scholarly journals The concept of paratextuality in literary genre Chick-lit

2021 ◽  
pp. 195-208
Author(s):  
Aleksandra Sikora
Keyword(s):  
Contemporary Literature ◽  
Literary Genre ◽  
Theoretical Part ◽  
Chick Lit ◽  
Gerard Genette

This text is an analysis of the concept of paratext based on contemporary literature. In addition to the theoretical part concentrating on the idea of Gérard Genette, some information on the Chick-Lit genre appeared in the article. Among other things, genre characteristics, historical backgrounds and biographical notes of the authors of the analysed novels were described. Genette's theory clearly shows that an inseparable part of the book as a final product is its cover and what the reader finds on it. These are, among others, the title, abstract, of significance is also the colouring or even the location of the author's name. All these elements have been described in detail and analysed according Gérard Genette's concepts.

scholarly journals Stylistic functions of language emotional verbalizers in the woman's novel „Death by Design” by Carolyn Keene

2020 ◽  
pp. 47-58
Author(s):  
O. M. Byndas ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Emotional State ◽  
Scientific Research ◽  
Negative Emotionality ◽  
Literary Genre ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Sensitive Character ◽  
Chick Lit ◽  
Communicative Patterns ◽  
System Characteristics

This article examines the stylistic functions and features of language emotional verbalizers in the woman’s novel “Death by Design” by Carolyn Keene. Thus, the relevance and prospects of scientific research are correlated primarily with the functions of language units, their system characteristics, textual levels and communicative patterns. The author notes that the woman’s novel “Death by Design” belongs to the modern literary genre “chick lit”. The artistic means in the work are used by Carolyn Keene only to the extent that they are necessary for understanding the basic, often philosophical content of the work. Among the paths and figures in the novel “Death by Design” to denote the emotional state are widely represented: metonymy, chiasm, paraphrase, comparisons, epithets, irony, metaphor, hyperbole, personification, euphemism, allusion, synonyms, and insert sentences (parentheses), parallelism, antithesis, inversion, ellipse, gradation, etc. All of them serve to express the positive or negative emotionality of the speech behaviour of the work’s characters, represented, in particular, by emotions of joy, happiness, love or anger, fear, anxiety, irritation. After the analysis, the author concludes that the most frequent were emotionally-evaluative epithets, allusions, authorial punctuation, references to brands and various intensifiers, clearly describe the psychological portrait of a seemingly confident but sensitive character in a woman’s novel – a modern woman.

scholarly journals Deutsche Kürzestgeschichte: Erzähltheoretische Analyse ausgewählter „short short stories“ von Kerstin Hensel und Heiner Feldhoff

2020 ◽  
Vol 15 (4) ◽  
pp. 253-262
Author(s):  
Joanna Graca
Keyword(s):  
Short Stories ◽  
20Th Century ◽  
Short Story ◽  
Literary Genre ◽  
Experienced Reader ◽  
Methodological Basis ◽  
Pace Of Life ◽  
Gerard Genette

German Shortest Story: A Narratological Analysis of Chosen „Short Short Stories” by Kerstin Hensel and Heiner Feldhoff Kürzestgeschichte (lit. shortest story), which is the German term for a subcategory of short story, became established as a literary genre in the 20th century. Its condensed content conformed to the hectic pace of life but, in terms of the issues discussed, it was more essential and dedicated to an experienced reader. In this paper, a narratological analysis of selected shortest stories by Heiner Feldhoff and Kerstin Hensel will be conducted. A methodological basis for the analysis is the categories implemented by Gérard Genette. Its aim is to provide an answer to the question whether shortest stories could be, like any other epic texts, subject to a narratological analysis and to what extent the length of a text might influence the findings of such an analysis.

‘Muddying the Wells’: Modernist Literary Instincts and the Operatic Ideal

2007 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 71-83
Author(s):  
Irene Morra
Keyword(s):  
Literary Genre ◽  
Billy Budd ◽  
Almost All

Irene Morra shows how the conflict between words and music that was contested in “Billy Budd” can be extended to almost all modern British opera. Morra argues persuasively that a number of modernist writers came to view the libretto “as an alternative literary genre, one that would allow for the expression of literary ideals of musicality”.

Pater's Parerga: Framing the Imaginary Portraits

2013 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 119-135
Author(s):  
Giles Whiteley
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Formal Structure ◽  
Literary Genre ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
Liminal Space ◽  
Critical Attention ◽  
Similar Operation ◽  
Late Nineteenth ◽  
The Relationship

Walter Pater's late-nineteenth-century literary genre of the imaginary portrait has received relatively little critical attention. Conceived of as something of a continuum between his role as an art critic and his fictional pursuits, this essay probes the liminal space of the imaginary portraits, focusing on the role of the parergon, or frame, in his portraits. Guided by Pater's reading of Kant, who distinguishes between the work (ergon) and that which lies outside of the work (the parergon), between inside and outside, and contextualised alongside the analysis of Derrida, who shows how such distinctions have always already deconstructed themselves, I demonstrate a similar operation at work in the portraits. By closely analysing the parerga of two of Pater's portraits, ‘Duke Carl of Rosenmold’ (1887) and ‘Apollo in Picardy’ (1893), focusing on his partial quotation of Goethe in the former, and his playful autocitation and impersonation of Heine in the latter, I argue that Pater's parerga seek to destabilise the relationship between text and context so that the parerga do not lie outside the text but are implicated throughout in their reading, changing the portraits constitutively. As such, the formal structure of the parergon in Pater's portraits is also a theoretical fulcrum in his aesthetic criticism and marks that space where the limits of, and distinctions between, art and life become blurred.

Late Antique Letter Collections

2016 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Late Antiquity ◽  
Literary Genre ◽  
Late Antique ◽  
Comprehensive Overview ◽  
Literary Genres ◽  
The Social ◽  
Letter Writer ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Letter Collection ◽  
Latin Letter

This volume provides the first comprehensive overview of the extant Greek and Latin letter collections of late antiquity (ca. 300-600 C.E.). Bringing together an international team of historians, classicists, and scholars of religion, it illustrates how letter collections advertised an image of the letter writer and introduces the social and textual histories of each collection. Nearly every chapter focuses on the letter collection of a different late ancient author—from the famous (or even infamous) to the obscure—and investigates its particular issues of content, arrangement, and publication context. On the whole, the volume reveals how late antique letter collections operated as a discrete literary genre with its own conventions, transmission processes, and self-presentational agendas while offering new approaches to interpret both larger letter collections and the individual letters contained within them. Each chapter contributes to a broad argument that scholars should read letter collections as they do representatives of other late antique literary genres, as single texts made up of individual components, with larger thematic and literary characteristics that are as important as those of their component parts.

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