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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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Cognitive Literary Studies and the Status of Interpretation: An Attempt at Conceptual Mapping
TL;DR: The authors argue that cognitive literary studies can only fulfill their potential by moving beyond interpretation, and explore a heuristic use of interpretation, where insights from cognitive science are leveraged to illuminate a background of metacognitive questions.
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Charles Dickens and 'Boz': The Birth of the Industrial-Age Author
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a survey of Boz' career in writing and rewriting, including: Christening Boz (1812-1834): The Journalism Sketches, 1834-1837: Sketch by Boz, 1837-1839: The Pickwick Papers, 1839-1841: Master Humphrey's Clock and Barnaby Rudge Bibliography Index.
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Strictly Shakespeare? Dead Letters, Ghostly Fathers, and the Cultural Pathology of Authorship in Baz Luhrmann's William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet
TL;DR: In this article, the authorial gambit of William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet is revealed in the film's title: "William Shakespeare's Juliet is deceptively titled,"' writes one reviewer, "because it is really Baz Luhrmann's Romeo & Juliet."
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Form Things: Looking at Genre through Victorian Diamonds
TL;DR: The authors trace diamond's generic function through brief readings of texts in different genres, including history, lyric, the novel, and narrative verse, and suggest that the stones operate as signs of wider generic disturbance as writers pushed against facets of the forms in which they worked in ways that would lead to modernism's more obvious formal fractures.