Personal narratives typically involve a narrator who participates in a sequence of events in the past. The narrator is therefore present at two narrative levels: (1) the extradiegetic level, where the act of narration takes place, with the narrator addressing an audience directly; and (2) the diegetic level, where the events in the story take place, with the narrator as a participant (usually t...

The project The Forking Paths aims to create a set of interactive cinematographic narratives, within an applied research that seeks to transfer the spectator from an extradiegetic level to an intradiegetic level, creating a metalepsis. The intention is, above all, to analyze the possibilities of the spectator’s identification as the main character, by the manipulation of the idea of time in Cin...

this paper aims to offer a critical reading of the contemporary english author ian mcewan’s fifth novel entitled black dogs (1992). i postulate that literary critics have frequently read his fiction for what it is not. as such, mcewan’s thought-provoking engagement with cultural questions has more often than not gone unexamined owing to a critical blueprint that, reducing his oeuvre to the topo...

Focussing on authorial imaginary, this article seeks to determine what leads American lawyers-turned-authors project negative fictional images of their own profession. After a brief introduction FASP (specialised narrative) and other defining parameters discussion, we examine the vocation/avocation profile lawyer-author commonalities which facilitate crossover from lawyer author. We then go dis...

western imperialism always depicted a biased image of the colonized nations . therefore , portraying th e reality of africa to restore the lost dignity of the natives is one of the aims of postcolonial literature . achebe’s things fall apart is an attempt in this regard . employing postcolonial narratology , the present study examines the relation of the novel ’ s point of view and the concept ...

The trope of the dybbuk is ubiquitous in modern Jewish storytelling, and its secular renditions offer myriad possibilities: from feminist resistance to male gaze a place where belonging estrangement are negotiated context immigration exile. This article discusses uses Almog Behar’s short story “Ana Min Al-Yahud” through lenses animation as analysis, theorized by Teri Silvio, performance studies...

[2] In its narratological sense, metalepsis, first identified by Genette, is a paradoxical contamination between the world of the telling and the world of the told: “any intrusion by the extradiegetic narrator or narratee into the diegetic universe (or by diegetic characters into a metadiegetic universe, etc.), or the inverse [...]” ([1972] 1980: 234–35). Described as “taking hold of (telling) ...

In comics as multimodal narratives visual and verbal modes interact to create meaning. Colours play an important role in comics, the choice of warm or cold colour palette, well bright muted, influences a reader’s perception attitude described events. Comics have number narratological, stylistic, structural other characteristics. Events can be presented both with help narrator (extradiegetic int...

The study discusses Ivan Slamnig’s novel entitled Bolja polovica hrabrosti with focusing on the narrative features of beginning novel. Using results Croatian literary studies, paper places in context prose as first postmodern and an outstanding example Beat literature Croatia Yugoslavia, which Aleksandar Flaker called jeans . compares metapoetic meanings narration whole its closure. It establish...

This article will examine the representation of religion in Anna Seghers’ radio play Der Prozess der Jeanne d'Arc zu Rouen 1431 (1937) and Bertolt Brecht's subsequent adaptation this text for stage (1952). While religiosity is central to identity medieval heroine, Seghers chooses communicate feature modern audiences a ‘lacunary’ way that sees refusing elaborate on details her belief throughout ...