Conceptualizations of Forgiveness as a Way of Exploring a Text’s Implied Worldview Forgiveness is often recognized as a general human phenomenon. It occurs across all cultures and societies and is seen as a positive force, a way of freeing oneself…
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55.2 Featured Authors: Nadeem Ahmad Rather & Sukanya Mondal
1. Tell us a bit about the essay you wrote for JNT. Our essay, Narrating the Vivisection of India: The Girl Child Narrator in Two Partition Novels, explores how the traumatic history of the Partition of India is narrated through…
55.2 Featured Author: Aarushi Punia
1.Tell us a bit about the essay you wrote for JNT. The essay I’ve written for JNT expands the narrative concept of focalization, which answers to the question of ‘who sees’ instead of ‘who speaks’. It analyses two novels that…
55.1 Featured Author: Dr. Sjoerd-Jeroen Moenandar
1.Tell us a bit about the essay you wrote for JNT. Under-narration is a narrative mode that has not been studied very much so far. It can be roughly defined as ‘hinting at a story without fully telling it’. It…
JNT 54.3 Featured Author: Ella Wydrzynska
My JNT essay titled ‘Opening a Window or Pulling Back the Curtain’ is based on a section of my PhD thesis which I completed at the University of Nottingham in 2023. My doctoral research explored a variety of interactive postmodern…
JNT 54.3 Featured Author: Margaret Mackey
As a young reader, I tore through every book about Nancy Drew or Judy Bolton or Beverly Gray that I could lay my hands on. My access to these books was spotty since the library refused to carry them. I…
JNT 54.3 Featured Author: Diletta Cenni
JNT 54.3 Featured Author: Hui Haifeng
When I first began working on this special issue of Journal of Narrative Theory, I was struck by both the opportunities and challenges of bringing these two disciplines into dialogue. Children’s literature, often seen as deceptively simple, contains a wealth…
JNT 53.2 Featured Author: Francesca Arnavas
Gustaf Tenggren, illustration for “Sleeping Beauty”, watercolour and pencil on paper, 1929. Tell us a bit about the essay you wrote for JNT. My article proposes to employ hybridity as a tool to describe the genericcrisscrossing characterising literary texts I…
JNT 53.2 Featured Author: Liwen Zhang
Flirting with Filler: Significance is Overrated “Flirting with Filler” was originally a discarded chapter draft from one of my previous book projects. This may well be a fitting origin for an article that talks about filler: behind every discarded draft…
