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Narratology: An Introduction » Read Now
by Susana Onega, Jose Landa Angel Garcia. 324 pgs.

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This text introduces narratology, its key concepts and the analytical tools which are widely used in the interdisciplinary analysis of such narrative features as plot, point of view, speech presentation, ideological perspective and interpretation.
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Universal Grammar and Narrative Form » Read Now
by David Herman. 286 pgs.

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...Universal Grammar and Narrative Form -ii- Universal Grammar and Narrative Form David Herman Duke University Press...1 Part I Universal Grammar and Narrative Form 1. The...
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Narrative as Theme: Studies in French Fiction » Read Now
by Gerald Prince. 168 pgs.

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"Narrative as Theme is a brilliant critical performance, admirably lucid and rich in substance."-Ross Chambers, University of Michigan. "The questions raised by Prince's book are at the heart of contemorary critical thought: what do narratives tell the reader about the ways they construct themselves...
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"Narrative as Theme is a brilliant critical performance, admirably lucid and rich in substance."-Ross Chambers, University of Michigan. "The questions raised by Prince's book are at the heart of contemorary critical thought: what do narratives tell the reader about the ways they construct themselves as stories about a certain 'reality'? What do they tell us about their own truth-value and the techniques they use to convey it? What do they tell us about the hermeneutics of either telling or reading a story?"-Ora Avni, Yale University.In literature the very act of narration often constitutes a theme: everyone is familiar with narration that interrupts the story, that provides an ironic gloss on the action, that exposes the narrator, that serves to deceive. In Narrative as Theme Gerald Prince offers the first book-length study of the theme of narrative and of the relationship between narrative and truth in fiction.In the first part, theoretical in nature, Prince considers the notion of theme as well as the theme of narrative itself, surveys the research that has come out of that notion, and isolates starting points for the investigation of narrative as theme. Of particular interest to narratologists will be his discussion of the "disnarrated," all those passages of a text that consider what did not or does not happen but oculd have. He shows how the disnarrated is an important guide to reading the theme of narrative. The second part focuses on seven French novel: Mme de Lafayette's La Princesse de Clèves, Voltaire's Candide, Flaubert's Madame Bovary, Sartre's La Nausée, Maupassant's Bel-Ami, Claude Simon's La Route des Flandres, and Patrick Modiano's Rue des Boutiques Obscures. Written in first and third person, absorbed or not in the act of narration, variously concerned with history, ethics, and psychology, these classical, modern, and postmodern works exemplify basic positions with regard to the truth or value of narrative.His Dictionary of Narratology, published by the University of Nebraska Press in 1987, confirmed Gerald Prince as one of the world's leading narratologists. He is a professor of Romance languages at the University of Pennsylvania.
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Telling It Straight: Issues in Assessing Narrative Research, in Educational Psychologist » Read Now
by D. C. Phillips. 9 pgs.

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...little about the form that research, or...new realms -- how narrative explanations are...many of these have a narrative form). Jardine, in discussing...CRITIQUE: WHY...
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Economies of Change: Form and Transformation in the Nineteenth-Century Novel » Read Now
by Michal Peled Ginsburg. 260 pgs.

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Economies of Change provides a discussion of the importance of literary form in the work of 19th century novelists.
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Ambiguous Discourse: Feminist Narratology and British Women Writers » Read Now
by Kathy Mezei. 286 pgs.

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...tremendous experimentation with narrative form in the 1890s" 169 . From Austens...the contingent relation between narrative form and feminist ideology, noting...Stressing...
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Who Set You Flowin'?: The African-American Migration Narrative » Read Now
by Farah Jasmine Griffin. 236 pgs.

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Twentieth-century America has witnessed the most widespread and sustained movement of African-Americans from the South to urban centers in the North. Who Set You Flowin'? examines the impact of this dislocation and urbanization, identifying the resulting Migration Narratives as a major genre in...
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Twentieth-century America has witnessed the most widespread and sustained movement of African-Americans from the South to urban centers in the North. Who Set You Flowin'? examines the impact of this dislocation and urbanization, identifying the resulting Migration Narratives as a major genre in African-American cultural production. Griffin takes an interdisciplinary approach with readings of several literary texts, migrant correspondence, painting, photography, rap music, blues, and rhythm and blues. From these various sources Griffin isolates the tropes of Ancestor, Stranger, and Safe Space, which, though common to all Migration Narratives, vary in their portrayal. She argues that the emergence of a dominant portrayal of these tropes is the product of the historical and political moment, often challenged by alternative portrayals in other texts or artistic forms, as well as intra-textually. Richard Wright's bleak, yet cosmopolitan portraits were countered by Dorothy West's longing for Black Southern communities. Ralph Ellison, while continuing Wright's vision, reexamined the significance of Black Southern culture. Griffin concludes with Toni Morrison embracing the South "as a site of African-American history and culture," "a place to be redeemed."
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The Dream of Chaucer: Representation and Reflection in the Early Narratives » Read Now
by Robert R. Edwards. 194 pgs.

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...as dream visions, the narrative form which typically recounts...The choice of this form locates the beginning of Chaucers career as a narrative poet in literary...
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Barbarous Dissonance and Images of Voice in Milton's Epics » Read Now
by Elizabeth Sauer. 216 pgs.

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Beyond Hindu and Muslim: Multiple Indentity in Narratives From Village India » Read Now
by Peter Gottschalk. 224 pgs.

Collections: Religious Studies, History, Entire Library

Questioning the conventional depiction of India as a nation divided between religious communities, Gottschalk shows that individuals living in India have multiple identities, some of which cut across religious boundaries. The stories narrated by villagers living in the northern state of Bihar depict...
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Questioning the conventional depiction of India as a nation divided between religious communities, Gottschalk shows that individuals living in India have multiple identities, some of which cut across religious boundaries. The stories narrated by villagers living in the northern state of Bihar depict everyday social interactions that transcend the simple divide of Hindu and Muslim.
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