STYLEPub Date : 2024-02-01DOI: 10.5325/style.58.1.0022
Wael J. Salam, Ayman Abu-Shomar
{"title":"“Life in death”: Decolonizing Trauma in Sinan Antoon’s The Corpse Washer","authors":"Wael J. Salam, Ayman Abu-Shomar","doi":"10.5325/style.58.1.0022","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/style.58.1.0022","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 This article examines the poetics of death in the Iraqi American writer Sinan Antoon’s novel The Corpse Washer. The novel depicts death as a leitmotif while emphasizing the perils of wars and violence on the Iraqi people. Throughout the novel, death is omnipresent, looming over the lives of the characters, particularly the protagonist Jawad who endures nightmares, hallucinations, and split personality. These conditions are engendered by prolonged wars and cycles of violence, including the Iran–Iraq War (1980–1988), the Gulf War (1990–1991), and the invasion of Iraq in 2003. In addition to these wars, characters in The Corpse Washer are victimized by foreign sanctions, suicide bombings, sectarianism, and political corruption. In analyzing the tropes of death and violence in The Corpse Washer, this article extends classical trauma theory informed by Western assumptions and championed by Cathy Caruth, Shoshana Felman, Dori Laub, and others. It decolonizes trauma theory by tracing cases of tragedy, violence, and occupation in the global South, an analysis that will render the theory cross-cultural and inclusive of non-Western traumata.","PeriodicalId":45300,"journal":{"name":"STYLE","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2024-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140469858","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
STYLEPub Date : 2024-02-01DOI: 10.5325/style.58.1.0101
Megan E. Hartman
{"title":"The Art and Thought of the Beowulf Poet","authors":"Megan E. Hartman","doi":"10.5325/style.58.1.0101","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/style.58.1.0101","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45300,"journal":{"name":"STYLE","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2024-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140462867","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
STYLEPub Date : 2024-02-01DOI: 10.5325/style.58.1.0046
Bartosz Stopel
{"title":"Toward Embodied Defamiliarization: Immersion, Predictive Processing, and Anna Kavan’s Ice","authors":"Bartosz Stopel","doi":"10.5325/style.58.1.0046","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/style.58.1.0046","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 In an attempt to further develop debates at the intersection of cognitive and unnatural narratology, the article argues in favor of a framework for capturing immersion–defamiliarization interaction in narratives, which involves the possibility of defamiliarization being an embodied phenomena that does not adversely affect immersion. The article argues that when framing scalar models of the immersion–defamiliarization axis in embodied predictive processing and in the psychology of art, defamiliarization can in some cases take an embodied form, which does not obstruct immersion. The argument is developed with three interrelated claims showcasing that immersion requires some degree of defamiliarization in the first place, that stylistic features, far from being transparent, can mitigate defamiliarization effects in unnatural narratives and sustain immersion because of emotional charge, and those reflective or critical attitudes associated with defamiliarization can take a form of intuitions and sensations, remaining embodied rather than distanced and cerebral. The article illustrates this point by analyzing Anna Kavan’s avant-garde novel Ice, which is both a staple of unnatural narratives and unusual for its immersive capacities.","PeriodicalId":45300,"journal":{"name":"STYLE","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2024-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140465743","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
STYLEPub Date : 2024-02-01DOI: 10.5325/style.58.1.0001
Colleen Shuching Wu
{"title":"Poetry Lies: Poststructuralism and Robert Lowell’s Idea of Literary Representation","authors":"Colleen Shuching Wu","doi":"10.5325/style.58.1.0001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/style.58.1.0001","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 While Lowell’s private life is put on the spotlight and the signification of his poetry is attached to the trauma and drama of his life, it remains pressing to ask what actually distinguishes Lowell’s poetry. Lowell serves as a touchstone case for criticism on confessional poetry, and poetry in general, because Lowell’s poems negate the definition of writing as literary representation and simple celebration of personal aura, which greatly differs from his real life or the biographical depiction of his life. The distinction between Lowell and the lyric I sometimes might appear blurred but is still existing. With the poems discussed here, there is a lack of self-indulgence and egocentrism that Lowell’s biography and his handling of Hardwick’s letters imply. This article will address this contradiction between Lowell and the lyric I (or Lowell as a poet), which is especially conspicuous when Lowell defies the possibility of literary representation.","PeriodicalId":45300,"journal":{"name":"STYLE","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2024-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140464996","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
STYLEPub Date : 2024-02-01DOI: 10.5325/style.58.1.0067
Lian Zhang
{"title":"Yu Yan or Fable: The Earliest Introductions to The Canterbury Tales in China","authors":"Lian Zhang","doi":"10.5325/style.58.1.0067","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/style.58.1.0067","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 Yu yan is a way of argumentation and writing style, and has a history of over two thousand years in China. In the twentieth century, yu yan has developed into a literary genre similar to fable. This article argues that the two sets of Chinese translations of The Canterbury Tales by Sun Yuxiu and Lin Shu provide an important point to examine the shifting understanding of yu yan, and they reflect the Chinese cultural conflicts during the socially transitional period in the early twentieth century. These translations possess important features of a transformed fable and developed yu yan. They are creations as well as translations, to which the translators add their political and social expectations while moralizing. By exploring briefly the definitions of yu yan and fable, and studying the translations of the tales, their source texts, and the translators’ biographies, this article attempts to illustrate that the translators do not regard yu yan and fable as equivalent literary terms, and they put emphasis on the native Chinese literary traditions and cultural values in the process of Chinese literary modernization.","PeriodicalId":45300,"journal":{"name":"STYLE","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2024-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140470307","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
STYLEPub Date : 2024-02-01DOI: 10.5325/style.58.1.0096
Colton Valentine
{"title":"Victorian Women Writers and the Other Germany: Cross-Cultural Freedoms and Female Opportunity","authors":"Colton Valentine","doi":"10.5325/style.58.1.0096","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/style.58.1.0096","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45300,"journal":{"name":"STYLE","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2024-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140465793","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
STYLEPub Date : 2024-02-01DOI: 10.5325/style.58.1.0093
William Baker
{"title":"W. B. Yeats: An Unpublished Letter","authors":"William Baker","doi":"10.5325/style.58.1.0093","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/style.58.1.0093","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 The discovery of a hitherto unknown unpublished late W. B. Yeats letter reveals sources for his critically neglected poem “Upon a Dying Lady” first published in 1917. The letter also shows Yeats’s fascination with hearing voices in a dream.","PeriodicalId":45300,"journal":{"name":"STYLE","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2024-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140468253","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
STYLEPub Date : 2024-02-01DOI: 10.5325/style.58.1.0105
Sarah Levine, Madison Bunderson
{"title":"A Life with Poetry: The Development of Poetic Literacy","authors":"Sarah Levine, Madison Bunderson","doi":"10.5325/style.58.1.0105","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/style.58.1.0105","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45300,"journal":{"name":"STYLE","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2024-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140469187","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}