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Desire without History@@@Reading for the Plot: Design and Intention in Narrative
Jules Law,Peter Brooks +1 more
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This article is published in Novel: A Forum on Fiction.The article was published on 1985-01-23. It has received 815 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Narrative & Reading (process).read more
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The Recess Does Not Exist: Absorption, Literality, and Feminine Subjectivity in Sophia Lee's The Recess
TL;DR: The structure of feminine subjectivity in Lee's The Recess; Or, A Tale of Other Times (1783) is frequently reduced to a discursive construction or a maternal substance as mentioned in this paper.
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The Sound of Ford Madox Ford: War-Time, Impressionism, and Narrative Form
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Die Attraktivität der Erzählung. Überlegungen zum Appellpotential narrativer Kombinatorik
TL;DR: The authors argue that the aspect of fiction inherent in any narrative has the potential for turning readers' cognition and emotionality into a special and delightful experience feeding on the difference between the fictiveness of narration and the reality of life.
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After AllTraces of the Literary in Freud’s Moses and Monotheism (a Historical Novel)
TL;DR: In this paper, a close reading of Freud's last major work, Moses and Monotheism (1939), the socio-political and literary stakes of a central element of Freudian oeuvre, which reaches its fullest elaboration in the Moses text, are considered.
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Metafiction, Metadrama, and the God-Game in Murdoch's The Unicorn
TL;DR: Iris Murdoch's metafiction, which mainly exposes the fiction-making illusions of her characters, is heuristic rather than formalistic in the post-modern sense as discussed by the authors.