In this paper I argue against the theory – popular among theorists of narrative artworks – that we must posit a fictional narrative agent in every narrative artwork in order to explain our imaginative engagement with such works. I accept that every narrative must have a narrator, but I argue that in some central literary cases the narrator is not a fictional agent, but rather the actual author ...

While trauma occurs in separation, healing happens relation, where the inner dynamics of voice and expression play an important role narrating a traumatic experience. In her acceptance speech for 2018 Nobel Prize Literature, novelist Olga Tokarczuk envisioned new form literary narrator, one who sees beyond singular point view to include interrelatedness world interdependence all beings. this ar...

Edgar Allan Poe’s tales offer a variety of instances linked to the analysis of human nature and the processes it goes through during the stories. Most of them treat about the destruction of the self as the narrator finds himself confronted with the darkness that gradually will come to annihilate reason and any sensible thinking. The protagonist witnesses not only the darkness inside, but also t...

An eye-tracking experiment investigated where deaf native signers (N = 9) and hearing beginning signers (N = 10) look while comprehending a short narrative and a spatial description in American Sign Language produced live by a fluent signer. Both groups fixated primarily on the signer's face (more than 80% of the time) but differed with respect to fixation location. Beginning signers fixated on...

The paper considers the metanarrative (exegetical) and metafictional (diegetical) aspects of a work, ways author’s contacts with reader/listener. nature addressing may be direct, which implies explicit addressee, hidden, designed for implicit addressee. latter is present as an ideal recipient who perceives aesthetic mode work. strategy intimate connection reader based on ascending evaluative di...

The paper deals with the specific plot features of a popular Swedish travelogue My Son on Galley (1781) in which Jacob Wallenberg describes his journey from Sweden to China 1769–1771. object analysis is general structure travel novels (using Mikhail Bakhtin’s terminology) and travelogues. As result, it proved that linear, chronological structure. It includes not only description itself document...

Sound of Rivers: Stone Drum is a multimedia collaboration, between choreographer Nicole Bradley Browning, animator and video artist Amber Marjorie Bushnell, poet and narrator Mark Gibbons, and composer and electric violinist Charles Nichols, with dancer Allison Herther and narrator Stephen Kalm. The piece illuminates research by scientist Mark Lorang, into how fish and insects navigate the ecos...