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Journal of Beijing Normal University(Social Sciences) ›› 2024, Vol. 0 ›› Issue (5): 13-24.

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The Mobility of Objects in Narratives and Its Influence on the Forms of Stories

FU Xiuyan1, DING Mei2   

  1. 1. School of Foreign Literature and Culture,Guangdong University of Foreign Studies,Guangzhou 510420;
    2. School of Narrative Studies,Jiangxi Normal University,Nanchang 330022,China
  • Online:2024-09-25 Published:2024-11-27

Abstract: Mobility has intensively involved itself in modern social life. Narratology should consider the mobility of objects and focus on its influence on the forms of stories. The mobility of objects in narratives not only produces new time and space,motivating the continuance and extension of narration,but also makes a relatively independent event itself. Some works even witness the objects' contempt and manipulation of men. The mobility of objects can also pour new energy into the progression of stories,move the event into an astonishing direction,or provide more possibilities for characters' choices. Generally speaking,narratives are understood as the narration of human actions,but actually the mobility of objects in time and space also makes its own stories.

Key words: objects, mobility, agency, paths, detachment and attachment

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