Pub Date : 2021-09-30DOI: 10.14361/9783839458808-015
R. L. V. Pöhls, Mariane Utudji
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Pub Date : 2021-09-30DOI: 10.14361/9783839458808-001
R. L. V. Pöhls, Mariane Utudji
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Pub Date : 2021-09-30DOI: 10.14361/9783839458808-014
Constance Robert-Murail
In this article, Constance Robert-Murail will explore the poetic »accidents« at work in two extracts of Black Swan Green (2006) by David Mitchell. The novel tells the trials and musings of Jason Taylor, a thoughtful 13-year-old growing up in a backwater town full of strange neighbours and middle-school bullies. Throughout the year 1982, the reader witnesses Jason mediating between the various personae of his fragmented identity: Unborn Twin, his faint-hearted alter ego; Eliot Bolivar, the nom-de-plume he uses to write poems for the local parish newspaper; and, most importantly, Hangman, a malignant personification of his stammer. According to Garan Holcombe, David Mitchell's own experience of stammering has provided the novelist with a particular »sensitivity toward the formal necessity of coherence and structure« (Holcombe, 2013). The extract I have decided to focus on dramatises the onset of Jason's speech impediment and acts as a »high emotional intensity passage« (Toolan, 2012) within the structure of the coming-of-age narrative. A close stylistic reading of this particular text highlights the juxtaposition of Jason's pathological speechlessness and his bustling, bubbling inner monologue. This opposition elicits a physical reaction within the reader, caught between frustration and delectation. I would argue that the multimodal nature of the extract generates what Pierre-Louis Patoine has called a »somesthetic« effect on the reader (Patoine, 2016). Stuttering, according to Professor Mark Onslow, is »an idiosyncratic disorder.« (Onslow, 2017). Word avoidance has led Jason to create his own grammar and lexicon: his youthful voice and palliative strategies allow Mitchell to smuggle in moments of »accidental« poetry. The cognitive exploration of Jason's stammer stands both at the core of the reader's response and at the centre of Mitchell's powerful poetics-and it is, last but not least, devastatingly funny.
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Pub Date : 2021-09-30DOI: 10.14361/9783839458808-013
Maria-Angeles Martinez
In this contribution, María-Ángeles Martínez explores the language of engagement in a short extract from Los Detectives Salvajes (Roberto Bolaño, 1998) and its English translation, The Savage Detectives (2007) within the framework of storyworld possible selves (SPSs). Her analysis focuses on the first cluster of SPS linguistics anchors, or linguistic expressions requiring a hybrid mental referent, inclusive of an intra- and an extra-diegetic perspectivizer, in the novel, and discusses its bearing on storyworld possible selves projection and narrative construal. The main narrative function of this first SPS cluster seems to be to invite the activation of readers' past selves as young, restless university students as the part of their self-concepts with a stronger engagement potential in this specific narrative experience.
在这篇文章中，María-Ángeles Martínez在故事世界可能自我(SPSs)的框架内，探讨了《Los Detectives Salvajes》(Roberto Bolaño, 1998)及其英文翻译《the Savage Detectives》(2007)的简短摘录中的参与语言。她的分析集中在小说中SPS语言学锚点的第一个集群，或需要混合心理指称的语言表达，包括叙事内和叙事外的视角，并讨论了它对故事世界可能的自我投射和叙事解释的影响。第一个SPS集群的主要叙事功能似乎是邀请读者激活过去的自我，作为年轻的，不安分的大学生，作为他们自我概念的一部分，在这种特定的叙事体验中具有更强的参与潜力。
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Pub Date : 2021-09-30DOI: 10.1515/9783839458808-010
Alice Labourg
In this article, Alice Labourg is dedicated to the question of pictoriality in the incipit of The Mysteries of Udolpho. Close formal analysis enables to understand how the pictorial impression many readers have felt is created through language and its generation of a powerful iconotextual landscape. Painting is embedded in the very fabric of the text through a pictorial writing which operates on two complementary modes, first on an iconic and figurative level which presents the reader with various picture-like scenes, then on a more diffused, semiotic dimension which translates painting as a plastic signifier within the linguistic materiality.
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Pub Date : 2021-09-30DOI: 10.1515/9783839458808-002
R. L. V. Pöhls, Mariane Utudji
R. L. Victoria Pöhls and Mariane Utudji consider the types of research processes required to identify 'powerful' prose texts, their workings and potentialities. They argue that a stylistic and linguistic analysis is an indispensable first step, which can be enhanced through an oral performance of the text, as an effective means to highlight the linguistic components and mechanisms contributing to the powerful reading experience. Based on such a(n embodied) analysis process, well-grounded hypotheses about the cognitive and emotional effects of certain works of literature on certain readers in certain reading situations can be made. Empirical reader response studies can then aim to substantiate these claims beyond individual experience - to shed light on the interplays between texts, readers, and reading situations that constitute experiences of powerful prose.
R. L. Victoria Pöhls和Mariane Utudji考虑了识别“强大”散文文本所需的研究过程类型，它们的工作原理和潜力。他们认为，文体和语言分析是必不可少的第一步，这可以通过文本的口头表演来加强，作为一种有效的手段来突出促成强大阅读体验的语言成分和机制。基于这种(非具身的)分析过程，可以对某些文学作品在某些阅读情境下对某些读者的认知和情感影响做出有根据的假设。经验性读者反应研究的目标是在个人经验之外证实这些主张，揭示文本、读者和构成强大散文体验的阅读情境之间的相互作用。
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Pub Date : 2021-09-30DOI: 10.14361/9783839458808-017
R. L. V. Pöhls, Mariane Utudji
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Pub Date : 2021-09-30DOI: 10.1515/9783839458808-009
M. Boisseau
In this article, Maryvonne Boisseau, argues that rhythms set the conditions of the performance of a text. Two texts (prose and poetry) describing a lighthouse are compared. The notions of rhythm, enunciation and prosodic condensation are introduced. The first hypothesis postulates that the rhythms contributing to the significance of either text are inscribed in a similar geopoetic background; the second stipulates that the lighthouse's significance is construed by the texts' enunciation; the last assumes that, when the texts are performed, the traditional distinction between prose and poetry is blurred by the voice that carries the words to an audience.
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Pub Date : 2021-09-30DOI: 10.1515/9783839458808-008
Kimberley Pager-McClymont
In this article, Kimberley Pager is dedicated to the question »how is Jane's character built from the first page of the novel?«. To answer, a stylistic approach is used to analyse the extract closely and focuses on three powerful elements, all of which contribute to Jane's characterisation: the use of pathetic fallacy, iconicity, and other characters' point of view. It is argued that those implicit elements contribute to readers' first impression of Jane whilst rendering Brontë's style unique and aesthetic.
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Pub Date : 2021-09-30DOI: 10.14361/9783839458808-003
Peter Wenzel
In this article on a passage from Matthew Lewis's The Monk (1796), Peter Wenzel shows how to analyse powerful literary horror texts with a »psycho-biological approach«. Drawing on evolution-based embodied patterns, Lewis's text displays the affect programme of a typical predator-prey confrontation, including the sensation of coldness, bristling hair, body shaking, reduced respiration, and a prey animal's final shock paralysis in view of its predator. Conceptual metaphors and a spell-like poem increase the programme's effect. Concluding with empirical evidence from responses to the text, the article discusses the question to what degree embodied suspense patterns are open to cultural modification.
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