03234nam a2200361 a 4500 ebr10606516 CaPaEBR m u cr cn||||||||| 120824s2012 mau sb 001 0 eng d 2012031098 9783110259957 (alk. paper) 9783110259971 (e-book) CaPaEBR CaPaEBR (OCoLC)815281406 PN212 .N3765 2012eb 808.036 23 Narrative, interrupted [electronic resource] : the plotless, the disturbing and the trivial in literature / edited by Markku Lehtim�aki, Laura Karttunen, Maria M�akel�a. Boston : De Gruyter, 2012. xvi, 327 p. Includes bibliographical references and index. Preface -- The still waters of narrative: the boring and the plotless. James Phelan: Conversational and authorial disclosure in the dialogue novel: the case of The friends of Eddie Coyle -- Matti Hyv�arinen: Resistance to plot and uneven narrativity: a journey from "a boring story" to The rings of Saturn -- Bo Pettersson: What happens when nothing happens: interpreting narrative technique in the plotless novels of Nicholson Baker -- Laura Karttunen: Events can be quoted (and words need not be) -- Samuli H�agg: Pynchon's poetics of boredom: cognitive and textual aspects of novelistic dreariness -- A web of sense: interpreting the disturbing and the difficult. David Herman: Toward a zoonarratology: storytelling and species difference in animal comics -- Markku Lehtim�aki: Watching a tree grow: Terrence Malick's The new world and the nature of cinema -- Maria M�akel�a: Navigating "making sense" interpreting (the reader behind La jalousie) -- Mari Hatavara: History impossible: narrating and motivating the past -- Jan Alber: Unnatural temporalities: interfaces between postmodernism, science fiction, and the fantastic -- Sanna Katariina Bruun: The imperfect is our paradise: intertextuality and fragmentary narration in Margaret Atwood's Alias Grace -- Jakob Lothe: Fragile narrative situations: Conrad compared to Sebald -- Shadow of a tail: problems of authorship. Leona Toker: Name change and author avatars in Varlam Shalamov and Primo Levi -- Marina Grishakova: Stranger than fiction, or, Jerome David Salinger, author of Lolita: real, implied and fictive authorship -- Hannu Tommola: Translators, scoundrels and gentlemen of honor: problems of Nabokov's loyalty -- Brian McHale: Affordances of form in stanzaic narrative poetry -- Gennady Barabtarlo: A shadow on the marble. Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2011. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries. Discourse analysis, Narrative. Narration (Rhetoric) Literature History and criticism Theory, etc. Electronic books. local Lehtim�aki, Markku. Karttunen, Laura. M�akel�a, Maria. ebrary, Inc. http://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10606516 An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view 193614 193614