Reading Novels Research Articles

Autofiction and the possibility of life in neoliberal ruins: reification, friction and the affective dominant in Weijers and Heti

ABSTRACT This essay analyses the intersection of the novel and neoliberalism as a relation of friction (Tsing). Whereas former studies of literature and neoliberalism imply models of resistance or complicity, the model of friction allows us to read novels as exploring possibilities of life and creativity within the worlds of neoliberal reification. We apply this model to contemporary autofiction: Kamers antikamers by Niña Weijers and How Should a Person Be? by Sheila Heti. Differing from idealist accounts of neoliberalism and a capitalist view of the subject as ‘entrepreneur of the self’, we engage a materialist approach that looks at the subject as a ‘gamer’ (Wark) whose affective and cognitive skills get reified into information. We conclude that both novels foreground the desire to find possibilities of life in affective attachments, which in their turn open up possibilities of difference and creativity in the context of neoliberal abstraction and alienation.

The Order of the Novel

Abstract: An essay exploring the time organization of novels. The idea of space and time when reading novels and how it can be interpreted is examined thoroughly. It further questions and investigates the notions of probabilities, entropy, superposition, and disorder, in conjunction with the functions and structure of novels. The analyzing of an interpretation of the reader’s view of the novel’s place in time allows for new perspectives and ideas to be formulated.

Ekranisasi Memoar Imperfect karya Meira Anastasia dan Film Imperfect

This research aims to describe how reductions, additions, and variations in changes in plot elements, setting, and characterization appear in the analysis The focus of this research is the memoir Imperfect, written by Meira Anastasia and published in 2018, as well as the film Imperfect: Career, Love and Scales, directed by Ernest Prakasa in 2019. This research is library research that uses qualitative descriptive methods. The data used in this research is all the content of the memoir and film. Meanwhile, the instruments used are the researchers themselves. The data collection technique was carried out by reading novels and watching films repeatedly, then identifying and classifying data related to the process of making films based on memoirs. Findings from this research include: (1) the subtraction aspect has 16 subtractions in the plot element, 1 subtraction in the setting element, and 7 subtractions in the characterization element of the memoir, (2) the addition aspect has 66 additions in the plot element, 7 additions in the setting element, and 25 additions in the characterization element of the film, (3) the variation change aspect has 12 changes in the plot element, 3 changes in the setting element, and 6 changes in the characterization element of the memoir.

Promoting Reflection on the Process of Recovery: Unique Contributions from Literature and the Humanities for Practitioner.

Recovery from serious mental illness requires persons to make their own meaning and deal with evolving challenges and possibilities. Psychiatric rehabilitation thus must offer more than manualized curricula that address symptoms and skills. We suggest that exposure to the humanities and in particular literature may offer practitioners unique avenues for developing interventions that are sensitive to the processes that enable meaning to be made. We suggest that through what the poet Keats called negative capability, reading novels may enhance practitioners? abilities to see and accept uncertainty, tolerate ambiguity without need for complete resolution, and accept the complex and ambiguous nature of persons. As an illustration we described how reading two novels, The Trial and Slaughterhouse-Five enhanced the process of meaning making while supporting the recovery of one prototypical person with serious mental illness during his efforts to make sense of his experience of returning to work.

A tyrannical societal something: Drawing lessons for twenty-first-century ‘privacy-protecting’ technology from long nineteenth-century literature

This paper demonstrates a novel, literature-based approach to the consideration and regulation of advanced computational and data systems, in particular artificial intelligence (AI). The paper contributes uniquely to the discourse of AI through its proposal that although we may think of AI as presenting a distinctly contemporary challenge, in fact, its roots can only be explored by starting with the discourses, narratives and social imaginaries of the long nineteenth century. To illustrate this, the paper looks at one of the most widely recognised cultural threats associated with big data and AI systems, namely the threat to privacy. It explores how the concept of privacy might be viewed, and ultimately managed, differently through the application of an historical and literary frame of reference, deploying a mixed-methods close and distant reading of novels in English and German. For this, we focus on two specific literary exempla, each of which illustrates the function of privacy in society. This close reading is complemented with exploration of experimental data generated by using a modern privacy dictionary to query a large corpus of nineteenth-century novels and a modern test corpus comprised of policy discussions targeting privacy issues related to the rise of big data and AI.

Realism and Interface: Reading Ruth Ozeki Apocalyptically

Abstract: In its narrowness and adherence to temporal bounds, the form of the novel often struggles to represent the climate crisis accurately. I propose a technique of reading novels through the apocalyptic as an alternative to accuracy, realism, and verifiability. Ruth Ozeki’s novel A Tale for the Time Being shows what we gain from this technique, inviting questions about the role of fiction in representing disaster and the unique temporal warping that climate change engenders. I use media theory and ecocriticism as lenses through which to study metafiction, establishing a theory of realism/realistic-ness as a form of interface or relation.

Reading novels and meaning in education to address disconnection and isolation

Reading novels and meaning in education to address disconnection and isolation

Writing as Resilience: Holocaust Trauma in Select Novels of Elie Wiesel

“Most Consciences are satisfied quickly enough, and need only a few words in order to reach a definitive opinion of the unknowable” (111, Edkins, Trauma and the Memory of Politics). Most trauma writings are considered as spring boards for furthering academic mileage or presenting a paper to inflate the curriculum vitae or credentials that fetch some perks. As a student of literature I always had a skeptical take on the confessional poetry of Kamala Dass which was otherwise categorized as erotic, revealing kind of writing and mostly not regarded as something important. But after reading novels on Armenian genocide, holocaust and world war , it became evident that people write about their trauma: collective, personal or social in order to inform, support and to convey a stronger message that writing is a way of displaying their solidarity and courage. To put in in William Faulkner’s terms, these writers prefer writing as resilience to reiterate that the past is not dead, infact it is not even past. Only a few care to read between the lines and it is important to learn why people write on trauma: personal, collective or generational which technically lie outside the boundaries of experience, unfathomable but welling up waves of perennial pain and horror that need to be vented but no specific ways or means can ever drain it out. By the time one finishes to understand the definition of trauma painted by the linguistic or symbolic yardsticks, it feels like mind draining activity. This paper tries to unravel the rationale of writing trauma and the reverberations of trauma through the select works of Elie Wiesel.

The Neural Basis of Our Responses to Reading Novels: On Being Moved, the Motion in Emotion

Telling tales and reading have been a part of human activity for a very long time. We review in brief the anthropological evidence, then the emergence of the 'modern novel'. This explores in narratives the psychological reflections of the characters concerned with life circumstances including loss, abandonment, despair, illness, dying, and death. We report findings that the response of crying to a novel occurs as often as to music, not reported before: both 'move us'. We note what several critics and authors imply about the imagined world of 'novel space' which emphasizes the active not passive nature of reading dramatic action, the latter being embedded and embodied within us. This touches on the mind–brain problem. We provide a brief introduction to neuroscientific work with brain imaging revealing how cerebral networks to do with theory of mind and brain structures that are the basis of our movements are involved with the very act of reading words and narratives. Emotional tearing is an exclusive attribute of Homo sapiens, and crying can have positive benefits for mental health. We argue that bibliotherapy needs greater attention than has been the case at present. We also suggest that telling tales and the 'modern novel' are closely allied to the development of the consciousness of Homo sapiens.

Nilai-Nilai Pendidikan Karakter pada Novel “Edensor” (Novel Ketiga dari Tetralogi Laskar Pelangi) Karya Andrea Hirata

This study aims to describe the 9 pillars of character education values contained in the novel “Edensor” by Andrea Hirata. A number of steps to analyze this research are (1) reading novels, (2) trying to understand, (3) analyzing novel stories can be known, (4) making discussions, (5) drawing conclusions. The results of this study show that the 9 pillars of character education values contained in the novel “Edensor” (1) amounted to 18 citations at the elementary school, (2) amounted to 9 citations at the junior high school, (3) amounted to 15 citations at the high school, and (4) amounted to 46 citations at the college. This study concluded that after being tested by analyzing the novel “Edensor”, it is hoped that this scientific work will be able to provide accurate and relevant information about the value of character education contained in this novel.

“A Hundred Different Ways of Being in Love”: Emma, Queer Austen, and Asexuality Studies

In ACE: What Asexuality Reveals about Desire, Society, and the Meaning of Sex (2020), Angela Chen writes, “Aces draw attention to sexual assumptions and sexual scripts—around definition, feeling, action—that are often hidden and interrogate the ways that these norms make our lives smaller. Aces have developed a new lens that prioritizes what is just over what is supposedly natural.” This cowritten essay argues that asexuality studies offers a helpful framework for scholars of Jane Austen. In particular, with our reading of Austen’s Emma (1815), we suggest that asexuality studies dials us into Austen’s metacritical moments about the genre of romance and the expectations generated by the marriage plot. This essay aims to start a discussion on what it would mean to read novels with a kind of attention and reading practice that asexuality studies has begun to carve out.

DIDACTIC STUDY OF POPULAR NOVELS AS TEACHING MATERIALS FOR LITERATURE LEARNING

Life problems that plague young people today such as behavioral deviations, bullying, drugs, murder, brawls that lead to death are urgent problems and are the center of attention. Addressing this problem needs to be realized through students' interest and motivation as fans of literary works, one of which is increasing interest in reading novels. Novels as literary works are conditioned by life values. The description of the characters in a novel sticks and becomes a role model for the readers. Popular novels are novels that are in great demand by many people. Based on the attractiveness of popular novels, researchers study popular novels based on didactic studies as teaching materials in literature learning. There are seven popular novels studied including the novel Negeri 5 Menara by Ahmad Fuadi, the novel Rain by Tere Liye, the novel Dikta and Hukum, the novel Conspiracy of the Universe by Fiersa Besari, the novel entitled Little Letters to God by Agnes Davonar, the novel Khan Full of Love by Niamaharani, and the novel Mariposa by Luluk HF. The aim of this study is to determine the knowledge and moral values ​​that can shape the character of readers through didactic studies, and to create teaching materials for literary learning based on didactic studies. The determined didactic study is based on the technique of revealing the content of the novel. The research method uses descriptive qualitative. Researchers read the novel then marked the content of the novel based on didactic parameters and analyzed it. The results of this research produced novel teaching materials based on didactic aspects in literature learning

MANIFEST O ČITANJU I POTREBA ZA PRIHVATANJEM: ROMANI JASMINKE PETROVIĆ U PROGRAMIMA ZA RAZREDNU NASTAVU KNJIŽEVNOSTI

Two novels written by Jasminka Petrović are a part of the literature teaching curriculum in elementary school. The first novel, Reading Makes you Grow (Od čitanja se raste) for the 3rd grade, was introduced to the teaching curriculum in 2018, while the latter, On a Button and Happiness (O dugmetu i sreći) for the 4th grade, was added to it a year later. Even though both were relatively new to the teaching curriculum, they were gladly accepted and read by elementary school students. There are two reasons these novels by Jasminka Petrović were added to the literature curriculum. First, she is a contemporary writer, and the curriculum should include newcomer authors whose work is of aesthetic value and appeals to the sensibility of today’s children. Second, the reading pieces inside the literature program have a special purpose: to implement and preserve certain collective values, to foster love toward reading, to develop a sense of beauty, worth, and taste. It is also important to note that literature helps children cultivate empathy, and these two novels are doing exactly that – they are one-of-a-kind reading manifestos and invite the readers to understand and accept the differences among children. This work will deal with these two integral ideas of the novels, while analyzing the methodical apparatus inside the reading novels will better explain how the themes in Jasminka Petrović’s work are formed.

Is There Another System?

One of the easiest tests to determine if you are at risk is to look hard at what you do every day and see if you, yourself, could code yourself out of a job. Programming involves a lot of rote work: templating, boilerplate, and the like. If you can see a way to write a system to replace yourself, either do it, don't tell your bosses, and collect your salary while reading novels in your cubicle, or look for something more challenging to work on.

The Effect of Writing Novel Reviews on English Education Students' Writing Ability

Writing is considered one of the most complex skills because writing is a creative process that must always be practiced to produce good written works; one way to practice this skill is by writing novel reviews. Although many studies have explored the correlation between reading novels and improving writing ability, limited attention has been directed to examining the impact of writing novel reviews on students' writing ability. This study seeks to fill this gap by investigating the effect of creating novel reviews on students' writing ability and describing the specific aspects of writing that experience development after engaging in this practice. This study used a qualitative approach that involved interviews with 15 respondents enrolled in the English Education program at the fifth-semester level in three different classes. Analysis of the data collected showed a noticeable impact on students' writing skills stemming from their involvement in reviewing novels. There was a significant increase in their vocabulary knowledge, indicating a real impact on linguistic proficiency due to writing novel reviews. This study contributes to shedding light on the unexplored relationship between novel review writing and the improvement of students' writing competence, shedding light on the unexplored aspects of novel review writing

An Analysis of Speech Act in the Animation Movie: Coco

Linguistic aspects are very important in English. When linguistics became a linguistic science, people studied it in several branches of linguistics, including phonetics, phonology, morphology, semantics, sociolinguistics, and Practical. Speech act is one of the important components of pragmatics because speech act is a branch of pragmatics, related to all types of utterances made by speakers and its meaning depends on the point of view of the speaker. speaker and interlocutor. Speech acts are divided into three types: speech, speech, and speech. As technology advances, more media can support the learning process making it more enjoyable. Like learning by reading novels, watching movies and even listening to songs. This search is an analytical speech act introduced by Searle in Cartoons: Coco. The problem of this research is: what types of speech acts are proposed by the main characters in cartoons: Coco and what is the most dominant speech act among the main characters in cartoons: Coco. This study employed a descriptive qualitative methodology. With the qualitative descriptive method, information is gathered via the use of words and images rather than figures. Interviews, field notes, photos, videotapes, private documents, notes or memos, and other documents can all provide data. The author of this research does a case study, provides a basic description, and goes over the language. Because the study's focus is on natural events or symptoms, the author employs this kind of qualitative research in it. The author of this paper will examine Coco, the cartoon's primary character, through an analysis of her verbal acts. Results of the study is: to explore the type of speech act that the main character proposes in the cartoon: Coco and to find out which speech act is most dominant among the main characters in an animated film: Coco. In this study, the author only focuses on studying one type of linguistic behavior, which is linguistic behavior.

The Expression of Sound Art in Piano Performance

For piano performers, they should apply extensive literary cultivation, conduct in-depth research and understanding of musical works, and then play touching melodies through reasonable playing methods, allowing both the audience and the performer to experience pleasure and generate some associations and imagination, thus realizing the emotions and philosophies that the composer wants to express in music, and achieving the goal of cultivating sentiment. n this essay an attempt has been made to consider the English novel historically. Its principle aim, however, is to help us, English majors, to become more aware of the variety of the novel as a form of literature, of the pleasure it has to offer, and of the interpretative skills which a careful reading of novels may help to develop. Through the general recognition of novels, especially British novels, English majors may have a systematical study, which will make their study more effectively.

Social reproduction, struggle and the ecology of ‘women's work’ in world-literature

Building on the insights of feminist scholars such as Maria Mies, Wilma Dunaway and Harriet Friedmann that ‘women's work’ in the realm of social reproduction, particularly in the (semi-)peripheries of the world-ecology, often draws heavily upon natural resources and is thus preponderantly affected by forms of resource depletion and environmental crisis including water scarcity, land degradation, pollution and toxification, this article argues for an approach to world-literary criticism that incorporates the insights of social reproduction feminism in order to interpret how literature of the capitalist world-ecology mediates social reproduction. I contend that world-literary criticism can help illuminate the socio-ecology of gendered forms of labour, by analysing how bodily dispositions, subjectivities and habituses corresponding to gendered divisions at household and systemic scales are mediated in specific literary aesthetics, and recuperating the utopian prospects of how texts imagine forms of struggle as arising from the contradictions immanent to capital's dependence on the unpaid work of both nature and social reproduction. In particular, reading novels by Kamala Markandaya, Ousmane Sembène and Latife Tekin, I explore three different world-literary depictions of types of environment-making labour that have been gendered as ‘women's work’ – foodgetting, water-carrying and waste-picking – in order to examine how novels imagine the terrain of social reproduction both as a site of appropriation, violence and crisis, and as the potential ground for organised resistance.

소통의 관점에서 공동체 문제 인식과 참여를 위한 소설 읽기 교육

This study proposes reading Lee Cheong-jun’s Your Heaven from the perspective of communication as a way of reading novels to learn the meaning and requirements of communication, which are crucial in forming a desirable community for learners.
 From the perspective of literary education, this text approaches the problem of communication through conflict between characters, allowing us to recognize the meaning and importance of communication. Furthermore, from the standpoint of communication, it is possible to deal with the issues of silence; the absence of communication, the recognition of differences between oneself and others, and the acceptance of existence as an individual. Additionally, it can serve as a learning tool to approach and understand the concepts of freedom and love presented as a practice to solve communication problems and move forward as a single community.
 The exploration of the problematic approaches, requirements, and practices of communication revealed in Your Heaven can move toward recognizing the meaning and importance of communication today and exploring the requirements for forming a desirable community based on this. Accordingly, the educational plan for reading Your Heaven from the perspective of communication proposed in this article consists in helping learners develop an attitude of participating in the community as its members by understanding and internalizing the requirements for true communication and solidarity.

Mitigating emotional risks in human-social robot interactions through virtual interactive environment indication

Humans often unconsciously perceive social robots involved in their lives as partners rather than mere tools, imbuing them with qualities of companionship. This anthropomorphization can lead to a spectrum of emotional risks, such as deception, disappointment, and reverse manipulation, that existing approaches struggle to address effectively. In this paper, we argue that a Virtual Interactive Environment (VIE) exists between humans and social robots, which plays a crucial role and demands necessary consideration and clarification in order to mitigate potential emotional risks. By analyzing the relational nature of human-social robot interaction, we discuss the connotation of such a virtual interactive environment that is similar to the emotional states aroused when reading novels. Building on this comprehension, we further demonstrate that manufacturers should carry out comprehensive Virtual Interactive Environment Indication (VIEI) measures during human-social robot interaction with a stricter sense of responsibility when applying social robots. Finally, we contemplate the potential contributions of virtual interactive environment indication to existing robot ethics guidelines.