Describing The Unobserved And Other Essays

Author : Ann Banfield
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2018-11-30
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781527522701

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Describing the Unobserved and Other Essays by Ann Banfield Pdf

The seven essays gathered in this volume are all concerned, more or less directly, with the “unspeakable sentences” of fictional narration, that is, the sentences that do not bear any explicit mark nor any implicit indication of a first person and which are not interpretable as the expression of a speaker’s subjectivity. Chief among them are the sentences of free indirect style, which this book prefers to call sentences of “represented speech and thought.” All of these essays were written after the publication of Unspeakable Sentences: Narration and Representation in the Language of Fiction (1982). They take up its theoretical frameworks and extend its analyses into other contexts, where they acquire other uses, other functions, and other values. Taken as a whole, this work bears witness to the richness and vitality of the encounter between linguistics, philosophy, and the theory and analysis of narrative and the novel.

Author : Sylvie Patron
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2023-09
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781496236968

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The Narrator by Sylvie Patron Pdf

The narrator (the answer to the question "who speaks in the text?") is a commonly used notion in teaching literature and in literary criticism, even though it is the object of an ongoing debate in narrative theory. Do all fictional narratives have a narrator, or only some of them? Can narratives thus be "narratorless"? This question divides communicational theories (based on the communication between real or fictional narrator and narratee) and noncommunicational or poetic theories (which aim to rehabilitate the function of the author as the creator of the fictional narrative). Clarifying the notion of the narrator requires a historical and epistemological approach focused on the opposition between communicational theories of narrative in general and noncommunicational or poetic theories of the fictional narrative in particular. The Narrator offers an original and critical synthesis of the problem of the narrator in the work of narratologists and other theoreticians of narrative communication from the French, Czech, German, and American traditions and in representations of the noncommunicational theories of fictional narrative. Sylvie Patron provides linguistic and pragmatic tools for interrogating the concept of the narrator based on the idea that fictional narrative has the power to signal, by specific linguistic marks, that the reader must construct a narrator; when these marks are missing, the reader is able to perceive other forms and other narrative effects, specially sought after by certain authors.

Author : Sylvie Patron
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2021-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781496224507

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Optional-Narrator Theory by Sylvie Patron Pdf

Twentieth-century narratology fostered the assumption, which distinguishes narratology from previous narrative theories, that all narratives have a narrator. Since the first formulations of this assumption, however, voices have come forward to denounce oversimplifications and dangerous confusions of issues. Optional-Narrator Theory is the first collection of essays to focus exclusively on the narrator from the perspective of optional-narrator theories. Sylvie Patron is a prominent advocate of optional-narrator theories, and her collection boasts essays by many prominent scholars--including Jonathan Culler and John Brenkman--and covers a breadth of genres, from biblical narrative to poetry to comics. This volume bolsters the dialogue among optional-narrator and pan-narrator theorists across multiple fields of research. These essays make a strong intervention in narratology, pushing back against the widespread belief among narrative theorists in general and theorists of the novel in particular that the presence of a fictional narrator is a defining feature of fictional narratives. This topic is an important one for narrative theory and thus also for literary practice. Optional-Narrator Theory advances a range of arguments for dispensing with the narrator, except when it can be said that the author actually "created" a fictional narrator.

Author : Peter Hühn,John Pier,Wolf Schmid
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 1033 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2023-07-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783110616644

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Handbook of Diachronic Narratology by Peter Hühn,John Pier,Wolf Schmid Pdf

This handbook brings together 42 contributions by leading narratologists devoted to the study of narrative devices in European literatures from antiquity to the present. Each entry examines the use of a specific narrative device in one or two national literatures across the ages, whether in successive or distant periods of time. Through the analysis of representative texts in a range of European languages, the authors compellingly trace the continuities and evolution of storytelling devices, as well as their culture-specific manifestations. In response to Monika Fludernik’s 2003 call for a "diachronization of narratology," this new handbook complements existing synchronic approaches that tend to be ahistorical in their outlook, and departs from postclassical narratologies that often prioritize thematic and ideological concerns. A new direction in narrative theory, diachronic narratology explores previously overlooked questions, from the evolution of free indirect speech from the Middle Ages to the present, to how changes in narrative sequence encoded the shift from a sacred to a secular worldview in early modern Romance literatures. An invaluable new resource for literary theorists, historians, comparatists, discourse analysts, and linguists.

Author : Elizabeth Bridgen,Sarah Williams
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2024-03-25
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781804555385

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Women’s Work in Public Relations by Elizabeth Bridgen,Sarah Williams Pdf

Reconceptualising human experience through a holistic feminist approach, this book takes us behind the scenes to connect with women navigating the problems and contradictions of everyday working life.

Author : Matthew Daniel Eddy
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 531 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2023-07-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226820750

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Media and the Mind by Matthew Daniel Eddy Pdf

A beautifully illustrated argument that reveals notebooks as extraordinary paper machines that transformed knowledge on the page and in the mind. Information is often characterized as facts that float effortlessly across time and space. But before the nineteenth century, information was seen as a process that included a set of skills enacted through media on a daily basis. How, why, and where were these mediated facts and skills learned? Concentrating on manuscripts created by students in Scotland between 1700 and 1830, Matthew Daniel Eddy argues that notebooks functioned as workshops where notekeepers learned to judge the accuracy, utility, and morality of the data they encountered. He shows that, in an age preoccupied with "enlightened" values, the skills and materials required to make and use notebooks were not simply aids to reason—they were part of reason itself. Covering a rich selection of material and visual media ranging from hand-stitched bindings to watercolor paintings, the book problematizes John Locke's comparison of the mind to a blank piece of paper, the tabula rasa. Although one of the most recognizable metaphors of the British Enlightenment, scholars seldom consider why it was so successful for those who used it. Eddy makes a case for using the material culture of early modern manuscripts to expand the meaning of the metaphor in a way that offers a clearer understanding of the direct relationship that existed between thinking and notekeeping. Starting in the home, moving to schools, and then ending with universities, the book explores this argument by reconstructing the relationship between media and the mind from the bottom up.

Author : Abram van Dijk
Publisher : Rozenberg Publishers
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789036101349

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Essays on finite mixture models by Abram van Dijk Pdf

Finite mixture distributions are a weighted average of a finite number of distributions. The latter are usually called the mixture components. The weights are usually described by a multinomial distribution and are sometimes called mixing proportions. The mixture components may be the same type of distributions with di®erent parameter values but they may also be completely different distributions. Therefore, finite mixture distributions are very °exible for modeling data. They are frequently used as a building block within many modern econometric models. The specification of the mixture distribution depends on the modeling problem at hand. In this thesis, we introduce new applications of finite mixtures to deal with several di®erent modeling issues. Each chapter of the thesis focusses on a specific modeling issue. The parameters of some of the resulting models can be estimated using standard techniques but for some of the chapters we need to develop new estimation and inference methods. To illustrate how the methods can be applied, we analyze at least one empirical data set for each approach. These data sets cover a wide range of research fields, such as macroeconomics, marketing, and political science. We show the usefulness of the methods and, in some cases, the improvement over previous methods in the literature.

Author : Alexander Samely
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 438 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2024-07-03
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783031557637

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Reading and Experience: A Philosophical Investigation by Alexander Samely Pdf

Author : L. Cucullu
Publisher : Springer
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2004-08-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780230501959

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Expert Modernists, Matricide and Modern Culture by L. Cucullu Pdf

This book links the leading innovators of modernism to the cult of the modern expert. In historicizing modernism as a distinct mode of knowledge that competes with other forms of expertise from law to psychology, Lois Cucullu shows how three modernist experts - Woolf, Forster, and Joyce - used technical innovations in the novel to replace reigning Victorian beliefs about marriage, procreation and the family. Modernist narratives of consciousness and bodies convert the gendered domestic sphere into an aesthetic one that grants cultural reproduction and a modern cultural class the centrality once accorded biological reproduction and the bourgeois household.

Author : Ann Banfield
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 355 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2014-07-17
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781317598831

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Unspeakable Sentences (Routledge Revivals) by Ann Banfield Pdf

First published in 1982, this title grew from a series of essays on various aspects of narrative style; the result is a finished product that melds literary theory with linguistic methodology. It is argued that, where linguistic theory intersects with literary theory, it is narrative that provides the crucial ‘experiment’ for deciding between a communication and a non-communication theory of language and, by extension, of literature. Chapters discuss such areas as subjectivity in direct and indirect speech, the absence of the narrator, and the development of narrative style. With a detailed introduction to the subject, this reissue will be of value to students of linguistics and literature with a particular interest in narrative style and linguistic theory.

Author : Karl Mannheim
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2013-08-21
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781136178702

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Essays Soc & Social Psych V 6 by Karl Mannheim Pdf

This is Volume VI of a collection of works by Karl Mannheim. Originally published in 1953, this book holds essays that completes the re-edition of the shorter scientific papers, which Karl Mannheim wrote during the last twenty-five years of his life.

Author : Vladimir Biti
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 403 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2016-01-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783110457643

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Tracing Global Democracy by Vladimir Biti Pdf

Focused on the recently hotly debated topic at the crossroads of various human and social sciences, this book investigates the emergence of the cosmopolitan idea of literature and its impact on the reconfiguration of the European and non-European political spaces. The birthplace of this idea is its designers’ traumatic experience as induced by the disconcerting condition of their abode.The thesis is that the eighteenth and nineteenth century’s cosmopolitan projects that grow out of such deep frustrations trace the twentieth century’s global democracy. This hidden origin of cosmopolitan projects dismantles the usual European representation of modernization as universal progress as myopic. Rather than being a generous action of prominent subjects such as Voltaire, Kant, and Goethe, or Bakhtin, Derrida and Deleuze, cosmopolitanism is an enforced reaction of the instances dispossessed by injury that search for the ways of healing it. Yet as soon as their remedy establishes itself as the ground for universal reconciliation, it risks suppressing other’s trauma, i.e. turns from politics into a police. Articulating the author’s position in the recent debates on the structure of democracy, the epilogue suggests an alternative strategy.

Author : Hugh C. White
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Bible
ISBN : 0521390206

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Narration and Discourse in the Book of Genesis by Hugh C. White Pdf

Author : Heather Houser
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2020-06-16
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780231547208

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Infowhelm by Heather Houser Pdf

How do artists and writers engage with environmental knowledge in the face of overwhelming information about catastrophe? What kinds of knowledge do the arts produce when addressing climate change, extinction, and other environmental emergencies? What happens to scientific data when it becomes art? In Infowhelm, Heather Houser explores the ways contemporary art manages environmental knowledge in an age of climate crisis and information overload. Houser argues that the infowhelm—a state of abundant yet contested scientific information—is an unexpectedly resonant resource for environmental artists seeking to go beyond communicating stories about crises. Infowhelm analyzes how artists transform the techniques of the sciences into aesthetic material, repurposing data on everything from butterfly migration to oil spills and experimenting with data collection, classification, and remote sensing. Houser traces how artists ranging from novelist Barbara Kingsolver to digital memorialist Maya Lin rework knowledge traditions native to the sciences, entangling data with embodiment, quantification with speculation, precision with ambiguity, and observation with feeling. Their works provide new ways of understanding environmental change while also questioning traditional distinctions between types of knowledge. Bridging the environmental humanities, digital media studies, and science and technology studies, this timely book reveals the importance of artistic medium and form to understanding environmental issues and challenges our assumptions about how people arrive at and respond to environmental knowledge.

Author : Violeta Sotirova
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2011-03-31
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781441132628

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D. H. Lawrence and Narrative Viewpoint by Violeta Sotirova Pdf

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