scholarly journals POSTMODERN NON-LAUGHTER IRONY IN OŚCI BY I. KARPOWICZ AND FRUTCHEN BY T. HAVRYLIV

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Iryna Kropyvko ◽  
Alexandra Budilova
Keyword(s):  
Complex System ◽  
Narrative Analysis ◽  
Formal Aspect ◽  
Narrative Strategy ◽  
Postmodern Fiction ◽  
True Story ◽  
Narrative Forms ◽  
Stylistic Device ◽  
Detailed Picture ◽  
Postmodern Thinking

AbstractBackground. Irony and laughter in postmodern carnival prose are interrelated, yet notinterdependent. Irony is traditionally defined in terms of its laughter-causing trend; however,postmodern irony can be not funny. Its predominating sign is meaning ambiguity resulting from thegap between pronounced and non-pronounced. Irony is traced both in a meaning-shaping aspect(in which case both a message, and a code matter, and separate fragments of an ironic utterancegain significance), and in an intertextually-formal aspect of irony as a stylistic device and anexpression of the overall postmodern ironic mind. Purpose. The article seeks to trace the narrative forms of the ironic game’s domination as anarrative pattern and composition principle of the prose by postmodern writers. The research employs the methods of narrative analysis and receptive aesthetics. Results. The meaning vector of Ignacy Karpowicz’s narrative strategy in his Ości tends tocreate a peculiar range of polysemy, which, among other meanings, is implied in the book title. Thetitle’s polysemy transits to the level on non-pronounced, to “ness”, which indicates a leftover fromthe verbalized. The intertextually-formal aspect of the irony determines the novel’s receptivestrategy. The reader has to read characters’ “true” story following the picture provided by thenarrator. The reader is offered a detailed picture of their thinking and self-analysis. The authorseems to be kidding at the techniques innate in formula-based genres, inheriting them and breakingstereotypes at the same time. An ironic effect is produced via hints, understatements, unexpectedapproaches to representation. The “narrative” irony is combined with irony over contemporarytrends in literary studies and postmodern philosophical discussions. Irony becomes not onlypolysemic, but multidimensional: it unfolds on the surface of the text like language and narrativegame and alludes to other texts, emphasizing the need for professional interpretation. Frutchen byTymofiy Havryliv is explored in terms of conceptual comparison with “S / Z” by R. Barthes, wherehe outlines the principles of deconstructive analysis. T. Havryliv seems to be following reverselogic; he constructs his text as a reflection of the way to read a hermeneutic code declared by R.Barthes, he walks his reader through all “twists” of deconstructive thinking. A complex system ofnarrators and narrative in the story makes a multidimensional irony over the theme, forms andnorms of academic presentation and formula-based fiction texts. Discussion. The article outlines the forms of non-laughter irony and traces its impact on thecreation of polysemy of the postmodern fiction text. Besides, it indicates narrative devices andreceptive strategies used by the authors. In future, it is necessary to focus on the correlationbetween laughter and non-laughter poetics to emphasize ironic postmodern thinking in fiction texts.

scholarly journals Shaping Social and Psychological Competencies or Intervening in a Crisis? Sociotherapists’ Experiences of Helping Adolescents in Poland

2020 ◽  
Vol 42 (4) ◽  
pp. 349-365
Author(s):  
Emilia Soroko ◽  
Barbara Jankowiak
Keyword(s):  
Thematic Analysis ◽  
Narrative Analysis ◽  
Group Work ◽  
Qualitative Approach ◽  
Big Cities ◽  
Narrative Forms

Abstract Sociotherapists’ experiences of helping adolescents within the framework of sociotherapy were examined. There were 12 participants involved (three males), who were active sociotherapists from big cities in Poland. They were aged 30–60 years, with at least 4 years’ experience in the profession. We applied a qualitative approach to obtain in-depth, socio-contextual descriptions of the sociotherapists’ experiences. Interviews activated by a narrative stimulus were conducted. Both inductive (inspired by thematic analysis and a categorical-content perspective in narrative analysis) and deductive (based on theory of basic narrative forms) content analytic approaches were used to identify key helping factors. Two general themes revealed different paths of arranging help for adolescents in sociotherapeutic groups: (1) shaping of psychological competencies; (2) intervening in crises, encompassing dramatic actions going beyond process-based group work. Sociotherapy providers should have appropriate specialisms and procedures to implement the necessary interventions, as they go beyond the scope of the group-work aspect of sociotherapy.

No more fairytales: a quest for alternative narratives of sustainable business

2019 ◽  
Vol 32 (5) ◽  
pp. 1384-1413 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aideen O’Dochartaigh
Keyword(s):  
Narrative Analysis ◽  
Sustainability Reporting ◽  
Social Enterprises ◽  
Business Relationship ◽  
Sustainable Business ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Counter Narrative ◽  
Sustainability Reports ◽  
Narrative Forms ◽  
Insight Into

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore storytelling in sustainability reporting. The author posits that large PLCs use their sustainability reports to support the construction of a fairytale of “sustainable business”, and asks if organisations with an alternative purpose (social enterprises, values-based SMEs) and/or ownership structure (co-operatives, partnerships) can offer a counter-narrative of the sustainability–business relationship. Design/methodology/approach The paper uses the literature on storytelling and organisational mythmaking to gain insight into the construction of narratives and their impact on the reader. A narrative analysis is conducted of the sustainability reports of 40 organisations across a range of entity classes, including large PLCs, values-based SMEs, co-owned businesses and social enterprises. Findings The analysis indicates that the narratives presented in sustainability reporting are of much the same form across entity classes. The author argues on this basis that sustainability reports represent stories targeted at specific stakeholders rather than accounts of the organisation’s relationship with ecological and societal sustainability, and urges scholars to challenge organisations across entity classes to engage with sustainability at a planetary level. Originality/value The paper seeks to contribute to the literature in two ways. First, the author illustrates how the literature on storytelling can be used to analyse organisational narratives of sustainability, and how narrative forms and genres can be mobilised to support potential counter-narratives. Second, the author explores and ultimately challenges the proposition that organisations less often examined in the literature, such as social enterprises and co-operatives, can offer alternative narratives of the sustainability–business relationship.

scholarly journals Narrative analysis of media discourse of a special event (on the example of Robert Rozhdestvensky Altai Regional Literary Festival)

Litera ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 74-83
Author(s):  
Anna Milyukova
Keyword(s):  
Narrative Analysis ◽  
Qualitative Content Analysis ◽  
Media Discourse ◽  
Narrative Strategy ◽  
Cultural Workers ◽  
Special Event ◽  
Time Space ◽  
Great Patriotic War ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Media

Leaning on the narrative analysis of media materials, this articled examines the peculiarities of the narrative of regional literary festival of Robert Rozhdestvensky. Research methodology employs narrative analysis, which being a variety of qualitative content analysis, implies characteristics of the following textual elements: narrator: hero/narrator / author; characters, their types; events (plot functions); type of narrative strategy; time; space; intertext, precedent texts, metanarrative; dichotomies, presuppositions, ideologemes. The object of this analysis is media article dedicated to the regional literary festival of Robert Rozhdestvensky, material publications (345 units) cover the period from June 8, 2007 to December 31, 2019. Four types of narrative elements of discourse of a special event are characterized: personal experience of familiarization with R. Rozhdestvensky’s poetry; national narrative of the Great Patriotic War; history of emergence of his poems in the context of other belongings that were transferred to the museum. Narrative elements within the discourse structure are brief and curtailed. The article explores narrative potential of a social conflict in generating the narrative of a special event in the media. It is demonstrated that the narrative is composed by stories associated with Robert Rozhdestvensky, while the subjects of media discourse are the prominent participants, cultural workers, and narrators. The conclusion is drawn that the narrative and mythological components within the structure of media discourse are attributed to different objectives.

Stories of Courtship and Marriage: Orientations in Openings

2000 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 377-401 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carolyn Baker ◽  
Greer Cavallaro Johnson
Keyword(s):  
Oral History ◽  
Narrative Analysis ◽  
Pragmatic Approach ◽  
True Story ◽  
Naturally Occurring ◽  
Conversational Storytelling ◽  
Audio Recordings ◽  
The Status ◽  
Theoretical Issues

This paper presents initial analyses of the opening sequences of a number of courtship and marriage stories told by elderly Italian-Australians. Using a conversation-analytic perspective, the paper contributes to the study of how storytelling is a co-construction of teller and audience. The focus is on how the storyteller(s) and the interviewer, referring to a list of topics that might be covered in the story, negotiate how the story should be told. These instances of conversational storytelling differ from those in naturally occurring settings, since the storytelling is being recorded; further, they are distinctive because the storytellers know that the audio-recordings will be later transformed into chapters in a book. Therefore, there is a distinctive “for the record”orientation by both storyteller and interviewer, as might occur with oral history research. This paper explicates what might be involved in getting stories started under such circumstances. Some of the theoretical issues that arise from the analysis include the status, for storytellers, of the assumption that there is a correct or true story that represents what once happened. The orientation taken to analysis of the storytelling, however, is concerned with the “act of telling”(cf. Bamberg, 1997). This paper thus contributes to a pragmatic approach to narrative and narrative analysis.

Remaking the Record: Emigrant Fiction and Restorative Justice in the Former Yugoslavia

2016 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 145-166
Author(s):  
Audrey J. Golden
Keyword(s):  
Restorative Justice ◽  
International Criminal ◽  
International Criminal Tribunal ◽  
Historical Record ◽  
Former Yugoslavia ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Postmodern Fiction ◽  
Liminal Spaces ◽  
The Law ◽  
Narrative Forms

As the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) nears its end, questions about victimhood and restorative justice remain salient. Can the law adequately attend to victim trauma? Focusing on the remedial notion of “making whole” a victim of atrocity, this article looks to Aleksandar Hemon’s first novel, The Question of Bruno (2000), to illuminate legal limitations to facilitating human recovery. Hemon is a Bosnian immigrant who departed Sarajevo in 1992 and began writing in English several years later. Exhibiting the fragmentation typical in postmodern fiction, Hemon’s work can be situated in a distinct literary moment. Yet the novel also creates new narrative forms that incorporate the reader in a restorative task. While considering the gaps in the remedial procedures at the ICTY, I argue that The Question of Bruno implores its reader to reconstruct a new kind of historical record that heals, while acknowledging the liminal spaces from which many victims speak and write.

A Reproducible Selective Stain for Cardiac Sarcoplasmic Reticulum

1974 ◽  
Vol 32 ◽  
pp. 214-215
Author(s):  
R. A. Waugh ◽  
J. R. Sommer
Keyword(s):  
Complex System ◽  
Electron Microscope ◽  
Sarcoplasmic Reticulum ◽  
Transmission Electron Microscope ◽  
Electron Microscopic ◽  
Cardiac Sarcoplasmic Reticulum ◽  
Transmission Electron

Cardiac sarcoplasmic reticulum (SR) is a complex system of intracellular tubules that, due to their small size and juxtaposition to such electron-dense structures as mitochondria and myofibrils, are often inconspicuous in conventionally prepared electron microscopic material. This study reports a method with which the SR is selectively “stained” which facilitates visualizationwith the transmission electron microscope.

Foundations of Complex-system Theories

1998 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sunny Y. Auyang
Keyword(s):  
Complex System

Review of What do You Get When You Cross a Dandelion with a Rose?: The True Story of a Psychoanalysis.

1986 ◽  
Vol 31 (8) ◽  
pp. 631-631
Author(s):  
No authorship indicated
Keyword(s):  
True Story

Art as a Self-Organizing Complex System

1998 ◽  
Author(s):  
Svetlana Apenova ◽  
Igor Yevin
Keyword(s):  
Complex System ◽  
Self Organizing
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