Writing the Silenced Female Body, Scrutinizing the Grand Narrative of Colonization and Decolonization: The Body in Zoë Wicomb’s David’s Story

David’s Story by Zoë Wicomb addresses the complexities of representing female suffering and the limitations of traditional historical narratives in capturing the experiences of marginalized bodies.It challenges the grand narratives of national history by emphasizing the indispensable role of women’s experiences.Through characters like Dulcie and Rachael,Wicomb portrays the female body as a site of resistance and resilience,highlighting the need for more nuanced and inclusive ways of documenting history.Underscoring the inexpressibility of trauma and the limitations of language and representation,the novel self-reflexively acknowledges its own aporia of completing the narrative,embodying the ongoing struggle to capture the full breadth of human experience.

Planning a Patient-Centered Parkinson’s Disease Support Program: Insights from Narrative Medicine

Background: We desired relevant information from patients with Parkinson’s disease (PD) and their caregivers for help in planning a long-term support program. Methods: We compared 3 ap-proaches: 1) a standard needs assessment questionnaire, the Camberwell assessment of need in the elderly, 2) an open-ended listing of needs, and 3) participation in a narrative medicine program in which health care professionals were involved. Results: On the questionnaire, patients reported physical needs as the most important while their caregivers were more concerned about psychological needs. The open-ended listings revealed additional needs, particularly access to re-liable information about PD and to opportunities to participate in clinical research. The narrative medicine process yielded a number of new insights and proposed solutions, particularly related to the heterogeneity of needs across individuals, the importance of providing hope, and the fact that caregivers expressed that their needs had been largely neglected. Participation in the narrative medicine sessions led to an increase in measured empathy by health care professionals, an im-provement in measured depression among PD patients, but a worsening of measured depression among the caregivers. Conclusions: We have identified important needs and potential solutions to be considered in providing long-term support to patients with PD and their caregivers.

Mapping the Child’s Grey Interior:Authenticity of Plague Narrative in The Great Plague

The Great Plague:The Diary of Alice Paynton,London 1665-1666 adopts the realistic painting style and direct writing to the painful experience,describes the situation of the Great Plague in London truly from the perspective of children,and breaks people’s cognitive expectation of children’s literature,the construction of children’s Gray inner world is completed behind the true description of the Great Plague in London with the true brushwork,which presents a different world of childlike innocence.Despite the importance of epidemics writing in literature,the child’s diary perspective of them is one of the least developed of Plague Narrative.Only when authenticity and the child’s grey interior are integrated will we reveal a true picture of society as it was.

Body Narrative in Lady Chatterley’s Lover

Body,in culture study,is not simply a physical being,but a meaningful sign exposed power relations in society.Body even can be used as a narrative method.In Lady Chatterley’s Lover,there are several body images D.H.Lawrence used to narrate the story.Through body narrative,the novel shows the subordinate and alienated humanity,and its struggling revolt in the turning of twentieth century.

Narration as Therapy in Natsume Sōseki's I Am a Cat

Natsume Sōseki(1867-1916) suffered from cyclic mental depressions through his life, and it was when he was in the state of the most terrible one that he started his career as a writer by writing I Am a Cat(1905-1906). There are some evidence by his wife and friends that Sōseki's condition of disease dramatically improved during its serialization on a magazine, and the writer himself admited humorously in the preface of other work that it was his depression and mania that enabled him to produce I Am a Cat and other early works. This paper aims at describing the process how his act of narrating had therapeutic effects on his state of mind focusing on the construction of complicitous relationship between an implied author and readers in the work by the unique functions of the first-‘person' narrator: A Cat. Among others, I will consider the influence of Laurence Sterne's Tristram Shandy(1759-1767), which Sōseki introduced to Japan for the first time, by discussing the frequent use of metalepsis that the two works have in common.

A Study of the People’s Nature in Woodcuts During the Anti-Japanese War in Shanxi

The anti-Japanese woodcuts focus on the red revolutionary culture and describe the connotation of the Anti-Japanese War era,which is self-evident in the commemorative value of China’s revolutionary struggle history.For example,in Shanxi,China,woodcut art activities and social practice promotion activities organized around the theme of the Anti-Japanese War are also everywhere,which all show the people’s nature of the Chinese people during the revolutionary struggle from the two aspects of the red culture of the Anti-Japanese War and traditional art and culture,and its humanistic connotation is quite profound.In this paper,we first introduce the historical origin of woodcut during the Anti-Japanese War,and then show the people’s value connotation of woodcut art activities in Shanxi.This paper mainly discusses the image narration,language and picture narration and construction significance of woodcuts in Shanxi’s War of Resistance,fully reveals the narrative nature of image media,strives to arouse people’s recognition of this period of Shanxi’s War of Resistance culture and history,and reflects the realistic value and significance of Shanxi’s War of Resistance Woodcuts art activities.

The traumatic narratives of sexuality in Chinese writer Shao-Lin Chu’s trilogy

This paper explores the narratives of the Chinese woman novelist Shao-Lin Chu’s trilogy to see how the problem of female sexuality and resistance to parental wedlock tragedy becomes a traumatic experience.The traumatic symptoms in the narratives are taken as Peircean signs for tracing the negative influences of traumatic experiences on the formation of personal identity and the associated depressive disorder.The scenes portrayed in Chu’s traumatic narratives of female and male sexuality are implications and representations of how sexuality is conceptualized and confined by the traumatic events while backgrounded with regulations and restrictions of a traditional society.The stories of Chu’s female narrators reveal the persistent and resisting feminine power.This paper adopts the concept of feminist narrative to analyze the traumatic and sexual events in Chu’s trilogy.The decoding and re-encoding of resistance and sexuality in the traumatic narratives prove that the narratological textual analysis and semiotic reading strategy together offer a solid approach to the discovery of the persistent traumatic impacts of the secret veiled in the narratives and reveal the probable strength of compassion that has its roots derived from deplorable trauma but later transforms itself to stimulate a positive reconstruction of the traumatic survivors’identity.

Aristotle and Hollywood： Dramatic Structure From Ancient Greece to Avatar ＆ Beyond

It is fascinating to realize that even while Hollywood continually comes up with incredible special effects in films such as Avatar （2009）, the basic structure and development closely ＂follows＂ the guidelines for drama and storytelling laid out by Aristotle in his The Poetics, written several thousand years ago. We are specifically speaking of three act （beginning, middle, and ending） structure, focusing more on plot than character, and the need for a final resolution （catharsis）. But throughout literary and cinematic history, not everyone has followed these rules. Ironically, we take a close look at the award-winning Greek director Theo Angelopoulos＇ Ulysse＇s Gaze （1995） staring Harvey Keitel, as an example of a very non-Aristotelian approach to filmmaking and storytelling. Angelopoulos＇ film is character rather than plot centered on the Harvey Keitel figure and the journey of the narrative can be broken down to between 8-10 acts, depending how you describe them. We discuss many of the standard American ＂how to write screenplay book＂ authors such as Syd Field, while bringing a variety of authors such as Lajos Egri （The Art of Dramatic Writing） who criticize both Aristotle＇s Poetics and the way it has been interpreted for centuries especially in Hollywood. We conclude that there is a middle ground as well, for while Casablanca （1942） has a clear three act structure, it does not give us a happy romantic ＂Hollywood＂ ending/resolution as Rick insists that Lisa leave with her husband.

Swann in Spain： Proust＇s Ghost in the Novels of Javier Marias

Since the publication of Coraz6n tan blanco （A Heart so White） （1992）, many critics have compared the Spanish novelist Javier Marias to Marcel Proust. Both favor long, meandering sentences, in which they insert voluminous asides. In thematic terms, their narratives are constantly involved with meditation over the extent to which we can understand the past, or the degree to which we can know either ourselves or others. Beyond their common preoccupation with time and memory, I will consider some remarkable similarities between Marias＇ and Proust＇s formative years and the role translation played in the development of their style. I will show the many ways in which Proust ＂haunts＂ Marias： in his metaphorical use of the translating practice, in his love of deferral, and in his brooding first-person narrators, racked by the anxiety of ignorance.

Creating Space for Children’s Voices: Utility of the Collage Life Story Elicitation Technique

A challenge for many School-Based Family Counseling(SBFC)practitioners,child psychotherapists and researchers are finding ways to give voice to children and eliciting trustworthy and detailed narratives that could serve as resource for understanding the needs of young clients in the context of all their interpersonal networks.Children are often reticent when asked to self-disclose and tell their stories during consultation.The purpose of the present study was to examine the utility of five sequential steps constituting the Collage Life Story Elicitation Technique(CLET)for scaffolding storytelling among children in middle childhood(aged 9-12 years).Using the CLET for data collection and conducting an interpretive analysis,the researchers explored the performance of 38 middle-childhood children living in three different settings.Findings suggest that the five sequential steps of the CLET adequately and satisfactorily combine to stimulate and elicit rich data and help children to construct their narratives and represent the challenges they face in everyday living.We discuss the application of CLET in SBFC practice as tool when screening and intervention planning for children’s perspectives pertaining to a range of topics regarding each of the four quadrants as proposed in the SBFC metamodel.

Dr Lanyon’s Narrative(An Excerpt)

Twelve o’clock had scarce rung out over Lon-don,ere the knocker sounded very gently on thedoor.I went myself at the summons,and found asmall man crouching against the pillars of theportico.

Rethinking Learner Autonomy:A Narrative Analysis of Learners’ Experiences

This paper presents three learners’ stories with different setting and time scales:a Chinese worker as a language user in Japan,a Japanese language major student in Chinese university, and a German learner of Japanese participated in eTandem project. These stories were constructed by narrative analysis with qualitative data. Comparing the three cases,it was found that participants build social relations in a group/community they belong to or have a relationship with significant others by exercising learner autonomy. Their autonomy as Japanese-related person was fostered and constrained in their relationships of the social context. Learner autonomy can be seen as socially mediated agency to obtain authorship of one’s action and voice, which leads to an enhanced second language life. Moreover, it is shaped and developed by social relationships.

中西“灰姑娘故事型”的叙事比较——以段成式与贝洛为例

唐朝段成式的《叶限》是现存文字记载最早的灰姑娘故事,其与欧洲《灰姑娘》的比较研究为众多学者瞩目,但大多局限于传承学的脉络梳理。将段成式的《叶限》和贝洛的《灰姑娘》作为叙事学考察对象,通过情节模式、叙事方式以及叙事策略的比较观照,可以呈现不同语境中同一故事类型的文化实践差异,以此拓展比较研究的理路和视野。

教师职业“叙事研究”素描

叙事研究是社会科学研究中重要的研究方式之一,教师职业叙事研究有不同于其他职业研究方式的特点和功能,也有一定的局限性。衡量教师职业叙事研究有效性的标准有四个:说服力(peruasiveness)、对应度(correspondence)、一致性(coherence)和效用性(pragmaticuse)。

边缘突围中的多种叙事:1950年代的台湾小说

1950年代的台湾小说,不仅在"反共抗俄"主流意识形态之外的边缘产生了现代主义、女性叙事、台湾乡土等小说形态,也在某种"主流"形态内部产生了疏离官方意识形态的小说形态,形成了多种"边缘"形态。小说自身发展的动态格局与僵化的政治体制及其意识形态之间的抗衡使台湾小说在政治高压的1950年代仍获得了较多的个人空间,并在1960年代迎来了台湾小说乃至中国当代小说的丰硕成果。

从《外国道人》到《鹅笼书生》——论佛经故事向志怪小说的叙述范式转型

本文则试图通过格雷马斯意义矩阵的方法来分析《灵鬼志》中的《外国道人》以及《续齐谐记》中的《鹅笼书生》,说明在佛经故事转型为志怪小说的同时,佛教针对女性的道德戒律色彩逐渐淡出人们的视野;中国早期小说的叙述范式发生了转型。

鲁迅小说与空间蒙太奇

小说场景是时间之流中的一个空间形式,具有一定的完整性。通过画面与场景的剪辑来表现小说人物生活的片断,完成小说故事的叙述与主题的表达,呈现出不绝的、变换着的"流动映像"。鲁迅小说大量运用空间倒叙、空间插叙、空间并叙、空间断叙和空间跳叙等蒙太奇技法,构成了一个星状线网式结构,给人们一种非线性的"类链式"体验。

论杜诗的写实性与《史记》实录精神

司马迁撰写《史记》坚持"不隐恶""不虚美"的实录精神,不仅对后世史家著史产生了巨大影响,而且对后世诗人创作也有所启迪,比如杜甫就是一个很典型的示例。杜诗之所以被誉为"诗史",不仅仅因为它善陈史事,还因为它能"书法不隐",直言批判唐代最高统治者,这固然与时代环境、杜甫忠君爱国之心以及对《诗经》现实主义风格的继承等有关,但更是杜甫在思想层面上自觉接受司马迁《史记》实录精神的结果。

置疑与重建——20世纪90年代长篇小说疯癫叙事的历史意识

疯癫叙事是中国20世纪90年代长篇小说创作中一道引人注目的景观。作为"有意味的形式",它们传达出新中国前四十年文学所不曾有过的历史意识,这些历史意识包括历史形态与叙述姿态的开放,将历史作为一种审美修辞对象消费。具体而言,即对历史形态的重新认识、自我置疑的历史叙述姿态、寻求历史认同和重建历史话语意义。将90年代长篇小说疯癫叙事所传达的这套历史意识,放置到中国当代文学历史意识流变的坐标轴上,可以清楚地看出,这种历史意识是在认识到过去文学叙事的局限的基础上,对其做出的有限度的反拨与超越。

儿童文学叙事中的权力与对话——一个后经典叙事学视角的研究

儿童文学是作者(成人)与读者(儿童)对话交流的中介,儿童文学本身所具有的跨学科的文化特性使文本与存在的外部语境形成了密切联系。因此要研究儿童文学的叙事特色,必须结合文本语境研究。20世纪80年代以来西方兴起的后经典叙事学理论为重新审视儿童文学叙事提供了很好的思路。儿童文学的特殊性使作者与读者形成复杂的权力关系,同时,作者与读者、成人与儿童又努力在这种权力关系中寻找不同的对话途径和表达方式。这种复杂的叙事语境直接决定了儿童文学文本的叙事特色。