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The Inward Turn of Narrative

Author : Erich Kahler
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2017-03-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781400886296

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The Inward Turn of Narrative by Erich Kahler Pdf

Erich Kahler sees cultural history as a subtle process in which reality plays upon consciousness and consciousness itself is forever transforming reality. He traces the ebb and flow of this relationship by studying changes in narrative form from its beginnings in the Gilgamesh Cycle to the end of the eighteenth century. The general direction is toward a growing inwardness, he finds; what takes place is an expansion of consciousness as man constantly draws outer space, the contents of a more and more complex world, into what Rilke called Weltinnenraum, "inner space." Originally published in 1973. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Emergence of Mind

Author : David Herman
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780803234987

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Emergence of Mind by David Herman Pdf

An anthology that traces the representation of consciousness and mind creation in English literature from 700 to the present.

Picked-Up Pieces

Author : John Updike
Publisher : Random House
Page : 545 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2013-01-15
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780679645863

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Picked-Up Pieces by John Updike Pdf

In John Updike’s second collection of assorted prose he comes into his own as a book reviewer; most of the pieces picked up here were first published in The New Yorker in the 1960s and early ’70s. If one word could sum up the young critic’s approach to books and their authors it would be “generosity”: “Better to praise and share,” he says in his Foreword, “than to blame and ban.” And so he follows his enthusiasms, which prove both deserving and infectious: Kierkegaard, Proust, Joyce, Dostoevsky, and Hamsun among the classics; Borges, Nabokov, Grass, Bellow, Cheever, and Jong among the contemporaries. Here too are meditations on Satan and cemeteries, travel essays on London and Anguilla, three very early “golf dreams,” and one big interview. Picked-Up Pieces is a glittering treasury for every reader who likes life, books, wit—and John Updike.

Narrative - State of the Art

Author : Michael G. W. Bamberg
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2007-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9027222363

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Narrative – State of the Art which was originally published as a Special Issue of Narrative Inquiry 16:1 (2006) is edited by Michael Bamberg and contains 24 chapters (with a brief introduction by the editor) that look back and take stock of developments in narrative theorizing and empirical work with narratives. The attempt has been made to bring together researchers from different disciplines, with very different concerns, and have them express their conceptions of the current state of the art from their perspectives. Looking back and taking stock, this volume further attempts to begin to deliver answers to the questions (i) What was it that made the original turn to narrative so successful? (ii) What has been accomplished over the last 40 years of narrative inquiry? (iii) What are the future directions for narrative inquiry? The contributions to this volume are deliberately kept short so that the readers can browse through them and get a feel about the diversity of current narrative theorizing and emerging new trends in narrative research. It is the ultimate aim of this edited volume to stir up discussions and dialogue among narrative researchers across these disciplines and to widen and open up the territory of narrative inquiry to new and innovative work.

Theory of the Novel

Author : Guido Mazzoni
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2017-01-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780674974036

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Theory of the Novel by Guido Mazzoni Pdf

In his theory of the novel, Guido Mazzoni explains that novels consist of stories told in any way whatsoever about the experiences of ordinary men and women who exist as contingent beings within time and space. Novels allow readers to step into other lives and other versions of truth, each a small, local world, absolute in its particularity.

The Bloomsbury Companion to Stylistics

Author : Violeta Sotirova
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 672 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2015-11-19
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781441143204

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The Bloomsbury Companion to Stylistics by Violeta Sotirova Pdf

This Bloomsbury Companion provides an overview of stylistics with a detailed outline of the scope and history of the discipline, as well as its key areas of research. The main research methods and approaches within the field are presented with a detailed overview and then illustrated with a chapter of unique new research by a leading scholar in the field. The Companion also features in-depth explorations of current research areas in stylistics in the form of new studies by established researchers in the field. The broad interdisciplinary scope of stylistics is reflected in the wide array of approaches taken to the linguistic study of texts drawing on traditions from linguistics, literary theory, literary criticism, critical theory and narratology, and in the diverse group of internationally recognised contributors.

Handbook of Narrative Analysis

Author : Luc Herman,Bart Vervaeck
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 569 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2019-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781496218537

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Handbook of Narrative Analysis by Luc Herman,Bart Vervaeck Pdf

Stories are everywhere, from fiction across media to politics and personal identity. Handbook of Narrative Analysis sorts out both traditional and recent narrative theories, providing the necessary skills to interpret any story. In addition to discussing classical theorists, such as Gérard Genette, Mieke Bal, and Seymour Chatman, Handbook of Narrative Analysis presents precursors (such as E. M. Forster), related theorists (Franz Stanzel, Dorrit Cohn), and a large variety of postclassical critics. Among the latter particular attention is paid to rhetorical, cognitive, and cultural approaches; intermediality; storyworlds; gender theory; and natural and unnatural narratology. Not content to consider theory as an end in itself, Luc Herman and Bart Vervaeck use two short stories and a graphic narrative by contemporary authors as touchstones to illustrate each approach to narrative. In doing so they illuminate the practical implications of theoretical preferences and the ideological leanings underlying them. Marginal glosses guide the reader through discussions of theoretical issues, and an extensive bibliography points readers to the most current publications in the field. Written in an accessible style, this handbook combines a comprehensive treatment of its subject with a user-friendly format appropriate for specialists and nonspecialists alike. Handbook of Narrative Analysis is the go-to book for understanding and interpreting narrative. This new edition revises and extends the first edition to describe and apply the last fifteen years of cutting-edge scholarship in the field of narrative theory.

The Science of Character

Author : S. Pearl Brilmyer
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2022-01-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780226815794

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The Science of Character by S. Pearl Brilmyer Pdf

The Science of Character makes a bold new claim for the power of the literary by showing how Victorian novelists used fiction to theorize how character forms. In 1843, the Victorian philosopher John Stuart Mill called for the establishment of a new science, “the science of the formation of character.” Although Mill’s proposal failed as scientific practice, S. Pearl Brilmyer maintains that it found its true home in realist fiction of the period, which employed the literary figure of character to investigate the nature of embodied experience. Bringing to life Mill’s unrealized dream of a science of character, novelists such as George Eliot, Thomas Hardy, and Olive Schreiner turned to narrative to explore how traits and behaviors in organisms emerge and develop, and how aesthetic features—shapes, colors, and gestures—come to take on cultural meaning through certain categories, such as race and sex. Engaged with materialist science and philosophy, these authors transformed character from the liberal notion of the inner truth of an individual into a materially determined figuration produced through shifts in the boundaries between the body’s inside and outside. In their hands, Brilmyer argues, literature became a science, not in the sense that its claims were falsifiable or even systematically articulated, but in its commitment to uncovering, through a fictional staging of realistic events, the laws governing physical and affective life. The Science of Character redraws late Victorian literary history to show how women and feminist novelists pushed realism to its aesthetic and philosophical limits in the crucial span between 1870 and 1920.

Fighting for Life

Author : Walter J. Ong
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2013-02-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780801466281

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Fighting for Life by Walter J. Ong Pdf

What accounts for the popularity of the macho image, the fanaticism of sports enthusiasts, and the perennial appeal of Don Quixote's ineffectual struggles? In Fighting for Life, Walter J. Ong addresses these and related questions, offering insight into the role of competition in human existence. Focusing on the ways in which human life is affected by contest, Ong argues that the male agonistic drive finds an outlet in games as divergent as football and chess. Demonstrating the importance of contest in biological evolution and in the growth of consciousness out of the unconscious, Ong also shows how adversary procedure has affected social, linguistic, and intellectual history. He discusses shifting patterns of contest in such arenas as spectator sports, politics, business, academia, and religion. Human beings' internalization of agonistic drives, he concludes, can foster the deeper discovery of the self and of distinctively human freedom.

Not in Heaven

Author : Jason Philip Rosenblatt,Joseph C. Sitterson (Jr.)
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0253206782

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Not in Heaven by Jason Philip Rosenblatt,Joseph C. Sitterson (Jr.) Pdf

Growing out of a conference entitled Literary Theory volume reveal, among other more particularistic points, a fundamental overt disagreement regarding the question of coherence in narrative point of view, i.e. between the assumption or discovery of coherent and unitary narratives and narrators, the critique of this assumption, and the assumption or discovery of its opposite. No index. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Living Texts

Author : Kristin A. Pruitt,Charles Durham,Charles W. Durham
Publisher : Susquehanna University Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 157591042X

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Living Texts by Kristin A. Pruitt,Charles Durham,Charles W. Durham Pdf

The essays in this collection are a testimony to Milton's claim that books doe contain a potencie of life in them to be as active as that soule was whose progeny they are. They are proof that Milton's progeny, whether poetry or prose, continue to inspire readers to investigate and interpret, and that even the poet himself is at times the subject of scrutiny. Although these essays examine issues as widely diverse as the reliability of Adam's narration to Raphael and the portrayal of chaos in Paradise Lost to the poet's role as an object of erotic attention in the nineteenth century, all suggest that Milton's are still living texts.

The Cambridge Companion to Laurence Sterne

Author : Thomas Keymer,Tom Keymer
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2009-08-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780521849722

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The Cambridge Companion to Laurence Sterne by Thomas Keymer,Tom Keymer Pdf

This Companion provides essays on the author of Tristram Shandy, his eighteenth-century context, his oeuvre and its reception.

Chinese Narrative

Author : Andrew H. Plaks
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 379 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2014-07-14
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781400856466

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Chinese Narrative by Andrew H. Plaks Pdf

Although Chinese narrative, and especially the genres of colloquial fiction, have been subjected to intensive scholarly scrutiny, no comprehensive volume has provided a framework that would permit an overall view of the tradition. The distinguished contributors to this volume have taken an important first step in making possible the consideration of Chinese narrative at the level of comparative and general literary scholarship. Originally published in 1977. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Chinese Narrative Poetry

Author : Dore Jesse Levy
Publisher : Durham [N.C.] : Duke University Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UOM:39015014447141

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Chinese Narrative Poetry by Dore Jesse Levy Pdf

Chinese Narrative Poetry brings a new perspective to some of China's best-loved and most influential poems, including Ts'ai Yen's "Poem of Affliction," Po Chu-yi's "Song of Everlasting Sorrow," and Wei Chuang's recently discovered "Song of the Lady of Ch'in." Composed in the shih form during the Late Han, Six Dynasties, and T'ang periods, these poems stand out as masterworks of narrative art. Yet paradoxically, their narrative qualities have been little recognized or explored in either traditional Chinese or modern Western scholarship. The reason for this neglect is that Western literary traditions acknowledge their origins in epic poetry and thus take narrative for granted, but the Chinese tradition is fundametally based on lyric and does not admit of a separate category for narrative poetry. Drawing on both classical Chinese critical works and the most recent Western contributions to the theory of narrative, Levy shows how narrative elements developed out of the lyrical conventions of shih. In doing so, she accomplishes a double purpose, guiding the modern reader to an understanding of the nature of narrative in Chinese poetry and shedding light on the ways in which Chinese poets adapted the devises of lyric to the needs of a completely different expressive mode. Students of Chinese literature will welcome this pathbreaking study, but Chinese Narrative Poetry will interest other scholars as well because it addresses questions of crucial importance for literary theory and comparative literature, particularly the central issue of the applicability of Western critical concepts to non-Western literature and culture.

The Novel, Volume 1

Author : Franco Moretti
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 926 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2007-09-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780691127187

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