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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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Repetition, Recapitulation, Routine: Dick Tracy and the Temporality of Daily Newspaper Comics
TL;DR: The authors examines individual installments of Chester Gould's Dick Tracy, one of the most popular and controversial comic strips of the twentieth century, in order to show how that comic uses formal elements of repetition and recapitulation to orient a wide variety of audiences into the world of the narrative.
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Problem Space: Mary Butts, Modernism, and the Etiquette of Placement
TL;DR: The second novel in Mary Butts's 1928 Taverner Novels series, The Death of Felicity Taverner, repeatedly returns to the topic of how to correctly possess things, lauding a style of ownership that blends "passion and detachment" as mentioned in this paper.
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The Poetics of Plato's Republic : A Modern Perspective
TL;DR: Au-dela de l'attitude prescriptive de Socrate dans la «Republique» de Platon, l'A. etudie la poetique descriptive que defend le personnage, d'une part, et montre, d´autre part, qu'il anticipe les positions theoriques attribuees aujourd'hui a la litterature: la theorie narrative, l"approche psychanalytique de la reception litteraire, ainsi que les courants anti-esthet
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Dirimens Copulatio and Metalinguistic Negation in Faulkner's Absalom, Absalom!
TL;DR: In this article, the authors focus on negative and collaborative narration in Absalom, Absaloom! (1936) and argue that negative supposition is a formative structural principle in the novel.