Series Of Novels Research Articles

Harry Potter, un mythe complotiste adolescent

The Harry Potter series of novels (1997-2007) by J. K. Rowling features a teenage protagonist who is pursued by a group of conspiring wizards who want to kill him and seize power. But Harry himself is a member of a secret society that resorts to conspiracy. And another reading might see in Harry a young man who shares many traits with certain contemporary adolescents, particularly the search for self, narcissistic flaws and interest in fictional plots. This article examines the articulations and issues of these different forms of conspiracy in J. K. Rowling’s successful work. On the basis of the (socio-)anthropological and psychoanalytical representations that inform it, it shows that the imagination of conspiracy that fuels the journey of Harry Potter gives it a mythical dimension that allows its many readers to achieve self-learning.

INTEGRATION OF NAMES INTO TEXT IN LÁSZLÓ VÉGEL’S NOVEL TRILOGY

The study examines literary naming, the use of geographical and personal names , and their characteristic vehemency in László Végel’s three-volume series of novels (Neoplanta, avagy az Ígéret Földje (Neoplanta, or the Promise Land), Bűnhődés (Atonement) and Balkáni szépség, avagy Slemil fattyúja (Balkan Beauty or the Bastard of Slemil)). In his urban novel and its sequences, Végel places the action in a multi-ethnic, multi-confessional city, and tells its story from the perspective of the people living there, through their life stories. With the onomastic corpus of the texts, he creates the socio-national background, points out the connection between politics and naming, and the problem of the relationship between identity and personal name. The set of names of the novels originate from a network of real and fictitious names: the streets and institution names to be found at the novel’s scene that have changed throughout history several times, as well as the place- and era-creating character of the real names of historical figures embedded into the text, denotative and connotative meanings attached to the fictitious names (personal, interlocutor and metaphorical names), associations, intertextual aspects provide the opportunity for a new interpretation of the novel.

The Creative Concept and Practical Expression of “Mythorealism”——Taking Yan Lianke’s Series of Novels “PaLou” as an Example

Yan Lianke is one of the most influential writers in contemporary Chinese literature. In recent years, Yan Lianke’s creative concept of “Mythorealism” has attracted the attention of many scholars. The creative concept of “Mythorealism” advocates abandoning rigid logic and pursuing “non-existent truth, invisible truth, and truth concealed by truth” in order to achieve true social reality. Its “Palou series” novels, rooted in the PaLou Mountains of Henan, particularly demonstrate Yan Lianke’s exploration of his “Mythorealism” creative philosophy, and are also a powerful practical expression of Yan Lianke’s “Mythorealism” literary view. This article attempts to analyze the literary content and creative techniques of Yan Lianke’s “Palou” series of novels from the perspective of “Mythorealism”, and explore the value and limitations of novel creation under the guidance of the “Mythorealism” creative concept. This content has accumulated useful experience for Chinese realism creation and has positive significance for re-examining Yan Lianke and contemporary Chinese realism creation.

Synthesis of Novel Indolyl Aryl Sulfone-clubbed Hydrazone Derivatives as Potential HIV-1 Non-Nucleoside Reverse Transcriptase Inhibitors: Molecular Modeling and QSAR Studies.

Non-Nucleoside Reverse Transcriptases Inhibitors (NNRTIs) are among the most extensively studied enzymes for understanding the biology of Human Immunodeficiency Viruses (HIV) and designing inhibitors for managing HIV infections. Indolyl aryl sulfones (IASs), an underexplored class of potent NNRTIs, require further exploration for the development of newer drugs for HIV. In this context, we synthesized a series of novels by Indolyl Aryl Sulfones with a hydrazone moiety at the carboxylate site of the indole nucleus. A 2D-QSAR model was developed to predict Reverse Transcriptase inhibitory activity against wild-type RT (WT-RT) enzyme. The model was successfully applied to predict the HIV-1 inhibitory activity of known Indolyl Aryl Sulfones. Considering the reliability, robustness, and reproducibility of the 2D-QSAR model, we made an in-silico prediction of the RT inhibition for our synthesized compounds (1-14). Molecular docking and dynamics simulations established our synthesized Indolyl Aryl Sulfones, particularly compounds 23, 24, and 28, as effective NNRTIs by stabilizing HIV reverse transcriptase's structure. Binding energy calculations revealed compound 28 as the strongest inhibitor (-43.21 ± 0.09 kcal/mol), followed by 23 (-40.94 ± 0.10 kcal/mol) and 24 (-39.18±0.08 kcal/mol), emphasizing their binding affinity towards HIV reverse transcriptase. In summary, the synthesized Indolyl Aryl Sulfones, particularly compounds 23, 24, and 28, demonstrate significant potential as Non-Nucleoside Reverse Transcriptase Inhibitors (NNRTIs) against HIV. These results highlight the promising role of these compounds in developing novel NNRTIs for managing HIV infections.

The Role of Severus Snape in The Harry Potter Series by J. K. Rowling: Deconstruction Perspective

This paper aims to find out the real role of Severus Snape in the Harry Potter book series by J. K. Rowling. This research is also intended to describe Severus Snape's efforts in defeating Lord Voldemort as well as to figure out the characterization and description of the actions taken by Snape; the writer uses a deconstruction analysis proposed by Jacques Derrida. The image of Severus Snape's character and the relationship between the character's image and the forms of deconstruction are identified by the deconstruction analysis. The method used in this research is the descriptive qualitative method. This research tried to examine the elements of deconstruction of the character Severus Snape in the Harry Potter series of novels, interpreting the new meanings contained implicitly in the novels. The results of the research showed that Severus Snape is described as a character who is rude, arrogant, and cruel. Through the perspective of deconstruction, it was found that Snape has characteristics that are paradoxical to what appears on the surface. He is a caring, helpful, and brave character. In addition, it was found that nine actions of Severus Snape were intended to protect Harry Potter and to defeat Lord Voldemort. The results of the analysis suggested that Severus Snape has a significant role in moving the story. Through his role in the story, Harry Potter can defeat the antagonist or villain in the Harry Potter Series.

THE TRANSLATION OF S. KING’S “DARK TOWER” NOVEL SERIES AND R. BROWNING’S POEM “CHILDE ROLAND TO THE DARK TOWER CAME”: A COMPARATIVE ASPECT

This article analyzes the formation of the diversity of the genre of the series of novels “The Dark Tower” by Stephen King, as well as the clips of Robert Browning’s poem in the predominant image of the Tower of Roland and the connection with these genre transformations. In the course of the study, the authors analyze the series of novels “The Dark Tower” and the poem “Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came”, in particular, the features of the genres, the compositional and stylistic features inherent in these works. When demonstrating the characteristic features of R. Browning’s and S. King’s creative work, it was found that romanticized fantasy per se includes many genre features that differ from the manifestations of horror and classic fiction: fantasy is a genre in the style of high fantasy and concealment, a fairy tale. At the same time, dark fantasy, although it includes most of the traditional fantasy surroundings, is characterized not so much by the interrelationship between its fantasy elements and the narrative, but rather by the connection between the gothic and the horror types of fiction; there is much less science fiction in dark fantasy than in high fantasy. At the discussion stage, it was determined that the best method for translating the lead when working with two multi-genre works is the comparative method, which is based on a simple principle: “What is it like?” As a result, we came to the conclusion that, on the one hand, the use of a methodological method leads to the fact that in the process of text analysis it is necessary to limit the framework to the conventions of the functional style, the genre uniqueness of the analyzed ones, preserving their artistic orientation and the idiostyle of the author. On the other hand, in this way we get the opportunity to carry out parallel search and optimization of data for its synthesis and translation into the exchange part.

The Image of Mother in the fantasy novel "A Game of Thrones" by G. Martin.

The image of the mother is a constant of the world culture, and therefore it can be found in almost any national literature. The research material of this study is the work of the American fantasy writer George Martin. The object of the study is the image of the mother in the novel “A Game of Thrones” from the cycle “A Song of Ice and Fire”. This series of novels has been positively reviewed by critics and warmly received by readers. In this study, the author refers to the image of the mother and conducts a practical analysis of the female characters represented in the novel. Three protagonists representing the above mentioned image of mother were analyzed. The novelist aims to create diverse characters who possess unique personalities. At the same time, each specific protagonist has ambivalence and duality. The primary method of research is a comparative analysis of the heroines selected by the author in order to identify the fundamental characteristics of the image of the mother in the work of George Martin. The principal conclusions of the study are: the presence of a specific writer’s approach to the process of a mother image creation in a fantasy narrative, explained by his desire to create multifaceted characters with unique personalities, as well as the ambivalence and duality of one image in each particular protagonist. These conclusions make it possible to further conduct a more extensive study in order to investigate into other literary images presented in the works of the American writer, since fantasy, as a literary phenomenon, is experiencing increasing scientific interest. The scientific novelty is explained by a sufficient lack of conducted scientific research on the image of the mother in fantasy works, in particular, in the works of George Martin.

The Reflection of Myth in Rick Riordan’s Percy Jackson Series and Amish Tripathi’s Shiva Trilogy

Mythology is considered as a pillar of literature. In recent years it has regained its former glory of playing a pivotal role in the field of literature. Mythology and fiction have worked hand-in-hand to create some of the master pieces that of the past. Two such mythological works of the contemporary era are focused to correlate the world of reality and mythology and also to discover the reflection of myth in literature. Mythological works like Odyssey is recounted more as a historical fiction rather than fiction alone. In recent times, a series of novels focusing on the Greek mythology has been published and has achieved great appreciation from audience of all ages; Rick Riordan’s Percy Jackson series portrays the life of a teenage boy who is a half-blood, half-god and half-human. Percy Jackson is a normal boy who spends his day being bullied and alone but soon he discovers that he is the son of an ancient god from the Greek myth, this is the plot of the first book from the series of novel and from there the story goes on to elaborate on the protagonist’s various endeavors interconnecting both the mythical world and the world as one see. Rick Riordan, an American author is best known for his work, the Percy Jackson series. The author has also taken the effort to portray the Greek Gods in a more sophisticated manner which blurs the line between them being gods or humans. The paper focuses on the inter-relation of the mythical world and the reality from the perspective of the Rick Riordan’s Percy Jackson series and Amish Tripathi’s, The Shiva trilogy. Amish Tripathi is an upcoming prolific writer who has gained recognition for his debut novel. God Shiva of the Hindu mythology and unlike the actual myth the whole of novel is from a new and thought-provoking perspective of the writer. The main aim of the paper is to stress on the idea of how the contemporary authors utilize the age-old myth to weave a story that inter-mingles with myth and modern world.

A Cinderella story: fashion, foot worship and foot moralism in Sweden, 1850–1900

ABSTRACT The article discusses the female beauty ideal of the small foot in the Swedish press during the second half of the nineteenth century, as an object for the male gaze in fiction, as an actual fashion ideal, and as a prescribed beauty practice for women. It consists of three parts, analysing different subgenres within the press. First, I show how a male notion of the beauty and erotic attractiveness of the small foot was constructed in short stories and serial novels published in the daily and weekly press. Next, I show how this ideal was visually represented for its realization in every-day life in figures in fashion journals. Both genres presented an ideal unattainable for most women. Third, I discuss articles in dailies and weeklies giving advice on how to take care of feet, warning against ambitions to make the foot look small. Taken together, representations of female feet in the Swedish press involved a construction of the foot that also constructed women as perpetually failing in relation to the existing beauty ideal, making it part of a discursive misogynist practice, according to which women was supposed to invest in their appearance, and were derided and ridiculed when they did.

Переклад дієслів, що вводять пряму мову, у британській літературі (на прикладі серії романів Дж. Страуда «Агенція «Локвуд і Ко»)

The peculiarities of the Ukrainian translation of verbs that introduce direct speech in the texts of works of British fiction are clarified in the article. The texts of the Ukrainian translations of Jonathan Stroud’s «Lockwood & Co.» series of novels are analyzed by the author. It was found out that the problem of semantic and stylistic interpretation of direct speech and the selection of verbs that introduce direct speech when translating English works of fiction into Ukrainian is a constantly relevant one and causes active discussions among translation experts, linguists and critics. In particular, there are significant differences in the opinions of scientists regarding the expediency and legality of using lexical substitutions to specify verbs when translating into Ukrainian. While some researchers believe that translators do not sufficiently use the synonymous variety of the Ukrainian language in order to diversify it and emphasize the artistic text, other translation experts and critics are convinced that such translation substitutions are unacceptable changes to the original artistic text and demonstrate an incorrect the translator’s approach to their work. Thus, translation techniques, which some scholars consider to be successful and creative tools that help to align the original text with the norms of Ukrainian stylistics, others consider to be a serious violation and unlawful distortion of the original author’s artistic work. It has been proved that the second approach is typical for researchers from Western countries, which is largely caused by the peculiarities of cultures and, as a result, is reflected in the norms of western European languages.

Restructuring with Anthony Trollope: Managing Change in Chronicle Provincial Fiction

This article examines the series of novels by Anthony Trollope, known as the Barsetshire Chronicles, in relation to the idea of living through infrastructural transition. It contends that the novels, set in and around the fictional cathedral city of Barchester, stage a macro-level experience of living through infrastructural transition for implied readers. While the narrator’s asides convey a sense of privileged early access to the informational flows of the modern state, characters are depicted as disconnected from the wide sweep of transition and, in effect, replaceable over the diachronic span of the narrative sequence. The article draws a parallel between the innovative forms of the serial provincial novel and Trollope’s work for the Post Office — the foundational infrastructure of the fantasy of liberal government of a state of freedom in which individuals can encounter and gain knowledge of distant others to ensure the steady flow of capital and information. The article suggests an overlooked aspect of the Barchester novels is the backdrop of a profound transition of civic infrastructures and ethics of care from the local pastoral and temporal workings of the Established Church of England to the workings of the centralized utilitarian liberal state via the 1834 Poor Law and the work of the Ecclesiastical Commissioners. The Barchester novels in this sense dramatize the ‘death of the parish’ as a meaningful unit of local autonomy.

A Symptomatic Reading on Meyer’s Twilight Series: Some Vicarious Lessons Overview

This paper analyzes the problems or conflicts related to the character of Bella Swan who colors the plot in the Twilight series written by Stephenie Meyer, a popular literary romance genre with a vampire theme, a New York Times Best Seller, that consists of four (4) series, namely Twilight, New Moon, Eclipse, and Breaking Dawn. The author uses the Symptomatic Reading theory based on several expert opinions and basic theories about romance and fantasy, as well as several other expert opinions about this work. Written from the perspective of the main character, Bella, the four Twilight series explicitly and implicitly show some of the problems or conflicts that Bella experienced as a young girl approaching adulthood. The conflicts she experiences stem from his family, herself, and her love life. By analyzing this series of novels, the author not only presents the differences between ideological matters and the facts or reality of the main character's problems, but also raises a new understanding or perhaps more precisely an acknowledgment of the realities that underlie family circumstances, choices and desires of an individual like Bella. Through this analysis, some values or discussions can be drawn and overviewed and can be taken into consideration for the teaching and learning in literature classes, or for the general readers and movie goers in general; bearing in mind that popular literature is no longer a topic to be taken lightly, but must be criticized and benefited from in this era of media and technology, which, in turn, greatly influences the popular culture itself. Thus, it is hoped as well that there will be a balance in knowledge and decision-making in discussions about popular literature.

Margaret Atwood as a Feminist

Abstract: Margaret Atwood was born in 1939 in Ottawa, Ontario. When she was seven years old, her family moved to Toronto. Her father, an entomologist and professor of zoology, studied tree-dwelling insects. Atwood's passion for Canada's wilderness is present in most of her writings. Atwood is famous for the outspoken feminism in her books. From her first novel, The Edible Woman, to the dark masterpiece, The Handmaid's Tale (1985), which cemented her international reputation, Atwood demonstrated deeply concerned with the constraints society places on women and the facades they adopt in response. . The Handmaid's Tale, which Atwood refuses to call "science fiction", depicts a society in which women are stripped of all rights except those to marry, run a household, and reproduce. After The Handmaid's Tale made Atwood an international celebrity, she wrote a series of novels dealing with relationships between women, including Cat's Eye (1988) and The Robber Bride (1993). In 1992, she published Good Bones, short, witty articles about women's body parts and the limitations that have been placed on them throughout history. Atwood explores the historical role of women in other works including her famous poetry collections, the Journals of Susanna Moodie (1970) and her novel Alias Grace (1996). Both recreate the lives of famous feminism women in Canadian history.

Dialectics of Letters and Images: The Place of Literature and Art through Illustrations and Labelling of Serial Novels and Web Novels in the Modern Period

Dialectics of Letters and Images: The Place of Literature and Art through Illustrations and Labelling of Serial Novels and Web Novels in the Modern Period

Rethinking the History of Turkish Children's Literature: Serial Novels for Children in Ottoman Magazines and Newspapers

II. Meşrutiyet öncesi çocuklar için yayımlanan dergi ve gazetelerde çocuk edebiyatı kapsamına giren birçok edebî esere rastlanabilir. Şiir, hikâye, bilmece, mektup gibi türlerin yanı sıra tefrika formuyla romanlar da bu yayınlarda yer bulmuştur. Tefrika geleneğinin uzun zaman gazete ve dergilerde yetişkinler için olduğu kadar çocuklar için de önemli bir edebiyat hamlesi olduğu görülmektedir. Dolayısıyla bu yayınlardaki artış, okurun ilgisiyle ilişkilidir. Bununla birlikte Türk çocuk edebiyatı yazınında çoğu zaman çocuk romanı yazma eğiliminin Cumhuriyet sonrası başladığı ifade edilmektedir. Oysa çocuklar için yayımlanan bu gazete ve dergilerde neredeyse unutulmuş, çocuk edebiyatı açısından değerlendirmesi yapılmamış pek çok eser olduğu görülmektedir. Bu eserlerin içinde özellikle Faik Sabri’nin Jules Verne’den etkilenerek yazdığı macera romanları dikkat çekmektedir. Çocuk romanının II. Meşrutiyet öncesi yazılmaya başladığı iddiası bu araştırmanın hipotezini oluşturmaktadır. Bu araştırma, çocuklar için yayımlanan gazete ve dergilerdeki tefrikaların çocuk edebiyatı açısından uygunluğunu tartışmaya açmaktadır. Henüz birçoğunun çeviri yazısı yapılmamış bu eserlerin çocuk edebiyatına uygunluk ilkeleri yönünden değerlendirilmesi, uygun bulunanların çeviri yazısının yapılarak günümüz Türkçesiyle çocuklara ulaştırılması bu araştırmanın beklenen etkisidir. Böylece II. Meşrutiyet öncesi sanılandan çok daha fazla edebî ürün olduğu, Türk çocuk edebiyatının sanılandan daha erken bir dönemde geniş bir ürün yelpazesine sahip olduğu ispatlanmış olacaktır. Bu çocuklar için yazılmış tefrika romanların tanıtımı ve çocuk edebiyatı açısından değerlendirmesi bu çalışma kapsamında yapılmaktadır.

"...ładnej dziewczynie łatwo się wybacza brak rozsądku" – postaci kobiece w serii o Panu Samochodziku

The aim of the article is an analysis of female characters who appear in the series of novels about Pan Samochodzik (Mr. Automobile) by Zbigniew Nienacki as well as the interpretation of the narrator’s perception of women in the context of fashion and social trends in the 1960s and1970s in Poland. The author pays attention to gender roles that are attributed to both sexes, but especially to female roles. The analyses are focused, in turn, on the perception of a woman through senses (the descriptions of a body, clothes, hairstyles), the special role of girls, the “female” space, and, finally, the issue of gender equality.

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.

‘Something else’?: international co-production, postcolonial crime fiction and the representation of sexual orientation in The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency TV series

The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency is both a successful series of novels and a television series which ran for one series on the BBC in 2008. While the books have been criticised on a number of aspects, including its representation of Botswana, the television series has received very little academic attention at all. The television series was an international co-production between the United States, United Kingdom and South Africa, using a mix of American and South African actors in regular and recurring roles with British guest artists and production team despite being shot in Botswana. While the main features of the adaptation were primarily related to a reordering of vignettes from the books into the series, the television series added in a new character, the camp, gay hairdresser BK. At the time the series was airing, same-sex sexual activity was illegal in Botswana though that has since been changed. As such, this paper will discuss the addition of this liminal character into the series through close reading of the text and paratexts (including industrial context). Ultimately the paper will contextualise the addition with regard to both national and sexual identity and debates surrounding African queer identities.

Beyond Skin-Deep: The Relationship between Beauty Ideals and Identity Crisis in Scott Westerfeld's Uglies

Uglies (2005) is the first in Scott Westerfeld's Uglies series of novels. It is a literary work with a futuristic scenario thaP depicts a dystopian world in which people are preoccupied with unnatural standards of beauty. In a realm where science and fiction intertwine, the themes of beauty, identity, and the insidious influence of brainwashing take center stage, inviting readers to delve into the complexities of these interconnected concepts. The tapestry of the novel also involves a speculative discourse surrounding the deleterious implications of cosmetic surgery, thereby engendering an intellectual milieu wherein the ramifications of such practices are rigorously examined and debated. Drawing upon Erik Erikson's identity development theory (1950) and Henri Tajfel and John Turner's social identity theory (1979) as theoretical frameworks, this research paper aims to present an analysis of how the pursuit of beauty ideals contributes to the formation of an externally appealing but inwardly conflicted self-image.

The serial novel as an object of research in translation history: Methodological implications for historiography of translation

Despite their incontestable worldwide influence on culture and literature in the 19th and 20th centuries, serial novels are underrepresented in translation history research. This paper calls attention to serial novels as a fertile source of historical knowledge regarding translation, reception, and circulation drawing from a comprehensive study of translated and indigenous serial novels in three Turkish daily newspapers, namely Cumhuriyet, Akşam, and Vakit, published between 1928 and 1960. Based on this premise, the aim of the paper is twofold. The first is to display some common characteristics of serial novels, such as plasticity, anonymity, topicality, and ephemerality, along with the substantial impact these characteristics made on the way translations were performed in history. The second is to problematize the neglect of serial novels in translation historiography and suggest their inclusion in translation history research. The paper argues that serial novels and, when available, other serial publications are crucial primary sources for many sub-fields of historical research related to translation to the extent that their exclusion inevitably leads to gaps and, in some cases, even misrepresentations of historical reality. In order to abstain from such historiographical drawbacks, researchers of translation history, especially those focusing on retranslation, reception, and circulation of literary works, need to pay due heed to the practice of serialization.