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...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Bekhta, Natalya (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Columbus : The Ohio State University Press, ©2020 [2020]
Series:THEORY INTERPRETATION NARRATIV.
Subjects:
1900-1999
Fiction > 20th century > History and criticism.
Grammar, Comparative and general > Pronoun.
Storytelling in literature.
Narration (Rhetoric)
Pronom.
Art de conter dans la littérature.
Narration.
LITERARY CRITICISM / General
Fiction
Grammar, Comparative and general > Pronoun
Storytelling in literature
Erzähltheorie
Fiktion
Literatur
Rhetorik
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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