What Is Narratology?
Subtitle: Questions and Answers Regarding the Status of a Theory (Narratologia, 1)
Contributors: Tom Kindt (Editor); Hans-Harald Muller (Editor)
Publisher: Walter De Gruyter Inc
Published: December 1, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 378
ISBN-13: 9783110178746
Subjects: Literary studies: general; Rhetoric; Language; Language Arts & Disciplines; Congresses; Discourse analysis, Narrative; Narration (Rhetoric)
First sentence: Wordsworth himself is aware of the power of language, be it positive or negative, as he touches upon the "linguistic incarnation of thought": If words be not (recurring to a metaphor before used) an incarnation of the thought but only a clothing for it, then surely will they prove an ill gift; such a one as those poisoned vestments, read of in the stories of superstitious times, which had the power to consume and to alienate from his right mind the victim who put them on.