scholarly journals The Manic Pixie Dream Girl in US YA Fiction: Introducing a Narrative Model

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Jennifer Gouck
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Author(s):  
Roy Suddaby ◽  
Trevor Israelsen ◽  
J. Robert Mitchell ◽  
Dominic S.K. Lim

Author(s):  
Jonathan Crowe

The role of implications in Australian constitutional law has long been debated. Jeffrey Goldsworthy has argued in a series of influential publications that legitimate constitutional implications must be derived in some way from authorial intentions. I call this the intentionalist model of constitutional implications. The intentionalist model has yielded a sceptical response to several recent High Court decisions, including the ruling in Roach v Electoral Commissioner that the Constitution enshrines an implied conditional guarantee of universal franchise. This article outlines an alternative way of thinking about constitutional implications, which I call the narrative model. I argue that at least some constitutional implications are best understood as arising from historically extended narratives about the relationship of the constitutional text to wider social practices and institutions. The article begins by discussing the limitations of the intentionalist model. It then considers the role of descriptive and normative implications in both factual and fictional narratives, before applying this analysis to the Australian Constitution. I argue that the narrative model offers a plausible basis for the High Court’s reasoning in Roach v Electoral Commissioner.


INFORMASI ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 48 (1) ◽  
pp. 125
Author(s):  
Anastasia Yuni Widyaningrum ◽  
Noveina Silviyani Dugis

The reporting of KPK and Polri in is interesting when viewed as a series of films or fictional stories. This research tries to dissect how the narrative model Algirdas Greimas can be used to read the relation of characters that appear in a story like fiction. Using the main report of three Tempo editions selected among the Nine Tempo editions containing KPK and Polri reporting in 2015. Three of nine editions were selected in the middle as the culmination of the story of the entire series of KPK-Polri reporting stories. Using the actan model of Algirdas Greimas, it was found that the parties involved in the KPK-Polri story consisted of many people who, if assembled in actor model relationships, would find a knot that the conclusion of this study was that the KPK was narrated as a weak party, full of problems, and violate ethics so it must be handled and resolved by the Polri. In these three stories, Polri, represented by Bareskrim, is narrated as an institution that protects and controls the violation of the Law. The KPK is then represented as the wrong party for violating the rules, while the POLRI is the right party because it enforces the rules.Pemberitaan KPK dan Polri di majalah Tempo menjadi menarik ketika dilihat sebagai sebuah rangkaian kisah film ataupun kisah fiksi. Maka penelitian ini berusaha untuk membedah bagaimana model narasi Algirdas Greimas dapat digunakan untuk membaca relasi karakter yang muncul dalam sebuah pemberitaan layaknya kisah fiksi. Penelitian ini menggunakan laporan utama tiga edisi Tempo yang dipilih diantara Sembilan edisi Tempo yang memuat pemberitaan KPK Polri pada tahun 2015. Tiga dari sembilan edisi, dipilih tiga edisi di bagian tengah sebagai puncak kisah dari seluruh rangkaian kisah pemberitaan KPK-Polri. Menggunakan model actan dari Algirdas Greimas, didapatkan data bahwa pihak yang terlibat dalam kisah KPK-Polri terdiri dari banyak orang yang saling berelasi. Kesimpulan dari penelitian ini, KPK dinarasikan sebagai pihak lemah, penuh dengan masalah, dan melanggar etika dan hokum sehingga harus ditangani dan diselesaikan oleh Bareskrim Polri. Dalam ketiga kisah ini, POLRI yang diwakili Bareskrim dinarasikan sebagai lembaga yang mengayomi dan melakukan penertiban terhadap pelanggaran Undang-Undang. KPK kemudian direpresentasikan sebagai pihak yang salah karena melanggar aturan, sedangkan POLRI adalah pihak yang benar karena menegakkan aturan.


Author(s):  
Ali Hakimzadeh Ardekani ◽  
Mohammad Hossein Fallah ◽  
Saeed Vaziri ◽  
Abolghasem Asi Mozneb

Introduction: In the Holy Quran, hope and hope for the future have been spoken about many times and in different ways. In general, the study of the concept of hope shows that hope in any case, means waiting to achieve the goal, is accompanied by effort. In recent years, to achieve such a goal, especially in Iran, they use integrated monotheistic therapy. The aim of this study was to design and validate the Quranic-narrative model of hope therapy with an integrated monotheistic treatment approach. Methods: This study is a combined method (qualitative and quantitative) of exploratory type. Statistical sample in qualitative section 48 people were selected by purposive sampling method and in quantitative section 313 people were selected by relative stratified sampling method. The research tool was a semi-structured checklist and interview in the qualitative part and a researcher-made questionnaire in the quantitative part. In the process of research, the literature of hope in the Qur'an and narrations and psychological sources were studied and the indicators of hope and hope therapy were extracted from this literature. Finally, the appropriateness of the indicators with the structures and the structures with the stages of the existing models were measured. Free coding was used to analyze the qualitative part of the information and confirmatory factor analysis was used in the quantitative part of the exploratory factor analysis. Results: The findings indicate the extraction of the Quranic-narrative model of hope therapy in 4 stages, 8 steps, 15 components and 75 items. Stages and components of the model: Step 1) Understanding the meaning and destination of monotheistic hope (expecting something beloved from God / benevolence from God / peace before God / desire for truth - hereafter hope / worldly hope), step 2) Determining the paths of monotheistic hope ( Positive attitude to solving problems / understanding needs and desires / creating monotheistic behavior), stage 3) giving meaning to monotheistic hope (strengthening faith and belief / performing rituals and worship / hope to attract divine mercy and gifts / hope for piety and divine guidance) and Step 4) Integration of monotheistic beliefs and behavior (integration of beliefs and behavior). Conclusion: Considering the appropriateness of hope therapy models and the model presented in this study, it can be said that the current model is effective for the treatment of despair.


2018 ◽  
Vol 7 ◽  
pp. 87-115
Author(s):  
Aleksandra Mochocka

Two Perspectives on the Performative Social Body: Teenage Make-up Routines in Fanfik and the Jeżycjada cycle. The article discusses make-up as an important element in a storyworld of YA fiction. It uses examples taken from novels by two Polish authors, the well-established and acclaimed Małgorzata Musierowicz, the author of the Jeżycjada cycle 1977–2015, and Natalia Osińska, who has recently debuted with a novel entitled Fanfik 2016. The article shows that Osińska’s novel can be seen as a transformative rendition of Musi­erowicz’s works. It also focuses on the paratexts adding meaningful context in the case of both Musiero­wicz and Osińska, as well as comments on the public recognition of Musierowicz’s fiction, the responses of Musierowicz’s fandom to the alleged ideological message of her novels, and the political agenda of the publishing house that put Osińska’s book on the market. The concepts of the performative social body, the cosmetic paradox, and glamour are employed to argue that Osińska’s book is intended as a critique of the world-view presented in Jeżycjada’s storyworld. Although a direct relationship between the two fictional worlds cannot be established, the article highlights some tangent points between them: in both cases, make-up serves the expression of the value system. In the Jeżycjada cycle, it is presented mostly as disguise and deception even though at the same time discreet make-up is meant to be part and parcel of womens’ lives. By contrast, featuring queer teenagers, Osińska’s debut novel highlights the transformative function of cosmetics as tools used to create the social body.Две точки зрения на перформативное социальное тело: подростковый макияж в романах Fanfik и Jeżycjada. В тексте рассматривается макияж как важный элемент мира беллетристики для юных читателей. В статье использованы примеры из романов двух польских авторов: из­вестной Малгожаты Мусерович, автора цикла Jeżycjada, и Натальи Осинской, которая недавно дебютировала c романом Fanfik. Текст объясняет тот факт, что роман Oсинской был провоз­глашен своего рода интерпретацией произведений Мусерович. В статье проанализированы паратексты, создающие значимый контекст, в произведениях Мусерович и Осинской. Автор исследования затрагивает вопрос об общественном признании литературы Мусерович. В статье прокомментированы ответы фэндома писательницы на предполагаемое идеологическое посла­ние ее романов и рассмотрена политическая позиция издательства, которое выпустило книгу Осинской на рынок. В статье также идет речь о концепции перформативного социального тела, косметического парадокса и гламура. Книга Осинской считается критикой мировоззрения, представленного в мире Jeżycjady. Хотя прямая связь между двумя вымышленными мирами не может быть установлена, между ними, безусловно, есть некоторые точки пересечения. В обоих случаях макияж служит для выражения системы ценностей. В цикле Jeżycjada макияж представ­лен в основном как маскировка и обман, но в то же время сдержанный макияж — неотъемлемая часть жизни женщин. С другой стороны, опиcывая квир подростков, Осинская подчеркивает в своем дебютном романе трансформационную функцию косметики как инструмента, исполь­зуемого для создания социального тела.


2021 ◽  
pp. 1-14
Author(s):  
Kamila Wysłucha

Abstract The article argues that the famous story about the strike, exile and return of the Roman aulos players, which is recorded in the sixth book of Ovid's Fasti and referred to by other Latin and Greek sources, is based on a narrative model that already existed in Greece in the Archaic period. The study draws parallels between the tale of the pipers and the myth of the return of Hephaestus to Olympus, suggesting that, apart from similar plots, the two stories share many motifs, such as references to themes derived from comedy and satyr drama. Searching for a possible channel of transmission of the story from Archaic Greece to Augustan Rome, the study explores the presence of satyric motifs in Etruscan vase-painting and Roman processional rites. It is furthermore emphasized that many of these motifs, which also appeared in lost satyr-plays, are echoed in Augustan poetry.


Book 2 0 ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 65-79 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jean Webb

The coronavirus pandemic has stimulated a number of texts, which are aimed at helping children to cope with situations alien to them. For example, the picture book Staying Home by Sally Nichols and Vivienne Schwarz (2020) deals with the conditions of lockdown and family isolation, whilst Piperpotamus by Annis Watts endeavours to explain COVID-19. This pandemic is not the only such event in history. The Black Death swept across Europe (1347–51) followed by the Spanish flu pandemic (1918–20). Both of these have stimulated historical fiction for older children and Young Adults and have done so by employing differing literary approaches. For instance, Cat Winters’ In the Shadow of Blackbirds (2013) incorporates a ghost story set against the contexts of séances and spirit photographers as the bereaved hope to gain comfort, whilst Charles Todd’s An Unmarked Grave (2012) is a murder mystery. Dystopian science fiction has also been employed to examine the equivalent circumstances of such pandemics. The plague in Gone (2008–14) by Michael Grant follows a nuclear disaster, which has produced a world where only those under fifteen have survived beneath a dome created by a young autistic child at the point of the explosion. Unforeseen forces have erupted resulting in mutation where individuals have supernatural powers taking them into a posthuman state. Their world is later blighted by plague and the children have to deal with remaking their lives and their society without the help of adults. This article will consider the various ways that such texts have approached these world-changing disasters and the common themes, which emerge to give our current generation of children ways of thinking about their present and their future.


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