stimulate students’ interest in learning were helpful for students. Additionally, this study also found that students’ perception towards the teaching methods used by the teachers influenced their performance The main finding also highlighted students’ increased creativity when ‘Manga’ was used as a pedagogical tool. Teachers and collaborators can use this study as a point of reference when promoting ‘Manga’ as a creative device to teach Malay traditional prose in today’s classroom.

Vampirism in mystical prose: based on the story of M.Magauin «Doll»

The theme of vampirism has existed in world literature since time immemorial. The works that took place in the folklore of the peoples of the world, and their unique characters are also evidence of the antiquity of this theme. And in written literature we find the theme of vampirism in the literary works of the XVIII century. As for the appearance of this topic in Kazakh literature, in Kazakh folklore, as an integral part of world folklore, vampirism was formed through the images of zhalmauyz, mystan kempir. Despite the antiquity of the topic, it can be noted that it took a lot of time to continue this topic in Kazakh prose. The writer M. Magauin was one of the first to speak on this topic in prose. The theme of vampirism in the writer's mystical story "The Doll" is written in continuity with folklore works, and also has a unique character in vampire literature. The topic of vampirism in literature, as well as the story "Doll", which is the object of our research, has also not been investigated within the framework of this topic. Therefore, this study aims to study the nature of vampire literature in prose and the features of the use of literary continuity, genre specificity and mystical elements in the story of M.Magauin "Doll". In the proposed study, it is proposed to conduct a literary analysis of the process of formation, the poetics of vampirism in Kazakh prose based on the story of M.Magauin "Doll", having studied the trends of changing paradigms of vampire literature and their nature. The substantial, structural changes of vampirism in the work are investigated in comparison with world literary practices. In order to fully reveal the nature of vampire literature, a place is given to typological, comparative studies.

The manifestations of secularism in the Arabic literature of the Jahiliyyah period: A study prioritizing the views of Gus Bin Zaydah

Jahillayath means ignorance. The Arabic word Jahiliyyah refers to the zealous culture and civilized society in the Islamic case. It is against Islam. The Jahiliyya community is a brutal society with human characteristics cut off. Gus bin Zaydah was a literary figure who lived in the so-called Jahiliyya social period. It can be observed that Islamic thought is often exaggerated in his poetry and prose literature. Much of his literature, prose and poetry, speaks of the triviality of worldly life and the permanence of the afterlife. Death is expressed in many of his speeches and poems. This is in stark contrast to pagan literature. Therefore, this study seeks to introduce Jahiliyyah and express the uniqueness of Arabic literature and to reveal the secular expressions of thought in the literary aspects of the Jahiliyya period writer Gus bin Zaydah. For this purpose descriptive and analytical methods were used and studied.

Music in Vladan Radovanović’s ‘Art Synthesis’ Works

Vladan Radovanović (Serbian Cyrillic: Владан Радовановић, b. 1932) is an intriguing creative figure––a composer and a visual artist, author of literary prose as well as a poet, passionately striving to bring together all of those artistic disciplines into his personal and original approach to synthesising art. Right from the very beginning of his creative work, Radovanović systematically explored the possibilities of expressing himself in different individual arts. At the same time, he was particularly attracted to the idea of extending the limits of art, as well as to various modalities of synthesising them. Since both of those trajectories in Radovanović’s creativity began in his early youth, which he kept developing throughout his life, one may surmise that this was his long-term plan, and that these were strategies that simultaneously developed in multiple directions. This article provides a concise survey of the main trajectories in Radovanović’s accomplishments in monomedia and polymedia arts, focusing on an analytical discussion of the artist’s approach to music in his ‘Art Synthesis’ works.

SYSTEMATIZATION OF HOLOPHRASTIC CONSTRUCTIONS’ PROPERTIES

The paper is focused on studying regularities of holophrastic constructions’ functioning in the English literary prose by means of identifying and classifying the most significant features of their linguistic characteristics and expression. Holophrastic construction is regarded in the paper as a synthetically formed composite lexical unit that combines features of a word, a word-combination, or a sentence, and which figuratively but precisely represents in communication the integrative pictures of the individuals’ thinking or behavior, fixed in their memory as a corresponding concept, for decoding of which the recipients use their communicative and cognitive experience. Having analyzed the interpretations of holophrastic constructions’ characteristic features given in various scientific sources, the authors present a generalized classification of their linguistic properties as well as provide examples of their actualization in English literary texts. The carried out analysis allowed the authors to systematize English holophrastic constructions according to the following most significant features of their linguistic expression: communicative and pragmatic aim (inducing to actions, restraining form actions, and evaluation of the communicative situation), form of expressing meaning (transparent or opaque), degree of their emotional loading (emotionally neutral, emotionally coloured, and emotionally expressive constructions), their syntactic function in the sentence (subject, predicate, object, attribute, or adverbial modifier) and their structure (three-component, four-component, five-component, and poly-component, i.e. consisting of six or more components). The performed study advances the idea that the substantiated classification can serve as a methodological tool for structuring classes, subclasses and groups of the experimental material within the scope of similar linguistic research.

Author’s Digression in the English Literary Text Space: Types of Cohesion

One of the most critical problems of the Linguistics of text is the structure study of the literary text, principles of its organization following the rules of the compositions that suggest splitting the linguistic work into the interconnected parts. In this regard, it is necessary to research the individual compositional and significant elements of the text and their role in forming the whole work. The paper focuses on revealing structural and syntactic properties of the author’s digressions, namely, detecting such concepts as integration/non-integration of the author’s digressions in the English literary prose. Integrated and non-integrated types of author’s digressions into the academic space of the text have been distinguished based on interpretative-textual and compositional analysis. The analysis of the text-forming function of the author’s digression contributed to defining the features of the cohesion of the literary text and included in its elements. The analysis results show that the author’s digressions can be both integrated and non-integrated. Non-integration of the author’s digression lies in their composition-semantic independence, and integrated author’s digressions are the ones that the author weaves into the text with different types of cohesion. This research promotes the studies of the cognitive aspect of the author’s digression in the different genres literary texts of English and American prose.

The work and life of Namakkal Kavignar Ramalingam through my story book

Various types of literature in Tamil have appeared and developed over time. Literature refines our lives. The literature that appeared in each period is able to reveal the living environment of the people of the respective period. Sangam Literature, Sangam Forgotten Literature, Devotional Literature, Folk Literature, Short Story, Novel, Renewal Poetry, Drama, Prose Literature. In this order his historical literature appears and develops. Her history is a collection of events that took place in a person's life. Traces of his historical literature can be found in the Sangam literature. When he and his friend Kopperuncholan, who was dying in the north, went to die in the north, many witnesses there asked why he had not lost his hair for so long. He has the best character wife in life, and people. He says that the Evelars who do not say what he thinks, and that the king is a good protector. And in our town live many learned, virtuous, well-meaning people with goals and principles. So I don't care. So he says I don't have gray hair. Through this, the news about Pichirantaiyar, his hometown, the witnesses in Avur, the people, the king and the evildoer are revealed. And he records through his songs that he lived a quiet contented life without any problems or interruptions. The above biographical notes are able to know the capital of his historical literature. Autobiography is written by a wide variety of writers, political leaders, scholars, and writers from all walks of life. One of the most significant of these biographies is considered to be that of the poet Ramalingam Pillai. The poet Ramalingam of this book is not only talking about the child's own life. Rather it speaks to the community as well. Because the poet Ramalingam Pillai has expressed in his works that he loved this community and what he experienced in his life. In particular, many of the events under the headings of Prayer, Thirukkural Pride, Gandhi, Nattukkummi, Feminism, Bharathidarshanam can be traced back to his works.

Philosophical Perspectives on Eunomia

Abstract This contribution analyses the ancient Greek notion of eunomia in the philosophical prose literature of the fourth century BC. While the term eunomia is often translated as ‘good government’ or ‘good order’, such vague translations fail to capture the specifics of eunomia, and thus part of the philosophical debate about constitutions is lost. Closer inspection reveals that within the fourth-century constitutional debate, eunomia entails two distinct aspects: the excellence of the laws and their durability. These two aspects are predicated of various constitutions: the mixed constitution, of which Sparta and Crete are primary examples in the fourth century; the Athenian democracy as a paradigm of law-abidingness; and philosophical constitutions aiming at virtue. It is a hallmark of the last that such law codes start from marriage and childbirth and follow the course of human life.

Synonymous Groups of Expressive Vocabulary in Works by K. Amis

The article presents the results of expressive vocabulary analysis in the novels by a famous British literary critic, poet, prose writer and playwright of the second half of the XXth century, the Booker Prize winner and a university teacher Kingsley Amis. It briefly presents the artistic merits of his works and deals with individual Kingsley Amis’s writing style and the use of lexical ways to express emotions and evaluations when developing the plot of his stunning novels Lucky Jim and Russian Hide-and-Seek. The study shows that the language in the works by Kingsley Amis abounds in assessing words which express positive or negative assessment while featuring characters, their behaviour or different actions, describing the expression of certain emotional states. The analysis reveals, that among the various parts of speech of amplifying words and word combinations used in the novels, verbs and nouns turn out to have the largest number of synonymous groups.

Intertextuality in rococo culture: parody, pastiche and sequel in French literature pf XVIII century

The purpose of this article is a study of the phenomenon of cultural intertextuality in French rococo on the ground of French prose literature of XVIII century. Methodology. In our research, we employ a method of cultural analysis developed by Annales school. The scientific novelty is determined by the research of non-translated work of Frenche literary rococo "The Adventures of Telemachus" by François de Salignac de La Motte Fénélon of 1699 as phenomenon of French culture of XVIII century, and the study of cultural phenomenon of intertextuality, which is displayed in numerous suites (sequels) and pastiches-parodies of this novel. Conclusions: novel "Adeventures of Telemachus" makes a suite sequel to Homer‘s poem "Odyssey", play "Idoménée" by Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon makes a pastiche to novel "Adeventures of Telemachus", and P. Marivaux‘ novel "Télémaque travesti" makes a parody on François Fénélonùs novel. At the same time, F. Fénélon‘s novel and pastiches and parodies written on it create a metatext of French XVIII century rococo novel of journey.

The Textual and Cultural Features in High-quality Translation of Literary Prose

The quality of translation has been paid more attention in recent years, especially that of literary prose. The author aims to analyze the importance of textual and cultural features in high-quality translation of literary prose by using text typology theory and skopos theory. The author’s own revised translation of Eileen Chang’s literary prose is cited as an example in this essay.

50 Years of Drama from Bosnia & Herzegovina in Theater Festival of Bosnia and Herzegovina in Jajce: A Short History of Bosnian Theater Plays Through an Overview of Participation in the B&H Theater Festival in Jajce

The text reviews the presence of Bosnian drama and prose literature on professional theater stages in BiH through performances that participated in the Theater Festival of BiH in Jajce in the last 50 years. Through an overview of the participation of performances at one of the most important state festivals, the presence of BiH plays in professional theaters in Bosnia is analyzed in the mentioned period - the treatment of BiH dramas by theaters as well as perceptions of them by the professional audience.

ЛИТЕРАРНО-ДОКУМЕНТАРНА ПРОЗА У НАСТАВИ ЗАВИЧАЈНЕ КУЛТУРЕ: НА ПРИМЕРУ ПИСАЦА ИЗ УЖИЦА

Modern education prepares student for a life in the world where a dialogue between different cultures exists. On the other hand, modern education enables the growth of student’s conscience about the belonging to a certain community and desire to personally contribute to preservation of homeland cultural heritage. It is believed that a child who is aware of the identity of its closer environment will have harsher criteria for accepting the legacies of general culture and understanding the separate cultures. Autobiographies, memoirs, and journals are characterized by different types of discourse (narration, description, argumentation, interpretation). The works in question (entire or in fragments) should be used as a didactic tool for developing and promoting students’ different abilities. The paper discusses the educational potential of documentary prose in literature by the writers of different profiles (craftsmen, entrepreneurs, soldiers, artists), born in Užice, who depicted the social and private life from the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th century. The goal is to examine the possibilities for the development and improvement of students’ abilities by using these works in history and literary classes. Documentary prose in literature by homeland writers represents the narrative rich in information and details, which allows teacher to enlighten the events, characters, and occurrences from different perspectives.

“d-Prose 1870–1920” a Collection of German Prose Texts from 1870 to 1920

The corpus “d-Prose 1870-1920” is a heterogeneous collection of 2511 German-language literary prose texts published between 1870 and 1920. It contains narrative texts from trivial and high literature with a minimum length of 1000 words. The texts are available as UTF-8 text files with an associated metadata table. These data are primarily of interest to literary scholars, linguists, but also for all those who are involved in the modelling of textual and cultural phenomena. The corpus can be used to test literary, literary-historical, cultural, and linguistic hypotheses.

Space, place and nonplace in Pere Joan’s Passatger en trànsit (1984): forging the Iberian comic in post-dictatorial Barcelona

ABSTRACT Building on growing interest in the development of the ninth art in Spain, this article returns to a foundational work by creator Pere Joan that encapsulates Barcelona’s role in forging the post-dictatorial Iberian comic. Beyond carrying out a close reading of the eponymous comic contained in Passatger en trànsit, it is important also to elucidate the cultural forces shaping post-dictatorial comics in Spain: from the languages of publication, to the legacies of visual style, the relationship between comics and prose literature, and the reemergence of Barcelona as a putative center of the comics industry. Published by Norma Editorial in 1984, the hardback volume arguably reflected the growing expansion of the Catalan-language cultural market specifically and the progressive linguistic diversification of the Iberian comics market in general. The theme, story and comics form of the visual tale – “Passatger en trànsit”, which was adapted from English science fiction writer Barrington J. Bayley’s earlier short story “Man in Transit” – establish a number of the hallmark traits of Pere Joan’s subsequent work: such as contemplative mood; themes of isolation, alienation, interiority and travel; and his characteristic use of landscape panels in page design. The comic’s spatial aesthetics also connects with notions of space, place and nonplace that were receiving renewed attention in 1980s Barcelona.

“An Inert and Neutral State of Form”: Zero-degree Writing, Photography, and Early Prose Narrative in French

ABSTRACT Part of my project on literary form in translation, this article stages a dialogue between, on the one hand, the formal and stylistic qualities of medieval literary French prose in the first half-century of its practice, and, on the other, Roland Barthes’s essays on zero-degree writing and on photography. French literary prose, which came to the fore suddenly around 1200 ce, presents itself as an impoverished form of writing lacking the vividness and drama of the well-established verse narration. Why, then, did it enjoy international success? The same question may be asked of early photography, self-evidently so much poorer than painting. Barthes helps us to see how a deliberate “loss of color” helps to generate a new vision of the world — which, for early French prose, was linked to the idealism and violence of crusading. Conversely, reading the utopian Le Degré zero de l’écriture and, especially, the melancholic La Chambre claire alongside medieval Grail romances helps us to see how the quest for an (envisaged or lost) ideal inspires both, and to understand the role of form and the impetus for renewal in Barthes’s final published essay.

Дети эпохи или раб своего времени (о системе образов и образе эпохи в литературе)

In human culture, since ancient times, fiction has developed as a mirror of time. Therefore, a dual understanding of time is reflected in the poetics of the work: firstly, it is the time that is connected with the narrative and is developed in the plot of the work (artistic time), and secondly, it is the time, the epoch of writing the work itself (historical time). The artistic image of the time is reflected not only in historical genres, but also in all other genres and styles of literature. The historical era of writing a work can be captured in the thoughts and worldview of the characters, in the conflict being developed, the subject matter and the problems involved. The relevance of the study is related to the fact that the tragic periods of history depicted in the work must be analyzed through the worldview and moral standarts of the people. In this regard, the purpose of this article is to identify the philosophical and aesthetic connection between the artistic time continuum and the historical epoch. The subject of the research in this article is the novelette of the literary scholar and prose writer Georgy Fedorov “Ai, mantaran hir mulkaci” ("Oh, poor hare »). In the course of the study, the following results were obtained: in an artistic and philosophical work, the category of time becomes both a method of deepening the character's personality, and an indicator of the figurative model of the world, and the subject of research.

Literacka historia ołowiu. Rekonesans

This article offers an overview and preliminary arrangements of literary texts, chosen paintings and films (most of them from the past three centuries) which feature the motif of lead. The presence of lead as a symbol has been detected in poetry which treated the problem of war and peace; occasionally this use of lead has occurred in relation to printing, typesetting, and – less frequently – children’s toys. Much more often the motif of lead has been used in literary works to introduce the topic of melancholia and to express artists’ interest in alchemy. An analysis of literary prose at the turn of the 20th century related to zinc and lead metallurgy shows that lead did not occur in the context of mining, chemistry, and medicine until the 19th century. On the basis of studies of the press, historical literature, and contemporary reportage, the article shows the toxic nature of lead and its harmful effect on people and the environment, about which artists and authors try to warn the public at the turn of the 21st century. The article shows that the parallel between melancholia and saturnism is a well-documented phenomenon.

ARTISTIC IMAGERY AS PHENOMENON CREATION ANALITICAL MEANS IN DIFFERENT KINDS OF ARTS

The article treats artistic imagery from the point of view of its ability to analyse phenomenon of creation. The author states that not only scientific categories can analyse it but artistic image also can do it none the worse, and discover such aspects in the essence of phenomenon of creation that science did not consider yet. It is proved by analyses of XIX-XX century works of worldwide authors in different spheres of artistic creation: literature in prose and poem forms (Pushkin, Joyce, Sarraute, Tsvetaeva); dramaturgy (Tchechov, Bekket, Ionesco); cinema ( Fellini, Tarkovsky); painting (Picasso).The author finds links between their images using such analytical methods as structural, semiotics and comparison ones, and author’s method of metatextual invariability. It makes possible to find fundamental structural elements as invariants of analysed artistic systems. Each of them develops in his own way invariants’ semantics concerning creation phenomenology notably that of artist’s seeking his individual language as expression of his reality subjective viewing. What kind of phenomena happen then in the artist’s soul can discover only artistic imagery means; scientific categories are powerless of doing it.. The author points out at the whole set of symbols which are used as phenomenon creation analytical means in artistic discourse.