the plotless, the disturbing and the trivial in literature Lehtim�aki, Markku. Karttunen, Laura. M�akel�a, Maria. ebrary, Inc text bibliography Electronic books. mau Boston De Gruyter 2012 monographic eng

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xvi, 327 p. 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. edited by Markku Lehtim�aki, Laura Karttunen, Maria M�akel�a. Includes bibliographical references and index. 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 PN212 .N3765 2012eb 808.036 http://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10606516 http://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10606516 CaPaEBR 120824 ebr10606516