Narrative articles from October 2007

Narrative archives from October 2007

Just looking.(Editor's Column)(Editorial)
October 1, 2007... A striking feature of this issue is the range and diversity of narratives discussed in its six essays. Greg Forter, writing about trauma theory, focuses on Sigmund Freud's case history of the Wolf Man and on William Faulkner's Light in August...

Freud, Faulkner, Caruth: trauma and the politics of literary form.(Sigmund Freud, William Faulkner, Cathy Caruth)(Essay)
October 1, 2007... For the growing number of critics concerned to trace the links among historical forces, psychic experience, and literary expression, the growth of trauma studies since the publication of Cathy Caruth's Unclaimed Experience (1996) offers an...

The "narrative is travel" metaphor: between spatial sequence and open consequence.(Critical essay)
October 1, 2007... The understanding of narratives is closely tied to the experience of travel. In narrative theory, the travel story features regularly as either the model narrative or the model for narrative. In Vladimir Propp's classic study of story grammar,...

Storytelling and the sciences of mind: cognitive narratology, discursive psychology, and narratives in face-to-face interaction.(Essay)
October 1, 2007... 1. INTRODUCTION Research in the cognitive sciences, including fields such as psychology, linguistics, and the philosophy of mind, can help foster the development of "postclassical" approaches to the study of narrative. At issue are...

Objectless curiosity: Frankenstein, The Station Agent, and other strange narratives.(Critical essay)
October 1, 2007... The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity. Dorothy Parker Early in Poe's first Dupin story, "Murders in the Rue Morgue," the narrator observes two distinct yet obliquely similar kinds of attention: that of...

Stuck in a loop? Dialogue in hypertext fiction.(Critical essay)
October 1, 2007... HYPERTEXT FICTION AND INTERACTIVITY: ISSUES AND DEBATES Hypertext fiction has provoked much debate since the appearance of the first examples in the late 80s. Much of this debate has been focused on questions regarding the status of these...

The ethics of audience positioning in the paintings of Leon Golub and the prints of Sue Coe.(Critical essay)
October 1, 2007... There is no question that the works of artists Leon Golub and Sue Coe share an overwhelming political subject matter. Golub's series of paintings Mercenaries, White Squad, and Vietnam feature over-sized soldiers, singly or in small groups,...