rimmon-kenan.shlomith narrative.fiction contemporary.poetics 1e
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General Editor Terence Hawkes
Newspaper reports, history books, novels, films, comic strips, pantomime. dance, gossip and psychoanalytic sessions are only some of the narratives which permeate our lives. One type of narrative comprises the subject of this poem. book-'narrative fiction' whether in the form of novel. shon Story or narrative
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What is a namtive? What is namove fiction? How does it differ from other turning her anention to these and other questions Shlomith Rimmon-Kenana
kinds of narrative? What features turn a discourse into a narrative text? By synthesis of contemporary approaches to narrative fiction,
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considering in panicular Anglo-American New Criticism, Russian Formalism. French Structuralism, the Td-Aviv School of Poetics and the Phenomenology of Reading. In contrast to other studies. Nammv( Fiction is organized around the issues the text and its reading- rather than the individual theoristS or approaches. By following such a course Shlomith Rimmon-Kenan is able to offer somc persona) a description of the system governing all fictional namtives, she also suggestS drawn from texts of different periods and national literarures. ShIomith Rimmon-Kenan is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the Hebrew Universiry, Jerusalem. Literature views on ;md modifications to the theories and, while presenting an analysis and
involved- for example, events. timc, focaliz.ation, characterization, narration.
how individual narratives can be studied against the background of this general
system. To illustrate the many aspects of her study, numerous examples are
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