Style in Narrative

Aspects of an Affective-Cognitive Stylistics
Erscheinungsjahr 2020
ISBN: 978-0-19-753957-6
Verlag: OXFORD UNIV PR

Buch, Englisch, 320 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 867 g

Literary style is something many people talk about, but few could define. Yet it is crucial for our response to narrative art. Style can facilitate or obscure the events of a story or the motivations of a character, enhance the aesthetic appeal of a narrative or complicate its emotional impact, and even inflect the political or ethical implications of a work. It is precisely this complex operation of style that Patrick Colm Hogan explains in Style in Narrative.

Drawing on recent psychological research, this book proposes a new and clear definition of style and provides a systematic theoretical account of style in relation to cognitive and affective science. Hogan's definition stresses that style varies by both scope, or the range of text or texts that may share a style, and level, the components of an individual work that might involve a shared style. The book uses rich examples from literature, film, and graphic fiction, including analysis of Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway, Shakespeare's canon, William Faulkner's As I Lay Dying, and Art Spiegelman's Maus, as well as visual analysis of films by Robert Rodriguez, Deepa Mehta, Eric Rohmer, M.F.Husain, Yasujiro Ozu, and Chuan Lu. Through these studies Hogan identifies stylistic concerns common across mediums as well as the most consequential stylistic differences between them.

Bringing together three often separated mediums within a coherent framework, Style in Narrative makes an important contribution to and necessary intervention in the field of stylistics.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hogan, Patrick Colm

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Psycholinguistik, Neurolinguistik, Kognition
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturtheorie: Poetik und Literaturästhetik
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio Filmtheorie, Filmanalyse

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Introduction. Cognitive and Affective Stylistics

- Part One: Literature

- I. Literary Style

- II. Story Structure: Shakespeare and the Integration of Genres

- III. Verbal Narration: Ambiguities of Faulkner's As I Lay Dying

- Part Two: Film

- IV. Film Style

- V. Perceptual Interface and Painterly Cinema: Three Minutes of Robert Rodriguez's Sin City

- VI. Emplotment: Ellipsis and Excess in Yasujiro Ozu's Postwar Films

- VII. Visual Narration: Embodiment and Point of View in Lu Chuan's Nanjing! Nanjing!

- Part Three: Graphic Narrative

- VIII. Stylistic Choices in Graphic Narrative: Particularity and Its Functions

- in Art Spiegelman's Maus

- Afterword. Keep Stylistics Great: A Note on Politics and the Analysis of Style

- Works Cited

Über Autor(innen)

Patrick Colm Hogan is a Board of Trustees Distinguished Professor in the English Department and the Cognitive Science Program at the University of Connecticut. Hogan is the author of twenty-four books and over 200 articles and book chapters, as well as the editor or co-editor of five books, six special issues of journals, and the web-based Literary Universals Project. His research combines cognitive and affective science with narrative theory to address problems in literary aesthetics and politics.