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Fictional minds
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ISBN: 0803204108 9780803204102 080323743X 9780803237438 Year: 2004 Publisher: Lincoln : Baltimore, Md. : University of Nebraska Press, Project MUSE,

Storytelling in the works of Bunyan, Grimmelshausen, Defoe, and Schnabel
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ISBN: 1281949272 9786611949273 1571136533 1571132996 Year: 2004 Publisher: Rochester, N.Y. : Camden House,

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The modern novel appeared during the period of secularization and intellectual change that took place between 1660 and 1740. This book examines John Bunyan's'Grace Abounding' and 'The Pilgrim's Progress,' Johann Grimmelshausen's 'Simplicissimus,' Daniel Defoe's 'Robinson Crusoe,' and J. G. Schnabel's 'Insel Felsenburg' as prose works that reflect the stages in this transition. The protagonists in these works try to learn to use language in a pure, uncorrupted way. Their attitudes towards language are founded on their understanding of the Bible, and when they tell their life stories, they follow the structure of the Bible, because they accept it as 'the' paradigmatic story. Thus the Bible becomes a tool to justify the value of telling 'any' story. The authors try to give their own texts some of Scripture's authority by imitating the biblical model, but this leads to problems with closure and other tensions. If Bunyan's explicitly religious works affirm the value of individual narratives as part of a single, universal story, Grimmelshausen's and Defoe's protagonists effectively replace the sacred text with their own powerful, authoritative stories. J. G. Schnabel illustrates the extent of the secularization process in 'Insel Felsenburg' when he defends the entertainment value of escapist fiction and uses the Bible as the fictional foundation of his utopian civilization: arguments about the moral value of narrative give way to the depiction of storytelling as an end in itself. But Bunyan, Grimmelshausen, Defoe, and Schnabel all use positive examples of the transfiguring effect of reading and telling stories, whether sacred or secular, to justify the value of their own works. Janet Bertsch teaches at Wolfson and Trinity College, Cambridge.

Fictional minds
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ISBN: 080323743X 9780803237438 9780803218352 Year: 2004 Publisher: Lincoln: University of Nebraska press,

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'Fictional Minds' suggests that readers understand novels primarily by following the functioning of the minds of characters in the novel storyworlds. Despite the importance of this aspect of the reading process, traditional narrative theory does not include a complete and coherent theory of fictional minds. Readers create a continuing consciousness out of scattered references to a particular character and read this consciousness as an & embedded narrative& within the whole narrative of the novel. The combination of these embedded narratives forms the plot. This perspective on narrative enables us to explore hitherto neglected aspects of fictional minds such as dispositions, emotions, and action. It also highlights the social, public, and dialogic mind and the & mind beyond the skin.& For example, much of our thought is & intermental,& or joint, group, or shared; even our identity is, to an extent, socially distributed. Written in a clear and accessible style, 'Fictional Minds' analyzes constructions of characters' minds in the fictional texts of a wide range of authors, from Aphra Behn and Henry Fielding to Evelyn Waugh and Thomas Pynchon. In its innovative and groundbreaking explorations, this interdisciplinary project also makes substantial use of & real-mind& disciplines such as philosophy, psychology, psycholinguistics, and cognitive science.

Popular fiction : the logics and practices of a literary field
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ISBN: 0415356466 0415356474 9780415356473 1134250711 1280400900 0203023366 9780203023365 9786610400904 6610400903 9780415356466 1134250703 1863736484 9781863736480 9781134250707 9781134250714 9781280400902 Year: 2004 Publisher: Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxfordshire ; New York : Routledge,

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In this important book, Ken Gelder offers a lively and comprehensive account of popular fiction as a distinctive literary and cultural field, tied directly to the logics and practices of entertainment and industry.

Moral philosophers and the novel : a study of Winch, Nussbaum and Rorty
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ISBN: 1403933650 Year: 2004 Publisher: Basingstoke Palgrave Macmillan

Muse in the Machine : American Fiction and Mass Publicity
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ISBN: 0814273254 0814209629 0814257178 Year: 2004 Publisher: Columbus : Ohio State University Press,

Métalepse : de la figure à la fiction
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ISBN: 2020601303 9782020601306 Year: 2004 Publisher: Paris : Seuil,

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La rhétorique classique définissait la métalepse comme la désignation figurée (métonymique) d'un effet par sa cause, ou vice versa , et plus spécifiquement la métalepse "de l'auteur" comme une figure par laquelle on attribue au poète le pouvoir d'entrer en personne dans l'univers d'une fiction dont, comme auteur, il est bien la "cause", comme lorsqu'on dit que Virgile "fait mourir Didon" au IVème Livre de l'Énéide , en feignant de croire qu'il a lui-même allumé le bûcher de la reine de Carthage. De ce qui n'était guère qu'une façon de parler, la narratologie moderne s'est autorisée, depuis quelques années, pour explorer sous ce terme les diverses façons dont le récit de fiction peut enjamber ses propres seuils, internes ou externes : entre l'acte narratif et le récit qu'il produit, entre celui-ci et les récits seconds qu'il enchâsse, et ainsi de suite et dans tous les sens. Dans Figures III et Nouveau Discours du récit , Gérard Genette avait rapidement évoqué ces divers types de pratiques transgressives. Il leur consacre ici une étude plus frontale et plus approfondie, qu'il étend maintenant au champ beaucoup plus vaste des divers arts "représentatifs" , comme la peinture, le théâtre, le cinéma, la télévision... Il montre comment les figures sculptées d'un bouclier peuvent s'animer et prendre la parole, comment un tableau peut quitter son cadre, un personnage sortir de la scène ou traverser l'écran, comment un romancier au travail peut voir son bureau envahi par les "formes vaporeuses" de ses héros, et comment il peut lui-même encombrer, tel Gulliver à Lilliput, tout le vaste paysage de son roman. D'Homère à Giono, de Sterne à Calvino, de Pirandello à Woody Allen, les artistes ont rarement résisté à cette tentation de mettre en scène et en jeu les moyens et les effets de leur représentation du monde, et d'entraîner leurs propres lecteurs et spectateurs dans le vertige qui résulte de cette sorte de mise en abyme. Par sa composition capricieuse et souvent digressive, ce petit volume nous attire à son tour dans le tournoiement, tantôt désinvolte, tantôt inquiétant, des diverses fantaisies créatrices que désigne désormais le terme de métalepse.

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