Anchored on Deleueze and Guattari’s notion of rhizome, this article inspects the narrative strategy in Yvonne Owuor’s novel, Dust, imagining Kenyan nation, especially context contested presidential elections 2007. It subsequently grapples with how Owuor weaves patches different instances moments remembering into connected rhizomic-like narratives, coalescing vision a nation; fragmented, but han...

Though modeled on the insistent factuality that had defined prefatory material in fiction a century earlier (what scholars have called pseudofactual mode), narrative frame of found manuscript utilized early American novels like Unca Eliza Winkfield's The Female (1767) and Susanna Rowson's Reuben Rachel (1798) long been recognized as "fiction" itself. Linking this trope to current debates over "...

focus of narration is the perspective on which the author or narrator looks at his story. analysis of “focus of narration” and narrative techniques get an important role to discover consistent and accurate narrative structure in fiction. the gerard genette¢s theory of “narrative focus” is one of the techniques through which one can understand the ability of an author to form and shape his work’...

This study aimed at exploring the ontological indeterminacies of The Sea (2005), a novel by John Banville using the postmodern catena put forth by Ihab Hassan. Hassan’s catalogue of the features of postmodern fiction includes indeterminacy, fragmentation, decanonization, selflessness, depthlessness, the unpresentable/unrepresentable, irony, hybridization, carnivalization, performance, participa...

‘There is something inherently beautiful in ruined shapes’, Anthony Powell observed in hisreview of Rose Macaulay’s Pleasure of Ruins, later giving expression in his fiction to the aestheticdelight experienced in the contemplation of ruined buildings. In A Dance to the Music of Time, his major post-war work, a favoured visual motif is that of a view framed by pillars, preferably those<l...

In many computer games narrative is a core component with the game centering on an unfolding, interactive storyline which both motivates and is driven by the game-play. Analyzing narratives to ensure good properties is thus important, but scalability remains a barrier to practical use. Here we develop a formal analysis system for interactive fiction narratives. Our approach is based on a relati...

English translations of texts associated with Arabic fiction remain largely unexplored from a sociological perspective. Drawing on Pierre Bourdieu’s sociology, this paper aims to examine the genesis of Arabic fiction translation into English as a socially situated activity. Works of Arabic fiction emerged in English translation in the early twentieth century. Since then, this intellectual field...

Traditional discourses upon literature have been predicated upon the ability to refer to a text that others may consult (Landow, 1994, p. 33). Texts that involve elements of feedback and nontrivial decision-making on the part of the reader (Aarseth, 1997, p. 1) therefore present a challenge to readers and critics alike. Since a persuasive case has been made against a critical method that sets o...

Economic policy agencies produce forecasts with accompanying narratives, and base policy changes on the resulting anticipated developments in the target variables. Systematic forecast failure, defined as large, persistent deviations of the outturns from the numerical forecasts, can make the associated narrative false, which would in turn question the validity of the entailed policy implementati...