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Desire without History@@@Reading for the Plot: Design and Intention in Narrative
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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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Refusal to Tell: Withholding Heroines in Hawthorne, Wharton, and Coetzee
TL;DR: Early in The Scarlet Letter, Reverend Dimmesdale is tasked with prevailing upon Hester Prynne's "hardness and obstinacy": "Exhort her to repentance, and to confess the truth!" (Hawthorne 1991, 66, 67)Despite his interest in preserving Hester's silence, the guiltstricken Dimmesden does his best to comply "I charge thee to speak out the name of thy fellow-sinner and fellow-sufferer!" he commands, and urges her: "Be not silent from any mistaken pity and tenderness for him
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Laying Out the Bones: Death and Dying in the Modern Irish Novel by Bridget English (review)
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Flora Annie Steel and the Jurisprudence of Emergency
TL;DR: The authors argued that the Victorian codification of British Indian law and the fictional capture of India's medieval history were related processes and that producing India as a subject of ancient law and feudal history became a means of clarifying a certain conflicted sovereign logic, suspending the colony abjectly between the modern and the premodern, the rule of law, and the despotic decision.
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Untersuchungsansätze der Erzählforschung
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors start their Uberblick with einer knappen Zusammenfassung des Cours de linguistique generale, dessen erste Nutznieser die Formalisten waren.
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Following Her Act: Sequence and Desire in Gayl Jones's The Healing
TL;DR: The Healing (1998) as discussed by the authors is a novel about a struggle for power couched as a contest over sequence, where the protagonist and narrator, Harlan Eagleton, undergoes an examination that compresses one of the novel's central issues.