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Story and Discourse: Narrative Structure in Fiction and Film

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The article was published on 1980-05-31 and is currently open access. It has received 1885 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Narrative structure & Narrative criticism.

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“I can tell the difference between fiction and reality.” Cross-fictionality and Mind-style in Political Rhetoric

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigate the linguistic representation of the British Prime Minister, Theresa May's, internal monologue in a satirical newspaper article, and they argue that this cross-fictional, stylistic approach better accounts for the satire effects of fictionality in the text than those which place a premium on authorial intentions and the invented nature of the narrative discourse.

How do person deictics construct roles for the reader

TL;DR: In this article, the reader becomes a reader-actor, the only vehicle that brings the silent voice of the protagonist to life, and replaces the notion of cooperative reader by that of unratified/complicit reader.
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Hyding the Subject?: The Antinomies of Masculinity in The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

Ed Cohen
TL;DR: The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde as mentioned in this paper is a classic example of a story about a writer's feverish imagination as he wrestled with the tubercular illness that haunted him throughout his adult life.
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The Death of Jesus in Matthew: Innocent Blood and the End of Exile

TL;DR: In this paper, Sider Hamilton introduces a new lens through which to view the death of Jesus in Matthew, using the concept of "innocent blood" and traces the theme of innocent blood in Matthew's narrative in relation to two Jewish traditions of interpretation, one (in Second Temple literature) reflecting on the story of Cain and Abel; the other (chiefly in rabbinic literature) on the blood of Zechariah.