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The research paper presents the concept of secondarily multimodal work, which problematizes the status of e.g.: visual elements added to further editions of an initially monomodal text in the context of its interpretation. This issue is discussed using the example of Bronka Nowicka's volume To Feed a Stone (2015; 2017), which was expanded in the second edition with photographs and tomographs of the objects described. The analysis shows that some added graphic elements break up the coherence of the narrative and both reinforce and undermine the mimesis in the work. They function based on the principle of a Derridean supplement: they complement and condition the content of the verbal passages. The article concludes with a study of art volumes that are part of Nowicka's intermedia project focusing on exploring the relationship between image and memory. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper is an attempt to interpret Magdalena Tulli's novels in the context of the immunological paradigm. Immunological threads are traced on three levels: firstly, in the context of the communities described in Sny i kamienie [Dreams and stones], Skaza [Flaw] and W czerwieni [In Red]; secondly, with regard to the narrative constantly encountering problems such as 'unwanted threads' that degenerate the stories and prevent the narrative from bringing them to an end. Thirdly, in the context of post-memory, that is, a memory with its roots extending beyond the experiences of the subject. According to the thesis she puts forward, Tulli activates the immunological discourse on these three levels. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper is devoted to the problem of Predappio as a place of contested memory. Benito Mussolini’s hometown is presented in literature as a symbolic site of the divided memory of the fascist regime. In what follows, I will examine the process of shaping the image of Predappio from the fascist period to the present day, as well as strategies implemented by local authorities to overcome the legacy of this difficult heritage and build a positive narrative of the city. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The essay presents an overview of the possible meanings and applications of the newly-coined term 'ludotopia', i.e. a "dialectical entanglement of game and space" -- which challenges the boundaries of two neighbouring worlds: storyworld and gameworld. Seeking to trace the limitations of a thus defined gaming space, the author proceeds by reflecting upon the end of the game, or, more precisely, the endgame, in order to reconcile it with a notion of horismós (oρισμoς) popular in more hermeneutically aligned video game studies. While doing so, the paper delivers an analysis of Assassin's Creed: Odyssey showing three distinct stages in which a ludotopia can be opened towards more advanced world-building: (1) exploration and map reveal; (2) synchronisation of intelligible tags; and (3) renewal of narrative motivation. Thanks to a world-centered approach to the interpreted video game, the essay addresses how players inhabit, traverse, explore, and understand the surrounding ludic reality, rather than focusing on video game mechanics or procedures that affect their gameplay. In the end, a precise distinction between the storyworld and gameworld is introduced in order to reevaluate the ways both terms overlap with the aforementioned interpretation of ludotopia. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper is a close-reading of Joyce Carol Oates’ short story The Woman in the Window inspired by Edward Hopper’s 11 A.M. An extensive narrative, which is overwritten over the painting and set in it’s space-time framework, enables the short story discussed herein to be considered as an ekphrastic apocryphon with subversive potential. Literary reaffirmation of the perspective of painted woman that is obviously omitted in Hopper’s masterpiece, allows for the alleged oppressiveness of the painting to be revealed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper focuses on the melodramatic features in Almayer's Folly, the first part of The Malay Trilogy by Joseph Conrad, and their significance for the interpretation of the novel. The poetics of melodrama and opera is reflected in various aspects of Conrad's prose, such as e.g. main plot construction, references to Verdi, characterisation of the protagonists. The melodrama and opera provide an important cultural frame of reference, which affects the narrative scope of the novel discussed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The aim of the paper is to analyze El sueño del señor juez (2000) by Carlos Gamerro in the light of his two recent essays: Ficciones barrocas (2010) and Facundo o Martín Fierro (2015). Gamerro, whose novel is representative for the revisionist tendency of reinterpreting the Argentinian XIXth century, very present in the Argentinian narrative after the last dictatorship, retakes the opposition between two classics: Martín Fierro and Facundo, and thanks to different textual games creates a "baroque fiction", pointing out the baroquization of the Argentinian reality. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The aim of this paper is to explore how adult learners of Greek as a second language construct their identities through humorous written narratives. Analyzing 135 written humorous narratives with Bamberg’s (1997) narrative positioning model and the knowledge resources of script opposition and target from the General Theory of Verbal Humor (Attardo 1994, 2001), we detect two main categories: (a) narratives of legitimizing identities and (b) narratives of resistance identities. Here we discuss one narrative of each category in which narrators position themselves towards aspects of the Greek sociolinguistic context. Humor emerges as a basic tool for identity construction and stance expression, as narrators either align themselves with dominant values of the L2 context or disassociate themselves from it.

The aim of this article is to show how the user interface in video game NieR: Automata (N:A) is used as a narrative device. The author analyzes how the title tells a complex story through unconventional usages of different medium’s elements, often perceived as invisible tools. Presenting the story from the perspective of three androids, the game uses interface and system settings for narrative purposes and at the same time they are used to propose a look at a posthuman experience. The author claims that through glitches and other system’s flaws N:A naturalizes a mediated interface and allows the player to more intensively experience the story. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article focuses on European integration narratives and their emphasis of 'crisis' as the main feature overshadowing and explaining all events and processes. It is argued that the dominant story about the collapsing Union, combined with transformations in the fi eld of communications, creates very diffi cult conditions for re-creation of a political story outlining a better future. The latter constitutes an indispensible element of the success of the integration process. In fact, re-introduction of such a positive narrative is crucial to solve the crisis and much more important than any institutional innovation. In addition, the article discusses the weaknesses of the 'European camp' that got used to a secure and closed space created by means of transforming political myth into expert knowledge. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]