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We-narratives : collective storytelling in contemporary fiction
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We-narratives : collective storytelling in contemporary fiction / Natalya Bekhta.
ISBN
9780814214411
081421441X
9780814278055
0814278051
Publication
Columbus : The Ohio State University Press, [2020]
Physical Description
x, 203 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Summary
"By reading a range of contemporary novels and short stories by Jeffrey Eugenides, Joshua Ferris, Toby Litt, Zakes Mda, Joyce Carol Oates, and Julie Otsuka, and focusing on narrative innovation and experimentation by Margaret Atwood, William Faulkner, and Susan Sontag, this book tackles questions of the formal and performative significance of the first-person plural voice in contemporary fiction"-- Provided by publisher.
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Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
December 02, 2020
Series
Theory and interpretation of narrative
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Telling a story in the plural
We-narrative: the first-person plural narrative situation
We-discourses: the we-pronoun and Its indicative and performative uses in fiction
Plural narrators: collective voices, lyric progression, and direct speech by groups
Plural perspective: group ethos, narrators-voyeurs, and diegetic levels
Collective knowledge: epistemological possibilities of we-narrators, gossip, and unreliability
Us versus them: community dynamics in we-narratives.
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