Seymour Chatman
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 275074 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Seymour Chatman |
| PRENOMES | Seymour |
| SOBRENOME | Chatman |
| ASSINATURA | CHATMAN S |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of California, Berkeley |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 38 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 65 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 38 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1951 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2015 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
Playful Identities
In this edited volume, eighteen scholars examine the increasing role of digital media technologies in identity construction through play. Going beyond computer games, this interdisciplinary collection argues that present-day play and games are not only appropriate metaphors for capturing postmodern human identities, but are in fact the means by which people create their identity. From discussions of World of Warcraft and Foursquare to digital car…
Parody and Style
This article questions recent arguments that "parody" is the prototypical postmodern genre, an argument which not only goes needlessly beyond the traditional definition of the term but handicaps stylisticians from distinguishing between it and its neighboring kinds of texts. Citing a variety of examples, I repeat Genette's traditional discrimination among strict parody, travesty, satiric pastiche, and pure (or nonsatiric) pastiche. I also urge th…
Narratology in Context
Coming to Terms
What Can We Learn from Contextualist Narratology
In recent years, scholars have proposed an approach to narrative which diverges sharply from structuralist narratology. The name that seems to suit this alternative approach best is Contextualist. Though they do not speak of themselves as a group, Mary Louise Pratt (1977), Barbara Herrnstein Smith (1981), Thomas Leitch (1986), and, to a lesser degree, Susan Sniader Lanser (1981) have argued the position.' Since I am more concerned with the broad …
Quel bowling sul Tevere
Characters and Narrators
language at large. In our early linguistic experience (God knows when), we learn word or phrase, say, of view. As students we read Henry James or some other narratologist who uses the term to refer to concept, or more likely, tangle of concepts that we have intuitively felt demands study. As established scholars we look long and hard for more appropriate term angle of vision, post of observation, focalization. At last we find one that seems just …
Antonioni, or, The Surface of the World
Michelangelo Antonioni is one of the great visual artists of the cinema. The central and distinguishing strength of Antonioni's mature films, Seymour Chatman argues, is narration by a kind of visual minimalism, by an intense concentration on the sheer appearance of things and a rejection of explanatory dialogue. Though traditional audiences have balked at the "opacity" of Antonioni's films, it is precisely their rendered surface that is so eloque…
What Is Description in the Cinema
That serves well enough, I think, except that the twentieth century would argue that description is more than a mere figure; it is for us a whole genre or mode or text-type parallel and structurally contrasting with other text-types like narrative, exposition, lyric, and so on. I am chiefly concerned here with description in its relation narrative, specifically, its function at the service of narrative, as in the classical nineteenth century nove…
Reply to Barbara Herrnstein Smith
A New Synthesis of Narratology
The Rhetoric of Difficult Fiction
Story and Discourse
What Novels Can Do That Films Can't (And Vice Versa)
Story and Discourse. Narrative Structure in Fiction and Film
Story and Discourse
Semiotics and Citizen Kane
Peter Wollen. Semiotics and Citizen Kane: The New Hollywood Cinema. Film Reader I. Evanston, Ill.: Northwestern University, 1975
Discussion of Gilbert Harman's paper, “semiotics and the cinema”
Towards a Theory of Narrative
T HE ELEMENTS OF THE formalist-structuralist theory of narrative, with which I basically concur, can be epitomized as follows. Each narrative has two parts: a story (histoire), consisting of the content, the chain of events (actions and happenings), and what may be called the existents (characters and settings), the objects and persons performing, undergoing, or acting as a background for them; and a discourse (discours), that is, the expression,…
The Later Style of Henry James
"On Defining "Form
SSHOULD argue, from a rather straightforward Aristotelian position, that there really is no alternative to form, that no discourse, indeed no communication, can avoid having a form, as it cannot avoid having a content. I know that it is popular to argue monistically, that form and content are one, a position ultimately Plato's, but which gained great support in the Romantic Period. In the twentieth century, it has had powerful defenders like Croc…
Linguistics and Literary Theory . Karl D. Uitti
The semantics of style
Some Intonational Crosscurrents
The forum
What Novels Can Do That Films Can't (And Vice Versa)
Playful Identities
In this edited volume, eighteen scholars examine the increasing role of digital media technologies in identity construction through play. Going beyond computer games, this interdisciplinary collection argues that present-day play and games are not only appropriate metaphors for capturing postmodern human identities, but are in fact the means by which people create their identity. From discussions of World of Warcraft and Foursquare to digital car…
Characters and Narrators
language at large. In our early linguistic experience (God knows when), we learn word or phrase, say, of view. As students we read Henry James or some other narratologist who uses the term to refer to concept, or more likely, tangle of concepts that we have intuitively felt demands study. As established scholars we look long and hard for more appropriate term angle of vision, post of observation, focalization. At last we find one that seems just …
What Can We Learn from Contextualist Narratology
In recent years, scholars have proposed an approach to narrative which diverges sharply from structuralist narratology. The name that seems to suit this alternative approach best is Contextualist. Though they do not speak of themselves as a group, Mary Louise Pratt (1977), Barbara Herrnstein Smith (1981), Thomas Leitch (1986), and, to a lesser degree, Susan Sniader Lanser (1981) have argued the position.' Since I am more concerned with the broad …
Towards a Theory of Narrative
T HE ELEMENTS OF THE formalist-structuralist theory of narrative, with which I basically concur, can be epitomized as follows. Each narrative has two parts: a story (histoire), consisting of the content, the chain of events (actions and happenings), and what may be called the existents (characters and settings), the objects and persons performing, undergoing, or acting as a background for them; and a discourse (discours), that is, the expression,…
Pre-Adjectivals in the English Nominal Phrase
word in the construction, which is called the 'head.' However, in practice he limits the application 'head' to subordinative (or attributive) constructions, and uses the broader term 'center' to designate a word which belongs to the same form-class as the resultant phrase in any endocentric construction, including coordinative constructions. Thus, in the construction all this fresh bread and sweet butter, the word bread is the head (and the cente…
Parody and Style
This article questions recent arguments that "parody" is the prototypical postmodern genre, an argument which not only goes needlessly beyond the traditional definition of the term but handicaps stylisticians from distinguishing between it and its neighboring kinds of texts. Citing a variety of examples, I repeat Genette's traditional discrimination among strict parody, travesty, satiric pastiche, and pure (or nonsatiric) pastiche. I also urge th…
Narratology in Context
Reply to Barbara Herrnstein Smith
The forum
The semantics of style
On the Theory of Literary Style
Immediate Constituents and Expansion Analysis
Some Problems in Teaching English Pronunciation to Speakers of Persian
Immediate Constituents and Expansion Analysis
An Old English Grammar
Linguistics and Teaching Introductory Literature
Speculative Instruments
Linguistics, poetics, and interpretation
A Note on Fries's Group A
The a /æ Opposition in Old English
Pre-Adjectivals in the English Nominal Phrase
word in the construction, which is called the 'head.' However, in practice he limits the application 'head' to subordinative (or attributive) constructions, and uses the broader term 'center' to designate a word which belongs to the same form-class as the resultant phrase in any endocentric construction, including coordinative constructions. Thus, in the construction all this fresh bread and sweet butter, the word bread is the head (and the cente…
Cockney Phonology
A New Textbook of General Linguistics
Some Intonational Crosscurrents
The forum
Linguistics and English Grammar
On the Theory of Literary Style
The semantics of style
Linguistics and Literary Theory . Karl D. Uitti
"On Defining "Form
SSHOULD argue, from a rather straightforward Aristotelian position, that there really is no alternative to form, that no discourse, indeed no communication, can avoid having a form, as it cannot avoid having a content. I know that it is popular to argue monistically, that form and content are one, a position ultimately Plato's, but which gained great support in the Romantic Period. In the twentieth century, it has had powerful defenders like Croc…
The Later Style of Henry James
Towards a Theory of Narrative
T HE ELEMENTS OF THE formalist-structuralist theory of narrative, with which I basically concur, can be epitomized as follows. Each narrative has two parts: a story (histoire), consisting of the content, the chain of events (actions and happenings), and what may be called the existents (characters and settings), the objects and persons performing, undergoing, or acting as a background for them; and a discourse (discours), that is, the expression,…
Discussion of Gilbert Harman's paper, “semiotics and the cinema”
Semiotics and Citizen Kane
Peter Wollen. Semiotics and Citizen Kane: The New Hollywood Cinema. Film Reader I. Evanston, Ill.: Northwestern University, 1975
Story and Discourse. Narrative Structure in Fiction and Film
Story and Discourse
A New Synthesis of Narratology
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