Curious Incident Of The Dog Research Articles

The Crossover Text at a Metamodern Impasse: Analysing the Curious Case of the Closed Ending in Mark Haddon’s The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

The Crossover Text at a Metamodern Impasse: Analysing the Curious Case of the Closed Ending in Mark Haddon’s The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

Mark Haddon’s The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, Narrative Fallibility, and the Young Adult Reader

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon presents a remarkably complex narrator, 15-year-old Christopher Boone. Due to his implied autism spectrum condition, Christopher is possibly the ultimate in “reliable” narrators: he struggles to articulate emotions and is incapable of telling or understanding lies. His point of view (POV) is an extreme form of first-person limited, with Christopher at times seeming (or even yearning) to be more computer than human. The limitations of Christopher’s experience are reflected in his narrative self-presentation, and while, ordinarily, these would damage any sort of achieved authority, they instead underscore the book’s powerful thematic messages. Christopher’s narrative fallibility echoes the developmental stage of its crossover young adult (YA) audience: Curious Incident works with fallibility to establish a strong narrative voice that inspires an empathetic connection between Christopher and his implied reader. This article therefore considers how narrative fallibility is linked to constructions of adolescence in The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, and further explores the relationship between the narrator and the implied reader(s). Positioned within narratology-based theories and secondary research on Haddon and representations of neurodiversity in YA literature, it provides guidance for teachers and scholars who might question the value of authenticity in this or similar novels.

Christopher, an Asperger Syndrome Kid, Solved the Dog Murder Case in Novel The Curious Incident of the Dog in The Night-Time (2003)

Christopher, an Asperger Syndrome Kid, Solved the Dog Murder Case in Novel The Curious Incident of the Dog in The Night-Time (2003)

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.

Letter to the Editor-The curious incident of the dog in the bath tub.

Letter to the Editor-The curious incident of the dog in the bath tub.

Challenging Christopher´s “Disability” to Communicate Properly in Mark Haddon’s The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time

The present paper is a critical review of Mark Haddon’s novel The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time.Many reviewers have claimed that Christopher Bloom has a disability to decipher, to comprehend and to depict objects, actions and other phenomena due to his condition, since he has Asperger’s syndrome. In opposition to this idea, a research ofparticular types of graphic representation used by the narrator reveals that he does not merely replace troublesome words, but masterly uses pictures to represent the truth. Theoretically speaking, he succeeds in the process of creating Mitchell’s imagetext, which is the perfect interplay of both terms that result in a new reinforced meaning. Even more so, by using these ways of representation, which are illustration, approximation and truthful representation, Christopher is able to guide the reader in the complex comprehension process. That is, his level of textual consciousness allows us torefute the idea of Christopher as a person who is incapable of communicating.

From/Towards a Multiple Sign System: Autism Novelized and Retold in Interlingual and Intersemiotic Contexts

The focus of this study is to analyse selected signs of neurodiversity in The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon and its interlingual and intersemiotic translations to examine readers' as well as translators' (as readers) role in the formation of the meaning, along with literature's contribution to neuro-inclusiveness. Taking the prevalent assumptions that the main character has autism as a reference point, despite the author's statement that he did not base his work on a specific syndrome, some brief information about autism spectrum disorder is provided, and the protagonist Christopher's autistic-like characteristics are reviewed with reference to the common features of the disorder. The target texts in Turkish, Azerbaijani, and French are defined as interlingual translations, and the stage performance in Turkiye is defined as intersemiotic translation. The target texts are compared to the source text using Öztürk Kasar's "Systematics of Designification in Translation" to discuss the extent to which signs featuring autism are transferred in the target texts and to highlight the contribution of the source and target texts to the acknowledgement and appreciation of differences.

Theatre And Intermediality: The Curious Incident of The Dog in The Night-Time

Sahne, dekor, ışık, ses, oyuncu, seyirci, yönetmen ve tasarımcı gibi çeşitli unsurları bünyesinden toplayan tiyatro, çeşitli ortamların/medyaların etkileşime girdiği medyalararası bir sanattır. İlk ortaya çıktığından bugüne içinde geliştiği çağın olanaklarını kullanarak anlatmak istediği hikayesini seyircisine sunmaya çalışan bu, on dokuzuncu yüzyılda elektriğin bulunmasıyla birlikte geliştirilen teknolojileri aşamalı olarak sahnesine dahil etmiştir. Yeni teknolojik uygulamalarla işitsel-görsel açıdan son derece zengin, deneysel ve yenilikçi üretimlere imza atılmıştır. Tiyatronun medyalararasılığı ise on dokuzuncu yüzyılın sonlarından itibaren tartışılmaya başlanmıştır. Teknolojinin tiyatroda kullanımını destekleyenlerin yanı sıra desteklemeyenlerin de içinde bulunduğu bu tartışmalar, modern teknolojinin tiyatronun aurasını değiştirmeye başladığı 2000’li yıllarda daha şiddetlenmiştir. Bu dönemde tiyatro ve teknoloji etkileşimi sıcak bir tartışma konusu haline gelmiştir. Her ne kadar konuyla ilgili bir uzlaşı olmasa da modern teknolojinin tiyatronun sahne diline yenilikler kattığı ve bu sayede yeni bir kitleye hitap ettiği açıktır. Günümüzde tiyatronun teknoloji çağına nasıl ayak uydurduğunu açığa çıkarmayı amaçlayan bu çalışma hem İngiliz hem de Türk sahnelerinde seyirci karşısına çıkarılan Süper İyi Günler [The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, 2003] oyunu üzerinden tiyatro-teknoloji ilişkisini irdelemektedir.

The Pragmatics of Fiction: Literature, Stage and Screen Discourse

The Pragmatics of Fiction: Literature, Stage and Screen Discourse

STYLISTIC FEATURES OF THE AUTHOR’S NARRATIVE IN THE NOVEL BY M. HADDON «THE CURIOUS INCIDENT OF THE DOG IN THE NIGHT-TIME»

The article is devoted to the study of linguistic graphic means and the author’s narrative in M. Haddon’s novel «The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time». The subject of the research is a polycode artistic text, the object is the functions of graphic means of depicting reality and the features of the author’s narrative in the novel under study. The relevance of this work is determined by the increasing frequency of the use of polycode elements in works of modern literature, as well as the relatively small number of studies devoted to this topic. The main research method was contextual-interpretative, the essence of which is to study the text in different types of context based on the researcher’s interpretation of text categories and components. Iconic and paragraphemic elements are used in the text. Paragraphemic ones include font, indents, layout of the text on the page, uppercase or lowercase letters. According to the research, paragraphemic elements occur with a high frequency, express the subjective attitude of the character to the statement, indicate the type of connections of the selected text with the plot of the work, give an idea of the place of such a text in the general textual space. The iconic element — diagrams, drawings, pictures — serve as a supplement to the main textual description of the realities of the novel. Iconic elements remain incomprehensible without textual support. They, like paragraphemic elements, serve to attract the attention of the addressee, facilitate the perception of the text, and in some cases serve to further reveal the character of the protagonist. The representation of character language is at a somewhat primitive level, which serves for better implementation of the author’s idea. Polysyndeton, various types of repetition, parallel constructions should be mentioned among the main stylistic devices. All these methods add logic and concreteness to the presentation, which is sometimes grotesque, with the help of which an authentic and very characteristic image of the narrator is created.

ДОМИНАНТНЫЙ ПРИНЦИП ОРГАНИЗАЦИИ ЯЗЫКОВОГО СОЗНАНИЯ ДЕВИАНТНОЙ ЯЗЫКОВОЙ ЛИЧНОСТИ

The author argues that the cognitive-dominant principle of verbal consciousness is a person’s orientation towards their own knowledge, their structure and content, individually significant elements and values that, to one degree or another, reflect collective knowledge about the world. In the process of life, a person accumulates their own individual experience, which depends on many factors: upbringing, family, education, professional activity, relationships with other people, etc. As a result, a person forms certain dominant concepts, through the prism of which they perceive the world and interact with it. There are 3 types of language personality: conflict, centered and cooperative. Language personality of Billy Milligan (the character of “The Minds of Billy Milligan” by D. Keyes) is heterogeneous, since the consciousness of the character is divided into twenty-four parts and each of the individuals has a unique thinking, perception of the world and communicative behavior. Billy Milligan’s verbal personality, depending on the communicative situation, belongs to both the conflict type and the cooperative type. The concept THREAT is dominant for Billy’s conceptual system. According to the classification of language personalities proposed in the framework of linguopsychology, there are four types of them: metasymbolic, empathic, factual and representative. Language personality of Christopher Boone (the character of “The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time” by M. Haddon) belongs to the factual type, which is characterized by the accuracy of descriptions, clarity of logical connections between statements, reliance on facts. Due to psychological disorder, contact with the outside world for Christopher is fraught with many dangers, which allows us to speak of the implementation of the concept DANGER as dominant for the conceptual system of the character.

Stage Speech Training in Producing English Plays in Ukraine

The purpose of the article. The article is devoted to the study of stage speech, in the professional field of acting that has to correspond to the innovative nature of science in the XXI century. The ways of creating new communicative means of applying stage speech trainings on the basis of Internet resources, audio and video materials, original scripts and their translations, namely Simon Stephens’s play after Mark Haddon’s novel The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, are observed and analysed. The research methodology is based on the application of chronological method to research different stages of stage speech training, comparative method to conduct the comparative analysis, typological method to reveal the factors and determine the features of this process, as well as theoretical method to draw conclusions and develop further recommendations. Scientific novelty. The theoretical background and practical examining of the original theatrical literature is considered the main source of the latest information of a special nature. Conclusions. Problems of stage speech technique in modern acting in general, including Ukraine, need further consideration, understanding, and thorough research. The conditions for the functioning of language in the theatre are to be relevant to the requirements of stage practice that it is worth talking about a kind of separate stage style of speech. Actors use their voice to project external emotions, combining it with body movements to interpret the text and to present the story. Therefore, the voice cannot be seen as an isolated skill, but as a skill that requires coordination of the whole body. The Artistic director of the Lesya Ukrayinka theatre M. Reznikovych and K. Kashlikov, Director of the play, say that it is a great responsibility, and, most importantly, the opportunity to find the equivalent that could interest the Ukrainian audience. It seems that getting acquainted, as well as the use of exercises in the language of the original, can bring actors closer to understanding the author's idea, and the director to bring the atmosphere of the original and to adapt the original to the Ukrainian audience. The given examples of complexity of translation testify that actors are faced a multitasking work of reproduction of the idea on the scene. Each character represents the character in the stage language for more than two hours on a scene. Without stage speech training, this is almost impossible. Some of the best exercises for stage speech training were presented. Key words: stage speech trainings, voice, body, breathing, diction, rhythm, youth vocabulary, translation, Ukrainian audience

Issues of hyper- and hypo-sensitivity in the novel The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time and the movie Jack of the Red Hearts

Directed by Janet Grillo, Jack of the Red Hearts examines the growing relationship between the autistic teenage girl Glory, played by Taylor Richardson, and Jack (Jenny Jaffe), who hides her identity to be taken into the house as Glory's babysitter. Mark Haddon’s novel The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time reflects the hypersensitive reactions of Christopher, who is on autism spectrum and how he under responds to sensory stimuli. In terms of representation, autistic characters are especially exposed to increasing prejudices in films and novels. These prejudices started with the movie Rain Man and gave birth to the stereotype that all autistic individuals are geniuses. For autistic individuals, who have such a hard-to-break stereotype, every film made and every novel written about them should not be considered as products in which directors and writers can only reflect their personal views and limited experiences about autism. Fictional products, especially cinema and literature, shape the perception of autistic individuals in society. Being aware of this absolute link between fictional texts and autism will both provide solutions to the representation problem of autistic individuals and respond to the needs of neurotypical parents. In the selected movie, demonstrating that the autistic individual causes problems in marriage and the mother’s use of the “cure autism now” cup reflect autism as a problem and a disease. However, the bond formed between the caregiver and the autistic young girl is an example of the destruction of prejudices.

Point of View in Simon Stephens' The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time: A Cognitive Stylistic Study

Point of View in Simon Stephens' The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time: A Cognitive Stylistic Study

Autism, representation and culture in Mark Haddon’s The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time and Yonghong Hu’s My Running Shadow

Autism, representation and culture in Mark Haddon’s The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time and Yonghong Hu’s My Running Shadow

Comparative Analysis of the Mind Style: Child Narrators in Mark Haddon’s <em>The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time</em> and Ismail Kadare’s <em>Chronicle in Stone</em>

This study compares the stylistic markers of the thinking style of the child narrators in The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (2003) by British writer Mark Haddon and Chronicle in Stone (1971) by Albanian writer Ismail Kadare. The paper analyzes the language of the narrators to identify the foregrounded linguistic elements in the narrative and consequently their reliability and impact on the reader. The linguistic features that characterize the child narrators of these novels are considered as features of their thinking style that indicate the limitations of their age and create the effect of unreliability. The analysis of the narrators’ stylistic features points to the foregrounded patterns that differ slightly in both narrators and are demonstrated at different linguistic levels such as lexical choices, coordinated syntactic patterns, juxtapositions of literal and figurative meanings, and the inclusion of other elements that mark the distinction of their idiosyncrasies and social background. By reflecting the child’s genuine naiveté, the narrative device of unreliability evokes empathy and enhances the reader’s interpretive power.

Practicing Reading for Pleasure in the EFL Classrooms: Using [The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time] in a College English Cou rse

This paper explores a college EFL course designed to practice reading for pleasure during the pandemic. Sixty EFL college learners in a required English course read Mark Haddon’s (2004) [The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time] within the structure of a regular reading and writing focused academic English course. Reading for pleasure is often considered unfit for inclusion in regular curriculum. Nevertheless, for digital natives, the act of pleasurable reading especially in L2, should be actively implemented into classroom activities. This study follows a case study which practices reading for pleasure by utilizing weekly quizzes, discussion questions and response paper. Students’ feedback was collected and analyzed in order to share students’ experiences in completing the tasks. The feedback shows how weekly quizzes and class discussions have encouraged them to continue reading the text, influenced their attitude on reading English books and how they were able to empathize with the characters. This paper invokes the need to include reading young adult literature into general English courses for college learners to make them lifelong readers of L2.

A curiosidade das coisas, objetos e sujeitos no romance do incidente de Mark Haddon

Começo com um momento de The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time (2003), de Mark Haddon, descrevendo um encontro com as coisas, na forma de uma enumeração e um tipo de colecção, onde vida corporal, sensorial, mental e imaginativa se fundem. Ao sondar as fronteiras porosas, afinidades e fricções entre sujeitos e objetos contemporâneos, com corpos, mentes especiais e coisas, este ensaio desenvolve novas abordagens para noções de materialidade, o mundo do objeto e a experiência corporificada enquanto também questiona desenvolvimentos na área da cultura material, estudos do objeto, fenomenologia cultural e teoria das coisas. Haddon e Boone (o narrador/protagonista) insistiram na base material de todos os aspectos da existência humana e finalmente concluíram que o sujeito pode ser transformado materialmente por meio da interação com objetos.

FUNCTIONS OF VARIOUS SEMIOTIC RESOURCES IN A LITERARY TEXT (BASED ON THE MATERIAL OF M. HADDON’S NOVEL “THE CURIOUS INCIDENT OF THE DOG IN THE NIGHT-TIME»)

This article focuses on the problem of functions performed by semiotic resources in a multimodal literary text. Semiotically heterogeneous components in a multimodal text form a single whole and have a complex effect on the addressee; nonverbal components are an organic part of the text that does not interfere with its perception by the reader. The functions of various semiotic resources in Mark Haddon’s novel “The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time” are analyzed.

Contemplating Stars and Solving Mysteries: Rationality in Mark Haddon’s the Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime

The passage discussed in this essay comes from a moment in Mark Haddon’s The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time when the protagonist-narrator Christopher’s entire worldview is threatened. He has been trying to solve a mystery of who killed the neighbor’s dog, and he has just learned that his father is the killer and that his mother, whom he thought dead (because that’s what his father told him), is living in London with her lover. As Christopher looks at the stars, he explains to the reader why this is a good way to cope with “difficult things” in life. Through a close reading of the passage, I show how Christopher positions rationality in order to discuss disorder and violence, while insulating himself from it. I go on to argue that his use of the whodunit as his genre of choice serves a similar purpose. In both cases, however, the novel shows the limitations of rationality. It may be a helpful coping mechanism, but personal growth requires engaging in the emotional complexity and human messiness.