Narratives of Place in Literature and Film - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Narratives of Place in Literature and Film write by Steven Allen. This book was released on 2018-12-20. Narratives of Place in Literature and Film available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Narratives of place link people and geographic location with a cultural imaginary through literature and visual narration. Contemporary literature and film often frame narratives with specific geographic locations, which saturate the narrative with cultural meanings in relation to natural and man-made landscapes. This interdisciplinary collection seeks to interrogate such connections to probe how place is narrativized in literature and film. Utilizing close readings of specific filmic and literary texts, all chapters serve to tease out cultural and historical meanings in respect of human engagement with landscapes. Always mindful of national, cultural and topographical specificity, the book is structured around five core themes: Contested Histories of Place; Environmental Landscapes; Cityscapes; The Social Construction of Place; and Landscapes of Belonging.
Story and Discourse
Story and Discourse - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Story and Discourse write by Seymour Chatman. This book was released on 2019-06-30. Story and Discourse available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "For the specialist in the study of narrative structure, this is a solid and very perceptive exploration of the issues salient to the telling of a story—whatever the medium. Chatman, whose approach here is at once dualist and structuralist, divides his subject into the 'what' of the narrative (Story) and the 'way' (Discourse)... Chatman's command of his material is impressive."—Library Journal
American Road Narratives
American Road Narratives - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook American Road Narratives write by Ann Brigham. This book was released on 2015-06-29. American Road Narratives available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The freedom to go anywhere and become anyone has profoundly shaped our national psyche. Transforming our sense of place and identity--whether in terms of social and economic status, or race and ethnicity, or gender and sexuality—American mobility is perhaps nowhere more vividly captured than in the image of the open road. From pioneer trails to the latest car commercial, the road looms large as a form of expansiveness and opportunity. Too often it is the celebratory idea of the road as a free-floating zone moving the traveler beyond the typical concerns of space and time that dominates the discussion. Rather than thinking of mobility as an escape from cultural tensions, however, Ann Brigham proposes that we understand mobility as a mode of engagement with them. She explores the genre of road narratives to show how mobility both thrives on and attempts to manage shifting conflicts about space and society in the United States. From the earliest transcontinental automobile narratives from the 1910s, through classics like Jack Kerouac's On the Road and the film Thelma & Louise, up to post-9/11 narratives, Brigham traces the ways in which mobility has been imagined, created, and interrogated over the past century and shows how mobility promises, and threatens, to incorporate the outsider and to blur boundaries. Bringing together textual and cultural analysis, theories of spatiality, and sociohistorical frameworks, this book offers an invigoratingly different view of mobility and a new understanding of the road narrative’s importance in American culture. Choice Outstanding Academic Title from American Library Association
Death and Garden Narratives in Literature, Art, and Film
Death and Garden Narratives in Literature, Art, and Film - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Death and Garden Narratives in Literature, Art, and Film write by Feryal Cubukcu. This book was released on 2020-07-30. Death and Garden Narratives in Literature, Art, and Film available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Death and Garden Narratives in Literature, Art and Film: Song of Death in Paradise explores the combination of two motifs, death and gardens, to show how the two subjects are intertwined and used in various media and cultural contexts. Using cultural, literary, film, and art history theories, the contributors analyze various death and garden sceneries in literary works by Arthur Machen, Agatha Christie, J.K. Rowling, as well as in superhero comics, films, and cultural and art contexts such as Ian Hamilton Finley's “Little Sparta,” the poetic verses from the Karoo Desert National Botanical Garden in South Africa, and the Australian wilderness.
An Aesthetics of Narrative Performance
An Aesthetics of Narrative Performance - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook An Aesthetics of Narrative Performance write by Claudia Breger. This book was released on 2012. An Aesthetics of Narrative Performance available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Maps the complexities of imaginative worldmaking in contemporary culture through an aesthetics of narrative performance.
