...This chapter examines the canto as a unit of poetic composition in Ezra Pound’s The Cantos. It asks what constitutes each canto as a whole, and what differentiates one canto from another. The chapter first considers narrative and ideogram as two influential concepts...

... imperialist Tourism Haptic Narrative Environmental Mountains are the epitomes of the natural sublime. From Longinus to Thomas Burnet and Joseph Addison, they were deemed sublime because of their size and greatness, which were commonly associated with the divine or sacred ( Brady, 2013 , p. 16; Shaw, 2017...

... Amanda Gregory John Lawlor Clark Porter Roy Tobias Smollett domestic medicine medical women narrative health Despite being a central character in Tobias Smollett’s The Expedition of Humphry Clinker (1771), Tabitha Bramble is presented with little opportunity to write in her own...

... their humors. The text’s structure is itself a defense against idleness and its narrative ethos of community offers protection from solitude. Furthermore, by engaging with a distinctly Burtonian form of “cure,” with its roots in humoral medicine, Smollett’s novel provides a model for not only eradicating...

...The introduction opens with a critique of Terry Eagleton, regarding the nature of political poetry. The chapter then considers the current state of trade union representation in the UK to argue for the importance of questioning our labour narratives in a labour market which is becoming increasingly...

... poetry that is in the process of attempting to establish its ‘own’ narrative about an event, counter to ‘official’ narratives. The chapter continues by discussing the role of the poet laureate, with particular attention paid to Ted Hughes, who held the position for the majority of the 84-5 strike...

...The opening chapter engages with the idea that the narrative of Lost hybridises some of the common narrative structures of mainstream television series with those employed by science fiction/telefantasy series that appeal to cult and fan audiences. Accordingly, the chapter opens...

... sets out how the storyworld of Lost encodes conspiracy, time travel, experiments with natural forces, and the end of the world, corporate technocratic capitalism, covert operations, and warmongering. This section continues with an analysis of the science versus military narrative...

...Chapter 6 considers Lost’s significance as a transmedia and hypertextual narrative, providing an account of the transmedia storytelling of Lost that extends beyond the episodes made for television. It discusses the marketing purposes of transmedia storytelling...

...Cinematic sound in African films often supplants the visual as the primary narrative tool, flipping over the usual conceptualization of the filmic narrative as image plus sound. Yet sound is not generally described as having a body, at least not in the material sense. This chapter...

... trope – metonymy – in a way that created a brilliantly reflexive match between form and theme. IM also brought him closest to the editorial basis of film narrative and, in turn, created one of his most intriguing commentaries on, and opportunities for, cinema itself. film cinema...

...This chapter examines the various methods Verne used to open up literary text to science. It considers narrative technique, verisimilitude, defamiliarization, naturalization, and dialogism in his work. It argues that this opening up to science had unintended consequences: instead of bringing...

... allegory. All the later works demonstrate science fiction’s increasing sophistication in terms of narrative structure. Booker Prize Brin David File magazine Foundation journal Interzone magazine Kaleidoscope BBC programme Le Guin Ursula K Mexicon Moore C L Padgett Lewis Henry Kuttner Schmitz...

... Krishan utopian geography Beilharz Peter Gilman Charlotte Perkins Huxley Aldous Leacock Stephen utopian narrative paradigm Bacon Francis discovery narratives Jameson Fredric More Thomas Morson Gary Saul Eden Garden of Macherey Pierre Beard Charles Dewey John Frye Northrop Marx Karl...

...This chapter examines some formal issues to which radical content gives rise in Philip K. Dick's science fiction. The discussion focuses on certain expressive units of narrative: incidents that can be classified as gestures, visions, or anecdotes. These units of narrative are best seen as Dick's...

... to control their actions and kill the opposite sex. This chapter examines the narrative function of androcide within Russ's texts and considers androcide as a narrative device and not to celebrate violence or advocate mass murder. It shows how androcide as a narrative device in Russ's fiction represents...

... to control the narrative telling of the conflict. The chapter also considers the reasons why individuals joined the movement, and the significance differences between the experiences of its members in diverse regions and localities. The chapter concludes with a detailed study of the memoir-writing of Gerry...

...This chapter examines the Singularity as a narrative problem for sf, which has traditionally operated through the assertion of logical continuity between present and future. Singularity invalidates this approach with its insistence that the postsingular future is by definition unknowable...

...In these novels Glissant addresses the problem of the absence of a collective sense of identity in Martinique through the development of a collective narrative voice. Since the communal solidarity which such a voice implies does not in fact yet exist, it has to avoid imposing a false coercive...

... Singleton John Boyz n the Hood music ethics voice literary criticism francophone transnational postcolonial Julio Cortázar narrative form Baroque I cannot reduce my thoughts about life to the music of a single voice and a single point of view—I am, after all, a novelist. —Orhan Pamuk...