Themes and Motifs in Literature: Approaches: Trends: Definition

Disrupting Hegemony, Anticipating the Future: A Nietzschean Reading of God Dies by the Nile and Purple Hibiscus

“…Generally, motifs and what they signify in any literary production and interpretation are important since they become denotative of the ways in which writers draw crucial associations between ideas and patterns that may not be overtly observable. A motif according to Daemmrich (1985) is a subject, a central idea, a recurrent thematic element used in the development of an artistic piece. Motifs have dual relationships by referring to the semblance of phenomena and fluctuating position in texts; series of relational patterns and a selective principle that classifies concordant phenomena on the basis of frequency of occur (Daemmrich, 1985, p. 567).…”

motivo de la circularidad en espacios inhóspitos en The Circle Game de Margaret Atwood

“…La semblanza y el posicionamiento son los que se relacionan directamente con el estudio del espacio. Por semblanza el crítico explica que los motivos suelen dar la idea de algo concreto, observable y actual refiriéndose a que se encuentran motivos que son lugares (topos), objetos, imágenes y figuras (Daemmrich, 1985). En el caso en que un motivo tenga un tinte más abstracto, siempre estará relacionado con patrones de asociación que le permitan al lector referirlo rápidamente con algo concreto.…”