Shlomith Rimmon-Kenan
Biographic Data
| ID | 389760 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Shlomith Rimmon-Kenan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Shlomith |
| FAMILY NAME | Rimmon-Kenan |
| SIGNATURE | RIMMON-KENAN S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Hebrew University of Jerusalem |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 11 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1980 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The Postclassical Chronotope: A Narratological Inquiry
As a thought experiment, this article conjoins the approaches of two theorists with very different worldviews, Mikhail Bakhtin and Gérard Genette, in the hope of generating a model for a "postclassical chronotope" within the framework of a situated narratology. Our exploration begins with a juxtaposition of Virginia Woolf's Mrs Dalloway (1925), confined to one day but structured through the characters' movements in space, with Amor Towles's A Gen…
What Can Narrative Theory Learn from Illness Narratives
This essay assumes the possibility of establishing a fruitful mutual relationship between narratology and autobiographical illness narratives. Within this relationship, it focuses on several ways in which the latter illuminate, and sometimes problematize, central notions in narratology and narrative theory. The main issues explored are 1) the complex interaction between the collapse of the body and that of the narrative, and its implications for …
Narrative Fiction
What is a narrative? What is narrative fiction? How does it differ from other kinds of narrative? What featuers turn a discourse into a narrative text? Now widely acknowledged as one of the most significant volumes in its field, Narrative Fiction turns its attention to these and other questions. In contrast to many other studies, Narrative Fiction is organized arround issues - such as events, time, focalization, characterization, narration, the t…
A "Figure" in Iser's "Carpet
New Literary History - Volume 31, Number 1, Winter 2000
Readings and Rereadings
Narrative Fiction: Contemporary Poetics
Narrative Fiction: Contemporary Poetics
Ambiguity and Narrative Levels: Christine Brooke-Rose's Thru
Visual exercises such as Wittgenstein's famous rabbit-duck figure (1969: 194)1 or Escher's birds/black interlacing (1972)2 have often been evoked in studies not distinugishing between ambiguity and other types of plurisignificance (e.g., Wright 1976: 506-508). Attempting to develop a more sharply focused definition, I have identified the same puzzle pictures with ambiguity alone, differentiating it from cognate phenomena on the basis of the logic…
What Do Brook's Bricks Mean: Toward a Theory of the "Mobility" of Objects in Theatrical Discourse
The status of any in theatrical discourse is problematic because a theatrical performance is an amalgam of signs already codified in other systems. We have chosen to approach this problem by focusing on one type of signs, namely objects because, owing to their visual nature, they tend, than other signs, to seem pre-codified in extra-theatrical contexts. Their mimetic nature is thus more transparent and directly iconic (Elam, 1978: 143). Neverthel…
Deconstructive Reflections on Deconstruction: In Reply to Hillis Miller
The Paradoxical Status of Repetition
The purpose of this paper is to clear ground for a poetics of repetition, leaving actual development of such a poetics for another, much larger, study. It may seem strange that a clearing of ground should take form of paradoxes, but such is nature of phenomenon as well as of symbolic order (Lacan, 1966) to which it belongs. Such also is nature of self-reflexive and self-doubting theories which this article follows: Lacan, Derrida, Barthes, and so…
Doubles and Counterparts: Patterns of Interchangeability in Borges' 'The Garden of Forking Paths
The Paradoxical Status of Repetition
The purpose of this paper is to clear ground for a poetics of repetition, leaving actual development of such a poetics for another, much larger, study. It may seem strange that a clearing of ground should take form of paradoxes, but such is nature of phenomenon as well as of symbolic order (Lacan, 1966) to which it belongs. Such also is nature of self-reflexive and self-doubting theories which this article follows: Lacan, Derrida, Barthes, and so…
Ambiguity and Narrative Levels: Christine Brooke-Rose's Thru
Visual exercises such as Wittgenstein's famous rabbit-duck figure (1969: 194)1 or Escher's birds/black interlacing (1972)2 have often been evoked in studies not distinugishing between ambiguity and other types of plurisignificance (e.g., Wright 1976: 506-508). Attempting to develop a more sharply focused definition, I have identified the same puzzle pictures with ambiguity alone, differentiating it from cognate phenomena on the basis of the logic…
Narrative Fiction: Contemporary Poetics
What Do Brook's Bricks Mean: Toward a Theory of the "Mobility" of Objects in Theatrical Discourse
The status of any in theatrical discourse is problematic because a theatrical performance is an amalgam of signs already codified in other systems. We have chosen to approach this problem by focusing on one type of signs, namely objects because, owing to their visual nature, they tend, than other signs, to seem pre-codified in extra-theatrical contexts. Their mimetic nature is thus more transparent and directly iconic (Elam, 1978: 143). Neverthel…
Deconstructive Reflections on Deconstruction: In Reply to Hillis Miller
Deconstructive Reflections on Deconstruction: In Reply to Hillis Miller
The Paradoxical Status of Repetition
The purpose of this paper is to clear ground for a poetics of repetition, leaving actual development of such a poetics for another, much larger, study. It may seem strange that a clearing of ground should take form of paradoxes, but such is nature of phenomenon as well as of symbolic order (Lacan, 1966) to which it belongs. Such also is nature of self-reflexive and self-doubting theories which this article follows: Lacan, Derrida, Barthes, and so…
Doubles and Counterparts: Patterns of Interchangeability in Borges' 'The Garden of Forking Paths
What Do Brook's Bricks Mean: Toward a Theory of the "Mobility" of Objects in Theatrical Discourse
The status of any in theatrical discourse is problematic because a theatrical performance is an amalgam of signs already codified in other systems. We have chosen to approach this problem by focusing on one type of signs, namely objects because, owing to their visual nature, they tend, than other signs, to seem pre-codified in extra-theatrical contexts. Their mimetic nature is thus more transparent and directly iconic (Elam, 1978: 143). Neverthel…
Ambiguity and Narrative Levels: Christine Brooke-Rose's Thru
Visual exercises such as Wittgenstein's famous rabbit-duck figure (1969: 194)1 or Escher's birds/black interlacing (1972)2 have often been evoked in studies not distinugishing between ambiguity and other types of plurisignificance (e.g., Wright 1976: 506-508). Attempting to develop a more sharply focused definition, I have identified the same puzzle pictures with ambiguity alone, differentiating it from cognate phenomena on the basis of the logic…
Narrative Fiction: Contemporary Poetics
Narrative Fiction: Contemporary Poetics
Readings and Rereadings
A "Figure" in Iser's "Carpet
New Literary History - Volume 31, Number 1, Winter 2000
Narrative Fiction
What is a narrative? What is narrative fiction? How does it differ from other kinds of narrative? What featuers turn a discourse into a narrative text? Now widely acknowledged as one of the most significant volumes in its field, Narrative Fiction turns its attention to these and other questions. In contrast to many other studies, Narrative Fiction is organized arround issues - such as events, time, focalization, characterization, narration, the t…
What Can Narrative Theory Learn from Illness Narratives
This essay assumes the possibility of establishing a fruitful mutual relationship between narratology and autobiographical illness narratives. Within this relationship, it focuses on several ways in which the latter illuminate, and sometimes problematize, central notions in narratology and narrative theory. The main issues explored are 1) the complex interaction between the collapse of the body and that of the narrative, and its implications for …
The Postclassical Chronotope: A Narratological Inquiry
As a thought experiment, this article conjoins the approaches of two theorists with very different worldviews, Mikhail Bakhtin and Gérard Genette, in the hope of generating a model for a "postclassical chronotope" within the framework of a situated narratology. Our exploration begins with a juxtaposition of Virginia Woolf's Mrs Dalloway (1925), confined to one day but structured through the characters' movements in space, with Amor Towles's A Gen…
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