Love Story Research Articles

Subjective destitution, love, and rebellion in pandemic times: Theorizing with Hot Skull

Dystopian visions of global pandemics, political crises, and human suffering abound, from fictitious television shows to the ongoing ravages of COVID-19. When we witness isolated instances of suffering and collective struggle, and identify their relationship to large-scale social crises, we are unveiling pieces of the totality. Things which might otherwise be portrayed as a local problem are instead viewed as a part of a larger social system. The Turkish Netflix series Sıcak Kafa (English title: Hot Skull) offers a story of pandemic lockdowns, rebellion, love, and subjectivity, touching upon important issues of radical political theory and action. This article connects key moments in Hot Skull to several important Marxist and psychoanalytic concepts, showing how the collective struggles in this Netflix series can help us identify concrete instances and attempts at overcoming violence in the modern world-system. By comparing the events of Hot Skull to our current predicament of living through a deadly pandemic, this article reaches an important conclusion: Our ability to radically change our circumstances through chance encounters with love and political rebellion remains real, potent alternatives to living in a persistent state of isolation and despair.

VIETNAM WAR: REDRAWING OF LOADS THROUGH THE WORKS OF TIM O’ BRIEN’S THE THINGS THEY CARRIED

War and memory are interrelated and it represents a verisimilitude approach through the presentation of distinction among legitimate history, intellectual history and the military histories of the war (written history of armed forces, journalist). In the history of War, there are natural tendencies of legitimate historians to hide the discursive history of war (from ground zero) from the ordinary people. Most of time, the physical and psychological pain of battalions during the war , their agony, trauma and frustrations are not penned down and people of the nations(defeated and triumph nations) are unaware of the true history of ground zero. In this paper, I would like to analysis American War on Vietnam through the work of Tim O’Brien. Vietnam War is also known as “War against the Americans to save the Nation” or “American War in Vietnam”. Tim O’Brien is an American novelist and he contributes in the war. He has ranked as a sergeant in military. His semi-autobiographical novel, Things They Carried points out his experiences in the Vietnam War. It is an empathetic, as well as, fictional account of nonfictional story of American soldiers through the jungles of Vietnam. It is a story of loss and love, guilt and fear. In War, soldiers carry their necessary things (physical objects) like matches, Morphine, M-16 Rifles and Candy. After the War, they bring grief, terror, guilt, confusion and the brutality of War as a return gift. After life of War, each soldiers’ physical loss underscores under emotional loss. In this memoir, Tim O’Brien delineates how soldiers carry heavy physical and psychological loads in the War.

THE ARTISTIC PECULIARITIES OF THE STORY ABOUT THE BEAUTIFUL SHOPKEEPER
 IN GOETHE’S “CONVERSATIONS OF GERMAN REFUGEES”

The article is devoted to the comparative analysis of Goethe's novella from the cycle "Conversations of German Refugees" with the text of a love story about a beautiful shopkeeper of Marshal Bassompierre, used by the German author as a basis for his novella. The closeness of Goethe's text to the original is noted. The changes made by J.W. Goethe in the translation of Bassompierre's memoirs, which allowed him to preserve and emphasize the novelistic nature of the story told, are analyzed.

Lolita in the #MeToo era. New interpretations of Nabokov’s novel by contemporary female authors

The article is devoted to ‘Nabokov’s imprint’ on several contemporary novels (K. E. Russell’s My Dark Vanessa, Lin Yi-Han’s Fang Si-Chi’s First Love Paradise, and V. Springora’s Consent: A Memoir of Stolen Adolescence) that revisit the story of Lolita and relate it on behalf of the underage girl sexually abused by her teacher or tutor. The author explores the poetics of the novels and their emergence from feminist discourse and particularly the campaign against sexual harassment and rape culture that started in 2017 using the hashtag #MeToo. Detailed in P. Boyarkina’s study is the image of an unreliable narrator, brilliantly exploited by Nabokov, who teases his reader by letting them decide on the trustworthiness of the narrator’s story and where the author’s view ends and the narrator’s version begins. Modern novels tend to complicate things even further: the unreliable narrator successfully manipulates both the reader and the female protagonist who tells the story of love and abuse.

On the poetics of emotions and the world’s tenderness in V. Nabokov’s short story <i>Beneficence</i> [<i>Blagost</i>

The article analyses and interprets the short story Beneficence [Blagost] (1924), penned by V. Nabokov during his Berlin period of emigration. The author selected the short story for several reasons. Firstly, it appeals as an example of genre transformation of a love story and demonstrates the multidimensionality of the concept of love; secondly, the protagonist arouses interest as an empathetic narrator whose utterances reveal a complex structure; and thirdly, due to the ways in which the meaning of the title correlates with the decoded concept of the world’s tenderness. The writer’s strategy and the poetics of emotions uncover the core meaning of a reminiscence as a cognitive act and transformation of the hero’s consciousness, i. e., his understanding of love and happiness. The protagonist proceeds to discover happiness on a different plane of existence — in the relationship of ‘me and the world,’ in the harmony of the universe, and in the convergence of the micro- and macrocosms. Taking this into account, it appears that Nabokov’s portrayal of tenderness is endowed with a sacred meaning and reaches completion in the formula ‘me for the Other.’

Cultural and Religious Customs Representation of James Kirkpatrick in the Novel of White Mughals

Abstract: William Dalrymple is that rarity, a scholar of history who can really write. His White Mughals represent a full account of life and times of the 18th century court of Hyderabad. White Mughals is a historical love story of James Kirkpatrick and Khair un Nissa, she is the ‘Most Excellent Among Women’- in 1800, William Dalrymple’s James Achilles Kirkpatrick was a Lieutenant Colonel in The British Resident. Dalrymple represents Hyderabadi culture marriage ceremony, baptsim , way of eating and dinner in the court of Nizams of Hyderabad. The celebration of Hyderabadi religious festivals and customs in India shows the importance of Indian Hyderabadi culture

Code Switching Analysis as Found in Bunga Citra Lestari Youtube Channel

The objectives of this study are to determine the various types and functions of code switching. Poplack's (1980) theory defines three forms of code switching in evaluating the data: tag switching, inter-sentential switching, and intra-sentential switching. Moreover, the theory from Appel and Muysken (1987) distinguishes the six functions of code switching are: referential function, directive function, expressive function, phatic function, poetic function, and metalinguistic function. The data source was taken from Bunga Citra Lestari YouTube’s channel entitled Love Story #1 – BCL Sebelum dan Sesudah Ashraf was published on February 12th, 2021. The method that was used to collect the data is the qualitative method. This research found 79 data of code switching. In analyzing the data, intra-sentential switching is commonly used by the participants in the video which found 50 (63,3%) data. Meanwhile, the metalinguistic function is dominantly used which found 32 (40,50%) data for the functions of code switching utterances by the participants. The result of this analysis because both of the speakers, Daniel Mananta and Bunga Citra Lestari are a bilingual person and they often switch the language into other languages because their society also has an acceptable use of English terms.

Reminiscences of Kothas: Exploring Spatial Intimacies in Ruth Vanita’s Memory of Light

This paper aims to study the representation of same-sex desire in Ruth Vanita’s Memory of Light (2020) and analyze how the socio-spatial dynamics of the kotha helps to reconstruct female-to-female intimacy and convey a different idea of community and a sense of belonging in history. The novel, which traces the relationship between two courtesans, is also a recreation of the pre-modern Lucknow and its vibrant kothas with distinct architectural features. Beyond its overt function of entertaining the male patrons, the kothas as all-female establishments also served as a space of security and intimacy for women. The paper outlines the politics of situating same-sex desire in the historical backdrop of pre-colonial era. It uses concepts from Feminist Theory, Cultural Geography and Memory Studies, to examine the importance of kothas as a material and an ideological space, in facilitating discourses on gender variance, intimacy, and friendship that entered the cultural production of the time. In particular, the analysis intends to emphasize the frequent entanglement between the spatial features and women’s intimate practices as a distinct way of articulating same-sex desire that dissolves the binary understanding of hetero/homosexuality. Therefore, by insisting on the remembrance of kothas, the paper delineates how the ‘memory of places’ carves out two functions in the context of lesbian politics. On the one hand, it generates a ‘symbolic continuum’ to the history of women loving women to reframe postcolonial categorical understanding of ‘lesbian’ in contemporary times, and on the other, by infusing strategic use of metafictional elements, it emerges as a subversive mode of narrating stories of same-sex love while negotiating with the historical erasure of spaces of female-to female desire.

Problematics of Unrequited Love in the Modern Javanese Song “Klebus” by Ngatmombilung (Critical Discourse Analysis)

Love can be interpreted as a process that occurs in society, begins with a feeling of happiness, romance, and harmony. However, love can also end in heartbreak, disappointment, unrequited love, suffering, and so on. One of the sad endings to love experinced by many people, especially young people, is unrequited love. This study aim to analyze the problematic nature of unrequited love in the modern Javanese song titled “Klebus”, which was popularized by Ngatmombilung. The research method is descriptive-qualitative with the critical discourse analysis approach of Norman Fairclough to explore the meaning of songs critically and in depth. Data collection techniques include document studies, content analysis, and interviews. Data analysis techniques are carried out in three dimensions, namely textual dimensions, discursive practice dimensions, and sociocultural practical dimensions, to get appropriate conclusions. This study shows that in the song "Klebus", there is a representation of the problems of the love story of someone who is not avenged even though they struggled and gave their best. Young people who have an attitude of being too hopeful about the feelings of others can actually cause pain, disappointment, sadness, and suffering. In the end, letting go and accepting reality becomes the right choice.

Celebrating Love through the Qawwali Song 'Tu Mere Rubaru Hai' in the Film Maqbool: Creating a Love Story out of Bard’s Tragedy

The Current Research Paper is intended to explore the Qawwali song ‘Tu Mere Rubaru Hai’ of the film Maqbool. Qawwali as an art form has been enacted in various Bollywood films including Maqbool. This song has been used as a tool for creating a background to the love affair of the characters Maqbool and Nimmi and Guddu and Sameera. Maqbool is the hindi film or bollywood adaptation of Shakespearean Tragedy Macbeth, and like any other Bollywood film, it has different genres of songs, Qawwali being one of them. Using the Piercian model of the semiotics, the research paper intends to study the song as a signifier of the love story developing between the characters of the film Maqbool. The lyrics of the song has been translated to be used and analysed in establishing the intended meaning and use of the song in the film.

Pomiędzy bestsellerem a poetologią. O aurze dzieła, dyskrecji wobec czytelnika i tajemnicy formy na przykładzie noweli Siegfrieda Lenza Minuta ciszy (2008)

Siegfried Lenz’s novella (2008, English edition 2009) has not only been appreciated by literary critics, but also turned out to be a great bestseller. The novella is a frequent subject of research analysis, es- pecially in terms of its location in the tradition of German and world novella writing. This diversity of reception is astonishing and presents an interesting phenomenon. The novella tells a banal love story, but through an intentional silence and a series of intertextual tropes it also creates mysteriousness. The analysis proposed here is based on Walter Benjamin’s notion of “aura” in the 1930s. From today’s point of view, this concept requires a few additions, primarily from the perspective of systems theory. As it turns out this concept can be applied both to the content of the novella and to the strategy of literary criticism, as well as to explain the role of form and context in the personal perception of the text.

Analysis of Mistakes in Indonesian Language in The Community of Mekar Tanjung Village, Teluk Dalam District

The purpose of this study is to determine the style of language and describe the meaning of Fiersa Besari's songs through a Hermeneutic approach based on the theory of Frierdrich Ernst Daniel Schleirmacher with the theory of Grammatical Interpretation and Psychological Interpretation. This type of research method is descriptive qualitative. Data collection methods and techniques used in this study, namely library methods and field methods where the techniques used are recording techniques, listening techniques and note taking techniques. The data analysis technique focuses on how hermeneutics works in discussing the interpretation of meaning. The results of this study the author concludes that the lyrics of the song Fiersa Besari uses a variety of language styles such as metonymy, hyperbole, pleonasm, personification, metaphor, sarcasm, eroticism, assonation, polysindenton, epithet, satire, cynicism, and irony . The meanings contained in the lyrics of the song are: (1) about a long distance love story, (2) a devotional song to improve attitudes towards the Indonesian homeland, (3) an unrequited love story, (4) satire to the people and the Indonesian government. Language is associated with the identity of a nation. Communication is difficult between ethnic groups because the use of Indonesian orally is influenced by the dialect of each ethnic group. This study aims to determine errors in spoken Indonesian among the people of Mekar Tanjung Village, Teluk Dalam District in terms of phonological, morphological and syntactic interference. Qualitative research methods, data analysis techniques using interviews with three different sources. The results of the study explained that errors in spoken language in the aspect of phonological interference were found in 13 words, errors in spoken language in the aspect of morphological interference were found in 11 (four) words and errors in spoken language in the community of Mekar Tanjung Village, Teluk Dalam District in terms of syntactic interference aspects were found as many as 11 (eleven) phrases, 5 (five) sentences of errors in clauses and 10 (ten) sentences in sentences without a subject.

Analysis of Impact of the Holocaust on the Characters in Enermies, A Love Story from the Perspective of Trauma Theory

Holocaust literature has been widely concerned in the field of literature. Based on trauma theory, this article analyzes the impact of the Holocaust on the characters in Singer's Enemy, A Love Story. This study is mainly divided into three parts: trauma theory and overview of war trauma, trauma sources of characters, trauma symptoms of characters and trauma recovery status. The study found that the characters in the novel are generally traumatized by the Holocaust. They suffer from flashbacks of painful memories, hypervigilance and fear, but they are also repairing the trauma through their own efforts or the help of others. Further research is needed to explore the wider impact of the Holocaust on individuals and groups and the effectiveness of different strategies for repairing trauma.

Roads, Misogyny, and the Rape Culture in Joyce Carol Oates’ Rape: A Love Story and Cara Hoffman’s So Much Pretty

Roads, Misogyny, and the Rape Culture in Joyce Carol Oates’ Rape: A Love Story and Cara Hoffman’s So Much Pretty

URBAN MUSLIMS IN HIGHER EDUCATION: CAMPUS DA’WAH ACTIVISTS’ MASTER NARRATIVES ON POLYGAMY VIEWS

This research will examines the polygamy narratives of Campus Da'wah Activists during the rise of polygamy discourse in Indonesia. Campus Da'wah activists are part of the urban Muslims who have intellectual and social duties to preach religion within the scope of the campus level. This research is field research with the object of research being Campus Da'wah Activists on three major campuses in Yogyakarta, the research uses Master Narrative theory as a dissection of the narrative used. The findings in the study show that there are three groups of views on polygamy, namely pro-polygamy, conditional pro-polygamy, and counter-polygamy, while the main narratives that develop, the pro-polygamy group views the inequality of the ratio of men and women as unbalanced, the conditional pro-polygamy group emulates the story of Siti Sarah who is willing to be polygamous in an emergency, while the counter-polygamy group makes the love story of the Prophet Muhammad with Siti Khadijah which teaches marital fidelity. This research is expected to contribute to the narrative that is developing in the community towards polygamy, which is not only based on lust but also the guidance of Shari'a.

The Autism of Gxd: An Atheological Love Story. By Ruth Dunster

The Autism of Gxd: An Atheological Love Story. By Ruth Dunster

FRANKISSSTEIN: A LOVE STORY

Longlisted in 2019’s Booker Prize, Jeanette Winterson's 'Frankissstein: A Love Story' scrutinizes the political and ethical issues concerning the d/evolution of technology, especially in terms of the use of artificial intelligence in the creation and modification of new bodies. Toying with intertextuality through the veins of Frankenstein and interweaving the issues about gender, sexuality, and limits of individual freedom with today’s future tech obsession, Winterson invites her readers to reconsider their perceptions about what it means to be a human.

Analisis Nilai Karakter Peduli Lingkungan dan Peduli Sosial dalam Cerita Anak “Princess Cinderella”

Society's view of the story "Princess Cinderella" only includes cruel stepmother stories and love stories and is not suitable for children to read. However, there are elements that need to be examined and exposed more, namely the values of environmental care and social care in this story. The method used in this research is discourse study, with listening techniques and content analysis in data collection, and the analysis techniques are data reduction, data presentation, and verification. This study presents the results that the story "Princess Cinderella" contains environmental care character values and social care character values; and this story is suitable for children to read to develop the character values of caring for the environment and social care. In conclusion, the story "Prinsess Cinderella" deserves to be read by children with the assistance of their parents, so that the values of caring for the environment and social care can be conveyed properly.

Preface: The Narrative Identity of European Cities in Contemporary Literature

Preface: The Narrative Identity of European Cities in Contemporary Literature

Fairy Tale Motifs in the Slavic Universe of Marta Krajewska

Marta Krajewska’s series of novels forming the so-called Slavic universe (Idź i czekaj mrozów, 2016, Zaszyj oczy wilkom, 2017 Wezwijcie moje dzieci, 2021) is characterized by noticeable generic syncretism, with fairy tales playing an important role in the construction of the presented world. In her trilogy, the author draws on the most popular, universal fairy tale motifs recorded in international catalogues as well as in Polska bajka ludowa w układzie systematycznym (The Systematic Catalogue of the Polish Folk Tale) by Julian Krzyżanowski, using as the basis of her own story. Krajewska applies the plot patterns of these fairy tales (T. 400A “Urvasi”, T. 333 “Little Red Riding Hood”, T. 425 “The Quest for a Lost Husband”) in the construction of the fates of her protagonists; they also appear by way of folkloric quotes, present, for example, in dialogue replies of the characters. In the narratives of the novels, the writer also devotes a lot of space to the phenomenon of oral transmission of fairy tales, characteristic of folk tradition, and the function of this phenomenon in the life of the local community. However, the numerous references to folk tradition do not mean that Krajewska recreates the logic of selected motifs established in the folk tradition, with their characteristic intentionality and moral messages. The main novelty of the literary approach to traditional tales (especially the story of Little Red Riding Hood) lies in the author’s departure from the fairy tale’s warning role and in her focus on the ambivalence of fascination and horror evoked in the heroine by the figure of the wolf, which in the narrative structure initiates a complex love story with dramatic complications and frequent plot twists, leading, however, towards a happy ending.