Mengni Kang
Biographic Data
| ID | 6758000 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mengni Kang |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mengni |
| FAMILY NAME | Kang |
| SIGNATURE | KANG M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University International College, Macau University of Science and Technology |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0473-4039 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Unresolved conflicts and suspended ethics
This article draws on rhetorical narrative theory and makes a case for Stephen Crane’s employment of the resource voice to communicate the naturalistic theme of “The Monster”. It argues that by modulating voices on different communicative tracks, the author invites us to recognize two pairs of conflicting forces: one of free will and external forces that shows in the causes of Henry’s and Trescott’s heroic acts, and the other of individual agency…
Interpreting Timbuktu
Interpreting Timbuktu:An Unnatural Narrative, an Emotional Reading Experience, and a Cognitive Explanation Mengni Kang (bio) and Jan Alber (bio) Paul Auster's novella Timbuktu (1998) tells a tear-jerking story through the eyes of a dog, Mr. Bones, who struggles with the fact that his human master Willy G. Christmas is dying. The work, like many literary endeavors in the field of animal consciousness, does not attract much critical attention (Ittn…
Listen to What the Body Says
In terms of making sense of unnatural narratives, there has been an ongoing debate between the unnatural approach and the cognitive approach—the former captures the distinct qualities of unnatural texts, and the latter examines how linguistic and narrative constructs express human concerns. This study adds an affective dimension to the discussion on combining these two perspectives on narrative and proposes to base the interpretive move on reader…
Disappear into the Material
Disappear into the Material:If on a Winter's Night a Traveler through the Lens of Affect Mengni Kang (bio) According to Todorov, the fantastic genre lasts as long as a certain hesitation between the uncanny and the marvellous, or, between laws of reality and new laws of nature, exists (41). In the reader, this hesitation manifests as an oscillation between fascination and an urge to comprehend. In Jan Alber's words, one has to accept that somethi…
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Listen to What the Body Says
In terms of making sense of unnatural narratives, there has been an ongoing debate between the unnatural approach and the cognitive approach—the former captures the distinct qualities of unnatural texts, and the latter examines how linguistic and narrative constructs express human concerns. This study adds an affective dimension to the discussion on combining these two perspectives on narrative and proposes to base the interpretive move on reader…
Disappear into the Material
Disappear into the Material:If on a Winter's Night a Traveler through the Lens of Affect Mengni Kang (bio) According to Todorov, the fantastic genre lasts as long as a certain hesitation between the uncanny and the marvellous, or, between laws of reality and new laws of nature, exists (41). In the reader, this hesitation manifests as an oscillation between fascination and an urge to comprehend. In Jan Alber's words, one has to accept that somethi…
Unresolved conflicts and suspended ethics
This article draws on rhetorical narrative theory and makes a case for Stephen Crane’s employment of the resource voice to communicate the naturalistic theme of “The Monster”. It argues that by modulating voices on different communicative tracks, the author invites us to recognize two pairs of conflicting forces: one of free will and external forces that shows in the causes of Henry’s and Trescott’s heroic acts, and the other of individual agency…
Interpreting Timbuktu
Interpreting Timbuktu:An Unnatural Narrative, an Emotional Reading Experience, and a Cognitive Explanation Mengni Kang (bio) and Jan Alber (bio) Paul Auster's novella Timbuktu (1998) tells a tear-jerking story through the eyes of a dog, Mr. Bones, who struggles with the fact that his human master Willy G. Christmas is dying. The work, like many literary endeavors in the field of animal consciousness, does not attract much critical attention (Ittn…
Aesthetics (4 works) · Art (4 works) · Linguistics (4 works) · Literature (4 works) · Narrative (4 works) · Narrative Theory and Analysis (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Epistemology (3 works) · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition (3 works) · History (2 works)