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Narratologia Ser.: Eventfulness in British Fiction by Peter Hühn (2010, Hardcover)

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Eventfulness in British Fiction (Narratologia: Contributions to Narrative Theory/Beitrage Zure Erzahltheorie) by Hühn, Peter [Hardcover]

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Product Identifiers

PublisherDE Gruyter, Inc.

ISBN-103110213648

ISBN-139783110213645

eBay Product ID (ePID)102959008

Product Key Features

Number of Pages222 Pages

Publication NameEventfulness in British Fiction

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2010

SubjectGeneral, Rhetoric, Semiotics & Theory, European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh

TypeTextbook

AuthorPeter Hühn

Subject AreaLiterary Criticism, Language Arts & Disciplines

SeriesNarratologia Ser.

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Weight15.8 Oz

Item Length9.1 in

Item Width6.1 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional

LCCN2010-001376

Grade FromCollege Graduate Student

Series Volume Number18

Grade ToCollege Graduate Student

SynopsisAn event, defined as the decisive turn, the surprising point in the plot of a narrative, constitutes its tellability, the motivation for reading it. This book describes a framework for a narratological definition of eventfulness and its dependence on the historical, socio-cultural and literary context. A series of fifteen analyses of British novels and tales, from late medieval and early modern times to the late 20th century, demonstrates how this concept can be put into practice for a new, specifically contextual interpretation of the central relevance of these texts. The examples include Chaucer's "Miller's Tale", Behn's "Oroonoko", Defoe's "Moll Flanders", Richardson's "Pamela", Fielding's "Tom Jones", Dickens's "Great Expectations", Hardy's "On the Western Circuit", James's "The Beast in the Jungle", Joyce's "Grace", Conrad's "Shadow-Line", Woolf's "Unwritten Novel", Lawrence's "Fanny and Annie", Mansfield's "At the Bay", Fowles's "Enigma" and Swift's "Last Orders". This selection is focused on the transitional period from 19th-century realism to 20th-century modernism because during these decades traditional concepts of what counts as an event were variously problematized; therefore, these texts provide a particularly interesting field for testing the analytical capacity of the term of eventfulness.

LC Classification NumberPR830.P53H85 2010