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{"title":"Laissez-Faire Storytelling: Fictionality, Post-Factuality, and the Filmic Voice in Joshua Oppenheimer’s Documentary <i>The Act of Killing</i> (2012)","authors":"Alexander Scherr","doi":"10.5325/style.57.3.0296","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/style.57.3.0296","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Based on a rhetorical-narratological analysis of Joshua Oppenheimer’s film The Act of Killing (2012), this article identifies a specific use of the filmic voice which it defines as ‘laissez-faire storytelling.’ The laissez-faire voice is a rhetorical stance that serves documentary filmmakers to reconfigure their narrative position toward actors who espouse a ‘post-factual’ worldview. Directors who employ this stance strategically grant their actors a considerable amount of freedom in the making of the documentary. Ultimately, however, their technique exposes a problematic rhetoric in which the borderline between fictionality and non-fictionality is obliterated. The article concludes that the laissez-faire documentary resonates strongly with current attempts in both theory and art to restabilize the precarious boundaries between fictionality and non-fictionality—a reorientation that is decidedly ‘post-postmodernist.’","PeriodicalId":45300,"journal":{"name":"STYLE","volume":"111 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135053032","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}

{"title":"The Contextual Model for Poem Translations and Criticisms: An Enlightenment from Wang Guowei’s Realm of Poetic World","authors":"Yuanpeng Huang","doi":"10.5325/style.57.3.0370","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/style.57.3.0370","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Combining the poet’s cultivated character, tones and rhythms, and spirit in Wang Guowei’s poetic realm theories with the viewpoints of poem compositions in Shi Sou, the article proposes the four essential elements, cultivated character, genre, tones and rhythms, and style, in poem translations, and argues that the translator should find the poet who has similar cultivated characters with him to translate, and meters and rhythms of translated poems should show the emotions and meanings of the original, and the styles of the translated poems should agree with those of the original ones. The article, therefore, constructs a contextual model integrating the context of situation consisting of the genre (field), tones (meters) and rhythms (mode), and style (tenor) into the context of culture containing the cultivated character and puts forth the principles for poem translations and criticisms.","PeriodicalId":45300,"journal":{"name":"STYLE","volume":"52 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135052739","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}

{"title":"Between Science and Society: Charting the Space of Science Fiction","authors":"Huiyang Pan, Hongwei Zhan","doi":"10.5325/style.57.3.0408","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/style.57.3.0408","url":null,"abstract":"In the literature academia, whether science fiction is a genre was contested and the definition of science fiction has been chaotic for years. Although many scholars attempted to define the nature of science fiction, there are still piecemeal insights and observations either in its theoretical or historical aspects. For a long time, the nature of science fiction has been discussed mostly among literary critics, and seldom do professional writers participate in such a debate. The book Between Science and Society: Charting the Space of Science Fiction, is a centerpiece focusing on inner dialogues among writers of science fiction. By adopting an unorthodox research method, Van Belle interviews twenty-four renowned science fiction writers who represent an extensive scope of sub-genres of science fiction in order to document the perspectives of the writers and construct the mediated space, as the book title suggests, between science and society.The volume under review consists of thirty chapters, which are well-organized. Chapter 1 explains the setting and the goal of the interviews. Chapters 2 through chapter 25 present the interview transcripts of the writers in alphabetical order of their names. Chapters 26 to 29 are a conclusion of the content of these interviews and the key elements the writers propose in conceptualizing the nature of science fiction as an ecosystem. In the last chapter, Van Belle proposes academic implications and calls for further studies.The “Introduction” section of this book outlines the conflict between literature academia and professional science fiction writers. Some of the academic analyses of the genre had regarded science fiction as inferior to other genres of literature, disparaged the writers’ thinking, skill, and intent, and worse of all failed to grasp the essence of science fiction. Though the hostility is alleviated in recent years, the estrangement still impedes the two parties from understanding each other. Van Belle announced in advance the intent of the book is to find out and document “as faithfully as possible, how the authors conceptualized their role in that space between science and society and explore how that conceptualization might translate into their conceptualization of the genre” (3).The research method adopted in this study is loosely structured interviewing, consisting of six questions that are not designed to obtain a rigorous yes or no answer, but to serve as an elicitation inspiring the writers to elaborate on their understanding without any bounds. It is more of a conversational style than a Q&A routine. The six questions can be roughly divided into three groups:The questions in the first group are (1. Origin Story; 2. Compromise on Science) related to writers’ history and their writing process, asking how they conceive of themselves as professional science fiction writers and what the elements they consider to be necessary to science fiction. This group of questions allows the writers to “t","PeriodicalId":45300,"journal":{"name":"STYLE","volume":"10 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135053034","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}

{"title":"The Fascination of Imitation: What Social Neuroscience Reveals about <i>Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?</i>","authors":"Tony Jackson","doi":"10.5325/style.57.3.0273","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/style.57.3.0273","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Since the 1990s, social neuroscience has established imitation as an unconscious, constitutive element of human identity; to the point that one may reasonably say that human identity is imitative identity. This research has profound implications for the human fascination with imitation in general, as well as with specific kinds of imitation. For the imitative identity, imitation human beings are uniquely, but strangely fascinating. This may readily be seen from the long history of stories about humanly made imitation humans. Philip K. Dick’s Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? is a major entry in the history of such stories. This article shows how social-neuroscientific findings about imitative identity can help us understand Dick’s novel.","PeriodicalId":45300,"journal":{"name":"STYLE","volume":"9 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135052740","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}

{"title":"Creepiness and the Uncanny","authors":"Jens Kjeldgaard-Christiansen, Mathias Clasen","doi":"10.5325/style.57.3.0322","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/style.57.3.0322","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT To feel nervously and apprehensively “creeped out” is a familiar emotional state, but its cause—what makes something or someone “creepy”—is poorly understood. A recent evolutionary account of creepiness suggests that the emotion arises from a perceived “ambiguity about the presence of threat” (McAndrew and Koehnke 10). However, not all ambiguous threats are perceived as creepy. This article argues that specifically creepy threats arise from disrupted mentalization, by which is meant difficulties in apprehending the mind of another being in such a way as to make that being seem threateningly unpredictable. The authors propose that this explanation of creepiness also explains “the uncanny,” a concept that is closely related to creepiness and to which a much older and larger research literature attaches. Finally, it is suggested that the present account can make sense of some iconically creepy figures of horror fictions, including zombies, ghosts, and ominously unhuman children.","PeriodicalId":45300,"journal":{"name":"STYLE","volume":"21 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135052738","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}

{"title":"Stylistic Approaches to Pop Culture","authors":"Paul J. Flanagan","doi":"10.5325/style.57.3.0392","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/style.57.3.0392","url":null,"abstract":"As a field of academic study, pop culture has historically been under researched in the social sciences by virtue of a perception that it constitutes low culture, and is thus less worthy of critical study than traditionally canonical cultural products. While films, television shows, and pop music are consumed by mass audiences at an ever more considerable rate, their status as the object of linguistic analysis has long been neglected in favor of more perceivably high culture texts such as poems, novels, and plays. In recent years, however, there has been a shift in thinking in this area, and the ideological significance of language use in such pop(ular) artforms has come to be recognized as both a reflection of, and a vehicle for the communication of, contemporary ideology.Since the turn of the millennium, there have been significant works on the language of pop culture (Bell and Gibson; Queen; Werner), the language of film and television, often dubbed “telecinematic linguistics” (Bateman and Schmidt; Bednarek; Beach; Beers Fägersten; Forchini; Harrison; Hodson; LippiGreen; Marshall and Werndly; Piazza et al.; Richardson), and the language of pop music (Beal; Coupland; Flanagan; Gerfer; Harrison and Ringrow; Jansen and Westphal; Jansen; Machin; McKerrell and Way; Pennycook; Ross and Rivers; Simpson; Watts and Morrissey; Werner; West; WisemanTrowse). The concept of performed language underpins all of these areas of interest, with the linguistic study of pop culture texts necessarily framed with the central notion that the language being analyzed is at least to some extent “inauthentic”: crafted, deliberately or even subconsciously, with a consideration of the effect that linguistic choices will have on the communication of artists’/characters’ identities, and ultimately the effect this will have on how the audience interprets the text.The present volume, Stylistic Approaches to Pop Culture is edited by Christoph Schubert and Valentin Werner, and builds on the latter’s 2018 introductory edited volume The Language of Pop Culture. This is the first book to focus exclusively on stylistic approaches to a range of pop culture text genres; it thus exhibits a more consistent thematic approach to pop cultural linguistic study than its predecessor, which by necessity provides a broader outlook on this field of linguistic inquiry. Stylistics here is defined relatively broadly, and encompasses a range of approaches, these being social stylistic, pragmatic, cognitive, multimodal, and corpus-based stylistic analysis.The book comprises 10 chapters and is divided into subsections that delve into different spheres of pop culture: pop fiction; telecinematic discourse; pop music and lyrics; and cartoons and video games. This establishes pop culture as a broad church indeed, with a useful introductory chapter from Werner on the nature of pop culture texts from a stylistic perspective bookended by an afterword from Michael Toolan on the present and future of pop cultu","PeriodicalId":45300,"journal":{"name":"STYLE","volume":"111 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135052761","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}

{"title":"Narrative Theory and Neuroscience: Why Human Nature Matters","authors":"Joseph Carroll","doi":"10.5325/style.57.3.0241","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/style.57.3.0241","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Stories and the Brain: The Neuroscience of Narrative by Paul B. Armstrong and Brain, Mind, and the Narrative Imagination by Christopher Comer and Ashley Taggart adopt cultural constructivist perspectives that reject the idea of evolved human motives and emotions. Both books contain information that could be integrated with other research in a comprehensive and empirically grounded theory of narrative, but they both fail to construct any such theory. In order to avoid subordinating the humanities to the sciences, Comer and Taggart avoid integrating their separate disciplines: neuroscience (Comer) and narrative theory (Taggart). They draw no significant conclusions from the research they summarize. Armstrong subordinates neuroscience to the paradoxes of phenomenology and 4E cognition. His prose develops not by consecutive reasoning but by the repetitive intonation of paradoxical formulas. The failures in theoretical construction displayed by these two books run parallel with weaknesses in the interpretive criticism with which they illustrate their ideas. The different ways in which the books fail are sometimes comical but nonetheless instructive. The failures inadvertently point toward the radical changes in humanist thinking that would be necessary for success in integrating neuroscience and narrative theory.","PeriodicalId":45300,"journal":{"name":"STYLE","volume":"89 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135053011","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}

{"title":"Experiencing Poetry. A Guidebook to Psychopoetics","authors":"Józefina Piątkowska","doi":"10.5325/style.57.3.0402","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/style.57.3.0402","url":null,"abstract":"While generations of poets around the world have taken direct inspiration from Plato’s contemplation of beauty and truth, the Greek philosopher fiercely criticized poets and even insisted to expel them from his ideal state. He believed that poetry “feeds and waters passions instead of drying them up; she lets them rule”; consequently, society risks at being ruled by “pleasure and pain.” But is there any evidence for his assumptions? Is there proof that linguistic elements cause emotional reactions? Does poetry about pain really make us suffer? And how can we collect independent data to confront different assumptions about the effects that poetry has on its recipients? For those who find these questions interesting or troublesome, Experiencing Poetry. A Guide to Psychopoetics by Willie van Peer and Anna Chesnokova will help find reliable answers.The term psychopoetics is used here in a different sense from that adopted by Felman or Bal, who aimed to relate psychoanalysis to the studies of literature. Van Peer and Chesnokova define psychopoetics as “the study of poetic experiences, of what goes through you when you are confronted with poetic texts” (viii). In their approach empirical results are a central component to their argument. They intend “to expose claims about the psychological workings of poetry to serious and methodological tests as well as instruct our readers on how to apply and interpret such tests” (viii). Marrying “age-old traditional poetics to more recent methods of investigation, developed in the social sciences” (17), Van Peer and Chesnokova bring solutions to those who are tempted to investigate how people experience poetry, but are discouraged by the subjectivity of textual analysis alone.The book is a timely publication. The empirical study of literature has been expanding for several decades now (van Peer; Miall and Kuiken; Bortolussi and Dixon; Koopman). Van Peer is one if its founders and both authors have made a compelling case for the development and recognition of this type of investigation (Chesnokova and van Peer, Versus; Chesnokova and van Peer, Znaki Czy Nie Znaki?; van Peer and Chesnokova). Moreover, as the authors point out in the introduction, cognitive poetics has also brought a psychological dimension to the research about our reading and understanding literature (Gavins and Steen, Stockwell, Tsur). Nonetheless, the uniqueness of this monograph lies in its focus on an evidence-based approach studying the emotions we experience while being exposed to poetry (and not to literature in general).What is more, the “book [is designed] for an international audience” and the authors open their research to “the multiplicity and variety of cultural expressions,” bearing in mind that “different cultures handle poetic issues in different ways” (ix). At the same time, their examples include poems written not only in languages other than English, but also in different epochs. Expanding the intercultural and historical dimensi","PeriodicalId":45300,"journal":{"name":"STYLE","volume":"48 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135053033","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}

{"title":"JAKET PULLOVER HOODIE DENGAN MOTIF ISTANA SIAK RIAU","authors":"Rahmayani Rahmayani, Dini Yanuarmi, Hendratno Hendratno","doi":"10.26887/style.v2i2.3719","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26887/style.v2i2.3719","url":null,"abstract":"Siak Palace is a sturdy rectangular building, decorated at the gate with a pair of hawks striking with sharp eyes and consists of two floors. Siak Palace is located in the city of Siak Sri Indrapura, Riau Province. The creation of this work was inspired by the beautiful visual form of the Siak Palace and then created at each end of the pillars of the building. The form of work created is in the form of an L-sized jacket using a written batik technique. The function of this jacket is outerwear that is used to protect from cold weather or fashion. The creation method in this work goes through three stages, namely the exploration stage which is field observation activities, source excavation and data collection. Exploration begins with going to the field to see and observe the shape of the Siak Palace. The design stage is pouring ideas through several alternative sketches, then from several alternative sketches it is determined to be the selected design as a reference in the process of making works. The embodiment stage uses a written batik technique with reactive coloring which is applied to a pullover hoodie jacket. The creation of works uses a theoretical basis of form, function, color, motif, creation and aesthetics. The results of the process of making this work created the Siak Palace motif in the form of five works with the titles \"Kenyamanan\", \"Gugur\" and \"Bangkit\".","PeriodicalId":45300,"journal":{"name":"STYLE","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135673176","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}

{"title":"CANDI BAHAL SEBAGAI MOTIF PADA KEMEJA PADANG LAWAS, SUMATERA UTARA","authors":"Mia Yudina Yanti, Dini Yanuarmi, Wisnu Prastawa","doi":"10.26887/style.v2i2.3720","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26887/style.v2i2.3720","url":null,"abstract":"Candi Bahal is one of the Vajrayana Buddhist temples located in Bahal Village, Padang Bolak District, Padang Lawas Regency, North Sumatra. Candi Bahal was founded by Rajendra Cola I from Tamil India which is estimated to be thousands of years old at that time. The uniqueness of Candi Bahal is the shape of the Candi Bahal roof which is about 2.5 m high, like a cake on a square saucer with flower carvings around the edge of the Temple roof. Candi Bahal was created as a motif on men's shirts. The process of creating this work uses a theoretical basis which includes form, function, motif, color, aesthetics and creation. The method used in the embodiment of the work starts from exploring data collection about the Candi Bahal such as searching for library sources or looking directly at it. Designing is putting ideas into design that will be realized. The embodiment stage is the process of realizing the work that was previously designed, using the main ingredients of primisisma cotton and remazol dyes and using written batik techniques and sewing techniques. The work created is a shirt with size L. In the creation of this work, the Candi Bahal motif was made by adding isen-isen and creating the size of the temple and adding additional motifs such as bricks, reliefs, makara and gecko motifs. The creation of this work uses the colors red, green, black, white and golden yellow. The presentation of the work will be carried out in the form of displays and fashion shows. The results of the creation of this work are three shirts with the titles merangkul, keberanian, keindahan.","PeriodicalId":45300,"journal":{"name":"STYLE","volume":"21 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135673175","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}