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About this book
The volume consists of six essays by S.-Y. Kuroda on narrative theory, with a substantial introduction, notes, a bibliography and an index of proper names.
This is the English version of a French critical edition published by Editions Armand Colin in their "Recherches" series in October 2012, translated from English by Cassian Braconnier, Tiên Fauconnier and Sylvie Patron, edition with an introduction and notes by Sylvie Patron.
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Table of contents
- Toward a Poetic Theory of Narration
- Trends in Linguistics Studies and Monographs
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Table of Contents
- Introduction
- Origin of the essays
- Chapter 1 - Where epistemology, style, and grammar meet: A case study from Japanese
- Chapter 2 - On grammar and narration
- Chapter 3 - Reflections on the foundations of narrative theory, from a linguistic point of view
- Chapter 4 - Some thoughts on the foundations of the theory of language use
- Chapter 5 - The reformulated theory of speech acts: Toward a theory of language use
- Chapter 6 - A study of the so-called topic wa in passages from Tolstoi, Lawrence, and Faulkner (of course, in Japanese translation)
- Bibliography
- Index