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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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Distance and Narrative Perspective in Balzac's Facino Cane
TL;DR: The authors of Facino Cane as discussed by the authors argue that the challenge of two narraï tives, three distinct points of view, and a chance to excel in a genre made popular by recent translation of Hoffmann's tales inspired Balzac to write a well-knit story in which clearly drawn lines, not only point to the wisdom of walking the straight and narrow, but invite the reader to estimate distance along the way.
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What Happened?: Camus's La Chute, Shoshana Felman and the Witnessing of Trauma
TL;DR: The work of as mentioned in this paper examines the issues of trauma and witnessing in Camus's La Chute by analyzing Felman's essay "Camus' The Fall, or the Betrayal of the Witness," which appears as a chapter in her and Dori Laub's Testimony: Crises of Witnessing in Literature, Psychoanalysis, and History.