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From: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: One Hundred and Fifty Years of Continuing Vitality[(essay date 1984) In the following essay, Gelley examines the variety of narrative structures simultaneously at play in Wilhelm Meister’s Travels, noting that the novel defies neat classification in this regard. Gelley...
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From:Journal of Pan African Studies (Vol. 6, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedThis paper makes a brief linguistic and sociolinguistic analysis of the Spanish language as spoken by enslaved Africans during the Spanish Colony, particularly during the 17th century, when Sor (Sister) Juana Ines de la...
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From:Mosaic: A journal for the interdisciplinary study of literature (Vol. 41, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedThis essay identifies a new subgenre of narrative fiction, "neuronarratives," defined as works of fiction that incorporate advances in cognitive studies as a prominent theme, that compel novelists to struggle with...
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From:Narrative (Vol. 12, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedAs long ago as Aristotle a well-constructed narrative was defined as having a beginning, a middle, and an end. And yet, not all narratives conform to this norm. There are those that don't by virtue of the incompetence...
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From:Annali d'Italianistica (Vol. 33) Peer-ReviewedWhen in May 1915 Italy entered the war, Marinetti had justjoined the Italian army as a soldier. With other Futurist artists, (1) he had enrolled in the Battaglione Lombardo Volontari Ciclisti Automobilisti (VCA), a...
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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:Philological Quarterly (Vol. 95, Issue 3-4) Peer-ReviewedOn 6 September 1594, an anonymous letter describing the execution two months earlier of John Cornelius, SJ, a long time associate of the Arundell family of Lanherne, Cornwall, was sent out of England and eventually...
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From:Romance Notes (Vol. 58, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedIn Christine Montalbetti's Experience de la campagne, the countryside is both the setting and the catalyst for a collection of digressions on nature and memory. The basic premise of the text is simple: the protagonist,...
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From:Style (Vol. 47, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedApproaching narrative from a transgeneric perspective, this article provides a thorough narratological analysis of two of Paula Vogel's most experimental plays. Its hypothesis is that such an analysis can offer a better...
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From:Twentieth Century Literature (Vol. 59, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedAbout fifty years ago, Shiv Kumar and Shirley Rose engaged in an arcalie and seemingly inconsequential debate over whether Dorothy Richardson's flowing narrative style could be described in terms of Henri Bergson's...
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From:Daedalus (Vol. 141, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedIn the seventeenth century, North America was conceived by Europeans as an escape from Europe, a New Found Land for religious separatism and the aggregation of unspoken-for wealth. It was in this era of colonial...
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From:Cinema Journal (Vol. 50, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedAbstract: Cinema is taking on the characteristics of new media, existing in a networked, intertextual space, which enables new developments in narrative that are increasingly interactive. Using examples from a variety...
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From:Velvet Light Trap (Issue 58) Peer-ReviewedA part from the acting of young Haley Joel Osment, which won universal praise, The Sixth Sense met with mixed reviews. Stephen Holden of the New York Times called it "gaggingly mawkish supernatural kitsch," while Desson...
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From:Feminist Studies (Vol. 40, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedTHE TRADITION OF THE HIGHWAY NARRATIVE in the United States tends to define the road as a masculine space of freedom and escape. It presumes a dichotomy between the highway and the home--which is defined in terms of...
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From:Alabama Heritage (Issue 87)Ruby Pickens Tartt's interviews for the WPA project stand out on account of Tartt's sensitivity and her interest in the details of everyday life. In this interview, excerpted courtesy American Memory/Library of...
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From:The Mississippi Quarterly (Vol. 65, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedCALLIE BARR, THE BLACK WOMAN WHO RAISED MURRY AND MAUD Falkner's four boys, is a familiar figure to those conversant with the life of William Faulkner. In most Faulkner biographies the story is essentially the same and...
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From:Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers (Vol. 31, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedThe process of understanding, recovering, and researching early American female criminals is rife with complications. (1) While writing my dissertation on female criminals and the nontraditional texts that we use to...
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From:Journal of Modern Literature (Vol. 38, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedVirginia Woolf entangles time and topography in Mrs. Dalloway to reveal that her characters inhabit a relative London. Marking the Great War as the historical event dividing an old world order from the new, she creates...
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From:Nathaniel Hawthorne Review (Vol. 40, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedShe represents a threat while being constructed as a defense against that threat. Efrat Tseelon, The Masque of Femininity Nathaniel Hawthorne often wrote brief notes in his journal of story ideas he might develop,...
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From:ARIEL (Vol. 42, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedDave Eggers is probably best known for his ironic playfulness and his preoccupation with middle-class US adolescence, so his sincere treatment of genocide in Sudan in his novel, What is the What (2006), the product of...