JOURNAL OF LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE (JLL)
ISSN: 2078-0303 | Next issue: May 30, 2013
DOI: 10.7813/jll.2013
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| May, 2013 | Vol. 4. No 1. |
DOI: 10.7813/jll.2013/4-1
1. Salahuddin Mohd. Shamsuddin, Zuraidah Mohd Don
Impact of translation on the development of Arab-Islamic Sciences
DOI: dx.doi.org/10.7813/jll.2013/4-1/1
Abstract: The originality is that the man has to renew his idea by the ideas of others. The simulation does not mean a pure imitation, but it is intended to be the real digester of influence. There is nothing to be claimed in highlighting the originality and individual personality, except that the man fed the views of others, as “the loin is not except some digested sheep”. The translation enriches the language used for the translation, transferring the beautiful words, phrases and advices. “The accurate translation is better than an innovation failed in being successful. Therefore, Greece logic, Persian and Indian literatures had a great contribution in the development of Arab-Islamic sciences. As Arabs took from Greeks the sciences and philosophy and also the same quantity of knowledge from Persians and Indians, so Arab culture was affected by Persian and Indian culture as well it was affected by Greek culture too.
Keywords: Islamic sciences, Greek Logic, Translation, Simulation, Impact, Originality
Pages: 5-12
Cite this article:
S. Mohd. Shamsuddin, Z. Mohd Don. Impact of translation on the development of Arab-Islamic Sciences. Journal of Language and Literature 2013; 4(1), 5-12.
2. Sura Khrais
Traveling through the text: applications of reader response theory
DOI: dx.doi.org/10.7813/jll.2013/4-1/2
Abstract: This paper presents an application of Reader response theory, which is concerned with the individual text and how readers relate to it. The paper makes use of Iser’s ideas which will be used to reach at a possible reading of Franz Kafka’s story “The Transformation.” Iser shows that the text comes to life only if read and examined by an implied reader who prestructures and actualizes the potential meaning of the text. The text for Iser is a skeleton of “schematized aspects” and “gaps” that must be concretized and filled by the reader. However, the reader’s initial interpretation of the text is repeatedly modified by the text.
Keywords: reader response theory, Wolfgang Iser, Kafka
Pages: 13-19
Cite this article:
S. Khrais. Traveling through the text: applications of reader response theory. Journal of Language and Literature 2013; 4(1), 13-19.
3. Enkelena Shockett (Qafleshi)
The Albanian literary narratives which evoke national identity markers
DOI: dx.doi.org/10.7813/jll.2013/4-1/3
Abstract: In my paper I will aim to develop how literary narratives – literature best evoke the national identities and of special interest will be the Socialist Realism literature in Albania which sought for new forming identity in terms to Communist ideology and philosophy in power. From this viewpoint, the literary narratives have been conceived as narratives looking for a new identity in conformity to the politics in power. Questions of nationalism and ethnicity, which are crucial in literary narratives, were reflected by then in development of New Man social identity model shaped after Communist inspirations and ideals. Literary prototypes exposed in literary narratives, Communist social identity became the Albanian national identity. In pursuit to the development of this new identity, specific rhetoric and diction were developed. In this sense phrases like: New Man, proletarian reflection, class enemy, Communist stand, social class struggle, class tendentiousness and so on were constantly explored in literary narratives, which certainly were dressed up with a new narrative identity offspring of Communism. By cloning approach this new model attempted to establish and consolidate the impact of Communism, which required from the Albanians appropriation of New Man features. Using social identity and memory culture, the literary narratives evoked tremendously nationalism and ethnicity in Albania, but yet under the coloring of Communism as a dominant ideology and philosophy in Albania. To achieve my intentions, I will revolve to the works of I. Kadare, D. Çuli, D. Agolli and many other Albanian writers of Socialist Realism literature and through theorizing the whole phenomenon which resonates season of that time, I will spot out this tendency which has jumped into the frames of being in fashion.
Keywords: Writing and Difference, Derrida, logocentric, phonocentric
Pages: 20-25
Cite this article:
Enkelena Shockett (Qafleshi). The Albanian literary narratives which evoke national identity markers. Journal of Language and Literature 2013; 4(1), 20-25.
4. Sura Khrais
Writing and difference: Derrida's critique of structuralism
DOI: dx.doi.org/10.7813/jll.2013/4-1/4
Abstract: In Writing and Difference (1967), the French philosopher Jack Derrida introduces a systematic deconstruction of structuralism and Western metaphysics. Derrida develops new ways of thinking, reading, and writing by decentering the idea of sign and structure system. Derrida criticizes structuralism's self-imposed limitations, specially its lack of concern with diachronic change and its focus on general systems rather than on individual cases. The main objective of this paper is to examine Derrida's systematic deconstruction of Saussurean theory of language and to show how Derrida's deconstruction is a critique of Western philosophy which tends to be both "logocentric" and "phonocentric". Derrida argues that Structuralist theory has passed down a whole current of logocentric (speech-centered) thought that originated in the time of Plato. So, Derrida elaborates a theory of deconstruction that challenges the idea of frozen structure and the notion of a direct relationship between signifier and signified. He concludes that language is a less stable system than the classical structuralists have considered it to be and that language does not seem to be that well-defined, whole structure which contains symmetrical units of signifiers and signified. In addition, Derrida shows that one of the shortcomings of structuralism is that it has always presupposed "a centre" of meaning. This "center" governs the structure but the earlier is never subject to structural analysis. Derrida believes that Western thought is built around a belief in some ultimate "word," which acts as the center of all our thought, language and experience.
Keywords: Writing and Difference, Derrida, logocentric, phonocentric
Pages: 26-31
Cite this article:
S. Khrais. Writing and difference: Derrida's critique of structuralism. Journal of Language and Literature 2013; 4(1), 26-31.
5. Mounir Ben Zid
The tsunami of literary study: toward an E Pluribus Unum approach to the exploration of literature
DOI: dx.doi.org/10.7813/jll.2013/4-1/5
Abstract: It is fashionable at the present time to stress the idea that different scholars all have different modes of analyzing literary texts. To some extent, this must be true. We all have different experiences, which may prompt us to have slightly different ways of exploring a literary text. Yet my own position and mode of studying literature rejects the assumption that the reader can find a way into the text or achieve a 'healthy' interpretation through one single angle of vision or mode of criticism. With the looming demise of literature and soft 'tsunami' of literary study in the era of globalization, the present paper advances the claim that literary analysis should find its way in a new 'global' and interdisciplinary approach where "intrinsic" and "extrinsic" evidence are contrasted. The overarching premise of the paper is that there is an urgent need for an integration, a 'Worlding' or an intermarriage of disparate modes of criticism, making use of various discourses and tools of analysis borrowed from various schools of thought and disciplines such as 'Literary Linguistics' and 'Humanist Criticism'. The above interdisciplinary model will be applied to Shakespeare's Sonnet 66 to examine how an awareness of a global and interdisciplinary mode of analysis is likely to preserve the 'raison d’être' of literature, produce a more 'accurate' analysis and achieve a 'healthier' interpretation of literary texts that resist any prescribed or fixed truth.
Keywords: Literary Analysis; Humanist Criticism; Literary Stylistics; Literary Pragmatics
Pages: 32-40
Cite this article:
M. Ben Zid. The tsunami of literary study: toward an E Pluribus Unum approach to the exploration of literature. Journal of Language and Literature 2013; 4(1), 32-40.
6. Elda Hungwe
The importance of language and literary art in reading suppressed voices and voices in transition in selected Zimbabwean fiction
DOI: dx.doi.org/10.7813/jll.2013/4-1/6
Abstract: The paper examines how literature and linguistics are inextricably linked. It reflects how literature uses language to expose the dynamic relations between men and women in the land discourse between men and women in Vera’s Nehanda, Hoba’s ‘The Trek’ and Nyamubaya’s On The Road Again. Since one of the majour functions of language is to communicate, Vera speaks through her writing/fiction that patriarchal notions can be superseded by an ultimate authority thus she invokes spirituality to create the female agency, thus an uncontested platform that is acknowledged by men. Hoba provides a voice through young male generation. Nyamubaya on the other hand uses poetry with a conscious voice to speak on behalf of women.
Keywords: Language, Literature, linguistics, literary texts, spirituality
Pages: 41-43
Cite this article:
E. Hungwe. The importance of language and literary art in reading suppressed voices and voices in transition in selected Zimbabwean fiction. Journal of Language and Literature 2013; 4(1), 41-43.
