THE OBJECT-ORIENTED ASPECT OF IRVING’S A TOUR ON THE PRAIRIES
This brief paper has basically two aims. First, it intends to introduce object-oriented ontology (OOO), a branch of contemporary thought which regards everything as an individual “object” of equal standing, as a potentially effective theoretical framework to examine a literary text, especially in or...
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Fakultas Sastra, Universitas Islam Sumatera Utara (UISU)
2019-07-01
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| description | This brief paper has basically two aims. First, it intends to introduce object-oriented ontology (OOO), a branch of contemporary thought which regards everything as an individual “object” of equal standing, as a potentially effective theoretical framework to examine a literary text, especially in order to explore the complexity of interactions between/among both human and nonhuman objects on a horizontal plane. Second, it analyzes how the narrator of A Tour on the Prairies, one of the long-neglected texts of Washington Irving, gradually begins to question the naive human/object binary and broadens his horizons through an encounter with another object. Specifically, I examined a series of the contacts which the narrator makes with buffaloes, and then demonstrated how he, though taking a naïve, human-centered schema in the beginning, gradually attains the liberal perspective through the recognition that the object before him is a being that is ontologically equal with him. I concluded the argument by attesting that the text, albeit in a gentle manner, invited us to see the world and existences in it with a more liberal—i.e. object-oriented—perspective. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-e854ebe2883f4b348a821b4896a144482022-12-21T18:32:57ZengFakultas Sastra, Universitas Islam Sumatera Utara (UISU)Language Literacy: Journal of Linguistics, Literature, and Language Teaching2580-86722580-99622019-07-01311910.30743/ll.v3i1.1181927THE OBJECT-ORIENTED ASPECT OF IRVING’S A TOUR ON THE PRAIRIESNaruhiko Mikado0Osaka UniversityThis brief paper has basically two aims. First, it intends to introduce object-oriented ontology (OOO), a branch of contemporary thought which regards everything as an individual “object” of equal standing, as a potentially effective theoretical framework to examine a literary text, especially in order to explore the complexity of interactions between/among both human and nonhuman objects on a horizontal plane. Second, it analyzes how the narrator of A Tour on the Prairies, one of the long-neglected texts of Washington Irving, gradually begins to question the naive human/object binary and broadens his horizons through an encounter with another object. Specifically, I examined a series of the contacts which the narrator makes with buffaloes, and then demonstrated how he, though taking a naïve, human-centered schema in the beginning, gradually attains the liberal perspective through the recognition that the object before him is a being that is ontologically equal with him. I concluded the argument by attesting that the text, albeit in a gentle manner, invited us to see the world and existences in it with a more liberal—i.e. object-oriented—perspective.https://jurnal.uisu.ac.id/index.php/languageliteracy/article/view/1181washington irving, a tour on the prairies, object-oriented ontology |
| spellingShingle | Naruhiko Mikado THE OBJECT-ORIENTED ASPECT OF IRVING’S A TOUR ON THE PRAIRIES Language Literacy: Journal of Linguistics, Literature, and Language Teaching washington irving, a tour on the prairies, object-oriented ontology |
| title | THE OBJECT-ORIENTED ASPECT OF IRVING’S A TOUR ON THE PRAIRIES |
| title_full | THE OBJECT-ORIENTED ASPECT OF IRVING’S A TOUR ON THE PRAIRIES |
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| title_full_unstemmed | THE OBJECT-ORIENTED ASPECT OF IRVING’S A TOUR ON THE PRAIRIES |
| title_short | THE OBJECT-ORIENTED ASPECT OF IRVING’S A TOUR ON THE PRAIRIES |
| title_sort | object oriented aspect of irving s a tour on the prairies |
| topic | washington irving, a tour on the prairies, object-oriented ontology |
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