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Poetical Narratives
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the…
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F. Elizabeth Dahab
This book explores the rich tapestry of Middle Eastern diasporic literature, spanning the landscapes of Canada and France while breathing life into an array of mesmerizing texts authored by luminaries…
Jean-Michel Ganteau
It addresses the changes mediasphere and communication technologies have brought for the contemporary subject, submitting them to the tyranny of a new attention economy to show how the contemporary novel…
This volume explores representations of mental health in European and North American literature, emphasizing the importance of understanding diverse psychological conditions as represented in narratives.
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Sol Rivera
A poetic narrative fiction work written by a teenage girl touching on very real issues including eating disorders, body image, puberty, and self-worth.
Written as a poetic narrative, Restrict is…
William T. Koopmans
The ‘pivot pattern’ is a unique type of chiasmus, a linguistic pattern characterized by an inversion of the internal order of a phrase or passage. The main idea is found…
James Henry Legg
Publication date: 1848 Notes: This is an OCR reprint. There may be typos or missing text. There are no illustrations or indexes. When you buy the General Books edition of…
Xtina Marie
The perfect companion piece to Xtina Marie’s Dark Musings - an intriguing mirror image of the darkness you have just read, but no less deep and soul stirring. What a…
With An Original And Authentic Account, In Prose, Of The Loss Of This Ill-Fated Vessel.
Gary Geddes
The Ventriloquist gives us four fearless and seminal works by one of Canada’s master poets and is a scathing indictment of war and its ravages. It’s also a testament to…
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The struggle to understand our differences is real! Likewise, -real- is the stirring collection of poems in Stay Awhile: Poetic Narratives on Multiculturalism and Diversity that enlightens, enlivens, and entertains…
Clare Regan Kinney
It is remarkable that some theoretical developments in narratology have bypassed poetic narratives, concentrating almost exclusively on prose fiction. Clare Kinney’s original study aims to redress the balance by exploring…
The Ventriloquist gives us four fearless and seminal works by one of Canada’s master poets. A scathing indictment of war and its ravages, it’s also a testament to the power…
Jose Lucas Brum Teixeira
Tobiah’s travel with the angel in Tobit chapter 6 constitutes a singular moment in the book, marking a turning point for the title character. It reveals a remarkable richness in…
Greta M. Coger
Nearly all of Laurence’s works from Africa and Canada are critiqued in this volume. The essays highlight Laurence’s innovative narrative styles, showing how her combinations of oral literary forms and…
Words and images come together in a collaboration between celebrated poet Ntozake Shange and an acclaimed group of photographers, to result in this stunning celebration of contemporary Black life in…
Anael
This is a story of Anael’s personal journey of healing loss and incest told though her poetry. It is a poetic narrative of hope and empowerment for other incest survivors…
Nouri Gana
By remapping the configurations of mourning across modernist, postmodernist, and postcolonial literatures, psychoanalysis and deconstruction, Signifying Loss studies not only how loss is signified, but also the ethico-political significance of…
This interdisciplinary collection of essays advances the study of anagnorisis (recognition), a quintessential concept in Aristotelian poetics. This book explores narrative structure and epistemology by examining how anagnorisis works in…
Sheldon Hsiao-peng Lu
A comprehensive, comparative, and cross-cultural study of the poetics of the entire Chinese narrative tradition.
Kinahan Cornwallis
Yarra Yarra Or The Wandering Aborigine: A Poetical Narrative, In Thirteen Books is a book written by Kinahan Cornwallis and published in 1858. The book is a poetic narrative that…
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishing’s Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because…
James Phelan (Ohio State University)
Somebody Telling Somebody Else proposes a paradigm shift for narrative theory, contending that a view of narrative as a rhetorical action offers greater explanatory power than the standard view of…
Sara Cobb (Professor of Conflict Analysis and Resolution, Professor of Conflict Analysis and Resolution, George Mason University)
Speaking of Violence takes the notion of narrative as foundational to conflict analysis and resolution. Distinct from conflict theories that rely on accounts of attitudes or perceptions in the heads…
Pierre W. Orelus
What does it mean to be Black in America? In this book, Pierre W. Orelus uses his poetry to unpack this question, unmasking racism, sexism, and oppression in America. The…
Narrative Theories and Poetics: 5 Questions is a collection of short interviews based on five provoking questions presented to some of the most influential and prominent scholars in these fields…
Robert W. Funk
A pioneering work that answers the question: What do we do when we tell a story? Using examples from the Bible and popular literature, Robert Funk examines the structure of…
Surveys many basic areas of narrative studies from an unnatural perspective: story, time, space, voice, minds, narrative levels, realism, nonfiction, hyperfiction, and narrative poetry.
Richard 1813-1883 Wagner,Oliver 1864-1940 Huckel
Adele Berlin
This classic work on literary criticism by Professor Adele Berlin introduces the reader to the colorful world of poetics (literary conventions) used in the construction of biblical narratives. Her book…
Shlomith Rimmon-Kenan
What is a narrative? What is narrative fiction? How does it differ from other kinds of narrative? What featuers turn a discourse into a narrative text? Now widely acknowledged as…
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Exile and the Narrative/Poetic Imagination is a collection of essays examining a variety of narrative and poetic responses to exile.
Phyllis Frus (Vanderbilt University, Tennessee)
The Politics and Poetics of Journalistic Narrative investigates the textuality of all discourse, arguing that the ideologically charged distinction between ‘journalism’ and ‘fiction’ is socially constructed rather than natural. Phyllis…
Frus’s book tells the story of the separation of journalism from literature (Crane and Hemingway) in the early 20th century, and discusses the narratives that resulted when fiction and nonfiction…
Arthur F. Kinney
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Damya Malikshahi
Followers of Damyas writing realize that she is good at penetrating the readers depth with a big disclosure and she is very good at using semantic directors to guide her…
Eitan Fishbane (Assistant Professor of Jewish Thought, Assistant Professor of Jewish Thought, The Jewish Theological Seminary)
In the study of Judaism, the Zohar has captivated the minds of interpreters for over seven centuries, and continues to entrance readers in contemporary times. Yet despite these centuries of…
Whitney S. Bodman
This volume explores the origins of Iblis as a tragic figure in the Qur'an. Although it is often said that there is no place for tragedy in Islam, Bodman’s careful…
Heather O'Donoghue (Reader in Old Norse, University of Oxford)
Presents a detailed reading of a series of sophisticated medieval narratives, the Old Norse-Icelandic sagas. This book shows how saga authors achieved a wide range of stylistic and psychological effects…
