Narrative articles from October 2006

Narrative archives from October 2006

On critical dialogues.(Editorial)
October 1, 2006... This issue contains two different contributions to our section on Dialogues, an exchange between Barbara Olson and Jonathan Culler about Culler's essay on "Omniscience" published in January 2004, and a collaborative effort by Jan Baetens and...

A theory of narrative empathy.
October 1, 2006... We are living in a time when the activation of mirror neurons in the brains of onlookers can be recorded as they witness another's actions and emotional reactions. (1) Contemporary neuroscience has brought us much closer to an understanding of...

On narrativity in the visual field: a psychoanalytic view of Velazquez's Las Meninas.(Diego Velazquez)(Critical essay)
October 1, 2006... A reading of art books, critical essays or interpretations of paintings reveals that various writers frequently approach figurative painting in narrative terms. For some writers narrativity is the main core of the interpretation of a painting,...

The interplay of narrative and lyric: competition, cooperation, and the case of the anticipatory amalgam.
October 1, 2006... I Even when representing other issues with the precise detail and complex coloration of Mughal painting at its best, many studies adopt the bold gestural strokes of Franz Kline to discuss the relationship between lyric and narrative. (1)...

The story was already written: narrative theory in The Lord of the Rings.(Critical essay)
October 1, 2006... Popularity, for a writer of fiction, can be a double-edged sword: Surely writers want their work to be read and appreciated, and royalty checks are always welcome; but some forms of enthusiastic reception may give other potential readers a...

Jane Austen's "wild imagination": romance and the courtship plot in the six canonical novels.(Critical essay)
October 1, 2006... Even though it was once asserted that Jane Austen's six canonical novels have "but one plot," (1) this charge has generally been ignored in recent Austen studies and histories of the novel. To the extent that her works of fiction conform to the...

Theory of fiction: a non-Western narrative tradition.
October 1, 2006... Fiction study is now an international subject of inquiry. When scholars talk about fiction theory, however, they usually refer to European or Western fiction theory. Even in studies of other time-honored literary traditions, discussions of...

"Who thinks this book?" or why the author/God analogy merits our continued attention.
October 1, 2006... Jonathan Culler's recent article on "Omniscience" in Narrative was a welcome event, re-opening as it did the scholarly conversation on a topic too long ignored. But honored as I am by Culler's attention to Authorial Divinity, I find myself...

Knowing or creating? A response to Barbara Olson.
October 1, 2006... I welcome Barbara Olson's response as a contribution to a discussion of omniscience that seems to me long overdue. I find I actually agree with several of her main points, and I am pleased to have the opportunity to clarify these and some...

Speed, rhythm, movement: a dialogue on K. Hume's article "narrative speed".(DIALOGUE)
October 1, 2006... The following reflections on "narrative speed" are an attempt to remediate the traditional 'reply' to a scholarly article, followed by a 'reply to the reply' by the first author. Instead, the two authors of this jointly written response to the...