Recounting the failures of the United States to adequately address the COVID-19 pandemic, reflecting on the parade of mendacity that has encapsulated the 45th presidency, and interpreting Baldwin’s ...call to be responsible to our children, Justin A. Joyce introduces the sixth volume of James Baldwin Review.
The novels ‘Notes from the Dead House’ by Fyodor Dostoevsky and ‘Wer einmal aus dem Blechnapf frißt…’ (‘Who Once Drinks from the Prison Chalice’) by Hans Fallada are analyzed in terms of literary ...connections. The relevance of the study is due to the need for a comprehensive and multifaceted examination of Hans Fallada’s literary dialogue with Fyodor Dostoevsky. A number of similar motifs are identified, as well as the fact that there are allusive “cross-references” between the characters of the novels. It is noted that both authors show the destructive influence of imprisonment on the criminal’s personality. It is emphasized that in both novels, the criminal is deprived of the ability for spiritual revival, and the writers criticize the unjust social system that pushes the “little” person to break the law. Drawing on the traditions of Fyodor Dostoevsky, Hans Fallada shows in his novel that life for prisoners, both in prison and after release, is akin to being in a “dead house”, as it deprives the “humiliated and insulted” heroes of the opportunity to change their fate. It is concluded that comparing the novels “Notes from the Dead House” and “Who Once Drinks from the Prison Chalice” allows for identifying similarities in their ideas and outlining perspectives for further research on the reception of Fyodor Dostoevsky’s artistic experience in Hans Fallada’s work.
In the beginning of the article we correlate Okudzhava’s story about the creative history of his novel (“invention” of the scrivener’s image) with the writer’s statements about Decembrism, which ...allows us to solve the following tasks: 1) to restore the main creative impulses of the writer; 2) to characterize the formation of his cognitive strategy, which covers the mythologized past and the tragic events of the Soviet era; 3) to clarify a number of definite functions of the “little man” that have not yet been noted by the interpreters of the novel; 4) to highlight the mission of the “little man” that reveals Okudzhava’s ethical principle. We consider the artist’s inconsistency in stylizing the thinking of the “little man” (the lead character and his psychological counterpart – the narrator) as a means of involving the contemporary reader in a dispute about the conflicts of the past inherited by the 20th century. We show the fundamental novelty of the embodiment of the Decembrist theme in the mirror of the perception of literary critics of the 1970s, who remained in the grip of the myth of the first Russian revolutionaries in its two varieties (official or alternative, cultivated by freethinkers), which interfered with the proper perception of the status of the “little man” next to a historic figure. Our task is to show that the merciful ethics of the artist, compassionate to the sufferer, soften Okudzhava’s civic intransigence towards the ideology of Pestel, whose state utopia became a Soviet reality; thus, we substantiate the regularity of the election of the “little man”, who himself needs indulgence, to the role of the spokesman for Pushkin’s commandment of “mercy to the fallen”. We trace the bold development in Okudzhava’s novel of the classical tradition of the “little man” experiencing his own drama of the “weak heart”. The echoes of Avrosimov’s fantasies about saving Pestel with Pushkin’s poem “Deep in Siberia’s mines...” are comprehended in the article as a sublimation of the author’s pain about the tragic fate of the Decembrists.
В статье с точки зрения литературных взаимосвязей рассматриваются романы Ф.М. Достоевского «Бедные люди» и Г. Фаллады «Маленький человек, что же дальше?». Посредством сравнительно-типологического ...анализа подвергаются осмыслению ключевые мотивы, используемые писателями для репрезентации образов «маленьких людей» в исследуемых текстах: материальной нужды, унижений со стороны окружающих, ощущения утраты своего человеческого достоинства, склонность к самопожертвованию, осознания персонажами факта собственного нравственного падения, самоидентификации ими себя как «маленьких людей». В то же время в романе немецкого писателя утверждается идея духовной сплоченности персонажей перед лицом жизненных испытаний, в романе же русского классика показана трагедия духовной разобщенности близких людей.
This research aims to reveal the slang expression (slang words) uttered by some characters in Little Man movie. To analyze them, the writers use Holmes’ references about social scale which is ...classified into four scales. By using qualitative descriptive method, the writers found 18 slang words then analyzed them into social distance scale, status scale, formality scale, or functional scale. After classifying these scales, it can be concluded that social distance scale is the mostly used in the movie. It can be assumed that social distance scale has told about the relationship between characters.
Yusuf Al-Ani: Working without rules Al-Nasayyir, Yasen
Journal of contemporary Iraq & the Arab world (Online),
03/2019, Letnik:
13, Številka:
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Journal Article
Recenzirano
Yusuf al-Ani's creative development is examined within the context of his collaborators and intellectual influences. Special emphasis is placed on al-Ani's origins and motivations for the posture of ...his acting, writing and direction in the formative period of the Iraqi theatre.
The article then turns to al-Ani's influence on the modern Iraqi theatre. His collaboration with an array of other directors and performers is analysed for their impacts on such developments, especially in the absence of theatrical training amongst Iraqis now working in the professional
domain. Al-Ani's al-Masrah al-Hadith (The Modern Theatre) troupe is also analysed for these relationships in light of how many Iraqi directors and writers emerged from it over subsequent years. Al-Ani's deployment of 'The Little Man' and Iraqi folk-tales are weighed
for their innovative ability to allow his work to speak to all social classes. His considered iterative development of his style led to a sophisticated portrayal onstage and screen. This saw al-Ani's works take that which was familiar in many Iraqis' lives to the stage, encouraging
new perspectives that audience members would necessarily then apply to their lived realities outside the performance venue.
In November 1936, the BBC premiered its first serialised situation comedy, The Strange Adventures of Mr. Penny. In its use of many of the hallmarks of early situation comedy, the popular fifteen ...minute comedy is important in understanding the evolution of sitcom on early BBC radio, but also in recognising the ways in which BBC light entertainment sought to participate in, and shape, the interwar rhetorics of national character in the introduction of its own 'Little Man'. On the surface, the BBC's 'Little Man' might suggest a crisis of masculinity between the wars, but ultimately it was a positive and reassuring version of English masculinity and national character.
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