Narrative Mode Research Articles

Design and Dissemination of Short Video Numbers Based on Changsha's City Image of "Media Art Capital"

In order to show Changsha's unique and recognizable characteristics in the media field, this paper takes the clear positioning of the city, the direction of the crowd and the needs of the users as the starting point, and carries out the design practice and communication promotion based on Changsha's image as the "city of media and art". The study adopts research methods such as practice method, literature method and comparative analysis method, starting from the dimensions of design positioning and design principles, and through the narrative mode of "scene + viewpoint or emotion", the study designs and disseminates the "Changsha City of Media Arts" Shake video number, providing new perspectives for city branding and promoting the city image. It provides a new perspective and method for city branding, and at the same time builds a comprehensive and multi-dimensional spatial ecological communication cluster.

Success Stories of Non-ABM Accountancy Graduates

The study aimed to explore the experiences and journeys of non-ABM students who pursued a Bachelor of Science in Accountancy program and eventually became successful Certified Public Accountants (CPAs). Following Polkinghorne's (1998) Narrative Mode of Analysis, a qualitative narrative inquiry approach was employed. Three participants were purposively selected based on the criteria of being non-ABM senior high school graduates, having completed a BS Accountancy program, and currently holding a CPA license. Data were collected through in-depth, semi-structured face-to-face and phone interviews. The interviews explored the participants' motivations for choosing the accountancy program, their college experiences, challenges faced, preparations for the CPA licensure examination, and insights gained throughout their journeys. The study revealed that while the participants initially struggled due to a lack of background knowledge in accounting, they eventually adapted and succeeded through determination, hard work, and perseverance. The findings highlight the importance of passion, commitment, and proper guidance in achieving academic and professional goals, even when facing challenges stemming from misalignment between pre-university education and chosen career paths.

Success Stories of Non-ABM Accountancy Graduates

The study aimed to explore the experiences and journeys of non-ABM students who pursued a Bachelor of Science in Accountancy program and eventually became successful Certified Public Accountants (CPAs). Following Polkinghorne's (1998) Narrative Mode of Analysis, a qualitative narrative inquiry approach was employed. Three participants were purposively selected based on the criteria of being non-ABM senior high school graduates, having completed a BS Accountancy program, and currently holding a CPA license. Data were collected through in-depth, semi-structured face-to-face and phone interviews. The interviews explored the participants' motivations for choosing the accountancy program, their college experiences, challenges faced, preparations for the CPA licensure examination, and insights gained throughout their journeys. The study revealed that while the participants initially struggled due to a lack of background knowledge in accounting, they eventually adapted and succeeded through determination, hard work, and perseverance. The findings highlight the importance of passion, commitment, and proper guidance in achieving academic and professional goals, even when facing challenges stemming from misalignment between pre-university education and chosen career paths.

Dziedzictwo konfliktu klasowego a lokalna polityka pamięci

The conceptual framework of “difficult heritage” was developed in studies concerning various forms of collective violence. This article is grounded on the assumption that it can also be applied in the context of socio-economic inequalities, since under the hegemonic dominance of interpretations of the past that conform to the interests of the elite, the experiences of subordinated categories become “troublesome.” As such, stories of both oppression and emancipation are forgotten or neutralized. From this perspective, the mechanisms of obscuring and mainstreaming of collective interests and related conflicts as elements of “legitimate” history seem particularly interesting. Drawing on the notions of agonistic memory and museum as agonistic space, the author analyses the permanent exhibition at the Central Museum of Textiles in Łódź, reinterpreting the local history of industrial development. The paper aims to determine the place of industrial conflict in the narrative of the history of an industrial city. It is organized around three questions. First of all, what aspects of industrial relations are discussed in the museum narrative? Are they framed mostly by structural determinants or rather presented as individual and collective experience? Secondly, how are these relations contextualized? And thirdly, which modes of narrative are engaged? And is the conflict between workers and those in charge of the means of production a moral or rather a socio-political issue?

Die Sprache der Anderen. Sprachphilosophische Gedankenexperimente in China Miévilles <em>Embassytown</em>

China Miéville’s Embassytown is a political science fiction novel about a remote planetary colony that is home to both humans and aliens – and about their initial failure to communicate. But Embassytown is also a novel both about language and linguistics. A central element of the plot is the language of the aliens: They speak simultaneously with two mouths and, at the beginning of the novel, they are unable to lie or use metaphors. Communication with their human neighbours is almost impossible, only ›Ambasssadors‹, pairs of clones specifically raised for the task, succeed in speaking the alien language. Over the course of the novel a violent language-induced crisis disrupts the colony’s social order and changes the alien language, so that communication with ordinary humans becomes possible. The paper shows how Miéville uses the plot and worldbuilding of Embassytown to reference specific theories about language, from Hegel to Ogden/Richards’ semiotic triangle. The text sets up a kind of thought experiment to disprove certain linguistic conceptions and uses different narrative strategies to illustrate, test and elucidate others. Embassytown merges narrative and theoretical modes of writing to address a number of linguistic and philosophical subjects such as metaphor and truth, language and religion, and voice and identity. In this way, the novel blends theory and narration to form a kind of ›narrative experiment‹.

Empathic Nuances of Machine-Mediated Asylum-Seeker Narratives

Abstract The use of artificial human-like agents within the legal context of immigration is still a largely understudied topic. We employed a computer- generated asylum seeker with a narrative interpolated by ChatGPT4 to examine whether “uncanniness” in machine-mediation affected empathic decision-making. In an online study, 466 participants were instructed on the United Nations’ legal standard for granting asylum. They were then asked to simulate the role of an immigration officer by deciding whether an asylum narrative, conveyed either by written text or spoken by a computer- generated asylum seeker, met the standard. Results show that regardless of the narrative's mode of delivery, the same facts overwhelmingly led to the granting of asylum. Our findings encourage new applications of machine-mediated approaches to the promotion of social justice initiatives.

The multimodal translation workshop as a method of creative inquiry

Abstract This article investigates the role of affective perception in the development of translation and experiential literacy through the medium of a multimodal translation workshop held with twelve arts practitioners, academics, and translators. Both the rationale for the workshop format and the interpretation of workshop outputs draw on a transdisciplinary framework spanning theories of intermediality and multimodality, the study of acousmatic sound, acoustic atmospheres, and corporeal music/sound reception. Adopting a phenomenographic approach, we discuss the role of the body and the senses in communication and how the sensory exercises developed for our workshop can provide access to the prenoetic nature of perception from both a cognitive and affective standpoint. Recognizing the narrative quality of participants’ comments, a deductive approach was taken to analyze their translations and reflections through the lens of narrative modes of acousmatic music. The article concludes with pedagogical implications on the basis of participants’ reflections. Our findings support the use of a multimodal online translation workshop as both a research method to investigate meaning-making and a pedagogical resource to develop experiential literacy for both practitioners and developing translators.

Narrative Means to Recovery Ends. Novel Psychoactive Substance Users in Early Recovery

The relationship between trauma and subsequent substance use has been extensively studied. Substance dependence and its consequences are a source of further traumatization. This explorative qualitative study is an analysis of the recovery narratives of persons with polydrug dependence, using mainly novel psychoactive substances (NPSs). NPS use, with its unpredictability and major health risks poses a challenge to treatment systems, but only few studies are available on NPS users’ recovery processes. In this longitudinal study, authors explore processes of identity reconstruction in the emotionally valent episodes of 10 respondents’ life interviews. The interviews had been conducted with 77 patients at the beginning of their residential treatment and were repeated a year later with those in recovery and available for the study, altogether 10 persons. Narrative Oriented Inquiry was used as a framework, focusing on the key themes and changes in the narrative mode. Our results support the findings on previous and subsequent NPS use-related traumatization. In this perspective, NPS use corresponds to revictimization. Contrary to available but sporadic evidence suggesting a marked difference between the recovery processes of users of classical substances and NPS users, the respondents in this study could utilize the traditional cultural stock of recovery stories during their treatment. Changes involved more reflective and responsible attitudes and the broadening of a healing social network. Contents describing care/self-care and the emergence of hopeful attitudes were also identified. Further research, involving larger samples and cross-cultural comparisons, could deepen our understandings of NPS users’ recovery processes.

Narrativity and responsible and transparent ai practices

AbstractThis paper builds upon recent work in narrative theory and the philosophy of technology by examining the place of transparency and responsibility in discussions of AI, and what some of the implications of this might be for thinking ethically about AI and especially AI practices, that is, the structured social activities implicating and defining what AI is. In this paper, we aim to show how pursuing a narrative understanding of technology and AI can support knowledge of process and practice through transparency, as well help summon us to responsibility through visions of possibility and of actual harms arising from AI practices. We provide reflections on the relations between narrative, transparency and responsibility, building an argument that narratives (about AI, practices, and those persons implicated in its design, implementation, and deployment) support the kind of knowing and understanding that is the aim of transparency, and, moreover, that such knowledge supports responsibility in informing agents and activating responsibility through creating knowledge about something that can and should be responded to. Furthermore, we argue for considering an expansion of the kinds of practices that we might legitimately consider ‘AI practices’ given the diverse set of (often materially embedded) activities that sustain and are sustained by AI that link directly to its ethical acceptability and which are rendered transparent in the narrative mode. Finally, we argue for an expansion of narratives and narrative sources to be considered in questions of AI, understanding that transparency is multi-faceted and found in stories from diverse sources and people.

Lyricism in the World of George Sand

Lyric poetry’s metier is figurative language – metaphor, simile and imagery – used to represent happenings at human/world intersections, and within the world and the individual, covering, as Jane Hirschfield writes, “both senses and psyche” (2015).1 These affordances render it particularly suited to the writing of character in poetic biography. The creative artefact from my creative writing PhD is a poetic biography of 19th century French social radical and prolific author, George Sand. As a work of ‘restitution poetics’ it proposes to contribute to repair of a creative, literary women’s lineage damaged by the exclusion or misrepresentation of women. Sand’s multiple milieux lend themselves to lyric representation both in the variety of roles and settings she chose for herself, and in her own rich lyric representation of those worlds in her various writings. She straddled political worlds – lunch with the first minister, urgent correspondence with Napoléon’s nephew – as well as more personal settings – conversing with famous artists, writers, and musicians, love trysts, as well as the world of her country property. “The language of the poem”, Mary Oliver avers, “is the language of particulars”2 and particulars feature in the lyric and narrative modes I employ to hone in on Sand’s world, seeking to capture camembert-and-rough-red, chicken-ammonia, heart-piercing nightingales, rough Berrichon, and lined-foolscap-blue ink worlds. These are conveyed as strategies both to honour her, and to communicate her life in compelling visceral, sensory, and I hope, impactful ways.

The Resistance Narrative in Arabic Science Fiction: Azem’s The Book of Disappearance (2014)

This paper aims to analyze the mode of resistance narrative in Ibtisam Azem’s The Book of Disappearance (2014), which is read within the frame of Arabic Science Fiction. The study answers the following questions:(1) What are the Arabic Science Fiction tropes in Azem’s novel? (2) How does ASF subserve resistance narratives in Azem’s novel? (3)Why does Azem utilize the Dystopian Narrative for resistance narratives? The study examines the structure and themes of Azem’s The Book of Disappearance in terms of postcolonial and science fictional theories. The study’s methodology considers Kanafani’s resistance narrative, Morrison’s rememory, and Hochberg’s archival imagination in exploring the historical frame in Azem’s The Book of Disappearance. The analysis of Azem’s The Book of Disappearance interconnects the Palestinian resistance literature and the postcolonial writing to the ASF tropes and techniques. The alternative history closely examines the controversy between Israeli utopia and Palestinian dystopia. The study concludes that in Azem’s novel, the 1948 Nakba is recreated in the future through the imaginative incident of the Palestinian disappearance. As Palestinian novels often grapple with the complex question of identity in the face of displacement, occupation, and cultural pressures, Azem’s novel inspects the question of identity through a simulation of history in Alaa’s diary and through the gaze of Arial, the Israeli journalist. Azem’s novel confronts this trauma, giving voice to the pain and suffering of the Palestinian people through the Arabic Science Fiction frame of a dystopian narrative that dismantles the Zionist ideology and Israeli oppressive regime.

Learning narratives: the paths of adults in short-term higher education

This article presents an outline of the research work carried out on the formation in the Higher Courses of Technology (CST) in relation to the search for graduation from the perspective of students entering the CST/Gastronomy of a private college in the city of São Paulo. This text aims to identify the motivations for entering the CST in emerging contexts and to answer the question about the needs of the learner for professional qualification. The research methodology adopted was qualitative in nature and investigative in the narrative mode. As a result, the discussion of learning is established from the student point of view, respecting the human formation of individuals in the search for an education that constitutes a socially inclusive process.

A Brave New Internet: Hacking the Narrative of Mark Zuckerberg’s 2021 Introduction of the Metaverse

<p>We are entering an era of “techlash”: increasing unease with the hold of large technology companies over our lives, driving by fatalistic feelings of loss of agency. Neither attempts by these companies to address such concerns, such as appointing ethical committees and ombudsmen, nor grassroot initiatives aimed at user empowerment, seem effective in addressing this. This context remains unacknowledged in Mark Zuckerberg’s introduction of the metaverse on 28 October 2021. We will show, however, that it is still implicitly addressed through its narrative. A far reaching transformation of the way in which we use the internet ispresented as desirable and unescapable, employing an epic narrative mode which values constancy of the individual and their mastery over their surroundings. However, this future is shaped by Zuckerberg and his company; promising agency for all, it is remarkable how little agency is given to the user. We juxtapose this smooth future vision with a counternarrative using the same narrative building stones, but told in a narrative mode distributing agency more equally. Thus, we engage in strategic analysis, exploring how to resist narratives such as themetaverse’s. We call this method “hacking the narrative.”</p>

Research on the creative development path of new mainstream films from the perspective of realism

With the continuous development of society, the emergence of new mainstream films has broken the creation mode of previous main theme films. The concept of The Times, the mainstream ideology, the new narrative characteristics, the authenticity and universality of the characters in the new mainstream movies have narrowed the distance between the film and the audience, and are easier to be accepted by the audience. How the new mainstream film develops in the current realistic theme has become the key point of research. This paper attempts to explore from three aspects: film theme, narrative mode and character image.

Arboreal Obliquity or Trees Doing the Human in Murray Bail’s Eucalyptus

ABSTRACT Tapping into Australian writing on arboreality, with a focus on Murray Bail’s Eucalyptus (1998), this investigation intervenes in Critical Plant Studies by exploring a dendrographic alternative to both extrinsic and intrinsic plant language and representation. The aim is to remediate the “doing of trees” one finds at work in approaches ranging from botanical taxonomy to literary arborealism. Set on breaking nature’s silence, the urge in much arboreal writing has been to get trees to speak. By contrast, Bail’s trees are stumm; there is no direct human/arboreal rapport. Instead, Eucalyptus is driven by what I term arboreal obliquity, a mode of narration that allows the trees to articulate their arboreality by “doing the human” without relying on human ventriloquy. At the same time as Bail portrays his eucalypts as resolutely aloof, he shows all human life in his novel to depend for its impetus in one way or another on the trees. Arboreal obliquity installs a lens that casts a distinctively arboreal light, instantiating Patrícia Vieira’s phytographia which implies that plants compose and sustain, and thus write, the human lifeworld. Arboreal obliquity is invested in a radical decentering of the human, away from eco-materialist notions of human/nonhuman parity, enmeshment and interdependence.

"It will always be Temporary": A qualitative study of Syrian young adults expressing histories of collective violence and forced displacement in participatory theatre.

Given the increased prevalence of mental health problems in Syrian refugee communities, there have been efforts to develop adequate mental health care for their well-being. Herein, clinical literature is increasingly emphasizing the importance of locating refugees' healing at the nexus of personal and social realities, understanding the process of trauma narration within social restorative spaces of witnessing and communal support. Alongside this debate, there is growing interest in the relevance of participatory theatre for refugees. This innovative approach understands how voicing narratives of life histories within a broader social sphere may support personal and socio-political transformation. In this article, we aim to further the understanding of participatory theatre's relevance to these issues, focusing on the reparative dimensions of trauma narration. Based on a case study of a theatre project with Syrian young adults resettled in Belgium, we explore the different ways participants expressed experiences of collective violence and displacement in dialogue with each other, their diasporic and home communities, and their host society, and consider how these processes relate to their construction and meaning and coping with trauma. In a final section, we discuss the implications of our findings, raising questions about the value of participatory theatre as a reparative space and outlining suggestions to introduce and mobilize reparative modes of trauma narration in therapeutic practices in refugee trauma care.

Tęsknota za człowieczeństwem. Dehumanizacja w muzyce gry Cyberpunk 2077

Video games are often analysed as textual objects. This default literary point of view, while providing valuable conclusions, fails to observe some essential points that are realised in different modes of narration. Here I will analyse the Cyberpunk 2077 video game from a musical perspective. I will be “listening to” the game rather than “reading” it. This kind of hermeneutical approach will highlight certain ideas of CP2077. I will focus on the issue of dehumanisation, and show that musically the game places special emphasis on this. I will point out the musical characteristics that can affect players and interpret the rationale behind it.

Thinking Like a Rat: Grotesque Interspecies Relations, Narrative Hospitality And Posthuman Assemblages in Katherina Hacker’s Die Gäste

This article analyses how Katharina Hacker’s 2022 novel Die Gäste experiments with interspecies relations that upend the anthropocentric view of planetary life to bring into view an ethics of narrative hospitality. Focusing on the role of the animals, especially the rat protagonists, I argue that the novel employs anthropomorphism to refute the reductive view of the rat as a lower-order animal without cognition and emotions, while also rejecting the common allegorization of the animal protagonist as a human actor in animal disguise. Drawing on the Kayser versus Bahktin debate of the grotesque in dialogue with posthumanist theories, the article shows how Hacker combines the carnivalesque strand of the grotesque with anecdotal rendition as narrative modes that make possible the kind of interspecies assemblages that posthumanism advocates. By inviting the reader ‘to think like a rat’, the novel explores ways of overcoming speciecism and human exceptionalism in favour of an entangled and relational world view.

Girls gone wild: animality, female teenagers, and disidentification in contemporary European cinema

ABSTRACT Contemporary European cinema insistently depicts female teenagers in association with non-human animals. This article focuses on a group of films in which the teenage protagonists approach animality while closely surrounded by systems of exploitation of animals. The films Axolotl Overkill (Helene Hegemann, 2017), Raw (Julia Ducournau, 2016), and Eastern (Piotr Adamski, 2019) feature female teenagers that experience oppression over their bodies. Animality appears both as part of their oppression and as a subversive alternative to negotiate their appointed social role as girls. The analyzed films explore narrative and aesthetic modes of disruption of the division between human/animal, as they articulate constructive encounters and even identification with the human and the non-human. Additionally, these films confront normative constructions of femininity through abject animality. Instead of ‘becoming women’, the protagonists embrace a more fluid transformation. These films propose ways of representing animals without participating in the traditional, spectacularizing gaze that reinforces the hierarchy of dominance of the human over the non-human. In this sense, this article contributes to the aim of animal (film) studies to rethink how visual culture represents the non-human. Lastly, these films appear more broadly as part of a larger tendency in contemporary European cinema inscribing animals in a critique of conventional femininity.

Антиномия вымысла и достоверности в романе Джона Ирвинга «Мир глазами Гарпа»

The article examines the antinomy between fictionality and authenticity in The World According to Garp by John Irving. The first part of this article deals with the narrator of the framing text, who constantly shifts from pure imagination to meticulous fixation on pseudo-documental facts about the fictionalized character Garp. The mode of narration in terms of adhering to factuality and imagination alters in different parts of the novel. The ambiguity of the narrator’s position and its inclusion in the considered novel’s antinomy result in the possibility of attributing the novel’s framing text to either Garp himself or his official biographer, Donald Whitcomb. Further, the article examines interpolated texts attributed to the secondary narrator (Garp), in which he tries to find a balance between pure fantasy and reliance on memory in his work. Garp’s fiction here divides into three major groups: memory and personal experience based, imaginative, and a combination of the two, of which the latter proved to be the most fruitful. The article describes how the relationship of the primary and secondary narrators with conventional “reality” is complicated by comparing the frame text and texts attributed to the character, as well as the latter with the works of the biographical author (i. e. Irving). The final part of the article exposes the lyric poetry as a synthesis of (auto)biographical (e. g. “Sexual Suspect” by Jenny Fields, character’s mother) and fictionalized (Garp’s works). The antinomy of fictionality and authenticity helps raise questions about authenticity in art, “high” and “low” literature, and the nature of art and creativity.