“Demons”: Dostoevsky’s Conservatism and Thinking “on the Edges”

2021 ◽  
pp. 294-307
Author(s):  
Boris A. Prokudin
Keyword(s):  
The Novel ◽  
Ultimate State ◽  
Political Ideas ◽  
Way Of Thinking

It is generally accepted that Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s novel “Demons” was written to criticize Westerners (nihilists and liberals) and to ensure conservative public ideals. The author of the article attempts to offer a different view of the novel and see in it the discussion of the possibility of establishing in practice various, even “incredible”, political ideas. When writing the “Demons” novel, Dostoevsky did not limit himself to the exposure of radicalism, but also criticized all the main directions of Russian thought. The author of the article believes that when describing revolutionaries, liberals, and nationalists Dostoevsky didn’t aim to show their way of thinking and actions realistically. He made his characters bring the ideas of political nihilism, liberalism and nationalism to their ultimate state in order show what devastating consequences that could bring to the society.

The Datafied Society

2017 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Big Data ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Research Practices ◽  
Knowledge And Skills ◽  
Its Analysis ◽  
New Knowledge ◽  
Novel Methods ◽  
Way Of Thinking ◽  
Machine Readable

As machine-readable data comes to play an increasingly important role in everyday life, researchers find themselves with rich resources for studying society. The novel methods and tools needed to work with such data require not only new knowledge and skills, but also a new way of thinking about best research practices. This book critically reflects on the role and usefulness of big data, challenging overly optimistic expectations about what such information can reveal, introducing practices and methods for its analysis and visualisation, and raising important political and ethical questions regarding its collection, handling, and presentation.

Magical Realism: Language World Picture in the novel «One Hundred Years of Solitude» of Gabriel Garcia Márquez

2021 ◽  
Vol IX(257) (75) ◽  
pp. 21-26
Author(s):  
N. V. Chorna
Keyword(s):  
Magical Realism ◽  
Gabriel Garcia Marquez ◽  
Modern World ◽  
The Novel ◽  
World Picture ◽  
Realistic View ◽  
Way Of Thinking

The article focuses on the study of language world picture of the magical realism discourse in the novel «One Hundred Years of Solitude» of Gabriel Garcia Marquez. The magical realism discourse depicts a realistic view of the modern world through the prism of mythological way of thinking and supplements mysterious, farial and mystical elements. The main conceptual characteristics of magical realism discourse are considered to be: fantastical elements, unity of reality and magic, possible words, mythical chronotope, author’s reticence, hyperbolization of the secret and metadiscourse

scholarly journals Little, Maybe Less

2020 ◽  
Vol 75 (2) ◽  
pp. 207-238
Author(s):  
Daniel M. Stout
Keyword(s):  
Social Reform ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Social Critique ◽  
Way Of Thinking ◽  
Good And Evil

Daniel M. Stout, “Little, Maybe Less: Little Dorrit’s Minimal Moralia” (pp. 207–238) Against our ordinary ways of reading the novel, this essay argues that Charles Dickens’s Little Dorrit (1857) represents a stark refusal of the logics of accountability that necessarily underwrite any program of social reform. In pairing its critique of Circumlocution (which programmatically undervalues desert) with its critique of the Marshalsea (which programmatically overstates debt), the novel points not toward a future of happy proportionality—in which innovation might be meaningfully recognized and infractions responded to humanely—but toward a way of thinking that stands outside the liberal logics of exchange (of action and consequence, of sin and redemption, of debt and repayment) that animate both social critique and social reform. Rather than a reformist text, Little Dorrit’s horizon is a world beyond good and evil—or, as we might also call it, after liberalism.

scholarly journals DEKONSTRUKCJA IMPERIUM (ASAN WŁADIMIRA MAKANINA)

2018 ◽  
Vol 28 ◽  
pp. 97-121
Author(s):  
Andrzej Polak
Keyword(s):  
Political System ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Colonial Experience ◽  
Way Of Thinking

The author of the article treats the novel of contemporary Russian prose writer Vladimir Makanin as an example of anti-colonial creativity, which deconstructs the imperial way of thinking and contesting colonial domination. Asan is a text devoid of imperial textuality, criticizing the prevailing political system and showing the complex Caucasian reality. The place of the described events (Chechnya) was recognized as an area where the life of the inhabitants is still shaped by colonial experience. The inevitable effect of this kind of works is the deconstruction of the world’s imaginations made from the imperial point of view. It is accompanied by deconstructing one’s own language and recognizing the structures of violence in it.

scholarly journals “Esther Weren’t No Harlot”: Rape and Marriage in Go Tell It on the Mountain

2017 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 9-26
Author(s):  
Porter Nenon
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Sexual Politics ◽  
James Baldwin ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Black Feminist ◽  
Minor Characters ◽  
Political Ideas ◽  
Patricia Williams ◽  
Race And Sexuality ◽  
Patricia Hill Collins

To consider how James Baldwin resisted racialized notions of sexuality in his first novel, Go Tell It on the Mountain, I employ a number of black feminist critics—including Saidiya Hartman, Patricia Williams, Hortense Spillers, and Patricia Hill Collins—to analyze three under-studied minor characters: Deborah, Esther, and Richard. Those three characters are best understood as figures of heterosexual nonconformity who articulate sophisticated and important critiques of rape and marriage in America at the turn of the twentieth century. Baldwin thus wrote subversive theories of race and sexuality into the margins of the novel, making its style inextricable from its politics. Baldwin’s use of marginal voices was a deft and intentional artistic choice that was emancipatory for his characters and that remains enduringly relevant to American sexual politics. In this particularly polarizing transition from the Obama era to the Donald J. Trump presidency, I revisit Baldwin’s ability to subtly translate political ideas across fault lines like race, nationality, and sex.

scholarly journals The stranger in Luandino Vieira’s literary writing: an analysis of the book O livro dos rios

Scriptorium ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. e36258
Author(s):  
Junia Paula Saraiva Silva
Keyword(s):  
Sigmund Freud ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Collective Memories ◽  
Guerrilla War ◽  
Literary Writing ◽  
Way Of Thinking ◽  
The Aesthetic ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The Stranger

This article refers to the book O livro dos Rios by the Angolan writer José Luandino Vieira, published in 2006. The novel tells the story of Kapapa, who became Kene Vua during the guerrilla war and is again Kapapa. The character narrator recounts his memories of traumas and war from his childhood to adulthood, through the course of the waters of the Angolan rivers, which become secondary charactersof history. In addition, the individual memories of the character intertwine with the collective memories of his country. The storyteller’s way of telling, through the water metaphor and the recreated language, fits the narrative of the novel into the aesthetic of the stranger proposed by Sigmund Freud, in his work The Stranger, when referring to a new way of thinking aesthetics. The waters participate in the narration of the novel. The character narrator blends languages and uses neologisms to tellabout the unspeakable experience of war and violence. The research proposes to analyze the elements within the scope of the stranger present in the book The bookof rivers, studying the narrative and the form of account of the narrator.

Disraeli as Political Egotist: A Literary and Historical Investigation

1989 ◽  
Vol 28 (4) ◽  
pp. 387-410 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard G. Weeks
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
The Political ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Victorian England ◽  
Benjamin Disraeli ◽  
Story Line ◽  
Political Ideas ◽  
Political Novel ◽  
Historical Investigation ◽  
Social Circumstance

Not many statesmen of world renown have had reputations as accomplished novelists. Benjamin Disraeli (1804-81) was a novelist who wanted to become a politician, a great politician. He succeeded and, in so doing, challenged his biographers to make connections between his thought, as expressed in his numerous political writings and novels, and his actions, as evidenced by his career as a leading Conservative politician in Victorian England. Disraeli's novels were like masks. Whatever the story line, whatever the configuration of main characters, the ambitious Disraeli, hungry for recognition, can be found somewhere inside. His psychology, his values, his objectives all can be discovered with greater or lesser facility in his novels. The writings of Disraeli the novelist serve as an instrument to penetrate the facade of Disraeli the politician.The political novel allows the reader to experience political constructs in context. Political tracts seldom have the power to draw their readers into a sense of intimacy with their implications for everyday life. To the extent that a novelist can generate empathy in the reader for his characters, the reader can begin to feel the outrage, despair, joy, or tediousness of a political or social circumstance. Disraeli employed the novel to good purpose to express and spread his political ideas. But these ideas represented less of a coherent political platform than an agenda of his personal reactions to the politics of his day, particularly as they related to his own political advancement.

scholarly journals An Immobile Nomad: “the Peasant from the Danube”

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 69-79
Author(s):  
Pompiliu Crăciunescu
Keyword(s):  
Buenos Aires ◽  
Focal Point ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Art And Science ◽  
Way Of Thinking ◽  
To Come

Abstract European writer of Romanian origin, Vintila Horia (1915-1992) - Goncourt Prize in 1960 for the novel Dieu est né enexil - was a truly awakened consciousness of his time. Wherever he was - in Bucharest or Florence, Buenos Aires or Paris, Rome or Madrid - this “polyglot nomad” (Jean-François-Malherbe) never left the unyielding values of the spirit and of knowledge. His work of literary epistemology, hisnovelistic creation - fed by exile, love and by the divine -, as well as the Journal d’un paysan du Danube (1966), stand as testimony. Focal point of my approach, this text sheds light on the metaphysical realm of a way of thinking in which the undivided man (a double-faced reality: big infinity /small infinity) and the man to come are one and the same. Since for the exiled VintilaHoria,”the peasant from the Danube” is “celui dans lequel ce qui fut rencontre celui qui sera, dans un espace-temps non-euclidien”, and his journal emphasizes this “rediscovery”, in spite of the dark times of history; an encounter in, through and beyond the broken grounds of science, art and philosophy, but nevertheless, deeply anchored in philosophy, art and science. Apparently, rediscovery and isolation of the same proportion; in fact, we are talking about an anagnorisis: the inner man and the outer man have never separated, despite the “microbial fauna of Kali Yuga” (“la faunemicrobienne du Kali Yuga”). “Nomade polyglotte” through his evolution, a result of flawless reflexive stability, Vintila Horia proves himself to be, at the same time, animmobile nomad; “the peasant from the Danube” is the plenary expression of this unusual simultaneity.

scholarly journals POTRET TOKOH UTAMA DALAM NOVEL CINTA SUCI ZAHRANA KARYA HABIBURRAHMAN EL SHIRAZY (PORTRAIT OF THE MAIN CHARACTERS IN THE NOVEL OF CINTA SUCI ZAHRANA BY HABIBURRAHMAN EL SHIRAZY)

2018 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 302
Author(s):  
Hj. Laila Fitriani
Keyword(s):  
Life Style ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Main Character ◽  
Language Style ◽  
Way Of Thinking ◽  
The Right ◽  
And Behavior ◽  
The Way

AbstractPortrait of the Main Characters in the Novel of Cinta Suci Zahrana by HabiburrahmanEl Shirazy. Literate is never separated from the intrinsic elements which included theme,plot, characters, background/setting, language style, message and point of view. Oneof the intrinsic elements is the characteristic that could be seen from how the author’screativity expressed and implied the characters of the story. The expressed one couldbe seen from the way of thinking, life style, outlook on life and behavior which pictureout whom and how the character lives and develops in the story plot, just like thecharacter in novel Cinta Suci Zahrana which tell about the phenomenon of a successfulwoman in education and work involved in finding the right one for her romance life.Keywords: intrinsic elements, main character, sociopsychologyAbstrakPotret Tokoh Utama dalam Novel Cinta Suci Zahrana karya Habiburrahman El Shirazy.Sastra tidak pernah lepas dari unsur-unsur intrinsik yang meliputi tema, alur, karakter,latar belakang/setting, gaya bahasa, pesan (amanat), dan sudut pandang. Salah satuunsur intrinsik adalah karakteristik yang dapat dilihat dari bagaimana ekspresikreativitas penulis dan pengaruh karakter dari ceritanya. Salah satu ekspresi yangbisa dilihat dari cara berpikir, gaya hidup, pandangan hidup, dan perilaku yangmenggambarkan seseorang dan bagaimana kehidupan karakter dan pengembangannyadalam plot cerita, seperti karakter dalam novel Cinta Suci Zahrana yang menceritakantentang fenomena seorang wanita yang sukses dalam pendidikan dan pekerjaan terlibatdalam menemukan seseorang yang tepat bagi kehidupan asmaranya.Kata-kata kunci: unsur intrinsik, karakter utama, sosiopsikologi

scholarly journals SOCIAL AND POLITICAL IDEAS OF ALDOUS HUXLEY THROUGH BERNARD MARX’S CHARACTER IN BRAVE NEW WORLD

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Muh Haris Zubaidillah
Keyword(s):  
Literary Criticism ◽  
New World ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Aldous Huxley ◽  
Happy Life ◽  
World State ◽  
Political Ideas ◽  
The World ◽  
Brave New World ◽  
Descriptive Method

Social and political ideas have important role and influence in society life. Because, it can change human's thought or mind. In this case, Aldous Huxley as author constructs a character in the novel Brave New World and it is his ideas. He includes his ideas through one of characters in his book. It is seen in character Bernard Marn's feeling, such as; Bernard Marx's feeling as nature of human, Bernard Marx's Feeling to Soma, and Bernard Marx's Feeling to the concept of happy life in The World State. So, the researcher feels a necessity to analyze political ideas of Aldous Huxley through Character Bernard Max in Brave New World. Based on the problem above, the researcher needs to analyze the political ideas of Aldous Huxley through character Bernard Mar in Brave New World by analyzing the character dialogue used the descriptive method. The descriptive method on the research involves a collection of technique used to specify, delineate or describe naturally the occurring of changing characterization without experimental manipulation. The researcher needs to analyze about what are the social and political ideas of Aldous Huxley through the character Bernard Marx constructed in the novel Brave New World. The researcher analyzed it by using Historical Literary Criticism. All the data are taken from the novel Brave New World written by Aldous Huxley. The analysis of data deals with the descriptions social and political ideas of Aldous Huxley through the character Bernard Marx constructed in Brave New World containing: Bernard Mary's feeling as nature of human Bernard Marx's Feeling to Soma, and Bernard Man's Feeling to the concept of happy life in The World State. The literary work is very dominant to socialized ideas, opinion, and massage as values to the society. Therefore, it has great influences to deliver values to the society through the reader. So, it can be concluded that author has power of his work and can include his ideas, opinion, and massage also values in his work as like Aldous Huxley. Then, political ideas of Aldous Huxley through character Bernard Marx in Brave New World are author's politic (Aldous Huxley), he attempted to express his ideas in a work.

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