Towards a "Natural" Narratology makes an intervention into ongoing debates in literary theory and criticism. Monika Fludernik argues for a new narrative theory which builds on insights from conversational narrative while touching on key issues for poststructuralists. Drawing on insights from cognitive linguistics, discourse analysis and structuralist narratology, the author examines narrative structures as they have developed from oral storytelling to the realist novel and beyond.
Drawing on the insights offered by contemporary chaos theory, Narrative Form and Chaos Theory
explores how models of turbulent dynamical systems in the physical
world parallel structures in certain kinds of narratives. By closely
looking at Laurence Sterne’s Tristram Shandy, Marcel Proust’s In Search of Lost Time, Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway, and William Faulkner’s Absalom, Absalom!,
Parker demonstrates how these insights can be applied to the analysis
of narrative structure and meaning.
This book reveals the darker side of Classical Greek civilization. From the horrific effects of overcrowding and the plague on the
population of Athens, to the vicious civil strife that often erupted in
cities allied with Athens or Sparta, this volume offers vivid and at
times disturbing insights into the impact of warfare on the people who
are celebrated as the founders of Western civilization.
Each summer six math whizzes selected from nearly a half-million
American teens compete against the world's best problem solvers at the
International Mathematical Olympiad. Steve Olson followed the six 2001
contestants from the intense tryouts to the Olympiad's nail-biting
final rounds to discover not only what drives these extraordinary kids
but what makes them both unique and typical. In the process he provides
fascinating insights into the science of intelligence and learning and,
finally, the nature of genius.
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