STYLEPub Date : 2023-05-01DOI: 10.5325/style.57.2.0205
Annjeanette Wiese
{"title":"Representational Intelligibility and the Confines of Framing the Self: Carmen Maria Machado's In the Dream House","authors":"Annjeanette Wiese","doi":"10.5325/style.57.2.0205","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/style.57.2.0205","url":null,"abstract":"abstract:Carmen Maria Machado's experimental memoir In the Dream House—a haunting account of domestic abuse between partners who share a gender identity—lays out in both explicit and nontraditional ways the problems faced when representing aspects of experience that are deemed culturally unintelligible. Telling her story in this way opens her narrative up to an understanding that could not be had without the fragmentation of form that constitutes both a rejection of and dependence on conventional representations. This article will analyze Machado's engagement with the specifically narrative and representational obstacles she faces. Ultimately, this article argues that her story gains its power by speaking to the larger issues of violence outside of stereotypically \"accepted\" cultural narratives, but also that it is only by refracting her story through these framings that she is able to make her narrative of self cohere out the jumble of forces at play.","PeriodicalId":45300,"journal":{"name":"STYLE","volume":"57 1","pages":"205 - 224"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2023-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44473225","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 : 2023-02-01DOI: 10.5325/style.57.1.0056
J. Kane
{"title":"Rewriting the Quixotic Novel in Charlotte Lennox's The Female Quixote","authors":"J. Kane","doi":"10.5325/style.57.1.0056","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/style.57.1.0056","url":null,"abstract":"abstract:Charlotte Lennox's The Female Quixote is a gender-bent version of Cervantes's Don Quixote, and its protagonist Arabella believes the world is like her romance novels. While most critics see the novel as a triumph of reason over romance, this article argues that it is in fact a rewriting of the quixotic genre: rather than awakening to reason, Lennox's quixote instead molds the world to her romantic expectations. Building on Jodi Wyett's feminist reading of the text, this article uses both the methods and impact of Arabella's \"mimetic influence\" (in Aaron Hanlon's words) to demonstrate her narrative agency and ultimate success. By resisting genre norms, the novel also resists the social expectations those norms rely on. In Lennox's hands, the quixotic genre becomes a demonstration of the power of idealistic fiction and the imaginative women who read it.","PeriodicalId":45300,"journal":{"name":"STYLE","volume":"57 1","pages":"56 - 69"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2023-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41460664","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 : 2023-02-01DOI: 10.5325/style.57.1.0108
Fang Wang, Jun Feng
{"title":"New Directions in Cognitive Grammar and Style","authors":"Fang Wang, Jun Feng","doi":"10.5325/style.57.1.0108","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/style.57.1.0108","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45300,"journal":{"name":"STYLE","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2023-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48383769","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 : 2023-02-01DOI: 10.5325/style.57.1.0090
A. Ionescu, Laurent Milesi
{"title":"A Tale of Two Theories","authors":"A. Ionescu, Laurent Milesi","doi":"10.5325/style.57.1.0090","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/style.57.1.0090","url":null,"abstract":"abstract:This review essay of John Pier's edited volume Contemporary French and Francophone Narratology offers a critical synthesis of its contributions by some of the leading contemporary French narratologists by assessing their difference from Anglo-American trends in the field, especially postclassical narratology, and situating them within the broader historical evolution of narratology. It first sketches the rise to prominence of classical (French) narratology in the heyday of 1960s and early 1970s structuralism before retracing its decline in subsequent decades. It also lists the flagship volumes and dedicated series that have appeared since the birth of postclassical narratology as an indication of the revival of the field before engaging with the various articles gathered in the volume, emphasizing their uneasy relation to Anglo-American practices, and critically reviewing the strengths and relative weaknesses of the overall collection, especially in the more militant final essay.","PeriodicalId":45300,"journal":{"name":"STYLE","volume":"57 1","pages":"107 - 90"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2023-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44574831","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 : 2023-02-01DOI: 10.5325/style.57.1.0115
Wanying Wang
{"title":"British Formalist Aesthetics and Its Literary Writing Practice by Fen Gao (review)","authors":"Wanying Wang","doi":"10.5325/style.57.1.0115","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/style.57.1.0115","url":null,"abstract":"Style_57_1_07_Book_Reviews.indd Page 115 16/02/23 8:04 PM jun feng is a doctoral candidate at Sichuan International Studies University, China, and a council member of the Chinese Association of Cognitive Poetics affiliated to CCLA. His research interests include cognitive poetics and cognitive literary studies. He is currently involved in a Major Project of National Social Science Fund of China “Research on Cognitive Poetics and Its Theoretical Reconstruction” (No.20&ZD291) (fengjun2016sisu@gmail.com).","PeriodicalId":45300,"journal":{"name":"STYLE","volume":"57 1","pages":"115 - 123"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2023-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41794625","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 : 2023-02-01DOI: 10.5325/style.57.1.0011
Mats Haraldsen
{"title":"Extended Remembering: Georges Perec and Writing as Thinking","authors":"Mats Haraldsen","doi":"10.5325/style.57.1.0011","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/style.57.1.0011","url":null,"abstract":"abstract:What are the relations among writing, thinking, and remembering? This article sets forth the epistemological claim that Georges Perec's book W, or the Memory of Childhood is an integrated part of Perec's cognitive process of remembering. By drawing on the extended mind thesis, as well as recent work on memory within cognitive science, it argues that Perec's cognitive processes are extended into his text and, furthermore, that they are partly accessible to his readers. This approach thus sidesteps many of the debates regarding the author's intention in literary studies by arguing that what is at stake in W is not whether Perec's intention is deducible or not by the text, but rather how much and in what way the author's extended thought processes are available in the text. In the conclusion, some of the implications of this view for the study of fictionalized accounts of the past are sketched out.","PeriodicalId":45300,"journal":{"name":"STYLE","volume":"57 1","pages":"11 - 33"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2023-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46981190","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 : 2023-02-01DOI: 10.5325/style.57.1.0001
I. Shaytanov
{"title":"Comparative/Historical Poetics in an Age of Cultural Studies","authors":"I. Shaytanov","doi":"10.5325/style.57.1.0001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/style.57.1.0001","url":null,"abstract":"abstract:\"Comparative poetics\" does not belong to the set of established terms. It was introduced by Earl Miner (1990) and might have heralded an ambitious project if not immediately undermined by the subtitle \"An Intercultural Essay on Theories of Literature.\" It did not take long to find that poetics did not easily agree with cultural studies as they were proposed. The word, reduced to a sign and viewed as a function, was cut off from its poetic significance. In search for a new poetics, a special interest has been recently demonstrated toward \"historical poetics\" only vaguely heard of before thanks to the eminent Russian scholars (the Formalists, Bakhtin, and Propp) but still less known in its original form worked out by Alexander Veselovsky. His magnum opus, unfinished by the author, may serve as a guide in our search for method to restore the study of verbal art as poetics of world literature.","PeriodicalId":45300,"journal":{"name":"STYLE","volume":"57 1","pages":"1 - 10"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2023-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45771860","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 : 2023-02-01DOI: 10.5325/style.57.1.0070
Oliver Wort
{"title":"Making Poetry from Prose: Robert Herrick's Exercises in Paraphrase","authors":"Oliver Wort","doi":"10.5325/style.57.1.0070","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/style.57.1.0070","url":null,"abstract":"abstract:At least thirty of the epigrams that comprise Robert Herrick's Hesperides: or, The Works both Humane & Divine (1648) are known to have been based on John Gregory's Notes and Observations (1646). Having been pieced together out of Gregory's prose, and lacking in any divine inspiration, these poems—or paraphrases—are reviled in criticism. Moving beyond the particular esthetic judgment, however, a comparison of Herrick's Gregory-poems with their prose source allows readers to identify what decisions he made when crafting a line of verse. In particular, these poems reveal how Herrick manipulated a line semantically and metrically to make poetry from prose. It is true that few readers will be thrilled by Herrick's paraphrases, but as a poetry of process, they are evidence of the mechanical act of writing, and their study forces into view Herrick's activity as a poet.","PeriodicalId":45300,"journal":{"name":"STYLE","volume":"57 1","pages":"70 - 89"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2023-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45467683","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}