Narrative Instability
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Narrative Instability
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Author : Stefan Schubert
language : en
Publisher: Universitätsverlag Winter
Release Date : 2019-11-15
Narrative Instability written by Stefan Schubert and has been published by Universitätsverlag Winter this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-11-15 with Social Science categories.
This book introduces the concept of 'narrative instability' in order to make visible a new trend in contemporary US popular culture, to analyze this trend's poetics, and to scrutinize its textual politics. It identifies those texts as narratively unstable that consciously frustrate and obfuscate the process of narrative understanding and comprehension, challenging their audiences to reconstruct what happened in a text's plot, who its characters are, which of its diegetic worlds are real, or how narrative information is communicated in the first place. Despite - or rather, exactly because of - their confusing and destabilizing tendencies, such texts have attained mainstream commercial popularity in recent years across a variety of media, most prominently in films, video games, and television series. Focusing on three clusters of instability that form around identities, realities, and textualities, the book argues that narratively unstable texts encourage their audiences to engage with the narrative constructedness of their universes, that narratively unstable texts encourage their audiences to engage with the narrative constructedness of their universes, that narrative instability embodies a new facet of popular culture, that it takes place and can only be understood transmedially, and that its textual politics particularly speak to white male, middle-class Americans.
From The Edge
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Author : Allison E. Fagan
language : en
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Release Date : 2016-07-14
From The Edge written by Allison E. Fagan and has been published by Rutgers University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-07-14 with Social Science categories.
Chicana/o literature frequently depicts characters who exist in a vulnerable liminal space, living on the border between Mexican and American identities, and sometimes pushed to the edge by authorities who seek to restrict their freedom. As this groundbreaking new study reveals, the books themselves have occupied similarly precarious positions, as Chicana/o literature has struggled for economic viability and visibility on the margins of the American publishing industry, while Chicana/o writers have grappled with editorial practices that compromise their creative autonomy. From the Edge reveals the tangled textual histories behind some of the most cherished works in the Chicana/o literary canon, tracing the negotiations between authors, editors, and publishers that determined how these books appeared in print. Allison Fagan demonstrates how the texts surrounding the authors’ words—from editorial prefaces to Spanish-language glossaries, from cover illustrations to reviewers’ blurbs—have crucially shaped the reception of Chicana/o literature. To gain an even richer perspective on the politics of print, she ultimately explores one more border space, studying the marks and remarks that readers have left in the margins of these books. From the Edge vividly demonstrates that to comprehend fully the roles that ethnicity, language, class, and gender play within Chicana/o literature, we must understand the material conditions that governed the production, publication, and reception of these works. By teaching us how to read the borders of the text, it demonstrates how we might perceive and preserve the faint traces of those on the margins.
Narrative Theory
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Author : Kent Puckett
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2016-11-14
Narrative Theory written by Kent Puckett and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-11-14 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
Narrative Theory offers an introduction to the field's critical and philosophical approaches towards narrative throughout history.
Beyond Narrative
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Author : Sebastian M. Herrmann
language : en
Publisher: transcript Verlag
Release Date : 2022-04-04
Beyond Narrative written by Sebastian M. Herrmann and has been published by transcript Verlag this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-04-04 with Literary Criticism categories.
This book calls for an investigation of the ›borderlands of narrativity‹ — the complex and culturally productive area where the symbolic form of narrative meets other symbolic logics, such as data(base), play, spectacle, or ritual. It opens up a conversation about the ›beyond‹ of narrative, about the myriad constellations in which narrativity interlaces with, rubs against, or morphs into the principles of other forms. To conceptualize these borderlands, the book introduces the notion of »narrative liminality,« which the 16 articles utilize to engage literature, popular culture, digital technology, historical artifacts, and other kinds of texts from a time span of close to 200 years.
Instabilities Of Narration And Meaning In Robert Louis Stevenson S Strange Case Of Dr Jekyll And Mr Hyde
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Author : Maike Heberle
language : en
Publisher: GRIN Verlag
Release Date : 2022-04-13
Instabilities Of Narration And Meaning In Robert Louis Stevenson S Strange Case Of Dr Jekyll And Mr Hyde written by Maike Heberle and has been published by GRIN Verlag this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-04-13 with Literary Criticism categories.
Essay from the year 2020 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 1,0, , language: English, abstract: This paper is about the instabilities of narration and meaning in Robert Louis Stevenson's "Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hide". Robert Louis Stevenson’s late-Victorian novel "Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" takes place in London between 1883 and 1885, and deals with the dual life of a man named Dr. Jekyll. He secretly separates his second, immoral personality called Mr. Hyde with the aid of drugs, what enables him to live out his desires by violence. His lawyer and friend, Mr. Utterson, aspires to figure out what is going on with his friend and the suddenly emerging troublemaker Hyde, after some indications, that Dr. Jekyll has dealings with him. The double personality of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde leads to an instability of characters, narration and meaning, what invites the reader to have a closer look at the novel’s properties. But the revealing figure is neither Dr. Jekyll nor Mr. Hyde. It is Mr. Utterson who enables the reader to follow the mysterious story of them, what often gets neglected by critics as well as the role of women for the presentation of instability of meaning and narration.
How Novelty And Narratives Drive The Stock Market
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Author : Nicholas Mangee
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2021-10-14
How Novelty And Narratives Drive The Stock Market written by Nicholas Mangee and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-10-14 with Business & Economics categories.
The novelty-narrative hypothesis is used to understand stock market instability using big data textual analytics of financial news.
Diversity And Detective Fiction
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Author : Kathleen Gregory Klein
language : en
Publisher: Popular Press
Release Date : 1999
Diversity And Detective Fiction written by Kathleen Gregory Klein and has been published by Popular Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with Literary Criticism categories.
The distinguishing characteristic of the book is its mix of essays focusing on teaching cultural diversity in the classroom and illustrating diversity through fiction to the general readers."--BOOK JACKET.
Encyclopedia Of The Novel
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Author : Paul Schellinger
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2014-04-08
Encyclopedia Of The Novel written by Paul Schellinger and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-04-08 with Literary Criticism categories.
The Encyclopedia of the Novel is the first reference book that focuses on the development of the novel throughout the world. Entries on individual writers assess the place of that writer within the development of the novel form, explaining why and in exactly what ways that writer is importnant. Similarly, an entry on an individual novel discusses the importance of that novel not only form, analyzing the particular innovations that novel has introduced and the ways in which it has influenced the subsequent course of the genre. A wide range of topic entries explore the history, criticism, theory, production, dissemination and reception of the novel. A very important component of the Encyclopedia of the Novel is its long surveys of development of the novel in various regions of the world.
Chaucer S Comic Providence
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Author : Janet Thormann
language : en
Publisher: punctum books
Release Date : 2023
Chaucer S Comic Providence written by Janet Thormann and has been published by punctum books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023 with Literary Criticism categories.
Chaucer's Comic Providence presents readings of five of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales that dramatize sexual division and the lack of rapport between the sexes. These readings are founded on the psychoanalytic thinking of Jacques Lacan in his rereading of Freud and are motivated by Thormann's conviction that Chaucer understood what psychoanalysis would come to study as an unconscious operating in the subject that is independent of conscious control and desire. For psychoanalysis, the subject is interminably engaged with unconscious sexual difference and with what Lacan saw as the absence of sexual rapport. Chaucer's Comic Providence analyzes Chaucer's plots of sexual adventures, mishaps, and surprise to show how the five tales dramatize the lack of symmetry and absence of accord between the sexes. Ultimately, Thormann's interest here is in the ways these five narratives represent and deal with sexual division, in their means of handling what, in any case, cannot be avoided or mastered. Consequently, the resolutions of the narratives sponsor an ethics of desire: they affirm sexual pleasure and acknowledge misprision and limitation, but they do not compromise, close down, or finish with incompatibility, contraction, and limitation. Her reading, then, claims that Chaucer's poetry already reveals the unconscious that Freud is credited with discovering. As well, Chaucer not only anticipates Lacan's pronouncement that "the unconscious is structured like a language," but also his emphasis on unconscious sexual difference and the absence of rapport between the sexes. With few exceptions, while there has been much consideration of gender in Chaucer's stories, contemporary criticism of Chaucer has remained inimical or, at the least, largely indifferent, to psychoanalysis, yet because it considers both difference and continuity, change and perpetuation, and because it incorporates psychic processes, motives, functions, and dynamics operating outside of conscious awareness, psychoanalysis offers a wider range for analysis of Chaucer's tales than does gender theory alone. Chaucer's Comic Providence also addresses the unexpected, surprising, and providentially comic resolutions of Chaucer's tales, the concomitant abeyance of sexual conflicts, and the links between emergence and abeyance, which issue in the hope of a beneficent future.
Joseph Conrad And The Swan Song Of Romance
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Author : Katherine Isobel Baxter
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2018-02-06
Joseph Conrad And The Swan Song Of Romance written by Katherine Isobel Baxter and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-02-06 with Literary Criticism categories.
In the first critical study wholly devoted to Joseph Conrad's use of techniques associated with the literary tradition of romance, the author argues that Conrad's engagement with the genre invigorated his work throughout his career. Exploring the ways in which Conrad borrows from, alludes to, and subverts the tropes of romance, the author suggests that Conrad's ambivalent relationship with popular forms like the adventure novel is revealed in the way he uses romance conventions to disrupt narrative expectations and make visible ethical problems with Europe's colonial project. The author examines not only familiar novels like Lord Jim but also less-studied works such as Romance and The Rover, using Robert Miles's model of the 'philosophical romance' to show that for Conrad, romance is also philosophically engaged with issues of ideology. Her study enables a new appreciation of the ways in which Conrad continued to experiment, even in his later fiction, and of the ethical import of that aesthetic experimentation.