scholarly journals NEW BOOKS ON METATEXTUALITY

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 151-159
Author(s):  
Yury I. Semenchenko
Keyword(s):  
Short Story ◽  
Creative Process ◽  
Comic Books ◽  
Linguistic Markers ◽  
High Modernism ◽  
Solid Foundation

The review considers recent scholar publications of foreign researchers devoted to the phenomenon of metatextuality, in particular “Metafiction Short Story Writers” (2016) by G. Brand, the chapter “World Building and Metafiction in Contemporary Comic Books” by D. Mellier in the collective monograph “World Building. Transmedia, Fans, Industries” (2017), as well as A. Macrae’s monograph “Discourse deixis in metafiction” (2019). G. Brand’s book presents itself as a kind of compendium of short prose by those authors who, in one way or another, have thematized the creative process. In reviewing the work by D. Mellier, emphasis is laid on the subgenre of meta-comics identified by the scholar. The monograph by A. Macrae can become a solid foundation for a linguistic interpretation both postmodernist metafiction and textual experiments of high modernism (S. Beckett, A. Artaud, T. Bernhard, etc.). The review concludes that research in recent years is helping to fill gaps in the description of narrative and linguistic markers and tools of metatextuality.

scholarly journals Office Setting as Organizational Structure in “Bartleby the Scrivener”

SAGE Open ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 215824401769043
Author(s):  
Lori Duin Kelly
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Structure ◽  
Short Story ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
Institutional Ethnography ◽  
Interpersonal Dynamics ◽  
Office Setting ◽  
Linguistic Markers ◽  
The Social ◽  
Bartleby The Scrivener ◽  
A Site

This article uses a methodology from the social sciences known as institutional ethnography to analyze the office setting in Herman Melville’s short story “Bartleby the Scrivener” as a site of social organization. This approach contributes to an understanding of how that office came to adopt specific structures as crucial to its functioning and how, as a consequence of those structures, individuals’ roles within the organization’s hierarchies became constituted. As fieldwork occurs inside of organizations, institutional ethnography also provides a tool for identifying and evaluating linguistic markers for an individual’s placement within a larger organizational structure. This approach to the story seems particularly useful for understanding the interpersonal dynamics at the heart of “Bartleby.” At the same time, it provides a method for identifying the larger institutional process at work in Melville’s story, one that contributes to the reproduction of a system of social relations in the workplace that requires subordination and compliance to insure its success.

scholarly journals Recursos cinematográficos na prosa pop de André Sant’Anna

2015 ◽  
Vol 4 (7) ◽  
pp. 45
Author(s):  
Antonio Eduardo S. Laranjeira
Keyword(s):  
Short Story ◽  
Creative Process ◽  
Contemporary Literature ◽  
Literary Discourse ◽  
Narrative Strategies ◽  
Pop Literature

<p><strong>Resumo</strong>: No discurso literário pop, é notável a fusão de linguagens e<br />referências. Considerando-se o texto pop pós-moderno de André Sant’Anna como objeto, é possível observar de que maneira os recursos cinematográficos são utilizados no processo de construção das narrativas “Aquarius”, conto publicado em Amor e outras histórias, e Sexo, romance subseqüente. Com base nos estudos de Marinyze Prates de Oliveira sobre a ficção de João Gilberto Noll, a partir da sistematização do uso dos recursos cinematográficos na literatura contemporânea, é possível afirmar que a prosa pop de André Sant’Anna é perpassada pela presença de estratégias narrativas do cinema.</p><p><strong>Abstract</strong>: The fusion of languages and references is remarkable in pop literary discourse. Taking as subject André Sant'Anna's post-modern pop text, it's possible to see how cinematographic strategies are used in the creative process of the narratives Aquarius, a short-story published in Amor e outras histórias, and Sexo, Sant'Anna's subsequent novel. Based on the researches by Marinyze Prates de Oliveira about João Gilberto Noll's fiction, and on the systematizing of the uses of cinematographic strategies in contemporary literature, it's possible to state that André Sant'Anna's pop prose is marked by the presence of narrative strategies of cinema.</p><p><strong>Keywords</strong>: pop literature; cinema; André Sant'Anna.</p>

Meta-Remediation as a Mechanism to Address Crowd Decision-Making in the Context of Media Art

2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 43-55
Author(s):  
Jose Alberto Raposo Pinheiro ◽  
Mirian Tavares
Keyword(s):  
Public Space ◽  
Short Story ◽  
Creative Process ◽  
Interaction Model ◽  
Digital Art ◽  
Public Event ◽  
The Public ◽  
Art Installation ◽  
Visual Concepts ◽  
Digital Artifact

uTurn is a digital art installation that allows interaction inside a cinema-like environment or a similar public space — an exhibition system in the context of an audience, retrieving an elected media from the choices made by the majority of the public. The software in its core manages the selection — a meta-remediation that elects a media block, in the form of short-story movies (Vidbits) to be watched by a crowd. The interaction model assumes the need to find a preference in the viewing room in order to identify and choose the next Vidbit. The system allows navigation through media blocks in environments like a cinema room, a summer festival, or a public event. It can be configured to support visual concepts, or to integrate a narrative system in which other types of structures in the story demand that the content follows a segmentation of media. uTurn was exhibited during the 5th Artech International Conference, in 2015. The article addresses the creative process towards the production of the digital artifact using Apple's Quartz Composer.

Ray Bradbury

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Seed
Keyword(s):  
Cultural History ◽  
Short Story ◽  
Creative Process ◽  
Human Experience ◽  
Film And Television ◽  
Prose Style ◽  
Social Concerns ◽  
Ray Bradbury ◽  
History Of ◽  
Film Genres

As much as any individual, Ray Bradbury brought science fiction's ideas into the mainstream. Yet he transcended the genre in both form and popularity, using its trappings to explore timely social concerns and the kaleidoscope of human experience while in the process becoming one of America's most beloved authors. This book follows Bradbury's long career from the early short story masterpieces through his work in a wide variety of broadcast and film genres to the influential cultural commentary he spread via essays, speeches, and interviews. Mining Bradbury's classics and hard-to-find archival, literary, and cultural materials, the book analyzes how the author's views on technology, authoritarianism, and censorship affected his art; how his Midwest of dream and dread brought his work to life; and the ways film and television influenced his creative process and visually oriented prose style. The result is a passionate statement on Bradbury's status as an essential literary writer deserving of a place in the cultural history of his time.

scholarly journals Queer Bodies, Queer Lives in China English Contact Literature

2018 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 147-162 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joshua M. Paiz ◽  
Anthony Comeau ◽  
Junhan Zhu ◽  
Jingyi Zhang ◽  
Agnes Santiano
Keyword(s):  
Queer Theory ◽  
Short Story ◽  
World Englishes ◽  
Fiction Writing ◽  
Linguistic Markers ◽  
China English ◽  
Ha Jin ◽  
Queer Spaces ◽  
A Site ◽  
Post Cultural Revolution

Abstract Ha Jin and his works have contributed significantly to world Englishes knowledge, both through direct scholarly engagement with contact literatures and through the linguistic creativity exhibited in his works of fiction (Jin 2010). His fiction writing also acts as a site of scholarly inquiry (e.g., Zhang 2002). Underexplored, however, are how local varieties of English as used to create queer identities. This paper will seek to address this gap by exploring how Ha Jin created queer spaces in his short story “The Bridegroom.” This investigation will utilize a Kachruvian world Englishes approach to analyzing contact literatures (B. Kachru 1985, 1990, Y. Kachru & Nelson 2006, Thumboo 2006). This analysis will be supported by interfacing it with perspectives from the fields of queer theory and queer linguistics (Jagose 1996, Leap & Motschenbacher 2012), which will allow for a contextually sensitive understanding of queer experiences in China. This approach will enable us to examine how Ha Jin utilized the rhetorical and linguistic markers of China English to explore historical attitudes towards queerness during the post-Cultural Revolution period. These markers include the use of local idioms and culturally-localized rhetorical moves to render a uniquely Chinese queer identity.

scholarly journals Creative remediation of Pynstiller by Fanie Viljoen: From short story to graphic novel

Literator ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 33 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
S.F. Greyling
Keyword(s):  
Short Story ◽  
Creative Process ◽  
Picture Book ◽  
Comic Book ◽  
Graphic Novel ◽  
First Person ◽  
Visual Narrative ◽  
Word And Image ◽  
Artist's Books ◽  
Subsequent Effect

In the Transgressions and boundaries of the page project, artists and writers were invited to create artist’s books and thereby to transcend the possibilities of the codex form of the book. This article discusses one of the projects, namely the creative remediation by Fanie Viljoen of his own short story (word), Pynstiller [‘Painkiller’], which deals with the phenomenon of selfmutilation among teenagers, into a graphic novel (word and image). The creative process and product are investigated according to the concepts of media, narratology, picture book and comic book theory. With reference to the two versions of the text, it is indicated how the narrative and theme of the short story are emphasised or extended in the graphic version, and particularly how access to the experienced world of the first-person narrator has been broadened. It appears that the visual narrative elements and the interaction between word and image together contribute towards the narrative, characterisation, portrayal of the theme and the subsequent effect on the reader-viewer. Finally, Fanie Viljoen’s remediation of Pynstiller confirms the premise that the artist’s book is an ideal medium to challenge and transcend boundaries.

scholarly journals CREATIVE PROCESS IN FICTION WRITING OF THREE INDONESIAN WRITERS

2017 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 117
Author(s):  
Iin Nuraeni ◽  
Fahrus Zaman Fadhly
Keyword(s):  
Short Story ◽  
Creative Process ◽  
Qualitative Method ◽  
Document Analysis ◽  
Process Writing ◽  
Mind Mapping ◽  
Fiction Writing ◽  
Creative Processes ◽  
Fiction Writers ◽  
Writing Genres

This research investigates the creative process in fiction writing employed by three writers of different writing genres: short story, novel, and poem. This study applied a qualitative method that involved one male and two female writers in Kuningan and Majalengka. The data collected from document analysis, observation, and interview were analyzed through descriptive qualitative method. The results of the analysis revealed that there were five creative processes of writing fiction used by the writers in writing fiction, namely preparation, incubation, insight, evaluation, and elaboration. Besides, it also revealed that novel writer is more creative than short story and poem writers since he uses all steps of creative process. In addition, the researcher found that there were some ways of exploring imagination in writing fiction, including drawing and deepen characters in the film or theater, making mind mapping to write, developing a shorter text, and expecting that the writing will be read by younger generation.Keywords: creative process, writing fiction, fiction writers, imagination process

scholarly journals THE ANALYSIS OF PROBLEMS ENCOUNTERED BY BEGINNER WRITER IN WRITING A SHORT STORY: A Case Study in Creative Writing Class

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 402
Author(s):  
N. Y. Pratiwi
Keyword(s):  
Creative Writing ◽  
Short Story ◽  
Creative Process ◽  
Self Perception ◽  
Technical Problems ◽  
Writing Performance ◽  
Writing Class ◽  
Writing Course

Creative process is the journey that a writer takes in order to create a piece of creative writing. During this process a writer, especially a beginner writer, encountered numerous obstacles which influence the writing performance. This study was aimed to analyze the problems faced by the students of Creative Writing course in Ganesha University of Education and describe how the students deal with the problems. The problems analyzed consist of three major aspects of writing fiction, namely literature elements, technical problems, and students’ self-perception. The study found out that the majority of the students experienced similar problems from certain elements, meanwhile there were also problems found that appeared to be different from one another. This leads to further findings that the students conducted various attempts to deal with the problems..  

scholarly journals PEREMPUAN DALAM BUDAYA PATRIARKI: KAJIAN SEMIOTIKA SOSIAL DALAM CERPEN SUNDA BERJUDUL “SI BOCOKOK”

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 11
Author(s):  
Heni Haryani
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Short Story ◽  
Research Method ◽  
Social Semiotics ◽  
Qualitative Research Method ◽  
Research Results ◽  
Linguistic Markers ◽  
Patriarchal Culture ◽  
Descriptive Qualitative

Abstract. This study analyzes how the position of women in household life in patriarchal culture in Sundanese society which was also described in a short story entitled "Si Bocokok" by Holisoh ME. The story was written in Sundanese language. The research method used was descriptive qualitative research method, so that the research results were described in the form of a description. The analysis was conducted on the texts in the short story using social semiotics theory. The results of the analysis found texts with linguistic markers in the form of phrases, clauses, proverbs and metaphors which described the excesses of the implementation of patriarchal culture in Sundanese society in the short stories.Keywords: Social Semiotics, Patriarchy, Short story.Abstrak. Penelitian ini menganalisis bagaimana posisi perempuan dalam kehidupan rumah tangga dalam budaya patriarki pada masyarakat Sunda yang digambarkan dalam cerita pendek berbahasa Sunda berjudul “Si Bocokok” karya Holisoh ME. Metode penelitian yang digunakan adalah metode penelitian kualitatif deskriptif sehingga hasil penelitian dijabarkan dalam bentuk deskripsi. Analisis dilakukan terhadap teks-teks dalam cerpen Sunda berjudul “Si Bocokok” dengan menggunakan teori semiotika sosial. Hasil analisis menemukan teks-teks dengan pemarkah linguistik berupa frasa, klausa, pribahasa dan metafora yang menggabarkan adanya ekses-ekses penerapan budaya patriarki dalam masyarakat sunda dalam cerpen tersebut. Kata kunci: Semiotika Sosial, Patriarki, Cerpen.

scholarly journals La claridad (2020), de Marcelo Luján: una lectura como ciclo de cuentos

2021 ◽  
Vol 30 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sandra Mendoza Vera
Keyword(s):  
20Th Century ◽  
Short Story ◽  
Creative Process ◽  
Short Story Cycle ◽  
Story Cycle ◽  
Siglo Xx

Partiendo de un somero recorrido por las distintas aportaciones teórico-críticas del siglo XX en torno al denominado ciclo de cuentos, se defiende tal estatuto genérico para La claridad, libro de cuentos de Marcelo Luján publicado en 2020. Dado que esta obra reúne seis cuentos que son autónomos y a la vez están interrelacionados gracias a una serie de elementos narrativos, cumple los requisitos para ser considerada un ciclo. Se realizó una entrevista con Luján, reproducida en este trabajo, con el propósito de entender el proceso creativo detrás de esta obra y conocer qué concepción tiene este autor de su propia obra narrativa. Departing from a brief review of the different theoretical and critical contributions from the 20th century around the so called short story cycle, we could define La claridad, a book of stories by Marcelo Luján published in 2020, as such. This classification is justified by the fact that this work brings together six stories that are both autonomous and interrelated thanks to a series of narrative elements. An interview, reproduced in this work, was conducted with Luján in order to understand the creative process behind his work and to know what his own conception of it is.

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