Terms Flashcards
Narrative
Involved a narrator/s & audience - the recounting (the process & product, act, structure, & structuralism) of one or more events (real of fictionous)
Narrative
The event narrated is not a series of random occurrences but has a continuing subject & constitutes a whole - means there is a temporal (start & end) as well as casual (the way you place events, making them lead to one another) sequence implicit in the recounting of these events
Narrative
Is there a principle underlying the structuration of this account, such as a beginning, middle, & an end; or perhaps the initial action, rising action, climax, denouement.
Narrative
In some cultural criticism, narrative is said to have 2 parts: STORY & DISCOURSE
Story
Involves temporal & casual sequence - fictionous & constructed stories (& the recount of real events) probably employ “techniques” to facilitate &/or accentuate either the temporality or causality of the events of which the story is made
Story
Traditional narratives (such as folk & fairy tales) also employ common “characters” (such as the cruel stepmother & innocent youth or children) & “functions” (such as setting on a quest, ridding competition, or a ball)
Discourse
The language of the ideology or politics underpinning the story - recognizes/underlines the crucial fact that a narrative is not only a product but also an act, involving a narrator carefully choosing & sequencing events in his/her own way - & in such a way that the story emerges with a particular focus, one that reflects the subjective choices of the narrator
Discourse
Also recognizes the importance of audience - for whom the narrator constructs his/her narration ( that is why narratives are understood one way by one audience & in a different way in another cultural situation
Discourse
Is the language & other cultural significantions with/through which the story is composed & structured
Romanticism
Attitude or intellectual orientation that characterized many works of literature, painting, music, architecture, criticism, & historiography in western civilization. - can be seen as a rejection of the precepts of order, calm, harmony, balance, idealization, & rationality that typified classicism.
Romanticism
Emphasized the individual, the subjective, the irrational, the imaginative, the personal, the spontaneous, the emotional, the visionary, & the transcendental
Among the characteristic attitudes of romanticism were the following:
A deep end appreciation of the beauties of nature; a general exaltation of emotion over reason & of the sense over intellect; a turning in upon the self & a heightened examination of human personality & its moods & mental potentialities;
Victorian era
The period between approx 1820-1914, corresponding roughly but not. Exactly to the period of queen Victoria’s region & characterized by a class-based society, a growing number of people able to vote, a growing state & economy, & britains status as the most powerful empire in the world
Gothic novel
European romantic fiction having prevailing atmosphere of mystery & terror. - called gothic bc its imaginative impulse was drawn from medievally buildings & ruins, such novels commonly used such settings as castles or monasteries equipped with dark battlements, hidden panels, & trapdoors. - fascination to dark figures (characters) - potential to sell books - interest in human nature (dark)
Memoir
A narrative, written from the perspective of th author, about an important part of their life - it is often conflated with autobiography, but there are a few important differences - autobiography is also written from the authors perspective, but the narrative spans their entire life
