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Образотворення єврейського погрому в оповіданнях Марії Конопніцької „Mendel Gdański” (1890) і Леоніда Пахаревського „Батько” (1906): порівняльний аспект

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Semeryn K.

Studia Polsko-Ukraińskie

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2022

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vol. 9

162-175

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The paper analyzes the images of the Jewish pohrom in the short stories written by a Polish writer Maria Konopnicka “Mendel Gdański” (1890) and by the Ukrainian writer Leonid Pakharevsky “The Father” (1906). The research is made within a framework of comparative analysis. Both authors depict pohroms with an image of an old Jewish man caring for his children or grandchildren. In the wake of anti-Jewish riots the protagonists are undergoing deep personal changes. Mendel loses his love for his city, while Leisor loses his passionary illusions and became involved in an armed struggle for freedom. Konopnicka focuses on the natural belonging of the Jewish population to Polish society and more broadly to the Eastern European multicultural space. Pakharevsky outlines the generation gap. While the older Jews accepts death without resistance, guided by faith in the promised biblical land, the younger Jews denies these illusions and defends their life resolutely. In addition, Konopnicka and Pakharevsky are looking for preconditions for the pohrom. According to them, the only reasons are social prejudices, stereotypes, as well as a criminal factor, to wit the role of criminals and lumpen in anti-Semitic actions. Both short stories use the technique of instilling a sense of danger, although Pakharevsky’s story begins with a scene of fire and a direct attack. Eventually, the pohroms indeed lead to a real escalation of hostility and a painful rift between the Jewish and non-Jewish worlds. In closing, these stories are not only about the genesis and the course of anti-Semitic pohroms, but also universal categories. Importantly, the process of self-determination of the Jewish people nowadays and the renewal of Jewish identity are intelligently represented here.

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La narrativa breu de Josep Lozano

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Soldevila C. G.

Estudios Hispánicos

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2014

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vol. 22

13 - 26

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Abstract The article studies Josep Lozano’s short fiction as awhole. It can be organised into three great narrative lines: historic fiction, the depiction of local reality as afigment and the writing of dreams. This study also describes these short fiction pieces taking into account the poetics of brevity, pointing out the time of discourse and how characters are depicted. Finally, loneliness is underlined as the central topic of Josep Lozano’s short fiction world. This research helps us to integrate short fiction along Lozano’s novels harmoniously, although it specifies its particular features as short stories.

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“It’s a Pagan Communion, and We Are the Priests”: Plenitude in Michèle Roberts’s Short Fiction

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Malcolm D.

Analyses/Rereadings/Theories: A Journal Devoted to Literature, Film and Theatre

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2020

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vol. 6

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issue 2

20-30

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Roberts’s short stories have not received extensive scholarly attention, yet they make up a substantial part of her oeuvre. Her output of short stories is configured in a particular and coherent way, one that overlaps with her novels, but is consistent in itself. This configuration is summed up by the term plenitude. Abundance is noted in: genre and mood-in genre shifts and in a mixture of the comic and the dark; characters and settings-the range of female figures presented in the short fiction, and of time and place settings; character morphology-the recurrence of motifs of emotional excess, of longing, desire, and passion, in the shaping of characters (gender shifting is also relevant here); and language-the recurrence of motifs of excess on the level of language, the list, metaphoricity and self-referentiality, and the interpenetration of a variety of discourses. In her short fiction, Roberts conflates the spiritual and sensual, meals and wild gardens, the dark and the light. The plenitude of her created world and its language are entries to redemptive or consolatory experiences.

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1 Analyses/Rereadings/Theories: A Journal Devoted to Literature, Film and Theatre

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1 Soldevila C. G.

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Образотворення єврейського погрому в оповіданнях Марії Конопніцької „Mendel Gdański” (1890) і Леоніда Пахаревського „Батько” (1906): порівняльний аспект

La narrativa breu de Josep Lozano

“It’s a Pagan Communion, and We Are the Priests”: Plenitude in Michèle Roberts’s Short Fiction