Expositional Modes and Temporal Ordering in Fiction..". this is one of the few books on narrative worth reading and rereading, a study that will make -- or should make -- a difference in the way we read narrative." -- Nineteenth Century Fiction "This is a remarkable book: original, clear-sighted, and luminously focused on a subject that has never been explored nearly so systematically or intensively."A -- Dorrit Cohn, Harvard University This book, long out of print, is now available in a paperback edition, providing another window into one of the most exciting minds working in the areas of literary and biblical literary criticism. |
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action proper aesthetic motivation Agamemnon ambiguity analogy antecedents artistic Balzac Barchester Towers beginning causal chap chapter character characterization chronological complex compositional curiosity Darcy deformed delayed detective story device discriminated occasion distribution dramatized dynamics Elizabeth epic expositional gaps expositional material fabula fiction fictive present fictive world Fielding's function future Henry James hero heroic Homer hypotheses Iliad implied impression instance James's Jane Austen Light in August literary manipulation medias res mind mode moreover motifs narrative interest narrator's nature normative novel novelists Odysseus Odysseus's omniscient narrator opening order of presentation pattern Phaeacia plot plunge in medias postulated preliminary exposition Pride and Prejudice primacy effect quasi-mimetic R. P. Blackmur Rastignac reader reading-process realistic motivation recency effect regard relations retardatory retrospectively rhetorical scene scenic sequence spatial strategy structure Suitors sujet suspense Telemachus temporal thematic time-ratios tion tional Tom Jones traits Trollope Trollope's unfolding whole