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Narrative, Interrupted: The Plotless, the Disturbing and the Trivial in Literature
Author(s): Karttunen
- Publisher: De Gruyter
- Publication Date: 22 Jan. 2018
- Language: English
- Print length: 344 pages
- ISBN-10: 3110259958
- ISBN-13: 9783110259957
Book Description
What do boring stories and seemingly insignificant details reveal about the nature of narrative? How does narrativity manifest itself in forms such as stanzaic poetry and fictional dialogue? Narrative, Interrupted probes the limits of narrativity by focusing on the anti-linear, anti-causal and non-natural tendencies of literature. The book highlights the potential of literature to subvert the natural, cognitive frames of reading. It investigates that moment when a chain of events is disturbed by something that lies underneath: a feeling, an image, the shadow of the author.
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Markku Lehtimäki, Laura Karttunen and Maria Mäkelä, University of Tampere, Finland.
Markku Lehtimäki, Laura Karttunen und Maria Mäkelä, University of Tampere, Finland.
