Search Results for novel

... of literary reading and their meaning in terms of coping with daily life and in terms of a person's biography]. In the first, ethnographic part of this study, six volunteer readers (who had spontaneously purchased a recently published novel) observed their own reading practices. The subjects were interviewed...

...Cristina Larkin Galiñanes This article aims to put forward some ideas as to the narrative characteristics of funny novels. Since the chief common denominator of this kind of work is the goal to make the reader laugh, one would suppose that these works have a lot in common with other forms...

...Thane Rosenbaum A “post-Holocaust novelist” describes the reason for insisting on this category and explains why he thinks the Holocaust itself should not be directly portrayed. Porter Institute for Poetics and Semiotics 2006 The Audacity of Aesthetics: The Post-Holocaust Novel...

...Robert Appelbaum; Alexis Paknadel Since 1970, terrorism has become a prominent subject for English-language novels. In an attempt to characterize the modern terrorism novel and the cultural work it has performed, the authors have devised a typology of terrorism-infiction from 1970 through 2001...

... Historiography and the Gothic Novel. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, xi + pp. In this book Richter attempts to tell the history of the Gothic novel from the year of publication of Horace Walpole’s The Castle of Otranto,to the s, notably including the s, when the genre became a major force...

...Eyal Segal Warren Motte, Fiction Now: The French Novel in the Twenty-first Century . Champaign, IL: Dalkey Archive , 2008 . 237 pp . Porter Institute for Poetics and Semiotics 2010 New Books at a Glance Rebecca Beasley, Theorists of Modernist Poetry: T. S. Eliot, T. E. Hulme...

...Jane F. Thrailkill Drawing on cognitive science, literary critics such as Mark Turner have affirmed that for human beings thinking is crucially bound up with narrative. This essay examines how Ian McEwan in his novel Saturday (2005) adds a specifically affective element to the human engagement...

... Thomas Bronwen ., Fictional Dialogue: Speech and Conversation in the Modern and Postmodern Novel . Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press , 2012 . ix + 212 pp. © 2014 by Porter Institute for Poetics and Semiotics 2014 New Books at a Glance Edward Adams, Liberal Epic...

...Eyal Segal Caroline Levine and Mario Ortiz-Robles, eds., Narrative Middles: Navigating the Nineteenth-Century British Novel . Columbus : Ohio State University Press , 2011 . viii + 257 pp. © 2013 by Porter Institute for Poetics and Semiotics 2013 New Books at a Glance...

...Eyal Segal Morson Gary Saul ., The Long and Short of It: From Aphorism to Novel . Stanford, CA : Stanford University Press , 2012 . xx + 273 pp. © 2013 by Porter Institute for Poetics and Semiotics 2013 New Books at a Glance Frederick Aldama, ed., Analyzing World...

...Eyal Segal Morson Gary Saul , Prosaics and Other Provocations: Empathy, Open Time, and the Novel . Boston : Academic Studies , 2013 . xxiii + 274 pp. © 2016 by Porter Institute for Poetics and Semiotics 2016 New Books at a Glance Gary Saul Morson, Prosaics and Other...

...Daniel Candel Bormann The article analyzes the “fictional” worlds employed by literary historians with a tool grounded in possible worlds theory. The core of the tool's spatiotemporal framework is applied to four literary histories which cover the history of the novel from its beginnings...

...Eyal Segal Phelan James , Reading the American Novel 1920 – 2010 . Malden, MA : Wiley-Blackwell , 2013 . viii + 270 pp. © 2016 by Porter Institute for Poetics and Semiotics 2016 New Books at a Glance Walter Bernhart and Lawrence Kramer, eds., On Voice. Amsterdam: Rodopi...

...Paul Dawson The novel is both a type of narrative and a distinct literary genre. This introduction argues that theoretical accounts of formal elements of narrative fiction, on the one hand, and historical investigations into the development of the novel, on the other, suffer from a lack...

...Maria Mäkelä The article challenges both cognitive-universalist and unnatural-exceptionalist approaches to fictional minds by analyzing how the seventeenth- and eighteenth-century novel merges the premodern poetics of exemplarity with emergent modern techniques of representing consciousness...

...Simona Zetterberg Gjerlevsen Building on recent theory of fictionality as a rhetorical concept, this article examines fictionality in the history of the novel. It argues that the Danish eighteenth-century novel provides answers to the question of the origin of the novel. A smaller novel corpus than...

... Narrative, Factual Narrative ”, translated by Ben-Ari Nitsa , Poetics Today 11 , no. 4 : 755 – 74 . Goldberg M. A. 1968 “ Chronology, Character, and the Human Condition: A Reappraisal of the Modern Novel .” In Critical Approaches to Fiction , edited by Kumar Shiv K. McKean...

... in the novel is literally “in-formed” by several factors, for example, the “linguistic situation” (the state of language as a writer would have experienced it, including its inner tensions and social stratifications), “stylistic ideology” (the self-conscious stylistic projects that writers develop...

... explosion of digital storage and surveillance devices. At the same time, the article devotes less attention to these technological developments in themselves than to the consequences they have for the form of Lerner’s and Knausgaard’s novels and for the implied aesthetics and ethics that underlie...

...Eyal Segal Logan Peter Melville George Olakunle Hegeman Susan Kristal Efraín , eds., The Encyclopedia of the Novel (2 vols.) . Malden, MA : Wiley-Blackwell , 2011 . xxi + 979 pp. © 2013 by Porter Institute for Poetics and Semiotics 2013 New Books at a Glance...