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From:Journal of Narrative Theory (Vol. 52, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedThis essay responds to the distinction rhetorical poetics draws between critical approaches that are a priori and those that are a posteriori. A priori approaches tend toward political commitments feared to result in...
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From:Journal of Narrative Theory (Vol. 52, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedIn arguably his most successful fictional work, Black No More: Being an Account of the Strange and Wonderful Workings of Science in the Land of the Free, A.D. 1933-1940, George S. Schuyler imagines a future America in...
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From:Journal of Narrative Theory (Vol. 52, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedIn interpreting a literary work, we usually investigate what thematic message is conveyed by textual choices in the plot-based narrative progression (which may have different branches or layers). But in many fictional...
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From:Journal of Narrative Theory (Vol. 52, Issue 1) Peer-Reviewedhistory is not a text, not a narrative, master or otherwise, but ... as an absent cause, it is inaccessible to us except in textual form, and ... our approach to it and to the Real itself necessarily passes through its...
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From:Journal of Narrative Theory (Vol. 52, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedAccording to Todorov, the fantastic genre lasts as long as a certain hesitation between the uncanny and the marvellous, or, between laws of reality and new laws of nature, exists (41). In the reader, this hesitation...