Train Travel as Embodied Space-Time in Narrative Theory

Author:   Atsuko Sakaki
Publisher:   Springer International Publishing AG
Edition:   1st ed. 2023
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9783031405471


Pages:   286
Publication Date:   02 November 2023
Format:   Hardback
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Train Travel as Embodied Space-Time in Narrative Theory argues that the train is a loaded trope for reconfiguring narrative theories past their “spatial turn.” Atsuko Sakaki’s method exploits intensive and rigorous close reading of literary and cinematic narratives on one hand, and on the other hand interdisciplinary perspectives that draw out larger connections to narrative theory. The book utilizes not only narratological frameworks but also concepts of space-focused humanity oriented social sciences, such as human geography, mobility studies, tourism studies, and qualitative/experience-based ethnography, in their post “narrative turn.” On this interface of narrative studies and spatial studies, this book pays concerted attention to the formation of affordances, or relations in which the human subject uses a space-time and things in it, in terms of passenger experience of the train carriage and its extension. Affiliation: Atsuko Sakaki, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada.

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Author:   Atsuko Sakaki
Publisher:   Springer International Publishing AG
Imprint:   Palgrave Macmillan
Edition:   1st ed. 2023
Weight:   0.524kg
ISBN:  

9783031405471


ISBN 10:   3031405471
Pages:   286
Publication Date:   02 November 2023
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand   Availability explained
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Introduction:  The Train as Embodied Space-Time, with Case Studies of The Lady Vanishes, The Narrow Margin, and Night Train  Traveling Alone on the Rails into the Future: Sanshirō, My Most Secret Council, Night Train to Lisbon, and Zone Juncture 1: Wendy and Lucy  Best Friends for a While: Fugitives on the Train in “Night of the Milky Way Railway,” Night Passage, and The Naked Eye Juncture 2: Clouds of Sils Maria  It’s Not “I,” It’s “You”: A Second-Person Protagonist on the Train in La Modification, Blue Journey, and Suspects on the Night Train  Conclusion: Stations as an Extension of the Train Space-Time in the Romantic Narrative “North Station”

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Atsuko Sakaki is Professor of East Asian studies and Comparative Literature at University of Toronto, Canada. She is the author of many articles and three books, including Recontextualizing Texts: Narrative Performance in Modern Japanese Fiction (Harvard, 1999) and The Rhetoric of Photography in Modern Japanese Literature (Brill 2015).

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