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Journal of Narrative Theory
Articles from Vol. 39, No. 2, Summer
A Tiger for Malgudi: Allotropy and Congruity
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Animals must be made to say that they are not animals, that bestiality, savagery - with what these terms imply of unintelligibility, radical strangeness to reason - do not exist, but on the contrary the most bestial behaviors, the most singular, the...
Laughing off Apartheid: Comedy at the Twilight of White Minority Rule
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Over the course of the 1980s, as the curtain fell on apartheid in South Africa, something peculiar happened: people started laughing. Two comedies, The Cosby Show (1984-1992), an American "sit-com" (situational comedy), and The Gods Must Be Crazy (1980),...
The Deconstruction of the Enlightenment in Mark Twain's A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (1889)
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Criticism of A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court has always rec- ognized some insoluble contradiction in its theme. For example, Lee Clark Mitchell sees "clashes of large binary oppositions" that arise from "incon- sistencies in the narrative...
The "Seamy Side" of Human Perfectibility: Satire on Habit in Edward Bulwer-Lytton's the Coming Race
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Northrop Frye famously observed that satire exposes the "seamy side" of humanity ("Nature" 85). Not surprisingly, this revealing mode or genre often conflicted with the restrictive moral aesthetics of mid- Victorian realism. Edward Bulwer-Lytton, an...
Why Now, Why Then?: Present-Tense Narration in Contemporary British and Commonwealth Novels1
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IntroductionAnne Enright's The Gathering (2007), DBC Pierre's Vernon God Little (2003), J. M. Coetzee's Disgrace (1999), Graham Swift's Last Orders (1996), Penelope Lively 's Moon Tiger (1987), Keri Hulme's The Bone People (1984) - what do these books...
