Fictional London

Author : Stephen Halliday
Publisher : The History Press
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2013-03-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780752492520

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Fictional London by Stephen Halliday Pdf

'By seeing London, I have seen as much of life as the world can show.' - Samuel Johnson From Chaucer's pilgrims meeting in a Southwark inn to the Hogwarts Express leaving from King's Cross, London has always been a popular place for writers to weave into their own work. With its bustling, multicultural population and unique localised weather, the city is almost a character in its own right. Fictional London explores the capital through the eyes of both the reader and the writer. Celebrated London historian Stephen Halliday traces the stories from one end of London to the other, digging into the history and character that has made it an unrivalled source of inspiration for authors and poets from the Middle Ages to the early 2000s and beyond.

Author : Bronwen Thomas
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2012-05-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780803244511

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Fictional Dialogue by Bronwen Thomas Pdf

Experimentation with the speech of characters has been hailed by Gärard Genette as ?one of the main paths of emancipation in the modern novel.? Dialogue as a stylistic and narrative device is a key feature in the development of the novel as a genre, yet it is also a phenomenon little acknowledged or explored in the critical literature. Fictional Dialogue demonstrates the richness and versatility of dialogue as a narrative technique in twentieth- and twenty-first-century novels by focusing on extended extracts and sequences of utterances. It also examines how different versions of dialogue may help to normalize or idealize certain patterns and practices, thereby excluding alternative possibilities or eliding ?unevenness? and differences. Bronwen Thomas, by bringing together theories and models of fictional dialogue from a wide range of disciplines and intellectual traditions, shows how the subject raises profound questions concerning our understanding of narrative and human communication. The first study of its kind to combine literary and narratological analysis with reference to linguistic terms and models, Bakhtinian theory, cultural history, media theory, and cognitive approaches, this book is also the first to focus in depth on the dialogue novel in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries and to bring together examples of dialogue from literature, popular fiction, and nonlinear narratives. Beyond critiquing existing methods of analysis, it outlines a promising new method for analyzing fictional dialogue.

Author : Richard Freadman,Roderick M. Kramer
Publisher : Springer
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1986-10-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781349184446

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Eliot, James and the Fictional Self by Richard Freadman,Roderick M. Kramer Pdf

Author : Claire Allen
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2020-09-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783030488864

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London Fiction at the Millennium by Claire Allen Pdf

This book analyses London fiction at the millennium, reading it in relation to an exploration of a theoretical positioning beyond the postmodern. It explores how a selection of novels can be considered as “second-wave” or “post-postmodern” in light of their borrowing more from mainstream and classical genres as opposed to formally experimental avant-garde techniques. It considers how writers utilise the cultural capital of London in a process of relocating marginalized, subjugated or under-represented voices. The millennium provides an apt symbolic opportunity to reflect on British fiction and to consider the direction in which contemporary authors are moving. As such, key novels by Martin Amis, Bella Bathurst, Bernardine Evaristo, Mark Haddon, Nick Hornby, Hanif Kureishi, Andrea Levy, Gautam Malkani, Timothy Mo, Will Self, Ali Smith, Zadie Smith, Rupert Thomson, and Sarah Waters are used to explore writing beyond the postmodern. ‘In this significant and welcome contribution to the field, Allen provides us with a sophisticated, detailed, and rigorous study of the move in contemporary fiction beyond postmodernism as exemplified by London fiction.’ —Nick Hubble, Brunel University London, UK

Author : Monika Bednarek
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2010-09-02
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781441105271

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The Language of Fictional Television by Monika Bednarek Pdf

With cases studies used throughout to help illustrate the more general points, this is an analysis of the most important characteristics of television dialogue, with a focus on fictional television. The book illustrates how we can fruitfully and systematically analyse the language of television.

Author : Andrew Wright,Sandra Singer
Publisher : Springer
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1987-02-16
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781349185641

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Fictional Discourse and Historical Space by Andrew Wright,Sandra Singer Pdf

Author : Coral Ann Howells
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2014-08-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317637998

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Private and Fictional Words (Routledge Revivals) by Coral Ann Howells Pdf

First published in 1987, this is an introductory study of the most widely read Canadian women novelists of the 1970s and 1980s. At its centre lies the question of how the search for a distinctive cultural identity relates to the need for a national cultural identity in the post-colonial era. Coral Ann Howells argues that Canadian women’s fiction throughout the period of study represents how the Canadian cultural identity exceeds its geographical limits, and those traditional structures of patriarchal authority need revision if women’s alternative views are to be taken into account. Including short biographical sketches and a complete list of the books published by the authors under discussion, writers examined include Margaret Atwood, Alice Munro, and Margaret Laurence.

Author : Benedict Neurohr,Lizzie Stewart-Shaw
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2019-02-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789027263032

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Experiencing Fictional Worlds by Benedict Neurohr,Lizzie Stewart-Shaw Pdf

Experiencing Fictional Worlds is not only the title of this book, but a challenge to reveal exactly what makes the “experience” of literature. This volume presents contributions drawing upon a range of theories and frameworks based on the text-as-world metaphor. This text-world approach is fruitfully applied to a wide variety of text types, from poetry to genre-specific prose to children’s story-books. This book investigates how fictional worlds are built and updated, how context affects the conceptualisation of text-worlds, and how emotions are elicited in these processes. The diverse analyses of this volume apply and develop approaches such as Text World Theory, reader-response studies, and pedagogical stylistics, among other broader cognitive and linguistic frameworks. Experiencing Fictional Worlds aligns with other cutting-edge research on language conceptualisation in fields including cognitive linguistics, stylistics, narratology, and literary criticism. This volume will be relevant to anyone with interests in language and literature.

Author : J. J. A. Mooij
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789027222183

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Fictional Realities by J. J. A. Mooij Pdf

This book is a study of the role of the imagination. It focuses on the imaginative use of language in literature (poetry and narrative prose); but it also touches on some more comprehensive issues, for the questions it discusses are questions regarding the relationship between mind, reality and unreality. The first two chapters survey the thinking about the imagination in the history of philosophy. The main trends and the main problems are discussed, particularly in respect of the (positive or negative) evaluation of imagination. The subsequent chapters investigate the role of the imagination from a closer point of view. How is it that imagination appears in literary art? Central topics of discussion are the nature of narrativity, of fictional discourse and fictional objects, of realistic fiction, of symbolism and metaphor. Moreover, the similarities (both real and imagined) between literature and the other arts are explored. In all chapters attention is paid to the problem of the value of art and literary imagination. The last chapter addresses this issue head-on. In particular, it attempts to define the value of literature in relation to science.

Author : Ganakumaran Subramaniam
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2009-01-14
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781443803786

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Ideological Stylistics and Fictional Discourse by Ganakumaran Subramaniam Pdf

This book focuses on ideology and its function in fictional discourse, exploring the link between textual ideologies and real ideologies in text-production environments. It attempts this through a specific focus on the social and linguistic elements that control the presence, the use, and the presentation of ideology, and also the way in which linguistic elements are controlled and manipulated by the collective consciousness of the text producer. This correlation between fictional discourse and ideology is revealed through a series of chapters that cover four closely interrelated areas, focusing specifically on Malaysian and Singaporean fiction. Firstly, the positioning of Malaysian and Singaporean literatures in English as individual literary traditions. This is to counter the non-recognition of Malaysian and Singaporean literatures as individual traditions in spite of five decades of independence. Secondly, establishing a contextual (socio-cultural and political) framework as a basis for discussion on real ideology, arguing that Malaysian and Singaporean writers have moved beyond the anti-western nationalistic stage and on to more personal and communal concerns such as race relations, identity and a sense of belonging. Thirdly, rationalising the social structures of ideology that are likely to be found in the Malaysian and Singaporean social milieus, especially location and text-specific social variables of ideology. Lastly, it seeks to reveal a linguistic-oriented approach for the study of textual ideologies and for linking textual ideologies to ideologies in the overall text production environment. The book ultimately shows the significant possibilities of systematic links between textual ideology, and the real ideology in the text production environment, through what can best be termed as ideological stylistics. In doing so, it aims to contribute significantly to studies of ideology in general and more specifically on ideology on Malaysian and Singaporean literatures in English.

Author : Helen Thompson
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2017-01-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780812248722

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Fictional Matter by Helen Thompson Pdf

Fictional Matter argues that chemical definitions of particulate matter shaped eighteenth-century British science and literature. In this lucid, revisionary analysis of corpuscular science, Helen Thompson advances a new account of how the experimental production of empirical knowledge defined the emergent realist novel.

Author : Cyprian Piskurek
Publisher : Springer
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2018-06-12
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9783319767628

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Fictional Representations of English Football and Fan Cultures by Cyprian Piskurek Pdf

This book explores how recent football fiction has negotiated the decisive political developments in English football after the 1989/90 publication of the 'Taylor Report'. A direct response to the 1989 Hillsborough Disaster and growing concerns of hooliganism, the 'Taylor Report' suggested a number of measures for stricter regulation of fan crowds. In consequence, stadiums in the top divisions were turned into all-seated venues and were put under CCTV surveillance. The implementation of these measures reduced violent incidents drastically, but it also led to an unparalleled increase in ticket prices, which in turn significantly altered the demographics of the crowd. This development, which also enabled football's entry into other mainstream cultural forms, changed the game decisively. Piskurek traces patterns across prose and film to detect how these fictions have responded to the changed circumstances of post-Taylor football. Lending a cultural lens to these political changes, this book is pioneering in its analysis of football fiction as a whole, offering a fresh perspective to a range of scholars and students interested in cultural studies, sociology, leisure and politics.

Author : Jens Eder,Fotis Jannidis,Ralf Schneider
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 607 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2010-11-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783110232424

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Characters in Fictional Worlds by Jens Eder,Fotis Jannidis,Ralf Schneider Pdf

Although fictional characters have long dominated the reception of literature, films, television programs, comics, and other media products, only recently have they begun to attract their due attention in literary and media theory. The book systematically surveys today ́s diverse and at times conflicting theoretical perspectives on fictional character, spanning research on topics such as the differences between fictional characters and real persons, the ontological status of characters, the strategies of their representation and characterization, the psychology of their reception, as well as their specific forms and constellations in - and across - different media, from the book to the internet.

Author : Kevin Gilvary
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2017-12-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781351186056

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The Fictional Lives of Shakespeare by Kevin Gilvary Pdf

Modern biographies of William Shakespeare abound; however, close scrutiny of the surviving records clearly show that there is insufficient material for a cradle to grave account of his life, that most of what is written about him cannot be verified from primary sources, and that Shakespearean biography did not attain scholarly or academic respectability until long after Samuel Schoenbaum published William Shakespeare A Documentary Life in 1975. This study begins with a short survey of the history and practice of biography and then surveys the very limited biographical material for Shakespeare. Although Shakespeare gradually attained the status as a national hero during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, there were no serious attempts to reconstruct his life. Any attempt at an account of his life or personality amounts, however, merely to "biografiction". Modern biographers differ sharply on Shakespeare’s apparent relationships with Southampton and with Jonson, which merely underlines the fact that the documentary record has to be greatly expanded through contextual description and speculation in order to appear like a Life of Shakespeare.

Author : Hans J. Lind
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2020-04-14
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780429887611

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Fictional Discourse and the Law by Hans J. Lind Pdf

Drawing on insights from literary theory and analytical philosophy, this book analyzes the intersection of law and literature from the distinct and unique perspective of fictional discourse. Pursuing an empirical approach, and using examples that range from Victorian literature to the current judicial treatment of rap music, the volume challenges the prevailing fact–fiction dichotomy in legal theory and practice by providing a better understanding of the peculiarities of legal fictionality, while also contributing further material to fictional theory’s endeavor to find a transdisciplinary valid criterion for a definition of fictional discourse. Following the basic presumptions of the early law-as-literature movement, past approaches have mainly focused on textuality and narrativity as the common denominators of law and literature, and have largely ignored the topic of fictionality. This volume provides a much needed analysis of this gap. The book will be of interest to scholars of legal theory, jurisprudence and legal writing, along with literature scholars and students of literature and the humanities.