Abstract The paper surveys five major perspectives on studying time in fiction: narratology, history of temporal regimes, pluralism, aesthetics time, and politics time. It argues that these approaches have so far remained largely unintegrated, leading to a separation between areas literary criticism are reality closely linked. In particular, some separate as subject from the principal element n...

This paper focuses on the processes of rebirth characters experience in extracts from four works (two novels, a novella and short story) by Irish author Colum McCann. These are defined strong sense displacement betweenness but they go through deep transformations, physical closeness with waterscapes – spatialities that closely associated water –, as well game mirrors between them ensues. articl...

This article utilizes Gérard Genette’s (1972/1980) narrative discourse theory in order to explore the temporal strategies deployed The Hunger Games (2008), first novel popular series by American writer Suzanne Collins. Though comprehensive includes such elements as time, mood, and voice, main focus of study will be whose order, duration, frequency their subcategories are defined then applied an...

The Chinese classic novel Romance of the Three Kingdoms has been reinterpreted by various authors and adapted into different media. In novel, character images were shaped peculiarity characters’ characteristics was depicted describing their behavior. This study uses Eastern Western narrative theories to classify development (characterization) methods that creators employed on this story in thre...

Non-human narrators, by definition anthropomorphized, fill different functions in literature, and have different effects, not always positive for the species that is utilized, for example to voice a human political concern. However, many animal studies scholars agree that anthropomorphism, while inadequate, may be the best way we have to get to know another species. Animal characters who tell t...

The recently born expression “analytic narratives” refers to studies that have appeared at the boundaries of history, political science and economics. These studies purport to explain specific historical events by combining the usual narrative way of historians with the analytic tools that economists and political scientists find in rational choice theory. Game theory is prominent among these t...

The field of computational narratology has produced many efforts aimed at generating narrative by computational means. In recent times, a number of such efforts have considered the task of modelling how a reader might consume the story. Whereas all these approaches are clearly different aspects of the task of generating narrative, so far the efforts to model them have occurred as separate and d...

This paper aims at illustrating how narrative theories can apply to the analysis of lyric poetry with an example from Korean literature: The Azaleas by Kim Sowöl. This poem in seven-and-five-syllable meter as well as with its thematic aspect that is concerned with lamentation or broken heart is considered the most representative of the folkloric tradition in the history of Korean lyric poetry. ...

With their 1980s independent comics series The Puma Blues, writer Stephen Murphy and artist Michael Zulli presented a foreboding scifi vision of ecological catastrophe in a near-future USA, where mutated manta rays fly the skies, the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse roam the desert sands of the southwest and imminent nuclear devastation looms. Yet for all its pessimism, the series (in 2015 expan...