@inbook{cf7817afbe5444b3a768df080f97f4a4,
title = "{"}'tis by Comparison we can Judge and Chuse [sic!]{"}: Incomparable Oroonoko",
abstract = "This interpretation of Aphra Behn's novella follows a hermeneutic-phenomenological approach by analysing the operations of comparability and incomparability within the emplotment based on Paul Ricoeur{\textquoteright}s theory of triple mimesis (Time and Narrative Vol. 1). This concept presupposes that readerly embodiment plays a vital role in the signification process that results from the encounter of readers and texts. Focusing on the notion of emplotment, the chapter showcases how narrative does not only synthesise heterogeneity (concordance) but also generates pathos and emotionality through sudden reversals in the hero's fate (discordance). That discordance outweighs concordance in the case of Oroonoko underpins the present argument about the dynamics of comparability and incomparability. The chapter contends that three reversals in the narrative suspend comparability momentarily, emphasise the hero{\textquoteright}s action and suffering irrespective of narratorial commentary, and, in doing so, recalibrate otherwise Eurocentric analogies inherent in the novella.",
keywords = "Early novel in English, Comparability, Slavery, Surinam, Caribbean history, Narrative theory, Aphra Behn, Affect and emotion, Paul Ric{\oe}ur, Critique and postcritique, seventeenth and eighteenth centuries",
author = "Monika Class",
year = "2022",
month = mar,
day = "26",
doi = "10.14361/9783839457993",
language = "English",
isbn = "78-3-8376-5799-9",
series = "English and American Literary Studies",
publisher = "Transcript-Verlag",
pages = "125--148",
editor = "B{\"o}hm-Schnitker Nadine and Hartner Marcus",
booktitle = "Comparative Practices",
}