Unnatural Narrative Impossible Worlds in Fiction and Drama |
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| Author:
| Alber, Jan |
| Series title: | Frontiers of Narrative Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-8032-7868-4 |
| Publication Date: | Mar 2016 |
| Publisher: | University of Nebraska Press
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | AUD $79.20 |
Book Description:
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Explores the startling and persistent presence of the impossible or "the unnatural" throughout British and American literary history. Layering the lenses of cognitive narratology, frame theory,and possible-worlds theory, Unnatural Narrative offers a rigorous and engaging new characterization of the unnatural and what it yields for individual readers as well as literary culture.
Explores the startling and persistent presence of the impossible or "the unnatural" throughout British and American literary history. Layering the lenses of cognitive narratology, frame theory,and possible-worlds theory, Unnatural Narrative offers a rigorous and engaging new characterization of the unnatural and what it yields for individual readers as well as literary culture.