Affective experientiality in Richard Ford’s Canada: a cognitive narratological reading

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https://doi.org/10.5007/2175-8026.2024.e97655

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Richard Ford's Canada, Patrick C. Hogan, Affective Studies, Experientiality, Cognitive Narratology

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This article aims to explore the affective structure of the narrative universe in Richard Ford’s Canada through the lens of Patrick Colm Hogan’s affective narratology. We look into the affective responses provoked through the story-discourse distinction by virtue of Dell Parson’ experientiality, both functioning as the narrating self (the narrator) and the experiencing self (the focalizer) in the novel. By way of considering the story(world) of the novel (what is told) with deliberate emphasis on the characters and the setting, we will also examine the discourse as the reconstruction of the story (how it is told) which crucially comprises the plot or emplotment and narration. The objective is to shed light on the importance of the emotional affordances of experience as reflected in Ford’s novel.

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Omid Amani, Malayer University

Omid Amani is an assistant professor of English literature at the Department of English, faculty of Humanities, Malayer University, Malayer, Iran. His research interests are Literary Theory, Contemporary British and American Fiction and Drama. He has published several articles on narratology and cognitive poetics. His most current project is to explore narrative empathy in literary nonfiction in American writing.

Hossein Pirnajmuddin, University of Isfahan

Hossein Pirnajmuddin currently works as associate professor at the Department of English, University of Isfahan. Hossein does research in Literary Theory, Renaissance English Literature, Contemporary English Fiction, and Translation Studies. His current project is an investigation of the discourse of liberal humanism in a number of contemporary American writers. He has several publications on narratology, cognitive poetics, literary criticism, and modern literature, to name but a few.

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2024-11-08

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v. 77 (2024)

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Estudos Literários e Culturais

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