In order to demonstrate the benefits of an anthropological approach to literary studies, this paper begins with introducing ethnocritique as a paradigm combining formal analysis and an awareness of ...the cultural components of texts. It then shifts to evaluate the faculty of ethnocritique to account for literature considered as discourse. Eventually, studying a short story by Maupassant (Saint-Antoine, 1883), it highlights how ethnocritique, integrated within the frame of discourse analysis, can unveil discursive activities, such as the mode of relation between reader and text, and, beyond, the efforts of positioning of the author in the literary field.
Bachelors, Bastards, and Nomadic Masculinity is, firstly, a thematic exploration of bachelor figures and male bastards in literary works by Guy de Maupassant and André Gide. The coupling of ...Maupassant and Gide is appropriate for such an analysis, not only because of their mutual treatment of illegitimacy, but also because each writer represents varieties of bachelors and bastards from disparate social classes and subcultures, each writing during contiguous moments of socio-legal changes parti.
Improving sleep quality in the intensive care unit is significant for the recovery process. This study investigated the effect of listening to audiobooks on sleep quality and vital signs in intensive ...care patients.
This quasi-experimental study utilized the pre-posttest design, involving control and intervention groups. The study was conducted in the internal medicine intensive care unit of a hospital in Turkey between January–June 2022. Standard nursing care was given to both groups on the first night, and the Sleep Evaluation Form and Richard Campbell Sleep Scale were used to measure sleep quality in the morning. On the second day, the intervention group listened to a recorded story, and the control group had standard care. Sleep quality and vital signs were measured again.
Data from 56 participants were analyzed. Noise (96.4%), light (69.6%), unfamiliar environment (64.8%), concerns about illness (33.9%), and care and treatments (58.9%) are the main causes of sleep disruption. The effect of these factors decreased in the intervention group after the Audiobook Listening Practice, which significantly improved the sleep quality of the ICU patients (p < 0.001). Among the vital signs, a significant difference was found in pulse and blood pressure (p < 0.001), while no changes were observed in temperature and respiratory rate in time group interaction (p > 0.05).
The Audiobook Listening Practice improved sleep quality and life parameters in the ICU. Nurses can use the practice to improve sleep quality in intensive care units.
Evidence-based studies are needed to improve the sleep quality of patients in intensive care units, to ensure clinical improvement, and to reduce the length of stay at hospital. The practice is effective in manipulating environmental stressors. This low-cost method significantly improves patient care activities. It is recommended to integrate such complementary activities into intensive care units, to train nurses about the practice, and to support the practice with new studies.
Guy de Maupassant is remembered as the father of the modern short story form who depicted human lives in disillusioned terms. William Somerset Maugham adopts him as a model in the field of short ...story writing right from his youth and operates with a precisely realized setting, an un-blurred delineation of character and a linear narrative as per the tradition of French naturalist fiction. He even aims at emulating the French artist's pursuit of the truth besides his writing techniques. Maugham's skill in handling characters, settings, plots and clinical attitude in most of his short stories are always inspired by his master. He has even learnt from the French exponent the art of acute and sardonic genius for exposing the bitter reality of human relationships. Both of them are known to tell their stories in a clear and economical style with a cynical undertone. After going through some select stories discussed in the paper, one can surely say that the craft leant from his master has made Maugham an unsurpassed storyteller.
The myth of Pygmalion and the motif of the morte amoureuse pervade the Francophone literature of the nineteenth century. From Romantic ghosts to Decadent female corpses, male authors spin tales of ...necrophilia. Animated by the male lover's thoughts and desires, women are nothing more than "dociles simulacres", ventriloquized through the male narrator, a Pygmalion nécromancien. Within this patriarchal discourse of silenced females, Isabelle Eberhardt and Rachilde innovate the genre by giving a voice to their female characters, whether as subject (Pygmalion) or object (morte amoureuse). At a time when women were expected to write about marriage and motherhood, these quintessential rebel female figures reinvent common masculine tropes as "gestures towards a feminist reworking of masculine myths of sexuality". In doing so, women writers choose "to rival their fathers, not to imitate them, to oppose rather than reaffirm patriarchal power."
This article traces the making of a techno-legal apparatus to regulate a new object: the "cultured" pearl. In the early 1920s, round pearls cultivated on Japanese farms provoked alarm within the ...Paris association whose members traded more pearls than anywhere in Europe. Despite their claims to be connoisseurs of surfaces, anti-cultivation pearl dealers in Paris asserted that a pearl's identity could only be ascertained by examining its inner structure. By mid-decade, dedicated pearl testing laboratories appeared and supported French court rulings about what to call the products of Japanese pearl cultivation in relation to "natural" pearls. The meanings of nature and culture were not fixed, but transformed in the 1920s, amid legal and technical efforts to know la perle japonaise inside out.
The way we look at the other determines our conception of the scapegoat. Whether it becomes the whipping boy or the pet peeve, it’s nothing but a solution to societal difficulties by which injustice ...and violence are the last springs. In this study, we highlight the usefulness of mimetic theory in literary studies which is to unveil the victim mechanism, the existence of the scapegoats and thereby detect the author’s ideology. It seems necessary to remind the different meanings given to this notion over centuries, in particular the biblical meaning, the anthropological or ritual meaning and the psycho-social or modern meaning. Pierre and Boule de Suif illustrate the modern paradigm of the scapegoat. They will undergo the great steps of the victim mechanism, moving from the mimetic crisis to their sacrifice. As a perception of the process of the scapegoat in his texts, Maupassant sets himself up as a demystifier of collective violence. 31 janvier 2018
In what follows, I will reveal, step by step, three parallel narrative movements in Chopin's "A Pair of Silk Stockings," prefacing the analysis with a preliminary discussion of some relevant issues ...and a summary of existing criticisms. Since the story was created "during a period of intense feminist activity in the United States" (Valentine and Palmer 59-60), feminist critics have read Mrs. Summers as struggling to escape the "confining roles of self-sacrificing wifehood and motherhood" (Shurbutt 18-20), as a "form of ideological entrapment" (Papke 65), or as a "patriarchal myth" (Toth 23). Produced in an expanding national economy, with a rapidly growing culture of consumption producing various "personal and social transformations" in America in the late 1890s, the narrative offers "a deceptively simple account of one woman and mother's shopping trip to a downtown department store where she spends on herself money that she had intended to spend on her children" (Arner 123), in order to show the controlling influence of consumerism on individuals, as well as the conflict between old and emerging cultures (Arner 123-24). From the perspective of consumerism, Allen Stein challenges the feminist view that the female protagonist "has developed a feeling of independence and fulfillment in her judicious use of money" (Davis 148) to argue instead that the character, "from the moment she gets the fifteen dollars to the moment that she has spent every bit of it, never has any more autonomy than she has had at any recent point in her married life" because she only experiences a "misdirected" "brief flight into consumerism" (358-59).
Obsah
Slovenská literatúra,
01/2023, Letnik:
70, Številka:
3
Journal Article
Recenzirano
štúdie 229 René Bílik – Každodennosť, snívanie, hra a realizmus (K poetike Kukučínovej novely Neprebudený) 244 Jana Šnytová – Špela Sevšek Šramel – Srečko Kosovel: básník slovinského Krasu a ...avantgardy v české a slovenské překladatelské recepci 260 Zuzana Kubusová – Premeny postavy a priestorové kontrasty v románe Petra Jilemnického Víťazný pád 268 Martin Navrátil – Edičné realizácie Jozefa Felixa pramene 287 Pavel Matejovič – Katarína Mikulovičová – Slovenský literárny periodický samizdat v osemdesiatych rokoch 20. storočia recenzie 322 Eva Palkovičová – Jana Truhlářová: Dlhá cesta porozumenia (Emile Zola, Gustave Flaubert, Guy de Maupassant v slovenskej literatúre a kritike) 325 Beata Hanesová – Miloslav Vojtech – Zuzana Kákošová – Dagmar Garay Kročanová: Slovenská próza 18. – 20. storočia – poetika, interpretácia, kontext 329 Nina Podmanická – Zdenka Valentová-Belićová: Obraz Srbov v slovenskej literatúre 332 Alena Ružbaská – Iskusstvo i revoľucija: sto let spusťa (Umenie a revolúcia: sto rokov späť)
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