The English novel and prose narrative /

"The English Novel and Prose Narrative provides an astute, wide-ranging and accessible critical introduction to the English novel and short fiction, and explores the novel's relations to narrative forms such as biography and autobiography. David Amigoni expertly guides readers to methods o...

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Autore principale: Amigoni, David (Autore)
Natura: Licensed eBooks
Lingua:inglese
Pubblicazione: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press 2000.
Serie:Elements of literature.
Accesso online:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.3366/j.ctvxcrk1x
Sommario:
  • 1. Introduction: straightforward discourse and novel transactions
  • 2. elements of narrative analysis and the origins of the novel: reading Jane Austen's Emma and Samuel Richardson's Pamela
  • 3. Bildung and belonging: studying nineteenth-century narrative and 'self-culture'
  • 4. Innovative stories and distinctive readers
  • 5. History, intertextuality and the carnivalised novel: postmodern conditions and postcolonial hybridities.