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The Change of Narrative Modes in Chinese Fiction (1898–1927)
This book examines the Chinese fictions (xiaoshuo) published between 1898 and 1927 – three pivotal decades, during which China underwent significant social changes. It applies …
Narrative of Chinese and Western Popular Fiction
This book presents a comprehensive and systematic study of the narrative history and narrative methods of Chinese and Western popular fiction from the perspectives of narratology, …
Narrative Voices in Modern French Fiction
This collection of essays focuses primarily on the narrative voice in French fiction from the mid-19th century to the present, from Balzac through Zola and Proust to the "nouveau …
Contemporary Native Fiction
Contemporary Native Fiction: Toward a Narrative Poetics of Survivance analyzes paradigmatic works of contemporary Native American/First Nations literary fiction using the tools of …
Sports, Narrative, and Nation in the Fiction of F. Scott Fitzgerald
This study examines the ways that F. Scott Fitzgerald portrayed organized spectator sports as working to help structure ideologies of class, community, and nationhood. Situating …
Narrative Authority and Homeostasis in the Novels of Doris Lessing and Carmen Martín Gaite
This study, originally published in 1990, assesses a shift in the presentation of self-consciousness in two pairs of novels by Doris Lessing and Carmen Martín Gaite: 1) Lessing’s …
Narrative Form in History and Fiction
The description for this book, Narrative Form in History and Fiction: Hume, Fielding, and Gibbon, will be forthcoming.
Afterlife and Narrative in Contemporary Fiction
Afterlife and Narrative explores why life after death is such a potent cultural concept today, and why it is such an attractive prospect for modern fiction. The book mines a rich …
Failure: The Humble Narrative of Unsuccessfulness in Late Modernist Fiction
Failure as a pervasive occurrence in life has rarely been investigated by sociology, even though the collapse of plans, unattainability of goals and breakdown of vital …
Fiction and Narrative
For the past twenty years there has been a virtual consensus in philosophy that there is a special link between fiction and the imagination. In particular, fiction has been defined …
Gothic Traditions and Narrative Techniques in the Fiction of Eudora Welty
In this study, Ruth D. Weston probes the whole of Eudora Welty's work to reveal the writer's close relationship to the gothic tradition. Specifically, Weston shows how Welty …
The Rogue Narrative and Irish Fiction, 1660-1790
With characteristic lawlessness and connection to the common man, the figure of the rogue commanded the world of Irish fiction from 1660 to 1790. During this period of development …