Pub Date : 2021-10-02DOI: 10.1080/02564718.2021.1997170
H. Frankel
Summary This article discusses a selection of Holocaust poems by Abraham Sutzkever together with several written by David Fram as they epitomise how historical forces shape individual lives, highlighting how the differences in location and experience influenced their creative output. In order to do so, it locates the poets physically and aesthetically, and then compares several poems through in-depth analyses of their choice of metaphor and language. Affirming the continuing significance of Yiddish in the face of the almost-total annihilation of its speakers, the article also validates poetry as a form of testimony. Although both poets were born in the Russian Empire, by the time World War II broke out, Sutzkever became a witness-participant in the Vilna Ghetto, Lithuania, while Fram was in Johannesburg, South Africa. Sutzkever’s poems provide personal, instantaneous and localised focal points, and shed light on the immediate horrific reality, whereas Fram’s symbolic reflections wrestle with what happened in the killing fields and so illuminate a broader, more panoramic view. They also emphasise his empathy. By bearing witness, these poems provide an arena in which to address Jewish suffering and keep the Holocaust alive and visible. In resisting amnesia of what once was and is no more, the poets also memorialise the victims.
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Pub Date : 2021-10-02DOI: 10.1080/02564718.2021.1997164
Onyebuchi Nwosu, Anike Adeshina
Summary Discussions on corruption in Nigeria are dominated by economists and social scientists with their scholastic discourse on the subject growing by the day that one wonders whether Nigerian creative writers, especially contemporary poets are not perturbed by the rising wave of corruption in the country. This article attempts to investigate the contributions of some Nigerian poets like Niyi Osundare, Odia Ofeimun, Idris Amali, Joe Ushie, Amanze Akpuda, Musa Idris Okpanachi, Darlington Ogbonnaya and Eddie Onuzuruike in the fight against corruption in Nigeria. Hence a new historicist approach was adopted to discuss their imaginative portrayal of corruption and its impact on the war against graft. Their artistic perspectives of corruption were identified in order to better understand the various forms of corruption as well as the historical dimensions and their suggestive mitigating effects. From the findings, it is evident that Nigerian poets have raised strong voices against corruptive tendencies by exposing the various categories of corruption in Nigeria and their destructive and debilitating effects.
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Afsaneh Saadati, S. Saadati, mohsen Mohammadi Fesharaki
{"title":"Plant science in Mathnavi","authors":"Afsaneh Saadati, S. Saadati, mohsen Mohammadi Fesharaki","doi":"10.52547/jls.9.20.4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.52547/jls.9.20.4","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43700,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Literary Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74735576","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Attention and accuracy in the spiritual and psychological dimensions of the characters of the story and the use of psychological theories has always been one of the methods of literary researchers to analyze the characters and show the power and skill of the creators of the works as accurately as possible. In this research, an attempt has been made to study the personality of Wis in the system of Wis and Ramin Fakhreddin Asad Gorgani, using the "theory of choice" of William Glasser, a contemporary psychologist, in a descriptive and analytical manner. According to the theory of choice, the root of all one's behaviors comes from within and to satisfy one's five needs (the need for love, survival, power, recreation, and independence). Thus, the main question of the research is that under what influence did Wis make bold choices? In other words, which of Wis's basic needs were higher than the other needs that led him to engage in such behaviors? The findings show that among all the needs, the need for survival, the need for love and intimacy, and the need for freedom are higher in him than the other needs, respectively. After these needs is the need for power and then the need for entertainment.
{"title":"Assessing the Basic Needs in Weiss's Personality\u0000 (Based on William Glasser's Choice Theory)","authors":"vajihe torkamani barandozi","doi":"10.52547/jls.9.20.3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.52547/jls.9.20.3","url":null,"abstract":"Attention and accuracy in the spiritual and psychological dimensions of the characters of the story and the use of psychological theories has always been one of the methods of literary researchers to analyze the characters and show the power and skill of the creators of the works as accurately as possible. In this research, an attempt has been made to study the personality of Wis in the system of Wis and Ramin Fakhreddin Asad Gorgani, using the \"theory of choice\" of William Glasser, a contemporary psychologist, in a descriptive and analytical manner. According to the theory of choice, the root of all one's behaviors comes from within and to satisfy one's five needs (the need for love, survival, power, recreation, and independence). Thus, the main question of the research is that under what influence did Wis make bold choices? In other words, which of Wis's basic needs were higher than the other needs that led him to engage in such behaviors? The findings show that among all the needs, the need for survival, the need for love and intimacy, and the need for freedom are higher in him than the other needs, respectively. After these needs is the need for power and then the need for entertainment.","PeriodicalId":43700,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Literary Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83259020","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Analysis of Wasef Bakhtari` s poem “… and I had cried”, based on Riffater` s semiotic theory","authors":"shirzad taefi, nasir ahmad aryan","doi":"10.52547/jls.9.20.5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.52547/jls.9.20.5","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43700,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Literary Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84783059","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Mir-e kermani and his style in composing lyric (ghazel)","authors":"Zohre Ahmadypoor Anari, H. Kharazmi","doi":"10.52547/jls.9.20.2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.52547/jls.9.20.2","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43700,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Literary Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85593186","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Rereading Two Travelogues of Qajar Era through Functional Linguistics of Halliday in Experimental Meta-function Level","authors":"Batul Vaez, atie nasri","doi":"10.52547/jls.9.20.7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.52547/jls.9.20.7","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43700,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Literary Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84978960","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Time is one of the elements that gives the fictional text its identity and distinguishes a story and a narrative. In addition, time take different functions in the fictional text and contribute to the progression of the story in various ways. The present research investigated the element of time in the novel Chess with the Doomsday Machine by the theory of Gerard Genet. Considering the memory-like structure of the novel, anachronism has highly frequency in the text and calendar time is not of much significance. The interest of the author in writing the story based on his mental images has obviated the need to record the precise dates of the events. Drawing on the technique of breaking the time in the narrative, the author has created suspense in the story and resolved some of the ambiguities existing in the text. Frequent descriptions and attention to detail have stopped the time of the narrative in most of the scenes of the story. In the novel, the narrative frequency of the events is of singular type and, drawing on such a method, the author has tried to help with the pace and advancement of the story. The author of the novel Chess with the Doomsday Machine has utilized various time-related techniques and methods to narrate the transformation of the perspective of the protagonist of the story from a dogmatic to a relatively tolerant attitude, and has wielded time techniques to cast doubt on many learned beliefs of the narrator.
{"title":"An Analysis of the Element of Time in the Novel\u0000Chess with the Doomsday Machine","authors":"Zahra Fallahi, mohammadreza haji aqa babaei","doi":"10.52547/jls.9.20.6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.52547/jls.9.20.6","url":null,"abstract":"Time is one of the elements that gives the fictional text its identity and distinguishes a story and a narrative. In addition, time take different functions in the fictional text and contribute to the progression of the story in various ways. The present research investigated the element of time in the novel Chess with the Doomsday Machine by the theory of Gerard Genet. Considering the memory-like structure of the novel, anachronism has highly frequency in the text and calendar time is not of much significance. The interest of the author in writing the story based on his mental images has obviated the need to record the precise dates of the events. Drawing on the technique of breaking the time in the narrative, the author has created suspense in the story and resolved some of the ambiguities existing in the text. Frequent descriptions and attention to detail have stopped the time of the narrative in most of the scenes of the story. In the novel, the narrative frequency of the events is of singular type and, drawing on such a method, the author has tried to help with the pace and advancement of the story. The author of the novel Chess with the Doomsday Machine has utilized various time-related techniques and methods to narrate the transformation of the perspective of the protagonist of the story from a dogmatic to a relatively tolerant attitude, and has wielded time techniques to cast doubt on many learned beliefs of the narrator.","PeriodicalId":43700,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Literary Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88807700","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2021-07-03DOI: 10.1080/02564718.2021.1959765
K. Gulliver
Summary This article discusses how the criminal threat of anarchist attack was treated in G.K. Chesterton’s novel, The Man Who Was Thursday. The novel captures a particular moment of public concern about terrorism and serves as an object of cultural history in its depiction of London as a den of crime. The plot focuses on an undercover policeman who infiltrates a terror cell. The kind of terrorism depicted was a real threat, yet Chesterton parodied both the aspirations of anarchists, and the anti-terror efforts of law enforcement. This article considers the historical background of anarchism and how the history of the city is part of the novel’s framework.
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