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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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Moments of Meaning Dearly Achieved: Virginia Woolf's Sense of an Ending
TL;DR: These stories are inconclusive, the authors say, and proceed to frame a criticism based upon the assumption that stories ought to conclude in a way that wc recognize, and raise the question of our own fitness as readers.
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Detecting Winnifred Eaton
TL;DR: In a recent introduction to Winnifred Eaton's Marion: The Story of an Artist's Model (1916), Skinazi explores the relationship between racial ambiguity and the audience's ability to detect racial coding as mentioned in this paper.
Telling Stories about Illness and Disability
TL;DR: The authors analyzed the 2003 edition of Lucy Grealy's Autobiography of a Face to illustrate these socio-narrative conventions, especially in light of an afterword that significantly revises the ending to the narrative.
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Bodies of scholarship: witnessing the library in late-victorian fiction
TL;DR: The notion of a caddice worm's shell was introduced by Oliver Wendell Holmes as mentioned in this paper, who suggested that a scholar's study, with books lining its walls, is his shell and that the books are somehow synthesized from within as an expression of the scholar's essential self.
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In the Nick of Time?: Detective Film Serials, Temporality, and Contingency Management, 1919–1926
TL;DR: The authors investigates the genre's "time politics" in close regard to its serial structure, focusing on two popular detective serials of the period, which are aware of and reflect upon their own position in a longer history of cinematic storytelling, and they also respond to the larger cinematic and extracinematic context of the day.