scholarly journals Portrayal by Inappropriate Interaction

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 77-89
Author(s):  
Christine Isager ◽  
Steffen Moestrup
Keyword(s):  
Professional Practice ◽  
Close Reading ◽  
First Person ◽  
Narrative Style ◽  
Textual Structure ◽  
Aesthetic Sense ◽  
Analytical Perspective

A close reading of three different profiles of Danish-Palestinian poet Yahya Hassan (1995-2020) showcases how interactions between journalists and subjects may become a mutual performative challenge and how, on such occasions, the personas of both parties may serve as a multi-layered journalistic resource in both an ethical and aesthetic sense. Applying the concept of “rhetorical maneuvers” (Phillips 2006) to describe reporters’ uses of an understated ‘first-person minor’ versus a demonstratively responsive ‘first-person major’ perspective (Phillips 2019), we highlight a principle that may reorient interview situations that are tense or out of control. The principle entails continuous shifts of subject form that are potentially inappropriate but enable both contextual transparency and a distinct textual structure or narrative style. By considering the mutual constitution and reconstitution of personas as rhetorical maneuvering we hope first to expand the analytical perspective of persona studies at the level of form while also, secondly, motivating journalists to explore the relational and interactive aspects of persona performances as a resource for occasional, productive disruption of their professional practice.

The Subjective Style in Odysseus' Wanderings

1992 ◽  
Vol 42 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-11 ◽  
Author(s):  
Irene J. F. De Jong
Keyword(s):  
First Person ◽  
Narrative Technique ◽  
Narrative Style

In his celebrated article on the narrative technique of Odysseus' Wanderings (‘Ich-Erzählungen’) W. Suerbaum concludes that this character's narration is not essentially (‘wesentlich’) different from that of the primary narrator of theOdyssey(p. 163). Even though Odysseus is a first-person narrator and hence is subject to certain restrictions, these are almost completely counterbalanced by hisex eventuknowledge. For example, he can even report a conversation which took place on Olympus (12.376–88), because it was afterwards reported to him by Calypso, who heard it from Hermes (12.389–90). He can also tell what went on in the minds of his companions (10.415–17), because they later told him what they had felt (10.419–21). Suerbaum's conclusion is shared by M. Fusillo (‘Ulysse contrôle toujours une vision panoramique avec focalisation zéro et ne la concentre pas en lui-même comme personnage’) and A. Heubeck, p. 11 (‘the form in which Odysseus is made to tell his story is entirely in harmony with the narrative style elsewhere’).

scholarly journals ‘Lightning flashes of my burning memory’

1970 ◽  
Vol 28 (1) ◽  
pp. 55-66
Author(s):  
Claudia Benthien
Keyword(s):  
Concentration Camp ◽  
First Person ◽  
Nazi Concentration Camp ◽  
Textual Structure ◽  
Human Experiments ◽  
Extreme Variant ◽  
The Moment

Thomas Lehr’s novella Frühling (Spring, 2001) presents the last seconds of the fifty-year-old protagonist’s life – between the moment he shoots himself and the advent of his death. As an adolescent he realised he was the child of a perpetrator father who conducted human experiments on inmates as a Nazi concentration camp doctor. Written in an extreme variant of autonomous inner monologue, the novella interlaces perceptions and memories without transition. The textual structure dissects these incidents, as the syntax is often destroyed by punctuation marks and irregular orthography. At one point, the first-person narrator chooses the formula ‘lightning flashes of my burning memory’, which aptly describes Lehr’s poetic technique, reminiscent of traumatic flashback. This article argues that the protagonist undergoes residual experiences of dissociation as a result of his insurmountable entanglement in the guilt of the father. Thus, Frühling is a radical and disturbing literary treatment of trauma.

From Where I Stand: The Intimacy and Distance of We and You in the Short Story

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ralph E. Rodriguez
Keyword(s):  
Eating Disorders ◽  
Short Story ◽  
Life Experiences ◽  
Emotional Experience ◽  
Close Reading ◽  
First Person ◽  
Second Person ◽  
Person Plural ◽  
First Person Plural

This chapter analyzes the rare focalization of fiction through the first-person plural (we) and the second person (you). It is particularly interested in the affective textures these narrative perspectives create in terms of intimacy and distance, within the story and between narrator and reader. In carrying out this analysis, it examines Manuel Muñoz’s story “Monkey, Sí,” Patricia Engel’s story “Green”, and Ana Menéndez’s story “Why We Left.” In each of the stories, the narrators navigate traumatic life experiences—rape, eating disorders, and a miscarriage, respectively. The chapter does a close reading of how pronominal use affects the characters’ and readers’ emotional experience of the story before them.

Precarity and the Pursuit of Unhappiness

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eleanor Ty
Keyword(s):  
North American ◽  
Self Esteem ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Graphic Novel ◽  
First Person ◽  
Family Instability ◽  
Narrative Style ◽  
Physical Consequences ◽  
Social Uncertainty ◽  
Geographical Space

This chapter examines three works by Japanese North American writers: Ruth Ozeki's A Tale for the Time Being,Mariko Tamaki's novella Cover Me, and her graphic novel Skim, illustrated by Jillian Tamaki. Though different in narrative style and technique, these three texts feature Japanese North American teens, who struggle with identity issues, family instability, self-esteem, and depression. The protagonists are unable to follow the kind of hard-working immigrant ethos of their parents; instead, they pursue what looks like a path to unhappiness, and suffer mental and physical consequences. Ozeki plays with the connectedness of geographical space, and uses postmodern devices to show global economic and social uncertainty; Mariko Tamaki uses the detached and ironic first-person point of view of a twenty-year old to critique our obsession with ownership and money. In Skim, verbal and visual techniques convey Skim's outsider status, her broken family, difficulties with her peers, and what Sara Ahmed calls the "happiness commandment."

‘Nowhere to hide’: Regionalism and memory in Lisa McGee’s Derry Girls

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 195-210 ◽  
Author(s):  
John D. Schwetman
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Northern Ireland ◽  
Collective Memory ◽  
Close Reading ◽  
First Person ◽  
The Troubles ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Look Back

Derry Girls (2018–present) playfully satirizes regionalism and first-person narrative while re-enacting a collective memory of the Troubles. A close reading of the series’ opening montage provides the basis for a fuller understanding of the programme’s nuanced critique of efforts to look back on Northern Ireland in the 1990s and make sense of it all with the benefit of hindsight. In lieu of the reassurances of authoritative extradiegetic commentary, the series’ opening monologue provides a humorous account of the unresolved tribulations of adolescence and, in the larger political frame, a community’s continuing inability to situate itself as a region within the United Kingdom.

Initial teaching training by homology in PIBID: experiential learning from professional practice

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 11638
Author(s):  
Fabrício Oliveira da Silva ◽  
Ingrid A Silva Alves ◽  
Lecia Carneiro de Oliveira
Keyword(s):  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Professional Practice ◽  
Information Collection ◽  
Initial Training ◽  
Central Elements ◽  
Analytical Perspective ◽  
Biographical Approach ◽  
Teaching Learning ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Conditions Of Learning

In this article we discuss homology learning that teachers in initial training, participating in the Institutional Program for Teaching Initiation Scholarships - PIBID, achieve in the relationship they establish with teachers of the basic school. The central objective aimed to understand homological learning in the process of teacher education for undergraduate students in Pedagogy, considering the insertion in the school routine, in which educational experiences are learned and apprehended through the process of relating to the other. As a theoretical framework for carrying out the work, we anchor the analytical perspective from the contributions of Silva (2016), Silva (2017), Nóvoa (2002), Tardif (2003), among others. The study is affiliated with the (auto) biographical approach, in which narratives are central elements for understanding what is lived and learned. We use narrative interviews with information collection devices. The results indicate that the licensee who experiences educational practices in school daily life, while participating in PIBID, has the possibility of generating teaching learning, revealing knowledge about his personal / professional development. It is also evident the production of knowledge that emerges from the experience, from the very insertion of the student in the school routine, in which the relationship that the teacher in initial training establishes with teachers in service generates conditions of learning through homology.

scholarly journals Following the Evidence Practice: An Analysis of Evaluation Studies on EU Railway Policy

2019 ◽  
Vol 60 (4) ◽  
pp. 785-803 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fabrizio De Francesco
Keyword(s):  
Professional Practice ◽  
Evaluation Studies ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Political Agenda ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Evaluation Theory ◽  
Evaluation Practice ◽  
Policy Practice ◽  
Better Regulation ◽  
Analytical Perspective

AbstractSince the end of the 1990s, scholars have been paying particular attention to the link between evidence and policy because of the rise of evidence-based policy making and better regulation in the European Union political agenda. Documents such as evaluation studies are material traces of professional practice and the knowledge production process. Through the analytical perspective of evaluation practice, this contribution has two purposes. First, it differentiates three modes of evaluation theory and practice. Second, through a systematic content analysis of 52 evaluation studies of EU railway policy, it presents an overview of general patterns in the use of evaluative theories and practice. Besides contributing to the literature of evidence and policy practice, the article provides recommendations for EU evaluation and better regulation guidelines.

scholarly journals Popularity of India’s Regional Comic Strips: A Study of the Stylistics of Narayan Debnath’s works

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Rima Namhata ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Digital Natives ◽  
Close Reading ◽  
Reading Habit ◽  
Visual Medium ◽  
Comic Strips ◽  
Narrative Style ◽  
Secondary Literature ◽  
Generation Z ◽  
Art Form ◽  
Indian Academia

Though celebrated amongst the western literati and the intelligentsia thereof, Comic strips, especially the Indian produce with regional flavours in them, are seemingly juxtaposed, in the acceptance of their stylistic essence, if placed next to their western counterparts. This is also the reason why they have been infamously disregarded in the Indian academia. This paper proposes to study the stylistics aspect of the comic strips from Bengal especially the ones written by Shri Narayan Debnath, and the coming into vogue of this printed visual medium. This article aims to identify the uniqueness and the formal aspects of the stylistics of Indian Comic tradition from Bengal. Additionally, it aims to leaf through the popularity markers through Debnath’s stylistics aspect of the three comic strips that have kept the imagination of his audience alive for more than five decades. He successfully addressed the first objective through a systematic literary review with inclusion and exclusion set as a benchmark. The identification of the stylistics through close reading of the texts along with their systematic review of secondary literature, formed the basics of the second objective. Particularly those stylistics were considered which were typical of their prominence and were integral across the literature and the texts. Furthermore, a matrix was also successfully designed to map the identified stylistics. A couple of implications portray that the said interpretation may help the Post-Millennials or the Generation Z to examine and consider the sublimity and allegiance of reading, and shape the imagination prowess of young minds, apply their intellectual faculty and develop a comic disposition in life. Development of creativity in any narrative style and development of conversational mechanisms are often found to be an added bonus. However, making today’s generation read this form of narrative and chisel their fertile imagination remains a challenge for the digital-natives. There is no doubt however, that this age-old art form can be tremendously advantageous as an academic endeavour and become an integral part of children’s systematic reading habit.

scholarly journals Å fortelje eller bli fortalt: Ein analyse av Olaug Nilssens Tung tids tale (2017)

2020 ◽  
pp. 175-192
Author(s):  
Nora Simonhjell
Keyword(s):  
Healthcare System ◽  
Ethical Dilemmas ◽  
Close Reading ◽  
First Person ◽  
The Novel ◽  
The Family ◽  
Vulnerability Theory

This article focuses on the Norwegian author Olaug Nilssens’ novel, Tung tids tale (2017). The novel is based on her experiences with her son who gradually grew autistic from the age of three. Until then he was an active communicating young boy, but gradually his ability to speak and communicate diminished. On a background of theories concerning the use of literature, and vulnerability theory, the literary close reading focuses on the narrative as well as the ethical dilemmas Nilssen and the first-person narrator find herself in. In this moment of crisis, she is crying out to the healthcare system and institutions for more help for herself, her son and the rest of the family. By focusing on both the affective, intimate and structural side of their situation, Nilssen’s novel is highly political.

scholarly journals A Comparative Study of the Rhetorical Functions and Features of Personal Pronouns in English and Chinese Legal News

2021 ◽  
Vol 47 (1) ◽  
pp. 73-103 ◽  
Author(s):  
Qing Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Comparative Study ◽  
Uneven Distribution ◽  
First Person ◽  
Legal Rhetoric ◽  
Personal Pronouns ◽  
Second Person ◽  
Narrative Style ◽  
News Reports ◽  
Third Person

Abstract This paper mainly discusses the distribution and rhetorical functions of personal pronouns in English and Chinese legal news reports which is divided into two narrative types, the objective and the semi-dialogic. Through the comparative analysis of some English and Chinese legal news texts in the two types, it finds that the differences in narrative type directly affect the distribution of personal pronouns. In objective narrative, the use of third person pronouns accounts for an absolute proportion, and the frequency of using first person and second person pronouns is close to zero. In semi-dialogic narrative, the use of third person pronouns is still the highest, but only slightly higher than the use of first person and second person pronouns, accounting for only a small number. After analysis, this paper holds that there are three reasons for the uneven distribution: first, the differences between the dialogic style and the narrative style; second, the legal narrative being a story narrative; third, the specific restrictions on the use of legal rhetoric.

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