From Unnatural Narrative to Unnatural Reading: A Review of A Poetics of Unnatural Narrative

Style ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 48 (4) ◽  
pp. 629
Author(s):  
Christopher D. Kilgore ◽  
Jan Richardson
Keyword(s):  
Unnatural Narrative

Unnatural Narrative Theory

Style ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 50 (4) ◽  
pp. 385 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richardson
Keyword(s):  
Narrative Theory ◽  
Unnatural Narrative

Unnatural narratology: core issues and critical debates

2015 ◽  
Vol 44 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Shang Biwu
Keyword(s):  
The Core ◽  
Unnatural Narratology ◽  
Primary Object ◽  
Feminist Narratology ◽  
Cognitive Narratology ◽  
Postclassical Narratology ◽  
Unnatural Narrative ◽  
Rhetorical Narratology ◽  
Core Issues

AbstractTaking anti-mimetic narratives as its primary object of investigation, unnatural narratology aspires to establish its status as a discipline of unnatural poetics. In recent years, it has rapidly developed into one of the most prominent sub-branches of postclassical narratology, standing in direct parallel to feminist narratology, rhetorical narratology, and cognitive narratology. This paper begins by delineating various definitions of unnatural narrative and proceeds to discuss unnaturalness, interpretative strategies, heuristic values, and the interrelations between unnatural narratology and other schools of narratological thought, so as to investigate the core issues of unnatural narratology and the critical debates on it. The paper ends with an outline set of directions for future explorations in this field.

Unnatural narratives, Brexit and ideology in Ian McEwan’s The Cockroach

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 124-146
Author(s):  
Dandan Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Narrative Strategies ◽  
Historical Climate ◽  
Historical Turn ◽  
The Future ◽  
Unnatural Narrative ◽  
Unnatural Narratives

Abstract Against the backdrop of sudden shifts in global political and historical climate, our century has witnessed a convergence of turns in humanities, including the nonhuman turn and the historical turn. Ian McEwan’s latest novella, The Cockroach, is a just work along this line. Through the use of unnatural narratives within realistic context, McEwan presents readers with a world that is both strange and recognisable. By examining the unnatural narrative strategies, including the deployment of nonhuman character and omniscient narrator, McEwan expresses concerns for the future of humanity and fear for social and cultural parochialism, populism and anti-cosmopolitanism.

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