Literary dynamics in The.PowerBook by Jeanette Winterson and Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood

IF 0.6 3区文学 0 LANGUAGE & LINGUISTICS

Language and Literature Pub Date : 2021-12-14 DOI:10.1177/09639470211059254

Irene O’Leary

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Abstract

Interaction between text and reader is a prominent concern in stylistics. This paper focusses on interactions among stylistic processes and subconscious microcognitive processes that generate changes to narrative and interpretation during reading. Drawing on process philosophy and recent neuroscientific research, I articulate this dynamism through analysis of a brief narrative moment from each of The.PowerBook by Jeanette Winterson and Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood. I argue that high densities of stylistic and microcognitive perturbations lead to frequent narrative and interpretive changes in the two moments. The analyses reinforce portrayals of reading as intensely complex, dynamic and changeable. Complexity, dynamism and mutability also characterise the stylistic changes in the two narrative moments. This paper advocates greater attention to the role of volatile stylistic and cognitive microdynamics in shaping the reading of prose fiction.

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文学动态。珍妮特·温特森的《PowerBook》和玛格丽特·阿特伍德的《羚羊与秧鸡》

文本与读者之间的互动是文体学研究的重点。本文主要研究阅读过程中文体过程与潜意识微认知过程之间的相互作用，从而产生叙事和解释的变化。借鉴过程哲学和最近的神经科学研究，我通过分析《The。珍妮特·温特森的《PowerBook》和玛格丽特·阿特伍德的《羚羊与秧鸡》。我认为，高密度的风格和微认知扰动导致了这两个时刻的频繁叙事和解释变化。这些分析强化了对阅读的描述，认为阅读是非常复杂、动态和多变的。复杂性、动态性和可变性也是这两个叙事时刻风格变化的特征。本文主张更多地关注多变的文体和认知微动力在塑造散文小说阅读中的作用。

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Language and Literature Multiple-

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期刊介绍： Language and Literature is an invaluable international peer-reviewed journal that covers the latest research in stylistics, defined as the study of style in literary and non-literary language. We publish theoretical, empirical and experimental research that aims to make a contribution to our understanding of style and its effects on readers. Topics covered by the journal include (but are not limited to) the following: the stylistic analysis of literary and non-literary texts, cognitive approaches to text comprehension, corpus and computational stylistics, the stylistic investigation of multimodal texts, pedagogical stylistics, the reading process, software development for stylistics, and real-world applications for stylistic analysis. We welcome articles that investigate the relationship between stylistics and other areas of linguistics, such as text linguistics, sociolinguistics and translation studies. We also encourage interdisciplinary submissions that explore the connections between stylistics and such cognate subjects and disciplines as psychology, literary studies, narratology, computer science and neuroscience. Language and Literature is essential reading for academics, teachers and students working in stylistics and related areas of language and literary studies.