We-narratives collective storytelling in contemporary fiction /
"By reading a range of contemporary novels and short stories by Jeffrey Eugenides, Joshua Ferris, Toby Litt, Zakes Mda, Joyce Carol Oates, and Julie Otsuka, and focusing on narrative innovation and experimentation by Margaret Atwood, William Faulkner, and Susan Sontag, this book tackles questio...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Columbus :
The Ohio State University Press,
©2020 [2020]
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Colección: | THEORY INTERPRETATION NARRATIV.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Telling a story in the plural
- We-narrative: the first-person plural narrative situation
- We-discourses: the we-pronoun and Its indicative and performative uses in fiction
- Plural narrators: collective voices, lyric progression, and direct speech by groups
- Plural perspective: group ethos, narrators-voyeurs, and diegetic levels
- Collective knowledge: epistemological possibilities of we-narrators, gossip, and unreliability
- Us versus them: community dynamics in we-narratives.