Self-reflective Narrative Strategy in Korean Queer Novels

2020 ◽  
pp. 27-53
Author(s):  
Keon-Hyung Kim
Keyword(s):  
Narrative Strategy ◽  
Reflective Narrative

scholarly journals Lapsuuden evakkomatkan monet merkitykset

Elore ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ulla Savolainen
Keyword(s):  
Research Method ◽  
The Self ◽  
Methodological Framework ◽  
Narrative Strategies ◽  
Narrative Strategy ◽  
Before And After ◽  
Personal Process ◽  
Literary Narrative ◽  
Reflective Narrative

This article focuses on the reminiscence writings of Karelian child evacuees about the evacuation journey that they experienced in their childhood. The methodological framework of this article is based on Mikhail Bakhtin’s ideas of the dialogicality of the language and the genre’s twofold nature. The research method is based on narratology and it consists of the analysis of the temporal levels of narration and writers’ positions. The evacuation journey is described in the writings as a concrete transition between places, an ongoing personal process, a metaphor for eternal homelessness and a central borderline that divides life into times before and after the evacuation. The reminiscences of the evacuation journey manifest three recurrent narrative strategies, which are 1) the fact and event oriented narrative strategy, 2) the self-reflective narrative strategy, and 3) the literary narrative strategy. Narrative strategies constitute the practice of the writers, which they use in order to compile their writings. The concept of narrative strategies enables us to understand the heterogeneity and genericality of the reminiscence writings without simplifying them too much.

Versteckte Juden im Affenkäfig

2018 ◽  
Vol 47 (2) ◽  
pp. 195-214
Author(s):  
Ewout van der Knaap
Keyword(s):  
Animal Studies ◽  
Jewish Family ◽  
Narrative Strategy ◽  
Robert Menasse

In his story The End of the Winter of Starvation, Robert Menasse portrays a Jewish family that in 1944 survived the war in a monkey cage in the Amsterdam Zoo. The article uncovers the representation of historical matters, scrutinizes the narrative strategy that both strives to question the truth of memory and aims to reveal how ritualized memory-talk is. By interpreting the performance of memory in Menasse’s story, and by highlighting insights from animal studies, the intertextual negative of Franz Kafka’s story A Report to an Academy is revealed.

Introduction

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maureen Alden
Keyword(s):  
Personal Experience ◽  
Religious Practice ◽  
Narrative Strategy

The progress of the main narrative of the Odyssey is frequently suspended by the para-narratives told by the poet and his characters. These can take the form of paradigms providing a model of action for imitation or avoidance by a character. They can also guide interpretation of the main narrative by exploring variations on its basic story shape. A veiled hint may be conveyed through an αἶνος‎ purportedly based on personal experience. Previous work on narratives in the Odyssey, including narratology and narrative strategy, is briefly surveyed. The Homeric poems were showcased in the Athenian festival of the Panathenaea, and religious practice becomes a further source of para-narrative as the Athenian rituals of the Plynteria and Arrephoria are evoked by Penelope’s actions and stories as the poem draws to its end. Athenian control of the pan-Ionian festival in Delos may explain the Apollo paradigm used of Odysseus.

scholarly journals Founder’s Prize for New Scholars 2016: “Looking Down Time’s Telescope at Myself”: Reincarnation and Global Futures in David Mitchell’s Fictional Worlds

KronoScope ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 163-181
Author(s):  
Rose Harris-Birtill
Keyword(s):  
Buddhist Philosophy ◽  
Global Capitalism ◽  
Narrative Strategy ◽  
End Of History ◽  
Ethical Approach ◽  
Alternative Approach ◽  
The Face ◽  
Temporal Model ◽  
Global Futures ◽  
Future Consequences

AbstractThis essay explores the trope of reincarnation across the works of British author David Mitchell (b. 1969) as an alternative approach to linear temporality, whose spiralling cyclicality warns of the dangers of seeing past actions as separate from future consequences, and whose focus on human interconnection demonstrates the importance of collective, intergenerational action in the face of ecological crises. Drawing on the Buddhist philosophy of samsara, or the cycle of life, death, and rebirth, this paper identifies links between the author’s interest in reincarnation and its secular manifestation in the treatment of time in his fictions. These works draw on reincarnation in their structures and characterization as part of an ethical approach to the Anthropocene, using the temporal model of “reincarnation time” as a narrative strategy to demonstrate that a greater understanding of generational interdependence is urgently needed in order to challenge the linear “end of history” narrative of global capitalism.

The independent heroes of the Iliad

1996 ◽  
Vol 116 ◽  
pp. 108-118 ◽  
Author(s):  
P.V. Jones
Keyword(s):  
Narrative Strategy ◽  
The Moment

My objective in this paper is to consider the question of the mysteriousness or numinosity of the gods in the Iliad by examining first how heroes talk about and react to the gods, and second how Homer handles fate. My aim is to integrate the findings into a wider thesis about the Iliad's narrative strategy.Griffin (1980) 152 discusses the mysteriousness and numinosity of Homeric gods, and cites Il. i 43–52, Od. iii 371–82, xix 33–42, saying ‘It is perhaps worth emphasising that in each of these … episodes, we see not only the god behaving like a real god, mysteriously, but also the characters who are present at the moment of revelation responding to it in what can only be called a religious way: adoration or reverent silence’.

Doubling the fantasy, adapting the reel: Entertaining transmediation as a collaborative narrative strategy

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 199-210 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chris Campanioni
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Performance Studies ◽  
Culture Industry ◽  
Potential Functions ◽  
Border Studies ◽  
The Political ◽  
Political Advocacy ◽  
Narrative Strategy ◽  
Temporal And Spatial ◽  
Traditional Storytelling

Can we move fan participation and the co-creation of storylines outside the sphere of the culture industry to better understand their potential functions for constructing individual subjectivity and empowering social change? With an attention to experiences of migration, exile and detainment, and through close readings of documentary The Wolfpack (2015), HBO’s bilingual horror comedy series Los Espookys (2019) and Manuel Puig’s novel, El beso de la mujer araña (1976), I argue that it is necessary to move beyond a speaker–audience dialectic, as in traditional storytelling, and towards transmediated activity, where static or linear temporal and spatial orders are both reproduced and subverted. By converging performance studies with border studies and phenomenology, this contribution counters assumptions about submissive viewership while unpacking the political utility of entertainment. Ultimately, ‘Doubling the fantasy, adapting the reel’ challenges what it means to be a ‘storyteller’ and what constitutes a useful ‘story’ in the context of political advocacy and activism.

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