Narratology

he narrates the story and explained what does Isabel feels with the external events from her perspective. In portrayal of the heroine Isabel, James creates central consciousness, which is fixed internal focalization in terms of Genette's modern narratology with all the characters evolving around her. As the main focalizer of the novel, Isabel's consciousness always present her complexity when facing the external events. James as narrator stands behind the fixed focalization on Isabel and gives…

message is portrayed in different ways. This message is usually relates to the theme of the story. Most of the decisions humans make revolve around something they have experienced in the past. In Arthurs W. Franks “Letting Stories Breath: A Socio-Narratology”, he brings up the concept of how stories affect people’s reality and what is their true meaning. His excerpts are tied into Beowulf, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, and The Wife of Bath’s Tale in different ways. Each story is different but…

S. "Towards a Feminist Narratology" in Feminism: An Anthology. New Brunswick Rutgers University Press, 1991. Liu Jiewei, & Tang Weisheng. "The Theme of the Story of an Hour and its Reception of Contemporary Chinese readers." Tianjin Foreign Studies University Journal, 2006.…

For the purpose of this essay, I will be speaking about Mieke Bal’s theory of narratology and applying the theory to a piece of narrative culture. The piece I've chosen to speak about is the movie ‘Se7en’. It was produced in 1995 , it is filmed in an unnamed american city and director of the movie is David Fincher. I have chosen to focus on the final scene and the sequence in which the narrative is told. Bal’s theory helps to decipher, understand and evaluate narratives. Bal breaks narrative…

“unreliable narrator” in 1961, by referring the narrator as someone whose credibility is compromised. Vera Nünning’s “Unreliable Narration and the Historical Variability of Values and Norms: The Vicar of Wakefield as a Test Case of a Cultural-Historical Narratology,” verifies Booth’s unreliable narrator definition and suggests Booth’s concept “clearly [reveals] that the phenomenon also involves a whole series of traps…

University of Wisconsin-Madison Department of French and Italian College of Letters and Science Many people say that I am a member of the generation X, born just before the war, in a country that was right in the process of falling apart. Not long after I first saw the light of day, my country has changed several times its name, its anthem, geographical layout and national identity. I was waiting in line in the arms of my mother to get some milk, I have survived an awful authoritarian regime,…

When Kubrick unleashed his final cinematic work Eyes Wide Shut in1999, like all his previous films, it was grievously misunderstood by audiences and critics alike. Based on Arthur Schnitzler’s 1926 novella Traumnovelle (Dream Story), Kubrick upholds a psychoanalytic parallel between the two, as the source story heavily borrowed from Freud’s theory of life (Eros) and death instincts (Thanatos). The task of transporting the overall…

Beowulf is an Old English poem that was written in 700-1000 ca. by an unknown author (Berard). The poem is split into two parts; the first part is tells the story of the main hero named Beowulf – who is the eponymous hero of the story– that helps Hrothgar, King of the Danes, kill the monsters that was terrorizing the court. The first monster Beowulf defeated was called Grendel, and after he was defeated his mother – who was known as Grendel’s mother because she is never given a name in the poem…

I am applying to York’s Education: Language, Culture and Teaching program to further investigate the role of social pathologies, structural-pedagogical policy frameworks, and the consequential affective and behavioural developments in reaction to (cyber)bullying. Potential supervisors whose current research areas of interest coincide with my intentions are: Professor Sue Winton and Professor Lisa Farley. Professor Sue Winton’s incentive towards policy-making expounds my interests in the…

The level of interaction and immersion that gaming requires necessitates a passion and commitment that is the means by which the gamer will survive and evolve beyond their current identification. Gamers will never truly die. The term “gamer” however, is becoming increasingly difficult to define because of diverse characteristics associated with the gamer such as age, gender, sexuality and race. As the popularity of gaming has spread to new platforms so has the public’s perception of who a gamer…