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Author : Patrick O'Neill
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1994-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0802079482
O'Neill investigates the extent to which narrative discourse subverts the story it tells in foregrounding its own performance.
Author : Seymour Chatman
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2019-06-30
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781501741616
"For the specialist in the study of narrative structure, this is a solid and very perceptive exploration of the issues salient to the telling of a story—whatever the medium. Chatman, whose approach here is at once dualist and structuralist, divides his subject into the 'what' of the narrative (Story) and the 'way' (Discourse)... Chatman's command of his material is impressive."—Library Journal
Author : Susan D. Cohen
Publisher : Univ of Massachusetts Press
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Discourse analysis, Literary
ISBN : 0870238280
A comprehensive study of Marguerite Duras fiction, with a focus on language, representation, and difference, which Duras explores on every structural level.
Author : Hans J. Lind
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2020-04-14
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780429887611
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.
Author : Monika Fludernik
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 548 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2003-12-16
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781134872879
Monika Fludernik presents a detailed analysis of free indirect discourse as it relates to narrative theory, and the crucial problematic of how speech and thought are represented in fiction. Building on the insights of Ann Banfield's Unspeakable Sentences, Fludernik radically extends Banfield's model to accommodate evidence from conversational narrative, non-fictional prose and literary works from Chaucer to the present. Fludernik's model subsumes earlier insights into the forms and functions of quotation and aligns them with discourse strategies observable in the oral language. Drawing on a vast range of literature, she provides an invaluable resource for researchers in the field and introduces English readers to extensive work on the subject in German as well as comparing the free indirect discourse features of German, French and English. This study effectively repositions the whole area between literature and linguistics, opening up a new set of questions in narrative theory.
Author : Richard Ambrosini
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1991-07-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0521403499
Joseph Conrad's comments about his works have commonly been dismissed as theoretically unsophisticated, while the critical notions of James, Woolf and Joyce have come to shape our understanding of the modern novel. Richard Ambrosini's study of Conrad's Fiction as Critical Discourse makes an original claim for the importance of his theoretical ideas as they are formed, tested, and eventually redefined in Heart of Darkness and Lord Jim. Setting the narrator's discourse in these tales in the context of the dynamic interplay of Conrad's fictional with his non-fictional writings, and of the transformations in his narrative forms, Ambrosini defines Conrad's view of fiction and the artistic ideal underlying his commitment as a writer in a new and challenging way. Conrad's innovatory techniques as a novelist are shown in the continuity of his theoretical enterprise, from the early search for an artistic prose and a personal novel form, to the later dislocations of perspective achieved by manipulation of conventions drawn from popular fiction. This reassessment of Conrad's critical thought offers a new perspective on the transition from the Victorian novel to contemporary fiction.
Author : Olga Pilkington
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2018-07-03
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789004365971
In Presented Discourse in Popular Science, Olga A. Pilkington explores the forms and functions of the voices of scientists in books written for non-professionals. This analysis is an acknowledgement of the social consequences of popularization.
Author : Stefano Predelli
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2020-01-30
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780192595966
Fictional Discourse: A Radical Fictionalist Semantics combines the insight of linguistic and philosophical semantics with the study of fictional language. Its central idea is familiar to anyone exposed to the ways of narrative fiction, namely the notion of a fictional teller. Starting with premises having to do with fictional names such as 'Holmes' or 'Emma', Stefano Predelli develops Radical Fictionalism, a theory that is subsequently applied to central themes in the analysis of fiction. Among other things, he discusses the distinction between storyworlds and narrative peripheries, the relationships between homodiegetic and heterodiegetic narrative, narrative time, unreliability, and closure. The final chapters extend Radical Fictionalism to critical discourse, as Predelli introduces the ideas of critical and biased retelling, and pauses on the relationships between Radical Fictionalism and talk about literary characters.
Author : Jean Jacques Weber
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2021-11-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789004454972
Author : Mark Greif
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2016-11-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9780691173290
Introduction: the "crisis of man" as obscurity and re-enlightenment -- Currents through the War -- The end of the War and after -- Transmission -- Criticism and the literary crisis of man -- Studies in fiction -- Saul Bellow and Ralph Ellison: man and history, the questions -- Ralph Ellison and Saul Bellow: history and man, the answers -- Flannery O'Connor and faith -- Thomas Pynchon and technology -- Transmutation -- The Sixties as big bang -- Universal philosophy and antihumanist theory -- Conclusion: moral history and the twentieth century.
Author : Jean-François Lyotard
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 575 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780816645657
Antony Hudek is research fellow at Camberwell College of Arts, University of the Arts, London. --
Author : Matthew Taunton
Publisher : Springer
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2009-09-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780230244917
Many studies of fictions of city life take the flâneur as the characteristic metropolitan type and streets and plazas as definitive urban spaces. Looking at novels and films set in London and Paris from L'Assommoir to Nil By Mouth , this book shows that mass housing is equally central to images of the modern city.
Author : Susan D. Cohen
Publisher : Springer
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1993-01-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781349129263
The first comprehensive study of the narrative and stylistic characteristics of all of Marguerite Duras' major works. Through close textual readings with a particular focus on women's access to language, this book shows how Duras critiques and subverts dominant discourse. Duras' textual strategies are described within a discussion of narrativity which also addresses factors of race and class. Cohen demonstrates how Duras achieves the famous ritual atmosphere of her prose through precise techniques which connect to her critique of representation.
Author : Ignasi Ribó
Publisher : Open Book Publishers
Page : 122 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2019-12-13
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781783748129
This concise and highly accessible textbook outlines the principles and techniques of storytelling. It is intended as a high-school and college-level introduction to the central concepts of narrative theory – concepts that will aid students in developing their competence not only in analysing and interpreting short stories and novels, but also in writing them. This textbook prioritises clarity over intricacy of theory, equipping its readers with the necessary tools to embark on further study of literature, literary theory and creative writing. Building on a ‘semiotic model of narrative,’ it is structured around the key elements of narratological theory, with chapters on plot, setting, characterisation, and narration, as well as on language and theme – elements which are underrepresented in existing textbooks on narrative theory. The chapter on language constitutes essential reading for those students unfamiliar with rhetoric, while the chapter on theme draws together significant perspectives from contemporary critical theory (including feminism and postcolonialism). This textbook is engaging and easily navigable, with key concepts highlighted and clearly explained, both in the text and in a full glossary located at the end of the book. Throughout the textbook the reader is aided by diagrams, images, quotes from prominent theorists, and instructive examples from classical and popular short stories and novels (such as Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice, Franz Kafka’s ‘The Metamorphosis,’ J. K. Rowling’s Harry Potter, or Dostoyevsky’s The Brothers Karamazov, amongst many others). Prose Fiction: An Introduction to the Semiotics of Narrative can either be incorporated as the main textbook into a wider syllabus on narrative theory and creative writing, or it can be used as a supplementary reference book for readers interested in narrative fiction. The textbook is a must-read for beginning students of narratology, especially those with no or limited prior experience in this area. It is of especial relevance to English and Humanities major students in Asia, for whom it was conceived and written.
Author : Edie Meidav
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2023-02-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781949597219
A lyric novel about the play of grief, empathy, new and old love, and the quest to overcome blindness in human relations. Caught in the cross-currents of a fraught divorce and a new love, the death of her mother, and a global pandemic, a writer plunges into an obsession with the work of 1960s French philosopher Roland Barthes. Her struggles to make sense of his work and life—and of what can happen to a woman's settled life in a single harrowing year—result in an engrossing, funny, earthy, and innovative lyric work. The quest for authenticity in motherhood, sexuality, and tenancy on the earth and in the home, as well as the unusual lyric form, make the novel unified in spirit yet transdisciplinary in approach.