David Herman (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Narrative
David Herman (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Narrative
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Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007, £18.99 cloth, US$ 33.99. Pp vii + 313. ISBN 9780521673662
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Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007, £18.99 cloth, US$ 33.99. Pp vii + 313. ISBN 9780521673662
More...L’étude de la fiction a toujours donné lieu aux controverses, ce qui soulève la question du pourquoi. Dans ce qui suit nous nous proposons de donner un aperçu des positions théoriques adoptées par les deux approches de la problématique - de la théorie communicationnelle et non-communicationnelle. Au même temps nous voudrons attirer l’attention sur quelques aspects flous liés au sujet.
More...Keywords: Visual culture; femininity; representation
The aim of this paper is to present Tracy Chevalier's perspective on the female body as a product of visual culture, both socially constructed and culturally mediated. Connoted as an instrument of power, woman's anatomy is seen both as a producer of artistic images (in painting, sculpture and tapestry) and as a shifting icon throughout time. Therefore, this contemporary British female writer tries, in all her five novels published so far, to convey a symbolic meaning to the representation of every woman she depicts, using various images, from the iconic representation of the Virgin to the non-conformist description of a circus ballerina.
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Keywords: Frances Sheridan; novel of marriage; women novelists; eighteenth-century English novel; feminist narratology; love in literature; history of family
The article deals with embedded stories of seduction in the context of eighteenth-century novels. Although literary history has focused mainly on the novel of courtship, marital and family life has actually had a very important place in literature throughout the century. Within novels about the life of a marriage the tales of chaste wives repeatedly run in narrative conjunction with embedded tales of fallen women. These do not function merely as cautionary contrasts but participate in the process of consolidating the discourse of marriage and love in the period of sensibility. The principal object of analysis is the novel of Frances Sheridan (1724–1766) The Memoirs of Miss Sidney Bidulph (1761) where embedded tales of seduction problematise traditional concepts of female and conjugal morality. The article relies on recent approaches to the history of the family and on the methods of feminist narratology.
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Keywords: The 23rd Biennial IRSCL Congress; report; International Research Society for Children’s Literature; IRSCL;
This is a report from The 23rd Biennial IRSCL Congress “Possible & Impossible Children” which was held in Toronto, Canada on 29 July - 2 August 2017. This year’s theme, “Possible & Impossible Children: Intersections of Children’s Literature and Childhood Studies”, brought together around 400 scholars from 50 countries, gathered to discuss a variety of topics related to the production, representation, and reception of all-media texts for children and young adults.
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Keywords: narratives; cultural values; advertising; discourse;
Communication can no longer be defined today without reference to culture, as these both tailor human’s existence. Spiritual and affective values are embedded in culture and inherent in all types of communication, while people’s identity, emergent in discourse, is defined culturally and communicated in inordinate narratives. More than that, globalization and internationalization make worldwide values merge and define the messages to fit a society in continuous transformation. In this context, the present paper looks at the way narratives are structured when they surpass literary genre and migrate to the realm of media and advertising.
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Keywords: augmented reality; aesthetic experience; aesthetic engagement; novels; urban place
The complex conditions of urban places render it difficult to identify and perceive their multivariate aesthetic characters. The question examined herein is in which ways digital media like Augmented Reality (AR) can facilitate a more comprehensive aesthetic appreciation of a place by individuals, enhance their overall experience and allow them to recognize the aesthetic distinctiveness of places that may be phenomenologically dense with aesthetics, memory, meaning, legibility. The framework proposed is founded on the inherent power of novels as chronotopes of potential dialogical experiences and on four characteristic strategies of AR.Narrative chronotope singularities are fundamental sources for understanding the collective, cultural, historical, social and spatial practices, leading to an understanding of urban environments. So the first step is to extract narrative chronotope analysis content from a novel’s urban substance (buildings, roads, squares), characters, plot and sequence of events. The second step involves a three-dimensional re-creation of urban heritage components. Finally, the AR media is interwoven with the novels based on four strategies: reinforcement of aspects of real-world urban places by digitally overlaying the novel’s setting; recontextualization to achieve the semantic transformation of places as the novel’s significance and meanings are revealed; remembrance by facilitating the emergence of diverse identities and memories; and re-embodiment through achieving a deeper understanding and re-interconnectedness with the aesthetic aspects of urban places.Augmented narrative descriptions restore harmony between body-mind-environment and fiction while ensuring that different times, places and psychological situations coincide. The proposed novel-based digitally-mediated interaction could provide a shift that leads to the embodiment, enhancement and re-conceptualization of the diverse aesthetic dimensions of constructs such as ‘heritage monuments’, ‘local community’, ‘public place’, etc.
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Keywords: discordant narration; film adaptation; cinematic unreliability; feminist narratology; Alice Munro; Sarah Polley;
In her film Away from Her, Sarah Polley subtly transforms the discordant (ideologically-unreliable) narration of its source text, Alice Munro’s “The Bear Came over the Mountain.” Given the challenges discordant narration poses for film adaptation, this essay examines how Polley repurposes several elements present in Munro’s story, few of which participate in its narration, and consolidates them into a system of cues that undermine the audience’s sympathy with the protagonist, thus performing a role equivalent to though technically and rhetorically different from Munro’s use of discordance; the most important of these cues constitute the film’s floral motif. Overall, Polley’s adaptation of discordant narration translates aspects of fictive discourse (sujet) into cinematic content (fabula), a shift that is hypothesized to be common in film adaptations of fiction featuring discordant narrators. More generally, Polley’s adaptive manoeuvres illustrate how adaptations can foreground narratological problems and focus theoretical attention on the role of specific narrative elements within and across medial environments. How her film adapts the discordance of Munro’s story, mobilizing the ethical and political functions of discordance across contexts, media and discursive forms, endorses the continued use of narratology in the study of adaptation and, furthermore, suggest that Adaptation Studies could help clarify and further our understanding of core concepts in narratology.
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Amidst the countless “images in a film”, which in some way problematise the “film image”, special place belongs to the famous sequence of a photographic reconstruction of events in Antonioni’s Blow-Up (1966). In my brief analysis I attempt to draw attention to the part played in this construction by the most “visual” among the narratological categories, namely, “focalisation”.
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Keywords: experientiality; narrative strategy; cognitive narratology; mimetism; local identity; patterns of the emotion expression
The article considers narrative strategies of the creation of the effect of the reader’sinvolvement in the protagonist’s life experience in Tamara Horiha Zernia’s novel Dotsya, which is devotedto the important problem of today — the war on the east of Ukraine. The theoretical frameworkof the study is based on Monika Fludernik’s cognitive-narratological conception of experientialityreferring to the idea of the reader’s familiarization with a character’s experience by narrative means.Three strategies of creating the experientiality in this novel are seen as the most important: mimetismwhile reflecting the region realities, manipulation by the category of local identity, and vividemotionality of the novel’s narrative. The protagonist’s depersonalization, the display of corporalreactions and the inclusion of invective digressions into the fictional discourse are considered asprevailing patterns of emotional expression.
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Keywords: gender relationships; masculinities; complicity; hegemony; focalization; melancholia; homosocial desire; cathexis; character; narrator
The following discourse analyses of the novel „In between“ (2008) from Irena Jordanova is focused on the literary categories of character and focalization. Using the feministic and sociological paradigm the article aims to show that the homosocial desire is crucial in establishing the patriarchal regimes for complete objectification and appropriation of the female in the erotic triangle. Even more, the analysis tends to describe the homosocial relationships of different masculinities, from the marginalized and subordinated, trough the complicit and the hegemonic as well as their transition the patriarchal network . In the specific case, the article finds out that the female is not only objectified on the story (fabula) level, but even more, the female is used as an object of symbolichomosocial transaction in the realm of the discourse (syuzhet). In this process, romance serves as homosocial normalizing and cloaking devise for safekeeping the patriarchal position.
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Keywords: time regained; aesthetic theory; essence; involuntary memory
The gradual publishing of the novel In Search of Lost Time in the period between 1913 and 1927, or at the very peak of modern world literature, marked the paradigm of narrative innovations present in the modern novel: the plurality of the narrative subject that is both a character and the narrator, the complexity of the style that should capture the details of the experienced perceptions, but above all, the insisting on the replacement of the objective time with the inner time of the character. However, in a diachronic outline into the extensive bibliography that is dedicated to this work during the XX century, the differences, the contradictions and the premises that are mutually exclusive regarding its interpretation, are surprising. This paper is a result of our interest in the motives that made the original idealistic explanation of Proust to take the range of interpretations concerning different problems today: starting from the presence of natural and technical sciences in his work, through sociological analysis and narratology, finishing with the issues such as biopolitics.
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Keywords: Kongoli; narratology; focalizer; narrative voice; prose; characters;
Fatos Kongoli is one of those writers of Albanian literature who became famous with a series of novels published after the 90s. With his prose, Albanian literature is enriched more in the thematic and artistic plan, but also in the narrative plane. This study aims to address some narrative aspects of some representative novels of the author, published after the fall of communism in Albania. The study focuses on two narratological aspects, that of the focalizer and the narrative voice, both of which are present in the novels of this author. The study focuses on the presence of the point of view and narrative voice within the narrative world of the author, whose prose is distinguished for narratives of different events, different characters who narrate different events of a life with different existential and hallucinatory crises. Characters are presented through numerous descriptions in the narrative plane of focalization and narrative voice. In the novels of this author, the forms of the narrative are specific, where many characters speak and we have a plurality of narrative voices, which represent a kind of polyphony in the narrative. Through internal focalization in the narrative, Kongoli presents the inner side of the characters, given that Kongoli's narrative delves into the dark recesses of the individual being, tracing the characters' psychology and childish memory. Focalizer and narrative voice are narrative elements that are present in the novels of this author, so the study aims to delve into these issues and give a clearer picture of the narrative discourse of one of the most important contemporary authors of Albanian literature.
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Keywords: Psychologism; inner world; idiostyle; “author's voice”; narrative psychology; narrative; the theory of narrative; psychonarrative analysis;
The article offers an overview on the most notable features of the implementation of psychonarratives in fiction and documentary and fiction prose about the Anti-terrorist Operation (ATO) and the hybrid warfare in Donbas from the standpoint of the achievements of modern humanities, which gives intelligence a multidisciplinary nature. The degree of academic research on the outlined topics at both the world and the national scientific levels has been clarified. The contribution of the Western scientists to the development of theoretical and methodological principles of parameterization of psychonarratives is outlined. There is a tendency to increase the interest of domestic specialists in narratology, in particular psychonaratology, mainly in empirical terms. At the same time, an objective lack of thorough theoretical developments of the monographic or dissertation level on the outlined issues has been stated in Ukrainian studies. Terminological vagueness and imbalance in the interpretation of the key concepts of psychonarrative studies have been recorded. Methods and means of realization and manifestation of the psychonarratives in the text structures are established. There is a growing interest of domestic researchers in the direct or indirect consideration of narrative, psychonarrative and selfnarrative in fiction prose and documentary and fiction prose about the ATO and the hybrid warfare in the Donbas in the context of discursivity and intermediality. The peculiarities of psychonarrative expression on the formal structure and sence-content levels are indicated. The common and distinctive features of the realization of psychonarratives in fiction and non-fiction literature are briefly noted.
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