Narrative Features Research Articles

The Development and Evolution of Narrative Characteristics from Comic Strips to Original Chinese Picture Books

After nearly one hundred years of interpretation, comic strips can be chronologically sorted into emergent, prosperity, change and bottleneck. Through research, this paper discusses the comprehensive impact of social and economic factors on each of these periods and deduces and summarizes the characteristics of differentiated narratives. In the new period, Chinese comic strips gradually receded due to market factors, while original Chinese picture books grew. Although there is a difference in the visual presentation form between the two, they have partly inherited the characteristics of the comic strips in the 80's and 90's. The thesis conducts a comparative study on the differences and similarities between the two and discusses their creative value and contemporary significance.

O NEKIM POETIČKIM OSOBINAMA PROZE VESNE KAPOR U DJELU „NEBO, TAKO DUBOKO“

Vesna Kapor’s Nebo, tako duboko reactualises the concept of the lyrical novel. Epistolary form of the novel made it possible to intertwine poetic and narrative features. Emphasising the relation to death, which is closely related to the motif of time, serves as a leitmotif that contributes to connecting all segments of the novel into a unique artistic creation. Apart from both implicit and explicit connection with Crnjanski, there is a crucial intertextual link with Andrić’s concept of storytelling, as well as with the fenom- enon of the relationship between artists and their works, and the purpose of art.

Testamento eternizado em escarlates letras: literariedade, materialidade e ilustração em A verdadeira história de Chapeuzinho Vermelho (2020)

ABSTRACT Literature, as the art of words, presents its text in different forms and languages. Whether through its humanizing potential or, still, through its narrative quality, it reaches readers and offers them a plurality of tools to create texts, using established works as arguments. After all, literature holds within its scope narratives that are true treasures arranged as a testament for all of humanity. Thus, in this article, our goal is to analyze the literary work A verdadeira história de Chapeuzinho Vermelho [The True Story of Little Red Riding Hood] (2020)1 by Agnese Baruzzi and Sandro Natalini, presented as a book-object with a keen materiality. We will seek to understand the characteristics of the work that promote literary aesthetic enjoyment, moving the work away from a didactic and moralizing perspective. To do so, we will comprehend the specificities of the verbal text, the imagery, and the materiality characteristics that pervade the work, understand the techniques, tools, and proposed interactions, as well as recognize the book’s multimodal capacity.

Музей-усадьба в русской литературе: нарратологический аспект

In the 20th century, the estate became a phenomenon of the historical past. This process began at the turn of the 19th and 20th century: the ghostliness of the estate culture and its archaic character are commonplace in literature of that time (A.P. Chekhov’s “The Cherry Orchard,” G.I. Chulkov’s “The Sister,” S.M. Gorodetsky’s “Sutulov’s Nest,” A.M. Kuzmin’s “The Deceased in the House”). At the same time, the problem of narrative ordering of numerous events and persons connected with the estate heritage comes to the fore. In the works of the first half of the 20th century, it appears as the aspect of comprehension of the pre-revolutionary epoch (N. Ognev’s “Kostya Ryabtsev’s Diary,” M.M. Prishvin’s “The Worldly Cup,” I.A. Bunin’s “The Imminent Spring”). But the wider the museification of the estate spreads, the more urgent becomes the question of memory narratives as a specific mechanism of cultural self-consciousness. The article analyzes S.D. Dovlatov’s story “Reserve” through the terminology paradigm of contemporary narrative theory. The writer shows how to acquire a frankly artificial (simulative) character in the estate museum context memory narratives, the “alien” estate past never becomes “his”/“her own” present of the narrator (guide) and his addressee (tourist).

НАРОДОЗНАВСТВО ТА МОВНИЙ КОЛОРИТ У ТВОРАХ СТЕПАНА НОСА ТА ДАНИЛА МОРДОВЦЯ: КОМПАРАТИВНИЙ ДИСКУРС

Based on textual and linguistic analysis of the works of Stepan Nos and Danylo Mordovets, the article examines the issue of ethnic history and culture, traditions and life, characters and worldview of the inhabitants of different regions of Ukraine. The article highlights the peculiarities of the formation of ethnographers interests, analyses the intellectual environment, leading factors and prerequisites that influenced their formation as artists of their time. Their priority issues, plot fabric, key areas of journalistic practices, stylistic features and other characteristic features of literary narratives are highlighted. A comparative analysis of the ethnographic texts of the writers is carried out, and their dominant feature is determined. The attention is focused on the means of linguistic expressiveness of S. Nos and D. Mordovets works, their interpretation of certain periods of our history and the role of the individual in their development. It’s noted that both artists collected, recorded and published materials of their own ethnographic research, including songs, poems, fairy tales, proverbs, sayings, which best reflect the mental traits of Ukrainians, their traditional culture and rituals. Based on a comparison of the selected works by S. Nos and D. Mordovets, the author identifies their common features in the description and interpretation of traditional rituals, outlines the semantic and linguistic content of their works, which contributes to the construction of the artists’ image in the time range. It’s summarised that the «linguistic decoration» of the writers texts acts as a self-presentation of the authors’ personalities, and psychologism contributes to the understanding of the nationality of Ukrainians. It’s proved that Ukrainian folk art has been and remains the main identifier of Ukrainian national culture.

“Proces cum figuris”: reflection of the philosophical and aesthetic concepts of D. Hodová’s works

The article discusses the main philosophical and aesthetic concepts of the Daniela Hodrová’s theoretical works (primarily the Román zasvěcení), as well as the specifics of their reflection in the author’s artistic work. In the first part of the work, based on the analysis of the final chapter of the “Dedication novel” – Proces cum figuris – the main aspects that D. Hodrová focuses on are outlined: style, system of characters (characters-archetypes), symbolic structure (symbols with archetypal semantics). In the second part of the work, these aspects are considered in the context of the author’s literary works, both from the 1990s. (the novel trilogy Trýznivé město), and later ones (Točité věty (2015), Vyvolávání (2010), Ta blízkost (2019)). Both the theoretical and literary texts of D. Hodrová are distinguished by a heterogeneous structure, a complex system of symbols and allusions, going back to the theory of the genesis of the novel and individual literary tropes. An analysis of the specifics of the presentation of material in both areas of the author’s work is important for understanding not only the originality of D. Hodrová’s work, but also the characteristic features of the postmodernist narrative in Czech literature.

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.

Narrative Characteristics Analysis of Short Videos of "Silver Internet Celebrities"—A Case Study of Tiktok Platform

Narrative Characteristics Analysis of Short Videos of "Silver Internet Celebrities"—A Case Study of Tiktok Platform

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.