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Desire without History@@@Reading for the Plot: Design and Intention in Narrative

Jules Law, +1 more
- 23 Jan 1985 - 
- Vol. 19, Iss: 1, pp 91-94
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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).

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Voice and the Victorian storyteller

TL;DR: The best man of all, the storyteller, and the voice of industrial fiction: the best man's best man as mentioned in this paper, the best men of all: mythologies of storytellers.
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Introduction: Narrative and the Emotions

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The Silver Fork Novel: Fashionable Fiction in the Age of Reform

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