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Image of the Builder of Communism in the Soviet Posters

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Artur Dydrov

South Ural State University, Russia. Email: dydrovaa@gmail.com

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DOI: 10.21659/rupkatha.v8n4.19

Received July 01, 2016; Revised December 09, 2016; Accepted December  21, 2016; Published January 14, 2017

Abstract

This paper focuses on the image of the Soviet people – builders of communism. The object of the study is a series of Soviet posters in different years. In this paper semiotic approach has been used to consider posters as signs. Each poster is a product of the ideology on a denotative and connotative level of the sign. For semiotics verbal messages, color, perspective, the value of the figures, postures, gestures and facial expressions are important. Poster is a complex of the two-roots system. It combines verbal and iconic messages. Images of the Soviet human were constructed from various combinations of the elements from these levels.

Keywords: Soviet poster, Soviet people, the Soviet Union, ideology, connotation, semiotics

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What is Performance Studies?

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The Queer Queen Quivers: The Gays in Selected Philippine Prose in English

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Christopher Yap Wright

National University, Philippines. Email: christopher.yap.wright@gmail.com.

 Volume 8, Number 4, 2016 I Full Text PDF

DOI: 10.21659/rupkatha.v8n4.18

Received October 21, 2016; Revised December 20, 2016; Accepted December  25, 2016; Published January 14, 2017

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Grounded in Butler’s Queer Theory, focusing on performances, this paper examined gay protagonists in the five (5) Philippine representative queer-themed English proses, which titled as follow: “The Doll” by Emigdio Alvarez-Enriquez; “The Chamber of the Sea” by Edith Tiempo; “High Fashion” by Gilda Cordero-Fernando; “Geyluv” by Honorio de Dios; and “The Husband” by Jaime An Lim. Specifically, the paper sought to attain the following objectives: (1) Identify the distinct queer character traits performed by the Filipino protagonists; (2) Classify the queer traits identified in the selected prose under study; and (3) Interpret the queerness exhibited by the Filipino gays. The study revealed the following findings: (1) The Filipino gay protagonists did not possess specific but varying queer character traits; (2) The Filipino gays’ traits could be classified into (a) sexual-emotional involvements, (b) personal inclinations, and (c) psychological/ behavioral displays through a Codebook. Apart from the use of the Queer Theory in other literary genre, this study also recommends the use of the set criteria established in this research for an objective selection of literary texts that can be explored and considered meaningfully in literary research.

 Keywords: Queer Theory, Performativity, Filipino Gays, Queer Character Traits.

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Reinterpretation of Amish Tripathi’s Shiva Triology with Selected Verses of Bhagwat Gita

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Rakhi Deshmukh1 & Jaya Dwivedi2

1Assistant Professor, Swami Shri Swaroopanand Saraswati Mahavidyalya, Hudco  Bhilai, C.G, India and Research Scholar in the Department of English at N.I.T Raipur, C.G, India. Email: rakhijayam@gmail.com.

2Jaya Dwivedi is Assistant Professor in the Department of English at N.I.T, Raipur, C.G, India. Email: jdwivedi.eng@nitrr.ac.in.

 Volume 8, Number 4, 2016 I Full Text PDF

DOI: 10.21659/rupkatha.v8n4.17

Received November 10, 2016; Revised December 15, 2016; Accepted December 20, 2016; Published January 14, 2017

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This paper explores the traits of leadership in Shiva Trilogy with special reference to Bhagwat Gita. A review of literature in this field shows that several studies have been done in the area of virtuous leadership development from various perspectives; however very few have been done to integrate the Bhagavad-Gita and any piece of literature like Shiva Trilogy by Amish Tripathi.  As a result, this paper not only fills the gap in the literature of virtuous leadership development, but also provides some significance and insights on virtues and ethical development from the ancient Indian philosophical perspective. Unlike most of the outside-in western concepts unify with virtues, this research provides an inside-out approach to leadership where Shiva sets the traits of virtuous leader and Bhagwat Gita enlightens the path for achieving the same. If the virtues coupled with theoretical foundations are developed by present leaders it will enable them to define their leadership roles in a transformational manner with competence and wisdom, as Lord Shiva does in Shiva Trilogy.

Keywords: Shiva Trilogy, Bhagwat Gita, Amish Tripathi, Indian philosophy, leadership.

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Brahmarakshasa in Modern Hindi Literature

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Anna Chelnokova1 & Liliia Streltcova2

Associate Professor, Department of Indian Philology, Faculty of Asian and African Studies, St.Petersburg State University, Russia. orcid.org/0000-0002-3077-6382. Email: ladyeng@mail.ru 

Assistant, Department of Theory and Methodology of Teaching Languages and Cultures of Asian and African Countries, St.Petersburg State University, Russia. orcid.org/0000-0001-5729-9136. Email: l.streltcova@spbu.ru

 Volume 8, Number 4, 2016 I Full Text PDF

DOI: 10.21659/rupkatha.v8n4.16

Received October 03, 2016; Revised December  25, 2016; Accepted December  25, 2016; Published January 14, 2017

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The paper deals with the transformation of the image of Brahmar?kshasa from Vedic to modern times. Authors seek to study several literary tests in Sanskrit (Rig-Veda, Mah?bh?rata, Manusmriti, Pur??as, Pa?catantra etc.) and in modern Hindi (mostly by Gaj?nan M?dhav Muktibodh). Their main goal is to analyze the development of this important but to a great extend forgotten mythological image from the perspective of its most important achievements against their historical background and socio-cultural context. This paper is a modest but the very first attempt to perform such kind of study of the image of Brahmar?kshasa.

Keywords: Brahmar?kshasa, Gaj?nan M?dhav Muktibodh, Sanskrit, myth.

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Anglo-Indian Novels and the Politics of Canon-Formation: Tara as a Case Study

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Ayusman Chakraborty

Taki Government College, West Bengal, India

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DOI: 10.21659/rupkatha.v8n4.15

Received October 26, 2016; Revised December 20, 2016; Accepted December  25, 2016; Published January 14, 2017

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This article studies the reception of a popular 19th century Anglo-Indian novel, Captain Philip Meadows Taylor’s Tara (1863). This novel was once assigned a central position in the canon of Anglo-Indian novel. However, in the present age, it has been displaced from its position of eminence. This article contends that the present marginalization of Tara can be related to the change in the political and ideological orientation of readers. The ideological position of contemporary readers and critics make them approach colonial texts with a different mindset than their predecessors. This in turn affects the canon, modifying and altering it in the process. The present marginalization of Tara highlights how the changes in politics and practice of reading affect the canon formation of Anglo-Indian novels.

Key words: Anglo-Indian novel, canon-formation, Philip Meadows Taylor, Tara.

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The Aesthetic Gaze: Siting Nineteenth Century Indian Travel Writing

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Avishek Ray

Assistant Professor, Department of Humanities & Social Sciences, National Institute of Technology Silchar, Silchar, Cachar, Assam. Email: avishek.avishek@gmail.com

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DOI: 10.21659/rupkatha.v8n4.14

Received October 19, 2016; Revised December 24, 2016; Accepted December 30, 2016; Published January 14, 2017

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Indians have reportedly been traveling to Europe since the seventeenth century and narrativizing their travel accounts at least since the mid-eighteenth century. However, ‘travelogue’, what we know by European standards, as a genre in the Indian context is intrinsically linked with colonial exposure, the literary ‘modernity’ that purportedly ushered thereafter, and the high noon of Indian nationalism. Citing late nineteenth and early twentieth century ‘Indian’ travelogues, this paper examines the stakes in the Indian travelers emulating the eighteenth century Grand Tourist, and demonstrates how the literary articulation of tourism therein is symptomatic of an elitist-exclusionary mindset that strived to showcase cultural proximity with the colonizer on the one hand, while distantiating the colonially un(der)exposed ‘natives’ on the other hand.

Keywords: Indian travelogue, nineteenth century, colonial modernity, British India, aesthetic gaze

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The Two-Faced Hound: On the Existence of Chivalry and Its Relevance to Knighthood in George R. R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire and Tales of Dunk and Egg

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Siavash Rohani & Hassan Abootalebi

Jahad Daneshgahi (Isfahan), Iran

Volume 8, Number 4, 2016 I Full Text PDF

DOI: 10.21659/rupkatha.v8n4.13

Received October 21, 2016; Revised December 12, 2016; Accepted December  20, 2016; Published January 14, 2017

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The current paper deals with the nature of knighthood and its connection with chivalry in George R. R. Martin’s medieval fantasy series A Song of Ice and Fire (1996-) and Tales of Dunk and Egg (1998-). Taking place in the fictional world of Westeros, these novels portray a realm in which there is an increasingly growing rift between knighthood and chivalry. On one side of the rift, which is mainly spearheaded by Sandor “the Hound” Clegane, the practice of knighthood solely centers on the skill at swords and horsemanship, with chivalry and honor regarded as expendable decorations. On the other side, exemplary knights like Barristan Selmy and Duncan the Tall hold that, while martial skills are inseparable from knighthood, it is chivalry that distinguishes a knight from a common soldier. With an emphasis on the outlooks of the Hound on knighthood and chivalry, the current study aims to examine the character’s sometimes conflicting attitudes towards his profession in an attempt to determine the accuracy of his claims on the irrelevancy of chivalry and knighthood, as well as the unreality of true knights.

 Keywords: knight, chivalry, George R. R. Martin, A Song of Ice and Fire, Tales of Dunk and Egg.

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Contemporary Geopoetics in the Context of the Formation of a New Geospatial Discourse

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Vladimir Gennadyevich Bogomyakov

Tyumen State University, Russia

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DOI: 10.21659/rupkatha.v8n4.12

Received August 28, 2016; Revised November 30, 2016; Accepted December  05, 2016; Published January 14, 2017

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Currently, the geospatial discourse is rapidly changing. This is caused by the search for identity, people’s attempts to understand themselves and the space where they live in a new global and universal context. Geopoetics as a semantic field between poetry, philosophy and science, a method of space poetization, an attempt to create a particular language associated with the admiration of landscape, takes a special place among the areas of non-traditional geography, appearing in the conditions of a “spatial turn” in social sciences and humanities. The article considers some geopoetical projects in which the author participated, and concludes that they represent an important trend in the formation of a new geospatial discourse. All of them are not based on meta-narratives, imply the admiration of landscape and empathy for it; they often gravitate toward the performance, happening and street-art.

 Keywords: geospatial discourse, geopolitics, geopoetics, landscape.

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Communication as a Factor of Achieving a Holistic Being in the Age of Networked Media

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Vladimir Gladyshev1, Alena Kouznetsova2, Regina Penner3

1,3South Ural State University, Russia

2American Center of Education, Moscow

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DOI: 10.21659/rupkatha.v8n4.11

Received October 08, 2016; Revised December 09, 2016; Accepted December  15, 2016; Published January 14, 2017

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The problem of communication has always been in the center of attention of philosophers. Today it became of current interest because the world is changing and becoming very complicated. Human’s position in the world is unstable and it is becoming difficult to survive in a total communication. Virtual communication “displaces” real “meeting” I and Thou. Media just complicate existing structures of communication. In this turbulent world the younger generation (Digital Natives) still needs mentors which are able to direct their intuition and energy in creative direction, to create a sphere of dialogue, to cultivate harmonious personalities. Communication is the substance of human existence, but in the discourse of the media features of communication complicated, they take the nature of rhizome, become chaotic. At the same time human can establish harmony with the outside world and him- (or her-) self. But he (or she) can’t overcome the effects of the media (the acceleration of information; the simplification of information; the likening of information; the “dissolution” of person) alone. Therefore, finding ways to harmonize communication in the era of networked media becomes the priority. That is why the main result of the study is identifying requirements of communication which can help human to find announced harmony.

 Keywords: communication, media, modernity, integrity, holistic being, communication requirements.

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The Media Discourse in the Conceptual Coordinates of Linguistic Ecology

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Anna Vladimirovna Kuznetsova1  Ella Germanovna Kulikova2 Vladimir Rafaeliyevich Sarkisiyants3 Pavel Vsevolodovich Zayats4

1Southern Federal University, Rostov-on-Don, 344006, Russia

2Rostov State University of Economics, Rostov-on-Don, 344002, Russia

3Russian State University of Justice (Rostov Branch), Rostov-on-Don, 344006, Russia

4Southern Federal University, Rostov-on-Don, 344006, Russia

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DOI: 10.21659/rupkatha.v8n4.10

Received August 25, 2016; Revised November 25, 2016; Accepted December  15, 2016; Published January 14, 2017

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Linguoecology studies all various-level language units, the use of which is contrary to the structural-language or ethical-speech standards and reduces the purity and comfort of communication. Linguoecology researches discourse as speech-thinking activity organizing specific communication types (audio, visual, audio-visual communication) which are eventually markers of mass media discourse and mediaspace in general. Discourse is understood as the actualizations of text structures in interaction with extralinguistic factors determining the perception and understanding of information allowing to consider the discourse as cognitive and communicative-pragmatic phenomenon. The discourse structure is multidimensional and includes described events, their participants, performative information and “non-events”, i.e.  the backdrop to the events, background, evaluation of the event participants, etc. The article discusses the emerging correlative connections between the conceptual paradigm of linguistic ecology and heuristic potential for the study of media discourse in modern linguistics.

Keywords: linguoecology, media discourse, media space, communicative space, borrowings, manipulation, criminalization

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