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Quantum Leap beyond the Frontiers: ‘Currentism’ in Visual Arts Production in the Nsukka School

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Okoro, Martins N.

Lecturer in the Department of Fine and Applied Arts, University of Nigeria, Nsukka.   

ORCID id 0000-0003-2789-6874. Email id: martins.okoro@unn.edu.ng

 Volume 13, Number 1, 2021 I Full Text PDF
DOI: 10.21659/rupkatha.v13n1.06
Quantum Leap beyond the Frontiers: ‘Currentism’ in Visual Arts Production in the Nsukka School

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There exists no scholarly publication espousing on the driving force behind the restless aspirations of the Nsukka artists towards searching for and using commonplace materials that the potent environment provides for supports and media for studio art production. Following this, my intent is to discuss the Nsukka artists’ creative inclinations, bordering on styles, ideas, forms, materials and technique. Through hermeneutical analysis, I examine some useful insights in the formal and conceptual principles for which their recent and current artworks are foregrounded. Relying on historical, interpretative and analytical methods of data illumination, I engage some selected unusual artworks executed between 1999 and 2017 by some selected Nsukka artists to authenticate the fact that Nsukka artists have taken a quantum leap beyond the frontiers of the human consciousness and in so doing, have mastered their oeuvres, bringing about great ingenuity and some unprecedented innovations in the execution of breath-taking postmodernist artworks whose formal contents and thematic probing interrogate germane issues.

Keywords: quantum leap, frontiers, currentism, visual arts, production, Nsukka School

Popularity of India’s Regional Comic Strips: A Study of the Stylistics of Narayan Debnath’s works

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Rima Namhata, PhD

Jaipuria Institute of Management, Jaipur, Rajasthan, India

ORCID id: orcid.org/0000-0002-9108-9519. Contact: rimanamhata@gmail.com

 Volume 13, Number 1, 2021 I Full Text PDF
DOI: 10.21659/rupkatha.v13n1.05
Popularity of India’s Regional Comic Strips: A Study of the Stylistics of Narayan Debnath’s works

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Though celebrated amongst the western literati and the intelligentsia thereof, Comic strips, especially the Indian produce with regional flavours in them, are seemingly juxtaposed, in the acceptance of their stylistic essence, if placed next to their western counterparts. This is also the reason why they have been infamously disregarded in the Indian academia. This paper proposes to study the stylistics aspect of the comic strips from Bengal especially the ones written by Shri Narayan Debnath, and the coming into vogue of this printed visual medium. This article aims to identify the uniqueness and the formal aspects of the stylistics of Indian Comic tradition from Bengal. Additionally, it aims to leaf through the popularity markers through Debnath’s stylistics aspect of the three comic strips that have kept the imagination of his audience alive for more than five decades. He successfully addressed the first objective through a systematic literary review with inclusion and exclusion set as a benchmark. The identification of the stylistics through close reading of the texts along with their systematic review of secondary literature, formed the basics of the second objective. Particularly those stylistics were considered which were typical of their prominence and were integral across the literature and the texts. Furthermore, a matrix was also successfully designed to map the identified stylistics. A couple of implications portray that the said interpretation may help the Post-Millennials or the Generation Z to examine and consider the sublimity and allegiance of reading, and shape the imagination prowess of young minds, apply their intellectual faculty and develop a comic disposition in life. Development of creativity in any narrative style and development of conversational mechanisms are often found to be an added bonus. However, making today’s generation read this form of narrative and chisel their fertile imagination remains a challenge for the digital-natives. There is no doubt however, that this age-old art form can be tremendously advantageous as an academic endeavour and become an integral part of children’s systematic reading habit.

Keywords: Bengal comics, stylistics, conversation mechanics, children’s literature, Narayan Debnath

Connotations of Identities in William Kurelek’s Paintings: Typology and Critical Art Analysis

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Khrystyna O. Beregovska1, Myroslava I. Zhavoronkova2, Tetiana F. Krotova3, Andrii L. Demianchuk4 & Andrii A. T?rasenko5

1Department of Theory and History of Art, Lviv National Academy of Arts, Lviv, Ukraine

2Department of Fine and Applied Arts, Yuriy Fedkovych Chernivtsi National University, Chernivtsi, Ukraine

3Department of Artistic Costume Modeling, Kyiv National University of Technologies and Design, Kyiv, Ukraine

4Department of Directing and Choreography, Ivan Franko National University of Lviv, Lviv, Ukraine

5Department of Theory and Methods of Decorative and Applied Arts and Graphics, South Ukrainian National Pedagogical University named after K.D. Ushynsky, Odesa, Ukraine

Contact: kh.beregovska@nuos.pro

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DOI: 10.21659/rupkatha.v13n1.04

Connotations of Identities in William Kurelek’s Paintings: Typology and Critical Art Analysis

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Despite the high popularity of William Kurelek in Canadian society, relatively few interpretations of his works can be found at the scientific, art criticism level. Based on the analysis of William Kurelek’s artistic legacy a typological study was conducted identifying the Canadian artist’s thinking and personal position declared openly in his art. A study of the thematic content of his paintings led to the identification of the following categories: personal, religious and awareness of community membership. The article outlines the difference between the notion of national and ethnic identity, which the artist saw in the difference between national and ethnic identity an instrument to self-awareness through membership in a particular community as a result of common spiritual, religious and social convictions with shared modes of behavior, mores and traditions. As a result of the study, we derived a certain formula of identity in the works of William Kurelek, which the author understood as a set of ethnic, national, gender-based, and religious characteristics inherent in a person, demonstrating its identity as the appropriate group affiliation. We also conducted a typology of identities in his art: personal, religious, awareness of community membership, national and ethnic. We analyzed the issues of commonality and differences between national and ethnic identity, designating them as “ethnic calmness” and “ethnic stress”.

Keywords: immigrant life, cultural world, Ukrainian original, ideological burden, painter.

Problems of Intertextuality in Audio-Visual Arts

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Halyna M. Kot1, Olena G. Levchenko1, Tetiana O. Kravchenko2, Oksana S. Musiienko3 & Kostiantyn V. Hrubych1

1Department of Tele-Journalism and Actor’s Skill, Kyiv National University of Culture and Arts, Kyiv, Ukraine

2Department of Scenic Speech, Kyiv National I.K. Karpenko-Kary Theatre, Cinema and Television University, Kyiv, Ukraine

3Department of Cinematography, Kyiv National I.K. Karpenko-Kary Theatre, Cinema and Television University, Kyiv, Ukraine

Contact: kot5382-6@nuos.pro

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DOI: 10.21659/rupkatha.v13n1.03
Problems of Intertextuality in Audio-Visual Arts

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At the present stage, the visualisation process covers all areas of life that come into contact with information and its presentation. Specialists and researchers in the relevant fields of activity are increasingly using the concepts that have been formed on the basis of printed text in the audio-visual arts. Such an example is the use of intertextuality, which is currently one of the promising areas for research on the example of audio and visual material (film, video, music, photography). The aim of the study was to identify the main current problems of the use of intertextuality in the audio-visual arts on the example of the two most common forms – film and music. The main methods used in this work are intertextual analysis, as well as discourse analysis, because for this method the area of interest is the study of discourse changes associated with intertextuality. As a result of the analysis, it was found that one of the problems of intertextuality is the uncertainty and lack of unity in its understanding between the followers of different approaches to the doctrine of intertext; several problems were identified. The authors propose solutions to the identified problems of the theory of intertextuality in the audio-visual arts, which confirms the practical significance of the study.

Keywords: text borrowing, film, music, culture studies, intertextual interactions.

The Artistic Status of Bio-art

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Eleni Gemtou

National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece.  

ORCID: 0000-0002-8543-3555. Email: egemtos@phs.uoa.gr.

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DOI: 10.21659/rupkatha.v13n1.02
The Artistic Status of Bio-art

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This paper aims to define Bio-art by strengthening its artistic status through two distinct approaches. The first is based on the acceptance that the concept of Bio-art includes both the term “art” and the term “bio” that could stand for Biology, Biotechnology, and Bioethics. It is argued that despite its direct connection to scientific research, Bio-art is only partly linked to the methods of the pure science of Biology, while it stands closer to the technoscience of Biotechnology. However, while bio-artists often use scientific methods and techniques, they eventually focus on bioethical questions. To amplify the artistic status of bio-artworks, we claim that they are kinds of visual “enthymemes”, a term used by Aristotle to define incomplete rhetoric syllogisms linking all recipients to common questions. Our second approach is developed around Levinson’s intentional-historical theory, showing that Bio-art belongs to the evolutionary narrative of art and artistic intentions. We allege interconnections of distinct features of bio-artworks with artworks of different eras that in the context of a retrospective view are to be understood as having paved the way for the emergence of Bio-art.

Key words: Bio-art, Biotechnology, Bioethics, Metaphor-Enthymeme, Levinson’s intentional-historical theory

A Nation within a Nation: English Education as a Tool of Divide and Rule Policy in Colonial India

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Thakurdas Jana1 & Sandip Sarkar2

1State Aided College Teacher, Post-Graduate Department of English, Bhatter College, Dantan, West Bengal, India. E-mail: thakurdas0901@gmail.com

2Assistant Professor, Department of Humanities and Social Science, NIT, Raipur, India. E-mail: sandipsarkar7@gmail.com

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DOI: 10.21659/rupkatha.v13n1.01

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Famous Irish political scientist and historian, Benedict Anderson, in his book, Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism has described nations as imagined communities. Stephen May, the British novelist, playwright, and TV writer, has viewed that language is used as a political tool to strengthen the imagined community of a nation-state. Eventually, many countries have been named after the language predominantly used in a particular country. But during the colonial expansion that the linguistic identity of a colonised nation like India and its people has been transformed in different ways. With the English Education Act, 1835 Lord Bentinck defeated the Orientalists and promoted English education in India. Consequently, different missionaries like Joshua Marshman, William Carey, William Ward, and Alexander Duff, who principally used English education to preach Christianity among the Indians, and British officials like Charles Grant, Lord Macaulay, William Hazlitt, and also some higher-class Indians like Raja Rammohan Roy, Keshab Chandra Sen, Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay supported the Anglicist view and tried to spread the English education in India. Different English schools like Dharmatala Academy were built and in the curriculum of different universities, the writings of different English authors like Francis Bacon, William Shakespeare, John Milton, Joseph Addison, Alexander Pope were included. Many higher-class Indians became more interested in English study losing their interest in vernacular education. Vijay Agnew in her autobiography, Where I Come From, and Madhu Kishor in her article “The Dominance of Angreziyat in Our Education” have accused English education of making them unaware and ignorant of the Indian culture and writings. In this way, the higher-class English educated Indians have created one English nation within the Hindustan. Even the translation of different Indian classical texts into English like Sir William Jone’s translation of Abhjnanasakuntalam in 1789 and Sir Charles Wilkins’ translation of Bhagabadgita in 1784 has also paved the way for forming a different identity. In this context, the present paper aims to show how the different tools for spreading the English language divided the nation into two, supporting the divide and rule policy of the British, which is still effective in the so-called united, equal, and democratic India.

Keywords: nation, division, colonialism, English education, India.

Forthcoming CFPs

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CFP: 2nd Rupkatha International Open Conference on Recent Advances in Interdisciplinary Humanities, 2021 (Virtual)

Submission: Closed. Know more>>

Issue 1: General Issue

Submission Deadline: 31 January, 2021

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Section Editor, Dr. Sathyaraj Venkatesan. Contact: hhrupkatha@gmail.com [NIT, Trichy, India]

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Issue 3: Special Issue: Contemporary East and Southeast Asian Literary and Cultural Studies

Eds: Dr. Jeremy de Chavez & Dr. Zhang Yue. Contact: jeremydechavez@um.edu.mo [University of Macau, China]

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2022

Issue 1: Special Issue on Literature of North East India*

Ed: Dr. Jyotirmoy Prodhani. Contact: rajaprodhani@gmail.com [North Eastern Hill University]

[*We have shifted the publication of the North East issue to 2022.]

Impact of Reading on the Biological Foundations of Language, Cognition, and Emotion

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Radhakrishnan Sriganesh1 and R. Joseph Ponniah2

1Research Scholar, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, National Institute of Technology Tiruchirappalli, Tiruchirapalli – 620015

2Professor of English, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, National Institute of Technology Tiruchirappalli, Tiruchirappalli – 620015. ORCID: 0000-0002-0618-6788. Email: joseph@nitt.edu

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DOI: 10.21659/rupkatha.v12n6.09b

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The article explores the biology of reading and how reading influences the biological relationship among language, cognition, and emotion (LCE). Reading aids in the enhancement of LCE under the precondition that biological predispositions for reading ability and LCE, such as genetic makeup, epigenetic modifications and neuronal development are favourable. A conceptual model was developed to explain how reading incrementally enhances LCE. The model serves as a tool to understand the biological and pedagogical conditions through which reading helps in progressing through successive LCE levels. The article also proposes that this holistic perspective of reading, considering genetics, epigenetics, neuroscience, neuropsychology and pedagogy, paves way for targeted clinical and educational interventions for people with language learning difficulties/disability.

Keywords: biology of reading; epigenetics; synaptic plasticity; neurogenetics of reading

Evaluation Strategies and Tactics of immigration Issues in Social Media Discourse

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Nazira S. Iskakova1, Aibarsha Islam1

1Kazakh Ablai khan University of Foreign Relations and World Languages, Almaty, Muratbayev Str., 200, 050022, Kazakhstan.

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DOI: 10.21659/rupkatha.v12n6.29

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The article is aimed at studying the main evaluation strategies and tactics through contextual analysis of immigration problems in the British social media discourse. The article considers evaluation as a cognitive-pragmatic phenomenon and identifies it as a powerful means of persuasion for manipulating public opinion. The commutative strategies and tactics are defined as the main tools to achieve the author’s pragmatic intention and the goal. Thus, it has become relevant to identify what evaluation strategies and tactics the author uses to highlight immigration issues in British society. As a result, the diversity of examples allows us to conclude that a key evaluation strategy of British media discourse that presents the immigration issues is a strategy of disapproval, expressed through the tactics of a recognition of the existence of the problem, accusation, reproach, discredit, misunderstanding, doubt, indication of the future, disagreement and distancing that imply negative evaluation.

Key words: Evaluation, Evaluation strategy, Evaluation tactics, Manipulation, Media discourse.

Paroemias as Explication of Human Qualities in the English Language

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Elvira N. Azharbekova1, Shara Mazhitayeva1, Zhanar M. Omasheva2, Kamshat Toleubaeva1, Zhanar Talaspaeva3, Sholpan Zhetpisbay4

1Buketov Karaganda State University, Kazakhstan

2Karaganda State Medical University, Kazakhstan

3M. Kozybaev North Kazakhstan State University, Kazakhstan

4Karaganda State Technical University, Kazakhstan

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DOI: 10.21659/rupkatha.v12n6.28

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The article studies human qualities and cultural features through a zoomorphic cultural code. The authors analyzed English paroemias, which are the most distinctive and culture-specific language system, which contributes to define the native speaker’s worldview features. As a result of the analysis, the authors defined groups of paroemias in which the description of human qualities was found in paroemiological units and figurative content which are related to cultural and national features of the English ethnic group. A component analysis of denotative space of the English paroemias showed that the most relevant for the British are such zoomorphic images as: dog, sheep, cat, horse, ox. The cultural and linguistic specifics, based on paroemias studied, are implicit and serve to create the expressiveness and a figurative meaning and, therefore, are a part of the connotative macro-component. The study, presented here, consulted A. A. Khazan’s English paroemiological dictionary “Russian-English-Latin dictionary of winged words and expressions” (Smolensk: Rusich, 2001), ethnolinguistic and linguocultural scientific works. The target of research is zoonymous proverbs and sayings in the English language. The research focuses on proverbs and sayings zoonyms, in the semantics of which there are cultural and linguistic components characterizing human qualities. The research methods include descriptive, statistic, transformational, distributive and componential analyzes.

Keywords: semantics, English proverbs, English sayings, phraseological unit, lexeme, zoonym, zoomorphic image.

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