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2. Melville's Bartleby, The Scrivener

Author

Giles, Todd

Subjects
Bartleby the Scrivener (Short story) -- Criticism and interpretation, Fiction -- Criticism and interpretation
Published
2007

5. The MRIs of Sollers's fictions

Author

Mortimer, Armine Kotin

Subjects
Novelists -- Criticism and interpretation, Fiction -- Criticism and interpretation
Published
2002

11. Engendering metafiction: Textuality and closure in Margaret Atwood's Alias Grace

Author

Ingersoll, Earl G.

Subjects
Alias Grace (Book) -- Criticism and interpretation, Fiction -- Criticism and interpretation, Regional focus/area studies
Abstract

In the five years since Margaret Atwood's novel Alias Grace (1996) appeared, a number of readers have been attracted to the implications of the quilting trope. Each of the novel's [...]

Published
2001

12. Scene, symbol, subversion: The evolving uses of mapping in Margaret Atwood's fiction

Author

Shechels, Theodore F. and Sweeney, Kathleen Mackin

Subjects
Toronto, Ontario -- Portrayals, Fiction -- Criticism and interpretation, Regional focus/area studies
Abstract

In several of her novels, Margaret Atwood offers a clear picture of Toronto. That picture is so accurate that, when the Modern Language Association met in Toronto in 1997, The [...]

Published
2001

13. Verbs, voyeurism, and the stalker narrative in Cortazar's 'Continuidad de los parques'

Author

Palmer, Julia E.

Subjects
Continuidad de los parques (Short story) -- Criticism and interpretation, Authors -- Works, Fiction -- Criticism and interpretation, International relations, News, opinion and commentary
Abstract

Julio Cortazar's 'Continuidad de los parques' can be described as a stalker narrative in two different senses. Not only is it a story about a stalker with murderous intentions, it is also a story in which the reader is turned into a stalker. Modalization in verbs, or the use of the subjunctive and qualifiers, has been discussed by critics such as Tzvetan Todorov as a characteristic of the fantastic in literature. What has not been studied is the alternating use of aspect in the past, here between the verb tenses the preterite and the imperfect, as a technique that aids in the subtle creation of the reader as a stalker. Cortazar uses these two verb tenses to form and shape the narrative, moving it in the desired direction and, in the process, aiding in his creation of the image of the stalker. Both the careful manipulation of the preterite and the imperfect and the careful interplay between the two are the vehicle of invasion, an invasion perpetrated by the stalker, in which the reader is made complicit. Keywords: Julio Cortazar, Latin American narrative, linguistic analysis of literature, metafiction, twentieth-century fiction, Julio Cortazar's 'Continuidad de los parques' can be described as a stalker narrative in two different senses. Not only is it a story about a stalker with murderous intentions, it [...]

Published
2009

14. Faulkner's 'The Sound and the Fury.'

Author

Yarup, Robert L.

Subjects
The Sound and the Fury (Novel) -- Criticism and interpretation, Family -- Portrayals, Fiction -- Criticism and interpretation
Published
1998

16. Faulkner's 'The Sound and the Fury.' (William Faulkner)

Author

Yarup, Robert L.

Subjects
The Sound and the Fury (Novel) -- Criticism and interpretation, Fiction -- Criticism and interpretation, Style, Literary -- Criticism and interpretation, Literature -- Aesthetics
Published
1996

25. 'Der Zauberberg' and 'The Last Gentleman.'

Author

Stephenson, Will and Stephenson, Mimosa

Subjects
Fiction -- Criticism and interpretation, Anthropology/archeology/folklore, History, Literature/writing
Abstract

Walker Percy's 'The Last Gentleman' contains many allusions to, and similarities with, Thomas Mann's 'The Magic Mountain.' For example, protagonists of both novels are called 'the engineer' and embody man in modern society. The works also satirize science and psychoanalysis. Percy even uses the German title of Mann's work as part of his story. However, Percy crafts an ending which is optimistic and which stresses the value of both spiritual and physical life., In 'Walker Percy's Enchanted Mountain,' Gary M. Ciuba shows that Percy's unpublished novel 'The Gramercy Winner' imitates Thomas Mann's The Magic Mountain, and mentions in passing that The Last Gentleman's [...]

Published
1994

28. Wharton's 'The Reef.' (Edith Wharton)

Author

MacNaughton, William R.

Subjects
Fiction -- Criticism and interpretation, Characters and characteristics in literature -- Criticism and interpretation
Published
1993

29. Betrayed

Author

Shiner, Lewis

Subjects
Fiction -- Criticism and interpretation, Anthropology/archeology/folklore, History, Literature/writing
Abstract

Mainstream fiction must reflect real life if it is to become popular again. Mainstream writing has become isolated in the academic ghetto while popular fiction has stuck to unrealistic generic formulas such as heroic violence and courtly love. Academic fiction tends to become abstract puzzles instead of writing which engages the meaning of readers' lives. That meaning, and subsequent reader interest, can only come from reality.

Published
1992

31. Love, eroticism, and pornography in the works of Isabel Allende

Author

Shea, Maureen E.

Subjects
Love in literature -- Criticism and interpretation, Fiction -- Criticism and interpretation, Pornography -- Criticism and interpretation, Sexual excitement -- Portrayals, Women's issues/gender studies
Published
1990

32. Wharton's Roman Fever

Author

Selina, Jamil S.

Subjects
Roman Fever (Short story) -- Criticism and interpretation, Fiction -- Criticism and interpretation
Published
2007

33. Mann's Death in Venice

Author

Frank, Bernhard

Subjects
Death in Venice (Short story) -- Criticism and interpretation, Fiction -- Criticism and interpretation
Published
2006

41. Henry Roth's Call It Sleep

Author

Roth, Fred A.

Subjects
Fiction -- Criticism and interpretation, Light and darkness in literature -- Analysis
Published
1990

43. Clara Hopgood, Chess and Generalship

Author

SWANN, CHARLES

Subjects
English literature, 1837-1901 (Victorian age) -- Criticism and interpretation, Fiction -- Criticism and interpretation, Characters and characteristics in literature -- Portrayals, Anthropology/archeology/folklore, History, Literature/writing
Abstract

Many Victorian novels portrayed female characters attempting to control their destinies. In Mark Rutherford's 'Clara Hopgood', the heroine's series of social strategies reveal the complexity of thoughts and emotions that guide her actions. Clara equates life with a game of chess, requiring extensive pre-planning and dedication to goals with wide-reaching consequences., Lorraine Davies, in a new and much needed edition of Mark Rutherford's Clara Hopgood (the notes are especially welcome; the introduction, perceptive and stimulating), discusses the vexed question of the [...]

Published
1999

45. Austen's Mansfield Park

Author

Spence, Martin

Subjects
Fiction -- Criticism and interpretation
Published
1987

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