Tag: Narrative

Free Download Anirban Bhattacharjee, "Contemporaneity of the Mahabharata Narrative: Epic of the Moment"
English | ISBN: 1032849568 | 2024 | 248 pages | PDF | 5 MB
Notwithstanding its renowned comprehensive narrative encapsulation of the Indic culture, the Mahabharata keeps on posing a challenge to its contemporary readers: how do we relate to something over two-millennia old in today’s context without freezing it in time? This volume looks at the problem from diverse periods and standpoints and shows us that this challenge is, in fact, a legacy of the Mahabharata and the responses to this challenge are what makes the text ever-contemporary to different readers of different times and positions.

Free Download William Orchard, Yolanda Padilla, "Bridges, Borders, and Breaks: History, Narrative, and Nation in Twenty-First-Century Chicana/o Literary Criticism"
English | 2016 | ISBN: 0822964147 | PDF | pages: 255 | 11.1 mb
This volume reassesses the field of Chicana/o literary studies in light of the rise of Latina/o studies, the recovery of a large body of early literature by Mexican Americans, and the "transnational turn" in American studies. The chapters reveal how "Chicano" defines a literary critical sensibility as well as a political one and show how this view can yield new insights about the status of Mexican Americans, the legacies of colonialism, and the ongoing prospects for social justice. Chicana/o literary representations emerge as significant examples of the local that interrogate globalization’s attempts to erase difference. They also highlight how Chicana/o literary studies’ interests in racial justice and the minority experience have produced important intersections with new disciplines while also retaining a distinctive character. The recalibration of Chicana/o literary studies in light of these shifts raises important methodological and disciplinary questions, which these chapters address as they introduce the new tools required for the study of Chicana/o literature at this critical juncture.

Free Download Will Crawford, John Pell, "A Narrative of Ethan Allen’s Captivity: Containing His Voyages and Travels"
English | 2013 | ISBN: 0486491013 | EPUB | pages: 176 | 3.0 mb
Best known as a patriot and hero of the American War of Independence, Ethan Allen led the famed Green Mountain Boys in the capture of Fort Ticonderoga. Later that year, he spearheaded a failed assault on Montreal that resulted in his arrest by British authorities. Imprisoned aboard Royal Navy ships, paroled in New York City, and finally released in a prisoner exchange, Ethan Allen recorded his experiences in this stirring firsthand account of the early years of the Revolutionary War.

Free Download Máiréad Nic Craith, "The Vanishing World of The Islandman: Narrative and Nostalgia"
English | 2019 | pages: 206 | ISBN: 3030257746 | PDF | 2,4 mb
Exploring An t-Oileánach (anglicised as The Islandman), an indigenous Irish-language memoir written by Tomás Ó Criomhthain (Tomás O’Crohan), Máiréad Nic Craith charts the development of Ó Criomhthain as an author; the writing, illustration, and publication of the memoir in Irish; and the reaction to its portrayal of an authentic, Gaelic lifestyle in Ireland. As she probes the appeal of an island fisherman’s century-old life-story to readers in several languages-considering the memoir’s global reception in human, literary and artistic terms-Nic Craith uncovers the indelible marks of Ó Criomhthain’s writing closer to home: the Blasket Island Interpretive Centre, which seeks to institutionalize the experience evoked by the memoir, and a widespread writerly habit amongst the diasporic population of the Island. Through the overlapping frames of literary analysis, archival work, interviews, and ethnographic examination, nostalgia emerges and re-emerges as a central theme, expressed in different ways by the young Irish state, by Irish-American descendants of Blasket Islanders in the US today, by anthropologists, and beyond.

Free Download Rabbi Irving (Yitz) Greenberg, "The Triumph of Life: A Narrative Theology of Judaism"
English | ISBN: 0827615213 | 2024 | 400 pages | PDF | 2 MB
Natan Fund’s 2024 Natan Prize Winner

Free Download Gina Konstantopoulos, "The Shape of Stories: Narrative Structures in Cuneiform Literature "
English | ISBN: 9004537147 | 2023 | 368 pages | PDF | 4 MB
The volume provides a methodological toolbox for the study of cuneiform narratives-including literary, historical, and religious texts from the ancient Near East-with each chapter illustrating a different approach to narrative analysis through a series of compelling case studies.

Free Download The Polemics of Possession in Spanish American Narrative By Rolena Adorno
2008 | 448 Pages | ISBN: 0300120206 | PDF | 16 MB
In this book on early Latin American narrative, Rolena Adorno argues that the core of the Spanish American literary tradition consists of the writings in which the rights to Spanish dominion in the Americas and the treatment of its natives were debated. She places the works of canonical Spanish and Amerindian writers of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries within this larger polemic and shows how their works sought credibility within the narrative system itself, rather than in the irretrievable historical events that lay outside it.The triumph of the narrative mode over historical content is further revealed in Adorno’s demonstration of how these authors and their historical protagonists have been polemically reinvented up to the present day. Adorno traces the elaboration and persistence of colonial-era debates cast in narrative form to arrive at a new understanding of the role the “polemics of possession" plays in the history of Latin American literature and thought.

Free Download Philip Waddell, "Tacitean Visual Narrative"
English | ISBN: 1350097004 | 2020 | 256 pages | AZW3 | 6 MB
Combining the studies of modern film, traditional narratology, and Roman art, this interdisciplinary work explores the complex and highly visual techniques of Tacitus’ Annales. The volume opens with a discussion of current research in narratology, as applied to Roman historians. Narratology is a helpful and insightful tool, but is often inadequate to deal with specifically visual aspects of ancient narrative. In order to illuminate Tacitus’ techniques, and to make them speak to modern readers, this book focuses on drawing and illustrating parallels between Tacitus’ historiographical methods and modern film effects.

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 Robert J. Shiller, "Narrative Economics: How Stories Go Viral and Drive Major Economic Events"
English | ISBN: 0691182299 | 2019 | 400 pages | AZW3 | 2 MB
From Nobel Prize-winning economist and New York Times bestselling author Robert Shiller, a groundbreaking account of how stories help drive economic events―and why financial panics can spread like epidemic viruses