Quality Of Literature Research Articles

Allison Glazebrook. Sexual Labor in the Athenian Courts.

Allison Glazebrook’s monograph, Sexual Labor in the Athenian Courts, is the product of the author’s expertise on sexual laborers in ancient Athens. The book comes at a time when several monographs dedicated to sexual labor have appeared, but it carves a notable space for itself in the literature. Glazebrook distinguishes her work from that of, for example, Konstantinos Kapparis and Edward Cohen, both by topic and form. She is not interested in writing “a social history of sexual labor” (5) but rather in using the figure of the male and female sex laborer in forensic oratory as a means for exploring Athenian ideas and attitudes on gender, the body, the household, and citizenship. Counting herself among historians such as Josiah Ober and Matthew Christ, she differentiates her method by eschewing the tendency to mine the orators for historical data at the expense of the text’s literary character. Glazebrook “is interested in how speakers manipulate the attitudes and practices in their discourses around sexual labor to cement and problematize social and civic boundaries” (4). Thus, she embraces the literary quality of the texts in the service of revealing Athenian ideology. To do so, each chapter treats a single court speech holistically. As opposed to the clever and privileged hetaira of other genres, oratory presents a broad range of sex laborer types that threaten the stability of the household and the city. Her readings make use of the anxieties revealed by the orators to shine a light on broader questions of, for instance, women’s status and pederasty.

An Analysis of Isma Pasha’s and Parvaiz Pasha’s Character Speeches in “Home Fire” A Comparative Pragma Stylistic Study

The current study aims to compare the language usage of Isma Pasha's and Parvaiz Pasha’s characters from the novel “Home Fire” under the same tragic and harmful conditions. According to the background of study, language not only serves as a means of communication but also has the ability to change both the worlds of those who are addresser and those who are being addressed. The objective of this study was to find out impact of belief and thought on actions of individual’s own-self as well as others. The current study has used qualitative descriptive research methodology in which the novel “Home Fire” of Kamila Shamsi is used as primary data source. The Speech Act Theory of Austin (1975) provides a theoretical foundation for the current research theoretical framework. The data was analyzed using illocutionary and perlocutionary speech act analysis to understand Isma and Parvaiz’s dialogues and utterances. The discovery suggests that language use and utterances successfully define a literary or fictional character. Study recommends to stay away from extreme narrative of radical Islam through continuous dialogue between Muslim and western which open the way for diasporic community and the host society to reconciliation.

峿堂 李象秀의 『詩經』해설 방식과 의미

The purpose of this paper is to examine the method of commentary on 『Shijing(The Classics of Poetry)』 through ｢Dúshīsuíbǐ｣ by a scholar in the late Joseon Dynasty, Lee Sang-soo(1820~1882).
 He was a Horon scholar and a nongam literaturer in the late Joseon Dynasty. He was associated with various litterateurs and scholars of the Horon and Nongam worlds, and combined the strengths of Philology and rhetoric. This provides an opportunity to use various commentary methods in the study of Chinese classics. A typical example is ｢Dúshīsuíbǐ｣. It is a commentary on 『Shijing』, and a collection of short essays that describe opinions, impressions, and opinions in a free form. It is in the form of aimed at poems about the ruling party's mismanagement, analyzed the background of the incident and the feelings of the characters, and advanced one's own opinion. This is a case that reveals not only the insight of a scholar of scripture but also the aspect of a writer.
 As a result of examining the method of its commentary on 『Shijing』, It was found that the pattern consisted of two main parts. First, Reinforcement of reasoning through narrative. Second, Reinforcement of reasoning through lyricism. First, It is to secure the trust of the readers, and reflects his bibliographical opinion, which judged that historical records close to the time of the writing of 『Shijing』should be used as a basis. It was intended to elicit sympathy from readers, and his rhetorical view was reflected in his understanding of the literary quality of 『Shijing』as ‘inducing empathy through empathy’. Therefore, his way of interpreting the scriptures can be said to be a case of succession and transformation of the merits of Philology and rhetoric.

Aspect and tense forms of the Russian verb in describing the kinesic behaviour of the characters in A.P. Chekhov’s stories

Non-verbal semiotics is one of the leading areas of modern communication research. The study is devoted to the topical interdisciplinary issue - the relationship between non-verbal semiotics and Russian grammar. The aim of the research is to characterize the representation of the temporal forms of the Russian verb in describing the kinesic behaviour of literary characters. The elements of nonverbal semiotics were analysed in the stories by A.P. Chekhov “Death of an Official”, “Chameleon”, “Thick and Thin”, “Horse Name”, “Surgery”. The following methods were used as the main ones: descriptive, semantic explication, differential, analytical. The methodological foundations of kinesics as an integrative science were considered, the correlation between the verbal realization of kinema and the temporal forms of the Russian verb was revealed. It has been proved that the most recurrent manifestations of non-verbal semiotics in Chekhov's stories are communicative emblems (in particular, etiquette and ritual), symptomatic emblems and dynamic descriptors, nominated with the help of aspect and tense forms of the Russian verb. Emblems-illustrators are quantitatively less represented in the analyzed stories. They are prospective for further research on the example of Russian literary classics.

The ‘Red Colour’ that Cracks Children’s Souls: A Glimpse of Life in the ‘Otef Gaza’ in Israeli Children’s Books

This article aims to show children’s books written about children who is living in the Israeli Gaza envelop Since 2001, the residents of the Otef Gaza have lived under the shadow of a continuous security threat, during which five rounds of fighting took place. ‘Red Colour’ is a code name for an alarm that signals people to enter a protected space (shelter). About 20 children’s books have been written on this subject, which allows young readers to examine complex realities through the experiences of literary characters and to engage in cognitive and emotional processing without being directly exposed to the experiences. The research methodology is based on a hermeneutic analysis, which examines the social and cultural processes. Three themes emerge which emphasize the poetic dimension of the use of the concept of the color ‘red’: (1) the symbolic dimension of the concept of “red colour” and (2) the transition from a state of routine to a state of emergency.

:Narrating Trauma: Victorian Novels and Modern Stress Disorders

:<i>Narrating Trauma: Victorian Novels and Modern Stress Disorders</i>

LITERARY FEATURES OF THE POEM "BEOWULF"

LITERARY FEATURES OF THE POEM "BEOWULF"

LITERARY FEATURES OF THE POEM "BEOWULF"

LITERARY FEATURES OF THE POEM "BEOWULF"

Irony, Recusancy, and Repentance in Robert Southwell’s Saint Peter’s Complaint

Robert Southwell’s Saint Peter’s Complaint has been studied chiefly for its alignment with Catholic or Protestant homiletics and devotional practices rather than its literary qualities. But Southwell’s aims were poetical as well as pastoral. His baroque portrayal of Saint Peter’s anguish over betraying Christ ironically incorporates both the ideology of Catholic recusancy, which Southwell supported as a Jesuit missionary, and the devotional discourse of the tears of repentance shared by Catholics and Protestants.

Повесть В.П. Некрасова «В окопах Сталинграда» – реальность войны и художественный текст

Introduction. The article is devoted to the battle for the Height 102.0 (Mamayev Kurgan), which had a great strategic command in the battle of the Red Army for the city of Stalingrad. One of the outstanding monuments of national literature devoted to the Great Patriotic War is the story of Victor Platonovich Nekrasov “In the trenches of Stalingrad.” It marked the beginning of the genre of the so-called “lieutenants’ prose”, that is, the narrative of events not from a professional literary propagandist, but from a direct participant in hostilities. A significant part of the work takes place in the area of Mamayev Kurgan, where the author of the story actually took part in the battle. The lower chronological boundary of the period is due to the beginning of the battle for the Mamayev Kurgan in September 1942. The upper boundary is defined by the capture of the Red Army Height 102.0 as a key section of German positions near the factory district of Stalingrad. Methods and materials. The methodology of the research is based on the main methods of historical science (comparative, biographical, problem-chronological). Based on a comparative analysis carried out on the text of Viktor Platonovich Nekrasov’s story “In the trenches of Stalingrad” with the original records of military units, with authentic graphic materials, maps and diagrams, the factual basis of the work’s plot and a high degree of its documentary nature were revealed. The author of the article believes that the study of V.P. Nekrasov’s story as a work of fiction has so far been only an object of analysis for philologists and culturologists. This interdisciplinary historical study will help establish the real picture of the fighting for Height 102.0 over Stalingrad, and sources will confirm or deny the picture of the events described in the story. Analysis. The conclusions of this work are based on the analysis of military documents of domestic military archives and comparing them with the text of the story, which is considered not as a work of fiction, but as a testimony of a participant in the event. Results. Due to the conducted research, we have an opportunity to compare the evidence from the military biography of V.P. Nekrasov and his comrades-in-arms, actually confirmed by declassified archive documents, with the peculiarities of the author’s images of the literary characters in the cultural and historical context of the era.

Payback Time: Dickens and Revolution

Abstract: This essay assesses the long history of political disappointment with Charles Dickens's A Tale of Two Cities , including George Orwell's description of the novel as a counterrevolutionary text that depicts the French Revolution as "no more than a pyramid of severed heads" (59). It suggests instead that the novel's nested use of prophecy and hindsight, borrowed to a certain extent from Thomas Carlyle, supports a reading of revolution as the natural and inevitable result of injustice. Thus the novel can be read along a line of development from Walter Scott's historical novel Waverley , which sees the 1745 Jacobite Rebellion as a foolish mistake, to William Morris's News from Nowhere , in which the protagonist's desired socialist revolution is seen from the far future to have succeeded. Sydney Carton's final prophecy takes part in a vision of the post-revolutionary future that is permitted to omniscient narrators, but usually forbidden to literary characters.

David Copperfield, Émile, and the Legacy of Enlightenment Education Literature

The Bildungsroman is a genre concerned with the construction of the individual's relationship with society. Critics have often associated Victorian Bildungsromane with the loss of agency as ideological forces funnel literary characters (and, by extension, their readers) through a series of conventional plot points designed to reinforce a fairly conservative set of middle-class values. This essay complicates such readings by pairing Charles Dickens's paradigmatic Victorian Bildungsroman David Copperfield (1850) with Jean-Jacques Rousseau's progenitor to the genre, Émile (1762). I suggest that setting Dickens's novel against the more philosophically dense and overtly confrontational Émile highlights David Copperfield's vexed relationship with established social codes, supplying the foundation for an important reconsideration of the Bildungsroman's role in subject formation.

POINT OF VIEW IN JAY PARINI’S BIOGRAPHICAL NOVEL “THE LAST STATION”

This article investigates the biographical novel “The Last Station” by the American writer Jay Parini and focuses on reality and unreality in it. The relationship of literary characters to each other is observed from the point of view of each narrator. Also, the article shows some contradictions.

Decolonizing Memory: Algeria and the Politics of Testimony

Decolonizing Memory: Algeria and the Politics of Testimony

Idoya Puig and Karl McLaughlin, eds. Spanish Golden Age Texts in the Twenty-First Century: Teaching the Old Through the New; Alba Carmona. Las reescrituras fílmicas de la comedia nueva: Un siglo en la gran pantalla

Idoya Puig and Karl McLaughlin, eds. <i>Spanish Golden Age Texts in the Twenty-First Century: Teaching the Old Through the New</i>; Alba Carmona. <i>Las reescrituras fílmicas de la comedia nueva: Un siglo en la gran pantalla</i>

&lt;八域歌&gt;의 문학적 특징과 의의

&lt;八域歌&gt;의 문학적 특징과 의의

THE FUNCTIONAL-SYNONYMIC PECULIARITY OF FRENCH LITERARY ONYMS

The literary onym is one of the main structural elements of the onomastic space of a literary text. The problem of studying this literary category is to identify their main features, features of functioning in the structure of a literary text, as well as to study the role of contextual synonymy in creating images of literary characters. The article analyzes the views of researchers on the problems of literary onomastics, clarifies the terminological apparatus. The article analyses the main distinguishing features of onyms, such as their secondary nature, as well as semantic load. Literary onyms are characterized by a number of functions in a work of fiction. They can perform nominative, ideological, characterizing, aesthetic, symbolic functions. The study revealed that the main functions of proper names in the analyzed works are recognized as nominative and characterizing, and in some cases symbolic. Creating a literary image of a character, the author uses a variety of linguistic means, in particular contextual synonymy based on metaphorical transfer. The conclusion confirms the idea that literary onyms are an additional mechanism in a work of fiction, which is designed to create a more capacious, versatile image of literary characters

The Narrative Strategies in Albert Camus’ The Plague: A Metafictional Reading

The Plague by Albert Camus appears to be a biographical and traditional narrative, but in fact Camus employs various postmodern meta-fictional narrative strategies in his novel, such as overtly indicating the author's presence in the work, occasionally the author intrudes directly to make comments, revealing its artificial fiction; changing narrative perspectives; parodying traditional diaries and heroic legends; intertextuality, collage, etc., which, to a certain extent, demonstrate the literary characteristics of postmodernism: indeterminacy, anti-center, everything is nothingness, etc., and also subvert its narrative conventions, breaking our readers' expectations. This is to a certain extent the literary characteristics of postmodernism: anti-determinism, anti-center, everything is nothingness, etc. It also subverts its narrative rules and breaks our readers' reading expectations. Camus's use of meta-fictional narrative strategies reveals the postmodernism hidden in Camus, his view of the world of vanity, and the plight of contemporary human existence.

Лик Украјине у српском роману друге половине 20 – почетка 21. века

Traditionally, the basic qualities of imagology are associated with its key category—the literary ethnic character. A special field of imagological improvisations is the Serbian novel, which, according to well-known national experience and specific genre features, is favorable for ethnic panoramic imagological reactions, especially when it comes to the mid-20th – early 21st century. The aimof the research is to single out in chronological supposition the poetics of the literary presentation of the phenomenon of Ukraine in the Serbian novelistic discourse at the turn of the millennium. The research is based on comparative, comparative-typological, imagological methods in combination with approaches of structural-semantic and archetypal analysis. In the stated imagological perspective, the novels by I. Andrić, M. Crnjanski, M. Oljača, M. Selimović, G. Petrović, M. Prodanović and М. Pavić are analyzed. The works highlight semantic accents that emphasize the positive imagological view of Ukraine from its foreign ethnic reception, formed in genetically related – Serbian – literature, the tolerance of the Serbian people in creating subjective ethnic panoramas, indispensable for the evolutionary enrichment of intercultural communication based on epistemological heritage.

Tormenting memories and the moral reasoning of past mistakes in iris murdoch’s bruno’s dream: a socio- psychological approach

This piece of research examines Iris Murdoch’s novel Bruno’s Dream (1969). The analysis focuses on the main character of this novel Bruno and on his recollection of the memories and mistakes he had committed in the past. A nearly ninety years old man who knows that he is losing his battle against cancer soon, spends most of his days in his room attended by a housekeeper and a nurse. Bruno is often seen drifting into a world of fantasies and illusions contemplating past events and actions among which are two major ones; his infidelity to his wife Janie which might be the reason behind her sickness and death and his tense relationship with his only son Miles caused by a faulty decision Bruno recklessly took once. The analysis, in this piece of research, thoroughly focuses on Bruno’s recollections of these occurrences and his overwhelming sense of regret. In this novel, going into these painful memories is a necessity for Bruno to acquire a new self-realization, to rectify the past mistakes and to redeem himself once and for good before confronting his end. &#x0D; The research paper intends to find answers to specific questions such as; what are the main psychological and social reasons behind Bruno’s infidelity? How could he maintain for years two different relationship, a cold one with his wife and an infatuation with Maureen, his mistress? Can faith in God sooth Bruno’s suffering and pacify him? Is it possible to redeem past sins even if it is late, as with the case with Bruno and his son Miles?&#x0D; The methodological approach of this research is largely based on the socio-psychological studies of Erich Fromm. Those in connection with childhood upbringing, emotional deprivation and the lack of security, the “negative freedom”, and his studies on the “new man” who seeks amendments to his faults. All these socio-psychological ideas are tackled in relation to Bruno’s actions and decisions. The methodological approach also utilizes the strategies of close reading techniques and an in-depth literary analysis in order to address specific intrinsic literary features of the novel.