Unnatural narrative : impossible worlds in fiction and drama /

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A talking body part, a character that is simultaneously alive and dead, a shape-changing setting, or time travel: although impossible in the real world, such narrative elements do appear in the storyworlds of novels, short stories, and plays. Impossibilities of narrator, character, time, and space a...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Alber, Jan, 1973- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, 2016.
Series:Frontiers of narrative.
Subjects:
Narration (Rhetoric)
Uncanny, The (Psychoanalysis), in literature.
Fiction > History and criticism.
Drama > History and criticism.
Postmodernism (Literature)
Narration.
Inquiétante étrangeté (Psychanalyse) dans la littérature.
Roman > Histoire et critique.
Théâtre (Genre littéraire) > Histoire et critique.
Postmodernisme (Littérature)
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > Composition & Creative Writing.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > Rhetoric.
REFERENCE > Writing Skills.
Drama.
Fiction.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Cover ; Title Page ; Copyright Page ; Contents ; Acknowledgments; Part 1. Concepts of the Unnatural; Introduction: The Range of the Impossible; Theorizing the Unnatural; Part 2. Unnatural Narrative Features; 2 Impossible Narrators and Storytelling Scenarios; 3 Antirealist Figures: Paper People Gone Wild; 4 Unnatural Temporalities; 5 Antimimetic Spaces; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

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