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  • The Subject of Modernism

    Narrative Alterations in the Fiction of Eliot, Conrad, Woolf, and Joyce

    Like other poststructuralist theories, Lacanian theory has long been accused of being ahistorical. In The Subject of Modernism, Tony E. Jackson combines a uniquely graspable explanation of the Lacanian theory of the self with a series of detailed psychoanalytic interpretations of actual texts to offer a new kind of literary history.After exposing the seldom-discussed history of the self found in ... Leer más

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  • The Technology of the Novel

    Writing and Narrative in British Fiction

    2009 Outstanding Academic Title, ChoiceThe connection between speech and writing in human language has been a matter of philosophical debate since antiquity. By plumbing the depths of this complex relationship, Tony E. Jackson explains how the technology of alphabetic writing has determined the nature of the modern novel.Jackson’s analysis begins with the universal human act of oral storytelling. ... Leer más

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  • The Cambridge Introduction to Narrative

    Series series Cambridge Introductions to Literature
    What is narrative? How does it work and how does it shape our lives? H. Porter Abbott emphasizes that narrative is found not just in literature, film, and theatre, but everywhere in the ordinary course of people's lives. This widely used introduction, now revised and expanded in its third edition, is informed throughout by recent developments in the field and includes one new chapter. The glossary ... Leer más

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  • The Cambridge Companion to Narrative

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    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    The Cambridge Companion to Narrative provides a unique and valuable overview of current approaches to narrative study. An international team of experts explores ideas of storytelling and methods of narrative analysis as they have emerged across diverse traditions of inquiry and in connection with a variety of media, from film and television, to storytelling in the 'real-life' contexts of face-to ... Leer más

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  • Close Reading for the Twenty-First Century

    Series series Skills for Scholars
    A user’s guide to the fundamental practice of literary studies, providing context, examples, and practical exercisesClose reading—making an argument based in close attention to a text—is the foundation of literary studies. This book offers a guide to close reading, treating it as a skill that can be taught and practiced. It first explains what close reading is, what it does, and how it has been ... Leer más

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  • Elements of Surprise

    Our Mental Limits and the Satisfactions of Plot

    de Vera Tobin ...
    Why do some surprises delight—the endings of Agatha Christie novels, films like The Sixth Sense, the flash awareness that Pip’s benefactor is not (and never was!) Miss Havisham? Writing at the intersection of cognitive science and narrative pleasure, Vera Tobin explains how our brains conspire with stories to produce those revelatory plots that define a “well-made surprise.”By tracing the ... Leer más

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  • Narrative Theory

    Core Concepts and Critical Debates

    Series series THEORY INTERPRETATION NARRATIV
    Narrative Theory: Core Concepts and Critical Debates addresses two frequently asked questions about narrative studies: “what is narrative theory?” and “how do different approaches to narrative relate to each other?” In engaging with these questions, the book demonstrates the diversity and vitality of the field and promotes a broader dialogue about its assumptions, methods, and purposes.In Part One ... Leer más

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  • The Cambridge Introduction to Postmodern Fiction

    de Bran Nicol ...
    Series series Cambridge Introductions to Literature
    Postmodern fiction presents a challenge to the reader: instead of enjoying it passively, the reader has to work to understand its meanings, to think about what fiction is, and to question their own responses. Yet this very challenge makes postmodern writing so much fun to read and rewarding to study. Unlike most introductions to postmodernism and fiction, this book places the emphasis on ... Leer más

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  • Somebody Telling Somebody Else

    A Rhetorical Poetics of Narrative

    Series series Theory and Interpretation of Narrative
    In Somebody Telling Somebody Else, James Phelan proposes a paradigm shift for narrative theory, a turn from viewing narrative as a structure to viewing it as a rhetorical action in which a teller selectively deploys the resources of storytelling in order to accomplish particular purposes in relation to particular audiences. Phelan explores the consequences of this shift for an understanding of ... Leer más

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  • The Cambridge Introduction to the Novel

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    Beginning its life as the sensational entertainment of the eighteenth century, the novel has become the major literary genre of modern times. Drawing on hundreds of examples of famous novels from all over the world, Marina MacKay explores the essential aspects of the novel and its history: where novels came from and why we read them; how we think about their styles and techniques, their people, ... Leer más

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  • Character

    Three Inquiries in Literary Studies

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    Three renowned critics discuss character in literary studies offering "a new paradigm . . . in which we take seriously the demands characters make upon us" ( Los Angeles Review of Books ).Over the last few decades, character-based criticism has been seen as either naive or obsolete. But now questions of character are attracting renewed interest. Making the case for a broad-based revision of our ... Leer más

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  • Women and Romance

    The Consolations of Gender in the English Novel

    Series series Reading Women Writing
    According to Laurie Langbauer, the notion of romance is vague precisely because it represents the chaotic negative space outside the novel that determines its form. Addressing questions of form, Langbauer reads novels that explore the interplay between the novel and romance: works by Charlotte Lennox, Mary Wollstonecraft, Charles Dickens, George Eliot, and George Meredith. She considers key issues ... Leer más

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