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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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Narrativity and the representation of experience in american indian discourses about drinking
TL;DR: The argument that narrative is neither a necessary nor inevitable way to talk about illnesses and other difficulties is developed, and the implications of non-narrative accounts for treatments of culture and experience in anthropology are discussed.
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Selling Stories: Harry Potter and the Marketing Plot
Stephen Brown,Anthony Patterson +1 more
TL;DR: The authors plots the Harry Potter stories onto Booker's seven-element theory of narrative emplotment and considers how consumers interact with the brand phenomenon, finding three consumer narratives of engagement: discovery, diachronic, and denial.
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The Game of Life: Narrative and Ludic Identity Formation in Computer Games
TL;DR: Human identity is not a self-contained entity hidden in the depths of the authors' inner selves, but is actively constructed in a social world with the aid of various expressions, such as social roles, rituals, clothes, music, and (life) stories.
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Modernism, narrative, and humanism
TL;DR: In this paper, the anthropometric turn is used to define the Lawrentian transcendent: after the fall and Woolf's luminance: time out of mid 5. Doubting Beckett: voices descant, stories still Conclusion: Humanness unbound.
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The Bigamy Plot: Sensation and Convention in the Victorian Novel
TL;DR: The list of Victorian bigamy novels can be found in this paper, where the authors present a detailed survey of bigamy in the Victorian period, including: A Wife and Not a Wife, A Wife's Lovers, Dead Yet Not Dead, Sensational and Canonical, and Sensational And Canonical.