This paper studies the trauma narrative of Toni Morrison's novel, A Mercy(2008), using a cognitive narratological framework. The authors, in this paper, describe the response the novel elicits from the reader. And...This paper studies the trauma narrative of Toni Morrison's novel, A Mercy(2008), using a cognitive narratological framework. The authors, in this paper, describe the response the novel elicits from the reader. And the paper argues that multiple focalization, polychronic narration, and representation of inconsistent information enable Morrison to depict effectively the devastating effects of trauma—whether sexual, socioeconomic, or racial—on individual personality. Various characters of multi-ethnic origins narrate the novel and certain events are told repeatedly from different vantage points. Thus, the narrative calls forth continuous efforts on the part of the reader to process the complex and bewildering information emerging from the novel's storyworld. A cognitive approach to the study of the novel provides an understanding of the behavior of the traumatized and the impact of slavery on black people's consciousness and identity. Moreover, the approach gives insight into the manner in which the narrative engages the readers cognitively in such a way that it enables their comprehension of the relationship between individual trauma and social forces of injustice and oppression.展开更多
Following Per Aage Brandt's"Towards a cognitive semiotics"(2011),culture as a cognitive-semiotic model allows us to look into the interrelation of cognition and signs through the act of interpretation of...Following Per Aage Brandt's"Towards a cognitive semiotics"(2011),culture as a cognitive-semiotic model allows us to look into the interrelation of cognition and signs through the act of interpretation of culture.Thus,culture characterized as habits of feeling,attention,thought,and action plays a role of modeling in the lifeworld.Regarding cultural evolution,culture also has a feature of practice of habit-taking for transformation through dialogic relations of semiosis from Peirce's semiotic perspective.This paper argues for narrative modeling which enables habit-taking in feelings by way of analogical reasoning in a form of parable as cognitive process.A story in a form of qualia as a model for thought is embodied in narrative modeling to be enactive by a storytelling agent.Therefore,narrative modeling reveals the process of thought through habit-taking in feelings of empathy and sympathy to a feeling of an idea as a person.This leads to an act of understanding other mind,sharing the meaning and value of a story for enhancing sensibility and cultural literacy for cultural evolution.This journey of story-making and story-telling by way of narrative modeling shows a trajectory for a quest for meaning and value which will be found between"you"and"I".展开更多
文摘This paper studies the trauma narrative of Toni Morrison's novel, A Mercy(2008), using a cognitive narratological framework. The authors, in this paper, describe the response the novel elicits from the reader. And the paper argues that multiple focalization, polychronic narration, and representation of inconsistent information enable Morrison to depict effectively the devastating effects of trauma—whether sexual, socioeconomic, or racial—on individual personality. Various characters of multi-ethnic origins narrate the novel and certain events are told repeatedly from different vantage points. Thus, the narrative calls forth continuous efforts on the part of the reader to process the complex and bewildering information emerging from the novel's storyworld. A cognitive approach to the study of the novel provides an understanding of the behavior of the traumatized and the impact of slavery on black people's consciousness and identity. Moreover, the approach gives insight into the manner in which the narrative engages the readers cognitively in such a way that it enables their comprehension of the relationship between individual trauma and social forces of injustice and oppression.
基金Hankuk University of Foreign Studies(http:/dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100002486)Research Fund of 2023.The National Research Foundation of Korea(http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100003725)grant NRF-2021S1A6A3A01097826。
文摘Following Per Aage Brandt's"Towards a cognitive semiotics"(2011),culture as a cognitive-semiotic model allows us to look into the interrelation of cognition and signs through the act of interpretation of culture.Thus,culture characterized as habits of feeling,attention,thought,and action plays a role of modeling in the lifeworld.Regarding cultural evolution,culture also has a feature of practice of habit-taking for transformation through dialogic relations of semiosis from Peirce's semiotic perspective.This paper argues for narrative modeling which enables habit-taking in feelings by way of analogical reasoning in a form of parable as cognitive process.A story in a form of qualia as a model for thought is embodied in narrative modeling to be enactive by a storytelling agent.Therefore,narrative modeling reveals the process of thought through habit-taking in feelings of empathy and sympathy to a feeling of an idea as a person.This leads to an act of understanding other mind,sharing the meaning and value of a story for enhancing sensibility and cultural literacy for cultural evolution.This journey of story-making and story-telling by way of narrative modeling shows a trajectory for a quest for meaning and value which will be found between"you"and"I".
