
Making Sense of Narrative Text
Situation, Repetition, and Picturing in the Reading of Short Stories
Michael Toolan(Author)
Routledge (Publisher)
1st Edition
Published on 23. August 2018
Book
Paperback/Softback
272 pages
978-0-367-02352-2 (ISBN)
Description
This book takes the following question as its starting point: What are some of the crucial things the reader must do in order to make sense of a literary narrative? The book is a study of the texture of narrative fiction, using stylistics, corpus linguistic principles (especially Hoey's work on lexical patterning), narratological ideas, and cognitive stylistic work by Werth, Emmott, and others. Michael Toolan explores the textual/grammatical nature of fictional narratives, critically re-examining foundational ideas about the role of lexical patterning in narrative texts, and also engages the cognitive or psychological processes at play in literary reading. The study grows out of the theoretical questions that stylistic analyses of extended fictional texts raise, concerning the nature of narrative comprehension and the reader's experience in the course of reading narratives, and particularly concerning the role of language in that comprehension and experience. The ideas of situation, repetition and picturing are all central to the book's argument about how readers process story, and Toolan also considers the ethical and emotional involvement of the reader, developing hypotheses about the text-linguistic characteristics of the most ethically and emotionally involving portions of the stories examined. This book makes an important contribution to the study of narrative text and is in dialogue with recent work in corpus stylistics, cognitive stylistics, and literary text and texture.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Illustrations
3 s/w Tabellen
3 Tables, black and white
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Weight
530 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-367-02352-2 (9780367023522)
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Situation, Repetition, and Picturing in the Reading of Short Stories
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Situation, Repetition, and Picturing in the Reading of Short Stories
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Situation, Repetition, and Picturing in the Reading of Short Stories
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Person
Michael Toolan is Professor of English Language at the University of Birmingham, UK.
Content
1. From Intersentential Connection to Interpersonal Engagement 2. Patterning by Lexical Repetition and "The Princess and the Pea" 3. Situation 4. Mental Picturing 5. Integrating lexical patterning and the 'pictured' narrative situation 6. Attempting to bring it all together: repeated renewal of the pictured situation