The Usefulness of Uselessness: Short Stories by José Eduardo Agualusa

Kód výsledku v IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216208%3A11320%2F25%3ASGFABM2U" target="_blank" >RIV/00216208:11320/25:SGFABM2U - isvavai.cz</a>

Výsledek na webu

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DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.17507/jltr.1405.14" target="_blank" >10.17507/jltr.1405.14</a>

Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

The Usefulness of Uselessness: Short Stories by José Eduardo Agualusa

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

Estranhões & Bizarrocos: Stories for angels to sleep is a children’s and young adult book authored in Portuguese by Angolan writer JoséEduardo Agualusa. This paper posits that the book’s constituent short stories, initially intended for children, bear potential appeal to readers across all age brackets, situating themselves within the realm of ‘crossover fiction’. The book’s title resonates with the semantic sphere of the strange or peculiar. Within the narratives, ‘the stranger’ correlates with the child's fantastical world, but also aligns with the ‘foreigner’ inherent within these short stories. To unpack the representations of this ‘bizarre’ Other depicted in the stories, we employ literary imagology. This approach reveals the role of images curated by the narrators in constructing the implicit theme shared across the book’s 10 short stories. Lastly, the work provokes readers to ponder the value of seemingly usefulness things and situations—a reflection that carries its own meta-literary significance. © 2023, Academy Publication. All rights reserved.

Název v anglickém jazyce

The Usefulness of Uselessness: Short Stories by José Eduardo Agualusa

Popis výsledku anglicky

Estranhões & Bizarrocos: Stories for angels to sleep is a children’s and young adult book authored in Portuguese by Angolan writer JoséEduardo Agualusa. This paper posits that the book’s constituent short stories, initially intended for children, bear potential appeal to readers across all age brackets, situating themselves within the realm of ‘crossover fiction’. The book’s title resonates with the semantic sphere of the strange or peculiar. Within the narratives, ‘the stranger’ correlates with the child's fantastical world, but also aligns with the ‘foreigner’ inherent within these short stories. To unpack the representations of this ‘bizarre’ Other depicted in the stories, we employ literary imagology. This approach reveals the role of images curated by the narrators in constructing the implicit theme shared across the book’s 10 short stories. Lastly, the work provokes readers to ponder the value of seemingly usefulness things and situations—a reflection that carries its own meta-literary significance. © 2023, Academy Publication. All rights reserved.

Druh

J_SC - Článek v periodiku v databázi SCOPUS

CEP obor

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OECD FORD obor

10201 - Computer sciences, information science, bioinformathics (hardware development to be 2.2, social aspect to be 5.8)

Projekt

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Návaznosti

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Rok uplatnění

2023

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Název periodika

Journal of Language Teaching and Research

ISSN

17984769

e-ISSN

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Svazek periodika

14

Číslo periodika v rámci svazku

5

Stát vydavatele periodika

US - Spojené státy americké

Počet stran výsledku

8

Strana od-do

1262 - 1269

Kód UT WoS článku

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EID výsledku v databázi Scopus

2-s2.0-85170542540