Narrative Temporality Research Articles

Narrative fidelity: making the UN Sustainable Development Goals fit

PurposeThis paper empirically examines how firms have discursively adopted the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). More precisely, it studies firms' ability to constitute their organizational identity by way of associating their past, present, and future practices with the newly established Goals. By focussing on the temporal dynamics of change, this paper provides analytical clarity on the role “narrative fidelity”.Design/methodology/approachThe author collected all online available SDG-related communications, including financial and non-financial reports, of 29 large French multinationals throughout 2016 and 2017. These data were analysed using a systematic narrative approach incorporating open-ended coding cycles.FindingsFour narratives were distilled: the descriptive narrative, which promotes general knowledge; the past narrative, which reinterprets the organizational past by retelling and reviewing actions; the present narrative, which associates prevailing organizational strategies with new categories; and the future narrative, which articulates and prioritizes new ambitions.Originality/valueCurrent performativity theories in Corporate Social Responsibility scholarship focus solely on future narratives, such as “aspirational talk”, and fail to incorporate how revising and redefining past and present stories creates an imperative “fit” between an organization's identity and a new framework. This study goes beyond future narratives and contributes to our understanding of the dynamic nature of temporal narratives (past – present – future). By building on narrative fidelity, it shows how all four narratives are crucial, sequential steps that help build a new corporate identity.

Settler colonial temporalities, ruinations and neoliberal urban renewal: the case of Suknet Al-Huresh in Jaffa

In a bid to Judaize the Palestinian space, Israel has imposed through its planning policies and practices different temporal structures and narratives of ruinations on Palestinian cities inside its 1948 borders. These different forms of ruins have created temporal segregation in adjacent spaces. This paper provides a temporal analysis of planning policies and practices imposed on Jaffa, a Palestinian city emptied of the bulk of its residents and turned after the 1948 war into a city of ruins. It provides an outline of Jaffa’s temporal map, which illustrates the varying temporalities that had been imposed by the municipality and governmental bodies on the city’s various quarters. Special attention is given to one section of Al-‘Ajami district—Suknet Al-Huresh/the Maronite Quarter which has taken a particular trajectory. To track these changes a micro and macro geography methods have been employed: a study of a specific house as well as an analysis of local urban plans and journalistic archives has been undertaken. The main findings show that neoliberal governmentality has enabled individual settlers’ control over time and space. While such a control maybe blatant in expanding settler colonialism’s frontiers, this article illustrates how it is assumed in a ‘normative setting’. Moreover, it shows how colonizers, as agents, create through neoliberal tools a linear temporality of terra sine tempore and contribute to the reproduction of the settler colonial structure. Yet, it is found that Palestinian inhabitants continued to perceive the space beyond such temporal presentations.

‘It Gets Really Boring if You Stay at Home’: Women, Work and Temporalities in Urban India

This article explores narratives of boredom among young lower middle class women employed in the bourgeoning services sector in India, across cafes, call centres, malls and offices. These young women cite boredom from ‘sitting at home’ as a reason to seek employment. Adopting Bourdieu’s understanding of temporal relations as informed by ‘subjective expectations’ and ‘objective chances’, I place young women’s temporal narratives in the context of post-1990 socio-economic change in India. I show that there is a shift in young lower middle class women’s expectations, particularly on the basis of acquisition of higher education. By rendering the space of home – characterised by compulsion to participate in housework, pressure to get married and restrictions on mobility and friendships – as temporally insignificant, young women resist gender norms. Their narratives contribute to gendering scholarship on temporal disruptions in the context of socio-economic change, which is currently overdetermined by young men’s experiences.

Shadowing ‘the exceptional’ behind the ‘ordinary’: mapping a network of intelligence laundering

ABSTRACT Under the imperative of ‘prevention’, the process of information production for investigatory purposes forms a crossover between intelligence gathering and law enforcement. Digital surveillance programmes collect personal data prior to any probable cause of suspicion, whereas law enforcement activities are concerned with collecting evidence of crimes after the event. When future looking preventative approaches to the prosecution of crimes are forced into the linear, temporal narrative by which criminal investigations unfold, a tension emerges. The article demonstrates the ultimate incompatibility between ‘out of the ordinary’ intelligence activities and ‘ordinary’ criminal investigations by unearthing the procedural character behind evidence laundering.

Placing resources: Junior mining companies and the locus of mineral potential

Ideas of resource becoming have become prominent across scholarship in resource geography over the past two decades. In this article, I link processes of becoming with those of place. Drawing on research focused on copper exploration and the junior mining sector, I describe the way resource potential is articulated through three distinct practices of placing: the placing of resource prospects within narratives of copper deficits; the placing of resource prospects in space; and the placing of resource prospects in juxtaposition to other projects. These promotional, taken-for-granted practices within the junior mining industry not only underscore the way resource potential is tied to spatial and temporal narratives, but illustrate how the locus of resource potential is found in areas beyond the underground.

Time and the Figure of the Citizen

This article reflects on the relationship between time and the figure of the citizen, where the citizen is understood in relational terms to the migrant. The article examines a stalled or interrupted flow of time that characterises the experience of certain migrants and citizens alike. This is time experienced as waiting for the fulfillment of citizenship. The article goes on to show how a progressive temporal narrative of citizenship-to-come obscures the effective denial of citizenship. While citizenship remains a key aspiration for those who lack its full or partial protections, it may not represent the ultimate horizon for struggles concerned with questions of border justice. With this proposition in mind, the article speculates on alternative horizons that may be emerging organically within struggles that refuse the citizen/migrant divide as a basis for imagining collective political futures.

From eruption scenarios to probabilistic volcanic hazard analysis: An example of the Auckland Volcanic Field, New Zealand

The dichotomy between probabilistic and scenario-based volcanic hazard assessments stems from their opposing strengths and weaknesses. The quantification of uncertainty and lack of bias in the former is balanced against the temporal narrative and communicability of the latter. In this paper we propose a novel methodology to bridge between the two, deriving a pseudo-probabilistic hazard estimate from a suite of dynamic scenarios covering multiple volcanic hazards and transitions in eruptive style, as designed for emergency management purposes, in a monogenetic volcanic field. We use existing and new models for eruption style transitions, which provide probabilities conditional on local environmental conditions, thus obtaining the relative likelihoods of each scenario at every location in the field. The results are interpreted in terms of the probability of various hazards and combinations of hazards arising from various scenarios at critical locations. Conversely, we also demonstrate that it may be possible to optimise the likelihood of the scenario allocations across desired locations for emergency management training purposes.

The Long-Term Mental Health Consequences of Torture, Loss, and Insecurity: A Qualitative Study Among Survivors of Armed Conflict in the Dang District of Nepal.

Background and Objectives: Nepal has witnessed several periods of organized violence since its beginnings as a sovereign nation. Most recently, during the decade-long Maoist Conflict (1996–2006), armed forces used excessive violence, including torture, resulting in deaths and disappearances. Moreover, there is widespread gender-, ethnic- and caste-based discrimination, and grossly unequal distribution of wealth in the country. While the immediate mental health effects of the conflict are well studied, less is known about the long-term effects of the conflict. This article sets out to explain how Nepalese survivors of violence perceive their wellbeing and mental health, search for help and construct their health care pathways and therapeutic itineraries. The aim is to provide a better understanding of local explanatory models and healthcare behaviors. Methods: Semi-structured interviews were carried out with 25 people (14 men, 11 women) aged 30 to 65 in Dang district in 2013. To elicit illness narratives, a translated and culturally adapted version of the McGill Illness Narrative Interview (MINI) was used. Additionally, participants were interviewed about their war experiences and present-day economic and social situations. The transcripts were coded using deductive and inductive approaches and analyzed through thematic analysis. Results: The study provides insight into temporal narratives of illness experience and explanatory modules. Symptoms were found to be widespread and varied, and were not solely attributed to violent experiences and memories, but also to everyday stressors related to survivors’ economic, social, and familial situations. In terms of help- and health-seeking behavior it was found that participants resorted to various coping strategies such as social activities, avoidance, withdrawal, and substance use. Many participants had received biomedical treatment for their psychosocial problems from doctors and specialists working in public and private sector clinics and hospitals as well as different forms of traditional healing. Conclusions: These results shed light on the long-term impact of the Nepalese conflict on survivors of extreme violence, highlighting local explanatory models and help- and health-seeking behaviors. These findings inspire recommendations for the development of context specific and holistic psychosocial interventions focusing on well-being, social determinants of health, and human rights.

Jonathan Coe: Contemporary British Satire by Philip Tew

 Reviews Ted Hughes in Context, Terry Gifford writes that ‘No single scholar could know all that Hughes knew or even have read all that Hughes had read during his sixty-eight years’ (p. xv). e task of contextualizing him, then, is a somewhat daunting one. But Gifford himself, a leading authority on Hughes, is best placed to take on this task, and the contributions he has gathered do an excellent job of assembling a jigsaw of Hughesian contexts. Ted Hughes in Context represents a vital resource for two main reasons. e first is its usefulness: the volume comprises thirty-six short essays (generally around ten pages each in length), covering a wide range of topics and written with clarity by contributors including junior and senior scholars, archivists, and Hughes obsessives. Individual sections and chapters have been given plain, unfussy titles: ‘Literary Contexts’, ‘Biographical Contexts’, ‘Hughes and Religion’, ‘Hughes and War’. Students and scholars of Hughes’s work, therefore, now have an obvious first port of call, whether they require an overview of Hughes’s work or a starting point for a particular aspect of it. All of the expected topics are covered in concise and engaging chapters summarizing areas of study that have filled entire monographs: ‘Hughes and Nature’, ‘Hughes and Plath’, ‘Hughes and Yorkshire’, and so on. But the volume does much more than digest existing Hughes scholarship. A significant number of chapters present new takes on this writer, reflecting some of the most up-to-date Hughes scholarship, and suggesting future lines of enquiry. A fascinating essay by Carrie Smith, for instance, theorizes Hughes’s literal and poetic voice, while Joanny Moulin’s chapter ‘Hughes as Correspondent’ finally pays some attention to the writer’s letters, which powered so much of his thinking and which underpin so much of the research on display elsewhere in this volume. e cover of Ted Hughes in Context features a remarkable photograph of the author. Taken in  by Tony Othen, and only recently rediscovered, it shows an unusual hand gesture that competes for the viewer’s attention with Hughes’s candid stare. Identified by one scholar as a mano fico—intended to ward off the evil eye—the gesture reveals Hughes’s interest in the occult, another of the major preoccupations explored in this invaluable contribution to Hughes studies. U  H J U Jonathan Coe: Contemporary British Satire. Ed. by P T. London: Bloomsbury . . xiv+ pp. £.. ISBN ––––. Jonathan Coe’s twelve novels have earned him healthy sales, sympathetic reviews, and an appreciative readership. He picked up the Prix du Meilleur Livre Étranger in  and the Prix Médicis Étranger in ; he was made Chevalier of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres in  and a member of the Royal Society of Literature in ; his best-known work, What a Carve Up! (), has been described as ‘[u]nquestionably the most significant novel about the effects of atcherism’ (Dominic Head, e Cambridge Introduction to Modern British Fiction, – (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, ), p. ). However, despite being MLR, .,   garlanded with accolades that would make him the envy of many other purveyors of contemporary fiction, Coe continues to occupy a slightly uncertain place in the field of contemporary fiction studies. Philip Tew’s new collection, which comprises twelve original essays plus a new interview with the author, opens with the editor wondering ‘why on earth [Coe] is not more celebrated and does not feature far more on the academic curriculum’ (pp. xi–xii). Covering Coe’s fiction from e Accidental Woman () to Number  (), this collection (appearing a few months before Coe’s Brexit novel, Middle England ()) will remind long-time fans about what there is to admire and enjoy in his work: its painfully sympathetic observational humour; its cast of sensitive underachievers whose lives are poignantly sabotaged by their own ‘precautionary timidity’ (p. xii); its nostalgic feel for the pop-cultural minutiae of a given decade; its approachable experimentalism (Coe does elaborate things with narrative temporality and point of view, but never in such a way as to bamboozle or alienate); its bracing flashes of righteous political anger. Although this is not a forcefully evaluative book—its contributors are not...

ПОНЯТТЯ НАРАТИВНОГО АНАЛІЗУ І ОСНОВНІ ПІДХОДИ

The article is devoted to a general overview of the concept of narrator, an analysis of its main characteristics and functions as an important subject of the science of storytelling. Considerable attention is paid to the definitions of the category of narrator by domestic and foreign linguists and to the typology of the narrator. The problems of identifying narrative categories have been identified. The concept of a narrative structure according to V.Ya. Propp. The functions of the narrator in the literary text are determined and an attempt is made to classify them. The aim of the article is to theoretically substantiate the concept of narrative analysis. One of the main categories of narratology is the category of the narrator. The article describes in detail the concept of narrative temporality (time), which is one of the most important properties of narrative works. The problem of actualization of narrative discourse in literary studies arises not by chance - the contours of the new methodology are largely determined by the possibility of multiple theoretical modifications of the modern research process.The narrator, as the central essence of the concept, arises as a complexly organized subject with many ways of his own expression, an intermediary between the real world, to which the biographical author belongs, and the fictional world of a work of art; depicted by the symbolically significant world of the literary work and the cognitive competence of the reader. The narrator's phenomenon is diverse and multifaceted. Each new work of art is a new narrator. That is why the problem of grammatical manifestations of the narrator and his typology open a wide space for further theoretical and practical research in the field of narratology and semantics of discourse. Due to the considerable freedom of the text, the narrator has the opportunity to penetrate into the inner world of the characters, to address the readers, to enter into controversy with the author. The problem of the narrator in fiction opens wide opportunities for further theoretical and practical research in the field of narrative science and semantics of discourse.

(Con)Temporary Animals: The Transgressions of Human Narration in Alain Mabanckou’s and Tristan Garcia’s Mémoires

(Con)Temporary Animals: The Transgressions of Human Narration in Alain Mabanckou’s and Tristan Garcia’s Mémoires Graham L. Bishop (bio) Two Texts, Their Authors, and the Movements in Between To what extent is the contemporary a concept limited by human experience? What would it mean to imagine an experience of being contemporary that accounts for nonhuman or more-than-human means of accessing the present? Would such an endeavor be possible, not to say necessary in the “contemporary moment” of ecological catastrophe and mass extinction? This essay answers in the affirmative through readings of two contemporary Francophone novels that fall under the genre of “animal autobiography”: Alain Mabanckou’s Mémoires de porcépic (2006) and Tristan Garcia’s Mémoires de la jungle (2010). Drawing on Jacques Derrida’s exploration of the autobiographical animal in “L’Animal que donc je suis” and Giorgio Agamben’s definition of the contemporary subject, I read these novels as examples of a narrative temporality whereby humans can both follow after and be present with animal others. I attribute this temporality to the novels’ shared technique of metalepsis, defined in narratology as a transgression of the boundary separating a given diegetic “storyworld” from the world outside of (extradiegetic to) the narrative: Although both novels initially assume the form indicated by their titles—“memoirs” authored by animal subjects (a porcupine in Mabanckou’s text; a chimpanzee in Garcia’s) who recollect past experiences—the intrusions made by [End Page 912] voices of human narrators at the ends of both works draw attention to and undermine the artificial boundaries of this form. Readers thus encounter two alternative representations of contemporaneity, neither of which require the anthropocentric division between the speaking human subject, who manifests presence, and the mute animal other, who remains trapped within an evolutionary past. Born in Congo-Brazzaville in 1966, Alain Mabanckou published poetry through the 1990s before winning the 1999 Grand prix littéraire d’Afrique noire for his first novel, Bleu-Blanc-Rouge. He then became one of the Francophone world’s most successful contemporary African novelists, winning both the 2005 Prix des cinq continents de la fran-cophonie for Verre cassé and the 2006 Prix Renaudot for Mémoires de porc-épic. Animals make frequent appearances in his work, but Mémoires de porc-épic is his only book narrated from an animal point-of-view to date. In the style of an autobiographical confession, a porcupine named Ngoumba recollects his life as the “harmful double” of a young man named Kibandi: leaving the “animal world,” the porcupine follows Kibandi’s orders to “eat” the bodies and souls of his enemies. When gluttony drives Kibandi to eat a few souls he should have left alone—an infant, for example—the spiritual world takes revenge and kills him, leaving the porcupine without a human host. Pursued by outraged villagers, the porcupine flees into the forest. After following his “instinct” for a couple of nights, he comes across a baobab tree on the bank of a river he fails to cross (38–39) and decides to confess to it his crimes. Novelist and object-oriented philosopher Tristan Garcia was born in 1981 in Toulouse, France, but spent much of his childhood in Algeria. He won the 2008 Prix de Flore for his debut novel, La Meilleure Part des hommes (translated into English as Hate: A Romance), an exploration of AIDS and its impact on gay culture in 1980s Paris. As a philosopher, he is most known for his speculative realist work Forme et objet: Un traité des choses, published in 2011; he is also the author of Nous, animaux et humains: Actualité de Jeremy Bentham, an essay on utilitarianism and animal suffering published earlier that year. He received little attention in 2010 for his second novel, Mémoires de la jungle, a work of post-apocalyptic science-fiction narrated by a chimpanzee named Doogie. Doogie begins his story orbiting the Earth aboard a space shuttle, as an involuntary participant in a publicity stunt designed to save the failing experimental zoo where he has been raised. The shuttle crash-lands in the middle of the African jungle, where Doogie finds no...

L’IMAGE DU MONTENEGRO ET UN POINT DU VUE SUR LA NARRATION DANS LETTRES SUR L’ADRIATIQUE ET LE MONTENEGRO DE XAVIER MARMIER

IMAGE OF MONTENEGRO AND VIEWPOINT ON NARRATION IN XAVIER MARMIER’S LETTERS ON THE ADRIATIC AND MONTENEGRO In the present article, we intend to present Letters on the Adriatic and Montenegro by Xavier Marmier, a French traveller and writer who took many trips around the world, including Montenegro in 1852. His journey is described in two volumes, and the second one is mainly devoted to Montenegro (six out of eight chapters). He spent two months in Montenegro and wrote a beautiful testimony of this period, relying on the historical facts, testimonies of the inhabitants and on his personal impressions. In the first part of our paper, we provide a summary of his writing on Montenegro, focusing on points such as the historical context, the living conditions of the people, as well as on their customs and traditions. In the second part, we propose a reflection on the narration and more precisely on the narrative temporality in this work. We seek to identify the different temporal markers in order to explain the use of certain tenses in the narrative. Key words: Montenegro, Xavier Marmier, travel writing, narration, temporality

“An Opening Toward the Possible”: Assembly Politics and Henri Lefebvre's Theory of the Event

ABSTRACTIn this article, I outline how Henri Lefebve's theory of the event helps conceptualise the emergence of recent assembly movements. Scholars of time and temporality have critiqued conventional framings of events, instead often understanding these as ruptures in temporal narratives. Moving beyond the deconstruction of framings of events, several scholars have begun to engage with the contested forms of timing and rhythm emerging from them. Lefebvre's theory provides tools to build on this approach in order to conceptualise the event of assembly politics. Lefebvre's theory furthers the turn to timing by highlighting the interrelationship between space and time and engaging with the complex “totality” from which movements emerge. Lefebvre's theory provides a framework to track how seemingly micropolitical phenomena emerges from and reverberates on a worldwide scale. The insights gained from Lefebvre's theory are illustrated through an analysis of the emergence of the 15M movement in Spain.

John Akomfrah

This article considers recent films by the artist John Akomfrah (b. 1957, Ghana). It argues that Vertigo Sea, The Airport, and Purple exemplify a new phase of black British art production. While building on the methods and themes that characterize his time with the Black Audio Film Collective, these projects exemplify ways in which diasporic histories provide crucial insights into the early twenty-first century—notably around questions of national sovereignty, spaces of flow and mobility, and human interventions in shared ecosystems. Ultimately, these films present a way of “doing history,” a form of visual genealogy Akomfrah calls “an essay” that is suited to a landscape in which fixed temporal or spatial narratives are no longer adequate.

The Birth of Christian History: Memory and Time from Mark to Luke–Acts

Eve-Marie Becker explores in Birth of Christian History genres, subgenres, and literary forms in Hellenistic and Roman historiography in order to draw out and compare the processes that shaped the social and cultural memory of the earliest Christian literary culture. This three-chapter volume focuses particularly on the influence of early Roman Imperial historiography on the NT writings beginning with the Gospel (Mark) to the starting point of early Christian history (Luke–Acts).In ch. 1 (pp. 1–33), Becker discusses the interdependent relationship between memory and history writing. She teases out the philosophical constructs that undergird the Roman conception of memory and how the early NT writings demonstrate some similarity to Roman memorial culture. After defining and explaining the differences between counter-memory, visual memory, ritual memory, and exemplary memory in relation to early Christian literature against Roman history writing, Becker elaborates on the purposes that literary memory serves in the Gospels and Acts: (1) a didactic purpose—the involvement of memory in education; (2) an entertainment function—as later apocryphal works supplement perceived historical gaps, such as Acta literature; and (3) an authoritative function—when later Christian Fathers refer back to early Christian literary memory in claiming normative and heretical errors.In ch. 2 (pp. 34–129), Becker looks extensively into how ancient historians explain/interpret the past and how they paraphrase the narrativized past. The Hellenistic and Roman historians—such as Velleius, Sallust, Strabo, Livy, Dio Cassius, and Appian—reference an existing master plan behind the narrative while also claiming their own view. In this sense, historians choose topics and subgenres according to the moral value that they aim to depict; thus, they assert their own moral value on different levels (causality in the narrative, use of rhetorical forms and genre, and interpretation on a metahistorical level) in order to affect their contemporary and future audiences. Becker finds the most prominent comparison in Velleius Paterculus’s catalog of virtues and values in his description of Tiberius’s reign. Becker applies a form of Vellieus’s approach to Mark’s Gospel and discerns literary causal connections and patterns, such as how Mark’s metahistorical interpretation—the “way of the cross”—serves as an overarching moral value in the narrative.In ch. 2, Becker also approaches an understanding of NT historiography from two levels—discussing the theoretical contributions of ancient historians and philosophers (those before and contemporary with Mark and Luke–Acts) while also examining ancient historiography through the ideas and opinions of contemporary scholars and theorists. For example, when discussing “person-centric” historiography, Becker consults the writings of Ivo Bruns (1896) in relation to personhood and concerning the distinction between major characters and minor characters as distinct from biography. She draws out Bruns’s conclusions about direct depiction of characters (e.g., Polybius’s narrative Scipio) and indirect evaluation of characters that lie hidden within the narrative (e.g., Livy on Scipio) which can be traced back to Thucydides. Becker then takes these observations and guidelines for analyzing the manner in which persons act as protagonists in the framework of history writing (judgment by contemporaries, impact on contemporaries, and the person’s attributed speech) and applies it to Mark’s Gospel: where Jesus evokes judgment (Mark 8:27–29) and Jesus’s impact on others is through action and through speeches (1:18–34). From this perspective, Jesus’s personhood is evidence that he is the acting protagonist within a historiographical account.In ch. (pp. 130–53), the abstract concept of time and its relationship to historiography is assessed. Since memory gives access to the perception of time as well as structuring it, time becomes an object of interpretation that gives shape to identity (the “golden age” in Virgil, Ecl. 4.4–10). Becker analyzes the relation between memory, time, and history in considering the earliest Christian shape of history writing, its Hellenistic-Roman setting(s), and its impact on the construction and understanding of “Christian” time. Becker concludes that the motivating factor for Hellenistic and Roman history writing is the conceptualization of time. She holds that this is also true of Mark and Luke–Acts. More specifically, Luke participates in Mark’s conceptualization of time and motion—Mark 1:15 and Luke 21:8—yet perception of time in Luke–Acts differs from Mark: Mark and Luke–Acts are linear and causal, but the Markan concept of narrative temporality is not yet fully defined (p. 137). Mark’s readers are forced to look back to chs. 1–9, whereas Luke gives shape to a narrative that stresses temporal and historical progress toward the apostolic age.Eve-Marie Becker sifts through an extensive amount of research from primary and secondary sources to provide relevant comparative insights on the influence of Roman and Greek historiography on early Christian history writing. The nature of the topic requires an appreciation for theory and abstractions, but the author’s acute ability to gather, collate, and explain nuanced differences of genre and form within an overarching discourse of ancient history engages the reader and contributes to a better understanding of the historiographical approaches of Mark and Luke–Acts.

Zeitraum und Raumzeit: Dimensionen zeitlicher und räumlicher Narration im Theater

Zeitraum und Raumzeit: Dimensionen zeitlicher und räumlicher Narration im Theater

De ríos y montañas: la poética de la pintura tradicional en la arquitectura china contemporánea

<p>La pintura tradicional china –para nosotros similar a un tipo de dibujo– presenta rasgos inequívocamente modernos en su concepción; su poética construye el espacio y el tiempo de forma análoga a la arquitectura. Este artículo analiza la manera en que las estructuras visuales de esas obras crean una peculiar experiencia narrativa espacio-temporal. Veremos cómo diferentes arquitectos contemporáneos chinos idean, a partir de esa pintura, una serie de arquitecturas que toman de su tradición pictórica su base conceptual y su forma de expresión. Evitan imitar acríticamente modelos internacionales e incorporan sutilmente rasgos específicos de la propia cultura; dotan de significado a la arquitectura mediante el contraste entre conceptos modernos y tradicionales. La comprensión de la forma sutil en que estos recursos son aplicados a sus procesos de ideación, nos permite intuir, también en nuestro contexto occidental, la posibilidad de nuevas formas de enriquecer el proyecto, conectándolo poéticamente con elementos de nuestra tradición y corregir así su frecuente deriva hacia lo utilitario, lo icónico o la simple banalidad.</p>

Postmodernist Play within Different Text Levels in There But For The by Ali Smith

Postmodern play is one of the important characteristics of modern fiction; it often acts as a text-forming element of the literary work. Literary play is manifested within different text levels and literary discourse strategies: the narrative, composition, imagery, diction, narrative temporality and modality, the technique of metanarrative. The present paper features the poetics of play within different text levels and literary discourse strategies in the novel by contemporary Scottish writer Ali Smith "There But For The". At the level of the novel’s narrative, the play manifests itself in the confusion of reality and fantasy, imagination and actual memory in the characters' internal speech. At the level of composition, the author plays with the readers, giving them an opportunity to find some "key" that will connect the four chapters of the novel and the prologue; the characters and connections between them are sometimes also a mystery. Within the literary strategy of temporality, the following play elements are presented: the contrast between serious reasoning about Time and humorous comments and thematically related pieces of poetry; nonlinear narration; description of events which take place in different time periods in a short context. Within the literary strategy of modality, we can trace the author’s play with the reader and the effect of defeated expectancy. The technique of metanarrative also contains elements of the play: the literary and stylistic means used in the novel are explained both in a serious and a joking manner. The diction of the novel is characterized by usage of stylistic devices of different language levels, their function being that of the play: oxymoron, zeugma, chiasm, holophrasis, different types of morphological repetition, and pun. The results of the study suggest that the introduction of elements of a play into the novel at its different levels makes a sharp contrast with the existential themes of the work. Such a contrast greatly enhances the impact of this novel on the reader and requires further study.

L’écriture du temps dans le récit de voyage entre Lumières et romantisme

Using a corpus of accounts from travellers who visited Europe between the 1750s and 1850s, this article examines the conscious and unconscious influence of time in travel literature. Taking into account the editorial freedoms that have emerged since the mid-18th century, the study examines the central role of date in the travel narrative, and then focuses on the study of short chronology, narrative temporalities and the explicit expression of the sense of time.

Networking Asia Pacific: queer film festivals and the spatiotemporal politics of inter-referencing

ABSTRACTExpanding on the critique of Euro-America-centrism in knowledge production, this article examines three spatiotemporal hierarchies through the inter-referencing practices of Asia Pacific Queer Film Festival Alliance. First, through the analysis of the documentary short Lady Eva and its circulation, I look at how the network opens up the issue of Pacific indigeneity in the transpacific context, which has the potential to unsettle the existing epistemic structures that rest upon the binary of West/non-West or white/Indigenous. Second, I investigate how the queer film festival alliance serves as sites for the articulation of queer rights, which sometimes cast a progressivist temporal narrative based on a hierarchical arrangement of geographical places. Third, through the case of ShanghaiPRIDE Film Festival, I examine how anti-institutionalism in film festival organizing offers a critique of gay-male dominated queer film festivals and the capitalist developmental logic that emphasizes profit and financial viability. By doing so, I scrutinize how the spatiotemporal hierarchies embedded in the film festival network complicate the understanding of inter-referencing as citation, collaboration, and competition. At the same time, I use inter-referencing to further the discussion of spatial politics in film festival studies by highlighting the spatiotemporal hierarchies.