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- Title
The Face of the Future: An Affective Mental Time Traveler in Saul Bellow's "A Father-to-Be".
- Authors
Tong, Yanfang; Shen, Ting
- Abstract
This article focuses on a future-oriented Janus face portrayed in Saul Bellow's short story "A Father-to-Be," arguing that it builds an exceptional prospective fictional mind in Bellow's writing with a great emphasis on emotion. Drawing on the "Janus hypothesis," the article examines how the protagonist's emotional and imaginative mind interprets the past and processes the present based on a gloomy anticipation of the future, while some previous literary studies on the memory-imagination cognition emphasize the imaginativeness of memory. Affective narratology is largely involved as the supportive explanatory framework in the analysis of the narrative style. The authors approach the structure of the entire story by regarding it as an emotion story and attempt to reveal the aesthetic value of its core narrative by taking emotion both as the force of character forming and as rhetoric.
- Subjects
BELLOW, Saul, 1915-2005; EMOTIONS; NARRATOLOGY; AESTHETICS; RHETORIC
- Publication
Style, 2024, Vol 58, Issue 2, p190
- ISSN
0039-4238
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.5325/style.58.2.0190