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Author : Brian Richardson
Publisher : Ohio State University Press
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780814210413
Author : Jan Alber
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2016-03-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780803278684
A talking body part, a character that is simultaneously alive and dead, a shape-changing setting, or time travel: although impossible in the real world, such narrative elements do appear in the storyworlds of novels, short stories, and plays. Impossibilities of narrator, character, time, and space are not only common in today’s world of postmodernist literature but can also be found throughout the history of literature. Examples include the beast fable, the heroic epic, the romance, the eighteenth-century circulation novel, the Gothic novel, the ghost play, the fantasy narrative, and the science-fiction novel, among others. Unnatural Narrative looks at the startling and persistent presence of the impossible or “the unnatural” throughout British and American literary history. Layering the lenses of cognitive narratology, frame theory, and possible-worlds theory, Unnatural Narrative offers a rigorous and engaging new characterization of the unnatural and what it yields for individual readers as well as literary culture. Jan Alber demonstrates compelling interpretations of the unnatural in literature and shows the ways in which such unnatural phenomena become conventional in readers’ minds, altogether expanding our sense of the imaginable and informing new structures and genres of narrative engagement.
Author : Jan Alber,Rüdiger Heinze
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2011-09-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783110229042
In recent years, the study of unnatural narratives has become an exciting new but still disparate research program in narrative theory. For the first time, this collection of essays presents and discusses the new analytical tools that have so far been developed on the basis of unnatural novels, short stories, and plays and extends these findings through analyses of testimonies, comics, graphic novels, films, and oral narratives. Many narratives do not only mimetically reproduce the world as we know it but confront us with strange narrative worlds which rely on principles that have very little to do with the actual world around us. The essays in this collection develop new narratological tools and modeling systems which are designed to capture the strangeness and extravagance of such anti-realist narratives. Taken together, the essays offer a systematic investigation of anti-mimetic techniques and strategies that relate to different narrative parameters, different media, and different periods within literary history.
Author : Biwu Shang
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2018-12-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780429859236
This book actively engages with current discussion of narratology, and unnatural narrative theory in particular. Unsatisfied with the hegemony of European and Anglo-American narrative theory, it calls for a transnational and comparative turn in unnatural narrative theory, the purpose of which is to draw readers’ attention to those periphery and marginalized narratives produced in places other than England and America. It places equal weight on theoretical exploration and critical practice. The book, in addition to offering a detailed account of current scholarship of unnatural narratology, examines its core issues and critical debates as well as outlining a set of directions for its future development. To present a counterpart of Western unnatural narrative studies, this book specifically takes a close look at the experimental narratives in China and Iraq either synchronically or diachronically. In doing so, it aims, on the one hand, to show how the unnatural narratives are written and to be explained differently from those Western unnatural narrative works, and on the other hand, to use the particular cases to challenge the existing narratological framework so as to further enrich and supplement it. The book will be useful and inspiring to those scholars working in such broad fields as narrative theory, literary criticism, cultural studies, semiotics, media studies, and comparative literature and world literature studies.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Cambria Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-13
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781621968191
Author : Karl Friedrich Weitzmann
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1877
Category : Harmony
ISBN : COLUMBIA:CU72798092
Author : Frank Honywell Fenno
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 560 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1893
Category : Amateur plays
ISBN : OSU:32435079178513
Author : Brian Richardson
Publisher : Ohio State University Press
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0814208959
This anthology brings together essential essays on major facets of narrative dynamics, that is, the means by which "narratives traverse their often unlikely routes from beginning to end." It includes the most widely cited and discussed essays on narrative beginnings, temporality, plot and emplotment, sequence and progression, closure, and frames. The text is designed as a basic reader for graduate courses in narrative and critical theory across disciplines including literature, drama and theatre, and film. Narrative Dynamics includes such classic exponents as E. M. Forster on story and plot; Vladimir Propp on the structure of the folktale; R. S. Crane on plot; Boris Tomashevsky on story, plot, and, motif; M. M. Bakhtin on the chronotope; and Gerard Genette on narrative time. Richardson highlights essential feminist essays by Nancy K. Miller on plot and plausibility, Rachel Blau Duplessis on closure, and Susan Winnett on narrative and desire. These are complimented by newer pieces by Susan Stanford Friedman on spatialization and Robyn Warhol on serial fiction. Other major contributions include Edward Said on beginnings, Hayden White on historical narrative, Peter Brooks on plot, Paul Ricoeur on time, D. A. Miller on closure, James Phelan on progression, and Jacques Derrida on the frame. Recent essays from the perspective of cultural studies, postmodernism, and artificial intelligence bring this collection right up to the present.
Author : Austin Flint
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 968 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1888
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:24503384092
Author : Suzanne Keen
Publisher : Springer
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2015-07-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781137439598
This revised and expanded handbook concisely introduces narrative form to advanced students of fiction and creative writing, with refreshed references and new discussions of cognitive approaches to narrative, nonfiction, and narrative emotions.
Author : Seth Scott Bishop
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 644 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1898
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:24501718318
Author : Seth Scott Bishop
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 626 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1898
Category : Ear
ISBN : OSU:32436011262530
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1874
Category : Education
ISBN : STANFORD:36105006519313
Author : Lennox Browne,Emil Behnke
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1891
Category : Speech
ISBN : HARVARD:HW1Z3H
Author : Edmund John Myer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1891
Category : Respiration
ISBN : STANFORD:36105042659669