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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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TL;DR: The use of pre-existing pieces both as diegetic and non-diegetic music, and crucially in the transition from one to the other, is shown as a central aspect of the way the films capitalise on existing Mozart myths and feed them back into their own (re)constructions of Mozart, in the process becoming drivers in a (vicious or virtuous) circle.
Abstract: Composer biopics have received scant attention both from musical reception history and from film musicology, though they clearly are key sources for the popular reception of composers, and often are also laboratories for the use of pre-existing music in film. Composer biopics re-invent their subjects in the stories they tell; but they also re-invent them through their music – music which in such films is usually both part of the story told and of its telling. This article takes seven Mozart biopics from between 1940 and 2006 as examples of such musical (re)inventions, and studies typical techniques and effects of using Mozart's music to score stories of his life. The use of pre-existing pieces both as diegetic and nondiegetic music, and crucially in the transition from one to the other, is shown as a central aspect of the way the films capitalise on existing Mozart myths and feed them back into their own (re)constructions of Mozart, in the process becoming drivers in a (vicious or virtuous) circle.
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TL;DR: In this article, the relation between space and narrative has been examined and the spatial metaphors evoked and employed by it have been explored, linking these reassessments of narrative spatiality to on-going revisions of representational narrativity, and linking these parallel strands of critical rethinking can deepen our understanding of both space and narratives.
Abstract: Abstract Our notions of space and place are deeply invested with narrative – to the degree that one can think of storytelling as a spatial form and practice. Critical engagements with space and place have bypassed these investments so far since narrative is firmly associated with matters of time whereas space, commonly perceived as the stable backdrop to history’s transformative operations, is yet to be emancipated from the dominance of time. Parallel to reconstructing space in ways that bring out its own productivity, narratologists have been reassessing narrative’s vastly neglected relation to space. This essay zooms in on two venues of this work: on general recalibrations of the relation of space and narrative, and on the spatial metaphors evoked and employed by it. Linking these reassessments of narrative spatiality to on-going revisions of representational narrativity, I hope to show how these parallel strands of critical rethinking can deepen our understanding of both space and narrative – if they are brought to converge.
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27 Apr 2012
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explore a new emerging technology, now gaining success in organization, called Field Force Automation (FFA) that belongs to an everwidening, area called the Mobile Business (M-Business), a term that encompasses all kinds of mobile applications addressed to companies.
Abstract: The aim of this thesis is to explore a new emerging technology, now gaining success in organization, called Field Force Automation (FFA) that belongs to an ever-widening, area called the Mobile Business (M-Business), a term that encompasses all kinds of mobile applications addressed to companies. This success is mainly related to its capacity for connecting Field workers, like technicians, the Fire Brigade, truck drivers and many others to corporate organizations. These workers were previously working in disconnected mode, but can now access, collect and process data remotely and in real-time. As a result, this new way of technological connectivity allows companies to increase their performance by increasing technician productivity and reducing travel-related costs. However, despite these advantages, its use is problematic, especially for the communities of technicians because its implementation implies fundamental changes of their work context, particularly concerning coordination. Before the use of these technologies, technicians went to the central station in order to get their workload. However, with the use of this technology, they can start working directly from home. In doing so, organizations applied a positive technical change but overlooked the human dimension, more precisely the collaboration between the technicians, which increases efficiency at work by exchanging experiences, discussing problems and solutions and the usual friendly interaction which gives team cohesion. According to the socio-technical approach, missing this social structure in the implementation of this new technology condemns it to failure. It is through this observation that this research project has taken shape with the aim of exploring how and why accentuating the technical dimension at the expense of the social one leads to the failure of the Information Systems (IS) innovation and decreases the overall performance of the organization in question. To analyze this problematic we applied a socio-technical theory, applied to organizational change because it argues that technical change alone can negatively impact the work performance whereas socio-technical change can impact an organization’s performance positively. Multiple-case design is required to compare these two cases and confirm or refute the above theory. France Telecom was the company selected because those types of change could be observed separately and subsequently compared. The results of this research take the form of concrete examples from the real world of what we can call technical and socio-technical change.
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TL;DR: The school story has a long tradition in children's literature as mentioned in this paper and Orson Scott Card dramatically revises and rewrites the tradition in two "school stories in space," Ender's Game and Ender's Shadow.
Abstract: The school story has a long tradition in children's literature. Orson Scott Card dramatically revises and rewrites the tradition in two "school stories in space," Ender's Game and Ender's Shadow. Doyle and Stewart find that Card's innovations in the school story form and his departures from conventional narrative structures are inextricably linked to the need to escape narrowly defined perceptions about narrative, about education, and about the relationships between adults and children. Ultimately and essentially, the novels reconsider what it means to be human, with its attending successes and failures, in a postmodern world.
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