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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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Priapus's two rapes in ovid's fasti
TL;DR: The authors consider the dynamics of joking discourse in two passages in Ovid's Fasti (1.391-440; 6.319-348) and explore the social implications of making a woman the Butt of a joke and the object of an attempted rape.
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The Story of Jo: Literary Tomboys, Little Women, and the Sexual-Textual Politics of Narrative Desire
TL;DR: For instance, this article pointed out that the notion of gender identity is not anchored to any secure, incontestable foundations but is a set of repeated acts within a highly rigid regulatory frame that congeal over time to produce the appearance of substance, of a natural sort of being.
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The Traveling Reader: Journeys through Ancient Epigram Books
TL;DR: In the context of epigram collections, the reception situation of the epigraphic poetry, which forms part of antiquity's material culture, is transferred to the literary landscape of the bookroll, and the traditional passerby morphs into a metaphorical wanderer.
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Time and the Moment in Victorian Literature and Society: Adam Bede and the redemption of time
TL;DR: A brief history of the moment can be found in this article, where the authors discuss the economic mediation of time, the moment in mid-Victorian working-class fiction, and the redemption of time.