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Author : Tom Jenks
Release : 2016-01-01
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Book Synopsis A Poetics of Fiction by : Tom Jenks
Download or read book A Poetics of Fiction written by Tom Jenks. This book was released on 2016-01-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Peter Stockwell
Release : 2014-06-11
Genre : Language Arts & Disciplines
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Book Rating : 175/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Poetics of Science Fiction by : Peter Stockwell
Download or read book The Poetics of Science Fiction written by Peter Stockwell. This book was released on 2014-06-11. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Poetics of Science Fiction uniquely uses the science of linguistics to explore the literary universe of science fiction. Developing arguments about specific texts and movements throughout the twentieth-century, the book is a readable discussion of this most popular of genres. It also uses the extreme conditions offered by science fiction to develop new insights into the language of the literary context. The discussion ranges from a detailed investigation of new words and metaphors, to the exploration of new worlds, from pulp science fiction to the genre's literary masterpieces, its special effects and poetic expression. Speculations and extrapolations throughout the book engage the reader in thought-experiments and discussion points, with selected further reading making it a useful source book for classroom and seminar.
Author : M. Axelrod
Release : 1999-09-17
Genre : Fiction
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Book Synopsis The Poetics of Novels by : M. Axelrod
Download or read book The Poetics of Novels written by M. Axelrod. This book was released on 1999-09-17. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Poetics of Novels deals with the fundamentals of novel-writing and the execution of such, and though it engages specific notions of literary and cultural theory, it privileges the architectonics of the texts themselves as it crosses boundaries of both time and culture. Novels include: Austen's Northanger Abbey , Beckett's Company , Brontë's Wuthering Heights , Cervantes' Don Quixote , Flaubert's Madame Bovary , Hamsun's Hunger , Hardy's Tess of the D'Urbervilles , Lispector's Hour of the Star and Smart's By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept .
Author : Vanessa Guignery
Release : 2019-12-02
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Book Synopsis The Poetics of Fragmentation in Contemporary British and American Fiction by : Vanessa Guignery
Download or read book The Poetics of Fragmentation in Contemporary British and American Fiction written by Vanessa Guignery. This book was released on 2019-12-02. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The last decades have seen a revival of fragmentation in British and American works of fiction that deny linearity, coherence and continuity in favour of disruption, gaps and fissures. Authors such as Ali Smith, David Mitchell and David Shields have sought new ways of representing our global, media-saturated contemporary experience which differ from modernist and postmodernist experimentations from which the writers nevertheless draw inspiration. This volume aims to investigate some of the most important contributions to fragmentary literature from British and American writers since the 1990s, with a particular emphasis on texts released in the twenty-first century. The chapters within examine whether contemporary forms of literary fragmentation constitute a return to the modernist episteme or the fragmented literature of exhaustion of the 1960s, mark a continuity with postmodernist aesthetics or signal a deviation from past models and an attempt to reflect today’s accelerated culture of social media and over-communication. Contributors theorise and classify literary fragments, examine the relationship between fragmentation and the Zeitgeist (influenced by globalisation, media saturation and social networks), analyse the mechanics of multimodal and multimedial fictions, and consider the capacity of literary fragmentation to represent personal or collective trauma and to address ethical concerns. They also investigate the ways in which the architecture of the printed book is destabilised and how aesthetic processes involving fragmentation, bricolage and/or collage raise ontological, ethical and epistemological questions about the globalised contemporary world we live in and its relation to the self and the other. Besides the aforementioned authors, the volume makes reference to the works of J. G. Ballard, Julian Barnes, Mark Z. Danielewski, David Markson, Jonathan Safran Foer, David Foster Wallace, Jeanette Winterson and several others.
Author : Shlomith Rimmon-Kenan
Release : 2003-12-16
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Book Rating : 975/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Narrative Fiction by : Shlomith Rimmon-Kenan
Download or read book Narrative Fiction written by Shlomith Rimmon-Kenan. This book was released on 2003-12-16. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is a narrative? What is narrative fiction? How does it differ from other kinds of narrative? What featuers turn a discourse into a narrative text? Now widely acknowledged as one of the most significant volumes in its field, Narrative Fiction turns its attention to these and other questions. In contrast to many other studies, Narrative Fiction is organized arround issues - such as events, time, focalization, characterization, narration, the text and its reading - rather than individual theorists or approaches. Within this structure, Shlomith Rimmon-Kenan addresses key approaches to narrative fiction, including New Criticism, formalism, structuralism and phenomenology, but also offers views of the modifications to these theroies. While presenting an analysis of the system governing all fictional narratives, whether in the form of novel, short story or narrative poem, she also suggests how individual narratives can be studied against the background of this general system. A broad range of literary examples illustrate key aspects of the study. This edition is brought fully up-to-date with an invaluable new chapter, reflecting on recent developments in narratology. Readers are also directed to key recent works in the field. These additions to a classic text ensure that Narrative Fiction will remain the ideal starting point for anyone new to narrative theory.
