Narrative, interrupted  the plotless, the disturbing and the trivial in literature /  [electronic resource] : 
edited by Markku Lehtimäki, Laura Karttunen, Maria Mäkelä. 
 - Boston :  De Gruyter,  2012. 
 - xvi, 327 p. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/>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 Hyvärinen: 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 Hägg: 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 Lehtimäki: Watching a tree grow: Terrence Malick's The new world and the nature of cinema -- Maria Mäkelä: 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. 
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<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Discourse analysis, Narrative.<br/>Narration (Rhetoric)<br/>Literature--History and criticism--Theory, etc.
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<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>PN212  / .N3765 2012eb 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>808.036