The Construction of Discourse Authority of the Silent Women—Reading I Stand Here Ironing From the Perspective of Feminist Narratology

I Stand Here Ironing is Tillie Olsen’s first novel of her back to writing after several years’silence.It reflects the real living condition of marginalized women through the description of a daughter by the mother’s memories.Based on Susan S.Lanser’s distinction of three modes of narrative voice in feminist narratology,this paper analyzes three narrative voices in this novel.Olsen employs multiple narrative voices in the novel in order to release the voice of the marginalized women in the silence,she destroys the male’s authority and constructs the discourse authority of silent,poor working-class women.

A Study of Three Chinese Versions of Nineteen Eighty-four from the Perspective of Literary Stylistics and Narratology

This paper makes a comparative study of three Chinese versions of George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-four by applying the theories and methodologies of literary stylistics and narratology.The study first scrutinizes the distinctive stylistic features and narrative forms of the source text(ST)and then continues to examine whether these features and forms are successfully represented in the target text(TT).Moreover,it seeks to answer the questions of why“deceptive equivalence”occurs and how the“literariness”in the fiction can be retained and stylistic equivalence can be achieved in translation.

A Narratological Study of William Faulkner’s“A Rose for Emily”

William Faulkner(1897-1962)is usually regarded as one of the most important American novelist s of the 20th century,who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1949.“A Rose for Emily”is one of Faulkner’s famous short stories which applies the conventions of Gothic fiction,and it has drawn the the attention of a large number of scholars and inspired their enthusiasm of interpretation owing to its use of many experimental techniques.This article attempts to analyze the narrative techniques of“A Rose for Emily”in terms of tense,mood and voice,three concepts introduced by Gerald Genette,a distinguished French critic of structuralist narratology in his Narrative Discourse(1980).

On the Multiple Narrative Strategies in The Human Stain

One of the significant features of The Human Stain is that it lays bare the reality of American society and censures the Anglo-Saxon or white discourse.What are equally important are the multiple narrative strategies that Philip R oth employs in the novel.T his paper focuses mainly on the elaboration of such narrative strategies as mimesis and diegesis,complicated narrative time,shifting focalizations,and narration or non-narrative comments,so as to point out that these narrative strategies add colors to its( postmodern) artistic features,becoming an integral component of this novel.

On the Style and Meaning of Robert Frost's “A Servant to Servants”

The greatest characteristic of Robert Frost's poetry is that complex and delicate subjects are embodied in narrative description which seems rather simple. Frost achieves a distinctive grace by combining unique structure and profound meaning together. This thesis explores Robert Frost's"A Servant to Servants"from the point of view on narratology finds out the careful arrangement and unique perspective. The present study concludes that while this narrative poem appears to have a simple organization and to limit itself to colloquial language, at a deeper level it has careful arrangement and expresses profound meaning. While enjoying the poem's vivid narrate, the reader also comes to realize the truth that"A Servant to Servants".

The Social Network:A Study from the Narrative Perspective

As the most successful social website,Facebook is well received by people all over the world.The Social Network is a film about the establishment of the website and the story between the co-founders.The construction of a film is based on the narrative content,presented by the narrative forms.Therefore,under the framework of narratology,this thesis attempts to analyze the success of the movie by illustrating how the director combines the hearings and the flashback memories skillfully and presents the characters' paradox and complicated inner world through anti-traditional,non-linear and intertextual narrative style.

Focalizations and Their Functions in Heart of Darkness

As an important technique involved in the novel writing,the focalization is studied in detail in Narratology.The paper is an attempt to analyze the arrangement of focalizations and their functions in Heart of Dartness according to Narratology.

Xu Sanguan Mai Xue Ji and Chronicle of a Blood Merchant

Many of Yu Hua’s works have been translated into many languages and published abroad.They are famous for concise and precise language.His exploration in structure and narration and the creativity embodied in them also provide a lot of valuable references for literary critics.Xu Sanguan Mai Xue Ji is one of Yu Hua's representative works during his creative transformation.This paper is a brief introduction to Yu Hua's original works and English versions Chronicle of a Blood Merchant.the purpose of the paper is to introduce the two texts and lay the foundation for comparative analysis and critical analysis from the perspective of narratology.

Narrative Arts in A Farewell to Arms

Most of Hemingway's contributions to literature lie in his artistic version, as well as his art of narration. This paper means to give an analysis of A Farewell to Arms from its art of narration. Drawing from theories of narratology, the dissertation focuses on the analysis of narrative time, narrative person and narrative voice as they are presented in A Farewell to Arms. The aim of this dissertation is to make an objective analysis of Hemingway's narrative power in A Farewell to Arms from narrative perspectives, and tries to find out why A Farewell to Arms are enduring and great.

Rethinking the Translator's Voice

This paper presents an effort to clarify the conceptual confusion of the translator's voice.Drawing on the the theoretical integration of narrative theories and translation studies.It begins with a sketch of the conceptual development of the translator's voice. The major finding of the paper is that the significance of the translator's voice has long been interpreted in a one-sided way,tracing the translator's voice is not only a way of perceiving the translator's subjectivity,but also a perspective from which the implication of the interrelations between the translator's use of language and the translator's subject positions for the target- reader may be better observed and understood.

The Narrative Authority of George Eliot in Middlemarch:An Analysis of Dorothea and Her Marriages

Middlemarch is considered Eliot's one of the most controversial novels. Most critics apply feminist criticism to unscramble the novel and draw that it's a comedown of feminist fight and a loss of feminist discursive authority for the protagonist Dorothea hides in the protection of marriage.The paper aims to employ the theory of feminist narratology to reinterpret Middlemarch. Through the analysis of the two marriages of Dorothea, the dissertation draws the conclusion that Eliot manages to win the discursive authority in a man-dominating era, and the authority is based on a dual voice-the voice of a woman writing in the name and company of men.

A Rose against Time——The Spatial Turn in Faulkner's Narrative

Faulkner is a modernist literary master who applied many av-ant-guard writing techniques,such as stream of consciousness and multiple points of view,into his novels.This thesis is trying to elaborate more on his spatial narrative and the particular effects it produces with the help of the theories proposed by scholars and experts in spatial narratology.All instances employed to support my view are cited from A Rose for Emily.This thesis pins down questions,such as"How did Faulkner break the continual flow of time?",for example,by disrupting the chronic order we have already got accustomed to when told a story,by connecting key events through their natural relations and the free association of memory,by formulating special bond between Emily and her archaic house,by creating"contexts"which strengthen the integration of scenes with characters,and which thereby mitigate the effect time is supposed to have on the process of narration,and so on.

The Analysis of the Characters' Speech in The Color Purple from the Perspective of Narratological Stylistics

The Color Purple is the master work of the outstanding black woman writer Alice Walker. Since it was published, there are both praise and criticism towards it, while the artistic value is unblamable and it can be said to be the classic work in American literature. The book tells the story of a woman from the south of America who gradually awoke and pursued her happiness suffering from the oppression and humiliation of the patriarchal society. The work successfully retells the life experience of Celie the protagonist. The thesis, based on the narratological stylistics, analyzes the narrative method and style of The Color Purple and thus discusses the unique narrative form, the artistic charm and the stylistic value of the novel.

The Generative Mechanism of Online Narratives and the Intertextuality of Their Group Communication

The complexity of online narratives and their important influence on events,attitudes,and emotions in society make visible certain limitations in the explication of such narratives found in traditional narrative theory.Their generative mechanism provides the logical starting point for understanding online communication.Event correlatives,text assemblage and specific texts,as the organic structure of online narratives,shape the intertextual existence and dynamic accumulation of the online text.A universal multidirectional co-construction forms around event correlatives and between specific texts and the pre-text,post-text and synchronous text within the text assemblage,while the textual object,the communicating subject and the online group communication context together build up the interpretive system of online narrative meanings.The generative mechanism and vitality of online narratives not only provide guarantees for the active nature of online communication,but also become a huge variable in social development,profoundly influencing social communication and even our way of thinking.

Disrupted Narrative Voices and the Representation of Trauma in Sonya Hartnett's Surrender and Kalinda Ashton's The Danger Game

In this paper I will consider the intersection between family tragedy,trauma,and affective uses of narration in two Australian novels:Surrender(Hartnett,2005)and The Danger Game(Ashton,2009).In both of these novels,narratological techniques are utilised to represent a grief beyond words—the tragic loss of a close family member,specifically,a sibling.Both novels use disruptions in narrative forms—particularly in the inherent expectations readers bring to the forms of first,second and third person narration.These narrative disruptions mirror the disruptions of identity experienced by the characters in these texts.Moreover,as we engage with the traumatic content through a fractured subjectivity presented by these texts,our identities as readers,too,become fractured and disrupted.These disruptions of identity echo that which is experienced by the characters themselves through their loss.By analysing the link between these disruptions and the content of these novels,we get a better understanding of the ways in which f ictive worlds can represent psychological issues.The narration of these novels and their engagement with childhood sibling loss enable us to begin to create and understand a broader aesthetic of representational trauma.