Coincidence and counterfactuality : plotting time and space in narrative fiction / Hilary P. Dannenberg.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dannenberg, Hilary P.

Series:

Frontiers of narrative.

Frontiers of narrative

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Space and time in literature.

Coincidence in literature.

Fiction--Technique.

Fiction.

Fantasy fiction, English--History and criticism.

Fantasy fiction, English.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (305 p.)

Place of Publication:

Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, c2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In Coincidence and Counterfactuality, a groundbreaking analysis of plot, Hilary P. Dannenberg sets out to answer the perennial question of how to tell a good story. While plot is among the most integral aspects of storytelling, it is perhaps the least studied aspect of narrative. Using plot theory to chart the development of narrative fiction from the Renaissance to the present, Dannenberg demonstrates how the novel has evolved over time and how writers have developed increasingly complex narrative strategies which tap into key cognitive parameters familiar to the reader from real-life experie

Contents:

Theorizing time and space in narrative fiction

Cognitive plotting : crossing narrative boundaries and connecting worlds

Ontological plotting : narrative as a multiplicity of temporal dimensions

Spatial plotting : paths, links, and portals

Theorizing coincidence and counterfactuality

The coincidence plot

Counterfactuals and other alternate narrative worlds

Coincidence and counterfactuality in the history of narrative fiction

The metamorphoses of the coincidence plot

The narrative evolution of counterfactuals.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [255]-282) and index.

ISBN:

9786611733995

9781281733993

1281733997

9780803217614

0803217617

OCLC:

437200610