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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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Everyday otherness : the edited and unedited Raymond Carver
TL;DR: In this paper, a reading of Raymond Carver's edited and unedited writing with respect to unsymbolised mental spaces is presented, in terms of the psychoanalytic thought of Lacan, Laplanche and Green, as well as Blanchot and Attridge's writing on literary otherness.
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The Literary Text as Talking Cure: A Psychoanalytic Interpretation of Restlessness
TL;DR: In a room of Calgary's Palliser Hotel, the protagonist of Aritha van Herk's novel Restlessness meets her hired killer on the night of her planned death as discussed by the authors.
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Utopia from the Rooftops: H.G. Wells, Modernism and the Panorama-City
TL;DR: The Sleeper Awake (1899, 1910) as mentioned in this paper ) is a novel about a man waking up from a two-hundred-year sleep to find himself at a great height, overlooking an aisle of Titanic buildings curving spaciously in either direction.
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Plot and Causation: Related Events
TL;DR: This paper defined plot as a sequence of narrated events, a set of events related by causation, and a kind of story, such as the marriage plot, whose evocation may or may not actually govern the shape of the story.
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Primo Levi's The Periodic Table: Chemistry as Posthumanist Science
TL;DR: In contrast to ideal models of material behavior, which Levi associates with physics, experiments in The Periodic Table do not reach neat conclusions, and these failures call attention to the limited and inevitably inadequate ways that humanist, universalist frameworks model the object world as discussed by the authors.