Narrative Temporality and the Power to Change in Kate Atkinson's Life after Life

2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 87-104
Author(s):  
Nader Helmy
Keyword(s):  
Narrative Temporality

scholarly journals The ordinary, cultures, and management: the organizing processes within the handicraft sector in Piúma (ES), Brazil

2020 ◽  
Vol 27 (95) ◽  
pp. 644-673
Author(s):  
Filipe Cabacine Lopes Machado ◽  
Alfredo Rodrigues Leite da Silva ◽  
Talita Almeida Fernandes
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
Participant Observation ◽  
Alternative View ◽  
Everyday Practices ◽  
External Pressures ◽  
Document Collection ◽  
Narrative Practice ◽  
Cultural Plurality ◽  
Narrative Temporality ◽  
The City

Abstract This article aims to understand the ordinary management of the resistances and forms of survival, organized in everyday practices that are in part product and producers of cultural plurality in the field of handicrafts in the city of Piúma, Brazil. From the perspective of practice-based studies (Feldman & Orlikowski, 2011), we articulate theoretically the approach of ordinary management (Carrieri, Perdigão & Aguiar, 2014) of craft production (Sennett, 2009) and the certeaunian contributions. These contributions are directed towards the recognition of the games of force relations within a cultural plurality. In proposing the focus on this plurality, this article fills a gap, because in previous studies on ordinary management, this cultural plurality has not been specifically addressed. The proposal was supported by a qualitative research, accomplished through document collection, participant observation, and unstructured interviews with five artisans from Piúma. In the analysis of the data, we articulate the narrative practice in De Certeau (1985) and narrative temporality in Ricoeur (1994). As results, we identify different networks of force relations in which artisans are involved in organizing practices of ordinary management. In them, cultures have shown themselves as plural productions, moving away from the view of a popular culture, external to everyday practices or submissive to other external pressures. This article contributes to an alternative view at the Ordinary Management of handicrafts and other organizational actions based on cultural plurality.

scholarly journals Time and narrative: Temporality, memory, and instant history of Balkan wars

2016 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
pp. 239-272 ◽  
Author(s):  
Enika Abazi ◽  
Albert Doja
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Collective Memory ◽  
Media Industry ◽  
Southeast Europe ◽  
Balkan Wars ◽  
History Of ◽  
Narrative Temporality

In this article, we explore the ways in which from the beginning to the end of twentieth century different temporalities and historicizations stemming from different narrative perspectives on the Balkan wars have constructed different commonplace, timeworn and enduring representations. In practical terms, we take issue with several patterns of narratives, such as the sensationalism of media industry, the essentialization of collective memory, the securitization of imaginary threats and the pacifist activism of normative transformations. It is our contention to argue that they historicize certain moments of rupture, which are subsequently used and misused to construct an anachronistic representation of Southeast Europe that may conceal hidden interests. Contrastingly, an alternative narrative that emphasizes a “history from below” as an apperception of the temporality of being can offer a revisionist approach that may show the futility of ahistorical accounts. 1

scholarly journals Postmodernist Play within Different Text Levels in There But For The by Ali Smith

2019 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 232-241
Author(s):  
G. I. Lushnikova ◽  
T. Iu. Osadchaia
Keyword(s):  
Literary Work ◽  
Literary Discourse ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Modern Fiction ◽  
Discourse Strategies ◽  
Narrative Temporality ◽  
Play Elements ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Internal Speech ◽  
Different Levels

Postmodern play is one of the important characteristics of modern fiction; it often acts as a text-forming element of the literary work. Literary play is manifested within different text levels and literary discourse strategies: the narrative, composition, imagery, diction, narrative temporality and modality, the technique of metanarrative. The present paper features the poetics of play within different text levels and literary discourse strategies in the novel by contemporary Scottish writer Ali Smith "There But For The". At the level of the novel’s narrative, the play manifests itself in the confusion of reality and fantasy, imagination and actual memory in the characters' internal speech. At the level of composition, the author plays with the readers, giving them an opportunity to find some "key" that will connect the four chapters of the novel and the prologue; the characters and connections between them are sometimes also a mystery. Within the literary strategy of temporality, the following play elements are presented: the contrast between serious reasoning about Time and humorous comments and thematically related pieces of poetry; nonlinear narration; description of events which take place in different time periods in a short context. Within the literary strategy of modality, we can trace the author’s play with the reader and the effect of defeated expectancy. The technique of metanarrative also contains elements of the play: the literary and stylistic means used in the novel are explained both in a serious and a joking manner. The diction of the novel is characterized by usage of stylistic devices of different language levels, their function being that of the play: oxymoron, zeugma, chiasm, holophrasis, different types of morphological repetition, and pun. The results of the study suggest that the introduction of elements of a play into the novel at its different levels makes a sharp contrast with the existential themes of the work. Such a contrast greatly enhances the impact of this novel on the reader and requires further study. 

Early Modern English Literature and the Poetics of Cartographic Anxiety

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chris Barrett
Keyword(s):  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Early Modern ◽  
English Literature ◽  
Epic Poetry ◽  
Faerie Queene ◽  
Early Modern English ◽  
Modern Britain ◽  
Early Modern English Literature ◽  
Narrative Temporality ◽  
The Faerie Queene

Though the Renaissance map—made newly accurate and newly ubiquitous by the Cartographic Revolution—delighted, inspired, and fascinated, it also unsettled, upset, and disturbed sixteenth- and seventeenth-century readers. Early Modern English Literature and the Poetics of Cartographic Anxiety is the first monograph to demonstrate how early modern anxieties about maps and map logics accompanied an early modern poetics of representational crisis. The book first considers the manifold ways that the cartographic provoked suspicion, unease, and even hostility in early modern Britain, and it highlights literature’s sensitivity to the map’s representational deceptions and politically menacing implications. Second, it explores how Renaissance English literature, and specifically epic poetry, mounted a sustained critique of cartographic materials, of their strategies of representation, and of their often realpolitik, strategically distortive uses. In considering the ways epic poetry channels anxieties about cartographic technologies into a critique of early modern literature’s own protocols of representation, the bookpursues an early modern poetics of anxiety, one that productively complicates concepts of allegory, description, personification, bibliographic materiality, narrative, temporality, analogy and other elements of literary representation. Early Modern English Literature and the Poetics of Cartographic Anxiety reads three major poems of the period—Spenser’s The Faerie Queene (1590, 1596), Drayton’s Poly-Olbion (1612, 1622), and Milton’s Paradise Lost (1667, 1674)—in terms of their vexed and vexing relationships with cartographic materials, and shows how the productive protest staged by these texts inflects early modern and contemporary accounts of representation itself.

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