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A talking body part, a character that is simultaneously alive and dead, a shape-changing setting, or time travel: although impossible in the real world, such narrative elements do appear in the storyworlds of novels, short stories, and plays. Impossibilities of narrator, character, time, and space are not only common in today's world of postmodernist literature but can also be found throughout the history of literature. Examples include the beast fable, the heroic epic, the romance, the eighteenth-century circulation novel, the Gothic novel, the ghost play, the fantasy narrative, and the science-fiction novel, among others.Unnatural Narrative looks at the startling and persistent presence of the impossible or "the unnatural" throughout British and American literary history. Layering the lenses of cognitive narratology, frame theory, and possible-worlds theory, Unnatural Narrative offers a rigorous and engaging new characterization of the unnatural and what it yields for individual readers as well as literary culture. Jan Alber demonstrates compelling interpretations of the unnatural in literature and shows the ways in which such unnatural phenomena become conventional in readers' minds, altogether expanding our sense of the imaginable and informing new structures and genres of narrative engagement.
Narration (Rhetoric) --- Uncanny, The (Psychoanalysis), in literature. --- Fiction --- Drama --- Postmodernism (Literature) --- Literary movements --- Literature, Modern --- Modernism (Literature) --- Post-postmodernism (Literature) --- Criticism --- Narrative (Rhetoric) --- Narrative writing --- Rhetoric --- Discourse analysis, Narrative --- Narratees (Rhetoric) --- History and criticism. --- Uncanny, The (Psychoanalysis), in literature --- History and criticism --- Drama. --- Fiction. --- Postmodernism (Literature). --- Narration (Rhetoric).
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Climate change and the apocalypse are frequently associated in the popular imagination of the twenty-first century. This collection of essays brings together climatologists, theologians, historians, literary scholars, and philosophers to address and critically assess this association. The contributing authors are concerned, among other things, with the relation between cultural and scientific discourses on climate change; the role of apocalyptic images and narratives in representing environmental issues; and the tension between reality and fiction in apocalyptic representations of catastrophes. By focusing on how figures in fictional texts interact with their environment and deal with the consequences of climate change, this volume foregrounds the broader social and cultural function of apocalyptic narratives of climate change. By evoking a sense of collective human destiny in the face of the ultimate catastrophe, apocalyptic narratives have both cautionary and inspirational functions. Determining the extent to which such narratives square with scientific knowledge of climate change is one of the main aims of this book.
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82-3 --- Proza. Fictie. Narratologie --- Literary form. --- Literature --- Narration (Rhetoric) --- History and criticism --- Theory, etc. --- 82-3 Proza. Fictie. Narratologie --- Narration (Rhetoric). --- Literary form --- Narrative (Rhetoric) --- Narrative writing --- Rhetoric --- Discourse analysis, Narrative --- Narratees (Rhetoric) --- Belles-lettres --- Western literature (Western countries) --- World literature --- Philology --- Authors --- Authorship --- Form, Literary --- Forms, Literary --- Forms of literature --- Genre (Literature) --- Genre, Literary --- Genres, Literary --- Genres of literature --- Literary forms --- Literary genetics --- Literary genres --- Literary types (Genres) --- History and criticism&delete& --- Theory, etc --- 82-3 Fiction. Prose narrative --- Fiction. Prose narrative --- Literature History and criticism
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Unnatural Narratology: Extensions, Revisions, and Challenges offers a number of developments, refinements, and defenses of key aspects of unnatural narrative studies. The first section applies unnatural narrative theory and analysis to ideologically charged areas such as feminism, postcolonial studies, cultural alterity, and subaltern discourse. The book goes on to engage with and intervene in theoretical debates in several areas of both critical theory and narrative theory, including affect studies, immersion, narration, character theory, frames, and theories of reception and interpretation. Antimimetic perspectives are also extended to additional fields, including autobiography, graphic narratives, drama and film, performance studies, and interactive gamebooks. Written by an international assemblage of distinguished and emerging narrative scholars and theorists, this collection promises to greatly enhance the study of narrative and further advance the frontiers of narrative theory.
Narration (Rhetoric) --- Fiction --- Literature --- Feminism and literature. --- Postcolonialism in literature. --- History and criticism --- Theory, etc. --- Feminism and literature --- Postcolonialism in literature --- Narrative (Rhetoric) --- Narrative writing --- Rhetoric --- Discourse analysis, Narrative --- Narratees (Rhetoric) --- Belles-lettres --- Western literature (Western countries) --- World literature --- Philology --- Authors --- Authorship --- Metafiction --- Novellas (Short novels) --- Novels --- Stories --- Novelists --- History and criticism&delete& --- Theory, etc --- Women authors --- Philosophy --- Literature History and criticism --- Literature and feminism
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Studying the ways in which writings on prisons were woven into the fabric of the period, the contributors to this volumen consider the ways in which these works affected inmates, the prison system, and the Victorian public.
English fiction --- Imprisonment in literature. --- Imprisonment --- Confinement --- Incarceration --- Corrections --- Detention of persons --- Punishment --- Prison-industrial complex --- Prisons --- History and criticism. --- Social aspects --- History --- School-to-prison pipeline --- Great Britain. --- Anglia --- Angliyah --- Briṭanyah --- England and Wales --- Förenade kungariket --- Grã-Bretanha --- Grande-Bretagne --- Grossbritannien --- Igirisu --- Iso-Britannia --- Marea Britanie --- Nagy-Britannia --- Prydain Fawr --- Royaume-Uni --- Saharātchaʻānāčhak --- Storbritannien --- United Kingdom --- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland --- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland --- Velikobritanii͡ --- Wielka Brytania --- Yhdistynyt kuningaskunta --- Northern Ireland --- Scotland --- Wales
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Literature, Modern --- Modernism (Literature). --- Postmodernism (Literature). --- History and criticism.
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This collection of essays looks at two important manifestations of postclassical narratology, namely transmedial narratology on the one hand, and unnatural narratology on the other. The articles deal with films, graphic novels, computer games, web series, the performing arts, journalism, reality games, music, musicals, and the representation of impossibilities. The essays demonstrate how new media and genres as well as unnatural narratives challenge classical forms of narration in ways that call for the development of analytical tools and modelling systems that move beyond classical structuralist narratology. The articles thus contribute to the further development of both transmedial and unnatural narrative theory, two of the most important manifestations of postclassical narratology.
Fiction --- Literary rhetorics --- Mass communications --- Narration --- Analyse du discours narratif --- Médias et langage --- Médias --- Mass media. --- Narration (Rhetoric) --- Storytelling in mass media. --- Discourse analysis, Narrative. --- Mass media and language. --- 82-3 --- Proza. Fictie. Narratologie --- Erzähltheorie --- Intermedialität --- Narration. --- Médias et langage. --- Analyse du discours narratif. --- Médias. --- Narration (Rhetoric). --- 82-3 Proza. Fictie. Narratologie --- Erzähltheorie. --- Intermedialität. --- Language and mass media --- Language and languages --- Narrative discourse analysis --- Mass media --- Narrative (Rhetoric) --- Narrative writing --- Rhetoric --- Discourse analysis, Narrative --- Narratees (Rhetoric) --- Mass communication --- Media, Mass --- Media, The --- Communication --- 82-3 Fiction. Prose narrative --- Fiction. Prose narrative --- Narrative theory. --- film studies. --- literary studies. --- media studies.
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In recent years, the study of unnatural narratives has become an exciting new but still disparate research program in narrative theory. For the first time, this collection of essays presents and discusses the new analytical tools that have so far been developed on the basis of unnatural novels, short stories, and plays and extends these findings through analyses of testimonies, comics, graphic novels, films, and oral narratives. Many narratives do not only mimetically reproduce the world as we know it but confront us with strange narrative worlds which rely on principles that have very little to do with the actual world around us. The essays in this collection develop new narratological tools and modeling systems which are designed to capture the strangeness and extravagance of such anti-realist narratives. Taken together, the essays offer a systematic investigation of anti-mimetic techniques and strategies that relate to different narrative parameters, different media, and different periods within literary history.
Literature --- Narration (Rhetoric) --- Literary form. --- Form, Literary --- Forms, Literary --- Forms of literature --- Genre (Literature) --- Genre, Literary --- Genres, Literary --- Genres of literature --- Literary forms --- Literary genetics --- Literary genres --- Literary types (Genres) --- Narrative (Rhetoric) --- Narrative writing --- Rhetoric --- Discourse analysis, Narrative --- Narratees (Rhetoric) --- History and criticism --- Theory, etc. --- Literature History and criticism --- Narrative, Experimentalism. --- Narratology. --- Transmediality.
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This text offers a collection of foundational essays introducing the reader to the full scope of unnatural narrative theory: its meaning, its goals, its extent, its paradoxes. This book brings together a distinguished group of international critics, scholars, and historians that includes several of the world's leading narrative theorists. Together, they survey many basic areas of narrative studies from an unnatural perspective: story, time, space, voice, minds, narrative levels, realism, nonfiction, hyperfiction, and narrative poetry. Rarely have these fundamental concepts been subjected to such an original and thoroughgoing reconceptualization. Much of the book is directed toward an investigation of experimental and antirealist work. Each essay focuses on texts and episodes that narrative theory has tended to neglect, and each provides theoretical formulations that are commensurate with such exceptional, albeit neglected, works. This book articulates and delineates the newest and most radical movement in narrative studies.
Fiction --- Literary rhetorics --- 82-3 --- Proza. Fictie. Narratologie --- Narration (Rhetoric) --- Poetics. --- Narration (Rhetoric). --- 82-3 Proza. Fictie. Narratologie --- Narrative (Rhetoric) --- Narrative writing --- Rhetoric --- Discourse analysis, Narrative --- Narratees (Rhetoric) --- Poetry --- Technique --- 82-3 Fiction. Prose narrative --- Fiction. Prose narrative
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This volume combines narratological analyses with an investigation of the ideological ramifications of the use of narrative strategies. The collected essays do not posit any intrinsic or stable connection between narrative techniques and world views. Rather, they demonstrate that world views are inevitably expressed through highly specific formal strategies. This insight leads the contributors to investigate why and how particular narrative techniques are employed and under what conditions.
Literary rhetorics --- Literature --- Fiction --- Narration (Rhetoric) --- Discourse analysis, Narrative. --- Discourse analysis, Literary. --- Fludernik, Monika --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Literary discourse analysis --- Rhetoric --- Literary style --- Narrative discourse analysis --- Narrative (Rhetoric) --- Narrative writing --- Discourse analysis, Narrative --- Narratees (Rhetoric) --- Experientiality. --- cognitive narratology. --- diachronic perspective. --- ideology. --- narrative features.
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