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An examination of the scientific evidence for the mechanisms which underlie the effect a writer's language has on the reader.
Offers perspectives on the nature of narrative and narrativity, genre theory, narrative semiotics and communication theory. This book includes contributions, which center on the specificity of literary fiction, and the chapters investigate a different dimension of narrativity wi…
""Event structures have been at the heart of Linguistics and Artificial Intelligence. People can easily refer to changes in the world, identify their participants, distinguish relevant information, and have expectations of what can happen next. Part of this process is based on m…
How do readers experience literary narrative? Drawing on narrative theory, cognitive science, and the philosophy of mind, this book offers a principled account of the dynamics underlying readers' responses to narrative. Through its interdisciplinary approach, this study combines…
In this study Heinert critically analyzes the relationship between race and genre in Toni Morrison's novels, showing how Morrison' s break with traditional narrative forms works to undermine and rewrite the canon of American literature.
Laurence Sterne's Tristram Shandy: a casebook
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"The responsiveness of Sterne's writing to a wide range of approaches and topics of recent and ongoing interest--among them narrative, interpretation, intertextuality, gender, the body, sentimentalism, and print culture--has ensured a wealth of recent activity in the journals. T…
Critical essays on contemporary Canadian cartoonists working in graphic life narrative, from confession to memoir to biography. Draws on literary theory, visual studies, and cultural history to ask why and how Canadian cartoonists have become so prominent in the international ma…
Aimed at providing the rigour needed to advance narrative analysis, the author provides an explanation and guideline to readers on: presentation of and reliance on detailed transcripts of interview excerpts; and methods for analyzing the structural features of discourse and the …
Current Trends in Narratology offers an overview of cutting-edge approaches to theories of storytelling. It describes the move to cognition, the new emphasis on non-prose and multimedia narratives, and introduces a third field of research - comparative narratology. This research…