Abstract: Preface. Translator's Note. Acknowledgments. 1. Beginnings: What Do You Expect? 1 Beginning. 2 Sense and Meaning. 3 Rules of the Game. 4 Links and Connections. 5 I. 6 First Sentences: Enticements. 2. The Modern European Novel: Predecessors, Origins, Conventions, Sub-Genres. 1 Dangers and Allurements of Novel-Reading: What's Novel about the Novel? 2 Fact and Fiction: No Man is an Island. 3 Fiction, Illusion, Realism. 4 Variety of Types: Triumph of Polyphony. 3. The Object of Every Analysis: The How of the What (Discourse and Story). 4. Time. 1 Narrative Time and Narrated Time. 2 Order. 3 Frequency. 4 Tense and Narrative. 5. Characters. 1 Character Conception. 2 Character Portrayal. 6. Teutonic Rosette or Gallic Taxonomy? Identifying the Narrative Situation. 1 Prologue. 2 Stanzel's Typological Circle: A Preliminary Overview. 3 Splitting the In-dividual: The First-Person Narrative Situation. 4 The Impossibility of the Familiar: The Authorial Narrative Situation. 5 Abolishing Narrative in Narrative - the Illusion of Immediacy: The Figural Narrative Situation. 6 Genette's Narrative Theory: The Basics. 7 Who Speaks? - Voice. 8 Who Perceives? - Focalization. 9 Internal - External: Advantage Genette? 10 Coda. 11 The Novel as Atonement. 7. Multiperspectivity, Unreliability, and the Impossibility of Editing Out the Gender Aspect. 1 Multiperspectivity. 2 Unreliable Narration. 3 The Narration's Gender. 8. Now You See It, Now You Don't: Symbolism and Space. 9. The End of the Novel and the Future of an Illusion. 1 Experience, Storytelling, (Hi)stories. 2 Meaning Orientation. 3 Novels: Allegories of Telling. References. Further Reading. Index of Authors and Critics.
Publication Year: 2011
Publication Date: 2011-01-21
Language: en
Type: book
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