Browsing by Subject "Narration (Rhetoric) in literature"
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- ItemNegotiating the Space of Contact: The Construction of Narrative as Control over Images in Don DeLillo's Falling Man(2011) Trobiani, Gina; Mohan, Rajeswari
- ItemSex and salvation: the power of narrative in romance novels and Evangelicalism(2005) Savage, Ann Wythe
- ItemThe Deceitful Speaker Beats the Reader: Exploring Readers' Response to Amiri Baraka's "Somebody Blew Up America"(2014) Peterson, Ayana; Solomon, AsaliAmiri Baraka's "Somebody Blew Up America" prompted an overwhelmingly negative response from the American public. Many claimed that the poem was filled with hate and anti-Semitism. As a result, the public successfully supported a campaign led by the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), to have Baraka removed from his position of Poet Laureate of New Jersey. Yet, a reading of "America" suggests that these claims are unfounded, even irrational. Why, then, do readers respond in this way? A close examination of Baraka's "America" reveals that the poem's speaker engages in a "beating" of the reader. Readers' negative response, then, is a result of the beating that they endure. Yet, the speaker veils that this beating takes place. Thus, readers' explanations for their aggression become irrational. In addition, the speaker obscures that he is the source of this beating. As a result, the assaulted readers do not know where to place the blame, and incorrectly conclude that Baraka the author is the culprit. This seems like the correct conclusion, as Baraka looks similar to the speaker. Yet, we find that readers in actuality conflate Baraka the author with his author function. As Baraka is placed in this space, he endures the aggression that rightly belongs to the speaker.
- ItemThe Games They Played: Tim O'Brien and the Ludic Corpse(2014) Vastola, Cyrus; McGrane, LauraThe deceptive narratorial turns of Tim O'Brien's The Things They Carried have caused consternation among some readers and critics. However, these narratorial acts can be rehabilitated when read as a form of play. In Things, play blurs both the line between truth and fiction and the living and the dead. The book also illustrates how play and everyday life are not separate or cordoned off from each other but intertwined and entangled. Much of the play in the book revolves around the object of the corpse and the varying attempts of characters to bring these bodies back to life. The physical play of the soldiers at the site of the corpse briefly resurrects the dead, but serves to ignore the reality of the corpse's death and the consequences of the soldier's actions. On the other hand, the play of the story can be seen as both more effective and ethical. In the story, the dead can come back to life time and again. The play of the narrator also becomes profoundly ethical by giving him the chance to put himself in the shoes of those who he is fighting against and recreate their life, making him more acutely aware of the consequences of his actions and the war.
- ItemThe Thesis 'From Hell': A Study of Narrative Temporality as Displayed Through Alan Moore and Eddie Campbell's Epic Graphic Novel 'From Hell'(2007) Langhans, Ellie; Tensuan, Theresa
- ItemWhen Evil Bends its Knees: Tracing Conversion and Narrative Rupture in The Autobiography of Malcolm X(2011) Troup, Mike; Stadler, Gustavus