A storyteller's craft can often be judged by how convincingly the narrative captures the identity and personality of its characters. In this book, the characters who take center stage are "strange" first-person narrators: they are fascinating because of how they are at odds with what the reader would wish or expect to hear--while remaining reassuringly familiar in voice, interactions, and conversations. Combining literary analysis with research in cognitive and social psychology, Marco Caracciolo focuses on readers' encounters with the "strange" narrators of ten contemporary novels, including Bret Easton Ellis's American Psycho, Haruki Murakami's Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World, and Mark Haddon's The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time. Caracciolo explores readers' responses to narrators who suffer from neurocognitive or developmental disorders, who are mentally disturbed due to multiple personality disorder or psychopathy, whose consciousness is split between two parallel dimensions or is disembodied, who are animals, or who lose their sanity. A foray into current work on reception, reader-response, cognitive literary study, and narratology, Strange Narrators in Contemporary Fiction illustrates why any encounter with a fictional text is a complex negotiation of interlaced feelings, thoughts, experiences, and interpretations.
Marco Caracciolo is a postdoctoral researcher in the English department of the University of Freiburg in Germany. He is the author of The Experientiality of Narrative: An Enactivist Approach and the coauthor (with psychologist Russell Hurlburt) of A Passion for Specificity: Confronting Inner Experience in Literature and Science.
Автор: Carens Timothy L. Название: Strange Gods: Love and Idolatry in the Victorian Novel ISBN: 0367525097 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780367525095 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 148010.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Anxiety about adoring humans more than God frequently overshadows and sometimes derails the progress of romance in Victorian novels. By probing this anxiety and its narrative effects, Strange Gods uncovers how a central Protestant belief exerts its influence over stories about love and marriage.
Автор: Mathews Peter D. Название: English Magic and Imperial Madness: The Anti-Colonial Politics of Susanna Clarke`s Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell ISBN: 1476686270 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781476686271 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 42510.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Locating the consequences of the eruption of magical unreason within the context of England`s imperial history, this study examines Merlin and his legacy, the roles of magicians throughout history, the racism at work in the character of Stephen Black, the meaning behind the fantasy of magic`s return, and the Englishness of English magic itself.
Автор: Munson Jr Rev Herbert Melville Название: Strange Work ISBN: 0557318904 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780557318902 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 28200.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Автор: Kennedy J. Gerald Название: Strange Nation: Literary Nationalism and Cultural Conflict in the Age of Poe ISBN: 0195393694 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780195393699 Издательство: Oxford Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 31670.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Examining work by Washington Irving, James Fenimore Cooper, Catharine M. Sedgwick, William Gilmore Simms, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Lydia Maria Child, Strange Nation investigates America`s often vexed relationships with the practice of literary nationalism.
Название: Strange voices in narrative fiction ISBN: 3110268574 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783110268577 Издательство: Walter de Gruyter Рейтинг: Цена: 256250.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Strange Voices in Narrative Fiction
Автор: Redmer Yska Название: Strange Beautiful Excitement: Katherine Mansfields Wellington 1888-1903 ISBN: 0947522549 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780947522544 Издательство: Gazelle Book Services Рейтинг: Цена: 32870.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание: How does a city make a writer? Described by Fiona Kidman as a ravishing, immersing read, A Strange Beautiful Excitement is a wild ride through the Wellington of Katherine Mansfields childhood. From the grubby, wind-blasted streets of Thorndon to the hushed green valley of Karori, author Redmer Yska, himself raised in Karori, retraces Mansfields old ground: the sights, sounds and smells of the rickety colonial capital, as experienced by the budding writer. Along the way his encounters and dogged research -- into her Beauchamp ancestry, the social landscape, the festering, deadly surroundings -- lead him (and us) to reevaluate long-held conclusions about the writers shaping years. They also lead to a thrilling discovery. This haunting and beautifully vivid book combines fact and fiction, biography and memoir, as Yska rediscovers Mansfields Wellington, unearthing her childhood as he goes, shining a new lamp on old territory.
Автор: Douglas Robinson Название: The Strange Loops of Translation ISBN: 1501382462 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781501382468 Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic Рейтинг: Цена: 30610.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: One of the most exciting theories to emerge from cognitive science research over the past few decades has been Douglas Hofstadter’s notion of “strange loops,” from Godel, Escher, Bach (1979). Hofstadter is also an active literary translator who has written about translation, perhaps most notably in his 1997 book Le Ton Beau de Marot, where he draws on his cognitive science research. And yet he has never considered the possibility that translation might itself be a strange loop.In this book Douglas Robinson puts Hofstadter’s strange-loops theory into dialogue with a series of definitive theories of translation, in the process showing just how cognitively and affectively complex an activity translation actually is.
Автор: Cox Fiona Название: Ovid`s Presence in Contemporary Women`s Writing: Strange Monsters ISBN: 0198779887 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780198779889 Издательство: Oxford Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 182010.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: In a series of case studies of prominent female authors - from Ali Smith and Marina Warner to Alice Oswald and Yoko Tawada - this volume examines the figure of Ovid who emerges from the hands of contemporary women writers and explores the intersections between his imaginative universe and the political and aesthetic agenda of third-wave feminism.
Название: Salafismus in deutschland ISBN: 3631644582 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783631644584 Издательство: Peter Lang Рейтинг: Цена: 39210.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Salafismus zeigt sich derzeit haupts chlich in der medial aufgearbeiteten Form des zeitgen ssischen politischen Salafismus: radikal, schnell wachsend, national und international als aktuelle Bedrohung empfunden. Dem ffentlichen Diskurs fehlt es h ufig an Information und Differenzierung. Es gilt einerseits, Gefahren nicht kleinzureden, um Pr vention und angemessene Reaktion zu erm glichen, und andererseits, diese Minderheit in der Minderheit daran zu hindern, das Bild der Muslime in der Mehrheitsgesellschaft zu pr gen. Informierend und differenzierend untersucht der vorliegende Band das Thema Salafismus in zwei Teilen unter den Gesichtspunkten Geschichte und Gegenwart des Salafismus in der islamischen Welt und, dem Titel folgend, Salafismus in Deutschland. Radikalisierung und Pr vention.
Автор: O`Neill Michael, Sandy Mark, Wootton Sarah Название: Venice and the Cultural Imagination: `This Strange Dream Upon the Water` ISBN: 1138661562 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781138661561 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 51030.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: In the era of the Grand Tour, Venice was the cultural jewel in the crown of Europe and the epitome of decadence. This edited collection of eleven essays draws on a range of disciplines and approaches to ask how Venice`s appeal has affected Western culture since 1800.
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