Narrative Perspective in Fiction : : A Phenomenological Meditation of Reader, Text, and World / / Daniel Chamberlain.

Daniel Chamberlain examines the nature of narrative perspective in a manner that does not presuppose a passive definition of perception. Rather, he considers perspective as a medium through which the potential meanings of texts are disclosed and through which to share the vital experience of narrati...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Archive 1933-1999
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Place / Publishing House:Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2016]
©1990
Year of Publication:2016
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (272 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • Part One: The Meaning of Narrative Perspective
  • 1. Language of Experience: Hans-Georg Gadamer and Consciousness Exposed to the Effects of History
  • 2. Perception of Language: Maurice Merleau-Ponty and the Phenomenology of Perception
  • 3. The Experience of Perception: Paul Ricoeur and Phenomenological Hermeneutics
  • 4. The Concept of Narrative Perspective
  • 5. Figuring out Narrative Perspective: Facets of Structure
  • Part Two: Playing Narrative Perspective
  • 6. Narrative Perspective in the Reading Experience
  • 7. The Fabulous Metaphor of Cien años de soledad
  • 8. The Ironic Parable of Jacob’s Room
  • Concluding Considerations
  • Notes
  • References
  • Index
  • Backmatter