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From:Style (Vol. 50, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedI would like to thank Brian Richardson and John V. Knapp for inviting me to respond to Richardson's essay. I am sympathetic with unnatural narratology's ambition to rethink the foundations of narrative theory, and I...
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From:Shakespearean Criticism (Vol. 72. )Introduction One of Shakespeare's last plays, Henry VIII is considered by many scholars to have been written collaboratively by Shakespeare and John Fletcher. The historical drama details the reign of the English...
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From:Style (Vol. 50, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedI wish to begin by thanking my colleagues for their careful examination of my work. It has benefitted me and provided the occasion to clarify, reformulate, and extend my conceptions. I wish I had had additional space to...
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From:Journal of American Folklore (Vol. 124, Issue 491) Peer-ReviewedThe author argues for folkloristic recognition of a "ritualesque" dimension in public events aimed at transforming the attitudes or behaviors of participants or spectators. Drawing on Bakhtins concept of the...
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From:Style (Vol. 50, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedNever afraid of self-promotion, the founding fathers of unnatural narratology (Alber et al., "Unnatural Narratives") wrote in a 2010 manifesto: "In recent years the study of unnatural narratology has developed into one...
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From:Style (Vol. 50, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedBrian Richardson is a dear colleague with whom I feel closely theoretically associated. His work on supplementing theoretical narrative models to better accommodate anti-mimetic, experimental, and strange narratives has...
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From:Style (Vol. 50, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedIn Brian Richardson's essay, "unnatural narratology" appears as a feast of the artifice, a celebration of playfulness, aesthetic pleasure, and a "wonder-producing effect" of fiction (21)--all things endearing to a...
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From:Style (Vol. 50, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedIt is always a pleasure to read anything by Brian Richardson. Not only has he read more really weird books than I have ever read, or will, but he shores up his arguments so adroitly and writes with such a friendly eye...
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From: The Humor of Irony and Satire: Style and Rhetoric in the Tradiciones peruanas[(essay date 1986) In the following chapters from his study of the traditions, Tanner classifies the types of humor used by Palma. Tanner identifies several techniques of contradiction and misdirection that contribute...
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From:Style (Vol. 50, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedUnnatural foregroundings of textuality and artistic motivation have never been automatized and never will be. Unnaturalness, for me, is the cognitive flip side of the "natural" reading process, the counterforce that...
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From:Style (Vol. 50, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedThe research on unnatural narrative theory as represented by Brian Richardson's work over the past two or three decades has greatly expanded the scope of narrative studies, covering various phenomena neglected in...
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From:Explorations in Renaissance Culture (Vol. 40, Issue 1-2) Peer-ReviewedI MARVELL'S POETIC DIALOGUES are, with the relatively recent exception of that between the soul and the body, not among his more highly regarded productions. (1) They tend to be considered imperfect essays at effects...
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From:Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism (Vol. 152. )REPRESENTATIVE WORKS:Annie Wood BesantAnnie Besant: An Autobiography (autobiography) 1893Charlotte BrontëJane Eyre; an Autobiography [as Currer Bell] (novel) 1847Samuel ButlerThe Way of All Flesh (novel) 1903Thomas...
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From:Style (Vol. 50, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedAcknowledging that there is no unifying conception of what may constitute an "unnatural" fictional text, element, or technique, Brian Richardson does not present an exhaustive discussion of all the developments in the...
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From:Style (Vol. 50, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedIn his Target Essay, Brian Richardson provides a new and impressive synthesis of (his) work in unnatural narrative theory. (1) This term, like its cousin "natural narrative theory," may be unfortunate (I prefer...
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From:Style (Vol. 50, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedBrian Richardson's work on the unnatural, spanning more than ten years, presents and refines two insights that continue to strike me as original and important. The first is the observation that what Richardson calls...
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From:Style (Vol. 50, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedIn its new synthesis of the key discussions, Brian Richardson's essay reminds us of the important achievements of unnatural narrative theory over the years. The theory has enriched the general theory and interpretation...
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From: Writing African Women: Gender, Popular Culture, and Literature in West Africa[(essay date 1997) In the following essay, Opara discusses the varieties of narrative styles Aidoo employs in her novel and her short fiction. Opara finds that Aidoo expresses the voices of women who hold a range of...
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From:Shakespearean Criticism (Vol. 89. )Introduction Pastoral, a popular Renaissance literary genre, influenced a number of Shakespeare's works. The pastoral genre depicts an idealized vision of a simpler, rural life and a longing for a lost world of...
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From:Style (Vol. 50, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedBrian Richardson's devotion to unnatural narratology is both illuminating and infectious. As a result, my conversations with him (both our real conversations and the imagined conversations I have after reading something...