Narration
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216224%3A14210%2F25%3A00144503" target="_blank" >RIV/00216224:14210/25:00144503 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="https://www.bloomsbury.com/in/experimental-life-writing-today-9781350529922/" target="_blank" >https://www.bloomsbury.com/in/experimental-life-writing-today-9781350529922/</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9781350529946.ch-15" target="_blank" >10.5040/9781350529946.ch-15</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Narration
Original language description
This chapter explores experimental narrative strategies in life writing. The first part offers a survey of experiments with narrative voice and types of narration - such as narration by another character, third-person narration, and second-person narration - and then focuses on narrative point of view. Dorrit Cohn's concepts of dissonant and consonant self-narration and Wolf Schmid's typology of point of view are applied to autobiographical narratives to differentiate between those tending to prioritize the narratorial point of view (the narrating self's present perspective) and those employing mostly the figural point of view (the narrated, earlier self's perspective). The second part of the chapter analyses Mary Karr's Cherry, focusing primarily on the effects of second-person narration and the figural point of view, and the role of these techniques in communicating experience. The chapter closes with a reflection on how formal experiments may contribute to challenging culturally dominant narratives and tropes.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
C - Chapter in a specialist book
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
60205 - Literary theory
Result continuities
Project
<a href="/en/project/GA21-12454S" target="_blank" >GA21-12454S: Fact and Fiction in Life Stories: Life Writing and Its Narrative Strategies</a><br>
Continuities
P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)
Others
Publication year
2025
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Book/collection name
Experimental Life Writing Today
ISBN
9781350529915
Number of pages of the result
12
Pages from-to
217-228
Number of pages of the book
264
Publisher name
Bloomsbury Academic
Place of publication
London
UT code for WoS chapter
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