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Narrative discourse : an essay in method

23 Jan 1980-Comparative Literature (Cornell University Press)-Vol. 32, Iss: 4, pp 413
TL;DR: Cutler as mentioned in this paper presents a Translator's Preface Preface and Preface for English-to-Arabic Translating Translators (TSPT) with a preface by Jonathan Cutler.
Abstract: Foreword by Jonathan Cutler Translator's Preface PrefaceIntroduction 1. Order 2. Duration 3. Frequency 4. Mood 5. VoiceAfterword Bibliography Index
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TL;DR: In the way in which this story gets told, these three distinct occasions are fused into a single encounter, as if each were identical to the others, or if each happened at one and the same time, or else all were stuck somehow in a kind of recursive and possibly nightmarish loop as mentioned in this paper.
Abstract: the trapper’s gaze O ne day, across a water-hole, in a wilderness three days’ trek from the city, a trapper sees what has not been seen before: a wild man, like a beast—like a god—fallen from heaven, naked, his body rough with matted hair, down on all fours, crouching to lap up the water. This happens for a second day, and also for a third, but in the way in which this story gets told, these three distinct occasions are fused into a single encounter, as if each were identical to the others, as if each happened at one and the same time, or else all were stuck somehow in a kind of recursive and possibly nightmarish loop. The trapper looks, and his gaze for that brief moment could be ours, but what we see most clearly is not what he saw, but how what he saw gives his face in our eyes a different and yet still recognizable look: It is the look of “one who have travelled distant roads” ( Gilgamesh I 113–21): 1

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TL;DR: Time is an essential component in The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym as discussed by the authors, which is also a fictional voyage of exploration written in time by Pym/Edgar Allan Poe and read in the time of the 1830s.
Abstract: T ime is an essential component in The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym. Augustus’s watch runs down and his father’s chronometer goes missing. The passage of days, hours, and minutes occupies a great deal of narrative space and anxious speculation. The narrative even assumes the form of a log with its explicit demarcation of months and dates. But time’s presence runs deeper than even these instances suggest, as my epigraph from Pym intimates and as this essay will show.1 Adverbs designating the passage of time, such as “after” and “at length,” are a constitutive feature of Pym’s narrative fabric, as are adjectives that convey an experience of time, such as “immediate” and “still.” As much as Pym’s is a journey in space, it is a journey in and through time. And lest we forget, it is also a fictional voyage of exploration written in time by Arthur Gordon Pym/Edgar Allan Poe and read in the time of the 1830s. In an analysis of how the discipline of anthropology strategically deploys the markers of time, such as tenses and adverbs, to produce the subjects of its study as colonized others separate in time, Johannes Fabian provides a valuable template for understanding Poe’s Pym—which, as we know, contains a substantial amount of material plagiarized from exploratory and ethnographic texts of the antebellum period. Through close readings of key anthropological texts, Fabian foregrounds the central, but theoretically unstudied, role time has played in the imperial/epistemological conquest of space and argues that “time [has been required] to accommodate the schemes of a one-way history:

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TL;DR: The authors explores the weave of memory, time, and narrative as it unfolds in the autobiographical process, and offers a reading of W. G. Sebald's Austerlitz as a book that outlines a new narrative vision of memory and autobiographical time.
Abstract: The article explores the weave of memory, time, and narrative as it unfolds in the autobiographical process. It offers a reading of W. G. Sebald's Austerlitz as a book that outlines a new narrative vision of memory and autobiographical time. In this book Sebald, in a break with the traditional model of memory as an archive, describes remembering as an uncertain and speculative search movement which defies chronology, sequentiality, and linearity. What emerges instead is an idea of time as a mode of simultaneously co-existing moments and episodes from very different periods of clock and calendar time. This reading of Austerlitz leads, on a more general plane, to reflections about the autobiographical process as a way of narrative meaning-making that constitutes what Ricoeur has called human time.

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Dissertation
01 Feb 2008
TL;DR: In this sense, it is quite wrong to talk in terms of possible particulars or possible worlds as discussed by the authors, since necessity ought not to be explicated in the terms of possibility, whereas there is a possibility of further particularization but this is a different thing from saying that there are possible particulars.
Abstract: ion, too much reduction. Nonetheless, just because we abstract does not mean that anything ceases to exist. If we remember deciding then we also remember the process of deciding. The way to make sense of this is to think of the present in terms of subjective immediacy. Here, we can usefully employ a process/product distinction. A product is something positively prehended as an abstraction from process, a reduction. But this means that something else is always left out, negatively prehended. Product, as a reduction from process, cannot be properly understood apart 354 In this sense, it is quite wrong to talk in terms of there being ‘possible particulars’ or ‘possible worlds’: necessity ought not to be explicated in terms of possibility. There is a possibility of further particularization but this is a different thing from saying that there are possible particulars.

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TL;DR: In this article, a cognitively-based framework is proposed to explain the grounding phenomenon in Japanese narratives. The framework is based on two distinct but complementary approaches to narrative analysis, namely, grounding analysis (as developed by Hopper and Thompson 1980, and further refined by Fleischman 1990) and Deictic Shift Theory (Duchan, Bruder and Hewitt 1995).
Abstract: The present study proposes a composite and comprehensive cognitively-based framework which may account for the grounding phenomenon in Japanese narrative. The framework is based on two distinct but complementary approaches to narrative analysis, namely, grounding analysis (as developed by Hopper and Thompson 1980, and further refined by Fleischman 1990) and Deictic Shift Theory (Duchan, Bruder, and Hewitt 1995). Grounding is the Gestalt perspective of figure vs. ground spatial contrast in cognitive psychology. In narrative studies, the perceptual (visual) contrast of grounding is translated into textual feature. It is also considered as feature of such grounding that it characterizes certain parts of the narrative as more psychologically salient (foreground) than others. The present study undertakes to show that a foregrounded segment is most likely to coincide with an element that signals a shift of the deictic center. This claim challenges the fundamental findings derived from the traditional notion of grounding as proposed by Hopper and Thompson (1980). Unlike their morpho-syntactic driven notion of grounding-which is based on verbal transitivity it is found in the present study that low transitive linguistic elements, such as perceptual and mental predicates, can be foregrounded, enabling readers to access the narrator's consciousness without mediation.

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