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Narrations of Ambiguity

2019 American fiction
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Release : 2019
Genre : American fiction
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Book Synopsis Narrations of Ambiguity by : Matthew Todd Womble

Download or read book Narrations of Ambiguity written by Matthew Todd Womble. This book was released on 2019. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dissertation examines contemporary American novels and short stories through the lens of narrative and rhetorical theory. While I begin by tracing Wayne Booth's contributions in The Rhetoric of Fiction and the multitude of responses and challenges since made towards his book, I concurrently point out the persistent desire among narrative theorists to develop a systematic approach, one that can be applied consistently to all narratives. Recent narratologists have worked to show the variety of ways that narrative texts defy these attempts at systematization; my dissertation is an entry into this area of contemporary narratology. Each of my chapters focuses on a specific narrative element or technique--second person narration; the implied author; reader-as-translator; and collective/missing narrators. Specifically, I argue that narratives from authors such as Junot Diaz, Cormac McCarthy, Helena Maria Viramontes, and Dave Eggers, among others, contain usages of these techniques that further complicate attempts to encapsulate their potential textual potentialities, and that these narrative choices entail specific implications for the larger thematic elements of the narratives. Ultimately, this dissertation is structured in a way that brings together elements of narrative theory, postmodern critical theory, and literary studies in general.

The narration in "Alias Grace". Ambiguity of Grace Marks

2020-10-05 Performing Arts
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Genre : Performing Arts
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Book Synopsis The narration in "Alias Grace". Ambiguity of Grace Marks by : Nadine Henke

Download or read book The narration in "Alias Grace". Ambiguity of Grace Marks written by Nadine Henke. This book was released on 2020-10-05. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essay from the year 2019 in the subject Communications - Movies and Television, grade: 1,7, , course: Gender in Film and the Visual Arts, language: English, abstract: The ambiguity of Grace herself is especially interesting about this series. Therefore, my attempt is to first analyze the narrative style, especially concerning the different timelines as well as Grace’s unreliability and ambiguity as a character and narrator. Furthermore, I will connect this way of narrating to Grace’s quilting which is omnipresent in the series and can be read as another form of communication and narration especially for women at a time where they usually had to stay silent. With a rather powerful voice-over begins the telling of Grace Marks, by that time a 33-year-old maid that was convicted of murdering her former employer Thomas Kinnear and his house keeper Nancy Montgomery together with the stable boy James McDermott. While he gets hanged, Grace is sentenced to life imprisonment. Now, 15 years after her conviction, psychologist Dr. Simon Jordan is hired to talk to Grace to find out if she really was guilty of the murders or not. These are true events that took once place in 1843 and then were adopted for a novel written by Margaret Atwood: Alias Grace. Based on this novel the canadian US-American Drama-mini-series Alias Grace, written by Margaret Atwood and Sarah Polley and directed by Mary Harron, was released in 2017. It is the story of Grace Marks, the question of her innocence and guilt, that is constantly being asked by Dr. Jordan as well as the audience.

Ambiguity and Narratology

2024-10-21 Literary Criticism
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Release : 2024-10-21
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Book Synopsis Ambiguity and Narratology by : Simon Grund

Download or read book Ambiguity and Narratology written by Simon Grund. This book was released on 2024-10-21. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a well-known phenomenon in everyday communication, ambiguity has increasingly become the subject of interdisciplinary research in recent years. However, within this context, it has been observed that words or expressions situated within the artistic framework of storytelling have not yet been at the centre of research interest. This book aims to bridge this gap by examining the phenomenon of ambiguity from the perspective of narratology – understood as a general theory of narration and narrative communication. The volume pursues two goals: Firstly, it seeks to demonstrate that the interdisciplinary combination of linguistics, cultural history and narratology enriches the field of literary studies significantly. This focus not only highlights how narrative techniques often rely on everyday language conventions, but also explores how various textual features, narrative devices, or even entire storylines can be affected by phenomena (or lead to experiences) of ambiguity. These ambiguities often serve as poetic strategies that are deliberately set in the communicative process of text and reader to achieve certain narrative goals. Secondly, ambiguity – as a characteristic of (narrative) communication – seves as a linking element across different fictional (and factual) text types and genres throughout time and cultures. The collected essays cover a wide range of narrative texts, from Roman comedy to funerary reliefs, from historiographical writings to utopian tales, from Goethe’s novels to contemporary fantasy literature. In its broad approach, the volume thus contributes to the project of diachronic narratology, which, like the research on ambiguity in literary and cultural studies, has recently gained increasing momentum. The combined consideration of ambiguity and narratology not only raises awareness of phenomena of ambiguity in narrative texts but also encourage reflection on the theoretical foundations of narrative, particularly on the methods and devices used to describe these ambiguous structures. Overall, the volume represents an exploration of a relatively unexplored interdisciplinary field, aiming to stimulate further research.

A Certain Ambiguity

2010-07-01 Fiction
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Release : 2010-07-01
Genre : Fiction
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Book Synopsis A Certain Ambiguity by : Gaurav Suri

Download or read book A Certain Ambiguity written by Gaurav Suri. This book was released on 2010-07-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While taking a class on infinity at Stanford in the late 1980s, Ravi Kapoor discovers that he is confronting the same mathematical and philosophical dilemmas that his mathematician grandfather had faced many decades earlier--and that had landed him in jail. Charged under an obscure blasphemy law in a small New Jersey town in 1919, Vijay Sahni is challenged by a skeptical judge to defend his belief that the certainty of mathematics can be extended to all human knowledge--including religion. Together, the two men discover the power--and the fallibility--of what has long been considered the pinnacle of human certainty, Euclidean geometry. As grandfather and grandson struggle with the question of whether there can ever be absolute certainty in mathematics or life, they are forced to reconsider their fundamental beliefs and choices. Their stories hinge on their explorations of parallel developments in the study of geometry and infinity--and the mathematics throughout is as rigorous and fascinating as the narrative and characters are compelling and complex. Moving and enlightening, A Certain Ambiguity is a story about what it means to face the extent--and the limits--of human knowledge.

Zones of Focused Ambiguity in Siri Hustvedt’s Works

2016-05-10 Literary Criticism
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Release : 2016-05-10
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Book Synopsis Zones of Focused Ambiguity in Siri Hustvedt’s Works by : Johanna Hartmann

Download or read book Zones of Focused Ambiguity in Siri Hustvedt’s Works written by Johanna Hartmann. This book was released on 2016-05-10. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection comprises essays from various interdisciplinary perspectives – e.g. literary scholarship, intermediality, art history, psychoanalysis, philosophy, and medicine – to analyze and interpret the fictional and non-fictional works by Siri Hustvedt, an author whose reputation and public presence have been growing steadily in the 21st century and who is recognized as one of the most widely read and appreciated contemporary American writers. In her significance and stature as a public intellectual, she is not merely an American writer but a transnational, cosmopolitan author, who develops new forms not only of literary narrative but of interdisciplinary thought and writing, bringing together otherwise separated genres and branches of knowledge in a broad spectrum between literature and philosophy, historiography and art, psychoanalysis and neuroscience, narrative and medicine. The present volume is structured into the parts “Literary Creation and Communication,” Psychoanalysis and Philosophy,” “Medicine and Narrative,” “Vision, Perception, and Power,” and “Trauma, Memory, and the Ambiguities of Self” and closes with an interview of Siri Hustvedt by Susanne Becker in which Hustvedt elucidates her personal conception of her own creative processes of writing.

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