Sliding Significations: Passing as a Narrative and Textual Strategy in Nella Larsen's Fiction

2020 ◽  
pp. 75-100
Keyword(s):  
Textual Strategy

Herodotus' Use of Attic Tragedy in the Lydian Logos

2003 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 5-35 ◽  
Author(s):  
Charles C. Chiasson
Keyword(s):  
Focus Attention ◽  
Literary Genres ◽  
Fundamental Interest ◽  
Political Issues ◽  
Poetic Tradition ◽  
Critical Engagement ◽  
Indirect Discourse ◽  
Narrative Patterns ◽  
Tragic Drama ◽  
Textual Strategy

This essay explains the appearance of tragic narrative patterns and motifs in the Croesus logos not as a passive manifestation of "tragic influence," but as a self-conscious textual strategy whereby Herodotus makes his narratives familiar and engaging while also demonstrating the distinctive traits of his own innovative discourse, historie. Herodotus' purposive appropriation and modification of tragic technique manifests the critical engagement with other authors and literary genres that is one of the defining features of the Histories. Herodotus embellishes the story of Atys and Adrastus with numerous formal and thematic features of Attic tragedy. Uniquely in the Histories, the story traces the full arc of a tragic drama, from the king's ominous dream of Atys' death to catastrophe, lament, and burial. The celebrated climactic description of Adrastus' suicide, however, transcends Herodotus' dramatic model. In describing Adrastus as the most unfortunate man "of all that he (Adrastus) himself knew," Herodotus introduces an idiom used elsewhere in the Histories to portray the activity of the histor, and thus places the unmistakable stamp of his own genre upon tragic narrative. In a fully mimetic episode that lacks the author's characteristically intrusive "voiceprint," Herodotus seems to suggest that he could beat the dramatists at their own game if he chose to play it. Two other episodes (thought by some to be based upon pre-existing tragedies) make similar use of tragic motifs on a smaller scale. In the story of Gyges and Candaules Herodotus adapts the Aeschylean motif of the decision made under duress to focus attention on human causation and socio-political issues of fundamental interest to him. Finally, the tragic stylization of Croesus' pyre scene allows Herodotus to manipulate audience expectations while subtly demonstrating, through the use of indirect discourse, the interest in source criticism that sets Herodotean historie apart from the poetic tradition.

Journalistic Authority: Textual Strategies of Legitimation

1996 ◽  
Vol 73 (4) ◽  
pp. 821-834 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lisbeth Lipari
Keyword(s):  
Political Discourse ◽  
Political Life ◽  
Social Authority ◽  
Textual Strategies ◽  
Journalistic Authority ◽  
Knowledge Claims ◽  
Textual Strategy

To the extent that news texts participate in social and political discourse, they also participate in constructing social and political life. This paper examines one textual strategy of news, the journalist's use of stance adverbs. The analysis illustrates how stance adverbs operate as a strategy of legitimation that can augment or diminish the legitimacy of knowledge claims, masquerade as evidence, and steer readers toward a preferred interpretation of the news. As with other aspects of news work, textual strategies such as stance adverbs can serve to enhance and conceal both journalistic and social authority.

scholarly journals Intertextuality: Interpretive practice and textual strategy

2000 ◽  
Vol 17 (4) ◽  
pp. 429-446 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brian Ott ◽  
Cameron Walter
Keyword(s):  
Textual Strategy

scholarly journals Shifting styles of church leadership: Paul’s pragmatic leadership style in 1 and 2 Corinthians during the organization of the collection for Jerusalem

2002 ◽  
Vol 23 (3) ◽  
pp. 678-688 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. J. Joubert
Keyword(s):  
Leadership Style ◽  
Church Leadership ◽  
Leadership Role ◽  
1 Corinthians ◽  
2 Corinthians ◽  
Autocratic Leadership ◽  
Pragmatic Leadership ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Church ◽  
Textual Strategy

This essay focuses on Paul’s shifting leadership styles in his relationship with the church in Corinth during the organization of an ecumenical collection for the believers in Jerusalem (cf 1 Cor 16:1-4; 2 Cor 8-9). Paul’s basic textual strategy in 2 Corinthians 8-9, which involves the assignment of new roles to the interlocutors, serves to anti-structurally bridge the hierarchical gap between him (as the mild patriarchal figure) and the Corinthians (as his spiritually mature children) within the intratextual discourse. This pragmatic adjustment of the apostle’s autocratic leadership role in 1 Corinthians 16, in order to salvage the collection project in Corinth, serves as an example to modern church leaders to take cognizance of the impact of social and ideological contexts on their own styles of leadership.

scholarly journals Childe Harold's Journey to the East and “Authenticity”

2013 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
pp. 14-27
Author(s):  
Seyed Mohammad Marandi ◽  
Hossein Pirnajmuddin
Keyword(s):  
Textual Analysis ◽  
Lord Byron ◽  
Discursive Practices ◽  
Theoretical Approaches ◽  
Textual Strategy

This essay deals with the notion of orientalist discourse in Lord Byron‟s Childe Harold's Pilgrimage. Concentrating on the dialectical attitudes towards the „Orient‟ in Byron‟s poem the writers try to show, through a contrapuntal textual analysis, how signs emerge of a somewhat stereotypical and often monolithic Orient. It is argued that the work‟s claim on the authenticity of the representations of the East is a subtle textual strategy. This seems to be true despite the existence of seemingly more favourable views towards „Orientals‟, especially in the footnotes, compared to Turkish Tales. Central to the study is the idea that similar discursive practices also seem to influence most of Byron‟s critics, which include contemporary scholars who have conducted numerous forms of textual analysis through differing theoretical approaches.

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