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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      22 September 2009
      03 December 1998
      ISBN:
      9780511483219
      9780521430395
      9780521120852
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511483219
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.445kg, 222 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (229 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.34kg, 224 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Literature, Philosophy: General Interest, Literary Theory
      Series:
      Literature, Culture, Theory (28)
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    Literature, Philosophy: General Interest, Literary Theory
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    Literature, Culture, Theory (28)
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    Narrative features such as frames, digressions, or authorial intrusions have traditionally been viewed as distractions from or anomalies in the narrative proper. In Theory and the Novel Jeffrey Williams exposes these elements as more than simple disruptions, analysing them as registers of narrative reflexivity, that is, moments that represent and advertise the functioning of narrative itself. Williams argues that narrative encodes and advertises its own functioning and modal form. He takes a range of novels from the English canon - Tristram Shandy, Joseph Andrews, The Turn of the Screw, Wuthering Heights, Lord Jim and Heart of Darkness are amongst the novels examined - and shows how narrative technique is never beyond or outside plot. He poses a series of theoretical questions such as about reflexitivity, imitation and fictionality, to offer a striking and original contribution to readings of the English novel, as well as to discussions of theory in general.

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