Fictional Transits and Ruth Ozeki’s A Tale for the Time Being

Davis, Rocío G.

doi:10.1353/bio.2015.0007

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“…By naming the character Ruth, Ozeki reminds readers of her presence as the author behind, which helps to build a connection between her and readers. As suggested by Davis, there are textual clues that invite us to link her to Ozeki, conflating the figure of the person in the writing process and in daily life [7]. With further reading, readers would find that character Ruth not only bears the same name with the author, but also shares extremely similar life experiences with her, hence the usual covert awareness that character is an artificial construct becomes overt [8].…”

Section: Ozeki's Reader: Authorial Audiencementioning

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Reader-Writer Relationship: A Rhetorical Narrative Analysis of A Tale for the Time Being

Deng

2023

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Ruth Ozekis work A Tale for the Time Being has piqued world-wide interest in its thematic extensity and unique style. Previous theme studies on one of the novels most fundamental topics reader-writer relationship, proves insightful in understanding the novels artistic construction. In light of Phelans rhetorical theory of narrative, the paper intends to build on the interpretation of the novels aesthetic value by employing three of the core concepts of Phelans theory four dimension readers, narrative progression and narrative judgements to better demonstrate the significance of readers involvement not only in building, but also propelling and revealing the dynamics of the multilayered reader-writer relationship. By analyzing various engagements readers have with characters and the implied author, the paper shows that rather than through overarching explanations, the novel preserves the relationships elusive nature through a multilayered reading experience.

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Section: Ozeki's Reader: Authorial Audiencementioning

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Reader-Writer Relationship: A Rhetorical Narrative Analysis of A Tale for the Time Being

Deng

2023

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“…The autobiographical references abound in the novel and have been the subject of critical attention (Davis 2015;Lowell 2018). Rocío G. Davis considers the novel "a scavenger hunt" where the fictive and the real are interlocked (Davis 88).…”

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The Poetics and Politics of Hospitality in U.S. Literature and Culture

Gerke¹,

Guerrero-Strachan²,

Rico³

2020

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America has its purpose: it must serve that purpose to the end: I look upon the future as certain: our people will in the end read all these lessons right: America will stand opposed to everything which means restriction-stand against all policies of exclusion: accept Irish, Chinese-knowing it must not question the logic of its hospitality. [. . .] Our conditions, ideals, causes, all point one way: that way cannot but be the way of freedom.

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“…Hendry 2013;Pflug 2014;Ty 2013), or very generally attributed to recent trends in autobiographical fiction without considering the matter on a broader scale (cf. Davis 2015).…”

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A tale of being everything: literary subject in Ruth Ozeki's A Tale for the Time Being

Krevel¹

2017

Brno Studies in English

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The article examines the structure of the literary subject in Ruth Ozeki's 2013 novel A Tale for the Time Being from the perspective of the governing mechanisms of the postmodern epoch. I argue that the fluidity of the subject roles in the novel not only complies with Zen Buddhist principles Ozeki admittedly employed in their conception, but also reflects the structure of contemporary individuals within the postmodern social and economic realities. My analysis of the narrative agents relies primarily upon the theoretical framework charted by Jean Baudrillard, specifically his concepts of hyperreality and fractal subject. The adherence of the subjects in the novel to the principles of the postmodern paradigm allows us to consider A Tale for the Time Being as an example of a way in which the American mainstream has begun to accommodate (to) the social and historical circumstances of the new historical epoch.

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Fictional Transits and Ruth Ozeki’s A Tale for the Time Being

Cited by 19 publications

References 10 publications

Reader-Writer Relationship: A Rhetorical Narrative Analysis of A Tale for the Time Being

Reader-Writer Relationship: A Rhetorical Narrative Analysis of A Tale for the Time Being

The Poetics and Politics of Hospitality in U.S. Literature and Culture

A tale of being everything: literary subject in Ruth Ozeki's A Tale for the Time Being

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