Product Description: American Fiction in Transition is a study of the observer-hero narrative, a highly significant but critically neglected genre of the American novel. Through the lens of this transitional genre, the book explores the 1990s in relation to debates about the end of postmodernism, and connects the decade to other transitional periods in US literature...read more

Product Description: Challenging the tidy links among authorial position, narrative perspective, and fictional content, Stephen Hong Sohn argues that Asian American authors have never been limited to writing about Asian American characters or contexts...read more

Product Description: Clarkson pays sustained attention to the dynamic interaction between Coetzees fiction and his critical writing, exploring the Nobel prize-winner's participation in, and contribution to, contemporary literary-philosophical debates...read more

Product Description: This book investigates male writers' use of female voices and female writers' use of male voices in literature and theatre from the 1850s to the present, examining where, how and why such gendered crossings occur and what connections may be found between these crossings and specific psychological, social, historical and political contexts...read more

Product Description: The nineteenth century, like no century before or after, witnessed a revolution in narrative devices differentiating perspective and focalization. While narratives of the 1790s were all but dominated by either strictly authorial, confessional or epistolary formats, the entire gamut of modernist techniques had evolved by 1910: interior focalization, figuralization and reflectorization, stream of consciousness, unreliable narration, the dual voice...read more

Product Description: Diese Arbeit bietet eine erzähltheoretische Analyse des Markusevangeliums, die die Erzählerin und ihre Stimme in der Erzählung fokussiert. Nach einer detaillierten Auseinandersetzung mit der Forschung geht die Analyse folgenden Fragen nach: Erfolgt die Erzählung aus einer bestimmten Perspektive, etwa aus der des Volkes, der Jüngerinnen oder aus der Perspektive Jesu? Inwiefern nimmt die Erzählerin Einblick in das Innenleben der Figuren? Wird die Erzählerin als Individualität sichtbar? Wie kommentiert sie die erzählten Ereignisse? Ist die Stimme der Erzählerin in der Erzählung deutlich zu hören? Oder werden die Ereignisse den Leserinnen eher unvermittelt vor Augen geführt? Die erzähltheoretische Basis für die Analyse des Markusevangeliums bilden die Point-of-View-Typologien von Norman Friedman und Franz Stanzel sowie verschiedene Konzepte aus den narratologischen Modellen von Gérard Genette, Mieke Bal, Seymour Chatman, Dorrit Cohn und Ansgar Nünning...read more

Product Description: In response to the disintegration of Emersonian idealism at the end of the nineteenth century, some writers resorted to sentimental or sensational fiction; not so Edith Wharton who turned instead to irony as both her mark of literary distinction and her comment on the tendencies of the fiction of her day...read more

Product Description: The novels of Samuel Richardson are the essential topic of this book. Its main aim is to use Bakhtin’s definition of polyphony as a way into Richardson’s work and, in turn, to provide a basis from which to revise Bakhtin. After tracing the development of psychological realism in the eighteenth-century novel and the growing potential for autonomy in the fictional character in general, the book goes on to examine the potential for polyphony which first emerges in Pamela and reaches its height in Clarissa...read more

Describes the different kinds of functions characters fulfill in a story, discusses motive, stereotypes, models, minor characters, comedy, and transformation

Product Description: Plot and Point of View in the Iliad argues that Homer, the poet of the Iliad, may be fully distinguished from the narrator of Homeric poetry, who is the Muse, and also from the heroes and heroines who live within the world of the story...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: A comparison between a novel and its film adaptation often fails to consider the essential characteristics of the two separate media. Among cinematic adaptations which have drawn critical attention are the films produced from John Fowles' novels The Collector, The Magus, and The French Lieutenant's Woman; these novels, in fact, are particularly challenging for filmmakers not only because of their complex structures and layers of meanings but also because of the points of view which Fowles chose for each...read more

Product Description: The description for this book, The Narrative Act: Point of View in Prose Fiction, will be forthcoming.

In this study the works of Wilhelm Raabe (1831–1910) are being discussed, taking into account the emerge of the perspectival narration, culminating in the Braunschweig period (1870–1920). The book starts with a survey of the point of view theory, including the concept of multiple perspective, and then focusses on the works of Raabe in which these various techniques will be demonstrated. Special attention is paid to three works of the Braunschweig period; Der Dräumling, Das Horn von Wanza and Kloster Lugau.