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Character Focalization in Children’s Novels

Author : Don K. Philpot
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137558105
Total Pages : 309 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (375 download)

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Download or read book Character Focalization in Children’s Novels written by Don K. Philpot and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-01-26 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a comprehensive analysis of character focalization in ten contemporary realistic children’s novels. The author argues that character focalization, defined as the location of fictional world perception in the mind of a character, is a prominent textual structure in these novels. He demonstrates how significant meanings are conveyed in a variety of forms related to characters’ personal and interpersonal experiences. Through close analysis of each text, moreover, he exposes distinctive perceptual, psychological, and social-psychological patterns in the opening chapters of each novel, which are thereafter developed by the principles of continuation, augmentation, and reconfiguration. This book will appeal to scholars, teachers, and students in the fields of narrative studies, stylistics, children’s literature scholarship, linguistics, and education.

Homer in Performance

Author : Jonathan Ready
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 1477316035
Total Pages : 441 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (773 download)

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Download or read book Homer in Performance written by Jonathan Ready and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2018-08-13 with total page 441 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Before they were written down, the poems attributed to Homer were performed orally, usually by rhapsodes (singers/reciters) who might have traveled from city to city or enjoyed a position in a wealthy household. Even after the Iliad and the Odyssey were committed to writing, rhapsodes performed the poems at festivals, often competing against each other. As they recited the epics, the rhapsodes spoke as both the narrator and the characters. These different acts—performing the poem and narrating and speaking in character within it—are seldom studied in tandem. Homer in Performance breaks new ground by bringing together all of the speakers involved in the performance of Homeric poetry: rhapsodes, narrators, and characters. The first part of the book presents a detailed history of the rhapsodic performance of Homeric epic from the Archaic to the Roman Imperial periods and explores how performers might have shaped the poems. The second part investigates the Homeric narrators and characters as speakers and illuminates their interactions. The contributors include scholars versed in epigraphy, the history of art, linguistics, and performance studies, as well as those capable of working with sources from the ancient Near East and from modern Russia. This interdisciplinary approach makes the volume useful to a spectrum of readers, from undergraduates to veteran professors, in disciplines ranging from classical studies to folklore.

New Vocabularies in Film Semiotics

Author : Robert Stam
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134963165
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (349 download)

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Download or read book New Vocabularies in Film Semiotics written by Robert Stam and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-07-08 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1992. New Vocabularies in Film Semiotics provides a comprehensive lexicon of semiotic concepts. With sections on linguistics, narratology, psychoanalysis and intertextuality, it constructs an indispensable dictionary for film theory, defining over five hundred critical terms. The authors address key aspects of contemporary semiotics and cultural debate, while referring to the work of key figures such as Peirce, Saussure, Derrida, Barthes, Propp, Genette, Greimas, Kristeva, Lacan, Metz, Bellour, Heath, Mulvey, Johnston, Rose, Doane, Bakhtin and Baudrillard. The semiotic concepts are illustrated by examples drawn from the films of directors such as Welles, Dreyer, Brunel, Godard, Hitchcock, Varda, Akerman and Woody Allen. Although especially geared to the needs of film students, New Vocabularies in Film Semiotics should be useful for scholars in all areas of the arts, philosophy and literature.

Narrative Means to Journalistic Ends

Author : Nora Berning
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 3531926993
Total Pages : 153 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (319 download)

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Download or read book Narrative Means to Journalistic Ends written by Nora Berning and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2010-11-01 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nora Berning grasps the narrative potential of journalistic reportages via a set of narratological categories. Spurred by an interdisciplinary framework, she builds on transgeneric narratological research and shows that journalistic reportages can be described, analyzed, and charted with categories that originate in structuralist narratology. The author spells out minimal criteria for particular types of reportages, and challenges the argument that journalism and literature have distinct, non-overlapping communicative goals. By showing that the reportage is a hybrid text type that seeks to inform, educate, and entertain, this study advances a re-conceptualization of journalism and literature as two fields with permeable borders.

Narratology

Author : Susana Onega
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317890604
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (178 download)

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Download or read book Narratology written by Susana Onega and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-09-19 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text provides an excellent introduction and overview of Narratology, a rapidly growing field in the humanities. Literary narratologists have provided many key concepts and analytical tools which are widely used in the interdisciplinary analysis of such narrative features as plot, point of view, speech presentation, ideological perspective and interpretation. The introduction explains the central concepts of narratology, their historical development, and draws together contemporary trends from many different disciplines into common focus. It offers a compendium of the development of narratology from classical poetics to the present. The essays are all prefaced by individual forewords helping the reader to place each individual selection in context. Recent developments are assessed across disciplines, highlighting the mutual influences of narratology and deconstruction, psychoanalysis, feminism, film and media studies.

Refiguring Minds in Narrative Media

Author : David Ciccoricco
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 0803284756
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (32 download)

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Download or read book Refiguring Minds in Narrative Media written by David Ciccoricco and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2015-12 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How do writers represent cognition, and what can these representations tell us about how our own minds work? Refiguring Minds in Narrative Media is the first single-author book to explore these questions across media, moving from analyses of literary narratives in print to those found where so much cultural and artistic production occurs today: computer screens. Expanding the domain of literary studies from a focus on representations to the kind of simulations that characterize narratives in digital media, such as those found in interactive, web-based digital fictions and story-driven video games, David Ciccoricco draws on new research in the cognitive sciences to illustrate how the cybernetic and ludic qualities characterizing narratives in new literary media have significant implications for how we understand the workings of actual minds in an increasingly media-saturated culture. Amid continued concern about the impact of digital media on the minds of readers and players today, and the alarming philosophical questions generated by the communion of minds and machines, Ciccoricco provides detailed examples illustrating how stories in virtually any medium can still nourish creative imagination and cultivate critical—and ethical—reflection. Contributing new insights on attention, perception, memory, and emotion, Refiguring Minds in Narrative Media is a book at the forefront of a new wave of media-conscious cognitive literary studies.

Roman Constructions

Author : Don Fowler
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198153090
Total Pages : 367 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (981 download)

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Download or read book Roman Constructions written by Don Fowler and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2000-01-13 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twelve papers, some previously unpublished, concerned with Latin literature and literary theory are collected here. Abandoning unrealistic objectivity, they all advocate a 'postmodern' approach to critical theory.

Learning from Experience

Author : Paula M. L. Moya
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520230140
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (22 download)

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Download or read book Learning from Experience written by Paula M. L. Moya and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2002-02 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An argument for identity-based work in ethnic studies looks at such Chicana feminists as Cherrie Moraga, Gloria Anzaldua, and Hena Maria Viramontes.

Negotiating Identity

Author : Anne Helene Thelle
Publisher : Iudicium
ISBN 13 : 3862059103
Total Pages : 247 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (62 download)

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Download or read book Negotiating Identity written by Anne Helene Thelle and published by Iudicium. This book was released on 2014-05-21 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nakagami Kenji is today regarded as one of the most important and influential Japanese post-war writers. Born in 1946 in the burakumin ghetto of the small coastal town of Shingu in southern Wakayama prefecture, Nakagami sailed up as a rising star on the literary skies in the mid-seventies when he became the first writer born after the Second World War to win the prestigious Akutagawa prize. He was also the first writer of the burakumin background to receive wide literary acclaim and recognition from critics and from the literary establishment. The reception of Nakagami's literature has placed him simultaneously both at the avant-garde of modern Japanese literature and near the nostalgic roots of Japan's literary origins. For while his engagement with the Japanese traditional narrative, the monogatari does indeed often seem to bring him disturbingly close to an almost reactionary nostalgia, fissures in his narrative – both in voice, structure, and theme – will at the same time dismantle this nostalgic return. Focusing on one novel, Nakagami's masterpiece Kiseki (Miracles) from 1989, this study traces his pendulous movement from nostalgia to avant-garde and back again. At the heart of the study lies the concept of negotiation – a negoti ation of cultures, languages, and borders. Nakagami is a minority writing against the constraints of a language and literature that has throughout history contributed to the discrimination of his minority group. Facing this challenge head on, Nakagami engages the literary genres that lie at the root of this discrimination, thus laying bare the difficulties facing anyone trying to break free of the bonds of culture, history, and literature.

Narrative, Imagination and Concepts of Fiction in Late Antique Hagiography

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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004685758
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (46 download)

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Download or read book Narrative, Imagination and Concepts of Fiction in Late Antique Hagiography written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2023-11-13 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume explores concepts of fiction in late antique hagiographical narrative in different cultural and literary traditions. It includes Greek, Latin, Syriac, Armenian, Persian and Arabic material. Whereas scholarship in these texts has traditionally focussed on historical questions, this book approaches imaginative narrative as an inherent element of the genre of hagiography that deserves to be studied in its own right. The chapters explore narrative complexities related to fiction, such as invention, authentication, intertextuality, imagination and fictionality. Together, they represent an innovative exploration of how these concepts relate to hagiographical discourses of truth and the religious notion of belief, while paying due attention to the various factors and contexts that impact readers’ responses.

The Medium Is the Monster

Author : Mark A. McCutcheon
Publisher : Athabasca University Press
ISBN 13 : 1771992247
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (719 download)

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Download or read book The Medium Is the Monster written by Mark A. McCutcheon and published by Athabasca University Press. This book was released on 2018-04-21 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Technology, a word that emerged historically first to denote the study of any art or technique, has come, in modernity, to describe advanced machines, industrial systems, and media. McCutcheon argues that it is Mary Shelley’s 1818 novel Frankenstein that effectively reinvented the meaning of the word for modern English. It was then Marshall McLuhan’s media theory and its adaptations in Canadian popular culture that popularized, even globalized, a Frankensteinian sense of technology. The Medium Is the Monster shows how we cannot talk about technology—that human-made monstrosity—today without conjuring Frankenstein, thanks in large part to its Canadian adaptations by pop culture icons such as David Cronenberg, William Gibson, Margaret Atwood, and Deadmau5. In the unexpected connections illustrated by The Medium Is the Monster, McCutcheon brings a fresh approach to studying adaptations, popular culture, and technology.

Narrative Comprehension and Film

Author : Edward Branigan
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136129243
Total Pages : 343 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (361 download)

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Download or read book Narrative Comprehension and Film written by Edward Branigan and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-06-17 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Narrative is one of the ways we organise and understnad the world. It is found everywhere: not only in films and books, but also in everday conversations and in the nonfictional discourses of journalists, historians, educators, psychologists, attorneys and many others. Edward Branigan presents a telling exploration of the basic concepts of narrative theory and its relation to film - and literary - analysis, bringing together theories from linguistics and cognitive science, and applying them to the screen. Individual analyses of classical narratives form the basis of a complex study of every aspect of filmic fiction exploring, for example, subjectivity in Lady in the Lake, multiplicity in Letter from and Unknown Woman, post-modernism and documentary in Sans Soleil.

Focalizing Bodies

Author : Maya van den Heuvel-Arad
Publisher : Tectum Wissenschaftsverlag
ISBN 13 : 382885351X
Total Pages : 86 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (288 download)

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Download or read book Focalizing Bodies written by Maya van den Heuvel-Arad and published by Tectum Wissenschaftsverlag. This book was released on 2011-11-01 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through an inter-medial reading, linking film and literary theory, Maya van den Heuvel-Arad explores the potential of the post-dramatic performer in its corporeal presence to operate as a focalizer. Departing from the concept of focalization in literary narratology and transforming this concept into a visual device, the author introduces the notion of the body as a visual narrator and focalizer. With this she establishes an important tool to grasp the relationship between the performing body and the spectator's perception in post-dramatic theatre. With "Focalizing Bodies" the author provides a vocabulary to explore the potential of visual narratology, both in theory and in practice, of post-dramatic theatre.

The Routledge Companion to Children's Literature

Author : David Rudd
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0415472717
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (154 download)

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Download or read book The Routledge Companion to Children's Literature written by David Rudd and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2010 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exploration of children's literature in the various manifestations. It features essay contributions, a timeline, and a glossary of key names and terms.

Ethics of Life

Author : Katarzyna Beilin
Publisher : Vanderbilt University Press
ISBN 13 : 0826520936
Total Pages : 377 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (265 download)

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Download or read book Ethics of Life written by Katarzyna Beilin and published by Vanderbilt University Press. This book was released on 2016-05-24 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The contributors ask the following questions: • What are the different rhetorical strategies employed by writers, artists, filmmakers, and activists to react to the degradation of life and climate change? • How are urban movements using environmental issues to resist corporate privatization of the commons? • What is the shape of Spanish debates on reproductive rights and biotechnology? • What is the symbolic significance of the bullfighting debate and other human/animal issues in today's political turmoil in Spain? Hispanic Issues Series Nicholas Spadaccini, Editor-in-Chief Hispanic Issues Online hispanicissues.umn.edu/online_main.html

Blending and the Study of Narrative

Author : Ralf Schneider
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3110291231
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (12 download)

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Download or read book Blending and the Study of Narrative written by Ralf Schneider and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2012-10-30 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The theory of Blending, or Conceptual Integration, proposed by Gilles Fauconnier and Marc Turner, is one of most promising cognitive theories of meaning production. It has been successfully applied to the analysis of poetic discourse and micro-textual elements, such as metaphor. Prose narrative has so far received significantly less attention. The present volume aims to remedy this situation. Following an introductory discussion of the connections between narrative and the processes of blending, the contributions demonstrate the range of applications of the theory to the study of narrative. They cover issues such as time and space, literary character and perspective, genre, story levels, and fictional minds; some chapters show how such phenomena as metalepsis, counterfactual narration, intermediality, extended metaphors, and suspense can be fruitfully studied from the vantage point of Conceptual Integration. Working within a theoretical framework situated at the intersection of narratology and the cognitive sciences, the book provides both fresh readings for individual literary and film narratives and new impulses for post-classical narratology.

The Practice of Everyday Life

Author : Michel de Certeau
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520236998
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (369 download)

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Download or read book The Practice of Everyday Life written by Michel de Certeau and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1984 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Repackage of a classic sociology text in which the author developes the idea of resistance to social and economic pressures.