Eventfulness in British fiction /
An event, defined as the decisive turn, the surprising point in the plot of a narrative, constitutes its tellability, the motivation for reading it. The book describes a framework for a narratological definition of eventfulness and its dependence on the historical, socio-cultural and literary contex...
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New York :
De Gruyter,
2010
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| Series: | Narratologia ;
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Table of Contents:
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Preface
- Table of Contents
- Introduction
- Late Medieval and Early Mordern
- Geoffrey Chaucer: 8220;The Miller8217;s Tale8221; (ca. 13901400)
- Aphra Behn: Oroonoko (1688)
- 18th Century
- Daniel Defoe: Moll Flanders (1722)
- Samuel Richardson: Pamela (1740)
- Henry Fielding. Tom Jones (1749)
- Premorden and Modernist
- Charles Dickens: Great Expectations (1861)
- Thomas Hardy: 8220;On the Western Circuit8221; (1891)
- Henry James: 8220;The Beast in the Jungle8221; (1903)
- James Joyce: 8220;Grace8221; (1914)
- Joseph Conrad: The Shadow-Line (1917)
- Virginia Woolf: 8220;An Unwritten Novel8221; (1921)
- D.H. Lawrence: 8220;Fanny and Annie8221; (1921)
- Katherine Mansfield: 8220;At the Bay8221; (1922)
- Contemporary
- John Fowles: 8220;The Enigma8221; (1974)
- Graham Swift: Last Orders (1996)
- Conclusion.
