Narrative, interrupted : the plotless, the disturbing and the trivial in literature / edited by Markku Lehtimäki, Laura Karttunen, Maria Mäkelä.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Lehtimäki, Markku.

Karttunen, Laura.

Mäkelä, Maria.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Discourse analysis, Narrative.

Narration (Rhetoric).

Literature--History and criticism--Theory, etc.

Literature.

Physical Description:

xvi, 327 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Boston : De Gruyter, 2012.

Summary:

Going beyond the macro framing typical of postclassical narratology, literature scholars demonstrate approaches more sensitive to the variety of narratives available. In sections on the boring and the plotless, interpreting the disturbing and the difficult, and problems of authorship, they considers such topics as interpreting narrative technique in the plotless novels of Nicholson Baker, storytelling and species difference in animal comics, intertextuality and fragmentary narrative in Margaret Atwood's Alias Grace, name change and author avatars in Varlam Shalamov and Primo Levi, and a shadow on the marble. Only names and titles are indexed. Annotation ©2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Contents:

Preface

The still waters of narrative: the boring and the plotless. James Phelan: Conversational and authorial disclosure in the dialogue novel: the case of The friends of Eddie Coyle

Matti Hyvärinen: Resistance to plot and uneven narrativity: a journey from "a boring story" to The rings of Saturn

Bo Pettersson: What happens when nothing happens: interpreting narrative technique in the plotless novels of Nicholson Baker

Laura Karttunen: Events can be quoted (and words need not be)

Samuli Hägg: Pynchon's poetics of boredom: cognitive and textual aspects of novelistic dreariness

A web of sense: interpreting the disturbing and the difficult. David Herman: Toward a zoonarratology: storytelling and species difference in animal comics

Markku Lehtimäki: Watching a tree grow: Terrence Malick's The new world and the nature of cinema

Maria Mäkelä: Navigating "making sense" interpreting (the reader behind La jalousie)

Mari Hatavara: History impossible: narrating and motivating the past

Jan Alber: Unnatural temporalities: interfaces between postmodernism, science fiction, and the fantastic

Sanna Katariina Bruun: The imperfect is our paradise: intertextuality and fragmentary narration in Margaret Atwood's Alias Grace

Jakob Lothe: Fragile narrative situations: Conrad compared to Sebald

Shadow of a tail: problems of authorship. Leona Toker: Name change and author avatars in Varlam Shalamov and Primo Levi

Marina Grishakova: Stranger than fiction, or, Jerome David Salinger, author of Lolita: real, implied and fictive authorship

Hannu Tommola: Translators, scoundrels and gentlemen of honor: problems of Nabokov's loyalty

Brian McHale: Affordances of form in stanzaic narrative poetry

Gennady Barabtarlo: A shadow on the marble.

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9783110259957

3110259958

9783110259971

3110259974

OCLC:

808316425