Narrativity, Coherence and Literariness : : A Theoretical Approach with Analyses of Laclos, Kafka and Toussaint / / Eva Sabine Wagner.
The search for the defining qualities of narrative has produced an expansive range of definitions which, largely unconnected with each other, obscure the notion of “narrativity” rather than clarifying it.The first part of this study remedies this shortcoming by developing a graded macro model of nar...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2020] ©2020 |
| Year of Publication: | 2020 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Narratologia : Contributions to Narrative Theory ,
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (XI, 638 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Introduction: Coming to Terms with Complexity
- Part A: Theory of Narrativity
- 1 Preliminary Epistemic Considerations: Narrativity and Narratology Between Order and Chaos
- 2 Problems of Defining Narrativity: Research Review and Systematisation
- 3 Narrativity and Coherence: Towards an Analysis of Literary Narrative Dynamics
- Part B: Narrative Dynamics
- 4 “Narrative Projection”: Choderlos de Laclos’s Les Liaisons dangereuses
- 5 “Narrative Withdrawal”: Kafka’s Schloss
- 6 “Narrative resistance”: Jean-Philippe Toussaint’s novels
- Concluding remarks: Elements of a ‘Rhizomatic’ Realignment of ‘Narrativity’ and Narratology
- Works Cited
- Table of Figures
- Index