Theory and the Novel : Narrative Reflexivity in the British Tradition.

By: Williams, JeffreyMaterial type: TextTextSeries: Literature, Culture, TheoryPublisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1998Copyright date: ©1998Description: 1 online resource (222 pages)Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780511150135Subject(s): Fiction--TechniqueGenre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: Print version:: Theory and the Novel : Narrative Reflexivity in the British TraditionDDC classification: 808.393 LOC classification: PN3355 .W58 1998Online resources: Click to View
Contents:
Cover -- Half-title -- Series-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- i -- ii -- iii -- iv -- v -- 1 Narrative of narrative -- Disorderly narrative -- I Theory -- Narrative -- Time -- Narrative levels -- II Reading -- General order of the novel -- Narrative instance -- Narrative of narrative -- 2 Narrative improper -- I Narrative proper -- Straight plot -- Blocked plot -- Passive plot -- II Narrative improper i -- Narrative of narrative -- Narrative metaphorics -- Narratorial strata -- Literalizing the narrator -- The problem with authors -- III Narrative improper ii -- Narrative substrata -- Insatiable narrative -- The rhetoricity of narrative -- 3 Conspicuous narrative -- I The rhetoric of frames -- Paradoxical narrative -- Ornamental narrative -- Framing topoi -- Narrative circumstance -- Dramatizing narrative -- Advertising narrative -- Typology of frames -- II Narrative performance -- Competing narratives -- The dispossession of narrative (Wuthering Heights) -- Reading/narrating -- 4 Narrative calling -- Exemplary narrative -- I Narrative drive (Heart of Darkness) -- Narrative stations -- Narrative obsession -- II The bond of narrative (Lord Jim) -- Narrative vessel -- The ideology of narrative -- The literary calling -- Bibliography -- Literary Texts -- Critical Texts -- Index.
Summary: An analysis of the function of narrative across a range of novels.
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Cover -- Half-title -- Series-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- i -- ii -- iii -- iv -- v -- 1 Narrative of narrative -- Disorderly narrative -- I Theory -- Narrative -- Time -- Narrative levels -- II Reading -- General order of the novel -- Narrative instance -- Narrative of narrative -- 2 Narrative improper -- I Narrative proper -- Straight plot -- Blocked plot -- Passive plot -- II Narrative improper i -- Narrative of narrative -- Narrative metaphorics -- Narratorial strata -- Literalizing the narrator -- The problem with authors -- III Narrative improper ii -- Narrative substrata -- Insatiable narrative -- The rhetoricity of narrative -- 3 Conspicuous narrative -- I The rhetoric of frames -- Paradoxical narrative -- Ornamental narrative -- Framing topoi -- Narrative circumstance -- Dramatizing narrative -- Advertising narrative -- Typology of frames -- II Narrative performance -- Competing narratives -- The dispossession of narrative (Wuthering Heights) -- Reading/narrating -- 4 Narrative calling -- Exemplary narrative -- I Narrative drive (Heart of Darkness) -- Narrative stations -- Narrative obsession -- II The bond of narrative (Lord Jim) -- Narrative vessel -- The ideology of narrative -- The literary calling -- Bibliography -- Literary Texts -- Critical Texts -- Index.

An analysis of the function of narrative across a range of novels.

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