Search Results for theory of the novel

... of methodological exchange. It sketches out the interrelated disciplinary histories of the fields of narrative theory and novel studies and anatomizes the theoretical ground they share in determining their objects of study before identifying four topics of convergence: fictionality, surface reading...

...Eyal Segal Stein Daniel and Thon Jan-Noël , eds., From Comic Strips to Graphic Novels: Contributions to the Theory and History of Graphic Narrative . Berlin : De Gruyter , 2013 . vi + 416 pp. © 2016 by Porter Institute for Poetics and Semiotics 2016 New Books at a Glance...

...James Phelan This essay constructs a dialogue between Catherine Gallagher’s influential historical and theoretical account of the nexus among fictionality, readerly disposition, and character in the new genre of the novel and rhetorical theory’s alternative account of that nexus. In reading...

... Working Papers in Linguistics 7 : 27 -47. Davis, Robert Murray 1969 “The Shrinking Garden and New Exits: The Comic-Satiric Novel in the Twentieth Century,” Kansas Quarterly 1 : 5 -16. Fillmore, Charles 1975 “An Alternative to Checklist Theories of Meaning,” in Proceedings of the Annual...

... reactions. Von Contzen’s (ibid.: 149) juxtaposition of exemplarity with cognitivist mind attribution theories is also valuable in the context of the seven- teenth- and eighteenth-century novel: “The concept of exemplarity implies that a character who functions as a model is both very much alike...

...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...

...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...

... of the highly dialogic Russian novels appear already at the beginning of the nineteenth century? The first problem is explained by some psychological features of readers' perceptions of dialogues. The second problem is answered by the theory of evolution. The third problem is solved by a brief analysis...

..., nobody has yet been able to explain how new experience emerges. The prob- lem is that if we try to give a causal explanation of novel experience or novel thought, these come out looking causally determined, rather than creative and imaginative. An embodied theory of meaning will suggest only...

... by Goldman Bryony Randall Jane , 40 – 51 ( Cambridge : Cambridge University Press ). Patron Sylvie 2010 “ The Death of the Narrator and the Interpretation of the Novel: The Example of Pedro Páramo by Juan Rulfo ”, Journal of Literary Theory 4 , no. 2 : 253 – 72 . Phelan James...

...Nancy Ruttenburg During the transitional period between the early works of the late 1840s and production of the “great novels” in the mid-1860s, Dostoevsky confronted the problem of the Russian common people with particular urgency and immediacy. The consolations of the social theories which...

...Suzanne Keen Pursuing my earlier theory of strategic narrative empathy, this essay shows Thomas Hardy's bounded strategic empathy for his fictional creations, Wessex countrymen and women; his ambassadorial strategic empathy for animals and select members of despised outgroups; and his broadcast...

... in psychology is cited to bring together disparate fields in affirming that affective feelings convey information about the interface between self and environment. By setting the novel in a single day in London, after 9/11 and during preparations for war in Iraq, McEwan affirms a constructivist theory...

... † Narrative Theory and the Brief and Wondrous Life 187 in contemporary novels.4 Egan’s A Visit from the Goon Squad (2010), with a chapter comprising the PowerPoint diary of a teenager in the near future, is exemplary, but so are Jonathan Franzen’s Purity (2015) and Dave Eggers’s Circle (2013...

... landscapes of our digital age. Against the backdrop of intermediality theory, my functional analysis of the cultural work of ekphrasis builds its argument on the analysis of three novels: No Violet Bulawayo’s We Need New Names (2014), Taiye Selasi’s Ghana Must Go (2013), and Teju Cole’s Open City (2011). I...

.... Reynolds Jeremy R. 2007 “ Perception: A Mind-Brain Perspective ,” Psychological Bulletin 133 , no. 2 : 273 – 93 . Zunshine Lisa . 2006 Why We Read Fiction: Theory of Mind and the Novel ( Columbus : Ohio State University Press ). ...

.... Thomas’s The White Hotel , a prototypically “unnatural” novel in that the protagonist’s experience is caused by future events rather than by past ones. Our discussion of this novel shows situation models and interpretive strategies at work, exemplifying our claims and grounding them in a textual example...

... of novel theory including free indirect discourse and narrative closure. My aim is not, though, to ratify Austen’s style through the claims of cognitive science. I look to her presentation of thought-attribution as a way to reassess her use of free indirect discourse and to reevaluate her depiction...

... primary case. This reading studies the novel through three conceptual problems in literary theory: the author as the site of the creative process, the use of language as an expression of an author’s literary technique, and the conditions for literary enunciation. It also demonstrates the strengths...

...Marco Caracciolo Abstract Cross-fertilizing narrative theory and work in the environmental humanities, this article argues that the loop as a narrative form holds special significance vis-à-vis the imagining of climate change in contemporary fiction. More specifically, the loop captures...