This essay will consider the adaptation of series one of the Danish television serial Forbrydelsen/The Killing (2007) into David hewson’s novel The Killing (2012). Considering the television show through theoretical paradigms of contemporary long-form television, i will examine the discourses of ‘the novel’ and the ‘novelistic’ as they relate to both texts. As i will argue, attributing ‘novelis...

In light of the Bakhtinian heteroglossia and authorial hybrid construction, the present study sets out to argue how the assimilation of alien stylistics into the realm of social and ideological discourse may transcend the limits of the centralizing logos prevalent in the orthodox poetics. In so doing, first, an analysis of the Bakhtinian concepts is provided to renegotiate his argument on the a...

Better representations of plot structure could greatly improve computational methods for summarizing and generating stories. Current representations lack abstraction, focusing too closely on events. We present a kernel for comparing novelistic plots at a higher level, in terms of the cast of characters they depict and the social relationships between them. Our kernel compares the characters of ...

The exportation of modern novel from European languages to other literatures has long been the object of study and has been, most recently, evoked in discussions of World Literature. The introduction of modern novel into the Persian literary system through translation occurred about the turn of the twentieth century. The genre was unprecedented in Persian and the concept of adabiyat wa...

the exportation of modern novel from european languages to other literatures has long been the object of study and has been, most recently, evoked in discussions of world literature. the introduction of modern novel into the persian literary system through translation occurred about the turn of the twentieth century. the genre was unprecedented in persian and the concept of adabiyat was specifi...

The present study sets out to investigate the narrator’s textual position in Grass’s The Tin Drum. Although authorial self-dramatization through affinities with one or more characters in the work is undeniable, this study mainly concentrates on the inner interpenetrations of heteroglot utterances as uttered by an unreliable first-person narrator, Oskar Matzerath, in the light of the Bakhtinian ...

This article is a critique of Nairobi city’s socio-political histories as portrayed in Kenyan literary works the 1970s, focusing on Mwangi Gicheru’s Across Bridge (1979), Charles Mangua’s Son Woman (1971), Meja Mwangi’s Going Down River Road (1976) and The Cockroach Dance (1979). conveys insights urban castaways by reading city canvas onto which novels reconfigure nation’s that feature through ...