Journal of Literary Criticism

Journal of Literary Criticism

representation of "Victim-eating" in Children's and Adolescent Fiction: With a Psychonarrative Approach

Document Type : Original Article

Author
َAmir Hossein Zanjanbar
Children ̓s and Young Adults ̓ Literature, Payame Noor University, Tehran, Iran.
10.22034/jlc.2024.415987.1592
Abstract
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psychonarratology is a cognitive approach that studies the relationship between the reader's psychological processes and the narrative form. This article aims to respond to how narrative elements affect the representation of victim-eating violence in children's and adolescent stories. Since the plot of many children's stories is based on the relationship between corrosive and eaten, this issue has been chosen for research. In these stories, an animal or a human who is in the position of the main character of the story is killed by an attacker and then eaten. The statistical population studied is stories based on the theme of victim-eating. The current research was conducted with the qualitative-comparative content analysis method and cognitive narratology approach in the range of stories of age groups "A", "B" and "C". The result of the present research shows that narrative components (such as repetition, highlighting, the distance between the narrator and the characters, the co-category of the attacker and the victim, the reversibility of death, suspenseful gaps in the description) play a role in conceptualizing victim-eating and biasing the reader's judgment. The lack of sufficient studies in the field of thanatology and about the the victim-eating confirms the necessity of writing this article.
 
Keywords
Cognitive Narratology
Children's Story
Thanatology
Victim-eating

Subjects

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Journal of Literary Criticism
Volume 9, Issue 17
May 2025
Pages 76-43

  • Receive Date 11 September 2023
  • Revise Date 02 December 2023
  • Accept Date 17 February 2024