TY - BOOK ID - 77895827 TI - Theory and the novel PY - 1998 SN - 1107111854 0521120853 1280151757 0511116055 051115013X 0511303041 051148321X 051105260X 0511004184 9780511004186 0511037368 9780511037368 9780511052606 9780511116056 9780511483219 9780521430395 0521430399 9780521120852 PB - Cambridge Cambridge University Press DB - UniCat KW - Fiction KW - Narration (Rhetoric) KW - Narrative (Rhetoric) KW - Narrative writing KW - Rhetoric KW - Discourse analysis, Narrative KW - Narratees (Rhetoric) KW - Fiction writing KW - Metafiction KW - Writing, Fiction KW - Authorship KW - Technique. KW - Narration (Rhetoric). KW - Arts and Humanities KW - Literature UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77895827 AB - Narrative features such as frames, digressions, or authorial intrusions have traditionally been viewed as distractions from or anomalies in the narrative proper. In Theory and the Novel Jeffrey Williams exposes these elements as more than simple disruptions, analysing them as registers of narrative reflexivity, that is, moments that represent and advertise the functioning of narrative itself. Williams argues that narrative encodes and advertises its own functioning and modal form. He takes a range of novels from the English canon - Tristram Shandy, Joseph Andrews, The Turn of the Screw, Wuthering Heights, Lord Jim and Heart of Darkness are amongst the novels examined - and shows how narrative technique is never beyond or outside plot. He poses a series of theoretical questions such as about reflexitivity, imitation and fictionality, to offer a striking and original contribution to readings of the English novel, as well as to discussions of theory in general. ER -