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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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Beach Themes and Motifs
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors look at the most significant examples of the range of themes and motifs in beach endings: death; war; hallucination, breakdown and insanity; the family and childhood; mourning and solitary reflection; home movies (i.e., those featuring beach scenes); fantasy; apocalypse and post-apocalypse; paradise and lost paradise; ceremonies, reunions and farewells.
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"A Garden and a Twilight, and a Palace Gate": Plotting the Intersection of Europe and America in Henry James's "The Portrait of a Lady" and Vladimir Nabokov's "Lolita"
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Queer Footing: Pedestrian Politics and the Problem of Queer Difference in The Princess Casamassima
TL;DR: This article picked up the figure of the street-walker, not, as has been done, as an emblem for transformative modes of subjectivity, open to proliferating difference, but as the manifestation of stubborn sameness.
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Narrative Jujitsu: Twain's “Studied Fictions” and Their Plot Against Audience
TL;DR: Mark Twain's comic gambit about the Sandwich Islands also mocks and catches out his listeners as mentioned in this paper, in the process of seeming to gratify the sort of conventional, "serious" expectations that auditors like our reviewer take to the performance, Twain becomes "untrustworthy" so that the audience's not knowing where "the fun will come in" comes close to its knowing that the fun is at the expense of these expectations.