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For example, fear can result in a protective orientation following a serious transgression; [22] sadness results in contemplation and reflection [23] while disgust causes us to repel from its source. [24] However, beyond the initial situation these emotions can be detrimental to one's mental and physical state. [25]
Michel Foucault's essay "A Preface to Transgression" (1963) provides an important methodological origin for the concept of transgression in literature. The essay uses Story of the Eye by Georges Bataille as an example of transgressive fiction. [2] Rene Chun, a journalist for The New York Times, described transgressive fiction:
Examples of this relationship, between social transgression and the exploration of mental states relating to illness, include many of the activities and works of the Dadaists, Surrealists, and Fluxus-related artists, such as Carolee Schneemann – and, in literature, Albert Camus's L'Etranger or J.D. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye.
The narrative theory of equilibrium derives from narratology. [2] This discipline examines story construction and its effect on human consciousness. [3] Narratology perceives stories as sense-making mechanisms, [4] which allow citizens to understand history, [4] morality, [4] and contemporary social structures. [4]
In narratology (and specifically in the theories of Gérard Genette), [10] a paradoxical transgression of the boundaries between narrative levels or logically distinct worlds is also called metalepsis. Perhaps the most common example of metalepsis in narrative occurs when a narrator intrudes upon another world being narrated.
In the first chapter, Halberstam shows how a certain type of animated films teaches children about revolt. Halberstam says that animated films "revel in the domain of failure," [3] and states that it is not enough for an animated film to focus on success and triumph because that is not what happens in childhood, following Kathryn Bond Stockton's "growing sideways" concept. [4]
The six stages of moral development occur in phases of pre-conventional, conventional and post-conventional morality. For his studies, Kohlberg relied on stories such as the Heinz dilemma and was interested in how individuals would justify their actions if placed in similar moral dilemmas. He analyzed the form of moral reasoning displayed ...
Crime, legal transgression, usually created by a violation of social or economic boundary In civil law jurisdictions, a transgression or a contravention is a smaller breach of law, similar to summary offence in common law jurisdictions; Social transgression, violating a social norm