Narrative Skepticism
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Narrative Skepticism
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Author : Linda Schermer Raphael
language : en
Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
Release Date : 2001
Narrative Skepticism written by Linda Schermer Raphael and has been published by Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
Using narrative, philosophical, and psychoanalytic theory, Linda S. Raphael investigates the development of skepticism in narrative. She argues that as authors explore more deeply the inner life of characters, their narratives become more skeptical about pinning down what it means to lead a good life. This argument is buttressed through a close examination of Jane Austen's 'Persuasion', George Eliot's 'Middlemarch', Henry James's 'The Wings of the Dove', Virginia Woolf's 'Mrs. Dalloway', and Karzo Ishiguro's 'The Remains of the Day.'
The Power Of Narrative
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Author : Raul P. Lejano
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Release Date : 2020
The Power Of Narrative written by Raul P. Lejano and has been published by Oxford University Press, USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
Introduction -- Ideology as narrative -- When skepticism became public -- Skeptics without borders -- Unpacking the genetic meta-narrative -- The social construction of climate science -- Ideological narratives and beyond in a post-truth world.
Literature And Skepticism
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Author : Pablo Oyarzun
language : en
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Release Date : 2022-01-01
Literature And Skepticism written by Pablo Oyarzun and has been published by State University of New York Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-01-01 with Literary Criticism categories.
Literature and Skepticism links the skeptic attitude to the conditions of possibility in (modern) literature—in particular, the narrative form and the essay. Pablo Oyarzun proposes that narrative and the essay document the relationship between literature and skepticism in different but complementary and, at the same time, complicit ways. As the narrative performance reaches the structural limit of the literary—understood as the domain of fiction—a sort of para-discursive reflection critically accompanies this performance, discussing it, ironizing it, feigning to disbelieve it, or overtly belying it. Yet the narrative doubtfully takes distance from itself, surrendering all right to a final truth at the very moment at which truth emerges, essayistic, to the surface. The authors considered—Montaigne, Swift, Lichtenberg, Kleist, Kafka, and Borges—are eminent representatives of one and the other form, and all of the works analyzed are cases of a complex interplay between narrative and essay.
Thackeray S Skeptical Narrative And The Perilous Trade Of Authorship
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Author : Judith L. Fisher
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2017-03-02
Thackeray S Skeptical Narrative And The Perilous Trade Of Authorship written by Judith L. Fisher and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-03-02 with Literary Criticism categories.
Drawing on the rhetorical work of James Phelan, Wayne Booth's ethical criticism, recent work on William Makepeace Thackeray, as well as an understanding of the role of skepticism in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century English thought, Thackeray's Skeptical Narrative and the "Perilous Trade" of Authorship makes a substantial contribution to nineteenth-century reading practices, as well as narratology in general. Judith Fisher combines in this study rhetorical and ethical analysis of Thackeray's narrative techniques to trace how his fiction develops to educate his reader into what she terms a "hermeneutic of skepticism." This is a kind of poised reading which enables his readers to integrate his fiction into their life in what Thackeray called "a world without God" without becoming pessimistic or fatalistic. Although Thackeray's narrative strategies have been the subject of study, most have focused on Vanity Fair and Henry Esmond only, and none look as closely as does this study at actual rhetorical techniques such as his use of pronominalization to interpolate the reader into his skeptical discourse. Fisher also brings her analysis to bear on The Adventures of Philip and The Virginians, Thackeray's last two complete novels, both of which were critical failures even as contemporary critics acknowledged their stylistic excellence. This is the first study to attempt to understand the puzzle of those two books; Fisher recovers them from their marginalized position in Thackeray's oeuvre. Fisher expertly weaves an accessible narrative theory with thoroughgoing knowledge of Thackeray's life in an integrated reading of his entire works. Reading Thackeray holistically in spite of his own disruptive practices, she does full justice to his critical skepticism while elucidating his canon for a new readership.
The Power Of Narrative
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Author : Raul P. Lejano
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2020
The Power Of Narrative written by Raul P. Lejano and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020 with Anti-environmentalism categories.
'The Power of Narrative' provides fresh insight into the rhetorical and semantic properties on both sides of the climate change debate that preclude dialogue around climate science, and proposes a means for moving beyond ideological entrenchment through language mediation, further ethnographic study, and research-informed teaching.
Thackeray S Skeptical Narrative And The Perilous Trade Of Authorship
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Author : Judith L. Fisher
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2019-12-20
Thackeray S Skeptical Narrative And The Perilous Trade Of Authorship written by Judith L. Fisher and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-12-20 with categories.
Joseph Conrad And The Fictions Of Skepticism
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Author : Mark Wollaeger
language : en
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Release Date : 1990-11-01
Joseph Conrad And The Fictions Of Skepticism written by Mark Wollaeger and has been published by Stanford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1990-11-01 with Literary Criticism categories.
"You want more scepticism at the very foundation of your work. Scepticism, the tonic of minds, the tonic of life, the agent of truth - the way of art and salvation." Joseph Conrad wrote these words to John Galsworthy in 1901, and this study argues that Conrad's skepticism forms the basis of his most important works, participating in a tradition of philosophical skepticism that extends from Descartes to the present. Conrad's epistemological and moral skepticism - expressed, forestalled, mitigated, and suppressed - provides the terms for the author's rethinking of the peculiar relation between philosophy and literary form in Conrad's writing and, more broadly, for reconsidering what it means to call any novel 'philosophical'. Among the issues freshly argued are Conrad's thematics of coercion, isolation, and betrayal; the complicated relations among author, narrator, and character; and the logic of Conradian romance, comedy, and tragedy. The author also offers a new way of conceptualizing the shape of Conrad's career, especially the 'decline' evidenced in the later fiction. The uniqueness of Conrad's multifarious literary and cultural inheritance makes it difficult to locate him securely in the dominant tradition of the British novel. A philosophical approach to Conrad, however, reveals links to other novelists - notably Hardy, Forster, and Woolf - all of whom share in the increasing philosophical burden of the modern novel by enacting the very philosophical issues that are discussed within their pages. Conrad's interest as a skeptic is heightened by the degree to which he resists the insights proffered by his own skepticism. The first chapter introduces the idea of the Conradian 'shelter', and the next two use Schopenhauer to show how the language of metaphysical speculation in Tales of Unrest and 'Heart of Darkness' spills over into a religious impulse that resists the disintegrating effect of Conrad's skepticism. The author then turns to Hume to model the authorial skepticism that in Lord Jim contests the continuing visionary strain of the earlier fiction and Descartes to analyze the ways in which Romantic vision is more stringently chastened by irony in Nostromo and The Secret Agent. The concluding chapter touches on several late novels before examining how competing models of political agency in Conrad's last great fiction of skepticism, Under Western Eyes, situate it somewhere between ideology critique and a mystified account of the exigencies of individual consciousness.
Narrative Structure And Reader Skepticism In Frankenstein
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Author : Emily Gardner
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2013
Narrative Structure And Reader Skepticism In Frankenstein written by Emily Gardner and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013 with Narration (Rhetoric) categories.
Many critics have debated the unusual embedded narrative style of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, often concluding that its purpose is either to draw attention to the similarities between the characters or to invite the audience to view the text from different perspectives. Joining the conversation, I also take up the question of Shelley's complex narrative style, arguing that the narrative layers are like a set of Russian dolls, with each new narrative providing a physical demonstration of the degrees of control each character has over his or her own life. By analyzing what I consider the fundamental layers of the text, Walton, Frankenstein, and Safie, I suggest that the text's structural enclosures reflect the confinement experienced by the characters. The deeper Shelley places a character within the text, the more constrained they are. Characters on the outermost layer demonstrate more personal agency, evidenced in Walton's exercise of free will at the end of the novel when he chooses to end his expedition, while characters on the interior of the novel, like Safie, often have extremely limited choices available to them. Ultimately, I argue that when Frankenstein's seemingly dominant, first person narrative is embedded amidst these other stories, all of which feature characters forced to confront their own agency, the structure of the novel invites its readers to view Frankenstein's story with increased skepticism, doubting his claims that he had no choice for his actions. Thus, the ever-tightening narrative structure not only helps to focus attention on the agency of each character but also potentially implicates the reader in the process of doubting Frankenstein, since with each narrative break the reader must decide to open another doll that might further undermine Frankenstein's dominant voice.
Scepticism In The Eighteenth Century Enlightenment Lumi Res Aufkl Rung
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Author : Sébastien Charles
language : en
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Release Date : 2014-07-08
Scepticism In The Eighteenth Century Enlightenment Lumi Res Aufkl Rung written by Sébastien Charles and has been published by Springer Science & Business Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-07-08 with Philosophy categories.
The Age of Enlightenment has often been portrayed as a dogmatic period on account of the veritable worship of reason and progress that characterized Eighteenth Century thinkers. Even today the philosophes are considered to have been completely dominated in their thinking by an optimism that leads to dogmatism and ultimately rationalism. However, on closer inspection, such a conception seems untenable, not only after careful study of the impact of scepticism on numerous intellectual domains in the period, but also as a result of a better understanding of the character of the Enlightenment. As Giorgio Tonelli has rightly observed: “the Enlightenment was indeed the Age of Reason but one of the main tasks assigned to reason in that age was to set its own boundaries.” Thus, given the growing number of works devoted to the scepticism of Enlightenment thinkers, historians of philosophy have become increasingly aware of the role played by scepticism in the Eighteenth Century, even in those places once thought to be most given to dogmatism, especially Germany. Nevertheless, the deficiencies of current studies of Enlightenment scepticism are undeniable. In taking up this question in particular, the present volume, which is entirely devoted to the scepticism of the Enlightenment in both its historical and geographical dimensions, seeks to provide readers with a revaluation of the alleged decline of scepticism. At the same time it attempts to resituate the Pyrrhonian heritage within its larger context and to recapture the fundamental issues at stake. The aim is to construct an alternative conception of Enlightenment philosophy, by means of philosophical modernity itself, whose initial stages can be found herein.
Strange Voices In Narrative Fiction
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Author : Per Krogh Hansen
language : en
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Release Date : 2011-10-27
Strange Voices In Narrative Fiction written by Per Krogh Hansen and has been published by Walter de Gruyter this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-10-27 with Literary Criticism categories.
From its beginnings narratology has incorporated a communicative model of literary narratives, considering these as simulations of natural, oral acts of communication. This approach, however, has had some problems with accounting for the strangeness and anomalies of modern and postmodern narratives. As many skeptics have shown, not even classical realism conforms to the standard set by oral or ‘natural’ storytelling. Thus, an urge to confront narratology with the difficult task of reconsidering a most basic premise in its theoretical and analytical endeavors has, for some time, been undeniable. During the 2000s, Nordic narratologists have been among the most active and insistent critics of the communicative model. They share a marked skepticism towards the idea of using ‘natural’ narratives as a model for understanding and interpreting all kinds of narratives, and for all of them, the distinction of fiction is of vital importance. This anthology presents a collection of new articles that deal with strange narratives, narratives of the strange, or, more generally, with the strangeness of fiction, and even with some strange aspects of narratology.