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- Title
Narrating the Narration: Using Joyce's Molly and Kafka's Gregor to Show the Nature of Narrative.
- Authors
Reyaz, Aiman; Tripathi, Priyanka
- Abstract
Narrative refers to a story involving events and characters and the interaction between the two. Generally a narrator expounds the story in whichever way he/she chooses to do. Since the explication of a story is generally the work of a single subject, the narrator is looked at with a critical eye. This notion is backed up all the more because of the reason that the author, who may be dead long ago, represents a biased subjectivity. The purpose of this paper is to counter that notion because Narrative is a capricious form with greater reach than poetry and drama and the authors would take the case of Joyce's Molly Bloom and Kafka's Gregor Samsa to highlight the point. The paper will employ the two-pronged approach to enhance the importance of subjectivity in Narratives: Horizontal and Vertical. The former suggests that Narratives have an ecosystem-like structure. The latter suggests that Narratives show the human trajectory of life, even if that trajectory ends in death. The conclusion would highlight the future scope of the medium of Narration, when it is devoid of the human element.
- Subjects
NATURE (Aesthetics); NATURAL resources; BIOSALINE resources; JOYCE, Molly; PHYSICAL sciences
- Publication
Language in India, 2017, Vol 17, Issue 8, p171
- ISSN
1930-2940
- Publication type
Article