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Jo Alyson Parker
Researcher at Saint Joseph's University
Publications - 18
Citations - 60
Jo Alyson Parker is an academic researcher from Saint Joseph's University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Narrative & Humanity. The author has an hindex of 5, co-authored 15 publications receiving 58 citations.
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Remembering the Future: Memento , the Reverse of Time's Arrow, and the Defects of Memory
TL;DR: In Memento as discussed by the authors, a temporal reordering of the plot of a movie is used to provide the audience with an experience analogous to Leonard's and thus heighten our understanding of how memory makes us human.
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A Brief History of the International Society for the Study of Time
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Crusoe’s Foe, Foe’s Cruso, and the Origins and Future of the Novel
TL;DR: This article explored how Coetzee's 1986 Foe provides a postcolonialist critique of Daniel Defoe's 1719 Robinson Crusoe through revising its temporal structure and reconceptualizing its treatment of time.
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From Time's Boomerang to Pointillist Mosaic: Translating Cloud Atlas into Film
Paul A. Harris,Jo Alyson Parker +1 more
TL;DR: The Cloud Atlas as discussed by the authors was adapted for the screen, but as a sort of pointillist mosaic: we stay in each of the six worlds just long enough for the hook to be sunk in, and from then on the film darts from world to world at the speed of a plate-spinner, revisiting each narrative for long enough to propel it forward.