Toward a Poetic Theory of Narration : : Essays of S.-Y. Kuroda / / ed. by Sylvie Patron.

The volume consists of six essays by S.-Y. Kuroda on narrative theory, with a substantial introduction, notes, a bibliography and an index of proper names.This is the English version of a French critical edition published by Editions Armand Colin in their "Recherches" series in October 201...

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Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2014]
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Year of Publication:2014
Language:English
Series:Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM] , 269
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Physical Description:1 online resource (161 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgements
  • Table of contents
  • Introduction
  • Chapter 1. Where epistemology, style, and grammar meet: A case study from Japanese
  • Chapter 2. On grammar and narration
  • Chapter 3. Reflections on the foundations of narrative theory, from a linguistic point of view
  • Chapter 4. Some thoughts on the foundations of the theory of language use
  • Chapter 5. The reformulated theory of speech acts: Toward a theory of language use
  • Chapter 6. A study of the so-called topic wa in passages from Tolstoi , Lawrence , and Faulkner (of course, in Japanese translation)
  • Bibliography
  • Index