Literary Fiction : the Ways We Read Narrative Literature / Geir Farner.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Farner, Geir, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Fiction.

Narration (Rhetoric).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (361 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"Insofar as literary theory has addressed the issue of literature as a means of communication and the function of literary fiction, opinions have been sharply divided, indicating that the elementary foundations of literary theory and criticism still need clarifying. Many of the "classical" problems that literary theory has been grappling with from Aristotle to our time are still waiting for a satisfactory solution. Based on a new cognitive model of the literature as communication, Farner systematically explains how literary fiction works, providing new solutions to a wide range of literary issues, like intention, function, evaluation, delimitation of the literary work as such, fictionality, suspense, and the roles of author and narrator, along with such narratological problems as voice, point of view and duration. Covering a wide range of literary issues central to literary theory, offering new theories while also summarising the field as it stands, Literary Fiction will be a valuable guide and resource for students and scholars of the theory of literature"--Bloomsbury Publishing.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note:

1. Introduction

2. What is literary fiction?

3. The fictional communication process

4. The cognitive and aesthetic dimensions of literature

5. The limits of the literary work

6. Intention and message

7. Problems related to the sender

8. The structure of the action

9. Selection

10. Voice

11. Viewpoint, focalization

12. Frequency

13. Order

14. Suspense

15. The functions of literary fiction

16. Evaluation

17. Conclusion

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781623564261

1623564263

9781628926996

1628926996

9781623560256

162356025X

OCLC:

865508687