One of the narrative strategies employed in different ways by men and women writers is the presentation of narrator. The significance of narrator is so much that it differentiates between the realistic and non-realistic fiction and specifically men's and women's writings in realistic fiction. Robyn R Warhol's theory based on Genette's is applied to Adam Bede by George Eliot to focus on woman as...

The article discusses the concept of Olga Tokarczuk’s “tender narrator”, which was demonstrated in her Nobel speech, and developed a book entitled “Tender Narrator” (Tokarczuk 2020). writer’s proposed way describing narrative narrator used to examine biographical narrator, his bond with hero, truth fiction biography, process discovering finding purpose existence. idea discussed context other us...

1 Samuel begins with the description of a man named Elkanah ("God is possessing"), whose home town was Ramathaim-Zophim.' A brief ancestral history is provided, which initially prompts the reader to expect that Elkanah will be the hero of the narrative. As the story line develops, however, Elkanah takes a supporting role. This secondary role begins with the introduction of Elkanah's two wives. ...

Narrative skill in kindergarteners has been shown to be a reliable predictor of later reading comprehension and school achievement. However, we know little about how to scaffold children's narrative skill. Here we examine whether the quality of kindergarten children's narrative retellings depends on the kind of narrative elicitation they are given. We asked this question with respect to typical...

In Wallace Stevens’ poem “The anecdote of the jar”, the narrator has put a jar on a Tennessee hilltop, with apparently dramatic results. The jar, we are told, took dominion everywhere, imposed order on the slovenly wilderness, and forced the wilderness to surround the hill on which it sat. Before the jar, it seems there were no human objects in the wilderness. And natural features like hills an...

Previous critical readings of Toni Morrison’s novels, especially Paradise, largely emphasise the universal themes explored in her novels, namely, feminism, culture, psychology, and of course, her remarkable presentation of African-Americans in racial and cultural conflicts. Yet, there are major areas that remain unexplored in her works. One of the most conspicuous absences is Morrison’s dominan...

In his poem “Rabbi Ben (sic Ibn) Ezra,” Robert Browning acknowledges the multitude of physical and nonphysical determinants of life’s richness. His narrator sees these influences as interwoven and spanning the ages from youth through adulthood in timeless fashion. In this week’s issue of Circulation, Bouchardy and colleagues2 determine the prevalence of atrial (tachy)arrhythmias (AA) in adults ...

Two studies tested whether observers could differentiate between two facets of pride-authentic and hubristic-on the basis of a single prototypical pride nonverbal expression combined with relevant contextual information. In Study 1, participants viewed targets displaying posed pride expressions in response to success, while causal attributions for the success (target's effort vs. ability) and t...

Most previous research into gender role stereotypes in the mass media has concentrated on television or print. Using content analysis, gender role stereotyping in radio commercials was examined. The goals of the study were to: (1) provide current data on level and content of gender stereotyping in Portuguese radio advertising; (2) compare levels of stereotyping in three countries. One hundred a...