Nathan D Frank
Biographic Data
| ID | 1383869 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nathan D Frank |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nathan D |
| FAMILY NAME | Frank |
| SIGNATURE | FRANK N D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Virginia |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
I, theorist
Tracking the major narratological trends that give treatment to Jane Austen’s narrators in Northanger Abbey and Persuasion , this paper at once seeks to consolidate a narratorial voice as distinct from an authorial voice in each work while simultaneously collapsing each of these narratorial voices into storyworld characters via metalepsis. This one-two punch of consolidation and collapse allows me to argue for the emergence of a “tangled indeterm…
Mystical Emulations, Inverted Echoes
In Adam Levin's The Instructions (2010), an intoxicating protagonist named Gurion ben-Judah Maccabee is a ten-year-old Jewish boy from Chicago who thinks that he might become the Messiah. The novel therefore dramatizes itself as Gurion's recorded scripture, and it opens with a "Blessings" section that includes a call to "forgive" Adonai for His "mistakes": "Because you know that Your mistakes, though a part of You, are nonetheless mistakes, we ac…
Viewing the world through Lucy Corin’s “Eyes of Dogs”
Marie-Laure Ryan, Kenneth Foote, and Maoz Azaryahu pave the way, in Narrating Space / Spatializing Narrative (2016), to think of space in narrative as well as narrative in space. I steer their approach through nonhuman space by examining a narrative traversal of “the mesh,” which is Timothy Morton’s spatial metaphor for human and nonhuman interconnection. “A narrative traversal of the mesh” indicates two distinct aspects of narrative motion, whic…
Of Non-Mice and Non-Men
Noticing the recent trend in disability studies to entertain essentialism in an attempt to capture the efficacy of identity politics, this essay articulates the reductive implications of doing so. By way of a meta-theoretical synthesis that guides a reading of The Unnamed by Joshua Ferris - a novel that defies categories precisely by defying the categorization of its protagonist's fictional disability in which he is unable to stop himself from wa…
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Viewing the world through Lucy Corin’s “Eyes of Dogs”
Marie-Laure Ryan, Kenneth Foote, and Maoz Azaryahu pave the way, in Narrating Space / Spatializing Narrative (2016), to think of space in narrative as well as narrative in space. I steer their approach through nonhuman space by examining a narrative traversal of “the mesh,” which is Timothy Morton’s spatial metaphor for human and nonhuman interconnection. “A narrative traversal of the mesh” indicates two distinct aspects of narrative motion, whic…
Of Non-Mice and Non-Men
Noticing the recent trend in disability studies to entertain essentialism in an attempt to capture the efficacy of identity politics, this essay articulates the reductive implications of doing so. By way of a meta-theoretical synthesis that guides a reading of The Unnamed by Joshua Ferris - a novel that defies categories precisely by defying the categorization of its protagonist's fictional disability in which he is unable to stop himself from wa…
I, theorist
Tracking the major narratological trends that give treatment to Jane Austen’s narrators in Northanger Abbey and Persuasion , this paper at once seeks to consolidate a narratorial voice as distinct from an authorial voice in each work while simultaneously collapsing each of these narratorial voices into storyworld characters via metalepsis. This one-two punch of consolidation and collapse allows me to argue for the emergence of a “tangled indeterm…
Mystical Emulations, Inverted Echoes
In Adam Levin's The Instructions (2010), an intoxicating protagonist named Gurion ben-Judah Maccabee is a ten-year-old Jewish boy from Chicago who thinks that he might become the Messiah. The novel therefore dramatizes itself as Gurion's recorded scripture, and it opens with a "Blessings" section that includes a call to "forgive" Adonai for His "mistakes": "Because you know that Your mistakes, though a part of You, are nonetheless mistakes, we ac…
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