Recently added articles from Narrative:
Mutual exclusion, oscillation, and ethical projection in The Crying of Lot 49 and The Turn of the Screw.(Critical essay)
Oct 01, 2008; ... UNCERTAINTY, AFFORDANCE, MODES For a while now, beginning perhaps with Iris Murdoch's "Against Dryness," (1) scholars interested in ethics and literature have tended to divide the field into camps or axes. Arizti and Falquina-Martinez have recently described these axes in this ...
The paradox of fiction and the ethics of empathy: reconceiving Dickens's realism.(Charles Dickens)(Critical essay)
Oct 01, 2008; ... Since the term empathy was coined in the early twentieth century, it has been used to describe not only how a person relates to another person, but also how a person relates to art. In fact, empathy is a concept born of the union between psychology and aesthetics; early accounts of ...
Violations of mimetic epistemology in first-person narrative fiction.(Critical essay)
Oct 01, 2008; ... I am not born yet. My Uncle Carl and Brother Tate hurry along the railroad tracks on the graveled crest of the hillside which parallels Finance Street. (Wideman, Sent For You Yesterday 17) I walk into the frame, not noticing the black limousine parked across the street. (Ellis, ...
Narrative means to lyric ends in Wordsworth's Prelude.(Critical essay)
Oct 01, 2008; ... The temporal complexities of William Wordsworth's autobiographical poem The Prelude have long attracted critical attention. M. H. Abrams, in his foundational study Natural Supernaturalism, notes, "The construction of The Prelude is radically achronological, starting not at the beginning, ...
Tom and Vivien Eliot do narrative in different voices: mixing genres in the Waste Land's pub.(Critical essay)
Oct 01, 2008; ... "He do the police in different voices," T.S. Eliot's original title for the poem that became The Waste Land, announces the poem's interest in voices and in the types of readerly performance made possible by narrative fiction. (1) Borrowed from Dickens's Our Mutual Friend (1865), the phrase ...
Narrative progression in the short story: first steps in a corpus stylistic approach.(Critical essay)
May 01, 2008; ... 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; ... 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; ... 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; ... 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; ... 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; ... "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 ...
Corrections.(Correction notice)
Jan 01, 2008 ... In Mary Slowik's, "The Ethics of Audience Positioning in the Paintings of Leon Golub and the Prints of Sue Coe" (Narrative, October 2007), the following copyright credit lines were inadvertently omitted: "Art [c] Estate of Leon Golub/Licensed by VAGA, New York, NY" was to have appeared ...
The I that tells itself: a Bakhtinian perspective on Narrative Identity.(Essay)
Jan 01, 2008; ... The ambiguity of the title, borrowed from Derrida's The Ear of the Other (13), is not accidental: the I as both the addressee and the subject-object of a performative telling is precisely what is at stake in the question of narrative identity, a literary concept which has attained a ...
Mothering siblings: diaspora, desire and identity in American Born Confused Desi.
Jan 01, 2008; ... In this essay we consider the construction of cultural identity, motherhood and the family in ABCD, a film of the Indian diaspora that had its world premiere at the 2001 London Film Festival. This film reads family, apparently within familiar narrative structures such as the U.S.-immigrant ...
Writing, orality, cinema: the 'story' of Citizen Kane.(Critical essay)
Jan 01, 2008; ... I With fiction film as with any other art form, if we wish to come to a critical understanding of meaning, we will likely consider on one level or another form in relation to content. Because of the nature of film as a representation, "form" involves an especially wide variety ...
A contextual view of narrative fiction in the first person plural.(Essay)
Jan 01, 2008; ... "We" fictional narratives have--as Brian Richardson has recently argued persuasively--"a supple technique with a continuous history of over a century that continues to be deployed in a considerable number of texts" (55-56). Richardson's contention lies in contrast with Margolin's view that ...
Theory of mind and fictions of embodied transparency.(Critical essay)
Jan 01, 2008; ... 1. UPPING THE AGONY It's another day at The Office--a British mock documentary about the "boss from hell," David Brent, regional manager of a fictitious paper company. David (played by Ricky Gervais) is about to interview two candidates for the position of secretary, and he has ...
Amnesia, anamnesis and narrative desire: a dialogue about Susan Rubin Suleiman's Crises of Memory and the Second World War.(DIALOGUE)(Critical essay)
Jan 01, 2008; ... Toward the end of her recent book on individual and collective memory of World War II and the Holocaust, Crises of Memory and the Second World War, Susan Rubin Suleiman writes: "I think we need a moratorium, or even a downright taboo, on the use of the word 'unspeakable' in connection with ...
Response to Erin McGlothlin: is a desire for indeterminacy a desire for coherence?(DIALOGUE)(Essay)
Jan 01, 2008; ... I am truly pleased to respond to Erin McGlothlin's thoughtful and insightful review of my book. I say "respond" rather than "reply," for unlike the usual "right of reply" exercised by authors who have been misunderstood (in their view) by their critics, I feel I am engaging in a dialogue ...
Just looking.(Editor's Column)(Editorial)
Oct 01, 2007; ... A striking feature of this issue is the range and diversity of narratives discussed in its six essays. Greg Forter, writing about trauma theory, focuses on Sigmund Freud's case history of the Wolf Man and on William Faulkner's Light in August and Absalom, Absalom! Kai Mikkonen, examining ...