Poetic Narrative Research Articles

Anti-hero, Anti-drama and Surreal ——On the Poetic Presentation of Jia Zhangke's Films

Jia Zhangke, a prominent figure among the sixth generation of directors, is known for his works that embody strong poetic aesthetic qualities. His films are rooted in realistic documentation, while poetic expression serves as the hallmark of his cinematic style. This paper aims to analyze and synthesize the methods of poetic depiction employed in Jia Zhangke's oeuvre. Through meticulous film screenings and literature reviews, several recurring features have been identified. Firstly, his narratives often revolve around anti-heroic, marginal characters, observing the lives of various beings amidst shifting times. Secondly, he eschews the conventional "four-act" narrative structure, exhibiting an anti-dramatic tendency, and employs block narration. By steering away from suspenseful plot devices and softening the logical coherence of his film stories, he cultivates a poetic narrative akin to prose poetry. Lastly, Jia Zhangke incorporates open-ended conclusions and surreal scenes laden with poetic metaphors into his films, thereby constructing narratives with symbolic implications. This approach elicits empathy from viewers, imbuing Jia Zhangke's films with a profound sense of poetry and offering inspiration for filmmakers seeking to incorporate poetic elements into their creations.

Poetics of narrative in K. Ishiguro’s novel «The buried giant»

This research focuses on revealing the peculiarities of poetics of narrative in fantasy fictional discourse namely in K. Ishiguro’s novel “The Buried Giant” which, in our view, belongs to metamodernism. The main objective of this research is to elaborate methodology aimed at defining the main categories of narrative and poetics of the novel, establishing the distinct features of metamodernism in the novel under analysis as well as explicating its linguistic means and narrative devices for creating unique poetics of narrative which ensures strong emotional response and unfading interest among the readers.

Mining Chinese Animation Movie Audience Concern Themes Based on BERTopic and UGC

[Objective] To explore how Chinese animated movies can effectively utilize hot topics to feed the box office and improve the competitiveness of the movies by mining hot topics of users' concern through User-Generated Content (UGC). [Methods] Based on the UGC text of Douban reviews of the Chinese animated movie "30,000 Leagues in Chang'an", we adopt the BERTopic algorithm to cluster topics based on the category-based TF-IDF (Word Frequency-Inverse Text Frequency)-weighted clustering, and introduce the semantic fine-tuning of the topics by the ChatGLM2-6B model to excavate the hot topics of users' attention. [Results] Users of the Chinese animated movie "30,000 Leagues in Chang'an" pay attention to five major topic clusters, including Chinese culture, word-of-mouth communication, poetic narrative, production technology, and the controversy of new historical facts. [Limitations] The country differences in the topic concerns of Chinese animated films were not analyzed in comparison with foreign UGC texts. [Conclusion] This study focuses on UGC text analysis to discover the social attention and evolution law of related topics. These findings provide some reference value for future Chinese animated movie production and production, box office prediction and marketing.

“Bamboos taught me to bend, but not to break”: a poetic narrative of teacher identity negotiations

This poetic narrative aims to explore lived experiences of a language school teacher in a poor remote island in Vietnam. This article gives insights into how teacher identity was shaped through the eyes of a school teacher and how she struggled to rise to the challenge to become a better teacher version of herself. The self-portraits of how her identity was constructed and reconstructed unveil a sketch of bamboos embracing the aspiration of overcoming external factors to thrive and bloom in barren rocky soil and the harsh environmental conditions.

Study on Poetic Narrative in the Chinese Poetry Art Film "Kaili Blues"

Study on Poetic Narrative in the Chinese Poetry Art Film "Kaili Blues"

ON THE PROBLEM OF THE FORMATION OF THE OLD RUSSIAN BOOK TOPIC

One of the characteristic features of the poetics of medieval texts is the widespread use of traditional phrases and semantic commonplaces, which have been considered from different positions by medievalists since the beginning of the 20th century. Already in The Tale of Bygone Years (the oldest Russian chronicle) these elements of poetics are clearly revealed, although the genre design of the historical narrative at this early stage is not yet completed. The answer to the question about how the body of topoi was composed and the range of its sources is ambiguous. The article attempts to trace the penetration of a number of stable stylistic formulas into the ancient Russian historical narrative. They should be classified as laconic, non-poetic traditional phrases, devoid of epithets or comparisons that give the statement a certain emotionality. This element of military poetics simultaneously has a clear terminology, formed in a professional military environment, and is based on certain iconic gestures. The work expresses the idea of a connection between such book topoi and kinetic manifestations. These are, first of all, the gestures of princes as leaders of squads, as well as other elements of nonverbal communication. The phenomenon under consideration is only one aspect of the poetics of the military narrative of ancient Russian texts, which arose under the influence of extraliterary reality.

Analysis of LGBTQ+ Representation in Indian Graphic Novels: A Case Study of Kari by Amruta Patil

The past decade has seen the Indian graphic novel undergo a transformation, turning from a niche market into a vibrant and diverse form of storytelling. The study aims to analyze LGBTQ+ representation in Kari and place it in the overall phenomenon of Indian graphic novels. The methodology included the major theoretical concepts used to analyze the graphic novel and a blend of them: queer theory – “which involves views on this construction by examining the normalization of sexuality”; thematic analysis – a “means of conceptually organizing and structuring the narrative data obtained through interviews. It involves stripping away the details and unique aspects of the text of its read-down meaning”; and analysis of author’s interviews and reviews. The study attempts to summarize findings into gender, sexuality, and sexuality in the Indian context. The paper is an understanding of Indian culture and the changing discourse around LGBTQ+ rights and representation. The novel gives a voice to a narrative that has long been silent – the life of a lesbian woman in a conservative society – by ending the invisibility that surrounds their lives through in a traditional poetic narrative.

Plotting Against Plausibility: Toward a Poetics of the Improbable

ABSTRACT The concept of probability has been central to narrative poetics since before the time of Aristotle. By contrast, non-probabilistic types of narrative have largely been ignored or treated as misguided or sadly failed attempts at probabilistic stories. The history of literature, however, includes several distinct types of non- or anti-probabilistic narrative, all of which have been in existence for centuries. This article identifies four types of text that suspend, supersede, ignore, or travesty probabilistic concerns; examples of these are, respectively, the romance, supernatural works, apologues, and many absurdist dramas and postmodern fictions. Especially compelling in this context are the works, by a variety of authors including Aristophanes, Oscar Wilde, Eugene Ionesco, and Tom Stoppard, that mock the very idea of a probabilistic order of events. This article goes on to analyze how such works sequence narratives once the framework of probability is removed.

World Poetics, Narrative Poetics, and Genre Studies

World Poetics, Narrative Poetics, and Genre Studies

Stitching Narratives: Poetic Autoethnography of Black Women’s Mentorship in Academia

This study utilizes collaborative poetic autoethnography to explore the mentorship experiences of three Black women doctoral students at predominantly White institutions (PWIs). Through a series of poems, the research illustrates the nuanced challenges and resilience in seeking guidance within spaces that often marginalize their voices. This writing centers intersectionality as a theoretical framework, illuminating the complex dynamics of identity as they intersect with academia. The poetic narratives serve as a way for expressing the lived realities of these students, highlighting the lack of Black women mentors and the consequent need to navigate a system not built with them in mind. The study calls for a reimagined mentorship that is acutely responsive to the multifaceted identities of Black women in academia, advocating for increased representation and intentional support.

Traversing the (In)Visible Territory of Schizophrenia in HOAX Psychosis Blues: An Intersection of Life Writing and Graphic Medicine in Comics

ABSTRACT By closely reading Ravi Thornton’s graphic memoir, HOAX Psychosis Blues, as a testament to her brother Rob’s decade-long battle with schizophrenia, this article dwells on the intersection of life writing and graphic medicine in comics to discuss how comics provide an expanded opportunity to visualise the (in)visible territory of schizophrenia. The aim here is first to examine the ways in which Thornton endeavours to contextualise the poetic narrative of Rob’s mental illness through stylistic features of comics; and, second, to illuminate the confessional aspect of Rob’s poetic evocations to understand how schizophrenia imposes practical limitations on the everyday life of the sufferer. Using Foucault’s conceptualisation of clinical gaze and drawing on insights from conceptual metaphor theory, this article examines how a tangible tapestry of visual illustrations, symbols, and metaphors interprets the grave realm of Rob’s thoughts more powerfully and critiques the rigid standards of psychiatric treatment. Ultimately, the article intends to explain how, by illustrating the metamorphosis of Rob’s body into a butterfly, the narrative provides a sense of hope and vitality for other sufferers that medical reasoning fails to do.

GROUP MINDS IN ANCIENT GREEK HISTORIOGRAPHY AND THE ANCIENT GREEK NOVEL: HERODIAN'S HISTORY AND CHARITON'S CALLIRHOE

AbstractThis article explores Herodian's History of the Roman Empire alongside Chariton's novel Callirhoe with an eye to how the minds of collective entities are represented and function in the two narratives. It argues that Chariton, unlike Herodian, elaborates on the diversity of emotions that characterizes a specific collective experience and has groups use direct speech throughout. These choices add vividness to the narrative and intensify the fictional sensationalism and dramatic character of the novel. It also shows that, whereas collectives in Chariton's narrative are primarily designed to highlight a specific characteristic of a hero, dramatize an event and enhance suspense, in Herodian's historiography they are an integral part of the plot and central to his historical analysis of contemporary political and social world. This article offers a new analytical tool geared towards the development of a poetics of the collective in ancient narrative as well as a poetics of fictional and factual narration in antiquity, and advances our understanding of the complex relationship between ancient historiography and novelistic writing.

Fiction, history, and politics in brazil in the poetic narrative of Cyro dos Anjos in the novel Montanha

This paper aims to propose an analysis of the book Montanha, wrote by Cyro dos Anjos in 1956, using for this intent some concepts of the comparative literature, historical novel, and Roman a Clef. Cyro in this political novel tries to extract the essence from the facts in a very turbulent moment of the Brazilian society and brings them together to a very complex and fragmented plot. It is possible to observe in the construction of the storyline, an attempt to create a plot that could represent an innovation from the previous novels published by the author and a political novel that was deeply influenced by cinematographic elements and by the American novels produced in the first decades of the 20th century. To execute this analysis we worked with the theoretical framework of Antonio Candido with the book Brigada Ligeira, Alfredo Bosi com História Concisa da Literatura Brasileira, Vera Márcia Milanesi em Cyro dos Anjos: Memória e História e Wander Melo Miranda em Cyro & Drummond.

To Di World: Jamaican soccer, poiesis and post-colonial transformation.

This article presents a case study of an innovative culturally based therapeutic approach using collective poiesis to improve the functioning of a youth sports team in Jamaica. In recent decades, Jamaica has endured high levels of violence and corruption, and has been ranked among the top four countries in the world in terms of murder rate per capita. We conjecture that a high prevalence of personality disorder linked to the legacy of slavery and colonialism often impedes Jamaicans from achieving success in diverse fields, including sports. Psychological interventions in the preparation of football teams are a novelty, and have been used mainly to enhance global team performance or individual player skill. The use of psychological interventions to address personality disorder psychopathology on the soccer pitch has not been reported. Psychohistoriographic cultural therapy (PCT) integrates psychological perspectives with a dialectic method of historical analysis and uses collective poiesis as a vehicle to translate insights through an embodied cognitive restructuring process. Two workshops were carried out with a high school football team using PCT techniques. The process of dialectic reasoning engaged their collective ideas and insights to establish a psychic centrality that was expressed in poetic form to illustrate the pathologies of the group in an emotionally safe and psychologically acceptable narrative. This poetic narrative of the group's psychic centrality counters the personality disorder psychopathology caused by the lingering intergenerational wounds of slavery, colonial oppression and collective trauma.

Perception of care from the perspective of nursing students: A study using photovoice, storytelling and poetry

BackgroundThe Higher Education in Nursing requires providing students with skills such as critical and reflective thinking about the actions to be carried out so that they are capable of providing humanised and quality care in an increasingly complex and technified society. Participatory teaching methodologies promote the development of these skills. Objectivesto explore the potential of photovoice, storytelling and poetry as instruments capable of encouraging reflection. To identify through images (photovoice) and poetic narratives (storytelling and poetry) the perception that students of the nursing degree express about nursing care. Designqualitative study in the framework of the socio-critical paradigm, using photovoice, storytelling and poetry in the field of care. Participantsfirst-year undergraduate nursing students at two Spanish universities in the academic year 2021–2022. Methodology48 images were shown and students were asked to select one, write a narrative and generate a short poem connected to the image. Subsequently, a content analysis was conducted of those poems evoked by the five photographs most chosen by the students. The analysis was supported by qualitative data analysis software. A total of 67 contributions from 67 students were analysed. Resultsthe concepts addressed in the poems and the compositions generated reveal how critical humanist thinking and reflection on the subject of care developed. The topics identified were care, accompaniment throughout the life cycle, working on the basis of values and caring for small details as subcategories of nursing care. ConclusionThe combination of different tools in university education has encouraged reflection and enabled students to identify for themselves the importance of humanised care. Working on the theoretical foundation in an active way can reduce the gap between theory and practice and foster the empowerment of the nursing identity.

Poetics of the Medial State of Emily Dickinson’s Persona

Emily Dickinson, the famous 19th-century American poet with a passion for books, botany, and gardens, spent most of her life secluded in her bedroom, where she wrote some 1,800 poems, published only posthumously. Within four walls, the poet built an imaginary bridge between the real and the unreal. One of the most important characteristics relating to the poet is the unwitting creation of an immanent authorial mythology. This article is an analysis-reflection on the poet’s work, her artistic expression, and autofiction. The aim is to highlight the concept of boundary and medial state of the lyrical persona. A linguistic analysis of lexical and semantic syntagms of the poet’s works is carried out. The conceptual images of poetics, conveying the receptive potential of the poet’s worldview, are determined. Consideration of the use of stylistic forms of the poetic narrative was revealed as a priority for media-oriented analysis.

Там – здесь, далеко – близко, высоко – низко: пространственно-визуальное моделирование двоемирия в «Стихах о Прекрасной Даме» А. Блока

ABSTRACT Aleksandr Blok’s cycle “Poems about the Beautiful Lady” embodies the romantic-mystical concept of dvoemirija (‘a dual world’): the world of the lyrical hero and the world of the Beautiful Lady. The observer plays an important role in depicting dual worlds in poetic narrative. This is a lyrical hero-narrator who acts as a subject of visual, acoustic and other perceptions of the surrounding world, occupying a certain spatial position in it. It allows him to model two poetic realities and interpret them in symbolic and mystical terms. Both worlds are built on the basis of spatial oppositions “there – here,” “far – close,” and “high – low,” which have their own formal linguistic means of expression. A border appears between two realities, an intermediate reality, which has its own visual effects: blurred boundaries, silhouettes, blurred colors. Twilight, the fog of the intermediate world gives rise to a mystical symbol of mystery surrounding the Beautiful Lady and her world. The article provides an analysis of linguistic means of expressing spatial oppositions which establishes the dominant role of visual perception in modeling dvoemirija in Blok’s poetry.

Abu Ali Muhammad bin Hafs bin Numair bin Abdul Aziz Al-Ruhmi Al-Amiri Al-Hanafi Al-Yamani (280 AH), the writer, novelist, and the remaining of his poetry

For every language, there are scholars who have exerted great or small efforts in preserving and revitalizing it. Arabic is not an exception among languages, and its scholars did not downplay its importance compared to others, especially if they were among the pioneers in this endeavor. Most of these scholars have gained their share of fame, widespread recognition, and the dissemination of their works. However, not many of them were fortunate in this regard, especially those who lived in the early centuries. Among these scholars is Abu Ali Al-Yamami, the subject of this research. Despite the breadth of his expertise, encompassing language narration and eloquence, as well as his involvement in literature and poetry, along with a long lifespan that spanned nearly a century, from the late second century to the end of the third century of the Islamic calendar, we can still observe that we do not find much about him in literary and linguistic texts. Instead, what we find are scattered fragments of narratives, news, and poems, representing only a small part of his contributions to language and literature. Nevertheless, these fragments offer us a clear picture of a world populated by Arabic scholars who actively engaged in poetry and storytelling during their era. Their influence extended widely, and we can see scholars referencing their work in their linguistic publications throughout the ages. Therefore, we decided to collect these scattered pieces to introduce this narrative poet and to shed light on his life and the narratives that have reached us.

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Next article FreeCoverPDFPDF PLUSFull Text Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmailPrint SectionsMoreCover: Maggie Taylor, The Day Sailor (2020) and The Burden of Dreams (2013). Archival pigment prints, 22 × 22 inches.Since 1997 I have been using a flatbed scanner, a computer, and small digital cameras as my primary tools for capturing fragments of reality. I weave these slices of time together digitally to create dreamlike worlds inhabited by everyday objects and slightly out-of-the-ordinary people. I rarely photograph contemporary people—I prefer collecting and recycling nineteenth-century photographs.When I begin to work on an image, I do not have a preconceived idea of the finished work. The images develop slowly, revealing themselves to me over weeks or even months sitting at my desk. This work is meant to be an open-ended, poetic narrative, a mystery to be unraveled by each individual viewer.© 2013 and 2020 by Maggie Taylor. Permission to reprint may be obtained only from the artist. Next article DetailsFiguresReferencesCited by Signs Volume 48, Number 4Summer 2023 Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1086/724234 © 2023 The University of Chicago. All rights reserved.PDF download Crossref reports no articles citing this article.

Poetic Narrative and Human Time: Spenser with Paul Ricoeur

Poetic Narrative and Human Time: Spenser with Paul Ricoeur