Literary Writings Research Articles

Ideas of physical education of the younger generation in works of classic writers of Russian literature of the XIX - early XX centuries

The upbringing of the younger generation as one of the urgent socio-cultural problems of mankind described in the works of thinkers of Antiquity, the Renaissance and Enlightenment by foreign and domestic authors of the 19th-20th centuries. In the paradigm of the upbringing of the younger generation the emphasis is on a comprehensively developed personality that embodies the unity of the spiritual, intellectual and physical principles. The subject of research is the ideas of physical education of the younger generation, reflected in the storylines of the works of art of the Russian literature classics. The purpose of the study is to actualize the ideas of physical education reflected in the works of Russian classics of the 19th - early 20th centuries, in the context of the problem of harmonious personal development. The used methodology of the interdisciplinary approach determines the inclusion in the study of an analysis of examples from the works of L. N. Tolstoy, A. P. Chekhov, I. A. Bunin, A. I. Kuprin, G. I. Uspensky, V. V. Nabokov, etc. illustrating the reflection of the phenomenon of physical culture and sports in Russian literature. The author concludes that the texts of works of art reflect an understanding of the positive impact of physical education and sports on the comprehensive harmonious development of the individual, and therefore the experience of the past can be considered as positive. In educational institutions of prerevolutionary Russia, as well as in noble families, the issues of physical education and the development of the younger generation were of great importance in the formation of the need for a healthy lifestyle, active leisure, and health promotion.

Traditional and debate-focused flipped methodology in the teaching of “English Narrative”

Introduction: This research presents a practice of flipped learning for the subject of “English Narrative”, taught in the degree of Modern Languages at the University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria. Methodology: A group of 25 students has received two variants of this methodology: traditional and debate-focused flipped classroom to study two recognised writers of English literature: Charles Dickens and E. M. Forster. Results: Dickens’s lesson has followed a traditional flipped classroom, where the group has seen a presentation about the novelist and his work made by the teacher outside class. The time spent in the face-to-face session has been devoted to doing specific exercises and deepening into the author’s style. Forster’s lesson has applied a debate-focused flipped learning, where the group has also seen a similar presentation. The questions are oriented towards the contrast of ideas to generate a discussion in class that favours the exchange of opinions. Discussion: The evaluation of this experience has been performed by means of questionnaires in which the methodology of flipped learning has been preferred over the more traditional one, even though the latter is largely valued. Conclusions: The students’ suggestions will be considered when applying this methodology to most authors of “English Narrative”.

Plurilingual literary writings as tools to develop students’ creativity

In an era marked by rapid change, educators face a persistent call to nurture creativity in students, prompting them to explore innovative solutions. This study investigates the role of students’ plurilingual resources in fostering creativity within a foreign language classroom at secondary school level. Students collaboratively produced literary writings (songs, poems, and short stories) in which they applied their plurilingual resources (all of languages they knew). This case study employs a bottom-up approach to analyse students’ texts to determine whether facilitating the use of their diverse linguistic resources, including the blending of codes and modes, acts as a catalyst for creativity. The research results indicate that the foreign language classroom can indeed serve as a platform for students to engage in various forms of language creativity. The findings also suggest that encouraging students to utilize their diverse linguistic resources enhances language creativity. Additionally, the analysis highlights that the collaborative nature of the task supports the notion that exploring multiple solutions, rather than adhering to a single correct answer, fosters creativity. Furthermore, evidence indicates that creating a safe environment for learners is crucial for encouraging playful and unconventional language use for creative purposes.

Analysing the Intersection between Law and Creative Writing: An Analysis of Petina Gappah’s Literary Writing Prose

This study is an analytical transposition of law and creative writing. The article starts by exposing how the intersection is experienced and positioned. The two fields are based on rhetoric. Rhetoric serves as the foundation for both forensic argument and creative writing, and the dynamic relationships between the two fields also leave many other traces, as we can see in the dramatic performances that connect judges and attorneys to actors, the performative effects of literary language, jurists’ and literary critics’ shared concerns with interpretation, demonstration, and proof, and the function of narrative schemas as templates. There are more similarities between legal scripts and creative writing than there are conflicts. Petina Gappah is someone who has managed well in the two fields, making her writings a marvel to both lay readers and those with a law background. The short stories and novels discussed in the article are embedded in the African culture and legal frameworks of reality. The short story “In the Matter between Goto and Goto” is a thought-provoking depiction of divorce in the Zimbabwean context. The story illustrates the conflicts between the customary and the legal face of marriage. The article picks and analyses three major themes emerging from this story, which are, culture and the law, the issue of gender and justice, and lastly, the limits of law in a legal system.

Narrativizing the Nexus between Climate Crisis and Immigration in Amitav Ghosh's Gun Island: An Ecocritical Exploration

Eco-criticism is a branch of literary scholarship that finds tangible connections between the environment and literature. The environmental problem is one of the most prominent issues of current generation. Climate crisis stands as a sole factor in the environment in view of ecological imbalance. This is an ever increasingly presence in our daily lives. prominent causes of climate change are an increase of green house gasses, deforestation to develop human settlements, excessive use of fossil fuels and so on. Decline in agricultural productivity is another impact of climate change. Thus, this is widely recognized as a contributing and exacerbating factor in immigration. The climate crisis, migration and refugees' acute situation have allegedly lost security and stability of humans and non-humans. The paper attempts to look how Amitav Ghosh has put his best endeavors to discover the inordinate use of nature by human beings. The materialistic and anthropocentric attitudes of human beings undergo extreme climate crisis and the displacement of livings. Now, the major environmental issues become the ethical concerns in the eco pages of literary writers to highlight the problems of ecosystem. The novel "Gun Island" deals with the issue of climate crisis and immigration. Planetary environmentalism identifies the planetary crisis caused by climate change. It seeks environmental justice both for humans and nonhumans across the planet. The whole planet goes beyond geographical boundary because of threatening of climate change. Ghosh in this novel wants to procure awareness among the readers regarding the impending calamities of the global environment and thus a warning to mend exploitative attitudes towards our Mother Nature.

Ouyang Xiu's Literary Writing and Self-Reinvention in the Perspective of the Disease of Secret Worry

The disease of secret sorrow is similar to modern depression, which is a kind of psychological disease caused by excessive worry and sadness. Under the perspective of the disease of melancholy, we analyze Ouyang Xiu's psychological journey from three perspectives: cause and origin, sickness and healing, and self-transcendence; Ouyang Xiu at different times mainly used the three ways of borrowing objects to express his feelings, sending his love to landscapes and constructing a fairyland to ease his psychology. In the process of self-analysis, Ouyang Xiu is constantly revising his self-orientation, transforming from idealization to reality, and ultimately completing the spiritual transformation of the "Sixth Householder".

The “Final Rays” of a Setting Sun: Lenka Reinerová and the Legacy of “Prague German Literature”

Lenka Reinerová is considered a contemporary witness of both the 20th and 21st centuries and the last German writer in Prague. Indeed, she is the last known prose writer from Prague who wrote in German and boasts a long list of famous predecessors, such as Franz Kafka, Max Brod, E. E. Kisch and others. Interestingly, Reinerová did not only earn a place among the Prague German literature writers because of her mother tongue. In her memoirs, she also engages with literary and academic discourse on the German-language literature coming from Prague. The following article aims to describe this continuity in more detail.

THE INFLUENCE OF THE BHAGAVADGITA ON AMERICAN LITERATURE

Present paper focuses on the study of American literary writers who have been influenced by the teachings of the Bhagvadgita. Wilkinss translation of theBhagvadgita gave a new direction of thinking to the literary writers in the world. Emerson, Thoreau, Walt Whitman and Robert Frost in American literature expressed their acquaintance with the Gita, the Upanishads and Oriental philosophy. These Transcendental writers interested in the concept of selfhood found in Hindu scriptures a well elaborated doctrine of self. Hindu scriptures tell us that the central core of ones self (antaratman) is identifiable with the cosmic whole (Brahma).

Ngugi Wa Thiang’o’s Early Studentship: The Role of Education in the Making of a Great African Literary Writer

Do you know that most prolific or acclaimed writers the world celebrates have detected their talent since their prime? Do you also know that some renowned writers taught themselves or were taught by their masters at home prior to when they began to write? Do you know that some of them have not acquired profound formal education up to the university? Yet, it should be known that there are innumerable others, who greatly vary, for they have deeply studied instead. Writing is a natural prodigy; hence it requires no profound literacy to blossom. Take some immediate common instances in mind: Daniel Defoe, Jane Austen, Charles Dickens, D. H. Lawrence, Virginia Woolf, Joseph Conrad, Chinua Achebe, Cyprian Ekwensi, Sembene Ousmene, Wole Soyinka, Aye Kwei Armah, Naguib Mahfouz, Ngugi wa Thiong’o to name just but a few. At any rate, education is the fulcrum and the nucleus to writing no matter how little it is acquired. This is the focus of which this paper is concerned about. Its prime goal is to unveil how Ngugi’s early educational sojourn from the primary school through to the university has rolled out the writing carpet for him to step on as a novice writer, and to keep striding on it with varying degrees of artistic, strength and vigour, which subsequently cleared the challenging path for him to emerge as a legendary and dynamic African writer.

الأدب الفلسطيني وسيلة لاسترداد حرية القدس Palestinian Literature as a Mean of Recapturing the Freedom of al-Quds

This study aims to highlight the position and the role of the Palestinian literature in emphasizing the spirit of resistance and defiance for the sake of liberation of Jerusalem. The study relies on the analytical descriptive approach, which it analyses the content of several Palestinian poems which call to defend the land of Jerusalem. This study found that literature is a reflection of societies where it portrays the social realities of specific societies. And as Palestinian people witness a major political and social conflicts for more than fifty years up until now, hence some of them choose to express their experiences through literary writings. Therefore, this study concludes that Palestinian literature plays a very important role in proliferating the Palestinian issues to the people all around the world, encourages people to defend the land of Jerusalem and later on liberate it from the Israeli occupiers by any appropriate and suitable means.

Showing and Telling as Techniques in Literary Writing: A Study of Selected Corpora from Ayi Kwei Armah’s The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born

This paper examines Showing and Telling as discrete literary techniques in fiction, through a study of selected samples from Ayi Kwei Armah’s (168) The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born. There are a wide range of techniques deployed by literary writers in conveying themes, and such techniques are chosen for specific reasons. This study hinges on theText Analysis Theory. The theory is suitable for the study as it explains how clause structure impinges on the narration of experiences, actions and events in literary texts. The study concludes that showing and telling perform significant functions in narration: providing useful details, describing settings, amplifying themes, making narration believable, and facilitating interpretation of events from readers’ end. Although neither of the two techniques should be extraneous in a literary text, literary writers should combine both techniques for effective writing.

REALISM AND THE FANTASTIC

Nineteenth-century Spanish literature was characterized by decades-long continuities stemming from revolutionary political and aesthetic impulses. The fantastic was central to these continuities. However, in advocating for “Realism”, Galdós and Pardo Bazán successfully rewrote literary history to their own ends, occluding swathes of inventive nineteenth-century literature and ideology, deemed extravagant and lacking serenity. The great deletion included the fantastic, along with a spectrum of literary and political explorations of imaginative freedom to which it belonged. Too often taken as near-literal accounts, Galdós and Pardo Bazán’s essays were polemical interventions in long-standing debates. Their “Realism” primarily aimed for a new balance of serenity and fantasía, a quest shared with literary writers, historians, aspects of “realist” practice, as exemplified in El amigo Manso, may seem perplexing.But, re-situated amid nineteenth-century debates, Spanish “Realism” is an attempt, not to suppress either fantasía or the fantastic but to re-invent them, and so re-imagine Spanish and imperial history and society.

Being a Commodity

The qin 琴, a seven-stringed plucked musical instrument, occupies a unique status in Chinese cultural history. By the time it was established as the musical embodiment of classical tradition and literati culture in the Song dynasty, it had become an exchangeable commodity. While literary writings composed before the Song rarely focused on its monetary value, the unprecedentedly vibrant commercial world recast the qin, hitherto an aristocratic or scholarly pursuit, as a commodity that affected the life of the literati. This article examines how the literati worked through the conflicting values brought by the commodification of the qin to create and reinterpret its new meaning as an object with both cultural and monetary value. The commercial mechanism that the literati took part in also brought about changing characterizations in the connoisseurship of the qin. The astute perception of sound was no longer the sole criterion for appraisal, which now included familiarity with the qin’s physicality and knowledge of its craftsmanship. Behind the ostensible monopoly of the literati discourse on the qin, there was an economic and social network in which different groups participated—groups that together defined the cultural and commercial values of the qin.

"The Language of the Eye Is Not the Language of the Ear": English, Translationality, and (Dis)Similarities between Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart and Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o's Devil on the Cross

ABSTRACT: Against the backdrop of the 60th anniversary of the African Writers Conference and the perennial question of English as an "African language," this article investigates the ways in which English has been used within the literary writings of Chinua Achebe and Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o. An overview of the (seemingly) divergent views on English articulated by Achebe and Ngũgĩ is presented, and two of their novels, namely Achebe's Things Fall Apart and Ngũgĩ's Devil on the Cross , are then situated within the frame of translationality. Extracts from the two novels are comparatively analyzed and discussed with reference to translation theory, specifically "thick translation," " omdigting ," and "foreignization," in relation to their lexical and ideological treatment of English. The article concludes that despite the differences in attitude toward English expressed in their polemical and philosophical writings, their literary treatment of English points to a number of similarities.

Influence of Self-Designed Classical Writing Teaching Materials on the Writing Intentions and Outcomes of Literary Writing

Influence of Self-Designed Classical Writing Teaching Materials on the Writing Intentions and Outcomes of Literary Writing

The Literary Image in Writings and Practical Well - Being in Reality: The Psychological Exploration of Female Migrant Workers in China

Background: the core of literary works is to reveal the epitomizing image in society so as to provoke the bottom of people’s heart. The image of female migrant workers is always touching the nerve of public since this vulnerable group keeps suffering from class, gender and so on. In 2022, the number of rural migrant workers in China had surged to 295.62 million, 36.6 percent were female which rose by 0.7% from the previous year. The psychological health of this huge group still lagged behind though the living condition and other welfare are improve compared with that in the past. The solution remain unanswered and the landscape of their psychological health needs further delve into. Method: the study explores the psychological dynamics from three different angles such as mental emancipation, consumer behavior and “technology transformation” enlightened by epitomizing image of female migrant workers in literary writings. There are 1574 female migrant workers, who have been divided in three groups depends on their age (660 - group 1; 584 - group 2; 330 - group 3), have participated in the questionnaire and the data has been analyzed by SPSS so as to further study the connotation and enlighten us to figure out strategies to better help their psychological health with different age groups. Results and Conclusion: The findings highlighted the different psychological problems and features in different age groups, the younger generation (< 30) is living more freely and does not take “traditional burden” as the imperatives; however, they still find themselves stuck in class transition. To middle age group (30-45) and senior age group (> 45), data indicates their heavy burden and suffer from the technology advancement etc. Unlike male migrant workers, the female group is more vulnerable due to several unique factors such as low social status which renders us to find better solution to help via the clear unique features as the study unearthed.

The evolutionary course of mathematics literary writings: A case study

The evolutionary course of mathematics literary writings: A case study

Chinese media production and fandom between queerbaiting and “survival instincts”

Using the term “queerbaiting,” I describe a set of media industry tactics that suggest queer relationships between fictional characters (or real-life celebrities) by intentional hints and jokes to attract audiences. Such tactics are used to encourage online participation by fans of female danmei (literary writings describing homoerotic relationships among male characters, generally written by female authors for a female-dominated audience) in China. By analyzing this strategy, I examine the intersection between three different cultural forces in the Chinese mediascape: the censorship of queer themes, the media industry’s attempts to profit from popular danmei stories, and fans who participate in online data labor. The heteronormative cultural environment in China turned so-called “queerbaiting” practices into a socially accepted and commercially profitable mental game denied of a physical outlet. The de-homoeroticized danmei media adaptations and the fandoms surrounding them show how the media industry and fans interact, negotiate and cooperate for their own interests.

THE ROLE OF CHILDREN'S LITERATURE IN DEVELOPING THE THINKING OF PRIMARY CLASS STUDENTS

This article discusses the literary works of Uzbek and world children's literature writers and the literary genres that inspire children to think.

Literary Artists on Sustainable Development : A Critical Study of English Literature.

Abstract Modern human beings who have been enjoying enormous benefits of science and technology are very much concerned with environmental issues and sustainable development. In various fields development has been being done but a question peeps in mind whether that development in a true sense is sustainable or not. Again the existing external environment is being threatened by the rapid progress in the name of development. It creates a conflict between the better environment and the rapid scientific and technological development. It prompts the social thinkers, scientists , technologists , philosophers and even the writers who review the situation in the world and try to find out a suitable solution to come out of the crisis. Normally it is not expected that the literary writers would talk about new scientific inventions. But the impact of new inventions on human society is very much tracable in the literary compositions mainly of the Victorian and Modern British authors. We may give a fresh look into the literary works of William Wordsworth , Lord Tennyson, Mathew Arnold , T.S.Eliot and others about their thoughts concerned with development. The objective of the research paper is to explore the ideas of these writers in connection with so called environmental issues and sustainable development. These writers have hinted that the external development by the rampant use of science and technology perhaps cannot develop human society in real sense. Rather the so called development has put human society in new troubles in the psychic world.