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Story and Discourse: Narrative Structure in Fiction and Film
31 May 1980-
About: The article was published on 1980-05-31 and is currently open access. It has received 1885 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Narrative structure & Narrative criticism.
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01 Jan 2015
TL;DR: The authors explores Vonnegut's critique of literary exhaustion prevailing modernism's exhausted literary forms in order to provide them with permanent literary replenishment, through manipulating the novel's plot, narrator, and character's discourse.
Abstract: This article demonstrates how Kurt Vonnegut experiments with the narrative structure of his novel Slaughterhouse-Five. The study focuses on Vonnegut’s experimentation which assents to postmodern innovative virtuosity. On the outset of postmodernism, two critical issues have been raised. That is, the literature of exhaustion and the literature of replenishment dominating modern literature. Accordingly, this study explores Vonnegut’s critique of literary exhaustion prevailing modernism’s exhausted literary forms in order to provide them with permanent literary replenishment. Vonnegut accomplishes his critique through manipulating the novel’s plot, narrator, and character’s discourse. It will be argued that Vonnegut mixes real experiences with fictional accounts. For this reason, self-reflexive metafiction being discussed conflates fictional experimental forms with ideological critique which attests to its fictionality in the name of replenishing manipulation. The critique is oftentimes utilized in order to proclaim a literary complex relation which lies between the author and the reader. The central differentiation being made, then, is that accurately postmodern metafiction and what might be considered therapeutic experimentation in a self-justifying manner. Thus, metafiction does not formulate the beginning of new genre signifiers. Rather, it is a beginning of ideological dialogic fiction between the text and the world. The analysis of the novel’s plot will rely on Patricia Waugh’s self-reflexive metafictional
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explore the environmental imagination of the ocean to claim that these open spaces lend themselves to narratives where law and justice are interrogated and subverted through narrative tainting.
Abstract: This essay explores the environmental imagination of the ocean to claim that these open spaces lend themselves to narratives where law and justice are interrogated and subverted through narrative t...
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21 Feb 2017
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TL;DR: This paper examined the translation and adaptation of an approach used principally by novelists, that of the non-linear narrative, to provide readers with active agency in choosing the direction of a story.
Abstract: One of the most traditional challenges of teaching is that of engaging learners with delivered content both within and outside of the taught environment. There are many different approaches to achieving learner engagement; however, this paper focuses on examining the translation and adaptation of an approach used principally by novelists, that of the non-linear narrative, to provide readers with active agency in choosing the direction of a story. The readers, in this case, are the learners and the story is the lecture. The approach is evaluated through an in-class qualitative study gathering comments from both the learners and the practitioners with regards to the impact of the approach on the learning environment and student experience. The evaluation suggests that whilst there can be problems in adopting the approach, it can have a positive impact on the learner environment, including increasing student motivation to study.
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...Narrative structure can be defined as ‘the elements of storytelling, their combination and articulation’ (Chatman, 1980, p. 15)....
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01 Jan 2014
TL;DR: In this article, the authors focus on the role of the commemorative narratives of Jerusalem in political speeches, statements and similar, and what role they play in city planning policies and processes, and discuss narrative method as a tool to understand central claims in a protracted conflict.
Abstract: Jerusalem is one of the main features of the Israel-Palestine conflict and as such part of a narrative battle There is no common and accepted truth about the history, the everyday life, the administration, or the future of the city The identity politics of Jerusalem contains a number of narratives and one main characteristic is that they are based on so called commemorations that play a large role in the construction of Jerusalem The commemorative narratives are used and produced in order to state a claim This paper will focus on the narratives regarding territory and more specifically how these narratives affect administrative processes in a contested city These collective memories are created in schools, in the military system, by politicians, by authors, etc, through acts of commemoration Commemorative narratives could be connected to a larger framework – a so-called master commemorative narrative This master narrative gives a wider picture of the collective memory Memories and narratives are rarely undisputed Where we find memories we also find counter-memories and counter-narratives causing a narrative battle and in the case of Jerusalem these narratives have the capacity to ignite the conflict It is therefore necessary to better understand the role of these narratives within a conflict and within specific administrative processes The aim of this paper is twofold; 1) to distinguish the commemorative narratives of Jerusalem in political speeches, statements and similar, and what role they play in city planning policies and processes, and 2) to discuss narrative method as a tool to understand central claims in a protracted conflict The paper is based on the analysis of a selection of texts and an extensive interview material
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