scholarly journals TOWARDS A PRAGMATICS OF NON-FICTIONAL NARRATIVE TRUTH: GRICEAN AND RELEVANCE-THEORETIC PERSPECTIVES

2016 ◽  
Vol 49 (0) ◽  
Author(s):  
Robyn Berghoff ◽  
Kate Huddlestone
Keyword(s):  
Fictional Narrative ◽  
Narrative Truth

‘Horse Race, Rich in Woes’: Orestes’ Chariot Race and the Erinyes in Sophocles’ Electra

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-19
Author(s):  
Alexandre Johnston
Keyword(s):  
Horse Race ◽  
The Real ◽  
Fictional Narrative ◽  
Chariot Racing

Abstract This article offers a new, ironic reading of the false narrative of Orestes’ chariot accident in Sophocles’ Electra (680–763). It argues that the speech exploits an established connection between the ancestral evils of the Atreids and the thematic nexus of horses, chariot racing and disaster to evoke Orestes’ flight from the Erinyes following the matricide. Focusing on the language and structure of the narrative as well as drawing on other versions of the story (notably the surviving plays by Aeschylus and Euripides), the article demonstrates, in contrast to previous readings, that the speech is much more than an over-elaborate means to an end. Instead, in an ominous and profoundly ironic twist, the Paedagogus’ fictional narrative of the chariot race offers a possible vision of the trials awaiting the real Orestes. The matricide and murder, far from ending the ancestral woes of the Atreids, may well bring about Orestes’ pursuit by the Erinyes.

Sancho's Fortune: Money and Narrative Truth in Don Quixote

MLN ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 135 (5) ◽  
pp. 1214-1226
Author(s):  
Timothy Hampton
Keyword(s):  
Don Quixote ◽  
Narrative Truth

Suicide of a Tenor Amidst the Stage Setting of the Werther Opera's Death Scene

Crisis ◽  
2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Manina Mestas ◽  
Florian Arendt
Keyword(s):  
Single Case ◽  
Causal Effects ◽  
Death Scene ◽  
Individual Level ◽  
Fictional Narrative ◽  
Single Case Report ◽  
Werther Effect ◽  
High Level ◽  
Identification Processes

Abstract. Background: Reporting on suicide can elicit an increase in suicides, a phenomenon termed the “Werther effect.” The name can be traced back to an alleged spike in suicides after the publication of Goethe's novel The Sorrows of Young Werther in 1774, in which the protagonist Werther dies by suicide. Aims: Acknowledging the importance and primacy of systematic ecological and individual-level studies, we provide a historical single-case report of the suicide of a “late arrival of the Werther epidemic,” as the death was headlined in a news report in 1927. Method: Archival research on tenor Paul Vidal's suicide was conducted. Results: Vidal reconstructed the scene of the final act of the opera Werther in his apartment and died by a gunshot, as did Werther. Limitations: Causal interpretations must be made with caution. Conclusion: Striking similarities between Werther's and Vidal's deaths support the idea of strong identification with the fictional narrative and suggest causal effects. Considering the repeated high level of immersiveness and the intense emotions of opera performances, it is likely that performing the role of Werther increases identification processes, contributing to detrimental effects. The lack of knowledge regarding the role of fictional suicide stories on artists' suicides is discussed.

scholarly journals Consuming Desire in Under the Skin

Humanities ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 39
Author(s):  
Yael Maurer
Keyword(s):  
Human Condition ◽  
The Other ◽  
Human Species ◽  
Fictional Narrative ◽  
Porous Boundaries ◽  
Destructive Potential ◽  
The Human Condition

Jonathan Glazer’s 2013 film Under the Skin is a Gothicized science fictional narrative about sexuality, alterity and the limits of humanity. The film’s protagonist, an alien female, passing for an attractive human, seduces unwary Scottish males, leading them to a slimy, underwater/womblike confinement where their bodies dissolve and nothing but floating skins remain. In this paper, I look at the film’s engagement with the notions of consumption, the alien as devourer trope, and the nature of the ‘other’, comparing this filmic depiction with Michael Faber’s novel on which the film is based. I examine the film’s reinvention of Faber’s novel as a more open-ended allegory of the human condition as always already ‘other’. In Faber’s novel, the alien female seduces and captures the men who are consumed and devoured by an alien race, thus providing a reversal of the human species’ treatment of animals as mere food. Glazer’s film, however, chooses to remain ambiguous about the alien female’s ‘nature’ to the very end. Thus, the film remains a more open-ended meditation about alterity, the destructive potential of sexuality, and the fear of consumption which lies at the heart of the Gothic’s interrogation of porous boundaries.

scholarly journals The Local Festival of Kampos: A Fictional Narrative of Place, Space and Interiority

Interiority ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 21-40
Author(s):  
Maria Vidali
Keyword(s):  
Paul Ricoeur ◽  
The Public ◽  
Patron Saint ◽  
Architectural Space ◽  
Holy Trinity ◽  
Fictional Narrative ◽  
Farming Village ◽  
Village Life ◽  
The Village ◽  
The Church

This article is created out of the architectural space and narratives of village life. The narratives concern the interiority of life in Kampos, a farming village on the Greek Cycladic island of Tinos, on the day when the village celebrates the Holy Trinity, its patron saint. The village area on this festive day is depicted in the movement of the families from their houses to the church, the procession from the patron saint’s church to a smaller church through the main village street, and, finally, in the movement of the villagers back to speci!c houses. Through a series of spatial and social layers, the meaning of the communal table on the day of the festival, where food is shared, is reached. A series of negotiations create a different space, where the public, private and communal blend and reveal different layers of “interiority” through which this community is bounded and connected. In this article, I follow the revelation and discovery of truth through fiction, story or myth, as argued by the French philosopher Paul Ricoeur.

scholarly journals A SHORT STORY READING SECTION AS AN ALTERNATIVE WAY TO IMPROVE STUDENT’S LITERACY IN SD N 6 PANJER KEBUMEN

2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 117
Author(s):  
Dwi Novitasari ◽  
Eka Fajriatul Janah ◽  
Muhamad Chamdani
Keyword(s):  
Short Stories ◽  
Short Story ◽  
Reading Skills ◽  
Lesson Plan ◽  
Literacy Skills ◽  
Story Reading ◽  
Fictional Narrative ◽  
Sentence Patterns ◽  
Narrative Prose ◽  
The Impact

<em>The goverment made changes to the Indonesian education curriculum of the education unit level curriculum into the curriculum of 2013. Changes in the curriculum in 2013 lies in the preparation of the RPP (Lesson Plan) and the ability of literacy. The emphasis on the preparation of the RPP has been resolved with the holding of training, but to literacy still unwell. One way to improve the literacy skills is through the reading of short stories. The reading of the short story aims to help improve reading skills and knowledge of sentence patterns, so it can be an idea to create an article. The focus on this study include: (1) The concept of reading a short story; (2) The impact of short story readings. These studies include: (1) The reading of short stories is an activity habituation to read a fictional narrative prose text .; (2) The impact resulting from the reading of short stories such as enhancing the knowledge, encourage the growth likes to read, and to foster the ability to write.</em>

Showing versus telling

2016 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 209-233 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rosario Caballero
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Description ◽  
Motion Events ◽  
Direct Speech ◽  
Fictional Narrative ◽  
Fictional Narratives ◽  
Speech Events ◽  
The Way

In this paper I provide a qualitative description of the verbs used to introduce Direct Speech (DS) in fictional narratives written in English and their Spanish translations in order to compare the way these two languages reconstruct speech events in texts by means of both speech verbs (e.g. say/decir, counter/argumentar, declare/manifestar) and non-speech verbs (e.g. grin/sonreír, scowl/fruncir el ceño). Using a corpus of popular fictional narrative genres and drawing upon typological research on motion after the work by Talmy (1985, 1988, 1991) and Slobin (1996a, 1996b, 2004, 2005, 2006). I look into the strategies used in English and Spanish for recreating speech events in order to explore whether the typological differences between these languages are replicated in the case of speech. The hypothesis is that, contrary to what happens with motion events, the differences between English and Spanish do not rest upon lexical availability but, rather, on the weight placed in different speech elements in agreement with two different agendas regarding speech events. While congruent with typological studies, this piece of research attempts to broaden their scope and explore a topic still underexplored.

Designing and Making

Architects ◽  
2019 ◽  
pp. 57-60
Author(s):  
Thomas Yarrow
Keyword(s):  
Rapid Change ◽  
Hard Work ◽  
Narrative Truth ◽  
Design Projects ◽  
Set Up

The office bears the trace of other times and places. As I experienced it in 2014, the room contained ten architects, then involved in the construction of four buildings, with numerous other design projects at various stages of completion. When I visited two years previously, there were still only six architects, working in an office in the house of Tomas’s codirector, Tom, in an extension he had himself designed. The practice had moved there a couple of years before, having outgrown an adapted garden shed at the end of Tomas’s rented cottage. Freezing in winter and too hot in summer, the shed was where they first set up office and where they subsequently took on their first employee. These details are themselves part of a story I hear recounted on a number of occasions. They are factually correct but convey a narrative truth beyond this: of sacrifice, and of rapid change from humble beginnings that is a source collective pride. Alongside this are ambivalences, anxieties that the progress won through hard work has nonetheless been accompanied by changes about which they are more ambivalent....

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