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- Title
Objectless Curiosity: Frankenstein, The Station Agent, and Other Strange Narratives.
- Authors
Nandrea, Lorri
- Abstract
The article discusses the importance of objectless curiosity as a mode of apprehending otherness. The author stresses that the form of curiosity that is oriented toward an object or solution is mapped easily onto narrative, especially on plot structures that define the norm of novel. It stated that Frankenstein has often read as a novel that condemns curiosity as the dangerous motive of those who transgress natural human boundaries and this dangerous form curiosity has been tag with the word ardent. Furthermore, the objectless curiosity involves a certain suspension of the desire to know, to identify, or explain the strange.
- Subjects
OTHER (Philosophy); NARRATIVES; CURIOSITY; ORAL interpretation; FRANKENSTEIN, Victor (Fictional character); IDENTITY (Psychology); STEREOTYPES; STORY plots; OBJECT (Aesthetics); MOTIVATION (Psychology)
- Publication
Narrative, 2007, Vol 15, Issue 3, p335
- ISSN
1063-3685
- Publication type
Literary Criticism
- DOI
10.1353/nar.2007.0018