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All Journal Metathesis: Journal of English Language, Literature, and Teaching Polingua : Scientific journal of Linguistics, Literature and Language Education
Harfiyah Widiawati
Pusat Kajian Daerah dan Anggaran, Sekjen DPD Republik Indonesia
Humanities Education Languange, Linguistic, Communication & Media Physics

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The Discrepancy of Meaning: A Study of a Guardian Angel’s Existence in “Deus Ex Machina” Harfiyah Widiawati; Aris Masruri Harahap; Lambok Hermanto Sihombing
Metathesis: Journal of English Language, Literature, and Teaching Vol 4, No 2 (2020): Metathesis : Journal of English Language, Literature, and Teaching
Publisher : English Education Study Program, Faculty of Education and Teachers Training, Tidar Univer

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.31002/metathesis.v4i2.2703

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The theme of a guardian angel has always become cryptic discussion among scholars, for as God, she is beyond our empirical grasp. Hari Kunzru is one of the writers who broach this subject in his work entitled “Deus Ex Machina”. In the short story, the guardian angel acts as the I-character of the story as well as the I-narrator of the story. By using theories on textual deconstruction and existentialism, we discuss and analyze the guardian angel’s raison d’etre (reason to be) and significance through her functions as the narrator and also the I-character in the narration of “Deus Ex Machina” story. From the analysis, we could draw three conclusions which relate raison d’etre (reason to be) and the significance of the guardian angel with the other characters within the story and with her readers outside the story.
The Act of Silencing in Robert Musil’s “Tonka” Harfiyah Widiawati; Lambok Hermanto Sihombing; Aris Masruri Harahap
Journal Polingua: Scientific Journal of Linguistics, Literature and Language Education Vol 9, No 2 (2020)
Publisher : Politeknik Negeri Padang

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.30630/polingua.v9i2.144

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Modernism’s overemphasize on universal objectivity as well as its optimistic humanism have generated critical questions. The critics on modernism, labeled under the name of postmodernists, question the neutrality assumed by humanist universalism and scientific objectivism. Seeing the ugly sides of enlightenments, the modernist critics begins to see modernism “as deeply implicated by forms of oppression: sexism, racism, class-ism, colonialism”. The purpose of this paper is to analyze a modernist work from the view point of postmodernism. The work that is under discussion here is “Tonka” by Robert Musil. Within the story, we can see that a form of oppression appears. We are to find  how the form of oppression within the story works. It is interesting to find that the oppression works through the act of silencing. To see how silence is interwoven in the story, we have to firstly set some limitation to make possible the discussion on silence itself. The easiest way to do it is by putting the entity in a binary opposition since the text strongly shows binary organization.
Co-Authors Aris Masruri Harahap Lambok Hermanto Sihombing