This article focusses on the main character, Heidi, and analyses the family values that shaped her character, which is portrayed in the book. It reveals the family values in Heidi which include a ...sense of intimacy, generosity, values, customs, estimation and thirst for knowledge, connection, conversation, and duty. These values have a significant impact on Heidi's personality, making her open minded, faithful, optimistic, sacred, sympathetic, and enthusiastic. Her family's influence and values are creating an impact on her character and behaviour. Kindness, respect, empathy, sympathy, communication, sharing, caring etc. are the qualities that she has acquired through family relations. Heidi is a kind-hearted girl, who not only considers people as a part of her family, but also animals, especially goats. This story tells about Heidi's thirst, in order to found out a peaceful family atmosphere and to imbibe the value of family in one's life. Having an intention to have a family value means to have generous behaviour, thinking, affection, courtesy, and the attitude of treating others with respect and generosity. This novel has a lighthearted ambience, presenting a pleasant and feel-good atmosphere. This study reveals the influence of family on Heidi's life and also reveals how it is creating a change in one's character. Keywords: Heidi, Family, character, behaviour, nature, imbibe, generosity
The name "Heidi" is known and loved all over the world, due to Swiss author, Johanna Spyri's works, Heidis Lehr- und Wanderjahre (1880) and Heidi kann brauchen, was es gelernt hat (1881), which form ...part of the classic international children's literature canon. The focus of this article lies on the transnational traffic between the original Heidi (1881) and its adaptations. Because "Heidi" as a cultural phenomenon contains universal themes, the product was able to spread globally. Included in the article is an overview of how the Heidi text manifested in several cultures and its transnational movement, spanning time and place. The popularity of the animation series in South Africa among Afrikaans speaking people is analysed, along with suggestions for possible reasons for this big following and prevalence .
ABSTRACT
In his 1688 dissertation, which first coined the word ‘nostalgia’, the physician Johannes Hofer noted that this ‘Swiss’ sickness (‘Schweizerkrankheit’) is often triggered in soldiers by ...sounds such as the ringing of cowbells. During her stay in Frankfurt nearly two hundred years later, Johanna Spyri's Heidi is similarly stricken by homesickness, brought on by her acoustic hallucinations about her Swiss Heimat. Heidi's ‘Heimweh’ is treated by her physician as a form of ‘hysteria’, raising the question: to what extent does homesickness manifest itself as a gendered disease? Focusing on the interrelationship between gender and her status as an orphan, I argue that the absence of trauma surrounding the early loss of Heidi's parents becomes spatialised into a kind of intense, somatised homesickness. Building on the arguments of Sigmund Freud and Peter Blickle, I suggest that signifiers like Heimat and ‘Heimweh’ function as ways for Heidi to skirt more salient issues about her past, identity, and psychological development. The novel's discourse around ‘Heimweh’ and Heimat, I conclude, becomes a coded way for Heidi to articulate the unspeakable trauma of losing her parents, a trauma that is never explicitly discussed in the text.
Zusammenfassung
In seiner Dissertation von 1688, die erstmals das Wort ‘Nostalgie’ prägte, stellte der Arzt Johannes Hofer fest, dass diese ‘Schweizerkrankheit’ bei Soldaten oft durch Geräusche wie Kuhglocken ausgelöst wurde. Fast zweihundert Jahre später leidet Heidi während ihres Aufenthalts in Frankfurt ebenfalls an Heimweh, hervorgerufen durch akustische Halluzinationen ihrer Schweizer Heimat. Heidis Heimweh wird von ihrem Arzt als eine Form von ‘Hysterie’ behandelt, und es stellt sich die Frage, inwiefern Heimweh sich als eine geschlechtsspezifische Krankheit manifestiert. Dieser Beitrag, der das Verhältnis von Gender und Heidis Status als Waise untersucht, argumentiert, dass das unausgesprochene Trauma, das Heidis frühen Verlust ihrer Eltern umgibt, zu einer Art intensivem, somatisiertem Heimweh verräumlicht wird. Mit Verweis auf die Studien von Sigmund Freud und Peter Blickle behaupte ich, dass Bedeutungsträger wie Heimat und Heimweh Heidi dazu verhelfen, Aspekte ihrer Vergangenheit, Identität und psychologischen Entwicklung zu verdrängen.
Children's literature or young adult literature is often seen as an elementary and casual genre, but people overlook the powerful tools it acquires in modelling attitudes and shaping children's ...minds. Various studies point out that society's behaviours and attitudes towards disability and people with disability are primarily based on popular culture and not personal encounters or experiences. Disability has always been an inseparable part of children's movies and stories from the beginning of times, only the magnitude to which it has been revealed has changed. This literature is seen as the most important as it introduces the world to young minds, and hence the impression it creates in children's minds would not easily be eliminated. It is also noted that young children accept differences and generate positive, acceptive attitudes during their early ages as they are less resistant and have little foreknowledge. This paper examines the disability representations in children's literature and traces the changes it has undergone as a genre from the nineteenth century to the twenty-first century. Two children's books are selected for this study, "Heidi" by Johanna Spyri and "Rules" by Cynthia Lord. The differences in the portrayal of disability and disabled characters in these novels are studied through content analysis, character study, comparison and by analyzing the linguistic symbols. This paper also ventures to decipher the norms and societal values the stereotypes were based on, and it also attempts to account for any changes.
The composer, conductor, and writer Peter Jona Korn is not familiar to many musicians today. His works are rarely performed, but they include several works for the oboe that are valuable additions to ...the repertoire. Korn’s life bore similarities to many other German-Jewish composers of the twentieth century, as he, like Arnold Schoenberg, Stefan Wolpe, and Kurt Weill, was forced to flee Germany to escape Nazi persecution. However, unlike composers who turned away from tonality, searching for other modes of expression after the war, Korn remained committed to composing in a largely tonal idiom. Korn’s 1975 book Musikalische Umweltverschmutzung: Polemische Variationen über ein unerquickliches Thema (Musical Pollution: Polemical Variations on an Unpleasant Theme), in which he rails against what he saw as the hegemony of the serialists and the avant-garde, gives readers today an insight into a composer who rejected the prevailing style of his time. The first part of this document will provide a biographical sketch of the composer, followed by an examination of a new translation of Musical Pollution. The second part will discuss Korn’s two works for oboe and keyboard instrument with the intention of introducing these works to oboists looking to program lesser-known pieces of music.
On the one hand, cities offer diversity, entertainment, excitement, and opportunity; on the other, they are equated with crime, unsavory characters, and poverty.Wojcik points out that nowhere in the ...Dead End Kids films are movies per se referenced....although the movies reflect upon issues such as "urbanism, overcrowding, tenement culture, and immigration, they ignore commercial mass entertainment and consumerism" (61).Wojcik begins her last chapter with a reference to the educational television show Sesame Street, first aired in 1969, depicting a positive urban area where children and adults gathered for pleasure, excitement, and community, and suggesting a hope that the city would once again become a welcoming place for children.
"Johanna Spyri hat den schweizerischen Schriftstellerinnen den Weg ins Haus gewiesen": Women, Literature and Society in Switzerland (1900-1950) ABSTRACT At the beginning of the 20th century, when ...nationalistic movements threatened Switzerland's fragile integrity, democratic values became the instrument to strengthen the pillars that supported the Eidgenossenschaft: from this moment onward freedom, equality or the concept of citizenship would function as a bond to join Swiss people. In order to be able to fulfill their wish to write, female writers resorted then to several strategies to be able to please the demands of the critics, and yet not be unfaithful to their principles and women. En el país alpino el orden social se mantuvo inalterable, sostenido por unas reaccionarias estructuras de poder que, obsesionadas por mantener el status quo vigente, condenaban a la mujer suiza al ámbito de lo doméstico y no permitían el más mínimo atisbo de emancipación por su parte. Sin embargo, esta situación no impidió que las mujeres suizas de la primera mitad del siglo XX se hicieran eco -en mayor o menor grado- de los significativos acontecimientos sociales que tenían lugar en el ámbito europeo, ni tampoco de las numerosas corrientes literarias y filosóficas que en aquel entonces comenzaban a desarrollarse.
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