abstract:In terms of making sense of unnatural narratives, there has been an ongoing debate between the unnatural approach and the cognitive approach—the former captures the distinct qualities of unnatural texts, and the latter examines how linguistic and narrative constructs express human concerns. This study adds an affective dimension to the discussion on combining these two perspectives on narrative and proposes to base the interpretive move on readers' affective responses. It stresses the heterogeneity of the affective dimension and argues for the necessity of distinguishing between affect and emotion. On the correlation between the affective dimension and interpretive activities, two paths are suggested: the elicitation of affect signposts unnatural readings and the evocation of emotion points to cognitive readings. The essay also applies the proposed approach to reading two affectively distinct unnatural works—Italo Calvino's If on a Winter's Night a Traveller and Paul Auster's Timbuktu.
{"title":"Listen to What the Body Says: Reading Unnatural Narratives in Light of Readers' Affective Responses","authors":"Meng Kang","doi":"10.5325/style.56.3.0163","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/style.56.3.0163","url":null,"abstract":"abstract:In terms of making sense of unnatural narratives, there has been an ongoing debate between the unnatural approach and the cognitive approach—the former captures the distinct qualities of unnatural texts, and the latter examines how linguistic and narrative constructs express human concerns. This study adds an affective dimension to the discussion on combining these two perspectives on narrative and proposes to base the interpretive move on readers' affective responses. It stresses the heterogeneity of the affective dimension and argues for the necessity of distinguishing between affect and emotion. On the correlation between the affective dimension and interpretive activities, two paths are suggested: the elicitation of affect signposts unnatural readings and the evocation of emotion points to cognitive readings. The essay also applies the proposed approach to reading two affectively distinct unnatural works—Italo Calvino's If on a Winter's Night a Traveller and Paul Auster's Timbuktu.","PeriodicalId":45300,"journal":{"name":"STYLE","volume":"56 1","pages":"163 - 189"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2022-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47762302","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
abstract:Structuralism as a working method has not come into contact with the body of compositionist scholarship for quite some time, leading writing studies scholars to conclude that its former place of prominence in the discipline was an empiricist reaction to language's inescapable ambiguity (Crowley), or even a radical mistake counter to the very spirit of hermeneutics (Berthoff). This article takes an archival approach toward excavating composition studies' institutional forums to better map American structuralism's once-central role within a discipline that has long since rejected it. Furthermore, it aims to raise the specter that seemingly dead-end structuralist methodologies—A. J. Greimas' structural semantics (1966/1983, Structural Semantics), Frank DeAngelo's theoretical bridging of structural linguistics, rhetoric, and case grammar ("Generative Stylistics: Between Grammar and Rhetoric," "Notes toward a Semantic Theory of Rhetoric within a Case Grammar Framework")—hold possibilities for linking sentence-level style to whole-text rhetorical meaning in theorizing and teaching writing.
{"title":"Structuralist Pedagogy, Style, and Composition Studies: Past Paradigms' Unfinished Possibilities","authors":"Daniel J. Healy","doi":"10.5325/style.56.3.0237","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/style.56.3.0237","url":null,"abstract":"abstract:Structuralism as a working method has not come into contact with the body of compositionist scholarship for quite some time, leading writing studies scholars to conclude that its former place of prominence in the discipline was an empiricist reaction to language's inescapable ambiguity (Crowley), or even a radical mistake counter to the very spirit of hermeneutics (Berthoff). This article takes an archival approach toward excavating composition studies' institutional forums to better map American structuralism's once-central role within a discipline that has long since rejected it. Furthermore, it aims to raise the specter that seemingly dead-end structuralist methodologies—A. J. Greimas' structural semantics (1966/1983, Structural Semantics), Frank DeAngelo's theoretical bridging of structural linguistics, rhetoric, and case grammar (\"Generative Stylistics: Between Grammar and Rhetoric,\" \"Notes toward a Semantic Theory of Rhetoric within a Case Grammar Framework\")—hold possibilities for linking sentence-level style to whole-text rhetorical meaning in theorizing and teaching writing.","PeriodicalId":45300,"journal":{"name":"STYLE","volume":"56 1","pages":"237 - 257"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2022-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49442583","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Essays in Narrative and Fictionality: Reassessing Nine Central Concepts by Brian Richardson (review)","authors":"W. Nelles","doi":"10.5325/style.56.3.0331","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/style.56.3.0331","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45300,"journal":{"name":"STYLE","volume":"56 1","pages":"331 - 335"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2022-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42168582","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
abstract:Scholars tend to focus on Bishop's sense of place, travel writing, and geographical feelings, yet few scholars examine her role as a literary cartographer. This article explores Bishop's literary cartography considering her obsession with mapping and exploration. But Bishop also carefully revises the mapmaker's task to define possibilities for imaginative reversals of cartographic practices. We concentrate on the imaginative logic motivating her implicit contrast between "The Map" and "A Map."
{"title":"Poet as Literary Cartographer: Literary Cartography in Elizabeth Bishop's \"The Map\"","authors":"Yongdan Yuan, C. Altieri","doi":"10.5325/style.56.3.0303","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/style.56.3.0303","url":null,"abstract":"abstract:Scholars tend to focus on Bishop's sense of place, travel writing, and geographical feelings, yet few scholars examine her role as a literary cartographer. This article explores Bishop's literary cartography considering her obsession with mapping and exploration. But Bishop also carefully revises the mapmaker's task to define possibilities for imaginative reversals of cartographic practices. We concentrate on the imaginative logic motivating her implicit contrast between \"The Map\" and \"A Map.\"","PeriodicalId":45300,"journal":{"name":"STYLE","volume":"56 1","pages":"303 - 316"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2022-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47128825","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-05-01DOI: 10.5325/style.56.1-2.0086
Matthew Shipe
{"title":"The Art of Being Philip Roth","authors":"Matthew Shipe","doi":"10.5325/style.56.1-2.0086","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/style.56.1-2.0086","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45300,"journal":{"name":"STYLE","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2022-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48514508","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-05-01DOI: 10.5325/style.56.1-2.0093
W. Yongchao
{"title":"A New Paradigm of Home-Mapping for Literary Cartography","authors":"W. Yongchao","doi":"10.5325/style.56.1-2.0093","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/style.56.1-2.0093","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45300,"journal":{"name":"STYLE","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2022-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45430497","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-05-01DOI: 10.5325/style.56.1-2.0109
Lily Scherlis
{"title":"Character: Three Inquiries in Literary Studies","authors":"Lily Scherlis","doi":"10.5325/style.56.1-2.0109","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/style.56.1-2.0109","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45300,"journal":{"name":"STYLE","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2022-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43036035","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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