Eventfulness in British Fiction / / Peter Hühn.
An event, defined as the decisive turn, the surprising point in the plot of a narrative, constitutes its tellability, the motivation for reading it. This book describes a framework for a narratological definition of eventfulness and its dependence on the historical, socio-cultural and literary conte...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2010] ©2010 |
| Year of Publication: | 2010 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Narratologia : Contributions to Narrative Theory ,
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (214 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- 1. Introduction
- Late Medieval and Early Modern
- 2. Geoffrey Chaucer: “The Miller’s Tale”
- 3. Aphra Behn: Oroonoko, or The Royal Slave: A True History (1688)
- 18th Century
- 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)
- Premodern and Modernist
- 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)
- Contemporary
- 15. John Fowles: “The Enigma” (1974)
- 16. Graham Swift: Last Orders (1996)
- 17. Conclusion