Woolf's Ambiguities: Tonal Modernism, Narrative Strategy, Feminist Precursors by Molly Hite, and: Woolf: A Guide for the Perplexed by Kathryn Simpson

Style ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 53 (1) ◽  
pp. 146-155
Author(s):  
Fen Gao ◽  
Ye Ma
Keyword(s):  
Narrative Strategy

Narrative Strategy and Metanoia in Parody Writing

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
pp. 91-124
Author(s):  
Kangmin Choi
Keyword(s):  
Narrative Strategy

Versteckte Juden im Affenkäfig

2018 ◽  
Vol 47 (2) ◽  
pp. 195-214
Author(s):  
Ewout van der Knaap
Keyword(s):  
Animal Studies ◽  
Jewish Family ◽  
Narrative Strategy ◽  
Robert Menasse

In his story The End of the Winter of Starvation, Robert Menasse portrays a Jewish family that in 1944 survived the war in a monkey cage in the Amsterdam Zoo. The article uncovers the representation of historical matters, scrutinizes the narrative strategy that both strives to question the truth of memory and aims to reveal how ritualized memory-talk is. By interpreting the performance of memory in Menasse’s story, and by highlighting insights from animal studies, the intertextual negative of Franz Kafka’s story A Report to an Academy is revealed.

Introduction

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maureen Alden
Keyword(s):  
Personal Experience ◽  
Religious Practice ◽  
Narrative Strategy

The progress of the main narrative of the Odyssey is frequently suspended by the para-narratives told by the poet and his characters. These can take the form of paradigms providing a model of action for imitation or avoidance by a character. They can also guide interpretation of the main narrative by exploring variations on its basic story shape. A veiled hint may be conveyed through an αἶνος‎ purportedly based on personal experience. Previous work on narratives in the Odyssey, including narratology and narrative strategy, is briefly surveyed. The Homeric poems were showcased in the Athenian festival of the Panathenaea, and religious practice becomes a further source of para-narrative as the Athenian rituals of the Plynteria and Arrephoria are evoked by Penelope’s actions and stories as the poem draws to its end. Athenian control of the pan-Ionian festival in Delos may explain the Apollo paradigm used of Odysseus.

scholarly journals Founder’s Prize for New Scholars 2016: “Looking Down Time’s Telescope at Myself”: Reincarnation and Global Futures in David Mitchell’s Fictional Worlds

KronoScope ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 163-181
Author(s):  
Rose Harris-Birtill
Keyword(s):  
Buddhist Philosophy ◽  
Global Capitalism ◽  
Narrative Strategy ◽  
End Of History ◽  
Ethical Approach ◽  
Alternative Approach ◽  
The Face ◽  
Temporal Model ◽  
Global Futures ◽  
Future Consequences

AbstractThis essay explores the trope of reincarnation across the works of British author David Mitchell (b. 1969) as an alternative approach to linear temporality, whose spiralling cyclicality warns of the dangers of seeing past actions as separate from future consequences, and whose focus on human interconnection demonstrates the importance of collective, intergenerational action in the face of ecological crises. Drawing on the Buddhist philosophy of samsara, or the cycle of life, death, and rebirth, this paper identifies links between the author’s interest in reincarnation and its secular manifestation in the treatment of time in his fictions. These works draw on reincarnation in their structures and characterization as part of an ethical approach to the Anthropocene, using the temporal model of “reincarnation time” as a narrative strategy to demonstrate that a greater understanding of generational interdependence is urgently needed in order to challenge the linear “end of history” narrative of global capitalism.

The independent heroes of the Iliad

1996 ◽  
Vol 116 ◽  
pp. 108-118 ◽  
Author(s):  
P.V. Jones
Keyword(s):  
Narrative Strategy ◽  
The Moment

My objective in this paper is to consider the question of the mysteriousness or numinosity of the gods in the Iliad by examining first how heroes talk about and react to the gods, and second how Homer handles fate. My aim is to integrate the findings into a wider thesis about the Iliad's narrative strategy.Griffin (1980) 152 discusses the mysteriousness and numinosity of Homeric gods, and cites Il. i 43–52, Od. iii 371–82, xix 33–42, saying ‘It is perhaps worth emphasising that in each of these … episodes, we see not only the god behaving like a real god, mysteriously, but also the characters who are present at the moment of revelation responding to it in what can only be called a religious way: adoration or reverent silence’.

Doubling the fantasy, adapting the reel: Entertaining transmediation as a collaborative narrative strategy

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 199-210 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chris Campanioni
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Performance Studies ◽  
Culture Industry ◽  
Potential Functions ◽  
Border Studies ◽  
The Political ◽  
Political Advocacy ◽  
Narrative Strategy ◽  
Temporal And Spatial ◽  
Traditional Storytelling

Can we move fan participation and the co-creation of storylines outside the sphere of the culture industry to better understand their potential functions for constructing individual subjectivity and empowering social change? With an attention to experiences of migration, exile and detainment, and through close readings of documentary The Wolfpack (2015), HBO’s bilingual horror comedy series Los Espookys (2019) and Manuel Puig’s novel, El beso de la mujer araña (1976), I argue that it is necessary to move beyond a speaker–audience dialectic, as in traditional storytelling, and towards transmediated activity, where static or linear temporal and spatial orders are both reproduced and subverted. By converging performance studies with border studies and phenomenology, this contribution counters assumptions about submissive viewership while unpacking the political utility of entertainment. Ultimately, ‘Doubling the fantasy, adapting the reel’ challenges what it means to be a ‘storyteller’ and what constitutes a useful ‘story’ in the context of political advocacy and activism.

The power of the ordinary: Quotidian framing as a narrative strategy

2015 ◽  
Vol 86 ◽  
pp. 100-105 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yoshiko Matsumoto
Keyword(s):  
Narrative Strategy

scholarly journals Narrative Innovation in Dubliners and James Joyce’s Exilic Experience

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (10) ◽  
pp. 1287
Author(s):  
Chenglin Yu
Keyword(s):  
Short Stories ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Narrative Strategy ◽  
Formal Innovation

James Joyce’s Dubliners betrays a narrative innovative tendency towards the restriction of point of view, which means the narration tends to unfold through the character’s point of view without omniscient interference. After examining the short stories in the context of their creation, we assert that Joyce’s exile and Dubliners’s censorship mostly account for this formal innovation. Further exploration shows that the restriction of point of view is actually a narrative strategy Joyce deploys to convey his ambiguous and ambivalent feelings towards his homeland and compatriots triggered by his exilic experience.

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