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- Aare, Cecilia, 1959-
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The Case of Literary Journalism : Rethinking Fictionality, Narrativity, and Imagination
- 2023
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Ingår i: Style. - Pennsylvania : Pennsylvania State University Press. - 0039-4238 .- 2374-6629. ; 57:4, s. 440-458
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article discusses the genre of literary journalism/reportage against a background of earlier assumptions on fictionality. At a local level in nonfiction, fic- tionality can be expressed through invented stories and scenarios that create a con- trast to the global, nonfictive context. However, fictionality can also be expressed through stylistic devices that traditionally have been associated with narrative fic- tion. A local contrast may appear, but only if the genre in itself is not narrative. If the focus is on the nonfictional and narrative genre of literary journalism/reportage, there will be no contrast. Here, the rhetoric will work just like in narrative fiction and should be considered to be part of the features of narrativity. Furthermore, the concept imagination should be perceived in close relation to Monika Fludernik’s understanding of narrative as experience. The conclusion is a call to partly rethink existing connections between fictionality, narrativity, and imagination in order to better understand the narrative nature of reportage.
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- Hopsch, Lena, 1961, et al.
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Embodied Rhythm in Space and Time A Poem and a Sculpture
- 2017
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Ingår i: Style. - : Project Muse. - 0039-4238 .- 2374-6629. ; 51:4, s. 413-441
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- In this article, we outline the concept of aesthetic rhythm as an embodied lived experience. We investigate the temporal rhythms of a poem by Seamus Heaney and the spatial rhythms of a sculpture by Lena Hopsch, discussing similarities and differences between the two modalities. Previous research on aesthetic rhythm has mostly focused on meter, but here we use a broader concept of rhythm as we refer to - pre-metered forms from classical antiquity. Aesthetic rhythm in an artwork is described as a play with proportions in time and space. Rhythm continuously stages bodily experiences of balance and direction. We develop the embodiment perspective of Maurice Merleau-Ponty as well as Mark Johnson's concept of image schema. The schemas are shown to be premodal as rhythms function the same in temporal and spatial artworks. We also demonstrate a model for interpretation, developed out of the rhythms of the artifact.
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- Kuzmičová, Anežka, 1982-
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Literary narrative and mental imagery : A view from embodied cognition
- 2014
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Ingår i: Style. - 0039-4238 .- 2374-6629. ; 48:3, s. 275-293
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The objective of this article is twofold. In the first part, I will discuss two issues central to any theoretical inquiry into mental imagery: embodiment and consciousness. I will do so against the backdrop of second-generation cognitive science, more specifically the increasingly popular research framework of embodied cognition, and I will consider two caveats attached to its current exploitation in narrative theory. In the second part, I will attempt to cast new light on readerly mental imagery by offering a typology of what I propose to be its four basic varieties. The typology is grounded in the framework of embodied cognition and it is largely compatible with key neuroscientific and other experimental evidence produced within the framework.
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- Polvinen, Merja
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The Dark Inside the Prologue : Enactive Cognition and Eerie Ontology in Catherynne M. Valente’s Radiance
- 2021
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Ingår i: Style. - : Pennsylvania State University Press. - 0039-4238 .- 2374-6629. ; 55:3
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Twenty-first-century fiction continues to examine the ontological instabilities of postmodernism. But even as they hold on to the idea of multiple realities, these works also aim to change the tone with which that idea is represented. This article analyzes Catherynne M. Valente's Radiance (2015), a novel which thematizes the unstable ontologies that Brian McHale describes through the metaphor of flickering. By adding embodied and communicative dimensions to the postmodernist imaginary, Valente's novel rethinks what the metaphor of flickering could mean and what effects ontological groundlessness can have on readers. The article connects these literary phenomena to the theories of enactive cognition, and suggests that enactive theory, just like Valente's reinterpretation of postmodern flickering, provides a sense of the world having strange agency as well as lacking proper solidity. Thus contemplating our perception of reality is eerie in the sense proposed by Mark Fisher, a term that provides a new grip on the experience of unstable ontology.
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- Vogel, Anna, 1969-
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How to Build a Metaphor : Novel Metaphors Construed by Concrete Elements in Tomas Tranströmer’s Poetry
- 2017
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Ingår i: Style. - : Project Muse. - 0039-4238 .- 2374-6629. ; 51:4, s. 506-525
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- In the first linguistic study on Nobel laureate Tomas Tranströmer’s poetry, a hypothesis generated from earlier research in literature was tested on poems where Tranströmer makes use of concreteness to a high degree. In addition, a comparison corpus was created, consisting of poems by authors who share important common traits with Tranströmer. The results did not support the hypothesis, as the comparison corpus also showed a high degree of concreteness. However, in contrast to the comparison corpus, Tranströmer’s poems exhibit no verbal processes among their verbs, which contribute to a heavier expression. Moreover, when investigating the metaphors, an unparalleled quality was revealed. The majority of Tranströmer’s novel metaphors are constructed solely by concrete elements. In contrast to the claim that concreteness in metaphors explains the world (Lakoff and Johnson), Tranströmer seems to show, through many of his metaphors, how wondrous the world is, thereby creating ostranenie “defamiliarization” (Shklovsky).
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- Holmqvist, Kenneth, et al.
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A short guide to the theory of the sublime
- 2002
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Ingår i: Style. - 0039-4238. ; 36:4, s. 718-737
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Tidskriftsartikel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- The article concerns selected important issues of poetics and its history. The authors analyze and interpret the history of the notion of the sublime. The article is an introduction to a theoretical part of a book about a possible theory of the literary work of art and communication that results from the experience of the sublime. The introductory article presents to the reader questions which are relevant to the sublime mainly in contemporary theoretical reflection (cf. Lyotard). The survey accounts for the period from the first century AD till twentieth century and deals with the theories of the sublime by Pseudo-Longinos, Nicolas Boileau, Edmund Burke, Immanuel Kant, Friedrich Schiller, Friedrich Georg Wilhelm Hegel, Artur Schopenhauer, Friedrich Nietzsche, J.-F. Lyotard and others.
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