Unnatural narratives, Brexit and ideology in Ian McEwan’s The Cockroach

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 124-146
Author(s):  
Dandan Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Narrative Strategies ◽  
Historical Climate ◽  
Historical Turn ◽  
The Future ◽  
Unnatural Narrative ◽  
Unnatural Narratives

Abstract Against the backdrop of sudden shifts in global political and historical climate, our century has witnessed a convergence of turns in humanities, including the nonhuman turn and the historical turn. Ian McEwan’s latest novella, The Cockroach, is a just work along this line. Through the use of unnatural narratives within realistic context, McEwan presents readers with a world that is both strange and recognisable. By examining the unnatural narrative strategies, including the deployment of nonhuman character and omniscient narrator, McEwan expresses concerns for the future of humanity and fear for social and cultural parochialism, populism and anti-cosmopolitanism.

scholarly journals Unaturlige fortællinger. Hinsides mimetiske modeller

2011 ◽  
Vol 39 (112) ◽  
pp. 7-32
Author(s):  
Jan Alber ◽  
Stefan Iversen ◽  
Henrik Skov Nielsen ◽  
Brian Richardson
Keyword(s):  
Narrative Theory ◽  
Unnatural Narratology ◽  
The Future ◽  
Unnatural Narrative ◽  
Unnatural Narratives

UNNATURAL NARRATIVES, UNNATURAL NARRATOLOGY | In recent years, the study of unnatural narrative has developed into one of the most exciting new paradigms in narrative theory. Both younger and more established scholars have become increasingly interested in the analysis of unnatural texts, many of which have been consistently neglected or marginalized in existing narratological frameworks. By means of the collaboration of four scholars who have been developing unnatural narratology, this article seeks to summarize key principles, to consolidate some conclusions, to extend the work through carefully chosen examples, and, finally, to point toward the future.

Relocating the Light

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kristin Scheible
Keyword(s):  
Physical Space ◽  
Moral Community ◽  
Historical Narrative ◽  
Narrative Strategies ◽  
The Future ◽  
Significant Patterns ◽  
Set Up ◽  
Rhetorical Structures ◽  
The Buddha ◽  
The Way

Pāli is not typically considered a language that allows for much literary flourish, but literary moves are made nonetheless: patterns and rhetorical structures introduced in the first chapter determine how the rest of the historical narrative is literarily conveyed. This chapter argues that structurally significant patterns manifest in the proem itself are what determine the narrative arc of the text, and further explores the metaphor of light as it is employed in the story, paying attention to the way the proems had set up the reader to perceive the transformative richness and practical potential of such metaphors. By exploring this metaphor of light we will see how a certain pattern is developed whereby the physical space of Laṅkā is transformed to a lamp of the dhamma, a cetiya for the future remembrance and representation of the Buddha through relic veneration, while individual hearers are transformed ethically, resulting in the moral community primed for the responsibility of the dhamma. Just as a lamp is primed with oil to effectively receive the flame, so the reader of the Mahāvaṃsa is primed for the full, transformative force of the text by the proem and by the narrative strategies employed.

scholarly journals EPCOT theme park as a science communication space: the Test Track case

2019 ◽  
Vol 18 (04) ◽  
pp. A09
Author(s):  
Daniela Martin
Keyword(s):  
Science Communication ◽  
Methodological Approach ◽  
The United States ◽  
Theme Park ◽  
Narrative Strategies ◽  
Test Track ◽  
Political Interests ◽  
The Future ◽  
Communication Space ◽  
The Impact

Science and technology have become tools to legitimize messages that affect the world in terms of society, politics and economy. This paper presents part of the results of a study that analyzed the symbolic construction of the future in the scientific-technological discourse at EPCOT theme park in Orlando, Florida. The sociohistorical conditions and narrative strategies are analyzed based on the theoretical and methodological approach by John B. Thompson. The results highlighted that the construction of the notion of progress is strongly influenced by the commercial and political interests of the sponsors. In particular, the ‘Test Track’ ride totally lacks any discussion about the impact of cars on society and the environment. The future is presented as a utopian one without any possible disruption, a perception that permeated the development of the United States over the 20th century and is promoted even in the 21st century despite the evidence provided by multiple wars and crises.

scholarly journals Between Testimony and Irony: Points of View in “Chernobyl Prayer. A Chronicle of the Future” by Swietlana Alexievich

2019 ◽  
pp. 55-68
Author(s):  
Magdalena Horodecka
Keyword(s):  
Point Of View ◽  
Narrative Strategies ◽  
The Future ◽  
Points Of View

The article is an analysis of Swietlana Alexievich’s book Chernobyl Prayer. A Chronicle of the Future and aims to examine its predominant narrative strategies. The author points to the role of monologues, mottos, irony, titles, and subtitles, which help to describe the process of showing the witness’ point of view and, simultaneously, Alexievich’s interpretation of the gathered data.

Frederick Douglass’s Historical Turn

2018 ◽  
pp. 127-153
Author(s):  
Jeffrey Insko
Keyword(s):  
Civil War ◽  
Dred Scott ◽  
Historical Turn ◽  
Temporal Consciousness ◽  
The Future

Chapter 4 tracks Frederick Douglass’s developing historical-temporal consciousness and his adoption of a presentist view of history that rhymes with Ralph Waldo Emerson’s philosophical presentism. In tandem with his embrace of political abolitionism, Douglass in his speeches and writings of the 1850s, began a sweeping philosophical engagement with the relations between past, present, and future and became what I will call abolitionism’s future historian—the historian of an abolitionist past that had not yet come to pass. Examining a series of recurring images—in My Bondage and My Freedom, The Heroic Slave, and most notably, in his remarkable 1857 speech on the Dred Scott decision—of Douglass gazing into the future, I argue for the centrality of a newly acquired present-oriented perspective as the animating feature of Douglass’s mature pre-Civil War politics and his vision of the possibilities of social and historical transformation.

Delving into Impossible Storyworlds of Terror: The Unnaturalness of Hassan Blasim’s Short Narrative Fiction

2017 ◽  
Vol 52 (1) ◽  
pp. 183-200 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shang Biwu
Keyword(s):  
Short Stories ◽  
Human Suffering ◽  
Narrative Fiction ◽  
Broad Category ◽  
Unnatural Narratology ◽  
Recent Scholarship ◽  
The World ◽  
Unnatural Narrative ◽  
Short Narrative ◽  
Unnatural Narratives

AbstractMany of Hassan Blasim’s short stories fall into a broad category of unnatural narrative. In line with the most recent scholarship on unnatural narratology, this article first discusses the unnatural worldmaking strategies adopted by Blasim that include dead narrators, conflicting events, and ontological metalepsis. Second, it analyzes a set of unnatural acts closely related to the characters’ death and their consequential corporeal impairments. Third, it examines the mentality of Blasim’s characters by focusing on a particular type of unnatural mind – the paranoid mind, which in radical cases involves two conflicting minds simultaneously emerging in one character. By resorting to unnatural narratives, Blasim makes his short stories anti-mimetically impossible but nightmarishly real, which not only generates effects of defamiliarity and horror but also forces us to ponder over what is now happening in the seemingly remote parts of the world and to raise our common concerns for human suffering.

Back to the future: using historical climate variation to project near-term shifts in habitat suitable for coast redwood

2015 ◽  
Vol 21 (11) ◽  
pp. 4141-4152 ◽  
Author(s):  
Miguel Fernández ◽  
Healy H. Hamilton ◽  
Lara M. Kueppers
Keyword(s):  
Climate Variation ◽  
Coast Redwood ◽  
Historical Climate ◽  
The Future ◽  
Near Term

Increased uncertainty in Land-Use change impacts on temperature due to Global Warming in CMIP6-LUMIP experiments

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Arshdeep Singh ◽  
Sanjiv Kumar
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Land Use ◽  
Land Use Change ◽  
Direct Method ◽  
Climate Change Impacts ◽  
Future Climate ◽  
Shortwave Radiation ◽  
Near Surface ◽  
Historical Climate ◽  
The Future

<p>Land-use change (LU) is a major regional climate forcing that affects carbon-water-energy fluxes and, therefore, near-surface air temperature. Although there are uncertainties in LU impacts in the historical climate, there is a growing consensus towards a cooling influence in the mid-latitudes. However, how a drier and warmer land surface condition in the future climate can change the LU impacts are not investigated well.</p><p>We use a comprehensive set of five coupled climate models from the CMIP6-LUMIP project to assess the changing influence of the LU change. We use two methodologies: (1) direct method – where LU impacts are estimated by subtracting the ‘no-LU’ climate experiment from the control experiment that includes LU, and (2) Kumar et al., 2013 (K13) method where LU impacts are estimated by comparing climate change impacts between LU and no-LU neighboring regions.</p><p>First, we compared the LU impacts in the historical climate and between the direct method and K13 methods using the multi-model analysis. In the North America LU change region, the direct method shows a cooling impact of (-0.14 ± 0.13°C). The K13 methods show a smaller cooling impact (-0.09 ± 0.08°C). In terms of energy balance, the direct method shows a reduction of net shortwave radiation (-0.82 ± 0.91 watts/m<sup>2</sup>) the K13 method shows a cleaner result of (-1.25 ± 0.60 watts/m<sup>2</sup>), as expected. We suspect that a more substantial influence of the LU change in the direct method is due to large-scale circulation driven response or due to the internal variability that has been canceled out in the K13 method.</p><p>Next, we extend the K13 method to assess the LU impacts in the future climate. Direct methods are not available for the future climate experiment in CMIP6-LUMIP datasets. We find that a cooling impact of LU change has become statistically insignificant in the future climate (-0.17 ± 0.19°C). A similar influence is also found in the reduction of the net shortwave radiation (-1.92 ± 3.34 watts/m<sup>2</sup>). We also found that climate change impacts on temperature are an order of magnitude greater than LU impact in the future climate. Hence, we hypothesize that higher warming has contributed to the larger uncertainty in LU impacts. We will also discuss LU impacts in Eurasia and Indian subcontinent.</p><p><img src="https://contentmanager.copernicus.org/fileStorageProxy.php?f=gnp.967d8b47f50063273001161/sdaolpUECMynit/12UGE&app=m&a=0&c=6fbaa64b9acfb208f665dca0184a6955&ct=x&pn=gnp.elif&d=1" alt=""></p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Reference</p><p>Kumar, S., Dirmeyer, P. A., Merwade, V., DelSole, T., Adams, J. M., & Niyogi, D. (2013). Land use/cover change impacts in CMIP5 climate simulations: A new methodology and 21st century challenges. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 118(12), 6337-6353.</p>

scholarly journals Strategie artystyczne i narracyjne w projekcie Lii i Andrija Dostlievów „Rekonstrukcja pamięci” przesiedlenia na Krymie i Donbasie

2017 ◽  
Vol 6 ◽  
pp. 145-156
Author(s):  
Ryszard Kupidura ◽  
Magdalena Dworak-Mróz
Keyword(s):  
Russian Federation ◽  
First Person ◽  
Narrative Strategies ◽  
Military Operations ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Crimea ◽  
The Russian Federation

Artistic and Narrative Strategies in the Project of Lia Dostlieva and Andrij Dostliev “Restoring Memory” Resettlements in the Crimea and DonbassThe annexation of Crimea, carried out by the Russian Federation, as well as the war waged on the eastern Ukraine resulted in about 1.5 million people being forced to leave their households. The rushed escape from the homeland deprived many people of their material keepsakes. In a situation of radical detachment from the past, the condition of the present is obviously threatened and projecting of the future seems impossible to realize. It is indispensable to become aware of this fact and to voice the problem and analyze the trauma. The curators of the project Restoring of Memory, Lia Dostlieva and Andrij Dostliev, collected testi­monies of several artists from the area of military operations, who shared the experience of resettlement. Their first-person narrations, supported via various artistic media such as installations, photography, performance constitute a collective history which was exhibited in the galleries of European cities.Художественные и нарративные стратегии в проекте Лии и Андрея Достлевых «Восстановление памяти» о переселенцах из Крыма и Донбасса Спровоцированная РФ аннексия Крыма, а также война в восточных регионах Украины, повлекли за собой последствия, в связи с которыми за короткий период времени около 1,7 миллиона граждан были вынуждены покинуть свои дома. Теперь же, спустя два года после данных событий, стало очевидно, что проблемы, вызванные принудительным переселением, не ограничиваются только лишь бытовой сферой.Поспешное бегство из родного очага лишили многих людей, кроме прочего, материальной памяти. Ведь семейные реликвии, как правило, имеют небольшой шанс уместиться в двух-трёх чемоданах, с которыми человек вынужденно покидает привычное место жительства.Собственно, в ситуации радикального отсечения от прошлого под угрозой находится состояние настоящего, а планирование будущего кажется практически невозможным в реализации. Однако обязательным должно быть осознание, высказывание и анализ возникнувшей травмы.Проект под кураторством Лии и Андрея Достлевых поставил целью собрать свидетельства нескольких художников Украины из районов военных действий, судьба которых связана с опытом переселения. Их личные рассказы, воплощенные с помощью художественных практик составляют вместе коллективную историю, которая повествуется и экспонируется в галереях европейских городов.

scholarly journals NARRATIVE STRATEGIES BY CREATING A REALITY TELEVISION ON MODERN RUSSIAN TV

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Lilya R. Khuzeeva
Keyword(s):  
Narrative Theory ◽  
Reality Television ◽  
Study Groups ◽  
Narrative Strategies ◽  
Historical Texts ◽  
Reality Show ◽  
The World ◽  
The Future ◽  
Tv Show ◽  
Modern Russian

Narratology as a general narrative theory applies to the analysis of artistic and historical texts. At the same time, it can be successfully applied to the analysis of television scenarios, because it allows you to see the general course of the proposed history, determine the television picture of the world, and, perhaps, more broadly, media reality. The reconstruction of the TV show model can be useful for the subsequent implementation in the practical activities on television when creating original projects. Based on the narratological analysis of the two seasons of the reality show “Ladette” (they appeared on the Russian TV channel “Piatnitsa” in 2016-2017), the author identifies the composition of the program and narrative strategies that implement various types of narrators. In the course of the study, groups of narrators were identified, their roles in the development of the plot were defined, and their narrative strategies were formulated. A consistent study of the implementation of the strategy led to a general conclusion about which strategy is leading and decisive for this type of reality show. Identification of narrative strategies allows you to expand the boundaries of potential project changes in the future, and also stimulates the search for optimal ways to implement various television functions, including regulatory, social and educational, and others

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