scispace - formally typeset
Search or ask a question
Journal ArticleDOI

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
Citations
More filters
Journal ArticleDOI
TL;DR: In this article, Seidel studies the effects of maps of the voyages of Odysseus on the movements of Bloom, Stephen, and other characters through Dublin in 1912 in order to argue for a framework of psychic values associated with the directions of north, east, south, and west.
Abstract: In Epic Geography: James Joyce's "Ulysses" (1976), Michael Seidel quotes Joyce's father as saying of him, when he was seven, "If that fellow was dropped in the middle of the Sahara, he'd sit, be God, and make a map of it " Seidel studies the effects of maps of the voyages of Odysseus on the movements of Bloom, Stephen, and other characters through Dublin in 1912 in order to argue for a framework of psychic values associated with the directions of north, east, south, and west1 Following Seidel's lead in examining the implications of directions in Ulysses (1922), it is possible to argue that compass directions, especially east and west, also have an importance to Dubliners (1914) Spatially, the "world" of Dubliners is inherently contradictory Although the characters frequently express desire to travel, and occasionally go so far as planning to leave Dublin, the city generally is hedged round with restrictions and inhibitions like the wall of thorns around a fairy-tale castle or the ring of fire around a Brunhild However restricted "escape" may be, many of the characters direct their eyes toward deliverance in the East; at the same time, in the most important story in the collection, "The Dead," freedom seems possible, if at all, by journeying westward through Ireland's psychic geography In the first three stories, the journeys of the boy narrators are directed toward the East2 The journey to "Araby," metaphorized as chivalric quest,

5 citations

Book
Adam Watt1
07 Apr 2011
TL;DR: In Search of Lost Time as discussed by the authors, Proustian afterlives are used to describe the after life of a person who has lost time in a way similar to ours.
Abstract: Introduction 1. Life 2. Contexts 3. Early works and late essays 4. In Search of Lost Time 5. Proust criticism Epilogue: Proustian afterlives Further reading.

5 citations

References
More filters
Book
01 Jan 1959

61 citations

Book
01 Jan 1967

55 citations

Book
01 Jan 1954
TL;DR: Deuxieme tirage de cet essai critique de Georges Blin sur Stendhal, publie aux editions Jose Corti en 1954 as mentioned in this paper, et les images, une description a completer, une bibliotheque
Abstract: Deuxieme tirage de cet essai critique de Georges Blin sur Stendhal, publie aux editions Jose Corti en 1954.Deux images, une description a completer, une bibliotheque.

22 citations

Book
01 Jan 1950

7 citations

Book
01 Jan 1965

6 citations