Eventfulness in British Fiction : Historical, Cultural and Social Aspects of the Tellability of Stories.
Title:
Eventfulness in British Fiction : Historical, Cultural and Social Aspects of the Tellability of Stories.
Author:
Hühn, Peter.
ISBN:
9783110213652
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (221 pages)
Series:
Narratologia ; v.18
Narratologia
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Geoffrey Chaucer: "The Miller's Tale" -- 3. Aphra Behn: Oroonoko, or The Royal Slave: A True History (1688) -- 4. Daniel Defoe: Moll Flanders (1722) -- 5. Samuel Richardson: Pamela -- or, Virtue Rewarded (1740) -- 6. Henry Fielding: The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling (1749) -- 7. Charles Dickens: Great Expectations (1861) -- 8. Thomas Hardy: "On the Western Circuit" (1891) -- 9. Henry James: "The Beast in the Jungle" (1903) -- 10. James Joyce: "Grace" (1914) -- 11. Joseph Conrad: The Shadow-Line: A Confession (1917) -- 12. Virginia Woolf: "An Unwritten Novel" (1921) -- 13. D. H. Lawrence: "Fanny and Annie" (1921) -- 14. Katherine Mansfield: "At the Bay" (1922) -- 15. John Fowles: "The Enigma" (1974) -- 16. Graham Swift: Last Orders (1996) -- 17. Conclusion.
Abstract:
An event, defined as the decisive turn, the surprising point in the plot of a narrative, constitutes its tellability, the motivation for reading it. The book describes a framework for a narratological definition of eventfulness and its dependence on the historical, socio-cultural and literary context. The detailed analyses of 15 British novels or tales, from early modern times to the late 20th century, demonstrate how this concept can be put into practice for a new, specifically contextual interpretation of the central relevance of these texts.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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