Afterlife and narrative in contempor...
Bennett, Alice, (1982-)

 

  • Afterlife and narrative in contemporary fiction[electronic resource] /
  • 紀錄類型: 書目-語言資料,印刷品 : Monograph/item
    杜威分類號: 809.3/923
    書名/作者: Afterlife and narrative in contemporary fiction/ Alice Bennett.
    作者: Bennett, Alice,
    出版者: New York : : Palgrave Macmillan,, 2012.
    面頁冊數: 1 online resource.
    標題: Fiction - History and criticism.
    標題: Narration (Rhetoric)
    標題: Future life in literature.
    標題: BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary
    ISBN: 9781137022691 (electronic bk.)
    ISBN: 1137022698 (electronic bk.)
    書目註: Includes bibliographical references and index.
    內容註: Acknowledgements -- Afterlife Now -- Dead Endings: Making Meaning from the Afterlife -- Killing Time: Narrating Eternity -- After Effects: Purgatory, Prolepsis and the Past Tense -- Plotting Murder: Genre, Plot and the Dead Narrator -- Ghostwords: Mind-Reading and the Dead Narrator -- Death Writing: Deixis of Person and the Dead Narrator -- Here, There and Hereafter: Fictional Worlds and the Afterlife -- After Life Writing -- Appendix: Chronology of Primary Texts -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- --.
    摘要、提要註: Afterlife and Narrative explores why life after death is such a potent cultural concept today, and why it is such an attractive prospect for modern fiction. The book mines a rich vein of imagined afterlives, from the temporal experiments of Martin Amis's Time's Arrow to narration from heaven in Alice Sebold's The Lovely Bones. At the heart of the book is a focus on how the properties of the afterlife have become a tool for examining the capacities and conventions of narrative fiction. Modern novels carry the history of realism and its attempts to present life as it is, but many of the techniques which achieve these effects require perspectives and positions for narration that are profoundly un-lifelike. Each chapter of the book takes a fresh look at problems in narrative theory, taking all its cues from experimental narratives set in the afterlife, from avant-garde experimentation to popular genre fiction. Afterlife and Narrative examines, applies and refines anti-mimetic theories of fiction in readings of a group of texts which are after, but not in imitation of, life.
    電子資源: http://www.palgraveconnect.com/doifinder/10.1057/9781137022691
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