- 234 pages
- English
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About this book
This book examines overlaps, differences, and complementarities between narratology and stylistics, and shows the consequences of this examination for the practical analysis of prose narrative.
Narratology identifies discourse as one of its two main objects of study (story being the other), and stylistics, of course, designates style as its concern. Too often, however, work in each of these fields proceeds without attention to developments in the other. This book corrects that situation by looking beneath the superficial similarities between the "discourse" of narratology and the "style" of fictional stylistics. The author shows that the two seemingly interchangeable terms actually refer to different textual elements. For example, both narratology and stylistics identify point of view as an important element of discourse and style, respectively, but each approach conceives of it differently and thus analyzes it differently. This book argues that the different analyses are complementary and shows how they can be brought together. This synthesis leads to richer conceptions of point of view as well as more comprehensive and precise analyses of its functions and effects in individual narratives.
For its theoretical and interpretive contributions, this book will appeal to scholars and students in narrative studies, literary stylistics, and literary theory and criticism.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- Preface and acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 Distinction and relation between narratology’s story and discourse
- 2 Difference between narratology’s discourse and fictional stylistics’ style
- 3 Existing interdisciplinary studies between narratology and stylistics
- 4 Two most notable overlapping areas between discourse and style
- 5 Point of view/focalization: Distinction and classification
- 6 Difference behind similarity: Third-person center of consciousness and first-person retrospective narration
- 7 Modes of point of view or focalization: Functions and effects
- 8 Transgressions of modes of point of view or focalization
- 9 Modes of speech presentation: Functions and effects
- 10 Peculiarities of speech presentation in Chinese prose fiction
- Conclusion
- Index