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Lennon, Michael. "Norman Mailer: Novelist, Journalist, or Historian?" Journal of Modern Literature 30, n. 1 (2007): 91–103. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/jml.2006.0060.
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PAQUETTE, GABRIEL. "ROMANTIC LIBERALISM IN SPAIN AND PORTUGAL, c. 1825–1850". Historical Journal 58, n. 2 (11 maggio 2015): 481–511. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0018246x14000326.
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AbstractThis article examines Spanish and Portuguese liberal political thought in the period after the independence of Latin America (c. 1825–50). It argues that while Iberian liberalism undoubtedly reflected broader European and transatlantic debates and intellectual trends, it was distinguished by its robust engagement with literary romanticism. The article proceeds to describe and make a case for ‘romantic liberalism’ through the examination of texts by six politically engaged writers: Spanish statesman, poet and dramatist Francisco Martínez de la Rosa (1787–1862); Portuguese statesman, poet, novelist, and dramatist João Baptista da Silva Leitão de Almeida Garrett (1799–1854); Spanish poet and statesman Ángel de Saavedra (1791–1865), Duque de Rivas; Spanish parliamentarian and literary critic Antonio Alcalá Galiano; Spanish poet, journalist, and parliamentarian José de Espronceda (1808–42); and Portuguese historian, novelist, and journalist Alexandre Herculano (1810–77).
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Ginn, Stephen. "The Quantity Theory of Insanity by Will Self". Advances in Psychiatric Treatment 19, n. 2 (marzo 2013): 132–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.1192/apt.bp.112.010413.
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SummaryThe Quantity Theory of Insanity is a short story by the English novelist and journalist Will Self. It is one of six stories in a collection of the same name. Its central conceit is that there is ‘only a fixed proportion of sanity available to any given society at any given time’. The story is a broad satire of academia, social science and our treatment and understanding of mental disorder.
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Nazar, Shabana, e Abdul Rehman Saifee. "http://habibiaislamicus.com/index.php/hirj/article/view/147". Habibia Islamicus 4, n. 2 (16 dicembre 2020): 59–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.47720/hi.2020.0402a04.
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The Life History of “ Jurji Zaydan ”, His Personality and His landmark services in the Arabic Language and its Literature generally and History of Islam and Arabic Literature particularly are enlightened in this paper. He was a famous Arab Historian, Author, Writer, Novelist, Journalist, Linguist and Interpreter of Modern Period. His works of Arabic History and Arabic Literature were revolutionary. He is a great Novelist in this Modern Period. He wrote several books on History of Islam & Arabic Literature and a series of Novels on Big personalities of Islam, which serve the purpose of a resource and authentic materials. People from all walks of life can find his books as a resource to access due to the intellectual and authentic information they carry. He is not only a famous Historian, but He is a famous Writer and a great Novelist of 20th Century, Who wrote a series of Islamic Historical Novels. Thus, this paper is the depiction of Jurji Zaydan’s life history, his services, his books, Novels especially introduction of Novel ‘Azra-o-Quresh’ for the facilitation of upcoming researchers.
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Shiffman, Dan. "A Better Pluralism? The Example of Louis Adamic". Prospects 25 (ottobre 2000): 593–606. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0361233300000776.
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For the Slovenian-born journalist, novelist and populist historian Louis Adamic, Ellis Island was as central to American civilization as Plymouth Rock. Throughout the 1930s and into the 1940s, Adamic dedicated himself to raising public awareness about the essential role of immigrants in the life of the nation. Adamic chronicled the stories and contributions of famous and not-so-famous immigrants from a variety of ethnic groups and challenged his adopted country to be true to its democratic ideals.
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MANE, Youssoupha. "The Poiesis of Writing Culture: Ordained by the Oracle by Asare Konadu as an African Ethnographic Novel Unveiling the Asante’s Traditions". ALTRALANG Journal 4, n. 01 (30 giugno 2022): 53–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.52919/altralang.v4i01.179.
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The paper specifically beams its searchlights on the incident of the ethnographic mode of narration in the crafting of the narrative fiction — Ordained by the Oracle (1969) by the Asare Konadu. The novel is scrutinized as an inventory of Asante customs, moral, social and religious philosophy. It becomes the art of thick descriptions, the intricate interweaving of plots and counterplots. Asare Konadu is labelled here as a journalist-novelist and ethnographer-novelist who has adhered strictly to social ethnographic facts as he pertained to the etched culture. Konadu has selected some Asante ethnographic data (funeral ritual performances, mythology, divination, chieftainship, etc. and woven them into a plot around imaginary Asante hero and heroine through a blurred writing genre—ethnographic fiction encompassing compelling events and useful ethnographic detail which advance the reader’s ability to understand the constrictions of circumstance on characters.
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Gahan, Peter. "Bernard Shaw, New Journalist (1885–1898)". Shaw 41, n. 2 (1 novembre 2021): 264–318. http://dx.doi.org/10.5325/shaw.41.2.0264.
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ABSTRACT As Shaw's authorized biographer Archibald Henderson put it in the second of three biographies: “While Shaw may have a dozen labels—art critic, music critic, drama critic, novelist, dramatist, rationalist, Socialist, publicist, harlequin, sage, statesman, prophet—he has only one profession: journalism.”1 Especially remembered now for his achievements as playwright, whether in the vanguard of the New Drama at the end of the nineteenth century or as the established dramatist of world fame throughout the first half of the twentieth, Shaw worked first and last as a journalist in a working life stretching seventy-five years. Dan H. Laurence devoted nearly three hundred pages of the second volume of Bernard Shaw: A Bibliography (1983) itemizing Shaw's contributions to newspapers and periodicals between 1875 and 1950, amounting to almost four thousand entries.2 For fourteen of those years, from 1885 to 1898, he led the career of a full-time journalist, mostly as a critic of the fine arts, but criticism was by no means the whole story of Bernard Shaw's fourteen-year career as a full-time journalist sketched out in what follows.
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Ketterl, Simone. "Eine «einzige große Verzögerung». Die Exilliteratur Maria Lazars und ihre Rezeption". Studia austriaca 31 (17 giugno 2023): 29–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.54103/1593-2508/20324.
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The Austrian novelist, essayist and journalist Maria Lazar (1895-1948), only recently rediscovered, who was a contemporary of Thomas Mann and an acquaintance of Bertolt Brecht, wrote many different types of texts. Considered a promising talent back in Vienna, the reception of her works decreased during Lazar’s years in exile. The following contribution aims to reconstruct the dynamics of her marginalization and takes a closer look at the socially critical dimension of No Right to Live and Die Eingeborenen von Maria Blut [The Natives of Maria Blood].
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Heck, Dorota. "Moral Dilemmas of Poles Born in the Late Twenties: Reflections on the Drama Their Time, Short Stories, and Novels by Literary Critic Zbigniew Kubikowski". Perspektywy Kultury 26, n. 3 (1 ottobre 2019): 101–12. http://dx.doi.org/10.35765/pk.2019.2603.09.
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Zbigniew Kubikowski (1929-1984) was a literary critic, novelist, journalist, editor of monthly Odra in Wroclaw (Lower Silesia, Poland), and an activist of the Polish Writers’ Union. His biography seems to be representative for more or less independent intellectuals in the regime of communism. In spite of humiliation, persecutions, and invigilation he managed to preserve his ethical principles, although he was not able to achieve a full success as a man of letters. The ethics of his generation, so called “younger brothers” of war generation was founded on Polish independence and European existentialism.
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Sarmah, Sunita. "Nirupama Borgohain and her novels". Linguistics and Culture Review 6 (6 marzo 2022): 529–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.21744/lingcure.v6ns2.2174.
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Nirupama Borgohain is one of the most prominent female voices of Assam. She has contributed more than thirty books to Assamese literature. Her novels are mainly based on realism where she has consciously dealt with the problem of inequality that exist men and women in society. She always highlights the plight of women and their protest against patriarchal values. She is an Indian journalist and novelist in the Assamese Language. She is a Sahitya Akademi Award winner and best known for her novel 'Abhiyatri'. She was a recipient of the Assam Valley Literary Award.
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Bush, Clive. "Escape from Marseille: An American Story? Writing Victor Serge's, Laurette Séjourné's, Dwight and Nancy Macdonald's Balzacian Book". Prospects 28 (ottobre 2004): 311–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0361233300001526.
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Occupying part of a single paragraph in the published autobiography, Memoirs of a Revolutionary, the Polish-Belgian novelist, journalist, and revolutionary, Victor Serge, almost casually speaks of his escape in 1941 to Mexico from Marseille in Vichy France:Some of us whose lives were in danger eventually made our exit. The Battle of the Visas which their friends have had to wage for their sake would stand some description: a single escape would provide material for a book of Balzacian proportions, packed with unexpected incidents and dark happenings behind the scenes.
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SCHARNHORST, GARY. "Owen Wister: A Primary Bibliography". Resources for American Literary Study 36 (1 gennaio 2011): 83–105. http://dx.doi.org/10.5325/resoamerlitestud.36.2011.0083.
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Abstract Best known today for his writings about the American West, which he visited over twenty-five times between 1885 and 1920, Owen Wister was remarkably versatile, a poet, dramatist, essayist, novelist of manners, journalist, book critic, biographer and historian, satirist, and author of children's books. This bibliography of his writings increases by over half, to over 250, the number of items Wister is known to have published, including several schoolboy exercises contributed to his prep school newspaper and the Harvard Crimson, many prefaces or introductions to books by his friends, and memoirs of his lifelong friend and Harvard classmate Theodore Roosevelt.
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Čerče, Danica. "The function of female characters in Steinbeck's fiction : the portrait of Curley's wife in Of mice and men". Acta Neophilologica 33, n. 1-2 (1 dicembre 2000): 85–91. http://dx.doi.org/10.4312/an.33.1-2.85-91.
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"Preferably a writer should die at about 28. Then he has a chance of being discovered. If he lives much longer he can only be revalued. I prefer discovery." So quipped the Nobel prize-winning American novelist John Steinbeck (1902-1968) to the British journalist Herbert Kretzmer in 1965. Steinbeck died at the age of 66, however, as many critics have noted, there is still a lot about him to be discovered. It must be borne in mind that Steinbeck's reputation as the impersonal, objective reporter of striking farm workers and dispossessed migrants, or as the escapist popularizer of primitive folk, has needlessly obscured his intellectual background, imaginative power and artistic methods. Of course, to think of Steinbeck simply as a naive realist in inspiration and a straightforward journalist while his achievement as a writer extends well beyond the modes and methods of traditional realism or documentary presentation is to disregard the complexities of his art. For this reason, new readings and modern critical approaches constantly shed light on new sources of value in Steinbeck's work.
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Djaout, Tahar. "The family that's moving ahead and the family that's going backward". Index on Censorship 23, n. 4-5 (settembre 1994): 161–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03064229408535758.
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Tahar Djaout, 39-year-old journalist, poet and novelist, was struck by three bullets on 26 May 1993. He died on 2 June. He was the founder and editor of the weekly Ruptures, an openly anti-Islamist publication. He is the author of several novels including Les chercheurs d'os (1984), L'invention du désert (1987) and Les vigiles (1991) for which he won the Prix Méditerranée. The following piece is the last he wrote. What can be expected from a dialogue between parties whose social programmes are light years apart? he asks, and attacks the High State Committee for its failure to determine a direction for Algeria
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Welman, Crystal, Paul J. P. Fouché, Pravani Naidoo e Roelf van Niekerk. "The spiritual wellness of an intellectual, novelist, journalist and politician: The meaningful life of Sol Plaatje". Europe’s Journal of Psychology 17, n. 3 (31 agosto 2021): 221–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.5964/ejop.5417.
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The study investigates Sol Plaatje’s (1876–1932) spiritual wellness across his lifespan. He was purposively sampled due to his impact upon South African society. As an intellectual, novelist, journalist, and politician, Plaatje was also a founder member of the South African Native National Congress, which later became the African National Congress. His life history reflected a significant degree of spiritual wellness, which was uncovered through the systematic analysis of publicly available life-history materials, including primary and secondary sources. The Wheel of Wellness (WoW) model by Sweeney and Witmer was applied to interpret the biographical evidence of spirituality and meaning in his life. Spirituality, as the central life task of the WoW, and regarded as the most influential domain of a healthy individual, incorporates religious beliefs and other individualised aspects of meaning-making. Findings indicate that spirituality characterised Plaatje’s childhood years and continued to play a role throughout his adult years. His sense of meaning and purpose was personified in the promotion and preservation of human rights and dignity, which embraced inter-racial respect, compassion, and service to others.
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McCrea, Brian. "Henry Fielding (1707–1754): Novelist, Playwright, Journalist, Magistrate: A Double Anniversary Tribute ed. by Claude Rawson". Scriblerian and the Kit-Cats 43, n. 2 (2011): 218–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/scb.2011.0146.
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Varga, Adriana. "Languages of Exile and Community in Dezső Kosztolányi's Esti Kornél Cycles". Hungarian Cultural Studies 4 (1 gennaio 2011): 45–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.5195/ahea.2011.31.
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An avid translator, the poet, novelist, essayist and journalist, Dezső Kosztolányi believed in linguistic relativism, the uniqueness of each language-created world view, and the impossibility of translation. Paradoxically, one of his main concerns was to express in fiction various encounters between individuals belonging to different linguistic and cultural communities, and to explore whether communication between them was at all possible. It is exactly this double bind—this status of finding oneself between two or more cultures and languages—that the Hungarian novelist explored in many of his works, particularly in his last fictional writings, the Esti Kornél cycles: Esti Kornél (1933) and Esti Kornél Kalandjai (The Adventures of Kornél Esti, 1936). Several of the Esti Kornél episodes are linguistic explorations of the encounter between “self” and “other,” when these two often belong to different cultural and linguistic communities. The result of estranging language during such encounters leads to a better understanding of language and the context that created it—just as, in translation, the loss and, therefore, the presence of the original’s linguistic form is most acutely felt and understood by the translator.
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Manns, Patricio. "The problems of the text in nueva cancíon". Popular Music 6, n. 2 (maggio 1987): 191–95. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0261143000005985.
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Patricio Manns (b. 1937) is a Chilean singer, songwriter, writer, poet, novelist and journalist. He was one of the group of singers who came together in the Peña de los Parra, the club founded by Angel and Isabel Parra in Santiago in 1965 which became the crucible where neo-folklore metamorphised into nueva cancíon (‘New Song’). Manns' relationship with nueva cancíon has been a fundamental, although at times an ambivalent one. Unlike many of the other musicians he has constantly involved himself in non-musical and political activity. Recently he has been the European spokesperson for the Chilean resistance movement, the Manuel Rodriguez Patriotic Front, which claimed responsibility for the assassination attempt in October 1986 on President Pinochet.
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Ohene-Nyako, Pamela. "Contexts and Spaces of Intersectionality: The Black Feminism and Internationalism of Lydie Dooh-Bunya, 1970–1990". Journal of Women's History 35, n. 3 (settembre 2023): 125–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/jowh.2023.a905193.
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Abstract: This article retraces the local and transnational ideas and activism of Lydie Dooh-Bunya, a French novelist, journalist, and activist from Cameroon. Its objective is to understand how Dooh-Bunya’s life experiences as well as the sociopolitical, intellectual, and activist contexts to which she had access contributed to the articulation and practice of a specific form of feminism at the intersection of colonialism, patriarchy, and racism, and how it evolved through her interactions both local and global. Through the tools offered by biographic and transnational approaches, this research contributes to the historiography of Black women’s and people’s agency and internationalism, and historicizes an intersectionality resulting from intellectual thought and lived experiences.
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Therese, J. Monica, e Dr M. Amutha. "Chuck Palahniuk as a Versatile and Multifaceted Penman". Think India 22, n. 3 (26 settembre 2019): 912–17. http://dx.doi.org/10.26643/think-india.v22i3.8428.
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Chuck Palahniuk is the recent American novelist, journalist and essayist. He is known for his transgression fiction. Chuck Palahniuk’s ideas have been described as nihilistic but he has declined this identity and he labeling himself as a romantic writer. His books often focused on temporal end and also include some similar plot twists. His writings mainly focused on the struggles which we faced nowadays due to this growth of techno culture. Palahniuk’s concepts and themes are too strange to believe. He is the man of argument in which he argues the struggles between money and agony. There are some postmodern techniques and odd theories used by him. This article focused Palahniuk’s writing style, techniques, and as well as thematical study of his novels.
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Baker, William, e Peter Henderson. "Thirty-Six Unpublished Letters from William Henry Davies to Edward Thomas". Style 56, n. 4 (novembre 2022): 483–528. http://dx.doi.org/10.5325/style.56.4.0483.
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ABSTRACT Edward Thomas (1878–1917) is largely known today as a great poet of the First World War. He also was a journalist, essayist and novelist. Thirty-six unpublished letters from the Anglo-Welsh writer William Henry Davies (1871–1940) to Thomas, now in the Hugh Walpole Collection at the King’s School, Canterbury, reveal a close friendship and Thomas’s strong support for an unknown impoverished fellow writer. In addition, the letters throw much light on the Edwardian literary scene between the years 1906 and 1909, and Davies and Thomas’s activities and interests. Davies’s letters complement existing published correspondence between him and Thomas and go some way to revise the perception that Davies took advantage of Thomas, himself at the time also a struggling writer.
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Gordin, Michael D. "Loose and Baggy Spirits: Reading Dostoevskii and Mendeleev". Slavic Review 60, n. 4 (2001): 756–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2697494.
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In his 1876 Writer’s Diary, novelist Fedor Mikhailovich Dostoevskii wrote a series of three journalistic articles parodying both the contemporary movement of modern spiritualism and its principal critic in St. Petersburg, noted chemist Dmitrii Ivanovich Mendeleev. This article explores Dostoevskii’s views on spiritualism and examines the rhetorical strategy he developed to help persuade Russians away from what he perceived as a dangerous mystical fad. Mendeleev had similar goals, but the two differed on the urgency of the problem—and hence the proper rhetoric for the task—and thus both spent as much time fighting the other as the movement they deplored. This article endeavors both to analyze a Russian scientific text alongside works traditionally considered more “rhetorical“ and to explore in detail the specific involvement of Dostoevskii the journalist with contemporary issues in Russian culture.
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Palewai, Muhammad Salman. "Messages of da‘wah for non-Muslims in the novel Ayat-Ayat Cinta". al-Irsyad: Journal of Islamic and Contemporary Issues 7, n. 1 (22 giugno 2022): 757–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.53840/alirsyad.v7i1.233.
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This study examines the message of da‘wah to Non-Muslims in a novel entitled Ayat-Ayat Cinta by Habiburrahman El Shirazi. This study is qualitative research with an internal analysis approach (content analysis) which attempts to identify how a novelist inculcates messages of da‘wah in writing, specifically da‘wah towards non-Muslims along with messages of any aspect that the novelist wants to convey. The results of this study found that the method used by Habiburrahman El Shirazi is by featuring some non-Muslim characters in the novel such as the family of Mr. Boutros Rafael Girgis, (Maria, Yosoef, Mr. Boutros, Madame Nahed) and Alicia, a journalist, who is from the United States. Through these characters, he included critical topics of discussion in the Islamic point of that are widely misunderstood by some non-Muslims namely the role of women in Islamic teachings, relations between husband and wife, the mixing of non-mahram men and women, to how Islam functions as a guide and provides blessings to the community be it Muslim or non-Muslim. Similarly, through the plot of the story, the author of the novel conveys the Islamic message on the relationship between Muslims and non-Muslims. It is hoped that this study shall open more minds to the fact that da‘wah can be conveyed effectively through writing and works of literature.
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Arnau i Segarra, Pilar. "Eine Annäherung an das literarische Werk von Guillem Frontera". Zeitschrift für Katalanistik 16 (1 luglio 2003): 3–17. http://dx.doi.org/10.46586/zfk.2003.3-17.
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The Majorcan novelist and journalist Guillem Frontera (1945) belongs to the numerous island storytellers who started in the literary world at the end of the 1960’s and who were grouped under the label of the so-called “Generation of the Seventies”. A fruitful author from his beginnings, faithful to committed literature, Frontera has always stood out for reflecting in his work the socio-economic and ethical transformations experienced by the various Majorcan social classes due to the tourist boom.However, his last published novel, Un cor massa madur (1993), is a much more personal and suggestive narrative where the author shows a growing interest in more universal themes such as human relationships, the inability to communicate, the recovery of the past, etc., all immersed in the contemporary Majorcan microcosm. Here, the writer shows the evolution of social changes from a perspective that no longer pretends to be denunciatory or vindictive but subjective, assuming the weaknesses, aspirations and limitations of the human being, embodied, among others, by the novelist waiting for the inspiration to write the novel that has been dragging in his mind since his youth.In this article, a thematic systematization of the novelistic corpus of Frontera is undertakenand special light is shed on Un cor massa madur, a work that could qualify as one of the best Majorcan novels of the late 20th century.
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Aksoy, Sureyya Elif. "Muslim-Christian Dialogue in Peyami Safa's The Armchair of Mademoiselle Noraliya". Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies 20, n. 1 (2008): 87–104. http://dx.doi.org/10.5840/jis2008201/25.
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Peyami Safa, a twentieth-century novelist, journalist and intellectual, and one of the major personalities of conservatism in Turkey, encouraged Muslim and Christian believers to search for common ground and shared values that would yield a happy, virtuous way of life. His novel, The Armchair of Mademoiselle Noraliya, features character, Noraliya, who epitomizes the common ground between Islam and Christianity as a guide to peace of mind for individuals lost in the maze of modemity. Safa's literary construct is rooted in both religious inclination and admiration for the modem mind. Drawing on the main elements of the novel, this essay focuses on those features that reflect Safa's idea of a personal mysticism reached through religion, as well as interreligious dialogue, Safa's approach exemplifies Turkey's unique position in the Muslim world, inviting comparison arui appreciation of the nuances among the historical manifestations of Islam.
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Bantman, Constance. "Jean Grave and French Anarchism: A Relational Approach (1870s–1914)". International Review of Social History 62, n. 3 (dicembre 2017): 451–77. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0020859017000347.
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AbstractThis article proposes a biographical approach to the study of anarchist activism, applied to the French journalist, editor, theorist, novelist, educator, and campaigner Jean Grave, one of the most influential figures in the French and international anarchist movement between the late 1870s and World War I. Adopting a relational approach delineating Grave’s formal and informal connections, it focuses on the role of print in Grave’s activism, through the three papers he edited between 1883 and 1914, and highlights his transnational connections and links with progressive circles in France. Due to the central place of both Grave and his publications in the French anarchist movement, this biographical and relational approach provides a basis to reassess the functioning and key strategic orientations of French anarchist communism during its “heroic period” (1870s–1914), by stressing its transnational ramifications and links beyond the anarchist movement.
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Shadursky, V. V. "Uralsky, M. (2019). Mark Aldanov. A writer, a public figure and a gentleman of Russian emigration. Prefaced by S. Pesterev and S. Garciano. St. Petersburg: Aleteya. (In Russ.)". Voprosy literatury, n. 4 (19 agosto 2021): 296–301. http://dx.doi.org/10.31425/0042-8795-2021-4-296-301.
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This first biographical account of M. Aldanov was authored by M. Uralsky, a writer of documentary prose. While not a strict academic publication, the book shows a thorough approach to selection of the material and verification of facts and introduces hitherto unknown documents, thus qualifying as a compelling piece of scholarly research. The book’s three parts are dedicated to key periods of Aldanov’s life: ‘A young Aldanov — happy years’ (1886–1917), ‘A historical novelist of Russian emigration’ (1919–1940), and ‘The twilight of life and work’ (1947–1957). Uralsky uncovered a number of new materials relating to Aldanov’s childhood and adolescence and his work in emigration, completing a reconstruction of the writer’s life. The biographer examines Aldanov’s personality as an artist, a literary critic, a journalist and a scholar. The book’s leitmotif is to actualise Aldanov’s idea of writers dedicating themselves to kalokagathia — the ‘moral beauty.’
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Hughes, Linda K. "A Few Words More about Victorian Women Writers and Germany: George Eliot and Amy Levy". George Eliot - George Henry Lewes Studies 75, n. 1 (novembre 2023): 1–17. http://dx.doi.org/10.5325/georelioghlstud.75.1.0001.
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Abstract This article revisits the relation between George Eliot and Amy Levy (1861–89), a lesbian New Woman Jewish poet, novelist, short-story writer, and journalist. Levy’s most familiar response to Eliot is a scene in Reuben Sachs (1889), Levy’s last novel, which mocks Eliot’s portrayal of Jewish characters in Daniel Deronda (1876). But Levy was an avowed admirer of Eliot in her early life and alluded to Eliot positively in the short story “Between Two Stools” (1883). In considering Eliot’s potential legacy for Levy, this article examines their shared representation of psychic experience in “The Lifted Veil” (1859) and “The Recent Telepathic Incident at the British Museum” (1887), their shared consideration of conflicts between women’s intellectual aspirations and domesticity in Armgart (1870) and “Xantippe” (1880), and their shared representations of persecution of the Roma in The Spanish Gypsy (1868) and “Run to Death” (1879).
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Bauer, Henry. "The Water Horses of Loch Ness by Roland Watson". Journal of Scientific Exploration 36, n. 2 (20 agosto 2022): 323–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.31275/20222509.
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In The Water Horses of Loch Ness, Roland Watson presents a significant and original contribution to methods for evaluating and interpreting traditional stories and folklore. Are Nessies real animals, or are they an entrepreneurial tourist trap capitalizing on folklore? Or are they perhaps supernatural entities? Each of those hypotheses has its adherents, and they each offer evidence. Most cryptozoologists pursue the real-animals hypothesis. However, a British novelist and former PR executive confessed to inventing the creatures to help the hotel industry (Bauer, 1986: 3-4), and an Italian journalist later claimed, separately and independently, to have invented the creatures [2]. Ted Holiday (1973), among others, envisaged a supernatural explanation. In any event, it surely seems relevant that Scots folklore features such creatures as Water Horses, Water Bulls, Water Kelpies, to which are attributed a variety of characteristics. But relevant in what way? How to assess what lies at the root of this folklore?
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MASSA, ANN. "Henry Blake Fuller and the Cliff Dwellers: Appropriations and Misappropriations". Journal of American Studies 36, n. 1 (gennaio 2002): 69–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0021875802006795.
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The relative obscurity of Chicago's Henry Blake Fuller (1857–1929), a prolific essayist, journalist, reviewer and novelist, with collections of plays, poems and short stories to his name, in part derives from the difficulty of placing him: the work resists classification. His early fiction, for instance, reflects, debates and sometimes satirises the alternating influences of Howells and James. The Cliff-Dwellers (1893) and With the Procession (1895), “American” novels, are framed by such “European” fictions as The Chevalier of Pensieri-Vani (1890) and Waldo Trench and Others: Stories of Americans in Italy (1908). His closet homosexual novel Bertram's Cope's Year (1919), a translation of Goldoni's The Fan (1925) and the non-fictional Gardens of this World (1929) testify to an incremental diversity. Characteristically, his last work, the posthumously published novel Not on the Screen (1930), which projects the interactive mimicry of “real” life and cinema, saw Fuller exploring fresh thematic and formal territory.
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Blackburn, Vivienne. "Albert Camus: The challenge of the unbeliever". Scottish Journal of Theology 64, n. 3 (29 giugno 2011): 313–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0036930611000147.
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AbstractAlbert Camus (1913–60), novelist, essayist, journalist and member of the French Resistance, reflected in his work the turbulent period through which he lived. His powerful portrayal of a world dominated by violence and suffering resonates with us today. An atheist, Camus had been, as a young man, drawn to the Christian faith: his postgraduate thesis was on the development of early Christianity. The thesis reveals the nature of the attraction which the faith held for Camus, and the unresolved problems which prevented him from embracing it. In maturity, Camus sought rather to convince fellow human beings of the need to work together to reduce suffering, without relying on belief in a transcendent being. He respected Christians, however, and welcomed dialogue with them. This article examines the possible basis for such dialogue revealed by the thesis. It goes on to consider the possibilities opened up by contemporary theology for dialogue between Christians and those unbelievers who share the perspective, the doubts and concerns of Albert Camus.
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Sami Majeed, Rafid, e Eiman Abbas El-Nour. "Violated Virginity of Nature and Humans : An Ecocritical Study of Kamala Markandaya’s Novels The Coffer Dams and Two Virgins". Al-Adab Journal 1, n. 124 (15 settembre 2018): 59–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.31973/aj.v1i124.114.
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The Indian novelist and journalist Kamala Purnaiya Taylor, (pseudonym : Kamala Markandaya (1924 – 16 May 2004) expresses her worries about nature and human’s virginity in the sense that both are to harmonize with each other and live in peace ,so that none of them attacks the virginity of the other. Once humans or nature lose it, they become a different element that is entirely different from the one it used to be before the attack takes place. Moreover, each one of them may react violently to the cause or doer, vengeance or passivism may be among the results of that cause or action of the doer. It may get out of control and the destruction caused may not be healed easily, and sometime it may not get healed at all. Ecocrtically, Markandaya studies the human psychology before and that attack happens. She also assesse the reaction of nature to any harm it may undergo.
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Duchesne, Scott. "Little Reckonings in Great Rooms". Canadian Theatre Review 121 (gennaio 2005): 17–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.3138/ctr.121.003.
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In her review of Sasha Cagen’s Quirkyalone: A Manifestofor Uncompromising Romantics for the Toronto Star, poet, novelist and cultural journalist Lynn Crosbie concludes that reading Cagen’s textbook for ind ependent and “cheerful oddballs” is “a slightly creep y experience, comparable to pouring over the folkwa ys of Klingons” (D12). This apparently peculiar connection seems to represent a broader consensu s regarding the activities of not only those who identify as Klingons, but those who move in the same world as them. For example, Crosbie’s glib depiction shares many similarities with the approach director Roger Nygard takes in his 1997 documentary Trekkies, in which a procession of quirky and cheerful “oddballs” enthusiastically expound on their devotion to Star Trek. Where Crosbie obviously intends to be derogatory, however, Nygard aims to foreground the notion that Trekkies are comfortable with, and even proud of, their oddball status.1 despite a lack of understanding, or even contempt, from “mundanes.”2
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Nofal, F. O. "<i>The Last Day</i> of creation. M. Naimy’s mystical manifesto". Voprosy literatury, n. 5 (29 novembre 2021): 246–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.31425/0042-8795-2021-5-246-263.
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The article is devoted to the mystical manifesto The Last Day (1963) of the Lebanese novelist, playwright and journalist Mikhail Naimy (1889–1988). The author suggests that Naimy, under the spell of classical Russian literature, attempted an audacious experiment: by successfully combining the totality of concepts of Dostoevsky’s The Dream of a Ridiculous Man [ Son smeshnogo cheloveka] with the traditional mythologemes of Sufi poetry, this graduate of the Poltava theological seminary overcomes mystical imagery, and in doing so postulates human impotence in the face of the Nietzschean ‘eternal recurrence’ and the ineffable nature of true the ophanies. The article demonstrates the innovative character of The Last Day, a novel that stands apart from the works of other Pen League members: while Gibran’s The Prophet seeks to infantilise a religious myth, Naimy’s objective is to bring mythology back into the 20th-c. Middle Eastern literary discourse and reimagine it using the categories of contemporary existential philosophy. The study opens with a short biography, covering Naimy’s Russian and American periods.
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Scarante, Ionã Carqueijo. "Entre a Literatura e o Jornalismo: Itinerários do Escritor Baiano Anísio Melhor (1885-1955)". Cadernos de Literatura Comparada, n. 44 (2021): 153–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.21747/2183-2242/cad44a9.
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Anísio Melhor was born in the city of Nazaré, located in the Recôncavo da Bahia, on May 7, 1885. From reading his work, the most important source of information found about the writer, it is clear that journalism is one with his life. Self-taught, it was in the newspapers that he directed and collaborated that he became a poet, novelist, short-story writer, literary critic, folklorist and chronicler. Among the literary genres he published in periodicals, chronicles are the texts that most show his modus scribendi, as well as pointing out clues to his intellectual path and his evolution as a writer. In some of his texts, he discusses the journalist's solitary work, combining his experiences as a reader of the most varied newspapers and, especially, as a journalist in his small town. According to the writer, the provincial newspaper values every reader in its small town, knows its audience very closely, writes down the events day by day: now it is the chronicle of social nature, now it is the commentary on the deaths, now it is telluric poetry, now it is the birth of another child, now it is the chapter of another novel or novella. Thus, in the newspaper he founded and directed for a few decades, O Conservador (1912-1945), Melhor every day (re)constructed the history of his people, recording their traditions, stories and memories. The researches carried out in literary archives for the composition of this article contributed to revive the memory of this writer and to divulge his literary production and his work as a journalist.
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Molodiakov, Vasilii E. "Writers’ Letters to George Sylvester Viereck in a Private Collection". Literature of the Americas, n. 10 (2021): 337–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.22455/2541-7894-2021-10-337-349.
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German-born American poet, novelist, journalist and editor George Sylvester Viereck (1884 –1962) during his almost 60-year literary career (his first poem was published in 1898) befriended, met and corresponded with hundreds of contemporaries, including world famous persons. His first biographer Elmer Gertz wrote in 1954, “One should go through Viereck’s correspondence with the great personalities of his time in order to learn the full extent of the admiration they expressed for him. Alas, that correspondence is scattered; but excerpts from it can be found in the catalogues of various autograph dealers and should be preserved”. Liberated from prison in 1947 Viereck was not able to restore his previous position in literary world, was in need of money and had to sell autographs from his personal archive. This publication includes letters of four writers addressed to Viereck and dealing with his literary and editorial work. All of them are preserved in the author’s private collection and are published in English for the first time. In Russian translation one letter is published for the first time, another one was previously published, two letters were quoted. Journalist, writer, and politician Brand Whitlock (1869 –1934) followed Viereck’s journalistic activities as well as his Decadent poetry. English author and poet Richard Le Gallienne (1866 –1947), being a living incarnation of the “naughty nineties” for Viereck, valued contributing to his magazine The International. Known as the Dean of American Biographers, famous writer Gamaliel Bradford (1863 –1932) refused to support Viereck’s protest against the prohibition of his novel My First 2000 Years in the Irish Free State. Poet, artist and filmmaker Ferdinand Earle (1878 –1951) remained faithful to his long friendship with Viereck even when the latter was emprisoned.
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Verdoodt, Frans-Jos. "Hector Plancquaert: daensistisch politicus voor, tijdens en na Daens, activist, geboren dissident". WT. Tijdschrift over de geschiedenis van de Vlaamse beweging 72, n. 3 (11 settembre 2013): 253–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.21825/wt.v72i3.12198.
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Honderd en vijftig jaar geleden werd Hector Plancquaert (1863-1953) geboren. Die persoonlijkheid legde een belangwekkend parcours af, zowel binnen de emancipatiegeschiedenis van Vlaanderen in het algemeen als binnen de geschiedenis van de Vlaamse beweging in het bijzonder. Hij was een der pioniers van de daensistische beweging, een sociaal-politieke beweging genoemd naar de gebroeders Adolf en Pieter Daens. Plancquaert zou gedurende bijna een halve eeuw mede bepalend zijn voor die beweging en haar ook overleven. De bepalende, radicale invloed die hij uitoefende op die daensistische beweging leidde tot de specifieke strekking van het plancquaertisme. Tot die strekking behoorden ook de engagementen die hij aanging binnen het Vlaamse activisme. Ofschoon Plancquaert uitgesproken Vlaamsgezind was, heeft hij zich verzet tegen de integratie van de daensistische beweging in het Vlaam-nationalisme.Plancquaert was behalve politicus ook toneel- en romanschrijver, journalist en uitgever, advocaat en industrieel.________Hector Plancquaert: Daensist politician before, during and after Daens, activist, born dissident.Hector Plancquaert (1863-1953) was born one hundred and fifty years ago. This personality followed an important path, both in the history of the emancipation of Flanders in general as well as in the Flemish movement in particular. He was one of the pioneers of the Daensist movement, a socio-political movement, named after the brothers Adolf and Pieter Daens. For almost half a century Plancquaert would help determine this movement and he would also survive it. The defining radical influence he exerted on the Daensist movement led to the specific meaning of the Plancquaert idiology. This also included the commitments he took on within Flemish activism. Although Plancquaert was clearly pro-Flemish, he resisted the integration of the Daensist movement into Flemish nationalism.In addition to being a politician, Plancquaert was also a playwright, novelist, journalist and publisher, lawyer and industrialist.
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Musa Jafarova, Sevil. "NOTES ON THE LIFE AND WORK OF ERNEST HEMINGWAY". SCIENTIFIC WORK 15, n. 3 (24 marzo 2021): 63–67. http://dx.doi.org/10.36719/2663-4619/64/63-67.
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Ernest Hemingway was an American novelist and short story writer and journalist. His real name is Ernest Miller Hemingway. He is a Nobel and Pulitzer Prize-winning writer. He wrote his first articles in the school newspaper. In 1917, America was slowly joining World War I.Heminquey immediately enlisted in the army, but was not accepted because his left eye was weak. A year later, he entered the Red Crescent and volunteered to drive an ambulance. He was wounded in an explosion near the war, carrying an Italian soldier on his shoulder while he was wounded, and was wounded in the leg. After that, he was declared a hero in Italy and received the "Silver Medal of Honor". While in treatment in Milan, he fell in love with a nurse, and this love led him to write a masterpiece - "Goodbye, guns." Heminquey wrote mainly about his life experiences. This can be seen in "Goodbye, weapons". The writer, who reached the peak of his career with "Who the bells are ringing for", continued his life by participating in wars. Key words: famous writer, Chicago, Nobel laureate, author of short stories, story, old man, sea
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Agarwal, Anupam, e Sonal Shukla. "Untouchable and Coolie: The Soul of Social Realism". International Journal of Advance Research and Innovation 2, n. 1 (2014): 117–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.51976/ijari.211421.
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Mulk Raj Anand is very well- known as an Indian novelist, distinguished writer, reformer, art critic, editor, journalist, a short story writer and political activist. He opened a new section of writers of fiction along with Raja Rao and R. K. Narayan and produced a great deal of English literature and his mastery in the realistic and sympathetic portrayal of the exploited class of Indian society marks his genius as a socially committed novelist. That‟s why he is not only known as India‟s Charles dickens but also considered the messiah of the have-nots, unloved, down trodden and unwanted. The exploitation of the downtrodden in Indian society made him focus his attention on their miserable and pathetic condition and formed the major theme of his works. His writings reflect his urgent social concern, preoccupations and the social impulse and made the reader to be immediately aware of the exploitation faced by the downtrodden through the heart throbbing description of their wretched state. Painted with the colors of social realism Mulk Raj Anand‟s two novels Untouchable and Coolie reflect the hard core reality of the Indian society of early decades of twentieth century.. Written with a purpose both these novels condemn the modern capitalistic Indian society and feudal system for the shameless and tragic exploitation of the poor and underdog as there is nothing but a true, real and bitter reflection of the society in both the novels dealing with a similar central theme of social exploitation, the exploitation of the downtrodden and the under-privileged because of the curse of untouchability, poverty, hunger, child labour, social governance, social set up of society, customs, religious belief, prejudices and the suffering of the Indian masses by the forces of capitalism, industrialism and colonialism. The present paper shows the true colours of social realism in Untouchable and Coolie; the epic like novels of M. K. Anand to strike a cord in the hearts of the consciententious Indians through a beautiful and real to life portrayal of the exploited masses of Indian society.
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Di Renzo, Anthony. "The Complete English Tradesman: Daniel Defoe and the Emergence of Business Writing". Journal of Technical Writing and Communication 28, n. 4 (ottobre 1998): 325–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.2190/te72-jbn7-gnut-bnuw.
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Daniel Defoe, one of the pioneers of the English novel, primarily earned his living as a journalist, pamphleteer, proposal writer, and freelance business consultant. A born entrepreneur, Defoe's many projects included promoting and marketing the first practical diving bell, designing commercial fisheries and improving London's sewer system, producing a series of popular self-help manuals, and founding and editing the first English technical writing journal, The Projector. These were the products of Defoe's indefatigable pen, and the utilitarian simplicity of his business and technical writing has strongly influenced English prose ever since. This article will examine two major pieces of Defoe's professional writing: An Essay of Projects, (1698) a portfolio of his best proposals, and the landmark The Complete English Tradesman (1725), the first English business writing manual. These and similar texts would form the loam of Defoe's great novels, Robinson Crusoe (1719), Moll Flanders (1721), and A Journal of a Plague Year (1722). While Defoe's professional writing shaped his creative writing, his gifts as a novelist—his plain, demotic style, his knack for concise narrative and analytical summary, his ability to create convincing personas through textual documentation—shaped his business writing. Both forms of writing made him the premier spokesperson of a new social and economic order.
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Han, Inhye. "Undoing the Nation-State-Capital Trinity: Turning Inagaki's Petition into a Korean Playwright's Taiwan". positions 32, n. 2 (1 maggio 2024): 233–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/10679847-11024294.
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Abstract This article is the first study that excavates a Korean writer's Chinese-language play based on Taiwanese farmers’ real-life events and that identifies its author as playwright, filmmaker, and novelist Li Kyŏngson. During his Shanghai years (1929–32), Li encountered Japanese journalist Izumi Fūrō’s book, which includes the 1925 petition that Japanese philanthropist Inagaki Tōbei wrote on Taiwanese bamboo farmers’ behalf to support their cause. Li's stage play Taiwan (1930) was born of a densely transnational nexus: a petition by a Japanese philanthropist, a Japanese journalist's monograph, Korean authorship, a Korean-Chinese actor's translation, and the Chinese-language socialist magazine Pioneer. This study analyzes how Li's Taiwan reconfigures the 1925 petition and transcends the seemingly invincible nation-state-capital trinity. Although the petition pleads with the state to condemn Mitsubishi, Taiwan invokes neither the state nor the nation to combat colonial capitalism, drawing instead on anachronism and the leitmotif of kin killing. While tracking the play's counter-nationalist turn, this article's analysis shows that Li revitalizes past events grounded in world religions that bear radical anti-statism at their cores. Briefly yet lucidly, Taiwan also pinpoints the potent moment of anti-capitalism, forcibly buried and hardly resuscitated by Li's contemporaries.
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Berman, Carolyn Vellenga. "“AWFUL UNKNOWN QUANTITIES”: ADDRESSING THE READERS IN HARD TIMES". Victorian Literature and Culture 37, n. 2 (settembre 2009): 561–82. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1060150309090342.
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Charles Dickens was lionized in the early 1850s for his political powers as a novelist, journalist, and reformer. A December 1850 review of David Copperfield in Fraser's Magazine affirmed that the so-called “Boz” has done more, we verily believe, for the promotion of peace and goodwill between man and man, class and class, nation and nation, than all the congresses under the sun . . . . Boz, and men like Boz, are the true humanizers, and therefore the true pacificators, of the world. They sweep away the prejusdices of class and caste, and disclose the common ground of humanity which lies beneath factitious social and national systems. Such tributes to his political powers must have been gratifying to a writer who had begun his career as a parliamentary reporter. They proclaimed the power of the writer in an age of print, bearing out Thomas Carlyle's sense that “Printing . . . is equivalent to Democracy . . . . Whoever can speak, speaking now to the whole nation, becomes a power, a branch of government, with inalienable weight in law-making.” Fraser's elaborated on this idea by linking Dickens's uncanny ability to “introduce” characters to one another to his ability to “introduce” such characters to readers of different ranks. “Men like Boz,” the reviewer explained, “introduce the peasantry to the peerage” and “the grinder at the mill to the millionaire who owns the grist” (700).
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Bogdanova, Olga. "Bibliography of Georgy Chulkov’s literary and critical works of 1903 –1922". Literary Fact, n. 16 (2020): 413–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.22455/2541-8297-2020-16-413-435.
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Bibliography of literary and critical works (books, articles, reviews, conversations, notes, “letters”, etc.) by Georgy Ivanovich Chulkov (1879 –1939), compiled and published on these pages for the first time, gives an idea of the range of creative interests and the evolution of aesthetic views of one of the major literary and cultural figures of Russian Symbolism in the first two decades of the 20th century. Poet, translator, novelist, playwright, literary critic and journalist, publisher, and since the 1920s also a literary critic, who created serious scientific works about A.S. Pushkin, F.I. Tyutchev, F.M. Dostoevsky and other writers, and memoirist, author of valuable memoirs about the literary life of the Silver Age “Years of travel” (1930), Chulkov was also a sensitive theater and art critic, who collaborated with V.F. Komissarzhevskaya, V.E. Meyerhold, M.V. Dobuzhinsky, E.E. Lansere, Z.A. Serebryakova and others. Having linked his creative fate with such iconic magazines of the Silver Age as “Novyi put'”, “Voprosy zhizni”, “Zolotoe runo”, and then “Narodopravstvo”, whose editorial policy he influenced and in some cases determined, Chulkov often and regularly acted as a literary critic, ideologist of literary trends of “mystical anarchism” and “mystical realism”, a fighter for the social and national significance of contemporary literature. Chulkov's literary criticism is not only an important part of his creative legacy, but also an irreplaceable feature of the complex and diverse literary movement of the first two decades of the 20th century
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Malathi, V. P. "Sufferings and Starvation in Kamala Markandaya’s Nectar in a Sieve". Shanlax International Journal of English 9, n. 3 (1 giugno 2021): 70–73. http://dx.doi.org/10.34293/english.v9i3.3992.
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Kamala Markandaya is one of the best known contemporary Indian novelists. Her novels are remarkable for their range of experience. Her first novel Nectar in a Sieve is set in a village and it examines the hard agricultural life of the south Indian village where industry and modern technology played havoc. Kamala Markandaya occupies a very important position among the women novelist who have made substantial contribution to Indian fiction after the Second World War. Markandaya had not always lived abroad. She was born as Kamala Purnaiya in 1924 in Mysore and she was also a journalist. At some point, she decided to spend 18 months in a village “out of curiosity”. This inspired the setting of her first novel, centred on Rukmani and her husband Nathan. Nectar in a Sieve is remarkable for its portrayal of rustics who live in fear, hunger and despair. It is of the dark future; fear of the sharpness of hunger; fear of blackness of death. Almost all the characters in this novel lead miserable life and most of them fail to survive. There are at least a couple of them who were not successfully struggle and have the concept of survival. This novel tells the story of landless peasants of India who face starvation, oppression, breakup of family, home and death. Yet they retain their compassion, love, the strength to face their life and take delight in the little pleasures of the daily existence.
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Mérian, Jean-Yves. "Aluísio Azevedo e Portugal: uma ambígua relação". e-Letras com Vida: Revista de Estudos Globais — Humanidades, Ciências e Artes 04 (2020): 90–100. http://dx.doi.org/10.53943/elcv.0120_09.
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The reading of Aluísio Azevedo’s novels led many critics to consider that this Brazilian novelist had a very strong anti-Portuguese bias. This study aims to correct this assessment, based on the analysis of the biography of the writer from Maranhão (1857-1913). Son of Portuguese parents, he lived his childhood and adolescence in a patriarchal and slave society, dominated by Portuguese, Luso-Brazilian traders and by the rural oligarchy and the ultramontane Church. Self-taught, but raised in an educated family, he completed his training in Rio de Janeiro as a journalist and caricaturist, before asserting himself as a writer. He was greatly influenced by Portuguese intellectuals and writers, such as Ramalho Ortigão, Eça de Queirós, Maria Amália Vaz de Carvalho and by the caricaturist Bordalo Pinheiro, whom he met in Rio de Janeiro and with whom he would maintain friendly relations throughout his life. In Rio de Janeiro, the author actively participated in the promotion of the work of Eça de Queirós, before asserting himself as the promoter of Naturalism in Brazil. For ten years, Azevedo was, alongside Ferreira de Araújo and Machado de Assis, one of the main activists in favor of signing a Portuguese-Brazilian copyright agreement that guaranteed equality and reciprocity between Brazilian and Portuguese authors.Thus, the letters sent to friends and quoted in this article deny the accusations of anti-Lusitanist by the author of O Mulato, Casa de Pensão and O Cortiço.
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Bulamur, Ayşe Naz. "Women as Boundary Markers between Islam and Secularism in Julia Kristeva's Murder in Byzantium (2004) and Elif Şafak's The Bastard of Istanbul (2006)". Religion & Literature 54, n. 3 (settembre 2022): 77–96. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/rel.2022.a908574.
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ABSTRACT: The Bulgarian-French writer Julia Kristeva's Murder in Byzantium (2004) and Turkish novelist Elif Şafak's The Bastard of Istanbul (2006) show how both secular and veiled women become the ground upon which Turkey and France build their national identities. In Murder , the two narrators—the French journalist, Stephanie Delacour, and the unnamed narrator—associate secularism with modernization and progress, and Islam with backwardness and gender inequality. A financially independent world traveler, Stephanie constructs her identity as a foil to the allegedly subservient headscarved Turkish women and fears that French women's freedom might be endangered by the arrival of Muslim immigrants. Her elevation of her Slavic mother Christine and the Byzantine princess Anna Comnena as secular and rational Western women stands for her dream of a French national identity without Islamic influences. Şafak's novel, on the other hand, portrays Turkish female identity not as singular but complex, as the two sisters—the headscarved Banu and Zeliha wearing a miniskirt—live under the same roof. Şafak also portrays Turkish women's ambivalent position as the markers of modernity and tradition as the matriarch Gülsüm Kazancı criticizes Banu for defying secularism and Zeliha for her seductive clothes. Whereas Kristeva's narrators set French national identity in opposition to Islam and Turkish women, Şafak's novel challenges the flattened conception of Turkish femininity by depicting the hybridity of women's dress codes and religious practices. Both novels portray how secular Turkish and French nationalisms are imagined vis-à-vis female roles.
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Dr. Rashmi Rekha Saikia. "Individual Identity and Quest for Survival: An Exploration of the Inner Psyche of the Existential Hero in Anita Desai’s Voices in the City". Creative Launcher 4, n. 5 (31 dicembre 2019): 62–67. http://dx.doi.org/10.53032/tcl.2019.4.5.10.
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Literature is the finest manifestation of human experience, thinking patterns and social norms prevalent in the society. Literary fiction reflects the aspirations, passions and faith and so forth. Fiction which represents life in all its complexities is one of the most dominant forms of literary representation. In the Indian context, the paradigm shift that took place in literature focus on the profusely creative literary release on multifarious issues that directly linked with individual identity and consciousness. Voices in the City is a seminal work by Anita Desai. It stands unparalleled to other fictional works of her contemporaries as it manifests the existential quest and social conflict unraveling the psychosomatic miseries of the individual characters that permeates the entire novel. The novel echoes the mute voices of the characters who feel outlandish in the city of Calcutta. As a novelist of human concern, Desai exhibits a strong inclination towards the existentialist interpretation of the human predicament. Voices in the City documents the pitiable plight and failure of a typical Bengali youth, Nirode along with his sisters Monisha and Amla in the city of Calcutta. The novel mainly projects the spiritual cataclysm of a journalist Nirode, who is destined to reside in Calcutta in quest for finding truer meaning of life. The study attempts to explore the intense sufferings, disappointments and frustrations of the wrathful youth which arises out of the intense sensitivity of his intellectuality.
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Kubasov, A. V. "THE IMAGE OF CHEKHOV UNDER THE MASK OF A HERO IN A. S. SUVORIN’S NOVEL “AT THE END OF THE CENTURY. LOVE”". Culture and Text, n. 56 (2024): 6–17. http://dx.doi.org/10.37386/2305-4077-2024-1-6-17.
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The article is devoted to the phenomenon of creative controversy, realized in a fictional form. One of the most active interlocutors of Chekhov was the publisher, journalist and writer Alexei Sergeevich Suvorin. He knew his younger colleague well and left few but valuable testimonies about him. The loss of Suvorin’s letters to Chekhov causes serious semantic gaps. They can be filled by the analysis of other sources, with a lower level of verification. These include Suvorin’s novel “At the end of the century. Love “(1893), in which the author created the image of Chekhov, hiding him under the mask of one of the main characters. The novelist, like a painter, used Chekhov as a sitter for his work. Some details of the literary image of Vidalin, which is “written off” from Anton Pavlovich. They find confirmation in documentary evidence. The novel image of the hero and the real person cannot be identical to each other. The character functions within the framework of the created artistic world, in interconnection with other characters, so he obeys the author’s intentions. The significance of the reflection of Chekhov’s personality in a literary text is due to the fact that it provided Suvorin with a large degree of freedom to express his opinion about a colleague. The results of the study can be used in the analysis of Chekhov’s interaction with an influential contemporary, as well as in biographical works.
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Shehata, Abdel kareem. "The Unemployed Main Character in the Fiction of Kunut Hamsun and Najeeb Mahfouz: A Comparative Study in the Light of Sustainable Development". International Journal of Literature Studies 1, n. 1 (4 novembre 2021): 62–69. http://dx.doi.org/10.32996/ijts.2021.1.1.8.
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The Norwegian novelist Kunut Hamsun published his novel Hunger in 1921. The novel was translated into English by George Egerton. In this novel, Hamsun introduces the character of Andereas Tangen, a journalist who has a good life but starts to lose his living, and his essays begin to be refused. He becomes unemployed and suffers poverty, hunger, and homelessness for some time. By the end of the novel, he finds a job on a ship that is sailing from his town Christiania to fetch coal. During the 1930s the Egyptian novelist and short story writer Nageeb Mahfouz wrote his collection of short stories (Hams Eel- Gnoon) The Whisper of Madness. Among this collection, he published his short story (Al- Goo) The Hunger. In this short story, the main character, Ibrahim Hanafy has been working in a factory until he cuts his arm in an accident and loses his job. He becomes unemployed and he, with his family, suffers hunger and many social and psychological difficulties. He hates his life, tries to commit suicide but is saved coincidently by the son of the factory's owner. The man promises Ibrahim to find him a job. This paper aims to show that the unemployed main character in Hamsun's and Mahfouz's works is unable either to love a partner or to have a friend and if he is married, he is unable to keep his marriage relation. Another aim of the paper is to shed light on the negative relations of the unemployed character on one side with his god and with the government of his country on the other side. The third aim of the paper is to emphasize that unemployment, in Hamsun's and Mahfouz's works, leads the once good character to try to commit suicide. Thus the paper comes into three parts: the first part deals with Tangen’s failure to have a love relation or enjoy a friendship. This part also tackles Hanafy’s disability to protect his love for his wife. The second part introduces Tangen’s criticism of his god and of the government in his country. In the third part, the paper discusses the once good characters, becoming unemployed, thinking of death as a solution, and may try to commit suicide. The paper depends on the theory of needs' priority and the method of social and psychological analysis in tackling its topic.
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Demker, Marie. "Converted by un confit de canard: Political Thinking in the Novel Soumission by Michel Houellebecq". European Review 27, n. 4 (9 luglio 2019): 591–99. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1062798719000188.
Abstract (sommario):
From a certain perspective, literature is always political. Literature in a broad sense has been a source of uprisings and protest at least since Martin Luther nailed his theses on the door of the church in Wittenberg in 1517 – and probably much further back in history than that. Narratives are the most potent way to articulate both political praise and criticism within a given society. In his political satires, British author George Orwell reviled all kinds of totalitarianism and the idea of a socialist utopia. Swedish writer and journalist Stieg Larsson wrote explicitly dystopian crime stories targeting the Swedish welfare state. German novelist Heinrich Böll turned a critical eye on the development of the tabloid press and the use of state monitoring in German society. In the same tradition, Michel Houellebecq has been seen as a very provocative writer in his tone and in his use of political tools. He has articulated a nearly individual anarchist perspective combined with authoritarian and paternalistic views. In Soumission, Houellebecq uses the European idea of multiculturalism to explode our political frames from within. This article explores the perception of religion in Soumission, assesses the critique Houellebecq directs towards French society and European developments, and examines Houellebecq’s perception of democracy and politics. The following questions are addressed: does Houellebecq’s critique come from a classical ideological perspective? Does he describe any elements of an ideal society – even if only as the reverse of a presented dystopia? What kind of democracy does the text of Soumission support or oppose?