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ISBN:
9780814278055
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0814278051
Serie:
THEORY INTERPRETATION NARRATIV
Inhalt:
"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 questions of the formal and performative significance of the first-person plural voice in contemporary fiction"--
Anmerkung:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 185-195) and index
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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.
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 9780814214411
Weitere Ausg.:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Bekhta, Natalya We-Narratives : Collective Storytelling in Contemporary Fiction Chicago : Ohio State University Press,c2021 ISBN 9780814214411
Sprache:
Englisch
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