TY  - BOOK
AU  - Nelly G. Kupper
PY  - 2018
CY  - New York, United States of America
PB  - Peter Lang Verlag
SN  - 9781433146992
TI  - Gaze, Memory, and Gender in Narrative from Ancient to Modern
DO  - 10.3726/b11699
UR  - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1055974
N2  - This book examines the concept of the gaze in the context of narrative fiction. It argues that the gaze in fiction is a tractable factor, identifying the function of characters by way of the gender. The gaze variance and its connection to memory is not new to literary scholarship, but what has been overlooked to date is the fact that the divide exists along the line of gender. The dyad gaze-memory, provided by literary scholarship thus far is erroneous; what emerges instead is a triadic paradigm gaze-memory-gender. The gender divide is reflected in neuroscience, which shows memory processing in man and woman as respectively losing (forgetting) or retaining (remembering) vividness of detail. The discussion focuses on two narratives, one ancient (the Orphic cycle) the other modern (the novel Le Grand Meaulnes) to show that despite the presence of new narrative devices and conventions, the rules of the paradigm are preserved.
LA  - English
ER  -