The Reader's Construction of NarrativeIn this book, first published in 1981, the author argues that narrative is an interaction between "the presented world and the presentational process" and attempts to define narrative from the perspective of reading. The Reader’s Construction of Narrative includes chapters on narrative language, translating narrative and discusses what happens when we read a narrative text. This book will be of particular interest to students of literary theory. |
Contents
LADDERS OF FICTIONALITY | |
BRACKETED WORLD AND READER CONSTRUCTION IN THE MODERN SHORT STORY | |
PRESENTED AND PRESENTATIONAL | |
TRANSFORMATIONS OF PRESENTATIONAL CONTROL | |
PARODIC NARRATIVE | |
NARRATIVE AND THE FORMCONTENT METAPHOR | |
TRANSLATING NARRATIVE | |
A CHALLENGE TO LINGUISTICS | |
NOTES | |
INDEX | |
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act of reading appresentation artistic aspects attitude bisociation boundary situation chapter concept concretization Criticism defined discourse distinction documentary dynamic eidetic everyday example experience experienced fictional fictive foregrounded form-content free indirect speech grasp horizon ideology imagined world implied reader inter-textual interpretative abstractions Jakobson kind Lay Dying linguistic literary literature Maurice Natanson meaning metafiction metonymie modal logic modality mode mythic narrated world narrative situation narrative structure narrative text narrator's novel object ontological parodistic parody Poetics polyphony polyphony of aesthetic presentational process presentational strands presented world process and presented process and world propositional reader’s construction reading consciousness reading process realistic reality relationship Robert Coover Roger Fowler Roman Ingarden Roman Jakobson schematic sense sets of signifieds short story specific speech act stance statements strata stratum surface text telling temporal locus theory transformation translation Tristram Shandy typified University Press verbal Wolfgang Iser world and presentational world-out-there