There came whisperings in the winds

There came whisperings in the winds:
"Good-bye! Good-bye!"
Little voices called in the darkness:
"Good-bye! Good-bye!"
Then I stretched forth my arms.
"No-no-"
There came whisperings in the wind "Good-bye! Good-bye!"
Little voices called in the darkness:
"Good-bye! Good-bye!" 

(Stephen Crane, The Black Riders, XLIII)

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Reading Racism: The Assumption of Authorial Intentions in Stephen Crane's 'The Monster'

This paper derives from an M.A. dissertation on Stephen Crane ("Reading 'The Monster'," Brown University, 1989). It examines the critical reception of Stephen Crane's story 'The Monster,' with a special focus on the issue of racial representation and on the way authorial intentions bearing on this issue are constructed by critics. The critical approach expands narratological analysis in the direction of the sociology of literature, in this case through reception aesthetics. Focusing on racial representations and attitudes, the paper upholds the relevance of authorial intention as a critical concept, understanding criticism as a specific discursive discipline or "language game," on the basis of the continual use critics make of this concept in order to make sense of the works they read. At the same time, the limits of such intentions are shown to be ideologically determined in the critical act. Interpretation emerges, therefore, as an interactive practice which is often blind to the discursive conventions that enable it.

 Reading Racism: The Assumption of Authorial Intentions 

in Stephen Crane's 'The Monster'

http://dx.doi.org/10.17613/M6FW04

Author(s):

José Angel García Landa (see profile)

Date:

2018

Group(s):

American Literature, Narrative theory and Narratology

Subject(s):

Race/ethnicity, American literature, Narratology

Item Type:

Article

Tag(s):

interpretation, Stephen Crane, American fiction, Racism

Permanent URL:

http://dx.doi.org/10.17613/M6FW04

Abstract:

Notes:

Written 1989.

_____. "Reading Racism: The Assumption of Authorial Intentions in Stephen Crane's 'The Monster'." Miscelánea 10 (Zaragoza, 1989): 63-80.*

         http://www.miscelaneajournal.net/index.php/misc/article/view/467

         http://www.miscelaneajournal.net/index.php/misc/article/view/467/221

         2018

_____. "Reading Racism: The Assumption of Authorial Intentions in Stephen Crane's 'The Monster'." Online at Net Sight de José Angel García Landa (2004):

         http://www.unizar.es/departamentos/filologia_inglesa/garciala/publicaciones/racism.html

         2013

_____. "Reading Racism: The Assumption of Authorial Intentions in Stephen Crane's 'The Monster'." iPaper at Academia 9 Jan. 2011.*

         https://www.academia.edu/406009/

         2014

_____. "Reading Racism: The Assumption of Authorial Intentions in Stephen Crane's 'The Monster'." Online PDF at SSRN 9 Jan. 2011.*

         http://ssrn.com/abstract=1737231

         2011

         Cognition & the Arts eJournal 9 Jan. 2011.*

         http://www.ssrn.com/link/Cognition-Arts.html

         2013

         Ethnic Studies eJournal 9 Jan. 2011.*

         http://www.ssrn.com/link/English-Ethnic-Studies.html

         2013

         American Literature eJournal 9 Jan. 2011.*

         http://www.ssrn.com/link/English-American-Literature.html

         2013

 _____. "Reading Racism: The Assumption of Authorial Intentions in Stephen Crane's 'The Monster'." ResearchGate 3 May 2013.*

         https://www.researchgate.net/publication/228174299

         2013

_____. "Reading Racism: The Assumption of Authorial Intentions in Stephen Crane's 'The Monster'." Humanities Commons 24 March 2018.*

         https://hcommons.org/deposits/item/hc:18679/

         http://dx.doi.org/10.17613/M6FW04

         2018

_____. "Reading Racism: The Assumption of Authorial Intentions in Stephen Crane's The Monster." Brown University / U de Zaragoza, 1989. Online at Core.*

         https://core.ac.uk/download/154925891.pdf

         2023

 

 

 

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An AI audio on the paper:

 

_____. "Reading Racism: The Assumption of Authorial Intentions in Stephen Crane's 'The Monster'." AI podcast on José Angel García Landa's paper. Academia 16 March 2026.*

         https://www.academia.edu/406009/

         2026

 

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Retropost #1774 (5 de septiembre de 2007): Narratives of Trauma and Race

Narratives of trauma and race

Publicado en Literatura y crítica. com. José Ángel García Landa

(A response to a thread in the Narrative-List asking for suggestions:)

In a study of trauma and race, I would suggest including Stephen Crane's "The Monster"— I once wrote a paper on the black protagonist's disfigurement as a traumatic displacement of racial/ethical tensions. Not that it is a trauma depicted under the author's control, I think. In dealing with traumatic narratives, of course, there is the issue of whether it is the critic who brings the trauma to light, or whether the narrative is a narrative of trauma acknowledged and dealt with by the author, or whether the traumatic situation is "always already" analyzed in a narrative which on the face of it would seem to be a mere traumatic expression. And all the shades of grey in between.

Out of character

Etiquetas: Narración, Trauma, Raza

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Retropost #40: 24 de noviembre de 2004

24 de noviembre

Noticias sobre el libro de Beatriz (y Mari Carmen López), el que deriva del congreso de Madrid: hoy lo han aceptado en Peter Lang; así que es previsible que si no se demora demasiado la cosa salga en el 2005. Ahí tengo un artículo sobre "Communicative Interaction and Narrative Identity".

Y hoy me comunica Keith Carlon de Bélgica que ya ha salido el número del Belgian English Language and Literature con el artículo sobre "The Hermeneutic Spiral"-­por suerte pude publicarlo bien allí después de que se olvidasen sacarlo en las actas de AEDEAN tras haberlo presentado allí. Moraleja: no escribir artículos publicables en revista para congresos donde es suficiente con una comunicación. También envío ejemplares de mis separatas sobre "The Poetics of Subliminal Awareness" a diversas personas (divertido esto, cuando se contrasta con la crítica del artículo a la vanidad literaria). Y me llega a mi vez una separata, cosa no frecuente, de otro libro de Peter Lang, este de JoAnne Neff y Teun van Dijk (por cierto, acabo de comprobar que van Dijk ha incluido un enlace a la bibliografía en su página de Resources for Critical Discourse Analysis).

Hoy cuelgo por fin el artículo sobre Stephen Crane y el racismo. Y estreno en la bibliografía el sistema de anuncios de Google. Aunque a nadie le gustan los anuncios (menos al que los pincha buscando algo que le interesa, supongo), estos están muy bien pensados, increíblemente bien enfocados al contenido de la página. Los de Google (a quien pertenece Blogger, por cierto) son unos hachas, desde luego, y así les va. Lo que han hecho con sus sistema de cruce de enlaces es sencillo, eficaz y elegante, simplemente sacar las consecuencias de lo que es Internet. Una de las cosas más difíciles de hacer en la vida: enterarse de lo que tiene uno delante de las narices (sí, una pantalla... pero qué más). Aquí va un ejemplo.

Extraído de mi clase sobre Shakespeare —sobre Hamlet, con calaveras como material docente, etc.; pero la frase memorable me la sugiere Federico Trillo, que supongo que habla por propia experiencia en su libro sobre Shakespeare y el poder: la esencia del poder es apropiarse voluntades y controlar las acciones de los demás, y por su propia dinámica conduce a imponer sobre la realidad ficciones que todos saben que son tales ficciones sin que nadie lo confiese en público—­y esto para el mejor disfrute, ejercicio y control del poder en cuestión. Para más detalles, ver Foucault. Pero cuántos lo leen (o dicen que lo leen) y qué poco se lo aplican.

Tengo la mesa invadida. Burckhardt, Chejov, Sabina, Goethe, la Miscelánea, el TLS, Toy Story, Mansfield Park, dinosaurios, Dollimore & Sinfield... y la lista sigue. No consigo ordenar mi mesa y me meto a ordenar la bibliografía crítica del mundo mundial. Pues esta noche, ni una ni otra.

Retroposts

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Reading 'The Monster'

una publicación de Narratología evolucionista - Evolutionary Narratology.

Esta fue una tesis sobre narratología y estética de la recepción que escribí en América. También trata de Stephen Crane, en concreto comentando "The Monster", un relato sobre un sirviente negro desfigurado, ambientado en un pueblo norteamericano, tras la guerra civil. Escribí la tesis en la Universidad Brown, en 1989. Con ella culminé un Master of Arts en inglés, en el que obtuve, con cierto alivio por mi parte, las calificaciones máximas. Y en un tiempo récord, pues creo que fui el único de mi promoción que consiguió terminar el máster en un año. La tesis, por fin, hoy llega a sus pantallas, que sin duda la estaban esperando.

Texto completo:

Reading 'The Monster':

The Interpretation of Authorial Intention in the Criticism of Narrative Fiction

Abstract: This book-length paper is a Brown University dissertation in American literature and literary theory. A theoretical analysis of the concept of authorial intention in narrative fiction, and of its structural and communicational implications, is followed by an in-depth examination of Stephen Crane's novella 'The Monster' (1898) as a case study in both structural analysis and critical controversy. The critical responses to this work are examined with regard to their ideological and aesthetic assumptions, thus showing the relevance of the model proposed and providing a detailed analysis of the way in which the meaning and structure of a text are interactionally constructed.

Puede obtenerse impresa en University Microfilms International. Y en PDF, en el SSRN (http://papers.ssrn.com/abstract=2412440) y más concretamente en estas revistas, con fecha de 22 de marzo de 2014 (Date posted: March 22, 2014):

eJournal Classifications

CSN Subject Matter eJournals      Cognition & Culture: Culture, Communication, Design, Ethics, Morality, Religion, Rhetoric, & Semiotics eJournal - CMBO          CSN: Communication (Culture) (Topic) - CMBO

CSN Subject Matter eJournals      Cognition & the Arts eJournal - CMBO          CSN: Mental Operations (Cognition & the Arts) (Topic) - CMBO              CSN: Narrative & Story (Sub-Topic) - CMBO

LIT Subject Matter eJournals      American Literature eJournal - CMBO          LIT: Post-Civil War American Literature (Topic) - CMBO

LIT Subject Matter eJournals      Literary Theory & Criticism eJournal - CMBO

_____. Reading 'The Monster': The Interpretation of Authorial Intention in the Criticism of Narrative Fiction. (MA diss. Brown U, 1989). Ann Arbor: UMI, 1997.*

         http://dl.lib.brown.edu/theses/theses.php?task=search&id=4512

         2009

_____. Reading 'The Monster': The Interpretation of Authorial Intention in the Criticism of Narrative Fiction. Online PDF at SSRN 22 March 2014.*

         http://dx.doi.org/0.2139/ssrn.2412440

http://ssrn.com/abstract=2412440

         2014

Cognition & Culture … eJournal 22 March 2014.*

         http://www.ssrn.com/link/Cognition-Culture.html

         2014

         Cognition & the Arts eJournal 22 March 2014.*

         http://www.ssrn.com/link/Cognition-Arts.html

         2014

         American Literature eJournal 22 March 2014.*

         http://www.ssrn.com/link/English-American-Literature.html

         2014

         Literary Theory & Criticism eJournal 22 March 2014.*

         http://www.ssrn.com/link/English-Lit-Theory-Criticism.html

2014

_____. "Reading The Monster." In García Landa, Vanity Fea 1 April 2014.*

         http://vanityfea.blogspot.com.es/2014/04/reading-monster.html

         2014

_____. Reading 'The Monster': The Interpretation of Authorial Intention in the Criticism of Narrative Fiction. iPaper at Academia 26 Sept. 2014.*

         https://www.academia.edu/8497840/

         2014

_____. Reading 'The Monster': The Interpretation of Authorial Intention in the Criticism of Narrative Fiction. iPaper at ResearchGate 26 Sept. 2014.*

         https://www.researchgate.net/publication/266082263

         2014

_____. Reading 'The Monster': The Interpretation of Authorial Intention in the Criticism of Narrative Fiction. Online at Humanities Commons 26 March 2018.*

         http://dx.doi.org/10.17613/M6JK33

         https://hcommons.org/deposits/item/hc:18693/

         2018

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Reading The Monster / Reading Racism

Una tesis de máster que hice en la Universidad Brown a finales de los ochenta, sobre el relato de Stephen Crane "The Monster":

 Reading 'The Monster': The Interpretation of Authorial Intention in the Criticism of Narrative Fiction. (MA diss. Brown U, 1989). Ann Arbor: UMI, 1997.

         http://dl.lib.brown.edu/theses/theses.php?task=search&id=4512

         2009

_____. Reading 'The Monster': The Interpretation of Authorial Intention in the Criticism of Narrative Fiction. Online PDF at SSRN 22 March 2014.*

         http://dx.doi.org/0.2139/ssrn.2412440

http://ssrn.com/abstract=2412440

         2014

Cognition & Culture … eJournal 22 March 2014.*

         http://www.ssrn.com/link/Cognition-Culture.html

         2014

         Cognition & the Arts eJournal 22 March 2014.*

         http://www.ssrn.com/link/Cognition-Arts.html

         2014

         American Literature eJournal 22 March 2014.*

         http://www.ssrn.com/link/English-American-Literature.html

         2014

         Literary Theory & Criticism eJournal 22 March 2014.*

         http://www.ssrn.com/link/English-Lit-Theory-Criticism.html

2014

_____. "Reading The Monster." In García Landa, Vanity Fea 1 April 2014.*

         http://vanityfea.blogspot.com.es/2014/04/reading-monster.html

         2014

_____. Reading 'The Monster': The Interpretation of Authorial Intention in the Criticism of Narrative Fiction. iPaper at Academia 26 Sept. 2014.*

         https://www.academia.edu/8497840/

         2014

_____. Reading 'The Monster': The Interpretation of Authorial Intention in the Criticism of Narrative Fiction. iPaper at ResearchGate 26 Sept. 2014.*

         https://www.researchgate.net/publication/266082263

         2014

_____. "Reading 'The Monster'." In García Landa, Vanity Fea 26 Sept. 2014.*

         http://vanityfea.blogspot.com.es/2014/09/reading-monster.html

         2014

_____. Reading 'The Monster': The Interpretation of Authorial Intention in the Criticism of Narrative Fiction. Online at Humanities Commons 26 March 2018.*

         http://dx.doi.org/10.17613/M6JK33

         https://hcommons.org/deposits/item/hc:18693/

         2018

Y un artículo extraído de ella:.

 "Reading Racism: The Assumption of Authorial Intentions in Stephen Crane's 'The Monster'." Miscelánea 10 (Zaragoza, 1989): 63-80.

         http://www.miscelaneajournal.net/archive/index.php?option=com_content&task=blogsection&id=19&Itemid=80

         2013

En red está aquí en mi web:

         http://www.unizar.es/departamentos/filologia_inglesa/garciala/publicaciones/racism.html

—y en estos repositorios y eJournals:

_____. "Reading Racism: The Assumption of Authorial Intentions in Stephen Crane's 'The Monster'." iPaper at Academia 9 Jan. 2011.

  http://unizar.academia.edu/Jos%C3%A9AngelGarc%C3%ADaLanda/Papers/382793/Reading_Racism_The_Assumption_of_Authorial_Intentions_in_Stephen_Cranes_The_Monster

_____. "Reading Racism: The Assumption of Authorial Intentions in Stephen Crane's 'The Monster'." Online PDF at Social Science Research Network 9 Jan. 2011.

         http://ssrn.com/abstract=1737231

CSN Subject Matter eJournals      Cognition & the Arts eJournal - CMBO          CSN: Genre & Media (Topic) - CMBO              CSN: Literature (Sub-Topic) - CMBO
LIT Subject Matter eJournals      Ethnic Studies eJournal - CMBO          LIT: Other Ethnic Studies (Topic) - CMBO
LIT Subject Matter eJournals      American Literature eJournal - CMBO          LIT: Post-Civil War American Literature (Topic) - CMBO

—en los tres eJournals con fecha 9 de enero de 2011.

_____. "Reading Racism: The Assumption of Authorial Intentions in Stephen Crane's 'The Monster'." Online at Net Sight de José Angel García Landa (2004):

         http://www.unizar.es/departamentos/filologia_inglesa/garciala/publicaciones/racism.html

         2018 – DISCONTINUED 2020 – Online at the Internet Archive:

https://web.archive.org/web/20181104183246/http://www.unizar.es/departamentos/filologia_inglesa/garciala/publicaciones/racism.html

         2020

         https://personal.unizar.es/garciala/publicaciones/racism.html

         2020

_____. "Reading Racism: The Assumption of Authorial Intentions in Stephen Crane's 'The Monster'." iPaper at Academia 9 Jan. 2011.*

         https://www.academia.edu/406009/

         2014

         https://www.academia.edu/78999730/

         2022

_____. "Reading Racism: The Assumption of Authorial Intentions in Stephen Crane's 'The Monster'." Online PDF at Social Science Research Network 9 Jan. 2011.*

         http://ssrn.com/abstract=1737231

         2011

         Cognition & the Arts eJournal 9 Jan. 2011.*

         http://www.ssrn.com/link/Cognition-Arts.html

         2013

         Ethnic Studies eJournal 9 Jan. 2011.*

         http://www.ssrn.com/link/English-Ethnic-Studies.html

         2013

         American Literature eJournal 9 Jan. 2011.*

         http://www.ssrn.com/link/English-American-Literature.html

         2013

 _____. "Reading Racism: The Assumption of Authorial Intentions in Stephen Crane's 'The Monster'." ResearchGate 3 May 2013.*

         https://www.researchgate.net/publication/228174299

         2013

_____. "Reading Racism: The Assumption of Authorial Intentions in Stephen Crane's 'The Monster'." Humanities Commons 24 March 2018.*

         https://hcommons.org/deposits/item/hc:18679/

         http://dx.doi.org/10.17613/M6FW04

         2018

_____. "Reading Racism: The Assumption of Authorial Intentions in Stephen Crane's 'The Monster'." Semantic Scholar.*

https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Reading-Racism%3A-The-Assumption-of-Authorial-in-'The-Landa-%C3%81ngel./892d2b3333151c5f8a51c0a69076b165b1f809b6

2019

_____. "Reading Racism: The Assumption of Authorial Intentions in Stephen Crane's 'The Monster'." In García Landa, Vanity Fea 24 March 2018.*

         http://vanityfea.blogspot.com.es/2018/03/reading-racism-assumption-of-authorial.html

         2018

Stephen Crane: The Monster and Other Stories

 

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