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Peripheries of Narration and Spatial Poetics in Wilkie Collins’s The Moonstone

Cilt: 32 Sayı: 2 15 Ocak 2023
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Peripheries of Narration and Spatial Poetics in Wilkie Collins’s The Moonstone

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This study explores narratological aspects and tools that are employed in Wilkie
Collins’s The Moonstone within the framework of a postcolonial narratology. Postcolonial
narratology directs its attention to the representation of the peripheral and the
marginalized within the scope of narratorial investigation. There will be some
considerations regarding the representation of focal and voiceless characters, the
function of the implied author, authorial audience as well as multiple narrators or
representing voices. The deployment of multitopicality in The Moonstone brings forth
the issue of marginalization predicated on colonizer/colonized relationships. Spatial
poetics in the novel functions in a way in which despite the myriad of settings that
constitute the story, narrative discourse privileges some places while putting the
others into the peripheries. The concept of space in the narrative proves to be active,
fluid and purposeful rather than being passive, static or innocent as in the status of
a background setting. Alongside temporal-spatial aspects, narratological presentation
of the characters also plays a fundamental role in relation to power dynamics and
the issue of representation. In the same vein, it is manifest that not only the description
of space and characters but also the placement of multiple narrators and authorial
audience concurrently contribute to the treatment of imperial ideologies. As part of
the implied author’s scheme, the narrators’ act of narration is flawed and ideologically
loaded rather than consistent or neutral. All these narratological clues in the novel
attest to the idea that narration is always a discursive act.

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Kaynakça

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Ayrıntılar

Birincil Dil

İngilizce

Konular

Sanat ve Edebiyat

Bölüm

Araştırma Makalesi

Yayımlanma Tarihi

15 Ocak 2023

Gönderilme Tarihi

11 Ocak 2022

Kabul Tarihi

26 Kasım 2022

Yayımlandığı Sayı

Yıl 2022 Cilt: 32 Sayı: 2

Kaynak Göster

APA
Toprak Sakız, E. (2023). Peripheries of Narration and Spatial Poetics in Wilkie Collins’s The Moonstone. Litera: Journal of Language, Literature and Culture Studies, 32(2), 553-571. https://doi.org/10.26650/LITERA2022-1056402
AMA
1.Toprak Sakız E. Peripheries of Narration and Spatial Poetics in Wilkie Collins’s The Moonstone. Litera: Journal of Language, Literature and Culture Studies. 2023;32(2):553-571. doi:10.26650/LITERA2022-1056402
Chicago
Toprak Sakız, Elif. 2023. “Peripheries of Narration and Spatial Poetics in Wilkie Collins’s The Moonstone”. Litera: Journal of Language, Literature and Culture Studies 32 (2): 553-71. https://doi.org/10.26650/LITERA2022-1056402.
EndNote
Toprak Sakız E (01 Ocak 2023) Peripheries of Narration and Spatial Poetics in Wilkie Collins’s The Moonstone. Litera: Journal of Language, Literature and Culture Studies 32 2 553–571.
IEEE
[1]E. Toprak Sakız, “Peripheries of Narration and Spatial Poetics in Wilkie Collins’s The Moonstone”, Litera: Journal of Language, Literature and Culture Studies, c. 32, sy 2, ss. 553–571, Oca. 2023, doi: 10.26650/LITERA2022-1056402.
ISNAD
Toprak Sakız, Elif. “Peripheries of Narration and Spatial Poetics in Wilkie Collins’s The Moonstone”. Litera: Journal of Language, Literature and Culture Studies 32/2 (01 Ocak 2023): 553-571. https://doi.org/10.26650/LITERA2022-1056402.
JAMA
1.Toprak Sakız E. Peripheries of Narration and Spatial Poetics in Wilkie Collins’s The Moonstone. Litera: Journal of Language, Literature and Culture Studies. 2023;32:553–571.
MLA
Toprak Sakız, Elif. “Peripheries of Narration and Spatial Poetics in Wilkie Collins’s The Moonstone”. Litera: Journal of Language, Literature and Culture Studies, c. 32, sy 2, Ocak 2023, ss. 553-71, doi:10.26650/LITERA2022-1056402.
Vancouver
1.Elif Toprak Sakız. Peripheries of Narration and Spatial Poetics in Wilkie Collins’s The Moonstone. Litera: Journal of Language, Literature and Culture Studies. 01 Ocak 2023;32(2):553-71. doi:10.26650/LITERA2022-1056402