| Description |
1 online resource (280 pages) |
| Series |
Theory and interpretation of narrative |
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Theory and interpretation of narrative series.
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| Contents |
Unnatural stories and sequences / Brian Richardson -- The whirligig of time : toward a poetics of unnatural temporality / Rüdiger Heinze -- Unnatural spaces and narrative worlds / Jan Alber -- Naturalizing and unnaturalizing reading strategies : focalization revisited / Henrik Skov Nielsen -- Unnatural minds / Stefan Iversen -- "Unnatural" metalepsis and immersion : necessarily incompatible? / Werner Wolf -- Realism and the unnatural / Maria Mäkelä -- Implausibilities, crossovers, and impossibilities : a rhetorical approach to breaks in the code of mimetic character narration / James Phelan -- Unnatural narrative in hypertext fiction / Alice Bell -- The unnaturalness of narrative poetry / Brian McHale |
| Summary |
This book offers a collection of foundational essays introducing the reader to the full scope of unnatural narrative theory: its meaning, its goals, its extent, its paradoxes. This volume brings together a group of international critics, scholars, and historians of literature that includes several of the world's leading narrative theorists. Together, they survey basic areas of narrative studies from an unnatural perspective: story, time, space, voice, minds, narrative levels, realism, nonfiction, hyperfiction, and narrative poetry. Rarely have these fundamental concepts been subjected to such an original and thoroughgoing reconceptualization. Much of the book is directed toward an investigation of experimental and antirealist work. Each essay focuses on texts and episodes that narrative theory has tended to neglect, and each provides theoretical formulations that are commensurate with such exceptional works. This book articulates and delineates the most radical movement in narrative studies |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Poetics.
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Narration (Rhetoric)
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- General.
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Narration (Rhetoric)
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Poetics
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Languages & Literatures.
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Literature - General.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Richardson, Brian, 1953-
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Skov Nielsen, Henrik
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Alber, Jan, 1973-
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| LC no. |
2013005782 |
| ISBN |
9780814271049 |
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0814271049 |
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