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Creating Transcriptions and Adaptations for Viola in Kazakhstan: Retrospection, Theory and Practice

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Aizhan S. Bekenova1, Gulnar B. Abdirakhman2, Diana Ye. Mahmood3, Arita B. Baisakalova4 & Alma A. Abatova5

1Doctoral Student, Kazakh National Conservatory, Almaty, Republic of Kazakhstan.

Email: aizhans.bekenova@mail.ru

2Candidate of Arts, Kazakh National Conservatory, Almaty, Republic of Kazakhstan.

3Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.d), Kazakh National Conservatory, Almaty, Republic of Kazakhstan.

4Professor, Kazakh National Conservatory, Almaty, Republic of Kazakhstan.

5Associate Professor, Kazakh National Conservatory, Almaty, Republic of Kazakhstan.

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DOI: 10.21659/rupkatha.v12n6.17

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Starting from the past century, viola began to draw much interest of musicians, performers and musicologists, as it gradually acquired a new role of a solo instrument. Although these days more compositions appear written especially for this instrument, the independent role of viola was always accompanied more with transcriptions and adaptations of works composed for other related instruments, mostly violin, cello, etc. This article looks into the history and perspectives of making transcriptions for the viola in the Kazakh musical culture. The study also involves the analysis of Kazakh viola schools with a focus on their founders. Questions of the history and theory of viola transcriptions are still waiting for detailed scientific understanding. The work of musicians who successfully applied to transcriptions and adaptations in their practice and formed the technology of this creative process has not been sufficiently studied. It requires more in?depth study and can be used as a practical guide for the work of other musicians. This determines the relevance of this article.

Keywords: transcriptional work, musical arrangement, Fudiman, viola school, folk music, repertoire.

Nautanki: Evolution, Issues and Challenges

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Siddhartha Singh

Associate Professor, Department of English, Sri JNMPG College, Lucknow, India. Email: siddhartha.singh8@gmail.com

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DOI: 10.21659/rupkatha.v12n6.16

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A major form of folk theatre, Nautanki, still holds an important place in the collective consciousness of the rural mass of the north India. The storyline of this musical folk theatre, exceptional in preserving the written texts, is derived from multiple sources ranging from mythology, history, romances, and folklores to contemporary icons. With its emphasis on music, both vocal and instrumental, accompanied by its most important companion Nakkara or Nagara, the highly intensified operative theatre can hold the nerves of thousands of people for the whole night. Due to the pressure of Bollywood and new sources of entertainment, Nautanki started losing its distinctive character, yet its survival has kept the hope alive. The present paper will not only introduce the form in detail, but will also shed light on some of the important issues and challenges in Nautanki today.

Keywords: Nakkara, Sangit, Swang, Bhagat, Music, folk, Virangana, Patriarchy, Indian Feminism.

Transformation of Catuspatha in Bali Indonesia: Alteration Ideas from Empty Space to Aesthetic Element of City

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Ngakan Ketut Acwin Dwijendra1*, Frysa Wiriantari2, Desak Made Sukma Widiyani3, Anak Agung Ayu Sri Ratih Yulianasari4

1Faculty of Engineering, Udayana University, Bali, Indonesia. ORCID id: 0000-0003-0070-4254. E-mail: acwin@unud.ac.id

2 3 4Faculty of Engineering, Dwijendra University, Bali, Indonesia

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DOI: 10.21659/rupkatha.v12n6.15

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Catuspatha in Bali is interpreted not merely as a junction or crossroad but a crossroads that have their own sacred values ??and meanings and are equated with the great crossroads. At the time of the kingdom in Bali catuspatha was the center of the royal capital and meant the center of the country. Meanwhile, since the Dutch occupation in Bali, there has been a tendency to place aesthetic elements as the focal points or landmarks of a city at the center of a catuspatha and this trend was continued by the republican government during independence. The purpose of this study is to uncover the concept of catuspatha, the transformation of concepts, changes in the expression of catuspatha from the kingdom to independence and the impact of the changes. To achieve this goal, an observation was carried out on nine catuspathas of royal heritage in the Bali region with document research and reconstruction through interviews with priests of Shiva, Buddhism, Bachelors, and other elements as well as textual observations in the form of literature, research results, and ancient chronicles. The results obtained from this study indicate a change in the idea where the view of the center of the catuspatha as an empty space turned into an aesthetic element of the city that acts as a traffic sign and also as a city orientation. In the political context, there is an impact on the integrity of traditional values ??in the catuspatha where the symbols of royal power were expressed in the castle’s structure. The central facilities of the kingdom, are transformed into a mayor’s office with subordinate units. In the context of transportation technology, traffic lights are also expressed to regulate the flow of traffic on the catuspatha.

Keywords: catuspatha, transform, space, city, element

 

Colour Categories in Different Linguistic Cultures

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Zhanar A. Kaskatayeva1, Shara Mazhitayeva2, Zhanar M.Omasheva3, Nurgul Nygmetova4 & Zhanbai Kadyrov5

1Ph.D. Student, 1Buketov Karaganda State University, Kazakhstan

2Doctor of Philology, Professor, 1Buketov Karaganda State University, Kazakhstan

3Candidate of Philology, Karaganda State Medical University, Kazakhstan

4Candidate of Philology, Karaganda State Technical University 

5 Candidate of Philology, Professor, M.Kozybayev North Kazakhstan State University, Petropavlovsk, Kazakhstan

Correspondence: Shara Mazhitayeva, 28 University Street, 100028, Kazakhstan. Email: s_mazhit@mail.ru

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DOI: 10.21659/rupkatha.v12n6.14

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The interest in defining color naming culture-specific features in multisystem languages is one of the relevant themes in linguistics. Numerous colors, their names, and symbolic sense are a peculiar reflection of mentality and culture for any nation. When designating nominatively, the ambiguity and multi-functionality of each color become an important part of the socio-mental world view, which has different ways of expression in different languages. The color naming unit peculiarities in multisystem languages, i.e., Kazakh, Russian and English, are the target of the research. The study focuses on the metaphorical and symbolic use of color naming groups in Kazakh, Russian and English. The research material provided a list of color namings, made up of a continuous sampling of definition, phraseological, bilingual Kazakh, Russian and English dictionaries, including fiction books. Based on the material of Kazakh, Russian and English languages, the authors attempted to define meanings of color spectrum most significant components for different cultures. It is well-known that color namings are an important phenomenon, reflecting the traditions and customs of different peoples. The authors have attempted to examine and describe the criteria for designating colors in a particular society, as well as to determine the role and place of this category in a language system.

Keywords: linguistic world view, national psychology, mentality features, meanings and symbols, the world of colors, phraseological units with color naming components.

Mapping the Evolution of Crime Fiction as a Genre: Eighteenth Century to the Contemporary Times

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Shrija Srinivasan1, Dr Sushila Shekhawat2 & Dr Somdatta Bhattacharya3

1Doctoral Candidate, Birla Institute of Technology and Science (BITS) Pilani, Pilani Campus, Vidyavihar, Pilani, Rajasthan: 333031, India. ORCID ID: 0000-0002-5517-0088. Email: p2016411@pilani.bits-pilani.ac.in

2Associate Professor, Birla Institute of Technology and Science (BITS) Pilani, Pilani Campus, Vidyavihar, Pilani, Rajasthan: 333031, India. ORCID ID: 0000-0002-3101-0784. Email: sula@pilani.bits-pilani.ac.in

3Assistant Professor, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kharagpur, Kharagpur, West Bengal: 721302, India. ORCID ID: 0000-0002-0074-4793. Email: somdatta@hss.iitkgp.ac.in

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DOI: 10.21659/rupkatha.v12n6.13

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A mystery story which focuses on a crime and the investigation of that crime is commonly understood as a crime fiction narrative. Its ability to excite the readers, challenge their rational abilities and involve them in the gradual unravelling of the mystery is what makes crime fiction a huge success. With innumerable critical works, scholarly study and continued relevance, crime fiction has entered the canon of literature. A genre that closely reflects the socio-political, historical and cultural aspects of the society, it has gradually acquired a significant role both in critiquing the social order and at the same time for documenting history through its gradual evolution and development. This paper attempts to map the evolution of crime fiction from the eighteenth century to the contemporary times. In doing so, the paper aims to study how social changes impact literary traditions. This study also aims to establish the relevance of crime fiction as a literary genre as it evolves into multiple sub-genres, structures itself into specific rules and regulations and metamorphosises into extra-literary forms.

Keywords: crime fiction, society, history, evolution, literature

Nineteenth-Century Eurasians and Spatiality in Emma Roberts’ Scenes and Characteristics of Hindostan, with Sketches of Anglo-Indian Society (1835)

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Divya A
Assistant Professor, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai, India. ORCID: 0000-0002-4516-6763. Email id divya@iitm.ac.in

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DOI: 10.21659/rupkatha.v12n6.12

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In this article, through a spatial reading of Roberts’ Scenes and Characteristics I illustrate how the stringent regulations of the East Indian Company disempowering the Eurasians are manifested through the spatial strictures, and how notions of cultural purity and hierarchy are realized through the politics of space in colonial India. Spatial concepts of lived space, third space, and hybridity— drawn from the theories of Homi Bhabha, Edward Soja and Henry Lefebvre—are useful in mapping the spatial politics in nineteenth-century India, especially in relation to the Government-house in Calcutta, the seat of the highest authority in colonial India, and the marginalized orphanages/schools run by the East India Company primarily for the benefit of Eurasian children. Discrimination through spatially segregation was practiced by the British East India Company in order to preserve the racial purity of the European upper class at the helm of the Indian colony.  My paper illustrates how the fortunes of the male and female “half-castes” of empire were variously charted, and how spatial homogeneity was subverted through the subtext of marital relations. The “third space” that some of the fortunately-marked interracial men and women occupy constantly pulled at the seams of apparently inviolable concepts of homogeneity and purity to expose and challenge the cultural dominion of the British Empire.

Keywords: Eurasian, spatiality, Bhabha, Soja, Government-house, Lefebvre, third space, colonialism, East India Company, orphan.

The Ethnomental Components of F.M. Dostoevsky’s Works

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Maksim Proskuriakov1, Li Lanlan2

1,2Shandong University, School of Foreign Languages and Literature, China

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DOI: 10.21659/rupkatha.v12n6.11

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Purpose of the study: The purpose of the study is to identify the originality and ideological functional status of the ethnomental component in the works of F. Dostoevsky.

Methods: The work integrates a complex of modern approaches and methods, mainly focusing on the ideas and principles of the traditional, cultural and historical method, which demonstrates the general cultural, sociological, and psychological aspects of the study of Dostoevsky’s literary heritage. The typological method has contributed to the literary clarification of the ethnomental components in fiction and journalism of the writer. The narratological approach is used to analyze the narrative structure of Dostoevsky’s works, the correlation of the writer’s and other people’s speech, to identify various points of views on the problem, and to establish the ambiguity of the writer’s position. The contextual analysis allowed analyzing the images of characters, first, within the local context and, second, within the macrocontext, which includes other literary sources, appropriate comparisons and build a verification model of the study.

Main results: The analysis of the writer’s life, his philosophy of life, sacrifices, social ambivalence, predisposition to reflection, etc. suggests the presence of certain mental foundations. The main ideas, attitudes, spiritual discoveries of the artistic worlds created by the writer are determined by the ethnomental basis of his worldview. This makes it possible to determine and understand the originality and uniqueness of Dostoevsky in the context of Russian literature.

Application of the study: The conclusions of the study can serve as the basis for an accurate idea of the correlation of the writer’s worldview and his work. The materials and conclusions of the study can be used in university courses on the history of Russian literature, in special courses and special seminars on the works of Dostoevsky, for term papers, graduation papers, and dissertations. The scientific novelty of the study lies in the fact that the ethnic component in the ideological and artistic system of Dostoevsky who was a Pochvennik writer (i. e. belonged to the Pochvennichestvo movement) was first considered in the context and through the prism of both the life experience of the writer himself and the general anthropological orientation of the writer as well as his understanding of human nature. This study provides not only the opportunity to analyze the ethnic identity of Russian literature but also to trace the influence of the ethnic mentality of Dostoevsky on his worldview embodied in his fiction.

Key words: Orthodoxy, religious devotedness, archetype, anthropocentrism, fantastic realism, mythologeme.

Using Parallel Texts to Teach Literary Appreciation and Academic Writing Skills of M.A. Students

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Anand Mahanand

EFL University, Hyderabad, India, anand@efluniversity.ac.in, https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6069-097X

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DOI: 10.21659/rupkatha.v12n6.10

 

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In this paper I would like to report a study I have undertaken to understand whether   using parallel texts would be  helpful in developing  literary appreciation  and writing skills  of M.A students. I  would like to  report how I got the idea  to use the parallel texts, the way I collected materials and taught them for literary appreciation and    writing skills following a bilingual approach. I would also like to share the outcome of my study.  A group of ten students participated in the study.   The students not only developed in writing skills and literary appreciation but   the use of a bilingual approach gave them a sense of pride and confidence that they could use the resources  available in their first language  in the class and  for academic set up at the university level. They were able to write  good academic essays with appropriate format and structure. It also  prompted them to  explore more  on the resources they  have in  their first languages. The paper suggests that such a bilingual approach helps  students from  rural areas and non-English medium background and who initially experience  handicap in their class to cope with their studies.

Keywords: parallel texts, bilingual approach, literary appreciation, academic writing skills, M.A. Students

Building Bridges: African Biomedicine in Ngugi wa Thiong’o’s Wizard of the Crow

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Revathy Sivasubramaniam

Assistant Professor of English, Chellammal Women’s College, Guindy, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India. Email: revathy.g.sivasubramaniam@gmail.com

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DOI: 10.21659/rupkatha.v12n6.09

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Using the insights provided by Professor Michael Worton and sociologist David Baronov, the paper strives to show that the cultural aspect of medicine is intrinsic to health and illness. This paper seeks to present the vibrancy of pluralistic medical practices in contemporary Africa through Kenyan writer Ngugi wa Thiong’o’s novel Wizard of the Crow. It seeks to illustrate the pragmatic nature of African pluralistic medical practices that absorb and assimilate certain aspects from biomedicine, thereby paving the way for a distinctive blend that may rightly be termed as African biomedicine. It contends that African pluralistic medicine, biomedicine, and African biomedicine can coexist peacefully and contribute to the wellbeing of the African society in a highly globalized world.

Keywords: disease, culture, African pluralistic medicine, biomedicine, African biomedicine.

Visualizing Shame: Menstruation, Graphic Medicine, and the Discourse of Lycanthropy

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Sathyaraj Venkatesan1 and Anu Mary Peter2

1Associate Professor, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, National Institute of Technology (NIT), Tiruchirappalli, India-620015. ORCID: 0000-0003-2138-1263. Email: sathya@nitt.edu

2Assistant Professor, School of Social Sciences and Languages, Vellore Institute of Technology (VIT), Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India. Email: 0000-0001-6740-8252. Email: anumary.peter@vit.ac.in

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DOI: 10.21659/rupkatha.v12n6.08

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Beyond its medical definition as a natural phenomenon concerning the female body, menstruation is a term that is overburdened with a plethora of distorted cultural and religious meanings. Through the centuries, the biological process of the monthly expulsion of non-pregnant women’s uterus lining is popularly misunderstood as a profane activity. Despite the surplus of awareness measurements to educate masses about menstruation’s biological underpinnings, societal negligence towards women’s incapacitating experiential realities associated with menstruation continues even in the twenty-first century. Accordingly, Paula Knight’s graphic medical memoir on infertility, titled The Facts of Life (2017), offers a distinctive perspective about menstruation through the creative deployment of the lycanthrope metaphor. By depicting her menstruating self as a lone werewolf, Knight offers a compelling representation of menstruating women’s abysmal corporeal and cultural anxieties. By close reading relevant images from Knight’s memoir and drawing theoretical insights from Victoria Louise Newton and Elizabeth El Refaie, this article analyses how graphic medicine necessitates a humane and non-stigmatizing approach to menstruation.

Keywords: Menstruation, Metaphor, Lycanthropy, Graphic medicine, Comics, Stigma.

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