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Desire without History@@@Reading for the Plot: Design and Intention in Narrative
Jules Law,Peter Brooks +1 more
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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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"A Case of Metaphysics": Counterfactuals, Realism, Great Expectations
TL;DR: In this article, optative or counterfactual self-understanding both in general and as it shapes the narrative structure, moral psychology, and emotional logic of Charles Dickens's Great Expectations is discussed.
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Aging, Duration, and the English Novel: Growing Old from Dickens to Woolf
TL;DR: The authors argue that the formal disappearance of aging from the English novel parallels the ideological pressure to identify as being young by repressing the process of growing old, which corresponds to the rise of the long novel, which draws upon the temporality of the body to map progress and decline onto the plots of nineteenth-century British modernity.
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Being there: Gothic violence and virtuality in Frankenstein, Dracula, and Strange Days
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Engendering Metafiction: Textuality and Closure in Margaret Atwood's Alias Grace
TL;DR: In the five years since Margaret Atwood's novel Alias Grace (1996) appeared, a number of readers have been attracted to the implications of the quilting trope as discussed by the authors.