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At Swim-Two-Birds
01 Jan 1939-
TL;DR: When alcohol is taken into the system, an extra amount of work is thrown on various organs, particularly the lungs, and this is why so many inebriates suffer from a peculiar form of consumption called alcoholic phthisis many, many cases of which are to be found in hospitals, where the unhappy victims await the slow but sure march of an early death.
Abstract: A wildly comic send-up of Irish literature and culture, At Swim-Two-Birds is the story of a young, lazy, and frequently drunk Irish college student who lives with his curmudgeonly uncle in Dublin. When not in bed (where he seems to spend most of his time) or reading he is composing a mischief-filled novel about Dermot Trellis, a second-rate author whose characters ultimately rebel against him and seek vengeance. From drugging him as he sleeps to dropping the ceiling on his head, these figures of Irish myth make Trellis pay dearly for his bad writing. Hilariously funny and inventive, At Swim-Two-Birds has influenced generations of writers, opening up new possibilities for what can be done in fiction. It is a true masterpiece of Irish literature.
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06 Apr 2009
TL;DR: An Introduction to Narratology as mentioned in this paper is an accessible, practical guide to narratological theory and terminology and its application to literature, including a comprehensive overview of the key aspects of narratology by a leading practitioner in the field.
Abstract: An Introduction to Narratology is an accessible, practical guide to narratological theory and terminology and its application to literature.
In this book, Monika Fludernik outlines:
the key concepts of style, metaphor and metonymy, and the history of narrative forms
narratological approaches to interpretation and the linguistic aspects of texts, including new cognitive developments in the field
how students can use narratological theory to work with texts, incorporating detailed practical examples
a glossary of useful narrative terms, and suggestions for further reading.
This textbook offers a comprehensive overview of the key aspects of narratology by a leading practitioner in the field. It demystifies the subject in a way that is accessible to beginners, but also reflects recent theoretical developments and narratology’s increasing popularity as a critical tool.
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TL;DR: All of the experiments corroborate the two main predictions of the model theory: inferences requiring only one model are easier than those requiring multiple models, and erroneous conclusions are usually the result of constructing only one of the possible models of the premises.
Abstract: How do people make deductions? The orthodox view in psychology is that they use formal rules of inference like those of a “natural deduction” system. Deduction argues that their logical competence depends, not on formal rules, but on mental models. They construct models of the situation described by the premises, using their linguistic knowledge and their general knowledge. They try to formulate a conclusion based on these models that maintains semantic information, that expresses it parsimoniously, and that makes explicit something not directly stated by any premise. They then test the validity of the conclusion by searching for alternative models that might refute the conclusion. The theory also resolves long-standing puzzles about reasoning, including how nonmonotonic reasoning occurs in daily life. The book reports experiments on all the main domains of deduction, including inferences based on prepositional connectives such as “if” and “or,” inferences based on relations such as “in the same place as,” inferences based on quantifiers such as “none,” “any,” and “only,” and metalogical inferences based on assertions about the true and the false. Where the two theories make opposite predictions, the results confirm the model theory and run counter to the formal rule theories. Without exception, all of the experiments corroborate the two main predictions of the model theory: inferences requiring only one model are easier than those requiring multiple models, and erroneous conclusions are usually the result of constructing only one of the possible models of the premises.
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19 Nov 2007TL;DR: In this paper, the authors discuss the postcolonial issues in performance and post-colonization issues in post-colonial literature, and present a glossary of critical terms for critical terms.
Abstract: Preface 1. Introduction: Situating the postcolonial 2. Postcolonial issues in performance 3. Alternative histories and writing back 4. Authorising the self: postcolonial autobiographical writing 5. Situating the self: landscape and place 6. Appropriating the word: language and voice 7. 'Narrating the nation': form and genre 8. Rewriting her story: nation and gender 9. Rewriting the nation: acknowledging economic and cultural diversity 10. Transnational and black British writing: colonising in reverse 11. Citizens of the world: reading postcolonial literature Glossary of critical terms Notes on main writers discussed Brief histories: Australia, The Caribbean, East Africa, India and Pakistan, Ireland, West Africa Bibliography.
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01 Jan 2005TL;DR: The Irish Writer and the World is a major new book by one of Ireland's most prominent scholars and cultural commentators as mentioned in this paper, which synthesises the themes that have occupied him throughout his career as a leading critic of Irish literature and culture.
Abstract: The Irish Writer and the World is a major new book by one of Ireland's most prominent scholars and cultural commentators. Declan Kiberd, author of the award-winning Irish Classics and Inventing Ireland, here synthesises the themes that have occupied him throughout his career as a leading critic of Irish literature and culture. Kiberd argues that political conflict between Ireland and England ultimately resulted in cultural confluence and that writing in the Irish language was hugely influenced by the English literary tradition. He continues his exploration of the role of Irish politics and culture in a decolonising world, and covers Anglo-Irish literature, the fate of the Irish language and the Celtic Tiger. This fascinating collection of Kiberd's work demonstrates the extraordinary range, astuteness and wit that have made him a defining voice in Irish studies and beyond, and will bring his work to new audiences across the world.
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors focus on ontological metalepses that involve represented transgressions of world boundaries as one manifestation of the unnatural and propose a new cognitive model that modifies Gerard Genette's structuralist model to conceptualize ontological metaleptic jumps as vertical interactions either between the actual world and a storyworld or between nested storyworlds.
Abstract: In this article, we focus on ontological metalepses that involve represented transgressions of world boundaries as one manifestation of the unnatural. We first discriminate between ascending, descending, and horizontal metaleptic jumps a three types of unnatural metalepses, or, more specifically, metalepses physically or logically impossible (Alber 80) and, in a second step, try to determine their potential functions. We also propose a new cognitive model that modifies Gerard Genette's structuralist model to conceptualize ontological metaleptic jumps as (1) vertical interactions either between the actual world and a storyworld or between nested storyworlds, or as (2) horizontal transmigrations between storyworlds.2 We argue that our postclassical method offers a more effective way of analyzing metalepsis because it allows us to describe the nature of ontological metalepsis more accurately and also because it embraces interpretation. We place this article on the overlap between unnatural narratology and transmedial narratology insofar as we analyze ontological metalepsis, an unnatural phenomenon, in both print and Storyspace hypertext fiction.
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