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Narrative discourse : an essay in method

Gérard Genette, +2 more
- 23 Jan 1980 - 
- Vol. 32, Iss: 4, pp 413
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Cutler as mentioned in this paper presents a Translator's Preface Preface and Preface for English-to-Arabic Translating Translators (TSPT) with a preface by Jonathan Cutler.
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Foreword by Jonathan Cutler Translator's Preface PrefaceIntroduction 1. Order 2. Duration 3. Frequency 4. Mood 5. VoiceAfterword Bibliography Index

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Does Austen Need Narrators? Does Anyone?

Brian Boyd
- 01 Jun 2017 - 
TL;DR: The Necessary Narrator thesis is not only false, but it also damages narrative theory and the criticism, teaching, reading and appreciation of fiction as discussed by the authors, and it obscures the inextricable link between the invention and the presentation of fiction and taints the pleasure of engaging with the minds of great storytellers.
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The Chinese story: Historical narratives as a tool in China’s Africa policy

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that the rise of China as a key actor on the African continent not only challenges the Western dominance in economic and political terms, but also offers a challenge on a different level, by contesting the Eurocentric history that has underpinned the West's policies towards African countries throughout the modern era.
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Narrativity and its modes as culture-transcending analytical categories

Marie-Laure Ryan
- 21 May 2010 - 
TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated the value of the concept of narrativity and its modes for the investigation of the literary forms of non-Western cultures such as Japan's, and defined narrative within the life of the mind through a Venn diagram, defining it in terms of several features whose presence or absence determine various degrees of narration.
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Iconicity of syntax and narrative in Amerindian prosaic texts

TL;DR: The authors suggest a more textured view of syntactic and narrative structure in Amerindian prosaic texts, in which arbitrariness is complemented by iconicity and systematicity.
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Modern life: fiction and satire

TL;DR: The epoch between World War I and that of World War II is framed by two of the landmark prose satires of the century as discussed by the authors, Tarr (1918) and Animal Farm (1945), which employed the traditional form of the fable to put across its complex critique of revolutionary socialism with almost populist clarity.
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Stendhal et les problèmes du roman

Georges Blin
TL;DR: Deuxieme tirage de cet essai critique de Georges Blin sur Stendhal, publie aux editions Jose Corti en 1954 as mentioned in this paper, et les images, une description a completer, une bibliotheque