Neverending Stories : : Toward a Critical Narratology / / ed. by Ann Fehn, Maria Tatar, Ingeborg Hoesterey.

In these compelling new essays, leading critics sharpen our understanding of the narrative structures that convey meaning in fiction, taking as their point of departure the narratological positions of Dorrit Cohn, Grard Genette, and Franz Stanzel. This collection demonstrates how narratology, with i...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton Legacy Lib. eBook Package 1980-1999
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Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2014]
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Year of Publication:2014
Edition:Course Book
Language:English
Series:Princeton Legacy Library ; 1209
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Physical Description:1 online resource (290 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS
  • Introduction
  • PART ONE: HISTORY, FICTION, AND THE CLAIMS OF WRITING: THE AUTO/BIOGRAPHICAL MODE
  • ONE. Between History and Fiction: On Dorrit Cohn's Poetics of Prose
  • TWO. Fictionality in Historiography and the Novel
  • THREE. Fictionality, Historicity, and Textual Authority: Pater, Woolf, Hildesheimer
  • FOUR. Mocking a Mock-Biography: Steven Millhauser's Edwin Mullhouse and Thomas Mann's Doctor Faustus
  • FIVE. Habsburg Letters: The Disciplinary Dynamics of Epistolary Narrative in the Correspondence of Maria Theresa and Marie Antoinette
  • SIX. Authenticity as Mask: Wolfgang Hildesheimer's Marbot
  • PART TWO: THE SUBJECT IN QUESTION: THE NARRATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS
  • SEVEN. Interpretive Strategies, Interior Monologues
  • EIGHT. Consonant and Dissonant Closure in Death in Venice and The Dead
  • NINE. Identity by Metaphors: A Portrait of the Artist and Tonio Kröger
  • TEN. Patterns of Justification in Young Törless
  • PART THREE: GENDER, DIFFERENCE, AND NARRATION
  • ELEVEN. Crossing the Gender Wall: Narrative Strategies in GDR Fictions of Sexual Metamorphosis
  • TWELVE. Feminist Intertextuality and the Laugh of the Mother: Leonora Carrington's Hearing Trumpet
  • THIRTEEN. Telling Differences: Parents vs. Children in "The Juniper Tree"
  • FOURTEEN. No No Nana: The Novel as Foreplay
  • PART FOUR: THE DISCOURSE OF NARRATOLOGY
  • FIFTEEN. Contingency
  • SIXTEEN. A Narratological Exchange
  • INDEX