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New Readings Of The American Novel

Narrative Theory And Its Application

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  • © 1990

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Authors:
  1. Peter Messent
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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-ix
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  2. Introduction

    • Peter Messent
    Pages 1-7

  3. Speech Representation, Focalization and Narration in The Great Gatsby

    • Peter Messent
    Pages 8-43

  4. Time and Narrative: Faulkner’s The Sound and the Fury

    • Peter Messent
    Pages 44-85

  5. Slippery Stuff: The Construction of Character in The Sun Also Rises

    • Peter Messent
    Pages 86-129

  6. The Dynamics of Reading: A Lost Lady

    • Peter Messent
    Pages 130-161

  7. The Portrait of a Lady and The House of Mirth: A Barthesian Reading

    • Peter Messent
    Pages 162-203

  8. The Clash of Language: Bakhtin and Huckleberry Finn

    • Peter Messent
    Pages 204-242

  9. A Medley of Voices: Zora Neale Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God

    • Peter Messent
    Pages 243-287

  10. Back Matter

    Pages 288-328
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This study introduces a variety of theoretical models for the reading of narrative: Genette, Barthes, Bakhtin, Iser, among others. Its aim is pedagogic; to show how such models can be used to explain how a text's effects are created, and to make such applied readings available as negotiable practice for a student audience. The seven American novels discussed come mainly from the traditional `canon'; a final chapter on Their Eyes Are Watching God argues, however, for a broadening of the boundaries of `literary' discourse.

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