Our very own adventure : towards a poetics of the short story / Carolyne Lee.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lee, Carolyne, 1953- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Authorship--Handbooks, manuals, etc.

Authorship.

Fiction--Technique.

Fiction.

Short story--Technique.

Short story.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (217 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Carlton, Victoria, Australia : Melbourne University Press, 2011.

Summary:

Our Very Own Adventure demonstrates the main convention of the short story-specifically the heightened reader response that Carolyne Lee terms 'narratorial presence'. The intensity of the short story encourages readers to appropriate the fictive world, as rendered through one or more represented subjectivities in the narrative. Lee argues that this narratorial presence is the enabling effect of the tale's telling. Each chapter examines a group of stories (by authors such as William Faulkner, James Joyce, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Ray Bradbury and Alice Munro) that share basic similarities, but where the narratorial presence differs due to differing techniques. Our Very Own Adventure reveals just how a story yields its meanings to a reader.

Contents:

Intro

Title

Copyright

Contents

Glossary

Introduction: A Rare Brand of Intimacy

1. The Aesthetics of Brevity

2. Complex Rhetorical Manoeuvres: The Narration of Framed Stories

3. I Experience Therefore I Narrate: Stories Told by Narrating and/or Experiencing I Characters

4. Like Listening to a Soliloquy: The Narration of Monologues, Diaries and You-voice Stories

5. The Narrator in Camouflage: The Narration of Reflectorized 'Third-person' Stories with Figural Characters

6. From Effacement to Personalisation: Third-person Stories Told by External or Authorial Narrators

Conclusion: This Unique Effect

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780522860177

0522860176

OCLC:

1262678985