Search Results - "Journal of narrative theory"

Ontological Metalepsis and Unnatural Narratology by Bell, Alice, Alber, Jan

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The Queer Narrativity of the Hero's Journey in Nintendo's The Legend of Zelda Video Games by Pugh, Tison

“…[...]the mythic hero straddles the line between the normative and the queer: surely in most instances readers are intended to see these characters as ideally…”
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Narrative Ambiguity and the Neoliberal "Bildungsroman" in Aravind Adiga's "The White Tiger" by Nandi, Swaralipi

“…According to Rana Dasbupta, the change in trend is "an acknowledgement of the country's growing economic clout and its embrace of global capitalism-a fact that…”
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The Evidence of Things Unseen: Experimental Form as Black Feminist Praxis by Eversley, Shelly

“…Sister X was a dancer, an exotic dancer, a tiptop tappin' past master of the art of "interpretive" terpsichore, the darling of the beau-hawg grind, a rubber…”
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“Being Alone with Yourself is Increasingly Unpopular”: The Electronic Poetry of Jenny Holzer by Jones, Leisha

“…While some of Holzer's work falls outside the parameters of this "born-digital" oeuvre,1 I argue that versions of her Truisms series produce some of the same…”
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Times and Spaces Never Dreamed of in Diane di Prima’s Revolutionary Letters by Davidson, Ian

“…Revolutionary Letters not only incorporates public and private spheres, but blurs the distinctions between them, producing a world that deals with the…”
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The Contemporary Hero in Sylvie Kandé’s Epic of Futurity, La Quête infinie de l’autre rive by Dickow, Alexander

“…According to Kandé's foreword, Abubakar II launches a massive expedition to explore the ocean to the West of Africa, never to return (13-14).1 The first two…”
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The Political Experiment of “Pot-Boylers”: Thinking, Feeling, and Romance in Kay Boyle’s Resistance Thriller Avalanche by Keenaghan, Eric

“…Modernist narrative techniques do not just guarantee the author's creative freedom; they also are the means for generating American readers' sympathy with an…”
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Introduction: Let Us Combine by Kennedy-Epstein, Rowena

“…Journal of Narrative Theory on Women's Experimental Forms highlight new trajectories and traditions that deepen and expand our understanding of women's…”
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Feminist Solidarity and Experiment in Kathy Acker’s Early Writings by Colby, Georgina

“…Acker's published works, such as the section of Rip-Off Red, Girl Detective and The Burning Bombing of America: The Destruction of the U.S. titled "Communist…”
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"Cripping the Mermaid: A Borderlands Approach to Feminist Disability Studies in Valerie Martin's 'Sea Lovers'" by Anicca, Skye

“…Since feminist disability scholarship is fundamentally rooted in the borderlands, it follows that activating a more comprehensive, deliberate relationship with…”
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"How Do You Not Understand a Word?": Language as Contagion and Cure in Pontypool 1 by Kirsch, Sharon J, Stancliff, Michael

“…The zombie horde seeks to "negate/subsume all characters, and by extension the zombie threatens to annihilate the narrative itself." [...]the common trope the…”
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A Kinetoscope of War: The Cinematic Effects of Tim O'Brien's The Things They Carried by Vernon, Alex

“…The star-shaped punctum permits Tim's gaze to enter the man's interiority-a penetration that perhaps contributes to the several times he compares the dead man…”
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A Passage from Adam's Dream to the Cessation of Desire: A Buddhist Reading of John Keats's 'Ode to a Nightingale' by Yang, Carol L

“…[...]the flowers and nature in the fancy garden are subject to mutability and decay (the "fast fading violets" and "coming musk-rose" are to be buried in…”
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'How Do You Not Understand a Word?': Language as Contagion and Cure in Pontypool by Kirsch, Sharon J, Stancliff, Michael

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Ambiguity as Aesthetic Strategy: Edgar Allan Poe's Ambitions for the American Short Story by Li, Wanlin

“…A visualization of this world model should be something like this:Since the world of Ligeia depends on the narrator's mental faculties for its existence, it…”
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Masquerade in Fingersmith by Yurttas, Hatice

“…According to Joyce, Waters's play of mirroring and exchanges between the underworld of thieves and prostitutes and the Briar House world of the wealthy…”
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Livid Time: Time, Tenses, and Temporal Deixis in Ulysses by Prudente, Teresa

“…Besides its connections with the character of Stephen (Jacobus 1982), Lycidas is also relevant for the episode's mingling of history and fiction, since, as…”
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Nabokov's Gradual and Dual Blues: Taxonomy, Unreliability, and Ethics in Lolita by Newman, Daniel Aureliano

“…The same comparison holds good between the way Gogol saw things and the way average readers and average writers see things. . [...]the development of the art…”
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The Domestic Politics of Disability in Octavia Butler's Kindred by Comer, Todd

“…According to Allan, feminists rejected the body in the pursuit of social equality (134), and, eventually, returned to the body, viewing it as essential to…”
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