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Unlived Lives in English Literature : a Typological Study.
"If I had acted differently, then ..." Most human beings indulge in counterfactual thought experiments at one point or another. For the fictional characters analysed in this book, they are a central preoccupation. The characters obsessively review their past, looking at a road they did not...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Heidelberg :
Universitätsverlag Winter,
2019.
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| Colección: | Anglistische Forschungen.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Title; Imprint; Acknowledgements; Contents; I Introduction; II Towards a Definition of "Unlived Life"; 1 The Figurative Understanding; 2 The Literal Understanding; 2.1 Counterfactuality; 2.1.1 Counterfactuality and Fiction; 2.1.2 Counterfactual Fictional Worlds; 2.1.3 Counterfactual Thought Experiments in the Fictional World; 2.2 Counterfactual Unlived Lives; 2.2.1 Untimely Deaths and Alternate Biographies; 2.2.2 Multiple Unrealised Possibilities; 2.2.3 A Particular Unrealised Possibility in the Past; 2.2.3.1 A Counterfactual Course of Events; 2.2.3.2 A Retrospective Focus
- 2.2.3.3 A Sustained Focus and Involvement of the Character2.2.3.4 A Definition of "Unlived Life"; III A Typology of the Unlived Life; 1 The Unlived Life: Some Preliminary Distinctions; 1.1 The Direction: Upward and Downward Counterfactuals; 1.2 The Antecedent: Personal and External Responsibility; 1.3 Trigger Mechanisms: Visits and Other Issues; 1.4 The Consequent: Behavioural and Characterological Counterfactuals; 1.5 The Consequent: Love Relationships and Other Issues; 1.6 Feasibility: Lives (Not) Irrevocably Lost; 1.7 Feasibility: Realistic Options and Retrospective Pipe Dreams
- 2 Responses to the Unlived Life2.1 Emotional Responses; 2.2 Internal and External Effects; 2.3 Development and Stagnation; 2.4 Degrees of Awareness; 2.5 Degrees of (Self- )Control; 3 Representing the Unlived Life; 3.1 The Unlived Life
- A Motif?; 3.2 Explicit and Implicit Techniques; 3.2.1 Implicit Techniques; 3.2.1.1 Metonymic Memory; 3.2.1.2 Excessive Repetition; 3.2.1.3 Foil Characters; 3.2.1.4 Duality or Division of Personality; 3.2.1.5 Projection; 3.2.1.6 Symbolic Analogue; 3.2.1.7 Contrastive Juxtaposition; 3.2.1.8 Cross-References; 3.3 Treatment of Time in Unlived-Life Narratives
- 3.4 Narrator and Point of View in Unlived-Life Narratives4 From Typology to Selected Readings: Historical Tendencies; IV Selected Readings; 1 Classic Cases; 1.1 Henry James, "The Diary of a Man of Fifty" (1879); 1.1.1 Introduction: Unlived Lives in Henry James; 1.1.2 The Diarist's Counterfactual Contemplations; 1.1.3 The Diarist's Self-Delusion and Learning Process; 1.1.4 Conclusion; 1.2 Samuel Beckett, 'Krapp's Last Tape' (1958); 1.2.1 Introduction; 1.2.2 Krapp: Weary, Lonely, and Disappointed; 1.2.3 'Krapp's Last Tape' as Monodrama; 1.2.4 An Open and Yet Static Ending; 1.2.5 Conclusion
- 2 Classic Cases Reversed2.1 Vita Sackville-West, 'All Passion Spent' (1931); 2.1.1 Introduction; 2.1.2 The Antecedent: The Marriage Proposal; 2.1.3 Lady Slane's Actual Marriage and Counterfactual Career; 2.1.4 Lady Slane's Late Rebellion; 2.1.5 Conclusion; 2.2 Alice Munro, "Carried Away" (1994); 2.2.1 Introduction: Unlived Lives in Alice Munro; 2.2.2 Before the Antecedent: An Exchange of Love Letters; 2.2.3 The Antecedent: Personal or External Responsibility?; 2.2.4 After the Antecedent: Louisa's Emotional Involvement; 2.2.5 Unresolved Mysteries