Tag: Narrative

Free Download Lei Yang, "Narrative Devices in the Shiji: Retelling the Past "
English | ISBN: 1438497210 | 2024 | 200 pages | EPUB, PDF | 570 KB + 2 MB
Narrative Devices in the Shiji: Retelling the Past offers the first systematic analysis of narratives in early Chinese historical writings from 400 BCE to 100 CE, with a focus on the Shiji (Records of the Historian), a vast collection of historical accounts completed by Sima Qian (145-86 BCE). For centuries, the dominant approach to the Shiji has been to infer Sima’s intentions from his biographical experiences and subsequently project them back into the text. This has caused the import of the work to be overshadowed by Sima’s tragedy of castration, and has minimized the question of how narrative as a form affects the text’s interpretation. Lei Yang fills the gap by exploring how Sima manipulated the Shiji’s narrative structure to represent the past. Drawing on Gérard Genette’s narratological theories, the book examines how sequences of events build causality, what is slowed down and sped up to manage information control, and how the text provides multiple perspectives on the same events. Redefining the

Free Download Caroline Bassett, "The arc and the machine: Narrative and new media"
English | 2014 | ISBN: 071907343X, 0719073421 | EPUB | pages: 228 | 0.4 mb
The arc and the machine is a timely and original defence of narrative in an age of information. Stressing interpretation and experience alongside affect and sensation it convincingly argues that narrative is key to contemporary forms of cultural production and to the practice of contemporary life. Re-appraising the prospects for narrative in the digital age, it insists on the centrality of narrative to informational culture and provokes a critical re-appraisal of how innovations in information technology as a material cultural form can be understood and assessed.

Free Download Thomas Francis Galwey, W S Nye, "The Valiant Hours; Narrative Of "Captain Brevet," An Irish-American In The Army Of The Potomac"
English | 2015 | ISBN: 1258125277 | ASIN: B06XGJVJTP | EPUB | pages: 272 | 2.5 mb
"Thomas Francis De Burgh Galwey was born in London, England, in 1846, of an Irish family, one of the oldest branches of the Burkes of Galway. The family came to this country in 1851 and settled on a farm just outside of Cleveland, the site now being on Euclid Avenue. When the Civil War broke out, Galwey enlisted in the Hibernian Guard Company of the 8th Ohio Volunteer Infantry. He was a slim, beardless youth only 5 feet 4 inches tall, but with a restless, lively spirit which soon won him promotion to corporal, sergeant, and lieutenant. His dark hair and snapping black eyes, as well as his effervescent and courageous spirit proclaimed his Gaelic ancestry, of which he was intensely proud.

Free Download Darlingtina K. Esiaka, "The Narrative of Africa Rising: Changing Perspectives "
English | ISBN: 1666958514 | 2024 | 192 pages | EPUB, PDF | 2 MB + 4 MB
Throughout time, African civilizations have manoeuvred and negotiated successfully to maintain their societies and ensure cultural continuity despite encountering expanding trade, foreign invasion, and imposition of colonial and neocolonial states. The Narrative of Africa Rising: Changing Perspectives evaluates the discourse on "Africa Rising" through representative case studies to create a complex and layered account of Africa’s struggles to rise above challenges and conflict in the twenty-first century. Using empirical data and field observations, editors Darlingtina K. Esiaka and Jamaine Abidogun measure Africa’s complex and uneven development over time to provide insight into how Africans across the continent utilize indigenous socio-political economic processes in the face of neocolonial "nation state" systems that routinely fail them. Africa’s twenty-first century rise is erratic as it struggles to undo the damage of colonialism and to fight neocolonial exploitation, but what stands the test of time are African civilizations’ sophisticated societal institutions that continue to vie for the wellbeing of their citizens.

Free Download Linda Tate, "Power in the Blood: A Family Narrative (Race, Ethnicity and Gender in Appalachia)"
English | 2009 | ISBN: 0821418718, 0821418726 | EPUB | pages: 256 | 3.6 mb
Power in the Blood: A Family Narrative traces Linda Tate’s journey to rediscover the Cherokee-Appalachian branch of her family and provides an unflinching examination of the poverty, discrimination, and family violence that marked their lives. In her search for the truth of her own past, Tate scoured archives, libraries, and courthouses throughout Kentucky, Tennessee, Alabama, Illinois, and Missouri, visited numerous cemeteries, and combed through census records, marriage records, court cases, local histories, old maps, and photographs. As she began to locate distant relatives – fifth, sixth, seventh cousins, all descended from her great-greatgrandmother Louisiana – they gathered in kitchens and living rooms, held family reunions, and swapped stories. A past that had long been buried slowly came to light as family members shared the pieces of the family’s tale that had been passed along to them.

Free Download Linda Tate, "Power in the Blood: A Family Narrative (Race, Ethnicity and Gender in Appalachia)"
English | 2009 | ISBN: 0821418718, 0821418726 | EPUB | pages: 256 | 3.6 mb
Power in the Blood: A Family Narrative traces Linda Tate’s journey to rediscover the Cherokee-Appalachian branch of her family and provides an unflinching examination of the poverty, discrimination, and family violence that marked their lives. In her search for the truth of her own past, Tate scoured archives, libraries, and courthouses throughout Kentucky, Tennessee, Alabama, Illinois, and Missouri, visited numerous cemeteries, and combed through census records, marriage records, court cases, local histories, old maps, and photographs. As she began to locate distant relatives – fifth, sixth, seventh cousins, all descended from her great-greatgrandmother Louisiana – they gathered in kitchens and living rooms, held family reunions, and swapped stories. A past that had long been buried slowly came to light as family members shared the pieces of the family’s tale that had been passed along to them.

Free Download Professor Arlene A. Elder, "Narrative Shape-Shifting: Myth, Humor and History in the Fiction of Ben Okri, B. Kojo Laing and Yvonne Vera"
English | 2009 | ISBN: 1847010121 | PDF | pages: 174 | 2.7 mb
The hybrid novels of Ben Okri, B. Kojo Laing, and Yvonne Vera address contemporary African politics in contrasting styles but complementary religious, cultural, and feminist approaches.

Free Download Gary Barkhuizen, "Narrative Inquiry in Language Teaching and Learning Research Ed 2"
English | ISBN: 1032411287 | 2024 | 182 pages | PDF | 4 MB
Narrative Inquiry in Language Teaching and Learning Research is the only entry-level introduction to research methods using stories, either as data or as a means of presenting findings, and a practical guide for those interested in carrying out narrative studies.

Free Download James V. Wertsch, "How Nations Remember: A Narrative Approach"
English | ISBN: 0197551467 | 2021 | 288 pages | AZW3 | 2 MB
How Nations Remember draws on multiple disciplines in the humanities and social sciences to examine how a nation’s account of the past shapes its actions in the present. National memory can underwrite noble aspirations, but the volume focuses largely on how it contributes to the negative tendencies of nationalism that give rise to confrontation. Narratives are taken as units of analysis for examining the psychological and cultural dimensions of remembering particular events and also for understanding the schematic codes and mental habits that underlie national memory more generally. In this account, narratives are approached as tools that shape the views of members of national communities to such an extent that they serve as co-authors of what people say and think. Drawing on illustrations from Russia, China, Georgia, the United States, and elsewhere, the book examines how "narrative templates," "narrative dialogism," and "privileged event narratives" shape nations’ views of themselves and their relations with others. The volume concludes with a list of ways to manage the disputes that pit one national community against another.

Free Download Lynn Enterline, Lena Cowen Orlin, Ann Thompson, "Elizabethan Narrative Poems: The State of Play"
English | 2019 | ISBN: 1350073369, 1350197637 | PDF | pages: 273 | 2.0 mb
Tracing the development of narrative verse in London’s literary circles during the 1590s, this volume puts Shakespeare’s Venus and Adonis and The Rape of Lucrece into conversation with poems by a wide variety of contemporary writers, including Thomas Lodge, Francis Beaumont, Christopher Marlowe, Thomas Heywood, Thomas Campion and Edmund Spenser. Chapters investigate the complexities of this literary conversation and contribute for the current, vigorous reassessment of humanism’s intended consequences by drawing attention to the highly diverse forms of early modern classicism as well as the complex connection between Latin pedagogy and vernacular poetic invention.