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Making Sense of Narrative Text Situation, Repetition, and Picturing in the Reading of Short Stories
By Michael Toolan
Copyright 2016
272 Pages
by
Routledge
284 Pages
by
Routledge
284 Pages
by
Routledge
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This book takes the following question as its starting point: What are some of the crucial things the reader must do in order to make sense of a literary narrative? The book is a study of the texture of narrative fiction, using stylistics, corpus linguistic principles (especially Hoey’s work on lexical patterning), narratological ideas, and cognitive stylistic work by Werth, Emmott, and others.... Read more
1. From Intersentential Connection to Interpersonal Engagement 2. Patterning by Lexical Repetition and "The Princess and the Pea" 3. Situation 4. Mental Picturing 5. Integrating lexical patterning and the 'pictured' narrative situation 6. Attempting to bring it all together: repeated renewal of the pictured situation
Biography
Michael Toolan is Professor of English Language at the University of Birmingham, UK.
