Narrative, interrupted the plotless, the disturbing and the trivial in literature /
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De Gruyter,
2012.
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Table of Contents:
- Preface
- The still waters of narrative: the boring and the plotless. James Phelan: Conversational and authorial disclosure in the dialogue novel: the case of The friends of Eddie Coyle
- Matti Hyvärinen: Resistance to plot and uneven narrativity: a journey from "a boring story" to The rings of Saturn
- Bo Pettersson: What happens when nothing happens: interpreting narrative technique in the plotless novels of Nicholson Baker
- Laura Karttunen: Events can be quoted (and words need not be)
- Samuli Hägg: Pynchon's poetics of boredom: cognitive and textual aspects of novelistic dreariness
- A web of sense: interpreting the disturbing and the difficult. David Herman: Toward a zoonarratology: storytelling and species difference in animal comics
- Markku Lehtimäki: Watching a tree grow: Terrence Malick's The new world and the nature of cinema
- Maria Mäkelä: Navigating "making sense" interpreting (the reader behind La jalousie)
- Mari Hatavara: History impossible: narrating and motivating the past
- Jan Alber: Unnatural temporalities: interfaces between postmodernism, science fiction, and the fantastic
- Sanna Katariina Bruun: The imperfect is our paradise: intertextuality and fragmentary narration in Margaret Atwood's Alias Grace
- Jakob Lothe: Fragile narrative situations: Conrad compared to Sebald
- Shadow of a tail: problems of authorship. Leona Toker: Name change and author avatars in Varlam Shalamov and Primo Levi
- Marina Grishakova: Stranger than fiction, or, Jerome David Salinger, author of Lolita: real, implied and fictive authorship
- Hannu Tommola: Translators, scoundrels and gentlemen of honor: problems of Nabokov's loyalty
- Brian McHale: Affordances of form in stanzaic narrative poetry
- Gennady Barabtarlo: A shadow on the marble.