Narrative causalities
By: Emma Kafalenos.
Publisher: Ohio State University Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Columbus
Language: eng
Number of pages: 247
Subjects: Literature, Modern -- History and criticism.; Narration (Rhetoric); Causation in literature.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Reading narrative causalities: functions and functional polyvalence; title: The princess and the pea(s): two versions, different causalities; title: Nonchronological narration: Poe's "The assignation" and Browning's "My last duchess"; title: The comforts that function c brings: Shakespeare's Hamlet, Racine's Phaedra, and James's Daisy Miller; title: Lingering at functions d, e, and f: James's The ambassadors and Kafka's "Before the law"; title: Sequential perception: James's The turn of the screw and Balzac's Sarrasine; title: Narrative borderlands I: the lyric, the image, and the isolated moment as temporal hinge; title: Narrative borderlands II: the image where stories proliferate in novels by Robbe-Grillet and others.