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From:Narrative (Vol. 17, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedLeonora Sansay's Secret History; or the Horrors of St. Domingo (1808) is prefaced by a timid confession. She writes: "I am fearful of having been led into an error by my friends, when taught by them to believe that I...
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From:Narrative (Vol. 17, Issue 3) Peer-Reviewed[N]ineteenth-century realist fiction makes most sense when it is viewed as an attempt to deal with situations which involve partial knowledge and continual approximation ... Harry Shaw, Narrating Reality (29)...
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From:Narrative (Vol. 17, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedPeter Brooks is one of several theorists and critics who have understood the "strange logic" of reading a narrative to be bound up with the "anticipation of retrospection": "[i]f the past is to be read as present, it is...
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From:Narrative (Vol. 17, Issue 3) Peer-Reviewed"Whatever we see could be other than it is," and "whatever we can describe at all could be other than it is," Wittgenstein writes in the Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (58). Wittgenstein is speaking here of a world that...
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From:Narrative (Vol. 17, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedIn London, Claude Monet carved up his days according to the light. Between 1899 and 1901, the artist returned to the city three times, working on what would become his famous series paintings of Chafing Cross Bridge,...
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From:Narrative (Vol. 17, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedThis essay is a response to three events in my professional life that unfolded together in 2003 and 2004: finishing my first archivally based book; planning and facilitating a conference called "Disciplinary...
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From:Narrative (Vol. 17, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedFAIRY TALE TEMPORALITIES Victorian reflections upon temporality often conjure up metaphors of enchantment, of beguilement, of charmed sleep that threatens progress. In Past and Present, Thomas Carlyle distinguishes...
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From:Narrative (Vol. 17, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedTROUBLE WITH TIME "'Scientific people,' proceeded the Time Traveller, after the pause required for the proper assimilation of this, 'know very well that Time is only a kind of Space'" (The Time Machine 268). What...