This study analyzes crime novels written around the turn of the twenty-first century that blur the boundaries between “serious” fiction and genre fiction. I argue that these novels represent violence, not as an isolated event or action, but as a pervasive cultural logic. In other words, they frame violence as a cultural and institutional problem, instead of as a disruptive social anomaly, and they thereby expose violence as a constitutive force in a world and era in which social relations are always already mediated by the disciplinary apparatus of institutions. Novels like Umberto Eco’s Foucault’s Pendulum, David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest, Nuruddin Farah’s Secrets, and Roberto Bolaño’s 2666, draw attention to the cultural logic of violence by reproducing conventions associated with more traditional crime fiction—a crime to be solved, a “detective” figure, and the gradual revelation of clues—but these novels break with traditional crime fiction in one important way: they do not follow a trajectory of crime and punishment. Such a trajectory necessarily limits our understanding of violence to isolated actions that can be punished and to individuals who can be reformed. By breaking with the logic of crime and punishment, these novels position violence as a master narrative or as an interpretive lens that invites readers to engage in a critique of institutionalized and systemic violence. This investigation traces how this new practice of crime narrative seeks to exile readers from horizons of expectations that would ordinarily be associated with crime fiction. These contemporary novels constitute a new crime fiction subgenre: a narrative that, through the use of new conventions, forces its readers to confront the limits of canonical forms and to consider violence as a contemporary master narrative. / text

Στην παρούσα μελέτη γίνεται μια απόπειρα «ανάγνωσης» του διηγηματογραφικού έργου του Γ. Βιζυηνού με βάση έννοιες και όρους που προέρχονται από τη θεωρία της αφήγησης/αφηγηματολογίας, η οποία αποτελεί αυτόνομο κλάδο της ευρύτερης περιοχής της Λογοτεχνικής Θεωρίας. Η αφηγηματολογική ανάλυση που επιχειρείται στα διηγήματα του συγγραφέα στοχεύει στην επισήμανση και στην ανάλυση των αφηγηματικών επιλογών-τεχνικών του Βιζυηνού και, παράλληλα, στην ανάδειξη εκείνων των όψεων της γραφής του που συνδιαλέγονται με το λογοτεχνικό γίγνεσθαι της εποχής του, αλλά και απορρέουν από στοιχεία της προσωπικότητάς του, διαμορφώνοντας, με αυτόν τον τρόπο, την ιδιαίτερη συγγραφική του ιδιοσυγκρασία που τον διαφοροποιεί από τους σύγχρονούς του λογοτέχνες. Για το σκοπό αυτό εφαρμόζουμε την τυπολογία της θεωρίας του Gérard Genette, η οποία κατέχει εξέχουσα θέση στον επιστημονικό κλάδο της σύγχρονης αφηγηματολογίας. Η εργασία οργανώνεται σε δύο μέρη. Στο πρώτο κεφάλαιο του πρώτου μέρους, ύστερα από επισκόπηση της σχετικής βιβλιογραφίας, εκθέτουμε τη σκοπιμότητα και την προβληματική της έρευνας, τις υποθέσεις και τους στόχους της, καθώς και τη μέθοδο που ακολουθούμε. Η ανάλυσή μας στο διηγηματογραφικό έργο του Γ. Βιζυηνού συνίσταται σε μια εσωτερική προσέγγιση του κειμένου σύμφωνα με τις τρεις κατηγορίες που προτείνονται από το G. Genette για την ανάλυση των αφηγηματικών τεχνικών, δηλαδή το Χρόνο, την Έγκλιση και τη Φωνή, έννοιες που αναλύονται εκτενώς στο δεύτερο κεφάλαιο που περιλαμβάνει το θεωρητικό πλαίσιο και οι οποίες θεμελιώνονται με βάση την τριμερή διάκριση του G. Genette: ιστορία, αφήγημα, αφήγηση. Στο τρίτο κεφάλαιο επιχειρείται μια σύντομη ιστορική αναδρομή στο λογοτεχνικό κλίμα της εποχής, στην οποία δημιούργησε ο συγγραφέας, όπως και μια αναφορά στα εργοβιογραφικά του Βιζυηνού, όπου αναδύονται οι ποικίλες όψεις της ξεχωριστής προσωπικότητας του λογοτέχνη. Η αξιοποίηση αυτών των δεδομένων πραγματοποιείται στο δεύτερο μέρος της εργασίας, όπου γίνεται η παρουσίαση των ευρημάτων της έρευνας που προκύπτουν από τη μελέτη με συστηματικό τρόπο του αφηγηματικού λόγου του Βιζυηνού. Εκθέτουμε τις τεχνικές του συγγραφέα, σύμφωνα με την τριμερή κατηγοριοποίηση του G. Genette, στα εξής ξεχωριστά κεφάλαια: Χρόνος, Έγκλιση και Φωνή. Τέλος, διατυπώνονται τα συμπεράσματα, τα οποία προκύπτουν από τη σύνθεση των επιμέρους αναλύσεων, ορίζοντας την ιδιαιτερότητα της αφηγηματικής τέχνης του Γ. Βιζυηνού. / -

The purpose of this paper is to examine the role which animal narrators play in the it-narrative genre. This paper argues that the qualities of life and agency separate animal narrators from object narrators, making animal narrators especially capable of providing social critique thanks to animal narrators' naturally occupying a space between subject and object. This thesis marks the rising use of animal narrators and notes their narratological trends over a 62 period, showing the lingering influence of late-eighteenth-century models into mass-market periodicals of antebellum America and Victorian Britain. Chapters One and Two provides generic definitions and a brief consideration of animals in popular British culture and responds to key points of debate in the current it-narrative field by using Felissa or; The Life and Opinions of a Kitten of Sentiment (1811). Chapters Three and Four analyze related texts from before and after Felissa. Chapters Four and Five extend the discussion to shorter fiction in children's periodicals, taking the audience response to it-narratives into account. Highlighting the distinction between animal and non-animal narrators in these venues gives nuance to our understanding of the well-known "circulation" thematic in the it-narrative genre, while also calling attention to these narratives' less-studied but rigorous examinations of slavery, class difference, and colonialism.

A syntagmatic analysis of the Argonauts’ encounters with the Lemnian women and the Doliones in Apollonius of Rhodius’ Argonautica Book 1. Combining intertextuality with cognitive narratology, I approach the text from the perspective of the reader. Beginning with a study of the poem’s programmatic proem before moving to a study of the Argonauts’ first encounters on their outward journey, I map the reader’s experience on their own voyage through a difficult and elliptical narrative. To tackle the demands of a densely allusive text and the manipulations of a subjective narrator, I employ a plurality of readers: the general reader is accompanied on this exploration by two fictional readers. Charting the varying interpretations of the attentive reader and the experienced reader (Homeric auditor and Homeric scholar respectively) enables me to combine investigation of text and intertexts as moderated by the narrator with analysis of the ways they modify the expectations of the reader as they progress in a linear fashion from episode to episode. By consideration of where interpretations overlap and where they differ according to what the reader brings to the text and of how the narrative conditions its readers on the journey, I demonstrate the value of the reader-orientated approach to tackling the complexities of the narrative and the demands it places on all its readers.

This thesis analyzes the narratological structure of the Life of Aaron, a hagiographical text from Late Antique Egypt. Such an analysis has not yet been performed on this text, and the method is still rarely applied to hagiographical literature. In the short term, I intend for this thesis to expose the complex yet consistent structure of this fascinating text. In the long term, I see this thesis as part of a broader movement to incorporate Coptology into the mainstream study of Late Antique literature. My general introduction discusses the Life of Aaron, its manuscript and archaeological evidence, and the state of scholarship on it. Following this, my first chapter compares the text to five significant Late Antique hagiographical works from Egypt: the Life of Antony, the Life of Pachomius, the Historia Monachorum in Aegypto, the Life of Onnophrius, and the Life of Shenoute. My second chapter surveys the ancient (Aristotelian) and modern (structuralist) narratological methods employed in this thesis. Finally, my third chapter contrasts the Life of Aaron’s literal structure with its underlying chronology - what narratologists call the fabula - and exposes the story’s narrator hierarchy. An epilogue then proposes avenues for future research, and the thesis closes with two short appendix graphs which summarize my analysis.

<p>  </p> <p>This dissertation builds on a shift in literary studies as scholars sought to develop new approaches to examining locations in literature. These approaches help scholars address the full spatial dimensions of a narrative, such as architectural features or social constructions of space. I argue that authors use homes to not only meditate on how individuals construct a sense of self, but also to consider the ways individuals interact with their community. I examine works by twentieth and twenty-first-century authors to address four different uses of homes: how homes engage with historical memory, serve as performative spaces, shape experiences of trauma, and address the effects of colonization and diaspora. By addressing different ways homes can be affected and, in turn, affect their occupants, I unpack concerns of housing security and the often-complex relationship between a person and their sense of home. Through a discussion of domestic space, we can further understand how social and political changes affect individual identities and familial structures. This dissertation contributes to scholarship on these authors, as well as develops an interdisciplinary framework for examining space and place in literature by synthesizing spatial theory, architectural theory, and narratology.</p>

This research was conducted to see why some scholars have decided that Elizabethan prose fiction is no longer of value to a modern audience; this essay will apply narratological analyses and theory to examine Elizabethan prose fiction, noting where and how these works build their stories to involve their readers: differently than we would nowadays. The main subjects within narratology used for the analyses are the narrator, the narratee, focalisation, point of view and perspective. The main result found is that the overt intradiegetic narrator and narratee are the leading players when it comes to involving the reader in Elizabethan prose fiction.

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Madness has long been a popular theme for literature, featuring as a trope of horror, mystery, tragedy and comedy genres in varying degrees of amplitude. The topic has provided a significant access point for analysing historical, socio-political and cultural issues as it addresses controversial themes of alienation and criminality as well as philosophical theories of perception and consciousness. As a result, studies on the representation of madness in literature have been dominated by historical approaches that focus directly on social, political, philosophical and psychoanalytical interpretive models. Comparatively little has been done to analyse madness in literature from a narratological perspective. It is for this reason that I will conduct a narratological study on the impact of madness on narrative and fictional world structures. I am specifically interested in the way in which madness can be embedded across multiple levels of the narrative and the effect that this has on readers’ imaginative and interpretive processes. Close readings of Chuck Palahniuk’s Fight Club (1996) Bret Easton-Ellis’ American Psycho (1991) and John Banville’s The Book of Evidence (1989) will uncover some of the techniques that are used to embed madness into the textual and imaginative structures of a narrative, and will demonstrate how this works to deceive and challenge the reader. I will demonstrate the need for an expansion of terms within the narratological model that can cope specifically with the theme of madness.