Unlikely Stories: Causality and the Nature of Modern NarrativeUniversity of Delaware Press, 1997 - 219 Seiten Unlikely Stories is the first book-length study of the full range of causal issues in narrative, and explores the neglected question of just what brings about events in a fictional text. This book focuses on causality as a foundational element of all narratives, and as a distinguishing feature of many of the most compelling works of distinctively modern fiction and drama. Richardson draws on a wide range of literary texts: seminal ancient and early modern works, the classics of high modernism, and numerous avant-garde and postmodern pieces, as well as narratives by recent postcolonial and U.S. ethnic authors. |
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... characters , and the philosophical and ideological ascriptions of cause that are variously embodied , interrogated , or parodied . One of the most significant fea- tures of this study is its disclosure of just how fundamental and ...
... characters , and the philosophical and ideological ascriptions of cause that are variously embodied , interrogated , or parodied . One of the most significant fea- tures of this study is its disclosure of just how fundamental and ...
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... characters themselves struggling to discover the causal laws of the world they inhabit , and that the audience's demands for causal connection can , as we have seen , be provoked and frustrated by authors who defer or destabilize the ...
... characters themselves struggling to discover the causal laws of the world they inhabit , and that the audience's demands for causal connection can , as we have seen , be provoked and frustrated by authors who defer or destabilize the ...
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... characters continuously attempt to comprehend and narrativize the order of the events that surround them . All such attempts prove futile , as the logic of " material interests " contradicts the notions of providence and progress ...
... characters continuously attempt to comprehend and narrativize the order of the events that surround them . All such attempts prove futile , as the logic of " material interests " contradicts the notions of providence and progress ...
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... characters ( including Dora Chance and Sir Melchior Hazard ) inhabit a world beyond the realm of the probable that oscillates between unmotivated good fortune and random catas- trophe . Mukherjee's Jasmine is particularly interesting in ...
... characters ( including Dora Chance and Sir Melchior Hazard ) inhabit a world beyond the realm of the probable that oscillates between unmotivated good fortune and random catas- trophe . Mukherjee's Jasmine is particularly interesting in ...
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Causality and the Nature of Modern Narrative Brian Richardson. sality , and each features characters who attempt to comprehend the causal laws of the world they inhabit — often mirroring the reader's own confusion in the face of the ...
Causality and the Nature of Modern Narrative Brian Richardson. sality , and each features characters who attempt to comprehend the causal laws of the world they inhabit — often mirroring the reader's own confusion in the face of the ...
Inhalt
9 | |
Philosophical Systems Fictional Worlds | 35 |
Systems of Causation | 61 |
Temporal Sequence Causal Connection | 89 |
Necessity | 111 |
NonWestern Beliefs | 139 |
Tom Stoppard | 157 |
Language Interpretation | 182 |
Works Cited | 200 |
Index | 215 |
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
actions aesthetic affirms Angela Carter appear authors believe Beth Beth's Bharati Mukherjee causal agency causal connection causal laws causal progressions causal setting causal systems cause and effect chance events chapter characters coincidence concept Conrad critical critique Dalloway death Decoud deployment destiny determinism discourse discussed disjunction distinction divine drama Duff Duff's E. M. Forster example existence fate Faulkner fictional world finally forces fortune genre ideological improbable interpretation Jasmine Jero Light in August literary literature logic metafictional metaphysical modern modernist Molloy Moran Nabokov narrative narrator naturalistic naturalistic causal nature Nietzsche Nostromo notion novel observes occur Oedipus ontological parody pattern philosophical Pinter plot Poetics possible postmodern present prophecy protagonists providence random reader reading realistic relation revealed role romance Samuel Beckett sequence Shakespeare significant skeptical Stoppard suggest supernatural tale teleology temporal theory tion tive Todorov Tom Stoppard traditional unlikely Wise Children Woolf writing York
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Seite 59 - Why, so can I ; or so can any man : But will they come, when you do call for them ? Glend.
Seite 13 - What connexion can there be, between the place in Lincolnshire, the house in town, the Mercury in powder, and the whereabout of Jo the outlaw with the broom, who had that distant ray of light upon him when he swept the churchyardstep? What connexion can there have been between many people in the innumerable histories of this world, who, from opposite sides of great gulfs, have, nevertheless, been very curiously brought together!
Seite 66 - This is the excellent foppery of the world, that, when we are sick in fortune, — often the surfeit of our own behaviour, — we make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon, and the stars...
Seite 55 - Now, if some bold novelist, tearing aside the cleverly woven curtain of our conventional ego, shows us under this appearance of logic a fundamental absurdity, under this juxtaposition of simple states an infinite permeation of a thousand different impressions which have already ceased to exist the instant they are named, we commend him for having known us better than we knew ourselves.
Seite 35 - Others apart sat on a Hill retir'd, In thoughts more elevate, and reason'd high Of Providence, Foreknowledge, Will, and Fate, Fixt Fate, free will, foreknowledge absolute, And found no end, in wand'ring mazes lost.
Seite 65 - That palter with us in a double sense ; That keep the word of promise to our ear, And break it to our hope.
Seite 136 - Yes, even then, when already all was fading, waves and particles, there could be no things but nameless things, no names but thingless names.
Seite 27 - ... it seemed as if this were the Loom of Time, and I myself were a shuttle mechanically weaving and weaving away at the Fates.
Seite 123 - he believed with calm paradox that he was the volitionless servant of the fatality in which he believed that he did not believe.
Seite 72 - Chaos umpire sits, And by decision more embroils the fray By which he reigns. Next him, high arbiter Chance governs all.