c i n d e rPub Date : 2018-09-03DOI: 10.21153/CINDER2018ART755
Hayley Scrivenor
{"title":"WHAT DID WE JUST SEE? AMBIGUITY AND REVELATION IN THE EXTREME FIRST PERSON PLURAL","authors":"Hayley Scrivenor","doi":"10.21153/CINDER2018ART755","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21153/CINDER2018ART755","url":null,"abstract":"Questions of point of view are pivotal in fictional texts and determine what story, precisely, the author can tell. But what happens when writers present particularly challenging points of view? With a focus on the first person plural, this paper will interrogate stories where point of view ‘asserts’ itself to the reader. Using an approach informed by unnatural narratology, this paper addresses narrative situations where the make-up of a narrative collective is initially unclear, and where a challenging or ambiguous point of view is revealed to be an integral component of the plot.In exploring the relationship between point of view, ambiguity and narrative revelation, this paper will consider a range of contemporary novels written predominately in the first person plural, notably TaraShea Nesbit’s The Wives of Los Alamos, Malcolm Knox’s The Wonder Lover and Jon McGregor’s Even the Dogs. Highlighting the innate ambiguity of an ‘extreme’ first person plural allows us to consider ways in which authors of fiction in the first person plural have exploited this ambiguity to shape key revelations within their texts.","PeriodicalId":187236,"journal":{"name":"c i n d e r","volume":"22 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-09-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114395132","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
c i n d e rPub Date : 2018-09-03DOI: 10.21153/CINDER2018ART754
Kieran Stevenson
{"title":"(UN)MASKING AUTHENTICITY: CREATIVE WRITING AND THE MASK","authors":"Kieran Stevenson","doi":"10.21153/CINDER2018ART754","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21153/CINDER2018ART754","url":null,"abstract":"In the realms of literature and creative writing, there is a unique legitimacy conferred upon works which are seen as ‘authentic’. This results in a hierarchical organisation of styles and genres which exists external and prior to any individual text. This paper explores the claim to authenticity of ‘realist’ literary fiction in Australia and attempts to challenge that hierarchy from the perspective of Nietzsche’s work on the concept of the mask. Central to this argument is an analysis of Kurt Vonnegut’s novel Cat’s Cradle and its awareness of the relationship between truth and illusion. ","PeriodicalId":187236,"journal":{"name":"c i n d e r","volume":"55 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-09-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123117223","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
c i n d e rPub Date : 2018-09-03DOI: 10.21153/CINDER2018ART758
L. Tang
{"title":"TRAUMATIC CHANGE: THE DYNAMICS OF CHARACTER AND CHRONOTOPE WHEN BAKHTIN’S ‘OTHER’ IS HARMFUL","authors":"L. Tang","doi":"10.21153/CINDER2018ART758","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21153/CINDER2018ART758","url":null,"abstract":"Bakhtin’s world is predicated on the identity forming paradigm of self and other in dialogue. This dialogue occurs within the chronotope—the time-space—unique to the self. Yet this world does not consider the impact of trauma on the self, nor the way in which traumatic change shifts identity, and informs the relationships between self-chronotope and self-other. Reading concepts of literary trauma theory into Bakhtin’s world enables writers to create resonant characters that meaningfully depict the lived experience of trauma.","PeriodicalId":187236,"journal":{"name":"c i n d e r","volume":"223 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-09-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122884842","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
c i n d e rPub Date : 2018-09-03DOI: 10.21153/CINDER2018ART760
Jack Kirne
{"title":"STRAY WRITING: NAVIGATING THE GREAT DERANGEMENT","authors":"Jack Kirne","doi":"10.21153/CINDER2018ART760","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21153/CINDER2018ART760","url":null,"abstract":"Many theorists have lamented the lack of serious literary fiction addressing the shifting realities of climate change, or ecological collapse. While the reasons for this lack are diverse, most hinge on the temporal dimensions of the Anthropocene. This paper—via a study of work emerging in the environmental humanities—is an attempt to fragment the totalising rhetoric of geological shift by illustrating that the Anthropocene affects humans and non-humans on narrative timescales that are neither apocalyptic nor gradual. In conclusion, drawing upon Barbara Creed’s formulation of the stray (2017), I advocate for the stray novel and provide a series of provocations for further research.","PeriodicalId":187236,"journal":{"name":"c i n d e r","volume":"20 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-09-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122231504","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
c i n d e rPub Date : 2018-09-03DOI: 10.21153/CINDER2018ART761
Kay E. Payne
{"title":"WRITING FOR CHANGE: THE CASE FOR NARRATIVE PERSUASION TECHNIQUES","authors":"Kay E. Payne","doi":"10.21153/CINDER2018ART761","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21153/CINDER2018ART761","url":null,"abstract":"Narrative persuasion refers to the process by which people alter their attitudes and beliefs to match that of information provided in a narrative. Studies on the narrative tools contributing to attitude and belief change in the reader have produced results that provide direction for writers seeking to influence and inform the public. In this paper, I explore the narrative persuasion techniques used in two examples of Australian contemporary young adult texts designed to foster empathy for a marginalised group. These fictional works include Boy Overboard (Gleitzman 2002) and The Bone Sparrow (Fraillon 2016), both of which criticise Australia’s treatment of asylum seekers. The results of this research have informed the creative work for my PhD thesis, Boundless Plains, which focuses on the issue of Australia’s treatment of refugees and asylum seekers, with an emphasis on boat arrivals.","PeriodicalId":187236,"journal":{"name":"c i n d e r","volume":"2012 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-09-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129765663","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
c i n d e rPub Date : 2018-09-03DOI: 10.21153/CINDER2018ART768
A. Pont, Hayley Elliott-Ryan
{"title":"EDITORIAL ISSUE 1","authors":"A. Pont, Hayley Elliott-Ryan","doi":"10.21153/CINDER2018ART768","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21153/CINDER2018ART768","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":187236,"journal":{"name":"c i n d e r","volume":"196 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-09-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116349751","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}