03234nam a2200361 a 4500001001200000003000800012006001900020007001500039008004100054010001700095020003100112020002700143040002100170035002100191050002500212082001600237245018300253260003300436300001600469504005100485505180800536533015202344650003502496650002502531650005202556655002902608700002602637700002202663700002502685710001702710856012602727999001902853ebr10606516CaPaEBRm        u        cr cn|||||||||120824s2012    mau     sb    001 0 eng d  z  2012031098  z9783110259957 (alk. paper)  z9783110259971 (e-book)  aCaPaEBRcCaPaEBR  a(OCoLC)81528140614aPN212b.N3765 2012eb04a808.03622300aNarrative, interruptedh[electronic resource] :bthe plotless, the disturbing and the trivial in literature /cedited by Markku Lehtim�aki, Laura Karttunen, Maria M�akel�a.  aBoston :bDe Gruyter,c2012.  axvi, 327 p.  aIncludes bibliographical references and index.0 aPreface -- 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.  aElectronic reproduction.bPalo Alto, Calif. :cebrary,d2011.nAvailable via World Wide Web.nAccess may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries. 0aDiscourse analysis, Narrative. 0aNarration (Rhetoric) 0aLiteraturexHistory and criticismxTheory, etc. 7aElectronic books.2local1 aLehtim�aki, Markku.1 aKarttunen, Laura.1 aM�akel�a, Maria.2 aebrary, Inc.40uhttp://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10606516zAn electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view  c193614d193614