Narrative Features Research Articles

Narrative Thinking Oriented Content and Diagram

Abstract The development of contemporary mobile Internet and new media has ushered in a new paradigm of narrative and communication forms. This paper takes the performance of narrative thinking as an entry point and establishes a framework for narrative thinking design by combining the narrative design process and digital technology. Narrative theme analysis is carried out in text narrative and image narrative. The text narrative is characterized by the LDA theme model for extracting narrative theme features. Then the LSTM model is used to classify the emotion of the extracted narrative theme. The visual features of an image narrative are extracted by a self-attention mechanism, combined with a Net VLAD algorithm for feature aggregation, and a compression excitation context gating unit and classifier are introduced to achieve sentiment classification. For the application of narrative thinking design, the news event of MH370 and the elementary school students of A elementary school in S city are taken as the research objects to explore the content and illustration of narrative thinking. The study shows that narrative thinking design can clarify the news event’s specific emotional expression and visualization illustration. The coefficient of the dream narrative theme is 0.317 in the elementary school students’ narrative theme change. The score of the positive emotion is 0.349±0.205, which is 0.024 points lower than the negative emotion. Using narrative thinking to analyze the content and illustrations can identify specific changes, thus improving the corresponding narrative design.

The Literary Use of Names in Hebrew Narrative and Opportunities for Sign Language Translation

Names of characters in literature are frequently used as dense signifiers, conveying messages from author to reader beyond identifying an individual, and offering clues about the character’s destiny or how storylines may develop. This paper explores how the potential semantic connections evoked by names in Old Testament literature are exploited by Hebrew narrators as they craft their stories, contributing to characterization, plot structure, leitworter and dramatic irony. For example, Laban (‘white’) is caught up in trickery with white goats and white sticks, whereas Micah (‘who is like Yahweh’) has an idol in his house. Bible translators working with spoken languages tend to transliterate (rather than translate) these names, relegating any semantic connections to a footnote. Sign languages, however, are more iconic and often naturally use name signs that evoke something about the referent, rather than just an arbitrary collection of sounds. This opens up the possibility of maintaining some of the semantic connections and literary features of Hebrew narratives when creating Scripture-based products in sign languages. This paper investigates the opportunities and limitations of such a strategy for translating biblical names.

БОРЩ ЯК ФОЛЬКЛОРНИЙ НАРАТИВ, АБО ЧОМУ БОРЩ - УКРАЇНСЬКИЙ

Background. Investigated here are historical data on the most earliest mentions of the recipe and technology of preparing borshch as a culinary dish and as a cultural narrative which retransmits information about mythological representations, ritual practices, festive customs and everyday standards of the ethno-subject. The object of the article is different folklore genres and some units of russian-language content, data from folklore expeditions, as well as information, learned by the authors of the article through direct transmission. Methods. The use of system-categorical and structural-semiotic approaches made it possible to analyze the syncretic folklore text "borshch" as a certain model of ethnic stereotypes and social standards. The comparative method was applied when comparing Ukrainian and russian folklore genres. Results. Research attention is focused on finding out the cognitive characteristics of the folklore narrative "borshch" through the identification of its functional and semantic parameters. Conclusions. Contextual data, among which gender stratification, time continuum, method of preparation and consumption, give a possibility to show the ritual semantics or the physiological pragmatics of the traditional Ukrainian dish. The information obtained from all ethnographic regions of Ukraine proves the nationwide nature of the cultural phenomenon "borshch" in its variety, formed historically. "Lexical" variability is expressed in the replacement of ingredients with their counterparts ("synonyms"), which does not affect the constancy of the general content of the narrative. Content variability, which indicates certain worldview changes, is associated with the narration of the texts of everyday life or different celebrations. As the folk ritual cycle has been partially desacralized, narrators do not always connect the tradition of cooking and eating borshch with the ancient custom of sacrifice. The publication is somewhat polemical in nature, as it is aimed at refuting the unjustified encroachments of the aggressor country on the autochthonous cultural text of the Ukrainians, as confirmed by UNESCO.

Наративи про перших леді США як інструмент формування еталону жіночності

Narratives play a fundamental role in forming the system of values of any society; therefore, highlighting the mechanisms of their creation and functioning is in the focus of attention of representatives of various scientific areas, including cognitive science, cognitive linguistics and poetics, as well as gender studies, with cognitive linguistics providing information about ways of organizing our experience in memory and using the structures of this experience to perform social actions and achieve certain social goals. The article aims at clarifying constitutive features of narratives about the first ladies of the United States created by the US mass media. The objectives of the article are to develop methodology for analyzing narratives based on the integration of the achievements of narratology and cognitive linguistics, as well as establishing verbal and non-verbal means of forming ideas about the ideal-prototype characteristics of first ladies. The object-matter of analysis is the narratives about the US first ladies created by the American media, the subject-matter being multimodal means of forming the standards of femininity in American society. The scientific novelty of the research reveals itself in the combination of narrative and cognitive methods of analysis. The results of the analysis of the multimodal discursive contexts representing the narratives about the first ladies of the United States in the English mass media reflect the connection between the narratives and radial categorization: the actors of social events that become the subjects of the narratives are evaluated by average Americans as positive or negative according to their conformity or non-conformity with their expectations in relation to the ideal/prototypical features of radial categories to which these actors belong. Evaluating is carried out verbally with the support of images performing illustrative and reinforcing functions. This evaluation reflects expectations of Americans society regarding ideal/prototypical characteristics of social actors such as first ladies. Among these expectations there are manifestations of racism and sexism.

A Study on the Postmodern Narrative Features of “If National Treasures Can Speak”

A Study on the Postmodern Narrative Features of “If National Treasures Can Speak”

The image of the national landscape in the short novel “Pilgrimage” by Ivan Shmelev

The purpose of the study is to examine the peculiarities of the artistic embodiment of the national landscape image in the short novel "Pilgrimage" by Ivan Sergeevich Shmelev, a writer of the first half of the 20th century. The relevance of the study is determined by the apparently growing interest of modern literary and scientific circles in the rich creative heritage of the writer, the desire to reveal the originality, uniqueness and singularity of his talent, the versatility of the artistic world. The research methods used were descriptive, interpretative and biographical. The results of the literary analysis show that the image of the national landscape presented in the "Pilgrimage" by I. S. Shmelev has a two-dimensional structure, combining realistic and ideal levels. This is explained by the peculiarity of children's view of the world, as the image of nature is given through the prism of the child protagonist’s point of view. The treatment of the theme of the native landscape is based on the motif of beauty, updated in the setting of the young hero's admiration for the uniqueness, charm and elegance of the surrounding world. The author's discourse, included in the text, brings to the narrative features of idealisation, associated with the motif of memories of a bygone childhood and a homeland lost in social cataclysms. The image of Russian nature in "Pilgrimage" develops the motifs of silence, peace, joy, joyful admiration of nature, wonder, fairy tale and spirituality. The leitmotifs in the poetics of the work are the landscape images of sun, light, dazzling brilliance, which converge with the motif of joy and the image of "golden" childhood. In "Pilgrimage", the dominant colour is the rose-gold, white and blue scale, which shades the idea of the sacredness of God's world and echoes nostalgic motifs. The symbolic images of Easter and the motif of Easter joy introduce the theme of eternal life, salvation and resurrection into the text.

Творче конструювання особистості в автобіографічній повісті (на матеріалі творів «Хризантеми» Уляни Кравченко та «Десь на дні мого серця» Василя Лопати)

The article analyzes the tools of creative personality construction in two autobiographical novels, Chrysanthemums by by Ulyana Kravchenko and Somewhere at the Bottom of My Heart by Vasyl Lopata, and the thematic and narrative features of these works, as well as the importance of including documentary elements in the plot, are clarified. It is determined that the tools that helped to depict the formation of the author's creative personality in an autobiographical story were a distanced view of oneself, both in appearance and in the inner world, the use of humor, and emphasis on important stages. There is a difference in the narrative style – Ulyana Kravchenko focuses on the goal of developing intellectually since childhood, evaluates herself according to her readiness to serve the people, to form herself according to artistic laws, so the plot is often interrupted by lyrical inserts and reflections, although she simultaneously supplements it with historical and portrait essays. He compensates for his silence and loneliness in childhood by realizing it in music and his first attempts at writing, and explains the lack of words already when writing his memoirs by his own emotionality, creating an aura of mystery and understatement. V. Lopata introduces the main narrator into the story for a different purpose: to provide textual explanations, comment on the narrator-child's story, and express a short future continuation of the described events, the author much less often focuses on the process of recollection itself, having clearly defined for himself its purpose: to find out the origins of his own creative formation, which has already taken place (Ulyana Kravchenko writes about it as a process). The fragment of the diary, introduced into the textual space of the work, demonstrates the naivety and vulnerability of the protagonist in the conditions of orphanhood and war, and shows the boy's tendency to perceive even everyday events deeply in order to later convey them in his work. Through the adult narrator, the childhood traumas are closed and «liberation» from the described situations of childhood powerlessness is projected into the future.

Literary Dialogue Across Cultures in the Context of Multiple Data Integration: New Essays on Comparative Literature and Poetics between China and the West

Abstract This study uses a two-stream multivariate data embedding network and FLAT model to effectively integrate text structure and linguistic information to enhance the performance of named entity recognition. In addition, named entity recognition and literary narrative analysis were carried out using linear chain conditional random field and Apriori algorithm, and literary character narratives and knowledge graphs were constructed. Finally, the characteristics and differences between Chinese and Western literature are deeply explored through econometric analysis and character similarity analysis, and it is found that the differences in geographic environment and socio-economic characteristics profoundly impact Chinese and Western literary art and poetics. The most fundamental difference between Chinese and Western societies lies in the commercial character of Western socio-economics, while China is more rural. The study reveals the uniqueness and intersection of the two civilizations in literary creation, providing a new perspective and theoretical support for cross-cultural academic dialogue.

网络微短剧的营销策略及叙事特征探究

网络微短剧的营销策略及叙事特征探究

Parody of the “Sensitive Traveller” Type in the Russian Travelogues of the First Third of the 19th Century

This article analyses Russian travelogues of the first third of the nineteenth century, which are variations of parodies of the “Karamzin canon”. The study focuses on the “sensitive traveller” as a type of the subject of narrative characteristic of the sentimental travel of the early nineteenth century. The author refers to both popular parody texts of travelogues (for example, My Journey, or the Adventures of One Day by N. P. Brusilov and A Sensitive Journey along Nevsky Prospekt by P. L. Yakovlev) and those unknown to the wider audience. The article presents an analysis of the anonymous text A Sensitive Journey to St Petersburg of a Village Nobleman, published in two issues of the journal Otechestvennye Zapiski for 1826 which has not been carried out before. The research aims to systematise the main approaches to the study of Russian parody travelogues of the first third of the nineteenth century, determine the functions of parody on the type of “sensitive traveller”, and identify the influence of parody texts on the evolution of the travelogue genre in the historical and literary process. As a result of the analysis, the author concludes that the appearance of parody travelogues was associated with the crisis of sentimentalism as a mode in the Russian historical and literary process of the nineteenth century; the main objects of parodies were the key elements of the “Karamzin canon”, “common places”, which demonstrated the inconsistency of the principles of sentimental poetics of travel. Parodies of the “sensitive traveller” type demonstrated the authors’ excessive fascination with the description of sensitivity and subjectivity of perception of the travel event, which led to a distortion of the main parameters of the narrative structure of the travelogue, a lack of fabula, and leveling of the status of the travel event. In this connection, parody travelogues began to depict “a journey without a journey”, “a journey before a journey”, “an imaginary journey”, etc. Thus, parodies of the travelogue genre and the type of “sensitive traveller” turned out to be a popular phenomenon in the Russian historical and literary process in the first third of the nineteenth century and demonstrated the need to transform the narrative structure of the travel text.

Study on the Characteristics of Second-person Narrative: Focusing on the Talking Model

Study on the Characteristics of Second-person Narrative: Focusing on the Talking Model

On the Dialectical Relationship between "Small Space" and "Big City" in Lao She's Works

Lao She's works are based on the life of the citizens, and his focus is on the characters at the bottom of the hierarchy, with emphasis on the portrayal of their living space and spiritual outlook. The "small space" in Lao She's works, as a public space for information exchange and recreation, is able to encompass and display the human conditions of the "big city"; and the overall changes of the "big city" will also affect the survival choices of the people in the "small space" and the disintegration of the spatial order. The overall change of the "big city" will also affect the people's choice of survival and the disintegration and reconstruction of the spatial order in the "small space". The pivot of the connection between "small space" and "big city" is the human nature of city life. The "small space" and the "big city" under Lao She's writing jointly interpret Lao She's distinctive nationalised narrative features, and show the unique Beijing flavour and charm in his works.

메타내러티브로서 『한밤중에 개에게 일어난 의문의 사건』의 서사구조 분석

This paper analyzes Mark Haddon’s The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time in relation to its meta-narrative qualities. This entails analyzing how the fusion of mystery elements and the autistic perspective enriches the novel’s thematic depth and narrative complexity, and how the narrative features inherent in Christopher’s perspective shape the novel’s structure and contribute to a proper understanding of the complex and varied autistic features. The paper demonstrates that Haddon’s method presents the overall narrative of the story as thoroughly factual, while at the same time metaphorizing the character of Christopher. In doing so, the paper emphasizes that Haddon’s portrayal of Christopher’s maturation is a meta-narrative in the way that a mystery or detective narrative is constructed and that Christopher, the narrator, is communicating with the reader by making himself the object of the narrative. In conclusion, the paper shows that Christopher’s search for the killer of his dog is a process that reveals the different layers of social disorder represented by his parents and neighbors. It will also argue that his role as a detective in this process can be seen as a narrative vehicle for revealing familial and social conflicts, as well as a signifier of the effects of these conflicts.

성선적 인간에 대한 문학과 그 교육의 한 방향

In this study, I attempted to explore human nature focusing on Jeff, in director Alfred Hitchcock’s film Rear Window. It aims to propose a direction for literature and education related to desirable human view through Good Human Nature Principle. For this, the Mencius’s theory was used as the base theory. Ultimately, it is meaningful in that it seeks to explore the direction of human education to foster ethical values that can identify the essence of literature and promote desirable life attitudes. As a method, character storytelling analysis was presented and actual cases of its application were analyzed. Consequently, four ways were put forth: first, literary education focused on applied works; second, character narratives to understand life; third, writing to express one's own experiences; and fourth, exchanging literature and experiences with others to broaden one's own experience in order to foster ethical values in human outlook education.

Postmodern Representations and Reflections in Hong Kong Urban Cinema: A Study on the Works of Heiward Mak Hei-Yan

In the new millennium, a discontinuity of postmodern elements began to surface in Hong Kong commercial films. However, young director Heiward Mak Hei-yan integrated postmodern elements into her works, which are primarily urban films, inheriting and developing the postmodern tradition of Hong Kong cinema. She does this primarily by shaping marginal urban landscapes and crowds, capturing the less noticed aspects of Hong Kong city, and demonstrating the anti-grand narrative characteristic of postmodernism. By establishing a postmodern perspective on love, she breaks and "rebels" against traditional romance films, not just merely glorifying the myth of love, but emphasizing the questioning of the eternal view of modern love. Simultaneously, she illustrates the dilemmas of postmodern alienation to portray the contemporary postmodern mentality and cultural symptoms of Hong Kong people in this unique geographical location. Her urban films reflect her positive thinking about urban romance, life, and mental state in a postmodern context, providing the possibility of parallelism between commerciality and postmodernism, and offering insights for the development of Hong Kong cinema.

PAIDEIA ADAPTATION: CAN WE TRANSFORM PEDAGOGICAL MATERIALS INTO ANTHROPOMORPHIC NARRATIVES?

Paideia philosophy urges education and anything derived or related to it to respond to the zeitgeist of an era. Thus, techniques to deliver any pedagogical materials should position the target users as the axis to disclose them more possibilities to comprehend the materials. One of the techniques is designing anthropomorphic narratives. Studies on this topic circumnavigate around educational domains. Perceiving this issue from the lens of literary adaptation is the gap left by the previous studies. We argue that narrating pedagogical materials anthropomorphically is better termed paideia adaptation. This study attempts to prove the existence of this adaptation type by utilizing qualitative method, indicating the narrative and language features of the adaptation. Implementing the theories of onto fiction by Couceiro-Bueno, ergodic literature by Aarseth, second degree of literature by Genette, anthropomorphism by Weemans and Prévost on a corpus of animated films and games, the findings indicate that paideia adaptation has four narrative features namely anthropomorphic narratives, pseudoreferentiality, metalepsis, and metafictionality. This adaptation also has distinctive language features namely thematization, proairetic decoding, and didacticization. The result discloses a new viewpoint in the study of adaptation.

THE NARRATION OF RELIGIOUS MODERATION FOR MITIGATING RADICALIZATION AMONG THE MILLENNIAL GENERATIONS ON PESANTREN LIRBOYO INSTAGRAM

The big idea of religious moderation is a solution to the problem of spreading radical and intolerant views in the millennial generation. Instagram Pondok Lirboyo and Serambi Lirboyo are Islamic boarding schools with many followers with religious moderation content. This study aims to determine the narrative characteristics of religious moderation and the visual communication structure of the millennial generation in the Serambi Lirboyo and Pondok Lirboyo accounts. This study uses qualitative methods through a virtual ethnographic approach. The main object of this study is religious moderation content on Instagram by Pondok Lirboyo and Serambi Lirboyo. Data collection techniques were carried out through participatory observation, interviews, and literature studies. The results are (1) the narrative characteristics of religious moderation emphasize the moral messages of compassion and mutual respect, preaching in a polite manner, and harmony between religion and nationalism. Meanwhile, the narrative form of religious moderation is packaged through past stories, wise sentences from masyayikhs and Islamic leaders, explanations with evidence, and language typical of the millennial generation. (2) The visual communication structure includes lines, shapes, forms, typography, values, and colors. At the same time, the principles of visual communication consist of symmetrical balance, elemental harmony, contrast, and pattern. The formulation of these visual communication components produces exciting content, especially for the millennial generation.

Narrative structure of Boris Zhytkov’s novel “Viktor Vavich”

The purpose of this article is to analyze the narrative structure of B. Zhytkov's novel «Viktor Vavіch» (1926-1931, published in 1999). The relevance of the study is due to the fact that narratological analysis is a promising area of modern philological science, but the narrative characteristics of B. Zhytkov's novel are almost never revealed in literary studies of the text. The author proposes to use the model of communicative instances and points of view of W. Schmid, to clarify the relationship between the narrative structure and the novel's problems, narrative factors of characterization, etc. It is proved that the novel is based on a complex polyperceptual composition, in which the narrator's colorful figure is almost not revealed, who remains as if outside the text, allowing his characters to present their worldview almost independently. The author examines the figure of the titular character Viktor Vavich and how his image is constructed by narrative means. It is proved that the structure of consciousness represented by Viktor Vavich is dual and incorporates both the hero's own consciousness and the imaginary image of the external other constructed by him, which subjects him to critical evaluation. This duality of self-perception is characteristic of several characters in the text, but only in the case of Vavich does it become a psychological dominant that ultimately destroys his personality and leads him to decline and death. It has been shown that despite the polyperceptual composition and the unidentified narrator, there is a monologic organizing principle in the text, which is manifested through the functioning of a rather uniform and stable motivic system that is realized through different perceptual instances. In this way, the text forms an imaginary dialogue between two instances: a monological intention that exists in the categories of its own ideology and a polyphony of consciousnesses that do not have a colored narrator figure to give them any ideological assessment.

UKRAINIAN POSTCOLONIAL NOVEL AS A NATIONAL NARRATIVE: “THE MUSEUM OF ABANDONED SECRETS” BY O. ZABUZHKO AND “THE BEECH LAND” BY M. MATIOS

The article examines the seminal novels of Ukrainian women writers from the first and second decades of the 21st century, namely “The Museum of Abandoned Secrets” (“Музей покинутих секретів”, 2009) by O. Zabuzhko and “The Beech Land” (“Букова земля”, 2019) by M. Matios. The selected works are analyzed through the lens of postcolonial criticism, that is, from the point of view of the historical experience of the statelessness of the Ukrainian community and its reflection in literary texts. The main attention is paid to the narrative features of the works, namely the tendency to broad narrative, integrity, and narrative completeness. The purpose of the study is to highlight the postcolonial content of the narrative strategies implemented in the selected novels by O. Zabuzhko and M. Matios. Given that “The Museum of Abandoned Secrets” and “The Beech Land” represent different periods and ideological and aesthetic paradigms, namely postmodernism and metamodernism, one of the tasks of the study is to assert the relevance of postcolonialism in the context of metamodernism. The article aims to highlight the peculiarities of the artistic realization of “postcolonial” narrativity in postmodern and metamodern texts. Additionally, the narrative features of the selected novels are compared. The stated purpose necessitates the application of hermeneutic (interpretation of a literary text), comparative (identification of common and distinctive features of the selected works) methods, as well as the method of structural analysis (examining the narrative structure of the texts). As a result of the study, it is established that postcolonialism, inherent in Ukrainian postmodern prose, remains relevant in the second decade of the twenty-first century. The postcolonial orientation of the novels “The Museum of Abandoned Secrets” and “The Beech Land” is manifested in their intention to affirm the continuity of Ukrainian history by building a panoramic narrative that covers different historical periods and establishes a hereditary connection between them. The study identified the following features common to both novels: the intertwining of family genealogy with national history; the development of narratives at different generational levels – children, parents, grandparents, etc.; the theme of the perpetual war for independence that continues to this day; the image of God as a transcendent guardian of history, capable of seeing the intertwining of human destinies in their entirety. The defining theme shared by both novels is the anti-colonial struggle, particularly the military campaign of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army. This theme necessitates depicting the tragic consequences of imperial oppression. In “The Beech Land”, these are devastation and turmoil, fratricide, ruptured familial ties, the destruction of the Bukovynian “utopia”. In “The Museum of Abandoned Secrets”, these repercussions are shown through the lens of postmodern hypertextuality – as “burnt manuscripts”, irretrievably lost archives, fragmented stories. In addition, the selected novels exhibit an inclination to transcend the boundaries of realistic storytelling. Employing the montage technique, “The Museum of Abandoned Secrets” incorporates a mystical discourse of dreams that operates as a parallel reality, recounting events of the past. The oneiric discourse resonates with the image of an endless virtual archive storing memories of everything that has ever happened in the world. In “The Beech Land”, the departure from realistic historiography occurs through metamodern fantastisation, where the historical panorama is framed by the story of the “Heavenly Chancellery” – a celestial archive inhabited by the Creator and the Angels. The appeal to mystical and imaginative discourses is interpreted as a manifestation of postcolonial longing for lost integrity and completeness. The images of endless imaginary repositories of information complement the incompleteness of history, aiding in overcoming its fragmentary nature and opacity.

The Narrative Character of the Image of Makhambet in Kazakh Poetry (Based on the Poetry of Olzhas Suleimenov)

The last zhyrau (poetic singer) of the Kazakh Khanate, Makhambet Utemisuly, was a prominent figure in the nation's history and literature. He held various roles as a poet, batyr (warrior), and esteemed commander, and his influence resonates strongly within the Kazakh literary tradition. Makhambet's persona served as a significant source of inspiration for numerous poets and writers in Kazakh literature. Notably, his portrayal holds a special significance within the poetry of Olzhas Suleimenov, a versatile poet, public figure, and turkologist. This assertion is substantiated by Suleimenov's poetic works dedicated to Makhambet batyr, covering a range of themes. This research work contributes to a profound understanding of the concept of «image» in Kazakh literary science, specifically through its expression in poetry. The primary objective of this scientific inquiry is to unravel the narrative essence of Makhambet's image as depicted in Olzhas Suleimenov's poetry. The author examines several literary works concerning Makhambet in the Kazakh canon. Through an exploration of the various dimensions in which Makhambet's image is portrayed in Suleimenov's poems and Russian translations, the author provides evidence to support the narrative nature of this image, substantiating their claims with relevant examples. Given that Suleimenov predominantly writes in Russian, the study places particular emphasis on the fidelity of the image's conveyance in both the original and translated versions. While the concept of «image» in the works of Kazakh poets has been the subject of multiple studies, with its significance duly acknowledged, the notion of narrative in poetry remains a pertinent subject within contemporary literary scholarship. This article underscores the paramount importance of investigating the concepts of «image» and «narrative» within the context of poetry, thereby emphasizing the core value of this research. In this research, the author substantiates the hypothesis that a profound and comprehensive exploration of the image in poetry necessitates the discovery of a narrative coherence that unifies the poem's internal structure, the author's intent, and the nuances of word usage.