Joshua Parker

Bio: Joshua Parker is an academic researcher from University of Salzburg. The author has contributed to research in topics: Narrative & Free indirect speech. The author has an hindex of 1, co-authored 7 publications receiving 14 citations.

What we talk about when we talk about space and narrative (and why we’re not done talking about it)

Abstract: Abstract Narrative has often been considered “an art of time.” This essay traces some of the historical reasons for this state of the field, or fields, of narratology, pinpointing spots in classical, postclassical and contemporary narrative theory where compensation was attempted or is being made through a focus on space instead of time. It suggests that as geography and geographers have become increasingly interested in narrative approaches in dealing with concepts, visualization, and digitalization, it is perhaps (once again) time narratology itself, while continuing to focus on and explore space and place, took account of its history of treating them and looked at how geography has implemented narratological concepts in its technical and philosophical approaches.

“A ‘Bridgehead’ in the Visible Domain”: Chloe Aridjis’s, J. S. Marcus’s and Theodore Sedgwick Fay’s Tales of Berlin

Abstract: This chapter draws parallels between perhaps the earliest complete American fiction set in Berlin and some of the most recent, by comparing urban space and its treatment in Theodore Sedgwick Fay’s The Countess Ida: A Tale of Berlin (1840), Chloe Aridjis’s Book of Clouds (2009), and J.S. Marcus’s The Captain’s Fire (1996). Though the authors juggle enormously different social, historical, political, and cultural themes of their respective periods, all three novels treat foreign German urban space as one which is inherently violent, with a violence that must be repressed, deflected, or fled by the New World protagonists negotiating its thematic spaces.

'This is our Armageddon’: Berlin in Postwar American Fiction

Abstract: Este articulo explora las respuestas dadas desde la literatura estadounidense a losbombardeos aliados de la que era entonces la cuarta ciudad mas grande del mundo: Berlin. En la historia reciente, ninguna ciudad europea habia sufrido semejante devastacion, ni habia sido tan fotografiada. En este articulo se abordan tecnicas como los cambios del punto de vista, la complejidad gramatical y las metaforas empleadas para describir la cualidad mitica de la destruccion de Berlin, asi como los intentos casi mitificadores de levantar con los textos monumentos de la destruccion misma, desde los anos inmediatamente posteriores a la guerra hasta el siglo XXI.AbstractThis article surveys American literary responses to the U.S. bombing of the world’s then-fourth largest metropolis, Berlin. Such total devastation of a European city had never been seen before in recent history, and had never been so extensively recorded by photography. Discussed in the article are techniques of shifting viewpoints, of grammatical complexity and metaphors used to describe the mythic quality of Berlin’s destruction, and the almost mythicizing attempts to make textual monuments of destruction itself, from the immediate postwar years into the twenty-first century.

Placements and Functions of Brief Second-Person Passages in Fiction

Abstract: ‘Second-person fiction’ is traditionally defined as fiction with stable, extended use of you designating a fictional protagonist. This chapter focuses instead on brief, fluctuating passages or shifts into second-person in otherwise traditional third-person narration. Short passages of second-person are extremely effective literary devices, and their placement and effects in recent fiction are surprisingly standardised. The chapter highlights five spots where they tend to occur most often: as an initial opening, as episodes of skaz, in closing lines, as signals of changing focalization or episodes, and mixed into passages of free indirect discourse. Examples include excerpts from the writings of Russell Banks, Robert Coover, E.L. Doctorow, James Ferry, Denis Johnson, Maile Meloy, Alice Munro, Z.Z. Packer, Mark Richard, Jeanne Schinto and James Ellis Thomas.

Absence as Presence, Presence as Absence: Museological Storytelling in Berlin

Abstract: This article examines a long history of objects’ use in “telling stories,” and speculates on how museums and other art forms might encourage “narrations” while leaving story-telling to visitors or viewers. David Chipperfield’s 2009 “restoration” of Berlin’s Neues Museum made great efforts to preserve traces not only of the objects displayed inside, but to present an open-ended “narrative” of the building’s own history. Attempts at making historical sites “tell” stories have, meanwhile, also extended into other visual arts in Germany, of which the article examines several, discussing them in relation with the concept of “postmemory” and national narratives of identity.

Geography Lessons@@@Mappings: Feminism and the Cultural Geographies of Encounter

Abstract: List of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Locational Feminism3Pt. IFeminism/Multiculturalism15Ch. 1\"Beyond\" Gender: The New Geography of Identity and the Future of Feminist Criticism17Ch. 2\"Beyond\" White and Other: Narratives of Race in Feminist Discourse36Ch. 3\"Beyond\" Difference: Migratory Feminism in the Borderlands67Pt. IIFeminism/Globalism105Ch. 4Geopolitical Literacy: Internationalizing Feminism at \"Home\" - The Case of Virginia Woolf107Ch. 5Telling Contacts: Intercultural Encounters and Narrative Poetics in the Borderlands between Literary Studies and Anthropology132Ch. 6\"Routes/Roots\": Boundaries, Borderlands, and Geopolitical Narratives of Identity151Pt. IIIFeminism/Poststructuralism179Ch. 7Negotiating the Transatlantic Divide: Feminism after Poststructuralism181Ch. 8Making History: Reflections on Feminism, Narrative, and Desire199Ch. 9Craving Stories: Narrative and Lyric in Feminist Theory and Poetic Practice228Notes243References281Index303

Reading For The Plot Design And Intention In Narrative

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