Recently added articles from Narrative:
Narrative progression in the short story: first steps in a corpus stylistic approach.(Critical essay)
May 01, 2008; Toolan, Michael ... FRAMING AS SUMPTIONS: PROSPECTION, EXPECTATION, RESPONSE I am interested in the putative textual signalings of narrative progression, and thereafter the reader expectations that these foster; I am trying to identify such signalings (or narrative prospection, as it is also ...
Graphic devices: narration and navigation.(Critical essay)
May 01, 2008; Drucker, Johanna ... Readings of narrative texts rarely include attention to the graphic devices that structure presentation in print or electronic formats. These devices are rendered largely invisible by habits of reading. But, I would suggest, these graphic elements do more than structure the conditions in ...
Reading in the blend: collaborative conceptual blending in the Silent Traveller narratives.(Critical essay)
May 01, 2008; Copland, Sarah ... In The Way We Think: Conceptual Blending and the Mind's Hidden Complexities, cognitive scientists Gilles Fauconnier and Mark Turner argue that a single cognitive operation may underlie "diverse human accomplishments," be "responsible for the origins of language, art, religion, science, and ...
Narrator, author, reader: equivocation in Theresa Hak Kyung Cha's Dictee.(Critical essay)
May 01, 2008; Kim, Sue J. ... Theresa Hak Kyung Cha's 1980 experimental text, Dictee, has garnered a great deal of critical attention. In Asian American studies in particular, analyses of the text have gone hand in hand with efforts to theorize poststructuralist subjectivity and postnationalism in the critical turn ...
Uncle Charles repairs to the A&P: changes in voice in the recent American short story.(Critical essay)
May 01, 2008; Ferriss, Lucy ... That the craft and effect of the mainstream American short story evolved rapidly during the latter half of the 20th century is beyond dispute. Still problematic, however, are the theoretical underpinnings of widespread shifts in narrative technique, especially as they involve vision and ...
Love's time and the reader: ethical effects of Nachtraglichkeit in Toni Morrison's Love.(Critical essay)
May 01, 2008; Wyatt, Jean ... "The structure is the argument." Toni Morrison Temporal discontinuities and nonlinear narrative structures characterize many of Toni Morrison's novels. Morrison's fictions, taken as a whole, rewrite African-American history--a history of disruption, dispossession, and ...